The Statesman. — London, England, 1812-11-19 00:00:00

' it. 7 ,~ • ,~ ~~ . ' 1 l . r II 1... [: , • ~ .3 ~ .111);010p . 1 / 1 • 1 ' i , , Baron Scheither with the regiment of Riesch dra goons against Sudloe. " General Frcclich at Raesiti came up with a transport of the enemy under the escort of a detach ment of Cossa44, he killed the g reater pi..rt Of them, and made the Commander an d nenly of tho soldiers prisoners. " The two corps cl'armee continued their nurch in the direction of Biala and Mienzyrzys, but the ene my's General Essen resolved to attack them with two divisions. " The advanced guard of the Salon General Gahletiz was repulsed to tho mill, on the great road to Biala, but General Count aegoier caused sonic batteries to advance, and by that stopped the enemy. While the latter was attacked in front, Major De sist) passed the Biala, near the mill of Itosula, with a battalion of Esterhazy infantry, and tws compa nies of Saxon light infantry. Lieutenant Count La tour, of time Stair, conducted these eig;ht compatiies aealast the right flank of the enemy. On this,occa sion Captain ittenig of the Saxon light infantry, supported by Captain Versay, of the Esterhazy in fantry. took a cannon, a 12-pounder. " Gmieral Lecnq supported with much bravery a second attack by Lieutenant-Colonel Latour, and the enemy was thus repulsed from Biala Bache into the neighbouring forests. Field Marshal Lieute nant Bianchi dislodged the enemy from this n ood, pursued him in his flight near the defile f on the Zna, and cannonaded him so briskly that he retreated in the greatest disorder upon the road to Brzesc.— :Night put an cud to the action, in which Prince Schwartzetiberg, without sulferiug any great loss, did much injury to the enemy, and took sonic hun dreds of prisoners." UNITED S PATES. NEW YORK, Ovr . . 3. r FROM THE NATIONAL INTELIOENCT7R.I The Secretary of the Treasury returned to Waih ington on Thursday evening, and the Secretary of State is expected to-day. The following extract of a letter from a respectable source iu St. Louis, Missouri territory, exhibits a most distressing picture of the dangers to which the inhabitants of our western frontier are exposed, in consequence of the fall of Detroit. The fact of the horrible massacre of the garrison of Chicago, our readers wilt recollect has been already announced : " Fort Chicago, on the Illinois, was evacuated on the 15th of last month, and the officers and 6oldiers put to death one mile from the place ; three women and nine children were among the slain ; the i credulous Capt. Wells (Indian agent) had his breast,; cut open, anti his heart roasted and eaten by the Chiefs present- Fort Madison (Bellevnc) is now besieged by 400 Pottawatamies, Kiel:poo:,, and Sankes. The factory is burnt down by the garrison or Indians, we have not been able to learn which. The Indians have 200 warriors stationed on the Mis sissippito protect the besieging party, and upwards of 500 more in small parties, harassing our frontier. The enemy expect a reinforcement of 12.00 Sioux, Sacs,audFoxes, with 150Winnebagoes, to break into oer sett:ement. These savages are rendered hold, and are more than themselves by success. We have but 17 regular troops at Belle Fontaine ; and our settlements are so remote from one 'another, that you will, no doubt, hear of the most heroic exam pies of bravery from this quarter, as we are deter- , mined not to lose an inch of ground, as long as life lasts, or powder or lead can he had. This moment a spy has come in ; he observed a number of wounded Indians carried from before Fort Bellevue; 300 Itidiaus have gone to Vincennes settlement, and besieged Fort Harrison." (mom COOK'S aouttear., our. 3.] NEw Yotte,-Oce. 7.—On Monday an express ar rived at General Bloomfield's head-quarters, from the Committee of Safety fur Franklin county, in forming that Colonel M`Pherson had arrived at Cornwall, with the Scotch Royals, the Gleteiary Sharpshooters, a re,timent ot militia, and 300 Indians. General Bloomfield immediately ordered Col. Vors bine°h, with his detached militia, the Troy Fusileers, and Troy Ins incibles, to reinforce Major Young, who commands a part of the Sth regiment at Chataugh, ?Holum, and Freach•eniils; and Ccl. Green, to march ith his regiment to Chazy and Chaplain, to rein force Mnjor Sac'erider, who commands a part of the 7th and nth regiments at those rarts. Gen. Bloom field has at Plattsburgh the 6th, 9th, 11th, end 15th regiments of infantry, part of a regiment of United States artillery, part of Col. Thorn's regiment of de- taehed artillery, a detachment of horse, and a de tachment of riflemen. On the Vermont side, there are at Swanton 400, at Burlington 2.000, and several other detachments were passed on their way to Bur- ; OCT, B.—Estrr.et of a letter from •Mr. Jonathan Kellogg (Quarter-Master iu nines regiment), dated sacket's. Harbour, Sept. 22, 1812:—" Last evening an enagement took place between our troop in this quarter, and the British, in which we took 40 pri soners, 70 stand of arms, and four barrels of pow der." Exttact from a letter, dated Wilmington, Oct. 3: The United States frigate Eases , and sloop of war Wasp, went up the river yesterday, haring found it unsafe to go out, as there are four or tive,English • frigates off the Capes." • • CINCINNATI, 0. SETT. 22.—0 n Saturday, the 12th Inst. Gen. I!arrison,.with about 3000 troops, arrived at Fort Wayne. A scouting party immedi ately went out to search for Indians, and scoured the woods for several hours; but not an Indian was to he found, though some had so suddenly decamped as to leave their fires burning, and baskets and corn lying near. It was supposed there had been from 3to 4t h ) Indians. They had burnt 13 or 14 cabins in the neighbourhood of the fort, and killed nearly alt the cattle, sheep, hugs, and chickens, belonging to the fort, and to the people who had bven Wing in those cabins which were burnt. The Indians, ;•reviotti to the arrival of the army, had shot two men who in- . cautiously svere outside of the fort a short time. On Monday, the 14th,Gen. %Veils loft fort Wayne with 1000 mounted troops, to go at:d destroy the Pot tawatamie towns, about 40 miles distant, and expect ed to he hack in four days. Since writing the above, Lieut. Bryson, of New port, has communicated the following : cs express has just arrived ) who State; Ter. THE STATFSMAN. bally, that the detachment under Gen. Wells, which left fort Wayne on the 14th instant, returned on Friday last, having destroyed live Pottawatarvia and Miami towns, without baring seen an Indian." The Far nter's Watch-two:r (printed at Urbana, Ol:io) of the ltith inst. says—"(, en. Pt.rithe :4 detach-. went of Oldovilitia „stationed a tilutv, have burnt, near Sandusky, a British schooner, with the loss of two men: • " Major-General Wadsworth, of the 4th division of Ohio militia, is authorized to rtais'e bfteen hun dred men. Arms, -ammunition, artillery, and mu nitions of war; are tube sentfrom Pittsburgh to the New-Yo nit, OCT. 3.—ColonelThlibroix,a Frenili. man, tu• alien. and a minion I f Bonaparte, has been appointed a Colonel in the United States' army!— On this most daring, most humiliating, most (lupe ralleletl, !lost portentous outrage on American feel ing, we shall make a few remarks in our Paper of to-morrow. Our blood curdles when we record it— our cheeks are suiiused with blushes for the disho nour of our coutitry."—(Com. Advertiser.) BosTnat, Oer. 2.—Delegates in several leading counties in the State of Pennsylvania have nominated De Witt Clinton_ for the next President. His elec. tion will be powerfully supported in that State. In Virginia, also, partial nominations have been made in his favour. It is said, with a very considerable : degree of assurance, that the Legislature of North- i Carolina, just elected, contains a decided peace ma-1 jority. General Hull has arrived at his seat in Newton. — We learn, he still considers the act of surrendering Detroit as a measure dictated by imperious necessity; !and that he enjoys the satisfaction of having saved a . I gallant army and a garrison from inevitable destruc. lion. lie still speaks in the highest terms of the . ; troops he commanded. He admits, that there is ! blame somewhere ; and is anxious for a fair and im -1 partial enquiry, that the punilhment may fall ou the !guilty. • . I PHILADELPHIA, OCT. I.—We have good reasbn `to believe, that the President of the United States . h'aa made up his mind to annul the bonds given isy merchants on imported Ditish manufactures. .• _ . ______ - __ Air. Molls. . I)ue 0 .. . ..... Dublin , e. .11 1 0 0 ti 1 0 PRICE. OF STOCKS THIS Rank 4153 S per Cent. Red. 57; S S per Cent. Cons. 5 j 9 1 per Cents. 5 per Cent. Navy WI; 'mug. Ann. 14 15-16 15 DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. India Lion& par 1 2 dig. Fit chequer Bills 94d. 2 3 p Ditto 3).d. 4 6 p I Ilrouimu 511 pr. 1'01194116 for ACCI. 59i Lottery Tickets THE STATESMAN. - - -4. LONDON: THURSDAY, NOVEMIIER 19, 1131/. A Gottenburgh Mail'arrived this morning, from w hi c h the following are extracts ' CAELLSIIAIT, Nov. I.—We have just received in telligeace from Riga, that a battle has been fought between gmolensko and Moscow, which termiaated in favour of the Russians-15,000 French were obliged to lay dowh their arms. The military chest was also taken, besides an immense quantity of am munition and baggage. GorrENcomat, Nov. 1-I.—From Stockholm they write, under date of the 10th, that they have re ceived intelligence of further successes gained by the Russians, but had not then received the official ac counts. Report says that a hundred covers of NAPOLEON'S plate uas taken at IVlosconv. The Gentleman who brought the intelligence to Carlsliam of a battle hay. ing been fought hetween Moscow and Smolensk°, declares, that previous to leaving Riga, he had seen General Esrs's official Bulletin of the atfair. Forty sail of Wissian men of war passed 1 on Sunday last for England; 10 sail of the line, the reniaboier fligates and snialler vessels. Admiral Caowx, from Archangel, with seven sail of the line, had arrived at Sweaborg. The ship that was missing, and supposed to be lost, belonging to that fleet, is at present in Tonsberg, but daily expected here. EXTRACT or A ',Loma FROM WARSAW, DATLD 25TR risl Majoty, under date the Ist (13th) of Octolver, from the church village of Letaschwela, as :-- " I have the hippiness most submissively to in form yotir nijesty, that Gen. Donocnow, who was detached with orders from me to act on the 'whole distance between Cshatsk and Aloshaisk had directions to make the destruction of the merits which the enemy had thrown up in the town of Wereia his first object. This brave General has exe cuted his directions with equal courage and rapidity. 'A pair of Westphalian colours, which I have here with the hnnotir to lay at the sacred feet of your Imperial Majesty, and a great untidier of vrisuners, are the trophies by which this day will he commemo rated. Your Imperial Majesty *ill learn all the par ticular circumstances of this victory from the roport of Major-Gen. Donocuow, which I herewith trans mit in original. " The Adjutant of your Imperial ijesty, Lieute nant OnLow, who has brought the intelligence of taking the town of Wereja, relates, that the storm was carried on with such impetuosity, that notwith standing the great loss of the enemy, the loss on our side did not amount to more than 3U men killed." REPORT OF YRJOR-GESF.RAL DJROCUOW TO THE FIELD-MAR L•DES., DATED SEPT. 29 (ocT. 11). I 64 According to your Higline , s's directions, the town of Wereja is cleared of the enemy, and their in tretichments were carried by storm, at half-past five o'clock in the morning. These entrenchments, which were formed on a steep hill, at five.fathoms height, Iwere surmounted by a palisade. In the course of half an hour, our brave warriors forced their s'ay ', on the parapet, notwithutantling the obstinacy of the enemy's defence, and immediately every thing was in our hands, without firing a single shot. Without mentioning the great number killed,, upwards of 350 privates, 11 Staff and Chief Officers, together 'with the Commandant, and a pair of colours, which I for t ward herewith, are the fruits of this successful assault; after having accomplished this, my next care was the ! destruction of such of the enemy as still remained in the town. It was to no purpose that the enemy made his !appearance at eleven o'clock, with three battalions 'and four squerniis, as well as suaie pieces of ar tillery on the Mejaisk road. The storm was al ready finisiled, and our reserve was hi good order, and in readiness to repulse this new force of the enemy. IVhen the enemy, after a small resistance, per ' ; ceived that his Werja ,detachments were destroyed,' he speedily withdrew himself, and was pursued by lour light cavalry, who caused him a considerable Iloss. The steadiness and activity of our troops in this storm, exceeds all belief. " In the circumstantial description of this af fair, I shall not omit informing your Highness of those who have distinguished themselves in this busi ness. Our loss, God be thanked, is very trifling. The 500 muskets which fell into our hands at the taking of the town of Wereja, !rive been distributed among the peasantry. Our columns were led elth lindescribable courage to the storming of Wereja, by four citizens of that place. The difficulty of the enterprise (lid net cool the love of their country in their hearts ; and they were the first to throw them selves on the walls of the intrenchments. One of !them was wounded ; and by directions of the Gen. Field Marshal, they were all four rewarded with the military badge of honour." Lieutenant Caunt STFINIIILL reperts to his Im pf:.rial :Majesty, under d:Ito of Pth (gist) October, (rein the town of Disna, as follows : • 44 The v!clory and taking of the strongly fortified 'town of Polotsk, through the valour of your Impe rial Majesty's troops, muter ti r command of Lieu tenant-General Count IVITTGENSTEIN, gives a right to my movements to claim likewise a partiCipa don in this affair, as will be perceived from the inclosed letter: as according to the general plan, the strong division which the corps,. un der my command, necessarily drew on itself, and the quick movement, operated very favour ; ably on the rear of the enemy's position on the right of the Dwina. " I marched on it and crossed the• River near Druga, and notwithstanding all the danger to which I was exposed, from the enemy's corns' under 1 M'DONALD, by the exemplary valour of the Russian troops, I, on the 7th (19th) of October, overthrew the strong position of the enemy, near the river of Uschatsc.k, and at the wish of Count We:Tut:N. STEIN, pursued him to within 14 wersts of Polotsk, exactly at the time he was storming the town.. The extraordinary darkness of the night prevented us from prosecuting our victory any further. Without reckoning the eiirny's killed and severely wounded, we have taken 1 Colonel, 37 superior Officers, and about 500 men, Commission Officers, and Pri%ates. I have to tender particular praise to the Com mander of the Staff of the corps, Major-Gene ral FOEK, for his manly courage and prudent measure's, in assisting my operations. Ow . e , g to the shortness of the time, and my broken state of health►, I cannot at present enter into further de tails respecting others who have signalized themselves, tiorof our loss. For more particular information , of all the difficulties surmounted, I refer to your Impe rial Majesty's Adjutant. Colonel BALABEN ) by whom I forward this submist:Te Report." OF OCTOBEIt. g' For some days past this city has been crowded with troops, who, from hence .continue their march for their ulterior destination." BEIZLIN, OCT. 29.—The latest intelligonce re ceived from the Grand Army, is dated %Vilna, Oct. '2l; it announces that the Emperor NieoLEoN was still at Moscow on the 14th, and enjoyed the best health. Up to that .day, whether through incertitude or weakneo, the enemy had made no movement. In general, confidence is on one side and disgust on the other. The French soldiers repose upon their forces, and make a common cause with the iehabi tants, whose protectors they are, since their own defenders belittled to them in-so cowardly a manner. The Cossacks understand this unity of interests. and therefore cannot hope to surprise detachments or posts, the least strong, in consequence of the strict discipline they maintain, and the information the inhabitants give them ; whole troops of them have disbanded and returned to- their desert•. They take with them the opinion of the nullity of the profits ' of the war, and ccniseluentiv motives for making it, as it is never for the Government, but for the hope of plunder thnt they take arms. OFFICIAL. ACCOUNTS FROM TILE ARMY. The Commander-in• Chief of the army, field-Mar ichal General Prince Kurosow roport‘ to his Impe. ..,,,~~. LLTTEIt VitOM GEN %RAI. CIUN r WIT/ a\ LIEUTENA NT-GEN 1.11:, I, couN.& n.L.41111,1.. 46 1 have the honour to coagratii;:,..,, uur lotiev on the taking of the ton n of Poktsk, fore& happy viult of which lam mac', iiiii,ht c d t o tk ? „. operation of yo u r cor p s . I h o:w till( we shall t c o _ marrow see each otlwr in that town, an i coos u lt tf i. gel her on n hateyer is necessary conccmicg our futt, • operations. „ 64 I humbly request your Ifightir-c will give orders to Lleutenan!-Colonel to •,, sue the enemy as much further ps pre.ditle, as ' r czkalry can not get so qttickly screws tict 1; bridges being spoiled. lam at this artillery on the walls round the ;tr:;•:.••. . away the enemy, who as on the no great numbers." • it is ce7.,,Ptr''ectike: posture of oer sf - s• present n t t h e P w i r Tn t e h s e pe P e t r Peninsular war, difficult for the sincere • the l.enest Patriot to .• rya his mind freely, without ince •• incurring the an insensibility or indifference to the f aLe of his rout.. try, and, perhaps, to. the more creel calumny (,f serving the cause of the enemy. Oi the other hand, if a man reflects on the system which has but (00 l o s, been adopted in the Government of England, uglau t l, shi c h evidently tends to make war an uncea.' pun,vit of its governors, it is impossible he earl • . de silent on the certain, though slow ruin which awaits us. It may be said, and reasonably said, that it •IS COW to; late to regret and deplore the hostility ' in ahid we have been involved alMost years past with a 'Ply small, scarcely more than a m • omen,ary• intermissicsi and it may also be added, that the consideration how honourably to withdraw from which no one denies is an arduous one. Boast' would say on such an occasion : hie 1 bcs , • h cini l Hetein we will as candidly lay open our epiaiou a• we lave on other topics, by which we }lave secured the confidence of our most sensible and experienced Leaders, as we have incurred the censure of We arc among those persons then, who, • (sat; they be few or numerous, alike leave our own no. tionson the question equally stabile: we are anti those who never formed the expectation of fine success in the Spanish war, from the moment the Cantes were unwilling, or unable to utter and ea. force those national sentiments and decrees, which would infallibly have inspired every subject of their country with a disposition to defend it, from a seas or conviction in his mind that he had a personal it terest in so doing ; in short, that it was public pn perty he was hazardina :.is Ile for, of which he was. large a sharer (private wealth out of the question) the proudest Spaniard alive. it was the infusion of tl general impulse into the breasts of Frenchmen, till the but petits maitres, which converted them into warriors. Let those of our Readers who are riot yet convincer of our sincere love for our country, atei, above a! let our Ministers think of this. Let all those whr have not yet discovered our motive for tile freedom our pen, red ect on the mighty cause which transformed a vain and giddy nation into a Belligerent one. is too extended a subject to go into farther at 0: moment than may be necessary to justify what wear indispensably cornpeltted to say on the preseut disat trous state of our affairs on the Contieent. It i. not our intention to create and spread an appra heitsion that all is lost in Spain. Our Readers would not believe us, knowing as thry must, that there is scarely an evil occur., which is unaccom. palliest with soma consolation. PANDORA'S bur had Hope at its bottom: our Commander, althougi compelled to retreat to the left back of chi Douro, at the same time retires in a great measur upon resources and reiaforcoments, a battalion, i excellent order, joined the main army the day on its march. The national hope and .exp.a.:. tion had, however, been raised to an I:neva moo height after the victory at Salamanca, and it. too confidently predicted fall of Burgos ; the did appointment, therefore, ciperienced at this sad , den change cannot but be poignantly felt. it success &orally justifies means, so does naw.ft riage never fail to create accuaers. In this in. stance, strange as it may seem, we are going to heal defenders of Ministry I It is from the E 'intes we have drawn the necessity of saying u hat may in effect be a justification of the conduct of Ministers with re. Bard to the imputation cast upon them (we ply tia justly, in this almost solitary instance). 'f he main of that Journal may ba n'iore particularly lool:a; to, and may be supposed to he most felt h) Ministers, from its haring been made the organ to soned Vetus's praise; of the taleats of tla :brother of our Commander of the farces in Seam, and of the benefits the makes world derire, yea that Nehlernari placed at the head of its Govern' merit !—The blame then is cast upon those who, however incempctrnt tp mannee tile :teaks of • eY great Miigdom, in this instance sit ,j,lsily • - empt from it. We wish we c ould say as ten ch for them as to the alarming decadency of the whole Sisa of Great Britain. We are tuns become invoiontm for those whom .e cannot esteem, and rna , pleaders haf t ) less admire. The Editor of the rates (P" recent Veaus in another dress) imputes our diswers in Spain to the - " inadequacy of net7. ,- . , and this charge is founded on Lord Wratieavo!! • expression in the dispatches , concerning his line tat • means," with regard to the sacritices ire had livc r under the necessity of making by the relitiquiss,n..;ti of Burgos, and thereby the Sp anish capital. • from sireeing with this writer, that reinforW log hich It of L the may too t,ih rely ICII ; II i., nest, at C I ; 7714 / • 111 as nced hers. %nit final Pined d en. which their seas, in. pro- rasa; n) as If this I then inced e who am of firmed It tJu e are It is Hier.; , that ." corn- box ough the inure 11, 19i ti d ccm- d th.t dis- sod- As scar- s in- w the ha►e 3 be i re- o 'sure. by Irgan tie "etc tern . rho, tt;:s ey- h fur State TAO iatoi Kent ros' s To g jar °No • Pi 4 , f