The National Register. — London, England, 1812-10-04 00:00:00

r THE NATIONAL REGISTER. 0 ( 1 . 4 • • St.:11" bill;RY AND COVFVT GARDEN 1 [MATHES. We this Flsv present our Readers with a correct Plate of the front !wo National 'theatres. In our next we shall lay before com,)arative view of the interior of each, when the erect wiveh the I e;:. esentatiOu of the exterior is likely to produce, will lie rt....1,..,1, Seita from the street, Covent Gimlet' presents the ma appo::rmice A Grecian temple, full of severity and grandeur; . t lYn:y Lem, with its brick sides and stuccoed front, looks more I,,i'tont demised mansion Of some honest Country Squire, than t :1:t , of the Dramatic Muses. it h therefine to be lamented that t • ; o:-.1:re should have been built SO forward as to render the erec ti lOw intended Portico inspos-itile, fiir want of room, when so is left unoccupied in the to.ck, towcrds Thury.lane. ( o 6, o .d ei i has a kit the advaintaf!e in external accommodati i • ltreill'd coi.•pletely shelter the visitors to i!se pit, boxes, ' • q WS. link the inclioneley the weather, before the door; of • e (yen. Di or) L. , .e seems hitherto to possess nothing 4.1 ILF i-d, and the - public trust reoann exposed to the rain or snow t p .vcitwat, until the House opens. The want of a Portico re , ! t , v patio:tit rls tCit tic the Company going to the dress boxes, w!i! i, to to cross the b:aa-, pavement, on binding from their car :::4l :Iscend the •teps without any she;ter whatever. We men las tiies? il. fromeies, in the hope that they may be remedied, and 111 , t a Them re wh:eli sm passes in internal accommodation and magni_ 11 seller ever of the kmd which we have seen at home and a ;ra•ol, may he net fret thro.ig:eitit THE NATIONAL REGISTER. ton Den, .V 1) 0("1*()BER 4. FIGI I i 11 Fit r;;l:E.kr GF itt.7SIANS 11()4IOV.A. We obserxed izt our that at the date of the seven tecoth Ftetieh Etffle tilt. the critical time seemed to ba‘e ;Ink e h when the Swedish expedition rui..tht turn the tide o fI wlr in favour ef agaits‘it whom it began to run. Ihe •shof-k w' armies appe.tred at hand, aril a victory Ott the pa , t the Fe ench, unless antkipated by a powerful. and ell'ee,..L;! to ight,Nve thought, not only put them in pthises.i.ou! of Moscow, but ten its' the ratrirally weak mimi of N DER into tuici uc concessiotts, and a ruinous pc , te. The I Swe&sh exped i tion has in.t vet sai:ed, and our ;yin have uvfortimaielv been realised; a general engagement h:ls at la-t heen fought, and the Ilussimis have been (1.4 7 ..‘.,tcd. had tags happened before they had evacuated tour hundred miles of territory, the French would have derived from theii victory no other advantage than that of penetrating the Iron tkrs ; whilst the I:ussian:, in their long line of tetrcat, :mold have had time to coileet retiforccinenis, anal in eel'Al y face the enemy with recruited numbets, below he could have leached the vitals of the en-Tile. But it will be :;aid, he would then have pot stied the nu , si:.lns too rapidly to allow them to re-assemble their forces effectually. The llus:dans had several lines of entrenched positions, to ICCeiye their dispersed diviAonS,.. in case of defeat, and to check the foe. They had a chain elklottifted posts before Wiltia; tire. , had the cots enact! Caro ft of Orissa, the fortress 00 natal ry and the strontr line of the Dwina: and they had the iOrtified town Of - Smolt-Asko. But they evacuated the triple ramparts of:their ferrhiiry 'without • a battle, and were driven from the - , ,-,mbretvoti,e) at the fi ststand their main army acempted to make: i . Iblit they been defeated in front of W dna, could ttey have beCijintrsued with more rapiditr than they have been, by an enniv'to whom they offered i oppt.iit:on, unti. 617 he WAS posted deep in the bosom of the land? Whether the sanguinary battle of Moskwa will have the deplorable effect our fears anticipated, remains as et impo.sible for us to ascertain ; but sihen we consAer that it wa. fought with that particular intent by. N A Pm. EON, who sel dom errs in his calculations, and who could have turned the Russian entrenched positions,. and compelled their evacu ation without fi ghting, had he not wished, as by tells his scl diers, to obtain " their spe , .dv return to their country"— when we sec that private Ictters flout Paris already howl that they " shall soon have peace with the !ii:s.iattc , " w e feel serious alarm lest this diq omfiture, joined to the pro- longed want of co-operatiOn on the part of SNMICII, S 110 LSI d SO operate on the mind of At, EX ANDE Rs' to induce him to listen to the proposals which w►lt, no doubt, h 1• ant - 011v made to him. In 'these NAPO!. EON Will, ;Li usual, with atlixted moderation, offer to 'TU11(116.11_ part of bi 3 conquests, in- order to secure the rest; and Ao Ex AND Ea, surrounded by Counsellors whose fidelity is at hest doubtful . , may be prevailed on, rather than es pose itimsell to furtnet disasters, to.sign away some of the provinces which lie has been made to abandon to the enemy, in order to regain a por tion of the territory he has lost. If the reports publicly cir culated in this country arc true, and Rom A NZOFF'S influ ence continues to sway the Russian Cabinet, smelt a deplor e able consummation of our fears is not only ptobable, but may have been in contemplation before the opining of the campaign. Nay, the French account of the battle excites a suspicion that the same destructive influence was also felt in the army, arai may have contributed to i's defeat. a perusal of the 18th Bulletin, it mill he seen, that a redoubt coustrue•ed by the ltu-sians in advance of their left wing having been taken by storm on the sth it t. the two armies appeared opposed t o e ac h o th er cal: th e 13+, which was spent in reconnoitring. ()n the 7rh, at Ina prlst give in the morn the sun rose wi , ll , itit Cloud , , and the Marshal. 4 assembled round Be ON AP AreT reserved his last ()triers, ani lead an wiler of the day to Ili'? army, in which they were told, that they had at obtait.ed ficid of battle thc-v lic.d so long ; that vicli,ry wi ul.I give them " i:!et:iy, good quar ters !Or the winti-r, aad a speedy rewire to their country." They wcie remind- AI cif licit conduct at Auster!itz, Fried \l itepsk, ;ma ;44110!en..k0, whelc they had encountered anti defeated the Russians, and anhinved with the idea that poNterity sav of every so!diet4---" he was at that great Intttle under the wa 'fire army received this .address ‘v;th acclamations, and the anack The Pus : siaus were po-tcl midway up a ranee of hills clowned • ted-uhts and bat c:ies. Their left, protect. d Vete:. re , doubts planted w.th of e::noon each. c. , .tccek.l lie • hind the Kologha (a small river of that n•-an , l. and / tee! on . a forest. Their tight occupied the ground in the Pear the village of Ben odino, and ‘‘as•rtho supported I, two line heights topped by red.tulots anti ItAteries. In the centre a Y;Page hid been ekstroyed, and t!!.1! titile wa.; ('(h With infantry and a rtWely l . 'he action calm:tenet:a . at.4i,t o'clock on the left, and at eight the iedottl,ts mete in posses sion of the French, and the guns which 1 ad not been with drawn to the rear, were turned a2,ain.t the Russians. The centre was attacked by ;Irtisilal `EN', at seven o'clock, and lieos APA It E having wdetcii a el.arge of front, the right in advance, remained master of three-t'oartia; of the fi-ld of . The redoubts on the right TO next carried, but at nine o'clock the reserve %%as bought up, which re-• took them, and, encouraged by this advantalre, advanced agjle-t the centre of the Fiend' now posted in the destroyed vii':;!, where that of the Russians formerly stood. Ei:zhty pieces of Freitch cannon repelled this attack, which was. ~. Ir' - '"' r,w?rr7.l.