The National Register. — London, England, 1812-12-27 00:00:00

810 tacked by him after ST.CYris defeat at Polotrk, - advanced, in trumher about 30,000, to secure the retreat of the wrecks of the grand army, and effecting its junction with them on the left bank of the Borisow . before TCHICH A GOFF'S arrival, once more raised it to a formidable force of 79,000 men. Of these, however, a division, according to the Bulletin, of 2000, but more likely of 5000 men was cut oft, and the lest had to light their way across the norisow, the right bank of which vas then occupied by IrCitICHAGOF CS army. In this at tempt they succeeded, not however without experiencing a loss of about 5000 men. The next day WITGENSTELN and Tc HICHAGOFF joined and give them battle. thus I action the enemy claim a ccmplete victory, gained chiefly by the cavalry - brought bp by OuntNoT, and attended with the capture of 6,000 prisoners, artillery,_Bo. Supposing their account true to its full extent, although it is no doubt much e xaggerated, such a triumph cannot have been gained with out a ft csh loss of at least 5000 on their part, so that in little more than three days this army of 79,00 men suffered a probable diminution of 15,000. Five day . - after this b d attle, we a. e't , the R9ssiaos had not shewn themselyes„an the' French bad Vken up a position at Modolscheno, about fifty miles in advance of %Vilna, without any hostile force in ariftr rear, and 'receiving supplies from that city ; having saried out of the 150.000 they led against Moscow, and the 46,600 that joined thrill in their retreat, about 64,000 men. Iltre, trembling no doubt for the consequences of his disastious retreat and repeated defeats might have on-his allies and his subjects, especially after having been informed of the late conspiracy, at the very seat of his usurpation and power, Paris, NAPOLEON resigned the command to MURAT, and in thirteen days reached his capital, stopping only a few toms al Warsaw and :Dresden, to deceive the President of the Polish Diet and the King of SAXONY with misrepresen tations of hii losses,•and his means of repairing them. The wrecks of the French army still in Lithuania, are composed of MAcDONALD'S Prussian corps before Riga, which has had but little fighting. It consisted originally of nO,OOO, and may now be rated at 25,000 men ; of the force under M otaT, about 64,000; the Saxon corps; under BEYNIER., originally 24, and now 15,000; the Austrian auxiliaries, originally 30, but now, notwithstanding their reinforcements, probably no't above 25,000 ; and the re serve, commanded by AUGEREAU, and which eceupied the Baltic coasts last summer, but is now arrived on the Nie men This corps is computed by the French Papers, at 120,000, but we shall follow the amount lately stated in Parliament, and shall tate it at 40,000. In all, therefore, the enemy doei not possess more than 169,000 men on the theatre of war, divided into five corps at a prosecute the war with the satne vigour they have lately done, notwithstanding the increased severity of the winter, it is more than likely that they would not only drive the considerable distance from each other. Should the Russians French from \Vilna, and the rest of their territories they still occupy, ..but that they would cut off and capture most of those divided corps before their re-union renders them once more formidable, and utterly annihilate the military power of France. CAPTURE OF ANOTHEIt FRIGATE, The necessity of waging a decided and overpowering war with America becomes every day more evident, We have sufficiently shown our disposition to spare, we must now display our power to crush, and not let our naval trident be wrenched from our hands by a puny and contemptible enemy, The Zephyr sloop lately spoke the Wolverine in THE NATIONALRFGISTEII DE(s. t. 27, the Channel, having on board the ! urser of the Maceill.•!„, l frigate of 38 guns, with dispatches_ respecting ile. ca y. (-; o as t): in nightre re D ac tf ic s d -r u ti rt ;, after a long and sanguina r y action, by the plaitedfrigate of 44 guns , comma nded b y No official account had , however, ! diniralty ; but , a ietter ?ortirnouth says, that the 1 " action took place c Ulf! Western islands; no iv,- rt i • arc known more than the bare fact, with, that t'„ Ann EN was not killed in to , . action, ilion.ll the ;. has been severe : it i; said 10;) melt killed and *AT: ; The Zephyr spoke a brig, WI EGAI'd tae Purser, had been put by the A4l,fiCailS." We understand that orders have hem sent to the French Marshals in Spain, to send to France instantly half the ef fective force under their command. MASSEN A is said to have been seirt for to Paris. A mail from Malta arrived yesterday, but brought no news of importance- Leiters brought by the mail from I isbon state, that the Allies ' on the one side, and the French on the' other, appear I . to be each occur., tog a line from the Douro to the Tagus Sir ' ROWL AND HILL is gone to Coria, so that our c:anninnica• tions extend through the Sierra de Gata, as those of the French do, through Puerto de Banos-. Dispatches from Mr. Tao RS T ON, IltitiS 7 l , AlllbatiSadOr to ,the Court of Sweden; were received by the packet which brought over two Gottenburgh mails, on Monday. The -following Bulletin of the contents of Mr. THORNTON'S di [ patches was officially circulated : " F , 1-: - :n Office, Dec. 21,111 A Letter frem Mr. THOR wrort, d-•!c . .1 Sto• ;•h• In, tee 101 t inst. Tclnses a precis of the accounts horn tee 1. • :C.,1 of SMOLEN.I,i“), 13 the 24th N•tv. dated Pet ersbit:gla the 2e:11 Nov. " Get - torsi Count I•,i3recar, who coi , ...i•iirts the advanced t!o:itil under PerNeB lie-re s - Jls, haditai.en SWO prisobers. The killed ate in propottion. ~ C9IIIIT WIT 113 EN ST ETV is at Corsse, in communication with .V.! miral Ten (CNA GOM In Ivb report of the Vt•th, he st les, that he had killed a groat number of the enemy, and heed tr:ked 800 prisoner!. " Accounts from the Grand A 'lily of the 2Ld November, i;latc, that the Prince of SmoteNstr.o was mai..:htm: on Orsha, and Mughih.iv, parallel to Boar Al' A R TE'S re'Lreat. N ()thin * b could pteveut Ii;( pm:. - tion of all the armies, if necessary. Tuesday, a mail arrived ;roan Cadiz, with letters and pa pers to the 4th instant. They do not contain any very im portant facts, but the lccotrits on the whole are favourable. MASSENAjS said to have left Bayonne, :adsreturned precou i pitate,y to Faris, in consequence of symto of commoti in that caOtal.C.fir F AltELT.lwhom it Viillialso mentioned, had returned to France, is still in pain, and has -marched with corps consisting of 10,000 infantey, and 4000 horse towaru, Vittoria. The Castle of Burgos, it is asserted, has been tin , - mantled. The enlistment for teinforeing the Spanish army proceeds with great activity throughout Spain, and me Province has raised an army of reserve, consisting of twenty-five thousand men. No military °pc' ations. of im• portauce bad taken place in the south of Spain ; but it was expected that a movement. would shor: ly be wade a:.:iii;t the Fiench in Valencia. The 2d, 3d, and 4th Spanish ;J -ulies, united with •the Anglo Sicilian army, would form a 50,0,1.'0. had HET, who was supp(‘F.ed force of not less ttran 5 to have no more than 15,0 0, had strewn indications of al • intention to retreat, and it was supposed would fall b:lik upon Arragon. The head quarters of Etio and the DAP DEL PARQUE, who command the • Spanish armies, were The Almanza, only 17 leagues from the , city of Valencia. T.le two Generals were expected to put themselves under the command of CASTANOS. The New York Papers , of the 3th of last month, s ay i-• DEC •0 01..1 4 ' V: Sacks tclioc day, bad I gnus , lakes aillo i r T at 01 in di It the Or VI galls the Owl went one , cresi Arc' for very tire, Du k 1.011 crifi and ito our Our be 1 nea MA to I 11E1 gen rep ,stye ant son Par lit firs 1~~ or Pr •