The National Register. — London, England, 1812-11-08 00:00:00

.'U\ r • s. Ileum 'rut. FIRST Hr.PoRT. "After having assembled my detachments, and having at midnight arrived at the village of Scharapow, on the road to Borowsk, f te ccieed infor mation that a great quantity rt . haggage was coming en the road to Smolensk : 1 therefore detaebed a . party of Cossacks, consist iv of id me n under the command of the S.:liiik Tafien, to procure in it :termed me, that he had di•coyered the rel ation ; mid be harm: eminly's baggege under it strong escort, In the village of Pert:butt:in°, 1 imieedisto - le sent hi:a a reinforeenieut of '2OO Cossacks arid two oirLitlroos of the ; but this brave officer, wit item waiting fur the reiniore,!meot, pu-hod on to the village by break of day, cut a cuesideraale number down, mid took two captains, five officers, am: 9: men of lesser rank. prisoners, and as several of them took shelter in fie barns to detend themalvea, lie set them on fire, and blew up :36 car lagos with a rtiliery ammunition %vegans. ‘: The vim& road to Borowsk is full of the enemy's marauders, naiiisi a ham lum taking ail necessary m.assures. By the prisoners' re; 0.15, We ;mow that the Bth corps is po-ted at Moshaisk, and that 6rocral Denshrowskji is Lisa:patched with his division from iNlaskiva, on j read to Berowsk ; but of which I shall eisdeavuur to obtain inure cerrain imtelfgence. " A dcl:lch!otrut %slick I had sent out, wider the command of Col. Sievers, consi.sioa Of 150 Cossacks, and two squadrons of the Body Dragoons, has attacked the rearguard, which covered the park of ar tillery, and tai.en six officers, end 97 men, prisoners; the rest they tut clown, and blew up above .z 0 carriages laden with cartridges. "A party of the hussar regiment of Elizabetligurod, which was sent e.:t on 01 , 2 Borowski road, towards Moscow, Ilas likewise taken fifteen men prisoners."—(Peteesburgh Gazette, Oct. 6.) . Fieuxt TIER st•coNn RF PORT. " The same detatchtnent, under Colonel Sievers, supported by some hussars, has attacked a commando on its way to join the enemy's army, la whom they cut a number ea pieces, and took 111 men prisoners : they have also, on their way, taken Ney's Adjutant, and a Quarters Master, hearing the rank of Captain. "By many ensi;ratieg inhabitants, I have received positive infor m:A:ea, that the enemy is drawing ie great numbers on the road to ro dohk. ‘` The corps of General Lannsse, 5,000 men strong, has been disco s...re:l, havoc; taken Isis night quarters at 15 vversta' distance from tee ; should arty imprietence on his part put it in my power to make an at tempt at: hint, I shall not suffer the oppoitunity to slip."—(Petersturgh Canoe, Oct 6.) Lieutendnt-Geeeral Essen reports to his Imperial M.ijesty, under date of Sept. 18, (to), from Mateu as follows :-- "dater the purl being formed for the attack of Mitten, the enemy multi not resolve on accepting a battle, but before the arrival of your Iniperial Alak'sly's trosps, retreated by the road of IVinzau to %aids Batisii, whither he was pursued by the cavalry ; fifty men were taken prisoners, and the enemy left 190 men behind them in the hospital. We have likewise token tour pieces of brass cannon, considerable quan tities of ilifferent kind) of provisions, and a great number of pelisses, tc,en in Courhend uc 'he enemy on requisition, of which I have the ho nour to inf..riti your Imperial Majesty, I shall not negls et forwarding the particulars ul this atrair."—(Petersfniega Gazette, Oct. ti ) —•— • The Adjutant-General Winzingerode reports to his Imperial Ma -leslY. under date of the 9Ath of September (Oct. :3), from the village of llawydowka, as follows : " I have submissively to report to your Majesty, that every thing is well with the corps, the detachments, the vanguard, and the ad vanced p os t s . On the roads to W ladimir and proslaw, on the 18th Mil) instant, 93 men were made prisoners, and sent oil to Jaroslaw. The French van-guard remain in their firmer positions on these roads, nanlely - , in the vicinity of Swerinez, on the road to Whittimir, and in the village of Alexcjeuzk, on the Jaroslaw road. " On the road to St. PetersbuNli, no movements have been made by the enemy since the last Reports laid before your Imperial Majesty, of the 15th (9.7t11) of September. " In the last night, we have taken prisoners one officer and 94 privates of the fifth division of the &st corps. This fifth division is stationed at Moskva ; and the detachment before-mentioned was sent out from Moskwa, to collect provisions. The Essaul Goro e j ew, who is stationed in the town of Wa s kressenek, has yesterday sent in i 9 French private soldiers as prisoners. The mo st of these had been wounded in the battle of Borodino, and were on their way to the hospitals at Moskwa tor their recovery. " His Imperial Majesty's Adjutant - Col. Benkindorf, is posted With his detachment between Wolokoiamsk and Moshaisk, near the village of Spask. He, , Nith his detachment, has caused much loss to the elm close to tne towns ot RUS3 and Nloshaisk. Two s_quadrocs had been pushed forward by the French to di s c over his detachment. Colonel Benkindoo s ent against them a conjoined p art y from the body regiments of Cossacks, and of the Don-Cossa cks, hlowaiskji 4, and l'schemosubow 8, not amounting in the w4ole 691 more than WO men. The s e two squadror:s %vete wt illy defeated, and , ve took prisoners, one captain and 152 men, with their horses. The I: , intliadet of the /much detachment WAS killed. I shall h ,ve the .6.. ppirehs u make a report to your Imperial Majesty of all those who have :,:gatalised themselves in those engagements." FRENCH PAPERS. P.sa is, Ocr. 29.—Private letters from Moscow, of the 10 h, communicate the agreeable intelligence, that tile Emperor er.jo, , s best possible state of health. A considerable degree of curiosity hat been exited by the Gen: de la tic.ence attache: to the Grand Army, to be made acquainted with the principles upon which the grand aerial machine was made, with cvnieti the wretch Rostopschin undertook to :hinilulate the French .truly : —it was no lass than a balloon, which to carry up hito t. e kitty men, with fock% t,, hane.4renad , es, a; d;:anister AA, which they vvere to pour down upon the troops : but ail ex reriments totally k•or the invention of this wicked, but ridiculous device, the auss:ans were, as usual, indebted to their allies, the English—and perhaps the English General Wilson, who was lately in Moscow, waa the Engineer. The following arc the particul ar s of this bu-,inesi, as communtcated to the /Amperor : In the first week of June last, there arrived at Moscow a person who called himself Schmidt, and said he Was a native of Wuftzburg. This man, who, there were stecing reasons fur suspecting to be an Englishman unkr a feigned name, was accompanied by an Aide-de. Camp of Prince Oldenbourg's, who had also assumed a fictitious name. Both estabiished themselves in a house at Werozow, four wersts from Moscow, on the Kal.higa toad. A few days after their arrival, upwards of 500 workmen were sent to theta from Moscow. Guards here stationed at all the grates leading to the place, and no ',Jerson except those actually employed was allowed to enter the premises. The Directors of the Establishment then made a demand of an enormous quantity of iron filings, and gave an order on a merchant in Moscow, of the name of Preitre l for 45,0J0 roubles worth of oil of vitriol. Preitre speedily made his first delivery, and hnnediately received 20,000 roubles in ready.money. His second delivery, which consisted of 1,500 pounds, was found at his warehouses about 4J wersts from Moscow ; it was at the disposal of the GoYernor Ros toochin : the latter, on the 4th of September, published a notice to caution the people against being alarmed at an explosion which was to take place next day ; it was, he. said, the trial of a machine which was to exterminate the French army, and he made hiniselt sure of success. The machine was not ready until the Bth : an experiment was made with it on the same day, but it would not leave the ground. A report was then spread, that some alterations were necessary ; but a few days afterwards, Rostopchin andhis associates renounced this mighty project, in order to manufacture the fi r e -works, with which the y set fire to t he city when our army entered: I t appears, that the above named Schmidt had arrived from Vienna, furnished with passports, to enable - him to enter Russia, and wish letters of credit, all furnished to - him by the Russian Minister at the Imperial Court of Austria. He did not leave Moscow until two or three days after the entrance of the victorious French army into the capital. TIIE NATIONAL REGISTER. PROVINCIALS. As some labourers were lately digging gravel at Stoke Ash, they discovered, at abcut ten - feet below the surface of the earth, some animal bones, of a magnitude considerably greater than any quadrupeds they had ever seen on their taking them up, and ex posing them to the rays of the sun, they crumbled away, except six poitioni, of a firmer texture, which remain in nearly a perfect state; these prove to be two grinders and four ot - the cutting teeth of an elm pliant ; they are quite in a mineralized state, and were found with their rnasticati ig surfaces in contact, parallel with each other, as if the upper and lower jaw-hones had mouldered and fallen away front them ; the grinders are very massy, one weighing 61b. the other 4# lb. These uaineralised remains are now in the possession at the gentlemen of Eve ; with one there is a lamina of a third grinder pret.ervAi. On Friday se'nnight, about seven o'clock, Mr, EDW. DA V I sort. of Term, was attacked on Derwent Crook waggon way, neac Gateshead Fell, Northumberland, by a person who came behind him, and knocked him down with a bludge .n. The villain first struck. him on the shoulder, and then on the head, which he cut ; and when Mr. D. was lying on the ground, he repeated his blow, on which Mr. D. cried out, " Murder !" Fortunately his son was on the road to meet him, and hearing the cries of his father, ran to his assistance. The villain hearing the voice of another person, made off' withot:r accomplishing his purpose, being that very instant in the act of rifling the pockets of his intended victim. Suictot.—Wednesday, Mr. T Hole, clerk to Mr. Bray, of Ta vistock, put an end to his existence, by swallowing a large dose of laudanum. lie was married only on the Saturday previovi. to a young lady to whom he had long paid his addresses.—The following