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MAILS. A R WED-2 Dublin, 2 Waterford. D LYE-3 Gettenburgh, z Waterford. PRICE cm; STOCKS THIS DAY AT- TWELVX O'CLOCK. Consols - - - - - _ - 6ig 62 -THE SUN. SOLEM QUIS DICER!. FA;tI.7M AUDEAT? LONDON, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1807. WE laid before our Readers on Saturday the sub stance of the Intelligence brought by Mr. BARRER; • respecting the Battle of the 26th. We are•this day .enabled to give the Official Details: it, now appears quite, cleat that we were correct, though in opposi - - - tion to most pf our Cotemporaries, in stating, 'that the accounts of the. Battles of the twenty-Seventh; twenty-eighth, and twenty-ninth, were unfounded. It is impossible to collect, from these official, details, whether Gen, .13UXHOVDENT Wasetigaged on the 26th or not; hut, from other accounts which have reached us, we have 'no doubt that he was, and that the. French were completely foiled in' their httack iipon him ; but it is probable that the detailsPf the MtiOn bad' not reached St Petersborgh when Mr. BARKER left that City. The following was circulated oh Saturday evening : Col. K.RUSER arrived at Konigsburgh on the 3d of January with dispatches from General KAL itinunt, and a RussiatiMessenger followed 'the day after with dispatches from Gen. KAmiNskPi. cepting a trifling affair on:the. 28th .December, in • which a detachment of,french eavalfy made an un s•iccessful attempt to cut off a corps of Cossacks, which was posted In advance of Rozaw, it does,not appear that any engagement has taken place subse ()tient to the 26th, The, viaory of the !Russians on the 26th was decisive; its consequences would probably' have been more impottant had not ,Gen. BENNIrGSKii been retrained in his plarsuit of the enemy; by intelligence that the divisions 'of Na and AUGEREATT had form ., ed a junEtion near Grodziec, and were, adVanCitig•in his rear—the approach of night likewise contributed to the escape of the enemy. Upwards of seventy piecjs of cannon, taken from the tienly on the 26th, had on the 30th ar rived at Ostrolenka ; several others were buried in the roads. • The' peasantry cheerfully assisted in their conveyance. • •• " Fresh troops are daily joining the Russian _ . r . ..kr - ny,. which by= the middle of 'February will com- . •priie. three liundred thoUsand men betyv.een•the Nei mcir and the Vistula. • • . - "General TOLSTOY cotnrnands a 7 borps of I_6,cm mem atSieliC; General ..BiGokAo' is posted at the lirtle village of l‘lartinky,- on the Omulcio, across which riv,er 'he , has established ,a bridge ; General TULLY commands the advance of the left • wing of thearrnrat Sielun - ; the rear, with General OgTE DIAN, has fitllen back tipon the strong position of Kolno ; and the other Corps of the Army, under the orders of Prince DOLG,IRUCK.Y, 'General SompoFF, &C. .occupy Wizna, I3Ltilstock, Rozaw, &c. General Eu.. iiOVDRS'S division occupies, Novigorod, Clinki, &c. ‘‘.`fi:e - Whole of the arm)' is thus concentrated the circuit of a few miles, notwithstanding the to provide provisions and forage ; and it is . hence obVions that Gen. KA:it:stsKov is deter-, • mined to resume offensive operations thn i utornent he . - is In a condition to doao. The. Russian army is im patient.torneet the „Enemy—nothing can, surpass their entbsiasm and,contidence. Gen. SITOFF, prey V . 10113 to the affair at Framgurkaw, read, at the head of his detachment, one of the French Containing scurrilous refleaions on the Russian osnly, on which the Soldiers, in tumultuous iudigna-' tion, exclaimed, g!" Lead us_ on, and punish 0.. - calumniators." " A strong Prnssian corps has taken possession of the defiles of Nikolaiken. The'French division, under NEY, has fallen back behind the Dribentz ; and a corps of about 300 men, which had' pushed beydnd Osterode, ,was sur rounded by a Prussian regiment at DeutSch‘Eylau, and cut to pieces." WE have received New York Papers to the .11 th ult.: we are sorry to.find, by the New York Gazette of the sth, that another disagreeable occurrence has taken place with respea to the Cuitztrian Frigate. It is stated that the Captain of that Frigate, invio-. - lation of the Order which prohibited..the.entrance 'of that Ship into any harbour of the United States, had compelled an American Pilot to conduEt .her into HamPtcti Roads, where she vidualled and watered ; and it is added, that a - Custtitn 7 hoLlse:Offic c -T, who went on board•to inquire concerm tg her, • had 'been ordered out of the Ship. - A statetnent:of! this;;Atir-; had been sent to the Secretary of State, and ‘re trust that it has been explained and settled in a atisf2.6,lc,ry manner. Letters have been received from Philadelphia, dated the 7th ult. A Ship had arrived there which left Bengal the 11th of A.ugust—at which time.a number .of Country Ships had sailed from thence for... China with a large. supply of rice for that Country, where a dreadful, famine existed.Hßice , was at gi dollars per bag ; dollars, 2O rupees - for i 00 - Above two "WeTe"..et'cpea ed in Bengal from America. • Indigo'-had sold at Philadelphia at 9s. 6d. sterling -per pound fur the French.market. . Tai,, Petition - presented to the House of, Com mons on Friday by Mr. AsHEToN S*l7ll, and signed by the unsuccessful Candidates. for the County of Southampton, and by certain other Freeholders' attached to their cause, complains of an undue in terference of Government 'in the late V‘leaion. The grievances, .which the. Petition states.,..have been blazoned during a period of three months, and cir-: culated through every channel - calculated to-give publicity to the.. Charges, and to excite a prejudice against the condu& of GoVernment. Whatever , foundaticn might have existed for the complaints preferred Against the Administration; and more par ticularly against an .individtial placed in a higli and con,fidential,_ sittW.ion, justice to the Country,- to the Government, and that Individual, demanded that 'the earliest opportunity should' have been sought for the consideration of „siieh serious and important charge.. The usage of Parliament re quires than whenever any MeMber is the objet of accusation, previous notice should be given to him of the . nature and time of the proposed - Inquiry.— No" communication relative. to such a proceeding was niade in he PreSen t instarice ;. and although; the tnours, which have been prevalent, for a considerable time, announced that such a design was entertained and such a 'measute arranged, the a& of presenting the Petition was the' first and only intimation on which the. indivithal ,concerned could place any re ißnce,:, No explanation has been-offered ) and-no ex, cuse pleaded, for this deviation from the practice of Parliament, and, the omission may therefore be just lyuuderstood to indicate most unequivocally the mo tive and-,.temper. of ,the Petitioners. The, del.ty in presenting. the Petition . has been. :represented as" a proof of fairness and candour, as 'the result of a'Wish that the snbje& should be discuSsed 'a . . - full attendance of the House, and as proceeding from an, anxiety lest, if an earlier moment, had been -Chosen,- the -accusation should too long precede •the defence, by the necessary postpdnement of - the in vestigation to a distant day. With these views, and with such reason for procraoination, the-Petition • was at length•presented in a thin House after a lapse 'of more than seven weeks from tlie.CoMmencemerit of the Session, while the charges had beo in dustriously circulated through - . the Country dur ing a much longer period, without allowing any opportunity of justification. Under such cir cumstances the 'Petition was presented, and though • it would be presumptuous to anticipate the dis cussion in , Parliament, the extraordinary condt of dr Petitioners, the high charaeler of. the in dividual concerned, and the spirit, promptitude, and • energy with which he challenged his accusers tia'a thorough investigation• of 'his cOndita, -inspire the fullest confidence that the result vindicate the -honour of the Government;-and defeat the machina tions of faet;ou. If the accusers should be convided-of hiving propagated a wanton calumny, it is helped that thei,r . own -devices will return to plague the inventors;"- and that' Parliament will assert its:dig nity by applying to the conduet of the Petitioners the strongest language of disapprobation and rebuke. The solicitude for the :rigid Prosecution of the Charges,alledged in the Petition, which has been evinced. by -an .erperienced Statesman, Who is prac tically versed' in - all the details of .the Treasury, Must satisfy the Public that. the . affair .will un dergo the must complete investigation. 'But the fastidious delicacy with which the Mind 'of _this Utica' veteran 'now starts : at the suspicion of any it'= regularity, and revolts, at 'the•-slightest 'exercise bf Ministerial Influence', may perhaps.recall the story of. the Giant who Used to feed upon Wind-mills, but was unfortunately choalced with a small lump of fresh butter before a wcrm'oven. - Yesterday • morning . His' MAJESTY,- Princesses . AUGUSTA, SOPRIA,, and MARY, took•an airing, at tended by Lady _ISABELLA THYNNE Generals 'FiTilloY and MANNERS rode ..to George's Chapel; where a Sermon was preached by the Hon.. and Rev. - Mr. LEGG, Dean of Windsor, and afterWaids rode to the Palace to dinner.- HER MAJESTY, Princesses ELIZABETII2InIMay, had Divine Service performed in the Palace.: - The'RoYAL FAMILY are expected, in town to-mor row, and to remain till Friday. „A. Court Martial was held on-Saturday, at Ports rilOtitti, on Capt. BLIENTON, for the loss of the Ali 70riv.- he was nicbt honourably acquitted. Yesterday'letters were received from Calcutta, via Philadelphia, of the 6th. of August, by which it 1)-- p , :mrii thT;,it . the Nothll mber land Indiamau, fo,- whose safety serious apprehensions were entertained, had arrived there from Penang., BinTLE OF PVL77,'SIe. We publish, by authority, the following Extra& from the Official Reports of General Benningsen, as transmitted from the,Cahinet of St. Petersburgh to the Russian Minister in London, and by his Excel lency.'communicated to our Government : • - " ST. PETERSBURGH, J AN. 7.—On the 4th and sth inst,Messetigerr arrived here - from - the Army, art nounCing to , ..his Imperial Majesty, that since the 23d of December almost daily skirmishes took place between the advAnced corps, in which the Enetriy were - invariably' repulsed. The moment General Benningsen had taken a position near Pultusk, be was attacked by the division of the Enemy under General Sucliet ; the thion lasted three hours ; but the . Enemy were 'at length repulsed With cOnsi derable loss. " On the - 26th the greater , part of the division under Prince Dolgorucky had.joined,,General Ben ningsen ; and about eleven o'clock , the Enemy, in great force, made an attack under the immediate diredion 'Of Bonaparte, lea by. Marshals Davoust and Lasnes, and a detached ,corps under General Suchet. The .battle was most sanguinary, and lasted till dark: at thp commencement of it,, General Davouk, with, a corps . of 15,000, - fell upon our left wing, in order to:possess .himself of .Purtusk in oor rear. General Baggavoust, who commanded there with 4000 men, was obliged to give way to the superior numbers of the Enemy'; bu(General Count Osterman being immediately detached by General Ilenningsen to his support, the progress of the Enemy was arrested. — ,The, attack upon the rigjlt wing was irripetuous, and Was concluded by Bonaparte himself. Lasnes's nu •merous corps of infantry were employed in this`Ser; Vice, and advanced throng - It a thick nuderwooclrupon out advanced. guard, which., was stationed under General Barklay de Tolly to cover our wing. Our small corps necessarily gave way, and afforded op portunity for a masked battery - to act ; a few dis charges of grape-shot killed vast, nuniners or tne Enemy, and effeatially stopped, his career. Gen. De Tolly, profitting by his contusion, again ad vanced ; but was again obliged to retire.. Bona• parte now attempted to out-bank .this battery, when General :.Benningsen oruered the,charge of the two to the whole of the right wing, and sent three bat talions up two dirferent times to support Uene;:li De:Toliy. At, this period of the battle Gtrikr::l •Bermingsen determined to attack the Enemy ,:n his turn, and for tliis purpose he metered - General Count Osterman to advance with the rest of his in fantry towards: the right • wing, and supported him with a, strong train of 'artillery, and twenty squa .drons of cavalry—at the same time ordering the rest of the cavalry to ibrm in front of his. centie, in order to keep that of 'the Eneaiy 'in its poAion. The French defended t heritselves with ,despqratioi but 'Were obliged 'to yield 'to the . valour of ,bis .lin perialNajesty :s troops'; they were entirely cletei4.l , l and beaten from the scene of ( action. ,The pri: sonets we have.taken declare that the enemy lost aboVe . 6oo6:.meri in killed alOne.: 7 =Out 'foss =could not be immediately ascertained, and the AleSsenger was d4atcited the moment 'tile affair was over-; it' does not, :however, exceed 2000 men. General Benningsen proposes gi"ving a iii tailed account of this battle as soon as possible ;' hot adds, that he cann t. sutfieientiy praise,the courage and intrepi dity of the troops of his Imperial Majesty. Amongst other' things he mentioir.;, - .that' Major-General . Kozen, with the Imperial Body li.c6ment of Cuiras siers, and two regiments ''at C :riopol Dragoons, charged a detachil,f.ll of the Elien‘,y, consisting of 3000 infantry, which was on the point-of cutting off' Majur-Generat • Baggavonst, and notwithstan& ihg th e galling of the. Enemy's artillery, Eltrough . them, arid cut, them to .pieces to. .a Thus Bonaparte's attempt at the destruction df the Cory - T:nningsen 'was - delcatect - and a complete vidory Obtained over him." We have been also favoured with several Letter s from St. Peter,burgh ; of which we give the follow lug Extracts . • . ST. PEi•ERSiiiIRGH, JAN. is ' confidentl y stated, that Bonaparte, finding the means of support..., ing his army extremely scanty,- determined to make a bold 'push, and possess himself, if possitsle, o"fth6 Russian magazines. On the ;;6th alt. forthispur-: pose, when in sight of the Russians, he fired a wood to windward of them, in the hope of cOntitsitt their operations by .the scnolie., The Russ;ank- in Coti sequence made a feint, as if to change their position' and retreat, upon ,which the .French rapidly adykr.';-- ed. The Russians - continued to retreat, but it 'was with the design* of giving room fiat a masked battery in their rear, to play upon the ':.Enemy. The plan succeeded, and the fire of the battery swept a\vay 3000 -of the French troops. The cavalry,;and cos- sacks then 'charged and 3000 men, to.. pieces, and took 4000 prisoners.. Bonaparte's Adjutant. : General was taken prisoner., ~A reportis now 41.1 - rent liere - that a second battle was fought On - the 28th, in which the Russians took 80 pieces of ciati nclii, and 30,000 prisoners. Benningsen alsO com manded in this battle, as .Kaininskoy wasp ill,. with the 'corps-de.i.reserte, at a short distaqe from. the scene of atlioit." " JAN. 6..—The most enthusiastic j oy prevails here in consequence of the late "vietory , the - .Rns§i'ans., They have in Poland abundant supi ) ii es of 6,,, er) i, kind. The only . thing wantingis money:. A liberal, subscription has, been set . On foot •by the ',.Rusgian Nobility, and two millions of rubles, have been al-, ready raised. The war is universally and cordially approved of. The British merchants here have scribed 15,0001._ The was, much atfeded• by this mark of liberality, and expressed his satis-. fa Lion in the most flattering terms." - LETTER FROM 'A VERY RESPECTABLE MERCHANT AT ST. PETERSEUROH, TO HIS BROTHER IN LONDON. DATED 25TH DECEMBER, 0. S. OR 6TH JANUARY. " Long live our brave Emperor, anti his gallant Army ! is the universal exclamation at St. Peters burgh. VASSILZIKOFF, the Courier, arrived. from the Army in Poland yesterday at 1 1 o'clock, and broUght the auspicious tidings, that our brave soldiers had de feated the French in a masterly style, with the loss.on the side of the Enemy, of four thOusand men and six thousand. prisoners. The particulars I have this instant learned, from a highly respedable quar ter. They are as follows :—The scarcity cfprovisigns in the French Army, and the top 9 of. ending - the campaign by. a decislve blow, concurred to induce BONAPARTE 10 pass the - Vistula, at the head of slid/ thousand men. On the 23d of December he advanc ed to the out-posts of General BENNINGSRN'S Army' where Gen. OSTERMAN commanded. Although BEN' NINGSEN'S force was, formidable (fifty. five thousand men), he preferred at first the prudent a lt erna tive of retreating during the 23d, 24th, and 25 tII inst. 00 each of these days skirmishes took place, but on the 26th the two armies made a stand in sight of each . other, at a village called which lay between them.' This village BONAPARTE, who commanded in person, set on fire, to cover his attack on the Russians,_ whom he thus• thought t o enve l o pe id smoke. This artifice, however, wassoon turned against himself ; for BENNINGSEN, discovering his intention, instantly formed his reserve into a hollow square, which advanced, unperceived, under the smoke of the This gallant corps marched with fixed bayonets; the Russian, line opened their files to let them pass through, and never stopped till they reached the centre of the French. Here an obstinate conflict took place . ; but the Russians succeeded not only in routing the centre of the enemy, but aka turned both their wings. The left wing of the French being shaken by the Russian infantry, was entire' borne doziM and dispersed by Gen. CHAPLITZ, at thd head of the Cavalry, who killed 2000 men. Their right wing shared a similar fate from General Ke• ZEN, at the ,head of his Jagerg: The rout of the French was complete. DAVottsr, LASNES, BONA. PARTE himself, all fled in confusion to Pultusk, which is eleveti Miles; from the scene of iclion, anti had been BENNINGSEN'S head-quatters until the pa inst. KAMINSKOY is unwell at Grodno. " It is inconceivabl e w h at exelotion this riCiori .has caused throughout St. Petersburgh. littiNuNg# •SEN is by birth a H inoverian ; but such is tut ell" thusiasm for Britain in Russia, that the people. per' Sis - t in calling him. an Englishman. His viaory i 4 very generally compared tothe battle of Maida: Both of these memorable etents have pi.uved-tbat t-he-onif way 01.tghting (he French is to .charge them .vtioll the ccayonet. gi The Cossacks signal4ed themPel'il!s in this gloti•ins. ..1 . 1.L;r. Their gQzleral erck rs ,fr6lll KAMINikOY are; to rush, penire. , a terre, into the very heart of the French. artillery. It. was this ate finery hich annoyed the Russians so dreadfully at AusterlUz ; but we our brave irregulars, the c o Lis!,i;eii, will prove aii overtnatcblor, ; \A. .case K AMINSK O Y h as declared; he w il l -answer jorthe success of the war, since our infantry . is decidedly superior. ~ ,,,. BotcapAsTe.s spies appear to have been as tin' successful as his soldiers. When KAMINSKOY wa s at GrOd:io, one of these, pretending to be,a Prussian General, brought a letter, signed apparently byhis Prussian Majesty, and request i ng a confidential communication of the intended route of the Russial forces. The sagacious veter an i nstantly penetrate': 'the fraud. Two Cossacks stripp e d t h e wretch, 'OOl after administering to him some salutary correCtion , KAMINSKOY ordered him to return to .130NAPART' and 'to suety him.on - his back the route or th e 110. 54 sian Army." Of the melancholy scenes exhibited, by the all° calamity whichlately befel the once flourishing be . Loaned from ti; o e f i d etTer m s " LEtDEN, JAN. I 807.—OuCeitrharrbeen near, .Iydernolls6d by the explosion .of a vessel laden with 'gunpowder, and lying . in the Rapenburg6 Gana ' winch runs through. the town. Many hundreds 0 1 lives are lost ; alidto add to the calamify,'a dread ful fire arose out of ;the ruins:, 'We-are eagerly ex- erting 'ourselves to dig out some of . the unhaPPY .sufferers,who are still alive." • . ANOTHER LETTER. What a lamentable spectacle ! People con" stantly employed to dig the vietir s put of the ruins, and to bring them to the Town-hall to . 1 ) 6 owtied by their disconsolate relations.- A PrOfe!;sor and his wife have been found buried under the wall! of 'their,own house. The timbers of the ill-omened vessel flew in all ditedions, in a thOusand pieces, an d not a vestige of her is to be found.—Ceyen, once iiptirishing a city, is now a•deAext L• -.." ; . - II appears that th e iir n ou NEW Yar.K, JAN.; 9. of the testimony against. Colonel BURR was as fo e , lows:,---That he had. been concerned in tie 0- 11' chase of 400,000 acres of laud • Loitisiatti, ncarlf ,opposite - Natchez; that the young g and -enter' pr i s i ng p e rsons who were to :accomp a n y hi m w ere -.tosettie on •the land; that each h act a tnw ker, ao ci . was - to 144 as a soldier, under BURR, against the 50' niards, in case of a war, provided Government ar proved of it; and that Mr. JEFFERSON' was 9nainted with the . wholetif this projeet many tnolrtr s since. lt.is added, that one year's provisions tt the- support of the. settlers h a d b een ' purc h ase d e .ten thousand dollars, and • that as much more I ' 3 _been expended for instruments of agriculture. 1 3113 a . was dailyi-expeted at Washington. On thetith of JaWhary an expiess arrived tit . N ev i.. , York, :wills, the news of Mr. 'BURR having c° l l ll le menced aEtion' 'against the Govern men t. of t United States, `to recover damages for. the lleal obstruations to hiS enterprize i in settling in his Mu ,and likewise , Managing.his affairs in his own waYi It was report e d. at Philadelphi a , that •Getlera .tin Ant, : a Senator of the United Stat es , h a d t e stiheuo that he had a personal 'knowledge of a correSpoll' deuce between - Colonel BURR and the President' ''relative to a military equipt6-nt to aei- against th , 7 Spanish posseSsionvirt Louisiana and to undertal'!. the conquest of the Floridas : that the Preside9t. 'declined. the _offer. for the present, but that Bum , preparations were ma d e under the sanaion the. Government. The correspo n d ence i s said ,0 have taken place fourteen months ago, and the Ex .",;. pedition is supposed t o be. connected with that • 4 - MIRANDA. • Intelligence: has been. received at' New York, tha t the British Forces h ave burnt and destroyed Barr a ' cOp, .the chief place on t h e I s l an d o f C u ba. The Spaniards were apprehensive of an attack on Mateo - . ties, on the same Island.. About iouo men had be en sent from the Havannah.to reinforce the Spaniard s at Cuba. The Americans were treated with grea t severity a_! Monte Video and Bue nos Ay res . No distitictiou Was made between them and the English, and t hL r i were sent up the country as p r i soners , along '` .lt our people. ,All the remonstrances of the Awegi cj Consul at Mo:lte Video had been ineffectual.