The Statesman. — London, England, 1812-11-16 00:00:00

• ' ow ' • I .1 1 , 0 R.I. wherever victory calls it ? Whatever may be the positions of which the army may make choice. for whiter-quarters, we are assured, that during their repose, ns in their activity, our invincible legions will command the respect of the etsems's hordes, and we render thanks to that foresight which equally ) knows how to precipitate victory, and sto;.) at that point which wisdom demands. We thick with, plea sure that our friends, our brothers, our sans as- , gemblvel round the flags of their country, are going,l to enjoy scmve moments of repose.-11 they s'Avald even purchase this repose by fresh battles, it is good to obsorve, that the fruit of these battles, however brilliant they may be, neither can nor must b: any thing else than the dispersion of the enemy's columns, which perhaps support those hands of Cossacks by which the positions upon the Nara have been dis turbed. All the movements the army shall make will only have for its object, the ensuring of 851 tranquil and abundant winter quarters as possible.— Thamo movements naturally require a large line of operations, and Moscow being the extremity of the , position of the army, which the army occupies, the bead-quarters, the focus of all movements, could nol longer remain there. To say that the Emperor has ; left Moscow, is only to say that this father uf sol diers marches wherever great operations demand his presence. His presence commands victory ; his presence will still watch over the safety of the victo rious army. . WARSAW, OCT. 21.—Troops who form a part of the army commanded by the Marshal Duke of Cas taglione, are daily, arriving. They continue their march without stopping, to reinforce the Austrian auxiliary corps under Prince Schwnrtzenberg, be sides a corps of Austrians, which will make him equal, if not superior, to the enemy. Ocr. 20.—Detachments of troops every day ar rise by Posen and lialuh. We to day expect the regiment from the Isle of Rhe, 2100 strong. BER MY, Ocr. 31.-03 the 20th, Lieutenant-Ge neral d' York had his head-quarters at Mittaw ; his corps had taken a more advantageous position than the first, where it in a great measure bireuacked in ; the marshes, which would, in this advanced season, have been very prejudicial to the health of the, troops. _ BARCELONA, Ocr. W.—According to a private letter from Madrid, dated the 15th instant, that city has been plunged into stupor since the arrival of the English. AU those who either directiy or indirectly had a share in King Joseph's Government, are the objects of the most horrible persecutions. Twenty fatlrrs'of families were, on the I.lth, taken up and conveyed to the Retiro. The greater part of the Nooks followed his Catholic :Majesty in his retreat upon Valencia. The English municipality formed by Wellington, has ordered the confiscation of their property. The Madrid Gazelles, published under, British influence, loudly comp!ain of the bad dispo sltlon of the inhabitants of that city. It is certain that the presence of the English Generalissmo has produced an effect totally different to what was ez pectecl. Daring all Vte time lie remained at M-dt.itl, his operations were confined to shoving himself upon a large balcony ; whenever he appeared in pubic, s he was accompanied by two or three Chiefs of Bri gands, among whom was remarked an aucl.2nt friar, surnamed Gen. Medus, and this outrage, as may easily be conceived, highly offended the proud Casti lians. The great Madrid Theatre and the Opera have been shut up. GIROYNE, Ocr. 29.—1 n the night between the' 21th and 25th the enemy attacked Olot ; they en -tem] the town, but were not able to maintain then,- selves upon the great square, where twelve cavaliers, ; who penetrated with their horses, were killed. At break of day our troops resumed the ulensive, and the enemy were repulsed with the loss of about 100 killed and wounded. We are assured that M. I.Acy directed this expedition, which could have had no other termination, because the possession of the., town, did not give that of the fort, which is shel tered from the attacks of an enemy. The command of it is entrusted to Nogues, Chief of Battalion, al distinguished Officer, who has under his orders a i garrison that only demands an opportunity of fight- ' ing. 111 1 I . t 1 i ' i • • • , 1 1 1 .. I. it : • i ' t t : ' • • ••I GO TT ENBVRG II if .1 IL. OFFICIAL. ACCoUviS FROM THE ARMIES. Ptrtasaurtutt, Oc•r. 20.—The Commander in Chief, General Prince Kutusow, informs his Imperial Maj;.,ty, under the date of the 22d Sept. (4th Oct.) from head-quarters, near the village of *fatality), that nothing of consequence had taken place with the armies un.ler his command up to that day, with the exception of some engagements of the van-guard, and sisi rmisltiug affairs of the parties sent out on the enemy's lines of communicttion. The following are the pal ticidars of these engagements On the I lth (23d Sept.) Major-General Dora chow, whilst continuing to net with his detachment, baisent in to the Commander in Chief, an enemy's' post taken by him with three chesti, two scaled, and one with plundered church goods. On the '24th Sept. his detachment again took, ow the Moshaisk road, two of the enemy's couriers, with dispatches ; they burnt twenty chests of the., enemy's cartridges, and took '230 prisoners, amoc 4 : whom were five Officers. On the 15th (27th) four Officers and 287 privates were taken, and on the same day Major-General Dorochow completely routed two squadrons of French Guards, and a bat talion of infantry. This skirmish was performed byl two squadrons of the drcgoon guards. Grit. Do., rochow prai.es their courage. At this time we took one Colonel, four officers, and SG privates. The.! reinforcement which had arrived for the support of the enemy's detachment, werealso driven back more than two wersts, and many of them killed. On the' 16th (With), Colonel Jafremow,with his detachment, fell in with the enemy, who was marching from the passage of Borouski, towards Podoisk, totally de- (eased them near the village Wrehnewskoji, and took about SCO prisoners. Adjutant-General Baron Korfr states, that the de. tachment under his command hat taken the enemy's baggago, amongst which were found several papers. On the 17th (9.9 th) the vanguard of General Melo radowitsch attacked the enemy near IschiJtkowa, the volunteers from the peasantry threw themselves with exemplary courage, and filed bayonets, on the ene my, and those him out of the village. b,2 this eLi. ' - ~~ . . TIIE STATESMAN gagetnent,wc took prisetteri.l.iriotle-fieneral Fe;rice, Commander of the King of Naples Staff, the same who was mentioned in the Marshal's Report of the 19th Sept. (lbt Oct.) with another Officer attending him ; and Count Polocki, Captain of the cavalry, add Adjuta nt Eo Kin ee p'oniatowsl d. On the Istli (30th) Sept. COlonel Prince Wad - holskje having arrived, in the village of Oshegowo, with the Mariestpol regiment of Hussars, and 500 Cossacks,4ent *Ma party of Cossacks • from thence 'in the great road to tiorowske to reconnoitre the , enemy, he himself going in the direction of Moilutisk, and . ;lasi Roads. After passing the Borowsko Road towards Mosliaisk, he halted near the village of Ra sozudowo ; he then inarclied With the detachment un der his command to Bizchalowg, from whence he sends oat parties, es , well for cutting tip the enemy's marauders, as likewise to obtain information of the enema towards Moshnisk. Adjt.-Gen. Baron Korif has reported, tinder same date, that the enemy having sent a party to forage in the village of Klemows under the'escort of 10 squa drons of cavalry, with some artillery, was attacked tutd totally defeated by Colonel Bailable ; 200 men were cat down oh the spot, and two serjeants and 83 men taken. On the 19th Sept. (lit Oct.) the parties of Cossacks detached by Gen. Korff, defeated some squadrons of the enemy, and took 102 prisoners. In the night between the 20th and 21st Sept. (2d and 3d Oct.) 83 of the enemy were taken prisoners. Ow the 22d (Oct. 4.) the vanguard of General Me loradowitsche's corps defeated the enemy's van guard near Spaskoji. At two P. M. the enemy core. , tivenced 'his movements, but was every where re. pulsed. The enemy's columns, which were coming out of the wood, were completely defeated by bur 14 pieces of artillery placed near Spaskoji. The ene my's three pieces of cannon were taken, and four boxes of cartridges blown up. Whilst this battery was retreating, it was smartly followed by our can- non halls. Our artillery played with such effect, that the enemy's cavalry were forced to hide them selves in the woods. We took ten officers and above 150 privates. Four French regiments of cavalry, viz. the 11th and 12th horse yagers, the sth and 9th hussars, as likewise one Prussian regiment of Ulilans, and one Wirtemberg ditto, and one regiment of Po lish hussars, suffered very. severely, Marshal Kutusow has received A Report, dated 14 11 (26) September, stating that the armies of General Tormassow and General 'l'schetechcgow had, after their junction, crossed the Slyr, and moved on Prince Schwartsenberg's corps, who was retreating on all points towards Bresc. LIEUTENANT-GENERAL COUNT WITTGENSTEIN RE • PORTS TO MIS IMPERIAL MAJESTY, FROM SOKO LESCIILSCHA, UNDER DATE OF 2D (11TH) OCT., AS FOLLOWS :- 66 Lieut.-Colonel Bedroga, of the bum regiment of hussars, was sent with his regiment of hussars to the other side of the Duna, to cover the movements of the corps under the command of Lied... General Count Stinhall. This Lieut.-Colonel reports, on eSth Sept., (Oct. 10), that he, after having crossed, on the 91th.Sept. (Oct. 6), the river by swimming, had defeated a battalion of the enemy's infantry, about CO of whom were cat down. The prisoners taken were three Officers, and 00 non-commissioned officers and privates. We had seven privates killed and 18 wounded. I am sorry to state that in this affair the brave Lieut. Apserrow, of the Isum regi ment, was severely wounded, whom we were obliged to leave behind, on account of the impossibility of bringing him across the river by swimming, and who consequently fell into the enemy's hands." REPORT FROM LIEUTENANT-GENERAL BARON WIN ' ZINGERODE, n %TED BUN, 3D (l5T1I) OCTOBER. " 1 humbly inform your Imperial Majesty, that all is well with the corps, the advanced guard, the posts, and the advanced posts. " On the Jaraslow road the enemy has made no offensive movements. On the Ist (13th) of October, at nine at night, I retired along the road leading to Moscow. On the 30th September (October 12) ex- I cursions were made by parties of • Cossacks from the Cossack regiment on the Jaraslow road, towards the right flank of the enemy, on his communication with Moscow, as also on his left by parties from Tschaschuikowo, to Sucharewa, and from Rogats chewo to Dmitrow. I, however, taking with me the regiment of body Cossacks, two squadrons of dragoons, two of hussars, and the Calmuc regiment of Stawropol, marched out of the towni of Flip, with intention to attack the enemy posted in Dui. trow. I had resolved to make this attack in the bight between the Ist and 2d. (13th and 14th):, --On the Ist (13th), at ten at night, I arrived at Dmitrow. Fortunately the enemy's advanced posts, which were stationed some wersts from the tt.wn, did not perceive my march, and were all taken by the Cossacks ; their- piquets bad been forgotten by the enemy in his retreat.—Oa my at.. rival at Fiatitroir I friend it was left by the enemy, who had retreated in the greatest haste. Ris rear-guard u as marching out of, the town nt the same time 1. matched in. When f found this I im mediately detached 200 Cossacks in pursuit of the. enemy-, and the rear-guard was come up with some wersts from Dmitrow : it consisted entisel of in. whether he had received orders to that effect. With respect to the movement upon Dmitrow, I believe the Motive of it war to conceal the movemiait which, accordingio all accounts I have received, the enemy at the same time made on our Grand Army. I have this - moment sent off orders again to occupy the town of 11 , 4kusseis4c, towards which the paroles sent by Major Figleu daily approach. " Lieutenaut-Colottel Prendel makes excursion, from the town of Wolskolamsk, in the surrounding countries of Moshaisk and Rusa ; and Lieuteuant 'Colonel Tschernosubow (8) makes similar excursions into the neigbouring countries of Wiasma and Go. haisk. By the latter, two French Couriers, with dispatches from Moscow, have lately been taken prisoners. " From these accounts, your Imper;al Majesty will perceive, that the enemy on the Smolensko road is. incessantly harassed by parties of Cossacks from my detachment." GorrtNaunott, Nov. S.—The first division of the Russian fleet has left Cronstadt, to proceed to Eng: laud, consisting of fire sail of the line. General Sarazzin arrived here from Heligoland, in a merchant vessel, on Wednesday, and was told by the Governor he had orders not to permit burn to land, which, however, he was at last allowed to do. He is not suffered to leave the town, or travel through the country to Denmark, he is therefore to proceed by sea to Copenhagen. GIBRALTAR AND MALTA MAILS. the orders lately issued against the tti tiny etp or i„ Lion of graln, have been shamefully evsled another decree, confirming all tho lot mer orders, and subjecting those who shall be guilty of cland est i nely exporting wheat, b ar l e y, or pulse, not of the king. dem, if they should be Nobles, to imprisonment in a' fortress for life ; and If of a meaner raids to the galleys- (or life, and confiscation of their goods, and with the punishment of death, if the same should done or attempted with an armed force. CORUNNA P.IPERS. .y .. To his Esc..limey hlacor.C.;si. WK.:laic. fatery. .On account of the darkness of the night ALICANT, OCT. 21.—The town, the army, and and the fatigued state of the horses, who had that , the navy, continue very healthy. day come above fifty worsts, and still more because ! In the French army, however, the iufection has the enemy sheltered and concealed himself in woody certainly broken out, and 7000 of their troops have places, where he left bohind him men in ambush, the been placed under " observation." This is attri- Cossacks could not pursure th e e nem y f ur th er; but buted to the-incursion of a party to plunder Ziegar,l 100 waggons ladee. with p rov i s i ons and diff erent where they had been told the yellow fever was. J - i kinds of plunder, and 38 prisoners, were taken, ! Soult has made an incursion with the great part. if and the loss of the enemy in killed and wounded not the whole, of his forces, into La Mawchu. IL! . most have been considerable: The waggons taken - has moecd toWards Cuenca, keeping the road to Ar- , on this occasion were given to the inhabitants of ragott open. Drni!row, who must have suffered so much from the ; Suchet's have been at ithtlrawn from the neighbour enemy. : hood of Meant, and concentrated at Fuctite de la " According to the accounts I have this moment , Iliguira, his sick and . baggage defiling by S. Filippe. i received, the enemy continued his retreat to Mos- Our advanced posts occupy Alerv, Bier, Castalla, cow, and on his march was incessantly harassed by and Fili. - 1 the parties I sent out on dilferent sides. I PALERMO, Seel'. ‘.!B.—lfer Majesty, the Queen, is ; " My advanced guard has p rocee d e d f orwar d on .at present here. . I the Petersburgh road, and has occupied Tochaschni- . His Royal Highness the Hereditary Prince has for kown, the piquets are at Ichernaga Gras. I cannot some days been indisposed:, it it probable that the precisely say what motives induced the enemy to business of the state has deleyed the re-establishment abandon Ihnitrow ; whether he had heard of my .of his health, so greaty the object of the anxious match and considered . my force es superior to his, og wishes of the Public. The kin" , et usderstanding that Contnoti, Not'. 5.--Notwithstandin g th e p ost from Castile has not arrived the It hole tr e know, by persons who have come from ChM", that the French have fallen back to Burps, after teeing an hour in Placentia, and their van-guard snff er i ni considerably in Penaful, through which the Lord r . tired. Nov. 4.—Six thousand of the allied troop, hay. arrived at Toledo, to reinforce Hill, who is observ. ing the large army that Suult has collected on ti. frontiers of Valencia, and whose vau•gaard has on. tered is Mancha. Our hour for going to press has arrived, althousi the post from Madrid has not. We can, ho%e%er, assure our readers ) thit that beloved city is covered fpm all attempts of Soult by the valiant Hill, and that the Satrap has retired. - BENEVENTE, Ocs. 27.—We now have here a part of the sub-inspection and principal chest of thearmy, which, with the Allies, were on the 9. 5t h in Villa. dolid, to the neighbourhood of which, and that a Palencia, the enemy were approaching. The officers and soldiers who formed the escort, assert that it is not a retreat on our part; it is one of those retro. grade movements which the wise Wellington knows so well how to adopt, and from which great silvan. tages are expected. 1 t was also said, that at the de. parture of the Courier, the enemy's van-guard had been beaten not far from TOrguemado, which intelli. gence was probably well-founded, because it Iran. quillized men's minds, and the Administrator, who, with others, were preparing to depart, changed their intentions. If oar army continues to fall back, we cannot at present determine whether it will proceed towards Madrid or Salamanca. I ALICANT, OcT. 17.—A1l the accounts we receive from the interior of the *province occupied by the ; enemy, announce that they are going to retreat, and concentrate their forces ; but the account of Soult's army having caught the yellow fever, which has af- Meted and devastated a part of this province, and part of the kingdom of 1 alencia, demand the atter,- tion and all the zeal of the Authorities, civil and mi litary, in receiving deserters and prisoners with that precaution which the public safety requires. EXTu icTS FROM PRIVATE LETTERS. " A n.LICANT, OCT. B.—The desertions from the ! enemy are great—Soult has left many of his men in the hospitals of Granada, &c. and by the deserters' laccounts he has brought an immense number of carts ! full of sick and wounded. " Gen. Maitland has, from ill health, been obliged to return into Sicily. 1 44 A detachment of the 81st regiment, consisting 1 of 500 men, left us on the evening of the 3d, with 100 grenadiers of De Roll's, and 40 artillery and 'ar tificers, to endeavour to surprise the Castle of Denia, where the General supposed they had a depot of corn, and the garrison being reduced to 50 men.— : When they left as they did not know of Souk's being so near; they were taken round on the Fame and Bustard.. The sickness is abating in Carthagena, end i lour medical men deny the existence of the yellow I fever, but there certainly has been a fever of some sort, which afflicted our troops in the Galeras.— Nearly 200 of the 67th regiment were in the liospi- --sowe— tals, and several of the town's people have died." In the name of the Most Holy and Indivisible " Ocr. 10.—The detachment from Denis return- • Trinity ! ed yesterday, upon finding the enemy had sufficient His Majesty the Emperor of all the Rusks, and men to defend the place. t his Majesty the. King of the United Kingdom of 66 Illf the afternoon of the Btb, the enemy pushed Great Britain and Ireland, being equally animated forward a detachment of about 500 cavalry, sup- with the desire of re-establishing the auelent relit. ported by a regiment of Infantry, and attacked our Lions of amity and good understanding between the piquet in front of S. Vicente. It pot us all on the two Kingdoms respectively, have nominated to this alert, and there was skirmishing for two hours. What effect, as their Ministers Plenipotentiary, namely, the enemy had in their rear we know not, but they his Majesty the Emperor of all the Russian, the ritired to Monferte in the night. In consequence of Sieur Peter Suchtelon, Chief of the Department of a considerable force appearing the same day in front the Engineers, General and Member of the Council of Tibe and Aixonh, the Spanish troops stationed of State, &c. &c. and the Sieur Paul Baron de there (the former under Major and the latter Gene- Nicolay, Gentleman of the Bedchamber, &ca And ral Roche) fell back on Mnchamul. Our troops did his Royal Highness the Prince Regent, in the name not quit the post of S. Vicente, and if the enemy has of his Majesty, King of the United Kingdom of left Airtime (which we shall know this morning) it England and Ireland, the Sieur Edward Thornton, will again be occupied by Roche's division. Our Esq. Plenipotentiary from his Britannic Majesty to loss in the skirmish amounted to lor 4 killed, and the King of Sweden. 6or 10 wounded, mostly cavalry. Besides these a de- The said Plenipotentiaries, after exchanging their tachment of the Calabrise were 'pushed too far forward respective full powers, in good and due form, bare and cut off; it consisted of one. Eirglish officer, one agreed upon the following articles : Calahrise ditto, and 25 men. It appears that half 1 I. There shall be between his ii Nlaj.istir l the United i err ( r i of all th a t . of them were killed before they surrendered. Capt. L'ruzi t lirtn,dinhaisnlVrerac LlhethKeirfieirstaud n u iccewors, nr a i n o d ni be- Courant, of one of the foreign corps, was taken a few ' tureen their kingdoms and subjects respectively, a firm, true, days ago when out with a party to obtain intelligence an . so that, from this moment, alt subjects of disagreement that may near Ricote. !' and ic; ible peace, and a sincere and perfect union and amity, have subsisted between them, shall cease. " Two p. vs.—Our reconnoitring parties are re. I 11. The relations of amity apd commerce between the two turned from Aixona, which the enemy did not enter. It and Tibe will be re-occupied tbis afternoon. A fratries fa str u ll rr h a e na re i -es t om tablished on each side, on the footing at III: It; in resentment of the present re-establishment of peace flag of truce lei just come in from Harispe, undo standing between the two countries, any Power stating . and ha cd ba I make war upon his Imperial Majesty or his that Captain Shearmen was wounded, seven of his , Lia„Zr M ajesty, 6i a - j ftty , the two contracting Sovereigns agree to act men killed, and the rest made prisoners." !.in support of each other for the maintenance and securlsy of ~ Alicant, Oct. 19. I their rne e ctive Ittzdoms. . 44 SI it,—l have the pleasure to inform you, that to l es v ta . b i lish as woo as after the strictest investigation by four medical offi. 4 tal49prhol'perctoinnitlerstatinnfliinraneds possible, with respect to all matters that may concern their even cers of the army, accompanied by four practitioners i tual interests, political as well as commerc i al. _ reserve iditst to themselves of the town, in their visit yesterday to the different ! fag part ies , The present .4 . l r e ea ll ia r 11 t om be ratified L i l sTch.l ". quarters of the city, no disorder et a malignant et. ' 4 weeks, es somber, if PalliMc PiP" contagions natdre was found lo exist. On the con-1 And for the due performance of the same we sign, u o ged COP i t a ra si ct; Crary, they were astonished at the small number of i in virtue of our full powers, and have signed the pre. sick, compared with the numbers and crowded state ' sent Treaty of . Peace, and have thereto affixed all our of the population. None of the persons in the Lit- . scale. zaretto, who had communiaition with Run and his I Done at Orebro, ihetith (18th) July, 181,?.. ..SUCII I,ELON (L. S.) wife, have fallen sick.—l have the honour, Ste. PAUL BARON DE NICOLAY. " E. _lift° wist, Deptilv I Tpector „ iif il llospitals. , I:I)WARD THOIINTON(L. S.) The person who brought the correspondence, con. firms the intelligence contained in she foregoing arti. cle, and adds, that au order had been received for the equipages and sub-inspection to return to Pa.' !wick. MADRID, OCT. 23.—0 n the 11th inst. General Mina had a glorious action in the neighbourhood of "rafalla, it lasted from eight in the morning till two in the afternoon. The field of battle remained co. vered with corpses, waggons, and baggage, belong. in. to the enemy. C.tutz, OCT. 27.—0 n the 22d inst. Gen. liallas. terns remained in Granada. TREATY OF PEJO , : BETWEEN GREAT ' BRITAIN AND RUSSIA. After sufficiently examining the Articles ►'f the pre- sent Treaty of Peace, we have approved of the same, which we now confirm, and by these presents most solemnly ratify, in all it:: tenor; premising on out Imperial part, for us and for our 'successors, to ob serve and execute, inviolahlv, every thing that has been. mentioned ar►d repeated in the said Treat) of Peace. In witness whereof we have signed with our . own hand this Imperial RaWication, and have thereto affixed :ho seal of our empire. pone at Kamenrui Ostrow, the Ist of Argast, 1814, add the twelfth year of our taiga. (Siglied) ALEXANDER. (Countersigned) Count KOMANZOW. ------- - The- division of the Russian fleet, which was at c f ronstadt, amounting, we believe, to 11 sail of the 1::se, besides frigates, sailed arum that port for th is country on the 27th October, and was sten all well on the 29th. The division which was at Archangel had not quite completed its equipments, but was to sail for this country as soon as pos• hie: it amounts to men sail of the line. The whole amount of the fleet it eighteen sail of the Hue and twelve frigates. s • • - -MEN...- \ -- .