The National Register. — London, England, 1812-11-01 00:00:00

THE NATIONAL REGISTER: 676 01110111COMMIIIar ablyin - comp the most 'ladle of any in those climes. The more n ••• . distriets consist almost uniformly of. taSi MArshes, impe net ebe...ferests, and sandy ;steins. The duration and excessive rigour of the winters condemn this portion , of the Russi.an States to nearly absolwe stirility. In the more sr uthern proeleces, on the other hai'd• we find steppes or boundless deserts. whose gravelly soil impicgeated with salt, and tetallY . desritute of wood and water. Ti•e p •.f Moscow and its adjoimeg Goeernments, situated lye e . cut . three extremes, produce in such ant:lel:tee all the necessaries of life, ilia :role that large city, as a sort of general entretior, they were sptead oece all whole surface of the enteire. A siegle glance at the e tap will les sufficient to stew, that front Moscow issue all the great reads of Rassia. We rely distinguish nine wincipal ones, ei vv-ging in all directions ; aod their numerous ramifieations establish an eesy attercourse between t his central point :eel the extremities, wiech hence receive.!nett!) . all their stbsistence and the materials fey their industry, In exchange for the partial supplies with %ilk): they furnished it. hot to St. Petersburgh, above every other city, is a constant com. muritettioe will the ancient capital necessary for the supply of its incessantly retutning wants. I.ct us again cast our eee upon the map, and we shall see that only tour great reads issue from the city of Peter the First. Two of them ascend towards the north: comely, towares the marshes of. Finlarcl, or the steril and froecn goverements rf Olonetz Arehengel. A third Toed leads by Riga to Prussia and Polsn ' ; it is imercepeed by a French corps. There 'vilins a fetal h, the only n > :ions Ot communication between the two cap hats ; anti it 'sin like magner cut oft' by the Grand Army hself ! What means, then ere left to St. Petersbergh of renewing its supplies of prnvi se -, e.• hits, iesulated as it now is from Moscow, it has lost all its to earc t:ons with the provinces whit h supplied it with subsistence ? By sea ? But is not the Baltic shut by the ice for eight motelts in the year ? The first of these rigorous months has eommeeced. That proud city, which still re-echoes with empty menacts againe: our ar mies, and the chauntirg of imaginary victories, must, at once, cx eerience a failure of all her resources. will awake to a terrible cestainty ; her frighteeed inhabitants will doubtless calculate, that the belt ks of the Nava are 60 leagues nearer the head-qcarters of the ceequeror. than the banks of the Niemen from Moscow *. Hut is it Petssia alone that has to lament the deplorable fruits of her folly ? Will not the intiduous ally who sedirced her, also sutler teem the errors which that Power has commbted ? While Russia is thus stitte..l: to the core, we corm ot doubt that the shock must Ire felt in Lsndon. The Englishman will sulks in what is deereet to him— •iii• euercantilei speculations, and his gold.: But the It nssiees, in aiming so cruel a blow themselves, in !estrev . ing the very focus of their commerce, and throwing beck, for more than a century, the still imperfect work of their civiliz ition,—have . they' re tetene us some ranch of that may balance their own enormoes tosses ? have they acted like the wounded soldier, who courageously sacrifices a valuable limb to save the rest of the body ? Have they prepared our certain ruin, and purchased at the expense of their ant lent capital the saesty are! the honour of their empire ? Ne : they have use lessly ruined one r.t l'es. finest cities in the world; they have, without :try advaerage to their cause. treated their own country with more barbarity than Attila ever displayed against an enemy who had pro voked his fury. White inflecting a mortal wetted on their country, they have done us Litt: or no harm. A few observations will be sufli eieet to prove this double t: nth. "Uhree font ths of Moseew are in ashes. Doubtless we must deplore this frightful calamity, the etket of barbarism whitest% ceatni,le ; but . this misfortune falls entirely upon our enemies, and cannot end: nger the existence of our legions, as sonic persons, adopting an opinien to tally destitute of tourelaticti, might tor a moment believe. Supeos e • Fuels burnt, could the army, which occupied the Beauce, the t or. le:mais, and Picardy, in short, tic provinces from which it derives eubsistenee,—could this army Went urovi-ions ?—Certsinly ere Very sell, •us position is exactly similar to tile case we liaie ;env put . But there is one essential remark, which modifies the .compa rison to our advantage : almost all touts of France are rielt and well peopled, consequently two hostile armies could there find aburdant resources. The same cannot he said of Russia. Theeeterel testa ter s of that vast empire alone presents the advantages of fertility ; the ri m:tinder is comparstively a desert-, as unproductive' of men as of the r. esti, of sehsisteece. Our el:loci:cc into Moscow, and the position el t'le eoeeiy, driven from all his internal provinces, sufficiently tell how .ve &lave to tear from the threats, coutaieed in his ridulous pro_ elenietions, of reducing us to the most severe privations. Far hum belles ourselves exposed to them, we are oven likely to famish St. Pe tetsburgii this whiter ; and our army, interpos tetWeCn the enemy and his tyro cepitels, alrc:.dy closes the channel of all those supplies which are indispensably necessary for its support. But while, :Amidst resources of ev.ry kind, our soldiers enjoy repose from their fetigues • From Moscow to St. Petersbuqh there arc 25 post-stations, of which the principal are Jilin, Tver, Torjeck, Novogoted, &c. The tbtal distance is 698 versts, or 202 leagues, conutine 25 to a degree. Eneiish companies and English warehouses were established in Moscow fur the ergnmerve of the Carpi: n, which is extremely va. Pious and productive. The hemp, flax, sail-cloth, kc. which land obtained from Russia, were brought frosu t i lle central prtnincue . possesinn of our army. •• NOV. 1. in Moscow, partialio s.,vetl by their cocrage, the Ructions, think; to the skilful nun muvrcs of their Generals, will witt.t evety thi. g ;;; their owl) country. 'fl: e n emy is fiyi u g to C:IS:111, St. Peter:.bllt;:!l. ai.d [1.1.) from Nioacow : the hitter city :h ,u;.? beat the bt:!w.trk of the einrite, the rampart of hic 4tl:lV, f.f his notes, the cct.t re (I his continuo:sea' ioNc, am! the Lt.it+nry cl hi ; suhsisten:e ; and i:i it our army, tnAtter of all its inovc :titi riving ' , cm/ strength to on the conlis.es As;a, tltr.:; those barbarixi! . whom it hal ni:lrcited to combat froAt the extre;!ii. tic- of Ettrwe Ciro grvot smn of the 19. th century, b1::Inefl arothcr empl- , .. ; ! . s hie pen in writing the hitaory of Russia. not apply to him who shall contitire It to that periocl ‘N•11•,•:1 achapter in our annals. It must alwnyc with the ro..ht 1;7c1•: (L ,- rintity that the phi:ocor,)7•.er will engitire what Cue Nlusco%i what they wished to he, arc! wha. they arz Never before the flag ot Frame carried to such a dist;;Lco. + • In stove)- ing the tht at re of he ex ploits C rand Arun., t he astopished In ete it at a smaller disunce front Itagla.l thin irom Paris, and ab steer the Are of the Nrwan gulph as tht: baults of r " Tell nw, I be you, what you propose to vnnr.ell by writicg the hiiiury t the wolws a• 11 bears of Siberia ? What eau von ut - the CzAr that is not to he found in the Life of Charles X 1 I. ? I nil never quote the !lister,' of theie krbatians ; I wculd rathcr %yid: I could torget that they inhabit our hetnisphere."—(Lc e tter hum Frede• I it.k of ussia to Voltaire). PROVINCIA Lg. The ,trite of the we iln'r, of W. , in Shethold, has been, and still conti.nres most akimbo , : not a dry &ty, scarce a (Iry hour; only here and thew a very litoit• rile coin to cot. and no weather that %rid adn.it o!' it. Lying reaped, even to sive the ca:tle. There bye hce•l five A%C(I.: Sh d rottine. rani., and in the whole tar.i: tilOre Starr been Itiri!e dry days ; on the whole, IN_ !IV hod y(Tr:, hove been seen there, Lot never one like tics.—(Edinbu Paper.) Ahlntlay lag an unu,nallv tide ro , e in Glonceste;shire, which oveithe.s.rd the tor :ohms and the hatil.s of the Severn, am! ate ay (Xt.) she( p helot:ging to a gelilk•innii farmer, all of which perished in the tkod : nidny of the carcases being recovered, were taken to Lyil ney Maiket, and st:hl at re , inced prices to the poor. The saute tide ;Aso inundated a great wit of the Earl of kcky's bre: , Ling down the fence:, end otherwise (loin' , considerable datim:e. The stop.tadous tvvathercock net Chichester('athedral, wltich, hole t having traversed of late, the I)e.an and Chapter had in contetorll laken down, was moved rtnind by the late galcs, and it has trat tr,ed sett' wt.') et et- three. It is 1$ singular circumstance, that a light horseman, with his carbine, from the s!riis ;:t the di or of the Anchor I,ln, pw . veat hack, shot :41,11 struck he cock, whidt Itva , t it round. The indent remains. and may be seen with it goal ,;lass; t!.t: heicht of the spire is 199 feet The latter end 4,f the month of August last, at an early le)nr n the mottling, 71 bird was observed on a tree at tl a ekwii %lie lived about the Inkt..e. as servant, Illiett:1: I: nir :I 11:1,..11: trelitie;totit ', L!1•1*.I l'yrti and shot it, %%twilit tro‘;•ti to he a twoutilai greta rilror, mat h a d round its neck u tr 0.14.1 riot!, on whi , -14 was eurr.raved, " kett!tant, of hie Akjesty's .11:11 aaldavita." .t person in an ad j oining field was listenine to the bird when it wa..nut, and thoujhr it '.el. , d• tvoiraing• speui% tither the Slot:Ash or French law . t uaze What s• r;i:ti extraord nary is, that the bird had act lieon seen in any part of the rottlgry 1) 4 1 . 0re that tn Iliontth the vessel hich it ettot have escaptd, was rust (in the 4tli of D e cember last, S" 4I Y " 4 ' Place where it wits lined was nb4ut tv•entv milts frnut the %trod , . Poor poll and >1 dog svt,re the only •urvivors from that iii-sated sit: P end I:rr gallant crew.--(Peli*,:st News-Letter.; On Thursday se'intight, three Irotieli iinner', et.:ding the lt'tice of the parr!, swain bow the San Nicholas. ut to a moor 111 not very fa; tti.taut ; an I goitt i .! Oil bea7d, with :oug Ithive°4 threatened the life of the barge-keeper, it' he did i.ot itu..tantly turlikli them with the suds belongin4 to a boat alotto.sitto. The harge - keer t prolassed his readiness to comply with their e'demand, mod proceeded to so towards the hold for that purpose, but I4 , stead of pro curin g sails he seiied a handspike, mad slipping up the tore hatchway. got ota the davit, in which situation he kept the disappointed Frenchmen lit' buy. until his tepated coils for help had bronht hint assistance. DaLsOrt!L CATASTIIOI.IIR.--Lest week au old man, aged 7 0 . and a boy, It 2 years old, servants of Mr. Northey, of Dat.elhary farm, near Box, Gloucestershire, went to a field to fetch two bulls laid it. cow, to drive to a neighbouring fair; one 4 :f the b ulls being, of a very vitiutts disposition, and having been p.roveked on the ixecedatg• afternoon by sonic naischietuas boys, immediately made at the gored hint must dreadfully. 041 the old matt rthiattiog to kis assistance, i• LP. :o r v •hl I, c v.. • ti ••.;( 1:..t 111 ir 1 VI le'.l tt , v. a ! th, •.;;•, • .; I .. 1.),4 !I lie II I. r 111 Vt I I : ;OIL Fiat d C t•ks'll NttlV ropri Iptit bt,,ltut Inc Ber Fad Etlii Stir' !bra Lim Kill NVg 'Tit 14. 1 Lou Vat T.yr