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ll McA/ FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. FROM THE FRENCH AND DUTCH PAPERS. FORTY-FIF CH BULLETIN OF THE GRANO ARMY. is PA Lux y, DEC. V. " The Russian General Renningsen had the com mand of an army which was estimated at 60,000 men. At first he intended to cover Warsaw ; but he took a lesson from the intelligence of the occur rences which had taLen place in Prussia, and deter mined to retreat towards the Russian frontiers. Without having been compelled almost to fight a single battle, the French entered Warsaw, passed the Vistula, and occupied Naga. In the mean time, Field Marshal Kamenskoy joined the Russian a: sly, just at the naom..nt when Banningsen's corps hrimed a janction with that uni:r Bunhoevden. He was indignant at the retreat of the Russians, con ceiving that it tendeJ to sully the honour of his country's arms, and he accordingly made a move ment in ads anat. •' Prussia remonstrated with the most ardent im portunity, and complained, that after all the pro tn..es of support made to her, she was abandoned; representing that the way to Berlin was not by Grodno, Olita, or Bram ; that her subjects had be gun to abate in their zeal for their Sovereign ; and that the habit of beholding the Orono of Berlin in the posses%ion of the French, was dangerous to him and favourable to the enemy. 'the ltu,sians not oily ceased their retrograde movement, but they *gain began to advance. On the sth of December, G-ateral Benningten moved forward hi. head-quar ters to Pultusk. The ord-rs issued were to prevent the French from pacing the Narew. orrtake Prage, and to occupy the banks of the Vaud t, until the Indment when snore important offen.ire operations could be ad-pted. " The junction of Generals Itsrimsicor, Bum boevden, and Benningsen, was ctlehrrtd at t. ,e PAlsce of Sierock with rejoicings and illumi,iatiun•, which were descries! from the steeples of W.lrsaw, Nev.:rtheless, at the twitsent when tl.e enemy were chezting thentr,elv...s with hstivals, the Narew was • passed. E;g l :t hundred Frenchmen, having sud denly crossed that river at its junction with the Ukra, entrenched themselves the same night ; and witen the enerty appeared next inor,,iog, with the intention of forcing them back into the tivrr, they t;r nisivestuu late. The French ware secure against every event. " Being informed of th:s change in the enemy's operatiJns, the Emperor left Posea on the IGth. At the ,itßle moment he pat his army in motion. retr tern t which had been received of the con 4atioti of the Rticsiant, g.ive him to under.tand t: al they designed to resume offensive operation.. " Marsoal N.ry had been for several days master of Thorn. He united the different coi p; of his many at Gallup. Marshal Bes.,ieres, with the second corps of the cavalry of reserve, consi.ting of the divisions of the dragoons of &bac and Grouchy, and the division of Haw pnult% cuirassiers, marched loan Thorn to proceed to Biexun. The Marshal Prince of Ponte Corvo marched with his carps so support them. Marshal Soult passed the Vistula opposite Plock ; and Marshal Augereati pas s ed at Zackrocyn, where the utmost exertion was made to establish a bridge. The same activity was exerted in constructing that on the Narew. " On the 22d, the bridge on the Narew was com pleted. AlkoN i parginWr i ntstantly pasted thlgitstalaftili 'Naga, on their march to the N.trew, * Malshal Llavousehad collected the .whole of • `.his . erpS. Afore o'clock in the morning of the 23d, , trt.nmeror :et out from Warsaw, and passed the Mires, at nine. On reconnoitring the Us:a, and Oar considerable intrenchtnents thrown up by the enemy, he ordrres.l a bridge to be th, own across at the confluence of the Narew and Ukra. By the zeal of the General of artillery, tbe bridge was cotnpl.t..l i t two hours. [The Buil:tin then prnceeds to give the dettils of the afflits at CLATnowo,4l4, and the passages of the Ukra and Sonna. It concluas as follows :] " All the columns of the enemy are broken, and wandering a bout in a itate of disorder difficult to .11-. e Russian General committed the r error of posting his army so as to hive the French "army on his Hark, separated, it is true, by the Nary", bat having a bridge arms that river. Had the sea inn been I:securable, one might have predilted that the Russian army could not have retreated, and that it would have been destroyed without a battle; but at a setams when it is dArk at four, and when it is ' nut tit until eight, the enemy we are pursuing has chance of escape, particularly in &counts) , aa , i:ittcult, and isiterseted with woods. Resides, , oa.ls are lour feet deep of WI ud , and the thaw cm:tit—its. The artillery can no longer advance snort than two leagues in a day. It is, therefore, r ssr m inersee that the enec- y will died his retreat fril l 4,- •mharraving situation in which ha is ; !.0 will :out •A his artillery, w.,ggons, prw " Ie the evening of the 25th, the following was the position of the French army. The left, con sisting of the corps under the Marshal Prince of Ponte Corvo, and Marshals Ney and Bessieres, was marching from Biezun on the road to Grodno. Nlarshal Soult was ewering Ciechanow. Marshal Augereae was marching for Gllymin and ?nitwit. Marshal Lannes was at Pultusk. " these two days we male from fifteen to six teen hundred prisoners, and took from twenty-five to thirty pieces of cannon, three pair of colours, and one standard. " The weather here is extraordinary. It is warmer than in the month of Oetober at Paris : but it :is rainy ; and in a country where there are no regelar roads, one is in the mud at every step." FORTY-SIXTH BULLETIN. " ooLvrattr, DEC. 23. " Marshal Ney, charged with executing the ma. nceavres by which he was to drive the Prussian Lieu. tenant G-neral Lestocq from ‘Vrks, to outfl ink him, and, by thcs! to cut his corn:nuni cation wish the Russians, has executed thew mave ments with his accustomed ability and intrepidity. On the 23J, G:1 •ral narchaud's division moved to Gurrzno Oa el- 21th, the enemy was pursu-d to Kunzhrock. On the 25:h, the division came to an adion, by which !he enemy's rear silff:red some loss. On the 26:h, the enemy having cAlelled at Soldau and Miawa, Marshal N. y was determined to ad vaace and attack him. l'he Prussians were in po-- session of Soldau, with 603) infantry, and about 1000 cavalry, and, he;iig d tended by morasses and other obstacles ahoin th- p!ac.., they thoagrit them selves secnre agiinst any wrack. Ail thaw difficul ties, however, were ~ u -mounted tia.• d9th anii 76th regiments. The enemy defended himself in all the streets of the place, and was cat , ' here driven with fixed bayonets. General Losioeq. observing the small number of the troops ihrt' h id attacked him. wished to retake the p:ael% In the e•turse of the night he made 1., ir succ:ssive attacks, without el le& He Aftetv..ards r4tired to Neidenbuig. Six pieces of cx , in,in, corn? colours, and a great r.. rasher of prisoners. are the elreats of this affair at Sold.its Marshal NI pr iis,• General Von der %Veldt, who was wound!-d. I le .il.o makes pantie .lar mention of Colonel drunn, •,1 the 6:uh, whose behaviour was highly eneour.gulg. '• 01 the same day, the 51;h marched to Lotter. berg H Daring the aflion at Soldaa. Gen-ial cbausi's division dr we the a ienly from Miaw.t, where also a great aiiion to-r pl see. of I•sh 41 Besieres harl already taken pntrelsion of Biezun. with the seco d corps of e4v,r,ry, on the 19 h. The enemy, feeling the irnpor.i.ice of this post, and observing that toe lef wing of •he Frew h army wished to cut the Pzass•aiia off rum du Rits. sians, made .an ittem2t revoke the place; this give rive to the engagement at " On the esa. at eight o'clock, the enemy ap• preached by elisions ways. 14 srshal llcssirres had placed the only two companies of infantry he hat upon the bridge; when seeing the enemy approach in great numbers, be ordered General Grouchy to advance, with his dilation, to meet them. The enemy hid already made himself master of the vil lage of Canneden, into which he had thrown a bat. teflon of infantry. " Being attacked by General Grtinchy's division. the enemy's line was men broke I the Prussian in. fernery and cavalry, 6,000 strong, were thrown into confusion. and driven into the morasses. Five hun dred prisoners, five pieces of cannon, and two standards, are the fruits of this attack. Marshal Bessieres bestows the highest encomiums upm Ge neral Grouchy, General Rouget, and his Chtef of the Staff, General Roussell ; Bettie, the Chef d'Escasit on of the 6,h Dragoons, distinguished him. self. M. Launay, Captain of the seled company of that regiment, is killed. " M. Botrati,Aid.cle•Camp of Marshal Bessieres, is killed. In general, our loss is of small conse quence ; it consists of eight kill d, and shout twenty wounded. The dragoon Plat, of the 6th, and M. Jam'', of the 3d, wok two standards. " His Majesty. wishing to give Prince Jerome an opportunity of obtaiaing military knowledge, had ordered him from Silesia. This Prince has been pre• sent in all the slain that have occurred, and has frequently been at the advanced posts. .1. His Majesty is highly pleased with the conduft of the Attillety, fir the firmness they have displayed in various affairs, and for their aftivity is laying bridges, and conducling the cannon alow; bas roads. " General Marulaz, Commandant of .or cavalry of the light corps; Colonel Excelmans, of the lit Yartrs ; and General Petit, have displayed mark. of courage and military skill. " His Majesty has given patt•cular orders, that in the official details of the diffetent affairs, no traits be passed over which deserve to be conveyed to fu ture ages; as ;t is on that account, and in order to ... live fnr ever in the memory of posterity, that the French soldier braves every fatigue and danger." FORST SEVEN rll BULLETIN. [The Forty-secenth Bulletin describes the en gagements which to,k place at Pultusk and Galu• men, on the 2tith of Decembcr. The Russians are stated to have received a total defeat, and to have lost 12,000 men in killed, wounded, and prisoners, 110 pieces of cannon, all their ammunition waggons, and I 2uo baggage carts.] FORTY-EIJI! I I BULLETI:i. " WARSAW, JAN. 3. " General Corbineau, Aid-de-Camp to the Em peror, had set off from Pultusk, in pursuit of the enemy, with three regiment, of light cavali y. After occupying Brok, he reached Ostrowiel, ~n the Ist inst. On his march he picked up 400 Russian sof diets, several Otli.:ers, and a great quantity of bag gage waggons. o Marshal Snub, with three brigades of light horse, part of Lasalle's division, has taken a position along the banks of the little river Orcye, ia order to cov.:r the Cantmmenu of the Army. • Marshal Ney, , the Ptiaee of ?ante Como, and l'sl.4nhal Bessiere., have cantoneil their troops on [he left bank. _ _ _ "Fhe light corps, under Marshals Soult, Da voust, and L tnncs, continue to occupy Puttusk and • the banks of the Bug. Tho en any's arm; continues to retreat. The Emper.'r arrived at Warsaw on the 2d of January. " We have had snow and frost for two days in continuance ; but it has begun again to thaw, and the toads, which were becoming somewhat be:ter, are now as bad as before. U Prince Borghese has incessantly been at the head of the lit regiment of Carbineers, which he corn na ids. The brave Carhineets and Cuirassiers to tified the most anxious desire to meet the enemy ; ha el! divisions of Dragoons whic'i cvme first int') afii-o, by carrying every thing before th• m, lef t the fin mer no opportunity of attacking the enemy. " H s 'slajesty has appointed General Laribois siere a Geseial of Division, and given him the com mand of the Artillet yof the Guards. He is an the highest merit. The troops of the Grand Duke of Wurtsbcrg compu,e the garrison of the city of Berlin. They consist of tu•o regiments, which make an •excellent .ippearance. " The corps under Prince Jerome continues to besiege Breslau That beautiful city is in ashes. A disposition to wait the course of events, and the hope of being relieved by the Russians, have pre. vented the garrison [Toni surrendering, but the se le . makes prrgress. The Bavarian and V‘ irtemberg troops have merited the praise of Prince J..rume, and the esteem of the French army. •. 'fhr G .vernor of Silesia had colledted the gar risons f the fortress.•s not ye: blockaded, and tot ni. ed ou: of them an army of BQ,OOO men, with which force he had c nornenced his march to interrupt the operations of the atmy besirg.ng Breslau. Ag.tinst this farce, G liedouville, the Chief of Prince Jerome's st.ff, detachtd G:rwral MOntbren, Commandant of. the WurterVi.irghtr., and General Minucci, Commandant of the B iv.,- rians They carne up with the Prussians at Siterrien, pet them to flight, and took 400 men, 600 hi,rses an d several convoys of provisions, which the entm! intended to send into the fortress. Major I ler , :ch..r, at the head of 150 of Leiningen's Light Horse, at. tacked two Prussian squadrons, and completely routed them, making 36 of them prisoners." HUSUM AND Go rTENSURG MAILS. TOMMINOIN, JAN. 17. • better ) An estafette has Arrived At Luueck, from Konigs berg, by sea, with advice, that that city had been illuminated and 7", /hum sung in all the churches, in consequence of a decisive victory having been ob. tained by the Ilii,siaus over the French on the Narew. They are reported to have lust upwards of 90.000 men. The lie.id-quarters of the French, it is asserted, have been removed from WArs.tw to Posen. BANES OE THE MAINE, JAN. 3. Tie Prussian gartison of Colberg harasses con tinually that country as far as Stettin. On the 13th 13,-,-cmher a corps of that garrison fell in with a detachment, which had left Stettin, and made pti.on,rs a Lieutenant and 25 men. An Austrian G?xette, in an article dated Z .m -berg, Di•cember 2,1, states, that the French Mi ni.tcr had arrived there that day fr,im Jassy ; on the 26th November, the Russians, to the number of 75,00 i) men, entered Moldavia. Sixteen thousand men, commanded by General Michelson, have ad vances' to Jassy ; their plan appears. to cross the Turkish territory and to enter Dalmatia, for the purpose of carrying on their operations in Italy. ALTONA, JAM. 9. They write from Vienna, under date of the 20th December. that M. Montescidieu Chaniberl, Lip r i His Ma!esty the Emperor Napoleon, had arrival there as courier, and that his mission was of the greatest importance. Hitless:Ros, JAM. 4, A letter from Warsaw, dated the 2ith Deeeniber, states, that there are between the Bug and th, Vistula 70 or 80,000 French troops, and 12,043 Poles. but that, within a fortnight, thst nn cn i,„, would be increased to 150,000 ; a field bakery i" been establi s hed, and the transport of prosisins,' from Austria, is also considerable ; the Ru.,: s4 ' have left the Bug, ever since the 9th, and I:lkea position behind the Narew; the villages betwees those two rivers have suffered much. The heads Tiarters of the Russian Grand Army were a t Grodno; it had received considerable reinforce. ments, and a reserve had a.iived at %Vilna. The Bug and Narew are entirely covered with ic e , which has enabled the heavy artillery to pass eve:, and all the farriers h.tve been put in requisition at Warsaw, to rough shoo the horses of the I cavals y. From the 3d to the 15th of Dectru. Ae 430 Russian prisoners wore brought to 80 of which are severely wounded. Private letters from Berlin state, that Breslaw!ot not surrendered, and that this is the cause has Prevented the re•cstabiisinneat of the post he. tween Berlin and this city. WAtIAW, DEC. ?7. Dispatches, dated from Socktickzen. the ei;thcf D cemher, at seven iu the morning, bring that the enemy has been cot and defeated on Al si2es ; every momei.t prisoners are brought in. We have taken all their baggage and artillery. It is impotsibie that they ►hould again f arn in Line. Our army it pursuing theirs, without allowing they a moment'. time breathe. Private Letters say, that the Grand Duke Berg, with the cavalry under his command, he thrown himself between the Russian advanchl guard and their mat body. ■[tt.rrr, JAN. The Paper called The Tekgrapb, cnntains the la. lowing official intelligence from the Grand Army, sited Soliniou, the 29th of December " We have, during the last four days, defea•cd the Ressian army, which has been pursued to Ostrelenka, and obliged to abandon its artillery ad baggage. The badness of the roads, and the saves rity of the season, have determined Ili:. Maj tte E.mperor to go into winter quarters. The can. paign may, in lac!, be considered as ended. We have taken more than 10,000 prisoners, and s/ i,l cannon. The Emperor attacked the elecr ir. their cr.ntoriments, without its being possible fw them to LOIICC: II gLiher. " The army of the enemy is indebted for its pre servation to the badness of the roads, rendered im passable by the inc.:stoat rains ; and also to the rt. ifice of the whole of its artillery and baggage" 1111RLIN, JAN. Q. .. Several l•tters from Warsaw give the following interesting details of the recent military operations: Tut retreat of the enemy's armies, and the diffi. culty of overtaking them in mass, were the Causes uhy no general battle could take place, but very brilliant anions were fought on several susses. days. The enemy hid entrenched himself a Czainowo, but his redoubts, though defended by 13,000 men, were soon taken by a pan of the caps of Marshal Davcant. Many prisoners and piece, of cannon remained in the possession of the French. At Ty:oczym, the same corps took 2.0 baggage waggons, and a con iderabla number of men wLe had been 1. ft bt:hind. Marshal Karnenskoy, who had taken a good poi tion, covered by morasses, at NAsielsk, attempted to maintain himself is it ; but ht. was driven front it, pursued for several leagues, and ob:ip,el to kart behind many pieces of cannon and prisoners, among whom are several Colonels. The passage of t. 15 Wkra furnished occasion for an aftion, in which the carps of Mars!•il Augereau Obtained great glory. Fifteen thousand men defended the be.' Ige of Kur• umbel. The infantry passed this bridge in clox columns, and in the middle of it sustained, with ex traordinary intrepidity, the attack of the cavalry.— By a brisk fire cl musketry, they soon threw dlr..: Russian cavalry into confusion. We most not omit mentiot.ing with distindlias the affair at Pultusk, where Marsha Lannes, wth 15 or .‘20,000 men, defeated the Russians isetsseen 35 and 40,000 strong 3,0 W Russians were left upon the field of blttle, and nearly the same num ber were made primers. The flimflam of the Prussian army. which at tempted to make a stand at Soldau, was driven from that place by the corps of Marshal N,y, who tot.i. from them some colours, cannon, and a considerable number of prisoners. This Prussian corps, which was nearly 6000 strong, was dispersed and drivro into the morasses. he cavalry, under the com- mand of Marshal Bestieres, made on this occasion a very brilliant attack. The cat y, ur.der the err:lnland of the Gra: --_,,,, Du