The Statesman. — London, England, 1812-11-12 00:00:00

t tt ji. r , i , i 11.1 , 1 J il , ~ , ,:i illv . il 1 I1"1 1 ti l t If'` ° 1 1.% 1 ~....,..,,,... 1 . : . .1 .I . ' • ~! .1 ,1 , TIIE STATESMAN., For the real history of the Hill of Rights, I inert request your Lordship to turn to Ralph's History of VOL 2. p. Your I Ardship will there find that the Hill of frghts Wile only the Bill dickaratnry of our rights, and that,: in have been followed up tv a nother, making spec: tic provision to carry be e n into eifect, which was defeated by the Pri O nce of r a ng.• himself, who roundly declared, that it' Parliament insisted so ranch on limitations, he would return to Holland, and leave them to the me re, of King James. T hus, m y Lord, MP homely expression, l'hr R‘tl of Right , wits the Bill of Fare, he( th • (Hance has not yet been scru.ri op ! Th.it I should impute any impropm• maim , to your lordship. God forbid, but there may he au error of the jtelc n-o.:,_av as of-the hearty and I could not hear the rum. a Reform ar raigars: without making the hest etthrt in n. • ..ower to interpose in Its behalf. To your Lordship's arguiitents I have opposed those which have confirmed me in my opinions ; both are now before s he th it and in their.present, tweed as well us:Ls. future views of this subject, public Must Judge b fa whirrs:on; this Letter ht your Lordship, I hare only taken the lib e rty, I hue only exercised the righ• which the mvtaitest nE your Lordship's cmeitituents posse:qes; when It man's rottio.ry at stake, he is no rriend to it who suffers ceremony to sway him. bare endeavoured, however, to discuss the point with all :he temper such serious subjects require. I have not, I twist, for a moment, lost sight of that respect which I owe and feel to your Lordship's situation, plthrie 'cervices, and private: worth, and though I may be in error, (which I most share, should that be the case, wit I gime of the most famous Parliament States nrso L awyer ,„itinsts, and hloralists , that Englan d ever knew) I yet shall think myself well repaid for the attempt I have made, If in explaining the causes of "thesl'olitical Faith which k in ono," I shall have succeeded in persuading your Lordship, *hose good opinion I very much value, that my mistake has not originated in thoughtlessness or vice. I sh.:ll now, my Lord, brim this letter to a close, I ha ve dia.. beedor.e.l my mind, having, trod, said enough to skew that Pari;ameatary Reform is not the " baseless fabric," your Lord skit. Ira represented It to be., and that a man, so long as any weight is attached to grave and virtuous antborities. may ent Lain a conviction of its 'messily, without labouring under the imputation of v e ry nity or presumption." I have the honour to be, my Lord, truly sail faithfully yams, WALTELL FAWKES. Farnley Nov. d. 1. 9NDON . GAZ ern EXTRAORDINAR WEDNESDAY, Nov. 11. Foreign-Office, Nov. 7, 181'2. dispatch, of which the following is a copy, has been this day received from his Eseellettcy Ge neral Visrount Cathcart, his Majesty's Ambassador I.'.xtraordinary and Plenipotentiary at the Court of St. Petersburgh, addressed to Lord Viscount Castle- 1 reagh, one of his Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State ;-- St. Petersbuil,7l, Oct. 27. My Lotto,—l have the pleasure to acquaint your Lordship, that the guns arc now firiug, and 7'e .11-um is to ho sung to-morrow, in the Cathedral, for a most brilliant affair on the 18th, between the ad- 1 vanced guards of the French and Russian armies near Moscow, in which the former, under Murat, were cl•feated with great loss; and for the 'deliverance of Miss:•ow, by General Wittsingerode, oa the 2'2d of Oe! , .::;. r. • ! The Bulletin Is not yet published ; but 1 hare the I honour to enclose a copy of the note I hare this raurniag received, by the Emperor's command. I have enclosed a translation of the ofliPtal ac..ount of the defeat of Marshal St. Cyr, by Count Wittgenstein, and of the storming of Polotsk on the 20th October, as also that of the repulse of Marshal Maed.malti's corps by General Steinheil. Lieutenant-General Count Wittgenstein has been promoted to the rank of General of Cavalry, and n Deum for his victory was sung yesterday. It appears that Prince Schwartzeuberg has retired to the westward, lonving slime corps, which have been cut off; that the province of Volhynia is en tirely cleared of the enemy; and that &dm. Teiticha, golf may probably have reached Minsk aboutor soon after the Ylst October. I have the honour to be, acc. (Signed) 'CATHCART. (Translation of First Enclosure.) St. Petersburgh. Oct. 27, lill2. On the 18th of October Marshal Kutusow having, learnt that the corps of Victor had quitted Smo lensko to reinforce the Grand Army, resolved to Attack the advanced guard, under the orders of Murat, being 45,000 strong, in face of our troops, in order to defeat the same before the junction of Victor, and before Napoleon could support him vitt' the main body of his army. The attack com pletely succeeded : 36 pieces of cannon fell into our Mud:, as well us a standard of honour belonging to the first .regiment of cuirassiers. We have made 1500 prisoners, amongst whom is a General. Two thousand men were left on the field of battle. Our loss is inconsiderable. G,i the 2d, the corps of General Winaingerode eutered Moscow, and obliged the garrison which the Enemy hadleft in it, to evacuate that capital in such haste, that the French hospitals remained In our power. PRICE OF STOCKS THIS !lank 1.16 i 3 per Cent. Red. 5t P • 3 per Cent. Ctrs. 5: l; per Cents. 71i 5 per Vent. Navy Lang. Ann. if► (Second Enclosure.) . . Extract frosaiserteport orGeo. Cnitnt Wittgeos4S, to Isis Tat. periul Majesty, dated PoWilt, Oct.% After a hall engagement for two days with the cnemy, thanks to the Almighty, 'Marshal Goovinn St. Cyr, is on the other side of the Dwina, and I Ran in Polotsk, with the corps entrusted to -my • toinmand. On the 6th instant, I directed Lieutenant-Gene ral Prince Jaschevil to attack, with his detachment, the enemy o'n the side of the village Guravitchne, whilst Lieutenant-General Count Steinheil continued bis march this way, on the left bank of the Dwiaa. I The enemy's advanced guard received me at the Guravitctne, from whence it was driven into the linos. The engagement was most blody :. it began at sit in the morning and lasted till .night: I I kept my grou ea, and compelled the enemy to retreat within his intrenchraents, whence he kept up a very heavy cannonade in all directions. The following learning, the 7th, I did not undertake any thing, because I waited for Ike- attack of Lieutenant-Ge moral Count.Steltsbell es the other side of the Dwina, WWII took place-accordingly. lie drove the euemy _ from the village Bolonia, and pursued him towards Polotsk. I received this i.oelligence a little before. dark ; and, in order to profit of the situatio►► in which the Tnemy found• himself, .I attacked, on the evening of the 7th, at five o'clock, and drove him out of his strong intreuchments, to • which success Lieut.:General Count mov;.tuelit greatly. tion of throe corps of the French army, which were advancing to give him battle ; one under VICTOR, and the other under BomaraeTz himself, who bad left a garrison .in Moscow. This success ful enterprise of Ktrresow seems to ;hera defeated the purpose of NAPOLEON, and enabled the Russian Army, under Gen.. WINZINGLRODE, to take posses sion of Moscow on the 22 , 1, compelling the garrison to esacuate it in great haste, who left their sick and wounded in the hospitals. The Gazette also con tains an account of the battle at Polotsk, in which the Ressian Army, under the command of Count Weems:mete, attacked the French under Marshal ST. CYR, and defeated them with the loss of 45 ra cers and 1000 men. Only one piece of cannon, how ever, was taken in this engagement, and a quantity of provisions in the magazine. These accounts announce the capture of their favourite General, Wcxztec E- RoDE, but whether by merely reconnoitring the enemy, at too considerable a distance from the city of Moscow, or by advancing too zealonsly or rashly at the head of his troops, is not stated. The prospect of the Russian war is evidently and considerably brightened since our last arrivals from Gettenburgh. We must, however, moderate our exultation, by . considering that these are Russian accounts. That BoNAPARTe has reached the end of his tether is natural enough to suppose, and also that after what has so recently happened in his capital he may be inclined to draw nearer home. In deed, as in oar reflections of yesterday, we see nothing inconsistmt or incompatible with his general views in the Northern War, to retire from the heart of Russia to the borders. of Polaud. He will thereby secure and consolidate the independence of this latter country (its independence with respect only to Russia we mean). He, in that case, sets up a • barrier as to any future hostility of the Czar ALEXANDER ; and will have left employment to that Emperor, or his successor, for half a century at least, in repairing the damage done him by one campaign. He may, or may not, therefore, next year resume operations on that territory, which at all events, is quitting at this moment ; though, for our own parts, we are inclined to think, ambitious as he is, that he will have had enough of such distant warfare. The'next French news cannot fail to be in teresting to an extreme degree, and will be looked for with . great anxiety. eontrilneed. The enemy then threw himself into the town, which is surreunded by a douhie Imllisade, wh. a he maintained himself nearly the whble nights . keeping up a constant fireqf musketry on all sides, from be hind the pallisacies, as well as out of the houses. I gave orders for my ordnance to fire silicify them with round and grape, and at last directed my advanced guard to storm the place in .two divisions, the first under the command of Major-Generals Platoff and Diehitch, and the other under the command of Col. Itiediger, of the Grodno regiment of hussars. Lieu tenant-General Cazanove, as soon as he perceived that his troops were close before Polotsk, threw himself also upon the enemy, and was the first who marched with•them into the town. In this manner, at three in the morning of the' 6th, the place was carried.' The loss of the enemy must be extrierdinerily great, for alt the plows of action are •covered with dead bodies; and according to the• report 'of the inhabitants, he was employed Cie whole' of the pre ceding der in carrying wounded men i the other side. Marshal Gouviou St. Cyr is himself wounded iu the leg. We have taken prisoners forty-five staff and supe rior officers, and '2OOO rank and file : among the former there are two Colonels. We have also taken one piece of cannon, and a considerable quantity of provisions in the magazine, which the enemy had not time to destroy. The enemy's loss would have been much greater if the Lieut,-Gesicral Count Steinheil had heed able to follow him to Polotsk; but to his great mortifica tion, he was stopped by the intervention of superior force, five wersts from the town. Oar loss is ooti Iconsiderable ; of the Generals are wounded, Major ! General .Balk in the head; Prince Libirgkoi and Harman, who have slight contusions; Colonel Rote', of the 26th Jagers, severely wounded the leg ; and the Gentleman of the BAclianther, Mordvino,t-Com- Imauder in the first Petersburgh Militia, has lost his leg by a cannon shot. I can say nothing farther of your Imperial Ma-' jesty's troops, than that they have fought with t he 1 greatest possible valour; that the Ist Petersburgh militia, upon its arrival in my camp, was distri buted in the different regiments; and to the delight of every body, thcse warriors have fought with such good% ill and courage, that they cottlelnot its exceed ed by their colaradei, the old soldiers ; and they have I distinguish:Al themselves in a particular manner in columns,with the bayonet, under the direction of their I brave leader, Senatcr Bibikoti. We have fewkillecl, but many wooudecl; and the more from its having been almost impossible to keep the men back in co lumn, from their eagerness to,throw themselves into the enemy's batteries and lines. There is also a Report of the 21st of October, by Lieutenant-General Count Steitibeil, detailing the particulars of his engagement with the corps of Mac- I donald, on the left bank of the Dwina ; having fallen in with the enemy on the 7th near the river Utchatch. He drove them, in concert with Count Wittgenstein, within four worsts of Polotsk, at the same time that Count • Wittgenstein stormed that place. The ex treme darkness of the night prevented farther pro ceedings. Without counting killed and wounded, Gen. Steinheil made one Colonel, one Staff Officer, 37 other officers, and 500 non-commissioned officers and privates, prisoners. The Lientenant-General speaks in the highest terms of commendation of the assistance he derived from the able esertious of Ma jor-General Phox. • Arr. Mails. . Dee • 1 O - O - • I O 0 1 oA Y AT ON K;O'CLOCK. India 13.61* 1 Exchequet. Liiibb 344. 3. 3 iiitto gist. 5 It p .oinnittita pr.• Cook ., lefor Ac 4t..)5144: , tatttirTidati THE ST_ITEsMAN.: 10 ArgON: TIWRSD Y, • OIMIIIEN. 12, Isl 2. DEFEAT OF MUR,AT, NEAR MOSCOW; CAPTURE OF POLOTSK, 1W ASSAULTS AND ?TIC RETREAT OF Tux FRENCH PROM MOSCOW. In -a Secrind Edition, last "night, we e.nuesuced the above important intelligence, after which it Bul letin was issued by Government, containing Di,- patches from te)rd CATIICALLT, dated the 18th ult. and in the eiening a Gazeite krtraordinary was published, containing 'further Dispatches front his Lordship, dated the 27th ult. By these documents, it appears, that Print* KCTUSOW attacked MVIAT, whose army amounted to 45,000, and defeated him; with the loss of 2000 killed add 1600` pri soners, and 38 pieces' of cannon. In this tinily Ic_neyemeat General litdiriew plowed the jut. - ,~; . 44 Three pieces of the enemy's flying artillery were dismouuted, four caissons of ammunition blown up. The well-directed fire of the Russian artillery chlitied the enemy's cavalry to retreat. Ten Officers and 150 privates were taken prisoners. Four French regi ments, viz. 11th and 12th Chas-curl. a Chem I ) th e sth and 9th Hulans, a ICirlembur7 rPgiMPtit of " Prussian hussars, and the Polish Hussars, suffered considerable loss in this action. " 'Marshal Iltrrusow had received a report from Generals Tostazuwatid Tscurrcn.txuw, of the9.Ctit September, stating that their army had pa,sed the Styra on the 21.1, which MOMPINIt had ohligoti Pri nce SCIIWAIVIZENIICUI: to NIL back on Bresch." Lord CATIICAIt i''S diSpatChei Sv. , ak 0.,: ..; terms of the state of the Russian arm; From a knowledge of the considerable loss it: 3d Regiment of Guards, before Margot, it is to be lamented that Mi!sisters do not afford sotaes:a. tisfactory information to the families of ti'se brave men who mny, or pay not ) have suffered in that painful and &Nereus service. Captain IlAttvcr, `. of the Cold itrcarn, has been killed; tenants Rol-nouns and KNox, of the 3d ite. ment, have also been severely wounded ; and it i 4 presumed Mire than 100 i'ank . aod file killed and *minded. Marquis A - acme:et feels sad has - pressed great anxiety to hale fart.lit!r accounts front his gallanttrother himself, and the public are no less anxloui for the safety aid welfare of the *bole army under his command. It is scarcely necessary to direct our Readers' at tentionto the Letter of WALTER Faways. Esq. to Lord MILTON, Wilt he found in our first poge. The Public arc leo well acquainted with the value o f that Gentleman's patriotic views in the cause of !tr. roast, to need any encovniuta from us. A Mail from Heligoland arrived this morning, but has not brought any thing of importance.• Admiral Sir Enw Alto NAGLE attended this day at the . Admiralty, previous to his having the command of a fleet. . • Dispatches are making up, and will be sent off this .evening to Falmouth, to be forwarded to LerdWee. et N GTON. e nig n is u t m s b e e n r , o o tt f . :therEitictordinary Gateltes • tlestt.CienntralßElnaitgiGi by Depress, to freland. we A re I la e r s! g e dt rs .t; . , Nl i Da s i a, t , s o r . Colonelce u e ecep uera d i ow t t he tyhy l e a y t: Atha Li oß eF tio .. . . ' Major-Geueral WyerceasseCselonel of the Royal ___,.. Iltei.i.el'llw. . ment of Foot; Dispatches were this "orals% received from Lord ~he itueeeeded in the Coloneley of the Roval West India Rangers by one of the General Othcors enr• CkTIICAST, dated the 18th ult. which bring the fol. lowing intelligence :.-r .• • ploved in• Spain. . . "The Marshal Prince RtSeesow, is hiereport. ea_ ; We have not note yet . heard who es to be appitinte4 Lieetenant-Govertior of Plymouth. We ehall be dressed to his Majeity the Eniperor . from the village ,of gqrantino, of the 4th October , states, that ;se ins- , . - w eerious to See ehether it will be the reward or gallant service hi the ' field, or of family sort see in Paella poetant event had taken place, up to that day, wept we e affairs of advance guard and detachments sent tosut , Yesterday a Court of Directors was held at the off the line of communicathin of the enemy. .• - Reet India House, when the uesler-mentioned Caps: is The 23d of Septemlier; Major-General Deese- • Was were sworn into the cc:Amami of their respec tive ships :—Capt. C. 0. M A iiit.*-4ilos, Madras sod CROY!' has sent to head-quarters a mail, inter ce p ted: China—Copt. Ll. M. Seesox, iletraife, Madras and by a detachment, containing two sealed boxes, and Bengal. ,The Court adjourned at six o'clock tilt two cases filled with ornaments pillaged from 'the Wednesday next. Russian Churches. . We announced, briefly, the arrest of Bsatetee " Oa the 24th, the same detachment had stopped TROTTER, Esq. The following particulars are et• tsetse two couriers with dispatches, and on the same clay cted from the Dublin b?cnins . .!o# :— " We have learned with srrprise and concern, 20 caissons of the enemy, laden with ammunition; that an extraordinary occurrence has very reccney, and taken three officers and 200 men prisoners. in the county of Wexford, made a strong sensation. " On the 27th, they took prisoners four. officers dome Bet:seen Taterree, Esq. the friend and w and 287 soldiers, and on the same day, two cretary of the lamented Fox,. hes been, on an aceu squadrons of dragoons of the guard had defeated a sation of assault and rescue, marched on foot from the eeiehbourhood of I...ftui-Ita;1 to Wexford gaol. battalion and two squadrons of the, French guards, and fet'ced his hou s e on taking two officers and gfi privates prisenees. . The the evening of the 29th, Milita r y guards surrounded the orders of C. Tot enemy received some reinforcements during the ac - under es:N.IIAM, Esq. and the Rev. Mr. Ileticoux. Bail Won, loss, from the effects these were, however, equally defeated with Seas refused. M of a sr. Taevereorna fall. was j Ile ust requested a rocoveriag . _ ‘' On the 2Sths • Col. Ertl:core having, at the conve yance—tlist the soldiers might bewail. mode of come, drawn—that bail might he received—that the deli head of a detachment, fallen in with the enemy near the village of Nisheffska, in the direction of Pedal, completely defeated them, and made 500 prisoners. , ode state of his health might be considered—tliat the soldiers A rfi l i t gh w t as n , not bsaeintlaralisseedw, was s r the larded c o unt ry iG '' General Kole, reports in the same day that his miles in one day, and the ensuing day, es.. — detachments had taken from the enemy some baggage, • cret meetitigs." Mr. Taorree has been charged with frequenting se. amongst which, were . found some most interesting The Milo:ford Mirror, of Saturday last, ascribes papers; the arrest pf Mr. Taiererit to a very different cause " On the 30th of September, Gen. Mieoanone- from that assigned to it in some of the Dublin Paper' , ulna attaCked theeoemy near the village of Teheri- It says, it was merely for a trifling debt. tow. The volunteers from the Militia charged the The following is the list of froze Flhushing tch ship bans, a. e n emy with the , bayonet, with the most eitemplary nearly as can be made outti . te D:dt44 courage, and dislodged them from the village. I writing : Gee 66 It was in this affair that Gen. Feature, Chief i re., arlemagne Gout. st - S 4 ••Auirviaus - if . 0° TibiL.,- , : of the Stall to the King of NIU'LLS, laud the Captain i -it ti t'e -_ - _ 1, ntestre of Cavalry, Count Potens y; Aid-desCselp to Prince L Ceres ,-.- lie Frictliarld - rim shelo 44 PONIATOIVSIII, were talon, • This is the General • i t ir V i rile: at ; Bellin - -111 ' 1 i ' lrlitcrsl;4Bol* . 7 7 - 0 46 • Filutita of ahem mention v;l4 made in .the Bulletin c-valmeent i • - • 23 • .1 1, .4 1 4,4? I Afton . , - 64 hissers& • 4! At theist of October .. :.- . • 1 Trajati" ' - • 72 Eugene * - 14 .: ." Th e Prince WAIIIIOLEL I , with SOO Cossacks is . • 72 ' flussard - li ? Pacificator - 91 Bullctio• . - Advantageously posted near the village of Rossoitdro 1 linilr o " .64 Commcree de I.yop,ipi , " . to keens the enemy on the , a M visit. • 'tie 1 Trump ~ I Citation's - 91 tame unktotoo. Superb and five others lathe life, Game. .wt known. b . i r el i c t "., - - 84' Terpsichore. . K The Aid.de•Camp General Baron Komi, in Ms.! ' . ,I ' dia by t t ' The Bath Theatre has been mat .sp en Report Of the 210th of September, states, that the i enamy,•with an escort of ten squadrons atid its at:. demoiselle Moat, • &r. who haveeterfortited sotre,ti; . attraction of Mr . V usi . It's, Madame DiDELOT, Mao-, till, had marched on the village of Rlernevet in Mom, Dil)l3.OT'S Bullets with the most euthusts _. . for it order to forage. Colonel 1117LUSIN attacked them applause.. Mr. Buell .tei has resumed his perfortealim ollowesi by Mr. KEYSLE; with . seccess. The French lost in this affair WO . f Covent. killed;tied he is to he t . prisoners, men lOO privates were made gtrtY, of garden though they give 501. a night to Mr. which 44 were Cuirassiers. ought to be known, refused ' 201. a itight.to Mr. firs4pLE: that'the Ntittagerll 0 : gg On the Ist of October some detachments of . en in the '. Bet ween twelve and one o'clock this ninn" g ' Cossacks made 102 prisoners; on the night of the : C ..e bloke out at the house if wool. I2d and 311 they mai:43 prisoners. 1 .j cOt, Lainhell3 Marsh, whiels we enthely de . . c__ 66 On the 4th of Oetpberk.the advanced guard of id AR''''" vii- Clothes other fi re broke out at Messrs. Serra and rd ei Getleral MILAIIOOOVITCH had defeated, near the vet. • , • t whvh v• Clothes Warttliouie, in Newg:ate-street, g ete-stree , , , mn . ! .Ab.o . ut half past three o'clock this Inorn.nig•."l ,loge of Suaskoe, all the attempts of the enemy to ' ,f,;,„, entit.-ty enisinstre't l ,. stOtwithoto titling a plentanilo;,, 'carry It; 14 pieces of canntine placed at the edge of ply of w nter was at heed .' We. are haPPY t' 1 1 for*, bid °attained 044 Frellat coliinstis. I that a 4 116C5 we; 42 :re s t f `' 1 , 1, .li, i isi .!, , . .