The Statesman. — London, England, 1812-12-24 00:00:00

T o tal, and iitasobers atartlfy the Crir e. wyl eflityw ill Kings target that linty are mm! An/ men that they are brethrea ? Why delight • . • • leitmotif wiceilite? Why ?Alen the lies M Nadine. that bhoold Cult their visit. together ) in one .01f, bloody( amity mad love I • yet still they breathe destruction, still oak • . • johassatily fagoting., to find oat • • N e w pains for life, gear terra!, inr.theirrave ; A e tipeers of death, still Mantuc i! dream of ualrersal empire growing rip From unlveml ruin. Blast the design Urrat God of Mats, *or let thy ertmtaree fall Vivitied victims at ornhitiofes shrine t These are sentiments which, we are well aware, Rill not be graciously received by . our War Mini sters, who have au overbearing . interest for themselves ,:nd families, arising out of what is called the divine Dam or KINGS I. • We have this morning received further extracts from the Paris Papers, which will be found lute. Test i n g, as they are very contradictory to the former accounts received from Russia, and a due allowance mast be made for exaggeration on both sides :-- • NAN, Dec. s.—Since the last dispatches from the Grand Army, of the 28th, 'Admiral Tsehitscila: golf has appeared on its left. Some divisions threw theine;res upon him, and, notwithstanding. his pre cipitate retreat, we have taken from him 3000 pri yawns ; a great number of dead covered the field of battle. Tice Admiral's army is totally in want of provi sions. After the defeat - of Gen. Sachen, who com mantled 25,000 good troops, this corps being very much weakened by so great a detachment, now counts more irregular bands than regular battalions. It has become impossible for the Admiral to keep any discipline in the army under his command, and he contents himself with the constraiut which de castation carries round about him. The Russians justify in this campaign, and in their own country, the sentiment of one of their principal Generals, M. de n Thlst‘y, who knew them cell. This General, during the campaign of Auster litz. commanded the Russian auxiliary corps, which the English had subsidized to retake Hanover; being momentarily abandoned by the Imperial troops, IV was alighting at Celle, at the house of a very ob svving person, where his - quarters had been prepared, and on his arriral informed himself of the conduct of his softtiers. . Ow their declaration that 1 they were satisfied with it, he replied, " That is very well for the moment ; but if the French should repulse me one day, and I should on. the following day again take possession of your city, there would , not remain of it one stone upon another." The hearers were struck with astonishment, and he con tinued-44 The ignorance of our people is so great, that they cannot contain themselves when in a coun try evacuated by the enemy. If your city was ems pied fnr, only one quarter of en hour by the French, bathing could prevent its being treated AS an enemy, and every thing put to fire and sword." Beaus, Dec. 8.--The Russian corps of General \Sieben, which was chased as far as Vothynia, has \lost 7,824 prisoners, without reckoning the dead and. bounded, and the military dispersed in the forests. Tte patriotic gifts raised at Konigsberg for the voninled Prussian soldiers, amount, up to this pre sent time, to 200 0 rix dollars. . . DltE,lleat, Dec. 6.—The intelligence from the 7th corps of the army announce, that this corps, conduit , hie to pursue Gen. Sachet', arrived at )rzesc on the 2t;tii of November. The enemy retired to Ratno, slid seemed to intend traversing the morasses and to TITE STAT. ante, that the enemy endeavoured in vain to board the vessel ; nor did he succeed, but by setting fire to the vessel on her quarter, which was immediately ' burnt. The whole attack was then directed against our gun-boat and our battery, but it was ail useless; the Legionaries precipitated themselves into the water, and in the midst of cries of 46 Vtae k Rot!" sus tamed the enemy's attack, repulsed him, and forced him to renounce every attempt in future. In this last attack, in which the fire of our brave , troops was kept up with surprising activity, Lieu- I tenant Piisco received t< contusion from a discharge of grape-shot. On the 17th, in the morning; the enemy was seen at a great distance from the coast; at about eleveni o'clock he directed his course towards the east.. At the same hour our convoy had got under sail, and I steered under its guard towards the port of Vasto. The enemy had at the same time the humiliation to see a second convoy of :10 sail pass him, and steer *long our coast. The crews and vessels of the enemy have suffered very severely daring this long action. We have on artunately last one artillery-man, who was killed brihe very gun thM , lte was evading, Prisco has shown much talent, courage, ,lpld devotion to the service; he was bravely seconded by the Legionaries, and by the armed force of the ..atom-house. Lieut. de Reusis has likewise greatly distinguished himself. llAmsunair, Dsc. 10.—We have just received news from the Grand Army, with Intelligence of a victory obtained on the 2Sth Nov. over the two Russian corps of Wittgenstein and Tschitschagoff.— The bead-quarters were arrived at Moldeechonow, which gives the solution to the grand movement, which has been announced to have taken place on the Dwitus and cm the Borysthenes. It is now evident that the dispositions made by the Russians were combined to stop the march of the retire on Kowel end Luck. The Saxon cavalry, al.. tho,:zh inferior in numbers, always sought to attack the enemy, and have done them much harm. From Wolkowysk to Brume tha loss of the Rus sians amounts to 8000 men ; and is far as Wieli liiinki we had already taken, 2,-100 Hsu:lets. The Saxon cavalry afterwards took 2,)oo.pri.totters, end that of the Austrians about 1,40. The Austrian Col. Scheiter, surprised, it Pruazang, 353 Cusatcks, with 1 0 Officers. At Brzesc we took a Russian hospital, with 800 men, and there released WO prisoners of our own men. The Sasee•troops have suffered last little, and the mortality Jamie hospitals is hut very man, in comparison wit it: what it geuerelly b In Lampaign s . . • ~..4 , N•trtts, Nov. 30. lii t Wee time past the ens v had cea se d •:/11 - Est;'" lP of to ,sturbW navigation our port for the whole length of the Adriatic sea, is those of Cie kingdom of Italy and the Illyrian provinces. it , ►reined as if the many attempts be had made, with.. nut success, had taught him to respect a coast, where he had constantly encountered as many bruit men as there were legionaries destined for its 40.1 MAN, :wing . enemy's cavalry under the fire of the Saxon light in fantry, and a piece of artillery masked, which forced him to a speedy retreat, which he executed, but with considerable loss. The Saxons only bad one light infantry slightly %Mended on this occasion. The loss of the enemy trait Wolkowysk to Breese, is, at least, 8000 men. We had already taken 2400 prisohers on his arrival at %Vielizhainke. During the march to this place, the ts'azon advanced guard made 2100, and the Austrians 1500. The Austrian Colonel Scheder made, with Ake squadrons, a verf successful charge upon the Russian cavalry near Pruzzany, and took prisoners, 300 mounted Cossacks, with 10 Officers of the new regiment of the Ukraine. At Brzesc, the seventh corps found an hospital with 800 Rus sians in it, and delivered about 200 prisoners.— Among the Russians taken by the Saxons was a Major Officer and seventeen Officers. Major de Wortzdorf also took, on the road from Brzesc to Ratno, 19 carriages laden with provisions. • The troops of his Majesty have suffered very little, notwithstanding the great efforts they have been obliged to make. There are now on their route con. , siderable transports of military convalescents,. pro ! teeding from the hospitals of Warsaw, Pultittlz. nod t i filslystock ; the mortality has been much lo„ in these different hospitals than it was in prcceditig campaigns. Grand Army toward', its winter quarters. This 'plan was greatly conceived, but the execn tiou.of it was the less easy, es being to take place before the greatest General ever known, and before the first of all armies ; and as there must be less connection between the operations of Generals act. !lug separately, and unable to communicate with each other, but by very circuitous ways. 1" The Prince of Schwartzenberg wu , on the 10th of Novemhcr, at Slonim, about 30 miles distance from Borosow. The Emperor arrived at the last-mentioned city on the Y7ih, and it is therefore certain that the COMINIP • Mentions were at that time well established. We know by letters from Posen,* froraWarsaw o and from Wawa, that the divisions of Daring. La ! grange, Loison, the Neapolitan division, 'be Guards of Tuscany and Turin, the marching battalions of the Imperial Guards, and all the divisions of the Grand Army, &c. Vera ow the Niemen.' 'Ns im posing mass of forces, which, accordiag to the most moderate calculation, amount to 110,000 moo, should teach the Russians to reflect. its A Cadiz Mail arrived this morning, by which it will be seen that the Marquis of WELLINGTON has re moved his head-quarters ti' Ciudad Rodrigo. OFFICIAL A " The enemy, as I informed your Excellency, in my anterior of`the 30th ult., continue in Benevente, is &umber IMO infantry, and 40 horse, colleeing provisions; and are, as 1 am informed, fortifying, themselves at the bridge of Castro Gonzalo. " These accounts I have just been put in posses sion of, by the daily Journal, which I receive from cho ith ;ht horse, Inul advanced two officers, who, wiL eigL._ three leagues beyond Bantza, and whoße spies e‘. tend even to Benevente, the tatter confidently speak of the speedy retreat of the enemy to Rio Saco, and add, that the 400 horse, which the day before yester day marched towards Mayorga, had not passed the said town. 44 All this I state to your Excellency for, your in formation. " Dee. S. M. OF. OTAIIPSP.M. '6 P. S.. This moment, 11 o'clock at night, a se cond Dispatch has reached me, stating, that the spies know that the English have entered Salamanca." lynoss est EOIII7NNA DIARY, OP DEC. 6.] 1. I MP Proses have already divided thrnagh Old Cas tile, ll the forme which they had collectedto fight the Lord, to'which they have been obliged, by want of "envisions. al fa ells begiaaisg of this month, about 300dragoo asiipsnid to eaneza, and 2 00 of them arrived at Astor... Gen. foyer, who at present commands s.l divides imposed on Valadolicl, Salamanca, Zamora, sal other places, a contribution of 2,000,000 of stall, which they were not able to satisfy. _ _ . - . re-ottioa _ . cr:.;,• s , I with the 2d, 9th, and 10th corps, with the Saxons seal Thi 'General, the most fierce instrument of the After a long repose, (hiring which, though with. I Austrians, presents the image of the meet itePindeg tyrant, is destined to occupy the points of. the Asta oel giving up appearances;, he was n e vertheless kept' strength, and renders the Grand Army much sepe. : vi es by order of Napoleon. Only anxious for money,, at a respectable distance from the coast ; h e , on th e : rior in numbers to what it was on commenting the 4 cruelty is the prominent feature of his character.' lath instant, determined on recommencing hostili- : campaign. .--- • i' I King Joseph, with a division of . 10,000 men, coun ties. lie, no doubt, tattered himself, that the in. I The Russians having these forces in their front, ; sues in V a ll a d o lid . • . . . active state i n w hi c h h e had kept !limo& I for several and behind them, as far as Moscow, - the desert ere- 1 Sairrivroo, DEC. 11.—The suppord expedition of mouths, bad rendered the defence of our coast less seed by themselves, possibly, flattered themselves ' the French to Santander, 'Was only a false alarm., vigilant, and that it might be possible for him to sae- with passing them, and to maintain themselves on the batted • 10;000 men preCeeding to that towii,' prise with advantage some one of those numerous vide of the Dila& *A the Borystheners ; but the vic- tbs was only 10% who , came, to Reynosa from convoys; which keep the, navigation ,in a state of tory of the 28th NWT' ember hat decided the question. in _— muitas, - in seercA . of what cattle they could find, great activity frond one extremity of the Adriatiate FRANKFORT, Dn. 9.—:-M, de Wingingemdit Akl. tied who appear to be part. of the•GQOO, who, with the other. ' : '. de. Camp totba limpartse of RINI% . Mk, was made Catfarelli, ittizanced to Vittotba. - - In this hope, and at about 4 o'clock In the after- prisoner of wit, is arrived her'''' . . .. I ' About the middle of last month, 111eitdisaivel was .... me _ • noon of the said day, at the moment when the dp- I Theaseme s Dee. 6.—a CaPhllvt. d Canby, nt illibea, employed in trebling the battalions of Preach of night rendered the su,rprise moat easy, he Count de lichnleisboerg, wife' left tieb lined•qitarteri Biscay, and even then the English:, were biockatlitig. attacked a convoy of several Loftin an 4 Illyrian of the7th earpsost thet9th Plovomber v has bteng,tt Seaton'. On the . 2lth of November, the Englisk *easel, which, taking refuge notior-Ao. ow* of ibo fillovriotioloVigtooos ' 1-cevairy, which came to reinforce Lord Wellingtons' . . /. .. ... -. . • *hvivagnagglailikasonighioaio a, ' . , • I - . • .• • • , . • • A . i. ___ _ :~ 4 ~ .~: :..J..~. ~3 Ao 41646, k • -;!"7 - ~ ~ ~ finished' its' disembarkation it Usher' s and the ln• fantry which has left the ports of Greet Britain, is immediately expected. General Boyer, so *ell known for his erttelties, and, nu that account, so much esteemed by Master, con►a,auds the troops which are on ibis side the Duero. It is said that ho has received order{ from Napoleon to pass intolhe Asturias; but it epa pears that his employment is now reduced to impose ing am! demanding contributions from the towns through which he passes, almost without stopping in any. lie complains of the want of money s and even of provisions. The intrusive King is gone from Tore to V*Hale. lid, where it seems as if he intended to make eoe►f stay. Camp. Merino, repulsed him, and Osk to The Pth corps d'armeefpnt itself in march on the sustain a wry con,iderable damage. . 20th Not. from Wieli.hainke, conjointly with the At nig ht the fire ceased. On the 16th , at brisk II Austrians, and marc h e d by Iludea, Ssereisew, Cze r - . of tiny, the enemy steered towards Tecchio, where nawestle, upon Breese, where it arrived on the 26th ; the whole of the convoy was lying at anchor. I the enemy's General Sachen had taken the same At the first movement of the enemy, Lieutenant toute with the greater part of his cops, having only Frisco, who commanded the Legionaries, caused the caused a small column to pass through Kamoniec, ienerak to beat ; every thing was disposed for the and a strong detachment of cavalry by litibryn ; attack, and we immediately formed a battery of two From Breese jgasspogaded to Ratno, and it now ap six-pounders on the spot. The battle was kept up pears beyond tionk4 that he probably will retire the whole of the day. Towards the evening, the across the marshes to Kowel and Luck. crew of one of the vessels belonging to the convoy, I The 7th corps did 'not cease pursuing his rear-guard yielding to the superiority of the enemy's force, re. from Wiele-hainke to lirzese, • whilst the Austrians treated from the combat. The action then became in their march, constantly menaced his right flank, more brisk, and the enemy was forced to abandon his., The bad roads and the re-establishing a great num , prey. The streams of blood which ran the *hole her 4 bridges, the whole of which had been destroy.- length of his side, sufficiently proved what damage ed by the enemy, greatly retarded the march of the [roost Tim SAME PAM, DEC. 15.1 the cell-directed fire o f o ur artillery and mnsquetry corps, and these different obstacles required consi- It' is indubitable that all communication between had .caused him. derable efforts. The Saxon advanced guard was Bum): and Paris, is intercepted. In the latter city, the Lieut. Prisco being persuaded that the long duns- several times obliged to fight du r ing this march; !police is very active in preventing illy persons from tion and fatigue of the battle was the sole cause of these different combats always did it the greatest i assembling together, or conversing on the Russian the enemy's keeping silent during the night, but that honour, considering the great superiority of the . war. he would recommence the attack on the following day, enemy's cavalry ; itlost in all but ten men. I Caffarelli separated himself from the army to took advantage of the time left him to prepare for al The 23d, towards midnight, a corps of 600 Cos- I prevent the siege of Santona, which was in a more vigorous defence, nett doy, in case the enemy ' sacks, supported by some detachments of infantry, I very critical situation. ' It is doubted Whether should again come to action. In effect, his armed wished to surprise it. The vigilance and s a ng he will arrive in time. Mina is blockading Parr• beats esAyed to disturb our preparatiensomd by a frail lithe cavalry piquets of the .Grand eased, pluna, the garrison of . which place is retiree' to bold coop-de-main ma k e themaalsit masters at, eomentailled by Lieutenant aodttse intent- the greatest distress. It was inteeded to ate some vessel. The enemy directed his whole force table promptitude with which all the troops forming tempt something against the celebrated town of against it-taahatole, richly laden, which was laying at the advanced-guard got under arm's, occasioned all Barcelona, but the negligence of a General, es is the right el our line. The Lieutenant of the Le- the disadvantages of this attack to fall upon the ene- usual, prevented the design from succeeding.—The Ades • gift:tries of Iteusis made such a determined resist- my. The Grand Guard succeeded in drawii the - article conclin- . with some sarcastic observations on the repeated plunderings of the French, and the con. tributions they are continually imposing. SANTIAGO, DEC. 4.—.1.0rd •Wellington has his headquarters at Ciudad Rodrigo, in the vicinity of which piaci his :mop* are encamped-. ' ' • The great scarcity of previsions, in a country en. tirely wasted, has obliged nor Simko to divide them. selves, and take positions in which they can find tub• sistence. It appears that, except the cavalry, the whole 6th army is marching upon the towns of P.M. brie and °reuse ; and the sth, under Senor Cistanos, with all the cavalry, of the 6th, has taken the road to Estremadura, and will establish its head.qaarters in Caceres. For the same reason, we are assured I that the French have not left Salamanca, but luta seemed to manifest an intention of turning back up on Valladolid and Segovia. A Lisbon Mail arrived last night, by which we tr. ceived the following intelligence :- 1 Limn, Mc. 7.—Bead-quarters continue at Frey nada. Gen. Hill's division is going South. Our last intelligence from head-quarters is dated the 2d ima. i Orc. s.—The head-quarters of the Grand Lord • sti' I remaiued, on the 30th November, in Freynada, and the wavy WAS cantonal in its neigboarhood.— ieven. Hill tuati.his )lead-quarters in Coria, and tha Conde do Penne and Morello bad theirs iu Placentia. iThe army of Galacia marched towards Astorga. ' The retreat of the Combined Army from the 1 Tonnes to•the Agoetia, passes among military men as i chef creturre in the art of war. Ninety thousand French, among whom were from 10 to 11,000 horse, could not intercept our army in its retr. at to 1 Ciudtad Rodrigo, although the Grand Lord was in 'Salamanca, when CAEVARCELI, with his corps, was near the banks of the Tormes. I The French, for the third time, sacked Said.. 1 rnanc3 ; in the last, King Joseph had the honour of . Wing President ; they imposed upon Valladolid a •ontribution of 600,000 reels, for Laving received i and well entertained the English. T .tea - - - - - -- :+~=~ ~ t • i.‘; ~~ Two French frigates are *stitd to hive lined trom Natnz for •Alnerica. The Carteret packet, which sailed from Falmouth on the 17th, fer Corunna, site a frigate engaged with two sloops of war, curd after the action the frigate stood foe the westward s and the sloops bore away to the south. - The statement inserted in the papers on the tist . Instant, that the Marquis CAMDEN resigned his key ns a Cabinet Minister last week, is not correct. His Lordship resigned the Office of President of the Council in March Inst,-htiteontinuid to hold a seat in the Cabinet until the Administration Wits etta‘ .blished andthe Parliament way prorogued. On Tuesday lasi SANFORD PAM' AM, Eq. of Portland-place, was unanimously elected Member for Ludgeyshalf, in the room of MaorNs Damns", _ Mar.Ess, Esq. • and Josrrn Bina, Esq. of the • . Ilasells, Lancashire, was also unanimously elected" . ' ''" . the other Member, in the room of JOiEI4I HAGVit -.:'‘ '. .: EVERETT, Eq. By a letter from Portsmouth, of the 21st instant,. we learn, that the - Portant cartel had returned to . that port from Morlais, having on hoard en interest.. • tog woman, a native of Ireland, of 22 years of age, who having been married to Col. Ilsarnow, a French Officer of -Artillery, lately on his portliest Chester. field, received the permission of this Governmeaf ter follow her husband to France, and embarked for that ' .. purpose at Portsmouth oh the 17th of August last ' ' rinii. i. has now hems cruelly driven back, together with son, an infant 19 months old, by order of the V '' • . - Authorities, and is arrived at Portsmouth, as abate, '.- -mentioned, in a state of the greatest misery and dia. tress, destitute of the means of subsistent-eft): an hoar, uotit relkpiria at the charge of this:Government s at is - dene in ill cios of English women arriving frogs. . -France in a state of distress. . , • The clot:- -s of one of the female attendants le , -. the entertainment of Midas, ctu;ht Are last night, and she was instantly enveloped in (tames ; but by timely assistant'e shesustained very little persomd in. jury. - The Curieret packet, which 'ailed from ?shatter( on the 17th instant, front Coruna*, Si,, a fri.4ate 4 • •the Canard, supposed to be French, rogseng two ajeops of war; and shortly after , the sloops doedie .thwanuthwardand the filets to the westward. .. - f 4:'. r, PSI •, r rk . ) . ~7• IP a k s ~- e P a , 0 I