The Statesman. — London, England, 1812-12-29 00:00:00

, - snut ; on o, according to circumstances, either on i3obi, o r the &resins ; by thil movement, I hope to stop the r oad for the enemy; in case he should turn from Bob', by the way of the village of Beresina, towards the town o r (guinea. On the 9th (2Lst) Colonel Dawitlcnv o btained intelligence, by an intercepted letter, of the retreat of a depot of the enemy's cavalry to Koasys he immediately followed their steps, came up with t h em at the passage of the river, attacked them ins 10,1;ately, mad `?-85 men prisoners, and took the w hole train. Not contended with this, he passed Diteiper by swimming, and completed their de feat. _ _ _ his detached parties stretch from Starosselji to i t e village of Tolotschin, and likewise along the p.wiper." ItEFORT OF COG. TSCIIMNYSCIIEW, ADJUTANT TOUTS itl`EitlAL MAJESTY, TO THE dENERIII. OF CATAL ET COUNT WITTGENSTEIN, OF TUE STII (17TU) OF THE Ff; r A lit 11 • • e • IW] .r-~ The Petersburgh Gazette, of the Ist Dec. embalm i srdispatch from the Marquis of Panhied, dated the 22d•. November, stating, that on the 21st his pa. 1 trete* had been near Leuden and Tooms d'Orf li , without having seen the enemy ; upon which be or-1 dered his troops to cross the Dwina, to act in con junction with Major-General Wiljeminow ; that I i on the morning of the 22d * be received infer- lination that the enemy had retired on the road leading from Schlek to Mitten ; that, according to ! the reports of deserters and prisoners, the enemy ap- peered to be concentrating his force at Ecis.au, a very strong position, no doubt intending to Assist the Grand French Army with the greater part of his 'troops, and be able to cover its retreat, whether It • Should -be directed by Widsa, Wilkomer, or Jubing. I 1. Ptminutiae's, Dec.S.—field:Marshal Prlneeltn.l tusow reports, on the 27th of November, that be had crossed the Dnieper, on the 15th and I.Bth. Mohilow has been retaken by the Russians, who found there considerable magazines and provisions for ten days. ' Boutssow, Nov. 28.—After having gained consi derable advantages over Marshals Oudinot and Vic tor's corps, in three several actions, in one of which 7000 men were forced to lay down their arms, among whom were the French Generals Partonneanz, ' hales, and Biomes, 3 Colonels, 15 Lieutenant-Co. ' i lonels, and upwards of 200 Officers of inferior rank. ' i Their artillery and baggage was likewise taken. NOVEM " have the honour to inform your Excellency, that after my safe return from the Duchy of Warsaw, K ith the detachment under my command, at the time ellen the Western Army was on its march from Brest to Minsk, the Commander in Chief, Admiral Tehichagoff, who, for a long time past had .not r ohed the least intelligence of the glorious opera tions of the troops enderyour Excellenc)'s command, nor of those of the corps under Marshal Victor, corhidercd it to be necessary to use all pos sible means to effect a direct communication with sour Excellency's corps as speedily as possible ; and for this purpose the Commander in Chief thought groper, on the 25th October (6th November), to eonfer on etc the command of the Cossack regiment of Pantelejew, then at Slonim. In the night between the 25th and 26th (sth and 7th November), Admiral Tchichagoff, after having already sent forward all the columns to Neswish, received intelligence that Prince Schwartzettberg, to oppose whom Lieutenant. General Sacken had been left with a corps in the v'cinity of Brest, had detached a considerable body , f troops towards Vlfolkowisk and Selnig, by nhich means he threatened cutting off the corn rouuication between Lieutenant-General Sacken and the army. The Commander-in-Chief therefore directed me to match with the aforesaid regiment of Poutelejew, which was at that time at Slonim, to De retschin and Selwig, to take possession of both these ins:wren PROM THE szme, DATED HEAD•QUANTSRI 7 posts, and observe the enemy's movements. On the ICOSSYS, NOV. Yd. `.:7th of October (Nov. 9), I arrived at Deretschin, By all accounts hitherto received, it appears that ahem I learned that the enemy's corps, under Gene- • the enemy continues his retreat through Borissow, cal Moor, was marching from Grodno to the village for which reason the following preparations have of Motity, and had already began to throw a bridge been made to hinder it :—A strong advanced guard ever the river at that village. Although the Niemen' of two corps, under General Miloradoviitsch, follows I.as at the distance 13(, eight leagues from me, I ins- I close upon the enemy ; Count Pistol, with 15 reek mediately sent a dittightnent there, who roved , Ry ments of Cossacks, It battalions of Infantry, aMj enty covering the labourers on the right batik of some companies of artillery, hat orders to keep on thej river, and destroyed ell their prepare.' his right flank, and prevent all hii attempts at Po tions made on the left bank. At the very' same! raging ; but on his right he has Adjetant.General time the parties I had detached to Wolkowisk Kutusow's detachment, which is placed under Ge % informed me, that the enemy had already garrisoned moral Wittgenstein's command. All these consider that village, and appeared on the road to Siwig, ! able corps must necessarily beat the enemy, before he hie!, induced me to collect the Cossack Regiment ! crosses the &mine, or at least whilst doing it. of Pantelejeu, without loss of time, and to proceed Admiral TchichagotT has been requested, after tith them against the enemy, in order thereby to , passing the river, to act against the , heads of the gain time to destroy three bridges at the village itself, . enemy's colomns; but on the left he has three de. over the river Seiwig. ; met the enemy's advanced tachments of our partizans, to prevent his foraging guard, consisting of some squadrons of cavalry, !and watch his motions. The main army, mean- . about fourteen cents from the Tillage of Selsvig: ; while continues its march straight forward to the they attacked my Cossacks with great itnpetuo- 'town of Beresina, partly to prevent the enemy from city, in expectation of reaching the bridges be- stretching to the left, and partly because that sutk ilre they were destroyed, but they were totally cieut provisions for the army are only to be pro destroyed by the time that they were, within only cured on that road. I one werst of the river. In the course of the night The Russian Army of Reserve, which was anew. bled at Nischnei-Newogorod, under General Count Tolstoy, has received orders to march forwards, and direct its route towards the South-east part of Poland. Particular Bulletins will be given of then warlike operations. I received information that another of my parties ' MOM TUE same To TUE SAUD, DATED DEAD.. had likewise destroyed the bridge at Swaselikewitchi, QUAUI Ens, AT DEUGLOJE I TUE ffiTlt 07 140.. 7ni that two hours after it Mab burnt, a strong dc- TEMMEIt. t idlillent of the enemy's cavalry from Isabeien had The general plan of Operationns laid down by the arrived at the village of Swaschkwitschl. After pass- I Emperor, is strictly followed. Admiral Tchi lag the night in the village of Selnig, and at a very , chigoe*, whose van-guard-has totally defeated Gen. l t- - nall distance from the enemy, I found early in the i Dombrowski, arrived on the 21st, together with laorniug of the 28th (eth Nov.) that he had not 1 General Count Langeron's corps, at the town of only desisted from waking any attempt on me, ! Borissow. hut that be had even retired on Wolkowisk, to I By a report from Couot Platoff, just come teland, :'rich he was no doubt induced by the offer. i ice learn, that Count Wittgenstein arrived at the town 'lre ceeratioas of General Sacken against the ,of Baran, on the 25th November. The van-guard of ... , 4:n body of the Austrian army. Jest as I was' the main army, under General Miloradowitsch, is !'eparing to follow the enemy, I received direction : this day in the town of Bobr. The Cossacks, under from the Commander-in-Chief, at Polanka, to go General Platoff, are at Krnpky, and have likewise from Deretschin, through Dsneaol, on Nowogrodsk, ' taken possession of some places to the left of the :0 observe the enemy along the Niemen, and then high road, to watch the enemy's motions. To-mor c-nceed further, according to my first destination.— row the head-quarters will arrive at the town of From Nowpgredels, which place I reached by forced Sleliwaltl, which lays 011 the road between Bobr end marches, malting ten German miles and upwards Beresina. every day ; I undertook my venturesome expedi-j tion, at the very time when there were strong de- ! Ifteur ef ti tachments of the enemy in Delis'', Nikolojew, fining Addr I idy, Woloshia, Rakow, and Radosck-kowitseciti ; to to the and the whole corps of General Dombrowski, Though Br was to the right, in Stolpry and Koidanovr.— of adulat . I crossed the Niemen, near to Kolodesna, by swim- 'fie the dt Ming, and took pry route through Nalibnke and Ka. iny. In er:a to hems. In both the last-mentioned vit.) to diet Nee I found an enemy's hospital, in which there. ! of that were 800 sick, under the protection of 100 men. — market, The importance of my object, and my distance from ' which t h e army, would not allow of my sending these l ei- ,od ser , 1 WO Boners off to the army, or to encumber my liiisik ""t with the transporting them, and I therefor* lOC *entente(' my kat t self with destroying their arms cud am munition, and of carrying away their horses, of Nese which I hare, i n the whole course of the ex - 1.. Peditieu ) taken several hundreds which the 0 - /aft s den and une*Wited apfieltrOnet4" . tot wilt isconnected with the Emperor of gave me an opportunity: When I approached will no doubt be sanctionikl by him. great road; at abo u t two German miles from lice Yrom the manner in which the present affairs of Tillage of Dubrowo, I seised a French piquet of Europe are conducted, there appears to -be among cavalry, consisting of 20 cuirassier and dragoon, the different Governments a contest for absolute do whom I permitted to depart, after taking their honey minion, and the people seem destined torpidly to and destroy ing their arms." I become the prize. Important, indeed, as would [The report, which is very detailed, states Isis t every proposition be, tendi ng t o g i ve f ree d om and re having reached Admiral Tchtsingoff, afte r ov er - . pose to the bleeding nations of Europa, yet we can coming great difficulties, and praises his oSeen and scarcely entertain a hope of obtaining so desirable an soldiers.] I object, while the magic spell of despotic power remains unbroken; while the" rights of conquest," and the " divine rights of Kings," are used, as conjurors use cabalistic words, only to fascinate and deceive the people, in order more effectually to reduce them to a state of unconditional submission, which, in other words, is to " have nothing to do with the laws but to obey them." At the present moment the Governments of Europe appear to be conducted upon the unprincipled maxim of MunsAvat.—that " power constitutes right;" and under the influence of that pernicious doctrine, the people are becoming as completely at disposal of their Governors, as if they were a mere herd of cattle, whose keepers afforded them protection from others only with a dew to make them the more securely their own pro perty. It would be absurd to reason on such a prin ciple, only with a view to expose the consequences which daily result from the practile of it- It is an aalom founded on the nature and princi ples of civil liberty, that no nation or community has a right to have any power over the property or legis lation of another, that is not incorporated with it by a just and adequate representation; when Govern ments derive their power from any source independent of the voice or controul of the people every step they rise in supremacy precipitates their subjects one step deeper into slavery. Government is only a trust, and all its powers a deligation from the people in whom the omnipotence of power alone can originate; and when nations, in consequence of their tame ness or folly, surrender np their liberties, or the right of legislating for themselves to a despot, or any set of men, assuming that arbitrary power, such a resignation being inconsistent with the un alienable rights of human nature, is an usurpation. There can likewise be no hereditary right but what is derived from the laws made by the people, which, being changeable, according to the nature of all Constitutions, succeeding genera tions • have the same right to niter them for their own security, as their ancestors had to enact them for theirs. If that be not allowed, this absur dity must naturally follow, that had any of our pre ceding Kings, or Parliaments, made an Act that their posterity should all tie slaves, we should be left widow& a remedy. We have received the following irom ciiifrorritl pondeut at Dover : • 64 Donn, Duc.2B.—l am happy to say there is not the least foundation fur the report respecting a certain sloop of war, stated in my letter last night to hate been carried into Boulogne. The Dwarf, which arrived from oft there this morning. signaled her so late as four last evening. The arrival of a flag of tree from France, upon enquiry, cannot be traced to any authentic source. Government have rece'i►ed the ntlicial account of the capture of the Macedonian frigate by the United State,. It will be published this night lu the Gtr scat. The Macedonian was foeght most gloriously. The action took place on the 25th of o::tnber. It lasted nearly two hours, when the Macedonian hav ing been cut to pieces, and with more than one-third of her gallant crew killed and wounded, was under the melancholy necessity of striking to a superior force. The captor and her prize were left on the 15th of November, near Cape Henry, and we may therefore presume are both safe in an American port. —The following is a lii', op KILL= •KO wootrate oil imam, Tllll MACIP.DONIAN. Kilted'jb Woonded severely Ditto sligidly iaT °mein Holmes. boatswain. Piluothen, Mailer's Mate. Colville, Schoolmaster. wooNDILD. Liesteasat Hope, severely. lanationt Mulford, slightly. And several Midshipmen and Masters' Mates. The Purser of the Macedonian wai landed at Bristol from the Benjamin on Saturday, and imme diately proceeded for Loudon, where he arrived late yesterday evening. We are estremely sorry to hear, that on beard two of the cartels which were proceeding from the United States to this country, a spirit of disobedi ence has been shown, which, we doubt, has disap pointed the entire a bject of the voyage, and com (riled their return to America. This circumstance The Moniker of the 21st instant has been re- allay explain the deficiency of intelligence from that goarter at a time when we are most anxiously look ccived, containing Addresses from the Sena te and Council of State to the E lusion " on his arr i va l LIPS for the Repor Commerce the Committees of Foreign la, lite dons and of on that part pf the among his People. Though ihese Addresses are couched , President's Sheeoh which relates to this kingdom. in the usual terms of adulation, they will be foun d i had yesterday the arrival of a Brazil Mail by tacitly to acknowledge the dreadful disasters sus- I the Princess Chnrioite, which vessel, under thdap.. tained by French army. In these effusions of i ohension of her loss -or capture, was insured last t h ere 1, week at 36 guineas per 1001. prem. The letters by loyalty and attachment to their Estrutoe, IWs opportunity are to the 6th October and they appears an evident want of that enthusiastic ap inform us that the Bonne Cdayenna, richly laden• plume which bu uniformly marked his former via i soith specie, had not arrived at Rio Janeiro from torious returns to his capital, which 'Seine to be the I , Buenos Ayres, and that a brig had been tent from only symptoms of discontent and sorrow, that has: the former to the Rio de la Plata, to prevent heti been manifested for the dreadful loss and earns. mooing to Europe without autficient protection. le j ofti mermii, The . w ag -wa appear singular , that the fi rst news to the , Bra.. amen; their friends and idLA siddi 110 or the woe between the United States and Great important part of the Addreesis n was transmitted by an Anterior, vestel, ant lates to the preposition of ostow 111 produced - a strong sanution at the Portuguese Kiso of Row; in CUM 4,sk. . Violet. NO notice, indeed, seems to WO beiliti . secure the at! tO- Se AM* . MOM fill,wof %garter of the, World, : , • , .~ ArairAL INTELLIGENCE. Vontsmotan, DEc. 28.—The Partridge, 16 goes, Capt. Ayde, 'remains waitiog for orders to proceed* to Malta. The Antelope, of 50 guns, which sailed on Satur day, took on board gold bars to the value of one hundred thousand pounds, for the payment of the Allied Armrin Spain and Portugal. The Theseus' and Bellona, of 74 guns each, are ordered to proceed immediately to the West Indies, to run down ale the Wands, and the coast of the United States of America, from south to north, and will then return to Europe. DLAL, Ihc.2B.—Came down from the River se veral vessels, and remain. Sailed his Majesty's shil. Mosquito, for Sheerness; and the Deal pilot boat wires, for off Dungeness. FALMOUTII, Dlc. '2s.—Sailed the Printeu nits. UM packet; for Lisbon ; and the Lady Pelham packet, for Surinam. ThelifOry Ann packet, for Gibraltar acid Malta, has gone into the Roods. • We regret to state, that fears are entertained that the Pembroke, 74 guns, which got on shore at Dun. nose on Saturday evening, will not be got off; she sailed from Spithead the same afternoon ; it appears they saw the land at five o'clock, and took their dis tance accordinty, yet, by some unaccountable mis management, s ot on shore in half an hour after. wards. Every assistance has been rendered to her. On the 18th instant, the Albicore sloop of war, of 18 guns, fell in with a French frigate of the largest class, said to he laden with stores. from liarre,bound to America, and, with the Purees and Delicost gon.brigs in sight, chased her two days. _On the WO, off the Lizard, the Albicore came up with and attacked the enemy in the most gallant style, and continued the chase till the evening. In the mean time, the little Lasidrail schooner also joined, and having advantage in her sailing, kept up a well. directed fire on her stern and quarters with surpris. log effect, wail she was disabled and obliged to fall asteru. Night coming on, the enemy escaped.— ' Report says, that the itlbleore had met with great loss in killed and wounded : of the former the Fred Lieutenant and five men, and from It to IS wound• ed. The Fw•tuitee frigate was spoke with on the , following day, and is gone after her. The British subjects in Canada, It is said, have sent a deputation to England, t 6 state to Govern ment, that unless 5000 British troops of the line ale landed in their defence early in the Spring, their Militia cannot be expected to keep the field. . . ShOtliti SOULT make a retrog rade movement to wards France with his army, t he Marquis of WtT.- LI sicrue will certainly embark at Lishen fur Bee !and, and leave the supreme command of the British army and that of our Attica to Sir Itowt.avnTllLL. It wac roperted that dispatches had been delivered from a French vessel to one of our eruircws of Folkostoue, and that this official communication was transmitted in of boat to that port, to be forwarded to the Foreign-Office here. This remour had its effect in producing an advance of about per cent. in the private bargains, in the Stock-market yester day, but, we believe, there is no foutalatian for the story, 'and we have been fortified in this persuasion, by the receipt of letters from the French coast, dated as late as Saturday, which give no countenance to such a representation. Letters were received yesterday from Newfound land, to the date of the 29th tilt, and we are con corned to mention, that the Colony is in great want of provisiOns, and that the Avenger sloop of war was lost on the rods, at the entrance of the her. bout of St. Jr: u's. The whole of the crew were !sappily preserved. We Uliderailll4l Sir FREATRICS FLOOD, Baronet, Member for the Countyof Wexford, intends brieg-, ing before the House, after the recess, some particu lars relative to Ireland, and particularly the Couto , he represents in Parliament. From the 3d to the 15th inst. upwards of 60,000 ounces of gold and silver in bars, and foreign coin, were entered for exportation from London, to vari ous parts of the Continent under the dominion of Bos_sr A ave. • 'lsh - e — likction Petition from Stamford, presented to the House of Commons and ordered for conside ration on the 43d of February, is signed by G. Nora., Esq. Wit. Jour/ TATAM, Liget. R. N. and Wm. LOWE Jr butcher ; and it sets forth an alleged grievance, by reason that the election was not held in the usual place; by reason that the per. sou appointed to be Assessor to the Returning Officer was objected to by Mr. Nora, and " did manifestly discover partiality in his decisions on votes;" by rea son that " James TOMLINSON, who was the sworn Clerk to take the pull, did notoriously alter one of ;the rates of the parish of St. Mary, thereby to ea. ' able Roane MiLt,ee,, breeches-maker, 'to vote ;" by reason that the name of Lord Baowst.ow, a Peer, and Colonel of the Militia, was used to linflUenee the votes of Electors; and bLressen dm; the Petitiotters, 'W. J. TATAN mad W. L. FLAILS, did severally tender their votes for the saki G. N. INon., and were rejected, whilst other persons not leeally entitled to vote, were admitted to vote for , • Lo rd tlr.,rtiazß and Ur. VOULKT.S," and others in. duced by threats and corrupt means to vote against the said G. N. Num.. • - - • :Nary Clarke, alias Smith, Was committed to Shrewsbury con uty gaol, on the 12th instant, charged with aiding : and assisting Lewie'Cluirles Gospard Montbazen,la French prisoner of war, on his parole at Bridgenordr, in makingith tetape from theuce. The revenues of Trinity College, Cambridge, are so much increased, as to-admit of a considerable aug. .Mentation. this year to. the fellowship of that flourish .. •ing society. • • A doggeg whir a caries "of fish. fate& taken off the North Coalk. was sent into Dover on Sattitday. She has ort bost4leue mew of the crew of tivellban t nutter, latelf lost wit ell the rest of her crew. The I.se ,. after Inspecting the Meat. tretgliera nowisitc - kleted the .Priee of Bread - to fall one farthing to ilia tinartern loaf, which take ette• alt 'fhtirsday nest, witest. - Ote goiter* had will btl Is. 41d. • , . I i ~~ - • 6..T.k ~~ IC :I i i 0