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blie tar e the the a • b r idges were 'AI and dra7,geil way by the thawing • llic• new. of a battle may, rterefote, b. •• is tAptmod. Marsha! p.:nsk• , y, with the !fustian Grand Arm y, w a . 0 s.: to be advancing from Byali- SIOCki Our ;erlkei, :CC. which places Eli, French had evacuated for want of necessities, to make a diver sion. The rtto::J . of Couriers who have passe d through Frankfort on the M.iin, in the sight of the f t h inst, wer all to demand the acceleration of the arrival of Con , ciipts, arrel other Loops." General Vißor, who is arrive.' A prisoner at Dant. tic, will, it is said, he transported to St. Petersburg!), a toe express revest of tile Emperor Alex ruder. The news of Count liern.torff, Dinish PrAne Minister of State, having received the Grand Cross of the Legion of Honour from Napoleon, is without famdat on. The Cir:lmAncint of Bratinau has seat to War. w, to receive incradions whether he should sur !oda that fortre;s, at the desire of the Austrians. 11A14K3 OF THI sins, FED. 12. WA RSA VP, JA N. 29. A great tr.::n.)er of troops have 'epochal the Viottila, there few days, one pArt of wi...reh will gn winter quarters in Silesia, and the other incline ow aide of Greadentz. TM Ras s,4:l Army is st,ll behind the Niemen ; •'t are as • that a great port of this army. from want of if,visruirs, will march to the side of Memel. kworg ihe important And fortified points. on the nice' side of the Vistula, necap , ed by the French, is fo he included situate at the confluence or the Naraw and the Rug. 'lle army has left Ostrecienka and llizlystock, because these two points stern too c:isrant Iron the principal corps. • a • Uwe of eon Cnittemporaries bated? Mmy lalrn( }p fad.), that THE Rusts* Plum of Tuesday. by its Ss:egress EUITIOP, look away &lama ar his 5.111 e. toot fellow !! we vioc‘ Iwit fetter times. T E BRITISH PRE - SS. Private letters from I)antzic, of the 31st January, , r , s k of a battle which took place on the 2i h, at Whinge% in East Prussia, in which the General, M. I)'Aurep, was killed. According to• these letters, there wete at Elblag, on the 21st Jan. a French corps of from 4 2 to to 3000 men, which at out on the tAlth, for Holland, to re-jum the di yi iton, of which it formed a part; the bridge r.f Thorn has been carried away by the ice. Gen. Victor, who Oat 71 , witte prlitnner by a patron, near v.inerg, had arrived at pantzic, His Prussian Mate:Ty, with his family, is returned to Kin.ngsberg. Oiher intelligen c e from Mitotic states, that of the SO Is an imp wtant battle was tought at Mot:rin gers, between :he French, Russians, and Prussians, at the conclusion of 'shish the Prussians occupied littarieno.rdi r, the Russians Culm, and the block. a cof Gras:dens was raised. At blohringen, the Nu.siana se:Led the contributions which had been impaled en the city of Elbow.; by the French. The lki nt hall returned iron* Memel to Ka tiegsberg. LONDON. THURSDAY. Faisal:Aar 2.6. We :untreated, pesterdey, the arrival of !lairs (torn Denmark, with letters and papers from flans burgh and Altona, to the I4th east. coataining ac. counts from the immediate theatre of war in PO land, to the Stlih of January. These accounts. dated Elbing and Warsaw, the 09th. confirm the report which we communicated in a SICOND EDI' nee, eachurreiy, on Monday last. of the defeat of the French by the Russians on the 23th of January. The reader will recolleel the Fifty-fourth Bulletin, dated the 9.7 th, stated. that " on the right and centre of the army, the enemy were then more than 33 leagues from the French poets." The idea sought to be conveyed by this ezpression was, that the Russians dire nit approach nearer on these po;nts ; but th:s was a wilful misterresentation. The diennce between the two armies was ir.cressel in that direelion, because the French wer- strength ening their left. with a view to penetrate to Konirgs berg. and tare the tight of the Russians.— Fat this purpose, BaRNADaTTE had. previous to the fecle taker. possession of Elbing, and Nee had forward to support him. .• Ntv's corps," the 51 t:1 Bulletin adds, " had advanced 1:0 leitgu.3 from their cantonm •mi, and the Rwsim army, r a 1.4 m, in id a movenient upcn its f!glit, and battalions returned within tlet lir.e of their cantoiorenns, with tut sustaining any loss." This is a dir•ft admission. that the Russians suc ceeded in pieventiog the purpose of NE Y. and ntough that is SA;d, in the French Bulletin, to have ken effetled without any efliutt, it is (Luther ad mitted, that a Russian column, haring crossed the lisle river Piessarge, advanced to Leibstadt, and diore in the French out-posts. 'lt also adds, that suis ieduc-d Be Ilk abOT WE to Week up from Elbing, and that Itutiez marched South, to the support of Net, an aBion was fcught by him, on the 23:h. in Which the Russians were repulsed, and obliged to te tras% the Passarge. The S3th Bulletin, in giving a d•teil of th.a bettle, stiles. that it was fetig'.a at hlch riug.n. that the French lost an Eagle, but after nerds recovered it. and that the Russians had 1200 killed, and 503 taken pr.soners. Snell is the sub tierce of the French official accoutre of the mili tary operatioes, up to the ta h of January. Let us n w set.str the situation of the re.peeive armies on illf• 2AI. according to the accounts of that date from Libiug sod Warsaw, bnsught by the Danillt Mails, and published in Papers net under the con trottl of ,Zoma PA II to fi Thi.i last point is material, because we find, in an article dated Posen, that in a ty place in tile power of this French. it is death to say anything tillavourahle to their arms. The French, we leirned, (rim their own accounts, have evacuated Er j bng and all the c: - :untiy in that neighbourhood, of which they were in possession, to the shores of the Bal. t;c. The accounts brought by the Danish Mail, add, that these phases have been re-occupied by the combin ed Russians acrd Prussians. The :aver are stated to be at M.:rienwerder, and the former at Calm, within a few miles of Thorn ; the blockade of Graudentz has been raised, and the King of Pausste, who had withdrawn with his family to Memel, has re turned to Koningsherg. The Russian Army, still under the command of General BtllNlNGits. is estimated at 200,000. It expeas a reinforcement of 30,000 Cossacks.. and is distributed as follows: Ge'-eral Esser+, with 40.000 men, is near Brochi an ' Wissochi, in East Prussia; another corps of 20,000 men, is near Johansberg and Cloy, be- I tween the Lakes; the other seven divisions ex tend franc Passeoheim and Neidenburg towards Eglan. The Prussian Ceneral L'Esrocsa is posted from Salfeidt to Marienwerder. It thus appals that the Russians have abandoned the line of the Narrw, and are transferring the thea tre of war into Western and Southern Prussia. On the other hand, the French have abandoned Ostro lenka, Byalistock-, &c. and have nearly all crossed the Vistgla, spreading tl.ernselves in Silesia. The 1 official report of the Royal (nivernment of tl.e Ge- tv:ral Staff, dated Elhiog, January 29, in wind' most of these positinns are laid down, adds, that Beatranarxe has beets driven back into the forests of Strasburg, twenty leagues from Elbing, where ' he is cpretpletelv sort-minded ; and Marshal Net to Preasniez, in New East P:ussia, but that the latter has joined ?ducts., and a gen:ral battle wa re pented. If .hese movennnts and r sition, even approach toe truth. the French must have suf fered a sTette cheek upon their le:, in the battle of Mahringets, of which day they avi , usly appear to have besas the crireequxnce. Some ac• counts indeed, state. that the adios at that place was not co-fined to a single day, but that it •was renewed on the 26:4, when the French ex perienced a severe defeat. The result in killed and wounded Genentls i.f distinaion, as ;leen in some acme's. is, as we stated yesterday, nr.ih-1 ' "'III exaggerated ; but coming from E...!ng Ana War , SAW, planes in the vicinity of the operations which they describe, we have so reason to presume that they are not substantially true.... 1 1 But these successes of the Russians, when we take i the season of the year into consideration, carn.ot Le supposed to have a decisive influence upon the fin?) issue of the great contest in which they are engag ..t. Bo r T., In fore the b stile of A uerstadt, told the Xing of raIIISIA that Ise must he conquered; and the reason assigned was, because the population of France was three times greater than Prussia. 1./pon the same principle. if Austria looks tamely on, and Russia is left to her eau resources, while Bort *rause swells his fumy horn the popu lation of all the rest of Europe ; from Italy, from Spain, horn Holland. Hanover, Saxony, Hesse, Prussia, and Poland, we tear his force will, ere long, greatly outnumt.cr the army of Russia; and we know it is by sttperimity ref numbers, and the skilful and continued direaion of large masses to particular points, that the French Pave achieved most of their viaories. Mr. JACKiON, brother to the lete Minister to the Court of Berlin, arrived at a late hour on Tuesday night, from the Prussian head-quarters, at Konings berg, with dispatches horn General Efutctitusote, which, we understand, confirm the report of the de feat of the French on tie pth. Mr. WAr.s C Arr. a King's Messenger, also ar riveJ yesterday morning, with dispatches from Mr. TirrillNT au, our late Minister at Hamburgh, eon tairing intelligence, we learn, to the same effea. We understand, that just before the departure of Mr. WAOST A r from Hustlers, the Governor of that (lace received intelligrve., that a r .,r7et.il anion took place on the 29th of January, between Ficnch and Russians, in which tile French were defeated with great loss. The Russians are said to have displayer!, upon the occasion, an enthus , asm, of which the history of modern um fare scarcely affords an example.—The Ernpe. 101 ALLXANDILIt, it is 11.0 reported, has made a peremptory demand from the Emperor of Au:- NIA, of au auxiliary force of 40,00 U men. The High Sheriff, for the County of Norfolk, has appointed Wednesday next, the 4th of March. for holding the Eleaion for that County. Sir HCNRY JACOB AST LEY, Ban. and EDWA RD Core, Esq. are the Candidates. General WILLIAM Dater ?dr La, Colonel of the 471 h Regiment, and Lieut. Governor of Chelsea Hospital, died on Monday night. He Was in the ! year of his age : a man tot the most amiable manners and temper. - WOOD, Esq. is appointed Surgeon of the El Corse, in the room of haw Witt's, Esq., who is appointed to the Miry yacht. - . 16...; I.a T, .. ...,...... 3 -. 4, , ".. - SECRET CORRESPONDENCE. A yorie Lady. r ewly ma , rted, being obliged to show her ii.p.10.4 all the Letters she Wrote, sent the following to am intimate Friend: " I cannot be satisfied, my Diarest Friend ! blest as I am in the matrimonial state, " unless I pour into your friendly bosom, " which has ever beat in unison with mine, " the various sensations which swell " w:th the liveliest emotions of pleasure, " la/ almost bursting heart. I tell you my dear " husband is the most amiable of ns•.n. " I have now been married seven week', and " have never found the least reason to " repent the day that joined us My husband is " both in person and manners tar from resembling " ugly, cross, old, disagreeable, and jealous " masters, who think by confining to secure; " a wife it is his maxim to treat as a " bosom friend, - " pley.thii r, or menial slave, the woman " of his choke. "he says, should always obey implicitly ; " but each yield to the other by turns. "An ancient maiden aunt, near seventy, " a cheerful, venerable, and pleasant old lady, " lives in the hover with tie--she is the de " light of both young and old ; she is ci " vil to all the neighbourhood round. " generous and charitable to the poor. " I am convinced my husband likes nothing more " than he does Me: he flatters me more " than the glass, and his int , ixication, " (for so I most can the excess of his love) " often makes me blush for the unworthiness " of its objel, and wish I conk a more deserving "of the man whose name I bear. To " say all in one word . " crown the whole, " is now my indulgent husband, env fondness "is returned, and I might have bad " a Prince, without the felicity I find in " him. Adieu! may you he as blest as lam un able " to wish that I could be more " happy !" N 13.—. The key to the ah-ve letter !lit cypher) is to read tha nrst ) ai2.l thee val.) altertete line only. Tll '="ltleeee F.isr The Fast, yesterd gy, was observed with the greatest solemnity. in all parts nt the town ; the sli •ps were kept closely shut the whole (if the day. l'he churches anJ cht ;A•ls were gully attendel. St. (e'we's, Harinv.l:--gunre. was very tun ; amongst the N . :Agility that attriscleti, were. - e viie • o r ee. • Ln Pespeneer, La`iy Ann Windham, Montle xi, A. L pante', ...ailing Sawn, Inihn. et, a..cl Lib* Aspic At Grosvenor Ch yel were. The Muth! ,1.4, of liesdßee ; Cohateree Conynghefe, rA i cupabe and Caedsiph., ladle+ l'ay Mr, A. 4, nac - nr, Caw*, SmA11010111er ; t_srotereil, Petro, r .tiorpe, A. Ashley, R. WtOINIRS, and iluncligh .:4 Portuguese Ambassador's Chapel was also .owdtd with Foreign Nobility. On Tuesday, the Duke of Ca sa Dal nos completed his cum-third year, upon which occasion iii It yal Highness spent the day with Tbeir Ma jesties, the PRinCISSI/S, and the Duke of Kew'', at Windsor. in t: e cvenirg the Prince of WALes arrived at Wievlsor. and joined the test of the ROYAL FAMILY in the celebration of his Royal Brother's birth-day. The Rov•i. FAMILY concluded the evening with a Ball, in which they were joined by a :cleft party of persons of distinetion. Yesterday, being the Fast-Day, Their MAJIIS TIES, the PrinTe of Waecs, Duke of CAM SAMOA, Pririceses ALOUITA, ELl:ass/14 Malty, Soma,. and Amnia, attended by Cie Marchioness of BATH any daughter, Lady CAtoLtelt DAMeR, Generals Dc 1,11;DIL, GiNYNNE, MANNLitS, and FITZROY, and Major Pates, went to St. George's Chaim:, Windsor, where a sermon was preached by'athe Rev. Dr. COOKSON, from 2d Chronicles, :16th chap. and 6th verse. Afterwards the Royal, FAMILY returned to the Palace. _ _ Yesterday, the Lose CHANCELLOR and a seled party dined with the Duke of Yost. The Lady of Colonel Be A lishiar is nearly reco vered front her late a:voireAenont. The Countess Dowager of Imes entertained a select Party. last night, at her house ia Curzon street, May-fair. Madame CA r s..met sustained the whole weight of the Opera on Tuesday night. It is the same in which Mrs. BILLINOTOM and Mr. BURNAM have so often delighted the public. The Duchess of Goawirr gave her first grand dinner, yesterday, at her house in Grosvenor square, to the Duke of hlamcmarraa, the Duke and Duchess of RICHMOND, the Marquis of HUNT LEY, Lady PIATeI, Sir JOHN MAC/ taL•rz, the Hon. Miss Dmuustotrn, and Mr. and Mrs. Foa l:iron. In the evening, her Grace had a seled As semi ly, which consisted ot nearly one hundred ot the first Ntibilry. Sir Wiansoe and the hfisses HUNLOCE, gave a grand dirr.er, last Tuesday, at their ht.use, an Ai bemarle,tr-et. to the Duke of Deroissirias, the Duchess et GGRDON, the Earls of WISTSIOIL ARO and 13s.s3tt.:4a, the Courvess Cootmots Vitt:woos pAL !Ir kiITOWN rod MORPETH, Lord H. PETTY, erk.i the HON. Mr. PONSONST. Mr. H. Jou tarrosi performed the part of Ragass. tiao. in else Melo-Drama of The Bravo of lreniet, at the Dahlia Theatre, on l'hursday last. As the per mar.ce procteded vi the last scene, where Rogan &wavers himself, a period which is paricularly irnete%t og, as the whole plot is then developed, a pericn in a bolt, who did not understand that Ragan:ix, was saving not subverting the State, ea claimed. with great violence, "That be would su pport t'le King of Emot.assit, and the King of VsMICE. and the King of SPAIN, and the King of Daissi•xa, mad the King of Sr. Dottiest), and the King of JAPAN, and 'vary other King in the worlds against all the Ragartesnot that eve r li ve d, or that eve r &Add live hereafter:" 111771111110t79 AFFAIR. . • Mr. llarnict. . .npleyed by inane* and Haggerty., sir, are: executed en M nday, for the der of lir. Steal, try COCldtlit treir (krt./ice; and t ey haviug ....dared their !ern e , cenc• after h-ir conviai ri, in then nu st,lernts m. nrr, be th slit it has d•y to attend •fiern it last mcmerits, arid ascot ittgly went to Newgst e. un Mtm.day mmning, a. an gaily hour, and had much criree , .ation with ?hem upee, he stitjea At halt past seven when they -.ale it the yard. preparing to ascend the taral sr. affiald, 'etr. Harmer urged Hialoway, for the sac a me, in the most so. lemn merrier, atilt krapoterty was engaged with the Runtish Priest, to confess his crier-, it he 'styes gulty, but 1 iollrter4y pei.isted in his lice, and told Mr. ilarniellte h.l no doubt but ea. iii. laity of Ha field, lie Witsess, would or found out. after he was dead and gosoe. He said his mind h a d been so much agitated, th the had forgoteo tell ham , several things to prove his innocence, arid to inva lidate the testimony of Hanield. and refers d to several prisoners confined in the House r f L. , ot - r eftian ter misdemeanour, who had frequeneVYweo in the company oS HarsieLl. during his eorii se oent, and had private cenvernition ay • oins. Mr. Harmer promised him to use his exertitir s in investigate the business, arid they parted ter ever. Mr. Harmer was an much engaged with the trials, that were tot ,ke place in rise Old Bailey, ea Monday, that he could not keep his promise on that day ; but early on 1 uesday morn ug, he went tells' Housed Correehon, where he I.,eni four pi iStelbrit. as described by tsolloway, who had had conversation with the witness Han6ald, the sobjea of his giving evidence agaiew Halieway and Hlggerty. the substance of whach was of a ve y extraordinary nature. end in Savour of the sufferers, but a nran at present we de net deret it proper to state. When these persons were reasoning with him, at one time, as to the hor rid nature of his crime, if every thing he seed against Holloway and Haerrer:y was not striBly u air; he replied, " That he would sooner have al many men hanged as were killed at the battle of Lopenhagen, than he would remain on boaid the hulks seven years." We understand this business will come formally before the public. On Monday. Han6eld was liberated from the Home of Correition. After he had left the pima Mr. Aris. the Governor, and one of his assistants. learnmg that he bad made hose of violent threaten ing language against ,b tm, exhibited articles of the peace against him. On Tuesday, a constable apprehended him upon a peace warrant, in consequence. in comp.my veers one of the Ar.rshicestreet Officers. On his hen. g taken into custody, he appeared extremely agitv.d. until he ascertained the charge again c ham. ile is now co . ..fined in New Prison, Cloreenwell, for want of bail. ...ferreett--esaseserstit__ TO THE Entrun OF THE BRITISH PRESS . .. From aflual observatinn I am crab! d 'o &sate... at the dreadful csranrophe Which occur red at the execution, last' • ^ morntng, was, in se very condi:lei:lade degree, p..raoied by the brut.; violence of several ga: -, e,.7 of nickpocheis and bond ler. ; these unfeelingwretche , cormed into serer, I steelier parties, embraced everi pporrunity of in.. cTeasieg the c infusion, and persist in their cl-pri dations, notwithstanding the shrieks and groans cf the dying who were telling aronnd :hem. 1 anniey. A FRIEND TO HUMENITY• • q so fi'VQl7/!ST. An Inquisition was taken. on Tuesday, at Ashford, before G. Hooosos, Esq. Coroner for Middlesex. on the body of a labouring man, whose death was occasioned by circumstances rather singular. The deceased, it appeared, was a farmer's servant, who was employed in the fields, neat to which depreda tions hail been committed, but particnterly on the property of Mr. Xeay, a Nlagistrate, wbgs. servant missed four sheep from the fi -LI, and the d Teased, it appeared, had lolled them. He was talon into custody, awl when about to b. removed from a braise at Ashford to London, u. take his trial, he snatched a case knife from of the table, and depriv ed himself of existence, by cutting his throat. • It ap p-tared, that the unfortunate man had keen greatly d-pressed in spirits, in consequence of what be had done. Verdict— spirits ), SUICIDE. Tccsday morning. Mr. Mardian was found in his bed-room, at lus lodgings, at the house of Mrs. Oliver, in Charlotte -street, Pimlico. with his ti.roae cut ins most shocking manner. He bad spent L evening,ou Monday, at me Magdalen public-hops , in Pimlico, as was frequently his custom, where he ar peared in perfectly good lvalth and spiriti, sad went horse to bed ahnut ten o'clock. He WAS a:rummies" to rite about eight o'clock in the stio:ning, and making his appearance at his usual time on Ttses day morulog, at ten o'clock. Mi;. Oliver and 1.. r servant went to see the they knocked at !. s bed-room dose, but receive.: nn answer ; the:. is. coosaquence, opened it. %%heti they diseovero.t lying on t!"e floor, with his throat cut, and a m at hortid spesiacle, occasioned by an uncommon e.'e. charge of blood. A surgeon was called in, Lilt .o ao purpii•—.he was dead and cold. No cause csn be assigned for the rash ad, bat ttice is every reeve to believe, be bas been sl;e.tiy deraiiged for sorial time past. lle has been frequently :;e3xd to say, tb.e devil was in Litre. and that be could feel him in Lis throat. Two %/Dili, were foam:. one is his pqatt. and one upon a table; in them he direits, that 14 body is to be opened, for the purpose of finding the devil. He was about sixty years of age, and by profession * merchant. He came :rota Seetlaril semeuese Yesterday inornlng, between the !man afemisball two, a most shocking murder was cesimilled Leather-lane, by a hog-beteher of she mei BOTCS 4 by cutting his wife's them* Is a loaf 11 • wanner. He made me attempt to mum sok . now in custody. It is said that a proscenia* is Aga 10 be . . mencied against a parses bt the missm_ of for obtaiassi a mantas* keen, Whil la- t