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

"If 0 6.70 --- tion with the greatest part of his army against the former. as though he intended . to force his way into the mamuthem n provinces, and winter there. Prince KuTusow, who le.d already surprised and beaten the advanced guard under Men AT, followed the mo-vements of tic Graed Maly closely, and at Maio-Yaw:daft* a sanguirary battle was fought, at the close of which the Russian ( 'ommander, Pew convinced that the invent of the Preach to pcoetate into the south was real, fell back forty wemsts, to take a st (anger posi tion with his whole force, and fiusti ate their design. soc ce:msful in this feint, NAPO!. EON, iteaearl of fol!oeing hastily retired by his light to Mo•aisk, and having thus gained some marches, proceeded for a few days without experiencing any other annoance than - the dilienity of the roads and the sere:lw of the cold About that critical r eiiod, however, fresh reit) forcements of (7o:sacks joined Prince Kt; TUSO w, who detached them, supported by a strong corps of infantry under M ALA ItA VON' TCH to harass the retiring foe, whilA he proceeded with the, remainder of his army across (14c country towards Sim)• )eusko, in the ho;.e of reaching that place befee the enemy. The second dispatch, or postscript added to the fit st by hi. Lordship, details some of ihe intro' tant and alimet inces sant advantages gained by the activity and bravery of the Cossacks over the French divisions commanded by the V CE RO v _iA 1.1 and DA VOUST. ',Cite intercepted letters of the former give a still mote complete picture of the sutler ings his corps has undergone, the sacrifice of almost all his artillery, and the despair of his soldiers, who, dispirited and exhausted, flung themselves into the arms of an unsparing enemy father than endure the protracted misety of a dicas irons retreat. Defeated at every attack; Viasma, Doroglio ba, the Dnieper, witnessed the destruction and capture of thousands. of those late haughty conquerors who basked it) .the blaze of a burning capital. In the last Bulletin of Prince liv!resow,. and that i-sued by Government on the art i sal of time Gottenbumgh mail last Thursday, will be found an enumeration of unexampled triumphs gained over an enemy hefore whose skill and audoeity all, save Ihitish prowess, had It the; sunk unavailing. The leader of half a wog Id in arms fled with his van-guard to Smolensko, vainly trusting that he should find W itespk, Pohask, and the line of the Dwina in the possession of his ttoepr. On the magazines which he had left under the proteetion of St. Cva end Vic Tott, he flunk' !died to ref' esh and :up. portihe starving fugi lees, once dignified with the n. one of his grand army, hut t't. R lead Leen d ivc» f.oin ,his post with the loss of f his division, and V tcroa, who hurl marched with the gre,lter part of his force to his relief, had only joined him to share his fate in .a sebsequent engage ment. W TC; ENST EIN, master of 1% itespk and of the ma gazines it coati oce!, after a series of glorious act low, com municated with TSCHIC;IACOFF, in the rear of Smoiensko, and the artival of Kurt:sow in the ne . e,libottm hood of that town completed the zone of -hostile armies by which it was surrounded. There, the last French Bulletin, and the French Papers tell us, NAPOLEON remained on the 12th ult. probably unable to penetrate farther, and eetlcayouming to re-organize the wrecks of the S:e000 men with whom le: left Moscow, but which it is bat moderate to say, hase been reduced to cou , iderably less than 60,000 : perhaps, the part of Vie- Tott's corps left at.t hat place, may swell the present grand army to 60,000. The sick and wounded who quitted :Nit:s e,w before the Emperor, cannot have gone beiond Sraolen s'io, which was almost entirely burnt in his triumphant much to the capital. The few magazines which had been furmed there, cannot suffice to feed the numbers collected • DEC. 18, together for any length of time. In the midst of ruins zn,tl desolation, with scarcely any shelter from a freezin g s ky, with famine, staring in their face, and hostile ari n i ei gatlwring around them, NAPOLEON and his choicest I,i ;t reduced and exhausted' troops are now taking u p thei r winter (;carters. Will they be able to contend lon g‘. y ri ih i !hese three dreaded antagonists, Russian snow.% unsat atcil want, and the sword of the patriot ? If not, what will it avail, that the vassals of NAPOLEON, still overaw e d by the te; rots of hiS name, send the flower of their subjects t o pt in his cause ? The numerous reinforcements on their march to the Dwina, according to the last Gotienburgh mail, must prove useless if he be unable tq maintain his pnsit:rm until their arrival : and yet he has no other alternative, if this is beyond his means, than to rush with the impure o f despair through the hosts that cut off his roceat, and Nor or die; or like CssA a, with committed his life and hi., for tune to the billows and the storms, to incur all the peril, of a solitary flight fiom an army which he has led to de:tr:ic *ion, and amidst a people where every hand is raised in %en :4eance against his 11;asi. It has indeed been mentioned tfat be hid left Smolensko with his guards forMobilow in order t o c-seape into Galicia, hut this hitherto only rests on rumour. kGottenburgh wail arm ived last Thursday, in con7-equence of which the fol!owing ()Giciat Bulletin was issued: . . " Government this miorninA rcce;vel accounts _from Gottenstirtli, of the :10:11 of November . There were no tank: . dispatch'. tr. , ta Lord C ihcart at Gottenburgh when the packet came j%V.:V ; but ti,e aecounts from the Russian armies are of the most tiatteriitt debcrip. Lion. General Platolt' had taken 900 men and 20 pieces of cannon, at the passage of the Dniel'er. A corps of 2000 men, Ge_,eral Augeteau, brother of the Marshal of that name, had surrendered at discretion to Count Orlott'lleniz , :lf. The last accounts fro,rn Kutus hcaJ quilt tern were dated Lobkovo, ten wzrsts in advance of Sm on tit. 13th of November. Nothing, then was known of litionap4rte. Victor has hVell defeated with great loss." The arrival of a Prussian vessel at. Dover from Dieppe, with an Irish Gentleman, preduced a strange effect in the City on Friday. Because his dress was plain, it was insinu .tted that he must have concca!ed in his trunk some very rich cloths ; a medal or masonic badge was converted int.) the insignia of the Legion of Honour ; and because he sailed . from Dieppe, it was immediately whispered about that he mwt have come from Paris, and that it was mwe than probable he had originally come from the Giami .Inpy with an overture which he communicated to the Duke of 11AsFANo en t•assant, and then made the best of his way to Dieppe. Or at least mi:!:t have brought an actnuit 131..T0s ApAAT CS death.—The en! leman's unwininp,ticss' to answer a thousand questions was immediately imputed to some diplomatic cause. Ilk reserve, it was insisted, was not natural, and becaie,e he chose to be silent, it was instants asserted that lie was silent for the same reason that Loni Br a LEIGH is, in the eagerness to get to los native country (not %cry unusual we should think for a rr son just arrived from France) was attributed to the nece , ' , lty of delivering his important dispatches, and in :,hoot nothing was talked ofand no other question was asked in and nor the Stock Exchange, but " who is this stupendous stringer N.() doubt he must have been amused on his arrival with the hustle he had created, and with the effect he bad produeol upon the public funds, which rose upwards of one per cent. In the muse of the afternoon the Prussian vessel was con verted into a flag of truce ; nay, as the night app roached, some saw double, and would have it that two Bags of truce were arrived. Sonic of .the Papers had in consequence a grand bit at BUONA PART E. Thew had i:ound out the day, the hour, and mode of his death, and they killed him " lu ,good bet terai, TIM NATIONAL REGISTER .