The National Register. — London, England, 1812-12-13 00:00:00

TItE "ZATTONAT, 11MISTER. r L - res.lve a C.rt)kuirt u: . t , to ,11 .et D to elen.byrnt e :11,31:inlel 6 • *l o ti e It" o of LLI.Nr-ROUGH Tile Repot% A'as urd.:.rel to b.; iv c 1,01 , J-morrbw . sAraRDAy. nrc. 12. Loi THANZT tnnk the 0 And hi, z-at. Tli. Rep- r .)l the In-clv,,:t Attlo.'n , toit Rill Iv's brotiglit up .inci agrevl to and the LS Ll ouivred ta . bs teal a third tia:e Mon day . Adjourned. LONDON GAZI?TrE FXT. , ? ?ORDINARY, TUISDAY, Dec. 8. FORETGN OFF[ F., DECEMBER B. Dispatches. of which the f Hawing enpies, w re yesterday re• cerved from General Visenohr C thcatt, K. T hrs M4jesty's A'' bastadnr Extranrlin.,r an f Plenin-teetiory, at the Curt of R uss'a, by viscount caDderes 6 b, oue of his Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State. " St. Petersburg!), Nov. 11, isle. 0# My Loan-1 haste the honour to acqinint vont Lorilshio, that Suonaparte has escapel tr m the vverttinei.t of Mosc )w, and has foil iweetthe road to Smolenko, by tehich came. Gen-rals Cunt Piatow, and Count Oi I , ft Denizoff have been incessantly is his rear, and on is , •h ft rik , of his line of mar. h ; the former attacked a position deft. 4.1;:l by infantry and cannon, which he e.irriell, taking two colour:, tweotystwo pieces of artillery, ai d such prisoners as could ha saved.—Count Orloff Denizotf has like_ Wise met 'with resistance which he has very where overpowered, and has taken many trophies and quint:tics of baggage, ammunition wagons, with prsbnersi, and some ordnance. " From the quantities of ammunition blusvo nn hy the enemy, and from the state of the road, riuscribed to be co% erect with the bodies of dead men and horses, the r vest of the r or divisi ns of the French is stated to have every character o' continued flight. " On the S of November, Cc:•.•ra l NtiU sradovitc:l►, with the co lumn under his command, reacliel the main I..td near Via4tna, where he had a sharp ~inga4ement with the rear gurr:l. which is re ported by the prisoners to have been composed of the divisions. of Beauliarnois, of Davoust, and Ncy ; their divisions in vain attemotel to error his progress, and, after sore' al brilliant charges by theltos elan cavalry, were driven tit (-nigh the t.svn of Viasma at the f (Ant of the bayonet, and pursued t Frenina by the light cavalry under Ge neral Flatow :—in this attat k, the infantry reeiinctit of Pernotr, led by its Colonel, General Tehoglokoff, and by M'jor-General Parki 'witch, formed the head of the column, and charged into the town with drums beating and co'ours flying. " The loss of the enemy in kited and wounded i this affair is stated to be at least six thousand, with two thousand five hundred prisoners, among whom are General Peltier, of the Artillery, and Colonel Morat, Atic',.de-Camp to Marshal Davonst. " In the .:ourse of the pui• nit turn Via:ona, great numbers of the enemy w. re killed, o e s'andard and thr:e piece, of cannon were taken, and upwards of 10(VJ meil made prisoners " In the former part of the retreat. itittitt , e, Secretary to the Duke of Rossano, was taken, with all the Clianci rv. it Referring to the telations which have bet n r tr,;ilarly transmitted for more minut e detail.; of the ptveral a. fin,s, I will bi ieflv recavitti late Its- few great movements w W.!) have taken place since the arrival of fie Frendi at Moscow " Marshal kututsoff continued in his pn.iti n behind the River rok hra till the 28th of Octoher r eovering the old road to Kah•tigi, the Toula and Retail ; but having tria.:e occasional movetnstats on the same tine, according as the enemy's operations appeared to polo: to ember flail. In the man while the enemy. by his own 21th bulletin, and by his cooduc , . seems to have been for some time uncertain of the position of the Russian army. As soon as it was ascertained, a crn siderahle portion of the ar.ny under 7vltt rat occupied the intermediate iptit:try between Moscow and the Pnkhra. t was presumed that 11” French. havi• g it in their power 10 -1)1414 tot ward their whole f.rce to either an of .prat's po ;hi ill, Webtl , 4lorodtayoUr to manoto are so as to induce Marsh..l Kitt usolf t. retire behind the Oka, in order to procure a more egtensive thee. tie of polity% with the Loovenience of moving either on Kalowa or Slim leitsko to avoid whi•ii, and wish t view to preserve a more certain eonvlyance tOr proviiens and reinforcements from the sou 1 1, and at the sante thrte - to hold the Cornmaod of the Stnolen4k , road, the Rus sian aruty tiegall _its march 40 occupy the position behind the river chgogial i , li* &ant to the right, up o n a p a r a ll e l t o the o ld Ica- Isla road. fills position, strong, in itself, and strengthened by art, was not likely to be attacked in front ;. but it was of course fo:c , ..en, that if it were to be attacked, a pre'vsqus madv by the enemy-on the 4eW Kalouga road, to tutu ;he left and rear of this posi tion, 'and ttic Nirslia! professed hid readiness tp meet the enemy upon Olt ground. - " Tl4.4powespeot was complete ou tl:c 34 of October; on tho ith of C. 11 _____ • : :t:i . atf 4 t.r trt arivoltcrtl guard 700 k plAce wir, i .ivc (-- s the H se th- K ussiAns, which was f.llowed o t 5 h I ()c o"%et by the fia.: of truce s;:tit by Ilutin.partr, with Itcrture I , ) ()main an dtatistice, and to open a neliot.idttuti, whkh w rjecicti. A t t:lis period several consitlerable detachments Were made t.) lii. ra:: the ee it%. w!iich 4;)2ear to havehaveb!ti conducted whitey, .1 .k,ll lit • succes.• : the most i•ii portant of th es e was t h e one a,aiast V.rt:A, t which plata: w.ts taken la, assault on the 11th el Octow. " 01 , t' e Hith 'of Ocober, several regjmento of Col%acks hav g ~,v e t . i t wac 111e)1'0.5ed to attack Murat. Ihe attack did ma tAc ,;lace till the 12th of o,.tiyber.: " The erwmv, n'ter this 2 ffnir. of which I had I honntir to tr. mit to yoor Lordship a report in my dispatch, rrtioale:l bcl:in:f the it 'lc river NI, zi. " Bitonapatte was not heard of out of Moscow or its vicinity till after thi, peri-d. " The cull% detachment of any importance made by the rremdi in a nrirthern direc;ian was the one stationed at D.anetriotf, recalled in great as soon as the evacuation ut Moscow was deter. mined on. " The R uss'an,; occupied the litter city on the 22J of 0ct, , !;,,-, with dr. loss of Lieut -Gen ral Winzicgerode. most treach- , 1 •:y carried oft; with his Aid-de-Camp. Captain Narishkin, vanced with a flag of truce to remonstrate against a protracted dial net es;!ry resistance on the part of the rear-guard. " On tin 24th of October, the French army was reconnoitre4 w , ta officer of Cossacks belonging to the corps of Moscow, w,-) !Our camps, one on the new Kilouga rued , near llororsk, au.l t:Ac on the left bank of the Protva. " In the ni. ht o' the 21th of October, General Doroceir was er dered to occupy Mala- Jnroslaif, post- t wn on the new Kai. uga r between Borofsk that fa ace ; that Gen-ral alrc y tound it •c. u. Ided in force by a French detachnt:ut ; a v:rs ribstinate contest diately took pl -ce, in the course t'f which the manias nn both were reinforced, auil the town was taken and re•aken lewo ti ::s. The Marshal, in the mean while, put his army hi inoti. , n by ti:e left, and arrived At Mala . ..larnsl .if, est:ettishi:, head. q ..,,,w,, hvo wersts to the soitetward at t:11 tow:), which was buroc-f, and .4:- tachini. a comiderable corps under General Platow, to 11 (Ima, nn his lef, where he took cloren pieces of cannel, anti lett the growl so• verod with dead. ‘' The obstinacy of this contest for Mala-JaroA4F, awl' other eir cuirntancea, tended to confirm the Field- Morsli..l's c p t,ion, that the object of the enemy w s to force a passage t' the Southrni although there was also sir mg grounds to believe that he e:,s hrc pare.l to attempt a retreat from Smolensk, and by Wilna to the i-lron, yet the Marshal deemed it necessary to direct his principal a:lc:nom to the trials pointing to the southward ; and, with a VIC.V to .+ n more complete command of them, retired to a posinon versts of kalouga, near Gorki. " Finding that the enemy was moving by Vcrrea, on k, again advanced upon Medina, and having r ceivel tha the French head-quarters were, on tk 30th of October, at C.':lo a mon Istery not tar from Borodino, he formed his tUsplsition ;oat. tern pt to intercept him near Smolensk. " Flatow and the Cossacks having been detached for the purre of harrassing and surroundi .g the enema/. Marshal Kuttisoirreintmed • General Millaradovitch's cot ps to upwards of eighteen thousand lin, and d•reci:ng him to march by his lett towards Viasina. the Nlarsii , l himself proceeded by Simsko and Celirka, in a natal! I dircc 11)11 hi it allotted to General Millaradovisch ; the main road tolinin4 an arch, these parallel lines of march ova re sliomr, but exiiesed to eriater lticulti s, the roads brine less practicable. " The head of General Millaradovitch's column reached the in:in road first, near V iasma ; the headquarters of Marshal notosolf were establisited 4t the village of Bikovoi, a little to the southward Cl Viauna. f. In regard to the French Army. it appears by the papers of 3 Corniniss,ary-General, who was snack prisoner, that they victualed one 11 , 1pdred and twenty thousand men, but that their etlimalt was reduced to eighty. five thousand, at the period of the Mt-1;.1!: of Moscow, and that Bilonaparte had contractel with a couli): 11 Y Jew:. for a supply of pro visi•ms in theline of his retreat. lii? glio(b an° some select corps, lanve he : n nursed with peculiar care, and ! ept -s much as' possible out of action, and these corps appear to item pro teak! t la- retreat of the rema;iting troops. " It is mooned that Bioinapart travels in a coach, acentilllaslic d b. ! Murat, who has received a contusion in his knee, and Berthier. " It i. hardly to be conceived that this rear-guard at leaat c . 3 Cunt;nue its march without halting, in which case, with the assi.l.:l of the light troops, the Russianatmy w li be enabled to 0ver.;..,,. them They have hetbre them the gallant anti active Cocat k‘' . ; geihtein, whose character for zeal and t:nternrize is so well esral)i7i.'_ l . and they have also. on the Minsk road, CO encounter Molina Tlitc ! u i gotr, with the Moitivian army, which is to be hoped :nay have !.' , 4 1 and notice either to unite vyith Count Wittgenste;ii or r'itt tut on the aboy; named road, or to ;move to either tank. •i eta h Marshal Kiitusotthas sent 'rut. atnoleg 'others, a coil'. .le Ifichtnentt which was at Puce miter to.Simulcmk, under 174 7 ti., A' :err Pla( 101:( 4 v e..e: r 0.1 1 . , :r ri) !Len h>>