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NAVAL NE-NS. PLYMOUTH, DEC. 28.—The following are the amen and particulars of the remainder of the mne*artl-'.•,.und Mediterranean fleet that put in ere under.convoy of u Kent man of war, v 4. . be brig .44uroi a, of, Sunderland, Scu-r,r, Master, rom a port near Smyrna, last from Malta and iibraltar, with a cargo of fruit, bound to Lon on ; one of her crew, named F. Welcomberg, fell , verboard from the bowsprit, on the 15th inst. and as unfortunate] y drowned ; the brig Threeßrotliers, kLDANY, master, belonging to Liverpool, from )alermo, Malta, and Gibraltar, with a cargo of ,arilla, bound to London ; the brig Leeds, of and ar Hull, GILDERDALE, master, from Malta and 1-ibraltar, with' a cargo of currants ; the brig Mentor, belonging to Newcastle, LONGRIDGE, caster, from Malta and . Gibraltar, with a cargo f currants, bound to Hull ; and the barque letsey of North Yarmouth, NEALE, master, from myrna, Malta, and Gibraltar, with a cargo con isting of raisins, and madder-root_ bound to Lon .on, BROWN. The mate of the Betsey . died on he 12th inst. of intoxication : the above vessels re under quarantine.—The fleet brought several iassengers. Arrived yesterday the ship Neptune belonging o London, Captain KIRKUS, from Smyrna, Malta, and Gibraltar, with a cargo of fruit and uadder-root, bound to London, and is under qua antine ; sailed from Oibraltar with the Kent's con roy the Neptune spoke on her passage his Majesty's hips Nautilus, Volontaire, Cossack, and Rota, all well. The following vessels have put into this port to gait convoy for the eastward, viz. the brig Rover, LEMMISON, from .Migadore, with skins ; the brigs Levant, KIBBIN j and George, CAUGHLEY, ' both from Delfast ; the former with linens, and the latter with provisions ; the brigs Swan, JEN NINGS ; and Leander, LEWIS, both from Lisbon with fruit the brig Fortune,. CROWLEY, from Cadiz, with wine and ants ; and the brig Venus, LOWTIIER, from Waterford, with oats.and wheat, all bound to London. The Kent man of war, and the following trans ports, part of the convoy which put in here last week from the Mediterranean, were this day re )eased from quarantine, viz : — Ann, RICKENSON Fortitude, frtortNE ; WELFORD James gad henry, RIDLEY T and the Metcalf, iJAWSON. The Pickle brig of war, Lieut. FrGG, was .also released from quarantine this morning. Arrived the Cheiistata,TATLoß, from Chepstow. FORTSVIOUTH,DB. 9. —Arrived his Majesty's ship tiros, of 18 guild, Capt, ABERnovit, from Newfoundland; and Ifetniadrvad, 3(i,. Captain CHETHAM, from Cork.. Sailed•thc Ci;; - ,i,:q.rt the Vllth, of 80 guns, Capt. BALL; to cruize t i Ciierburgh. His Majesty's ship Pembroke is arrived at fit. jjelens a mere hull Captain BRISBA;CE 'finding, contrary to his expectation, that she would not goat off last evening's tide, and the weather com ing on fresh, ordered the masts to be cut away, which had the desired' effect, as she floated off this morning. DEAL, DEC. 29.—Carne down from the river the Speculator, SrooNna, for Grenada ; Hazard,WAL‘ TER, and, Trafalgar, FERGUSON, for Lisbon; and several others, names unknown. Arrived his Majesty's ship Beagle, with a con voy for Portsmouth, which are sailzd for the river. The Beagle, ith his Majesty's ships and out ward-bound, remain. ' • CORK, DEC. 23.--His• I'NfajeSty 4 s ship Virago, Licut. VITTINIA.N, and Earl Speicer„ LiCht.'BOTH WELL, are getting under wcigli with a large fleet up Channel. The Earl Spencer sees the ships into Plymouth. Itemain the Lisbon'fleet. Arrived, on Sunday last, his Majesty's ship' Castilian, Capt. BRAMIYE, from the Downs ; and the Indian, Capt. JANE, from Plymouth. His Majesty's ship ..lalouse, Capt. LowE; ar rived on Monday: after seeing convoy to Cadiz, she proceeded on a month's cruise, • during which • time she captured to the westward of the Great Belt two American brigs,, one the . Otter, of Bos ton, with 3500 - barrels, of flour, bound to Cadiz, and the Rising Sun, of Alexandria, with a cargo of flour, bread, Bre. also bound to Cadiz, under ALLEN'S license, which expired last month. Yesterday arrived his Majesty's corvette Eclipse, Capt. LYNNE, from Portsmouth: Arrived also the Talbot sloop of war, Captain SWAYNE, from a cruize; she. will proCeed to sea again directly. A signal was made yesterday from the Admiral's flag-ship the Trent, for all the men of war, to exercise twice a week their guns and small arms. This morning arrived the transports Nos. 85, 3r :S 280. Also arrived his Majesty's ship Africa, Admiral S&WYER, from Halifax, x ?nom THE LONDON GAZETTE EX fRA ORDINARY. WEDNESDAY, DE1C.,30, 1812. Foleign Officc, Dec. 29, 1812. Dispatches of which eic follewing arc copies, bave been received o: , -,Niscon.lt Castlereagh, his Majesty':.; Principal,Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, from General Viscount Cathcart, K. T. his Majesty's Amba:;sador Extrordinary and Ple nipotentiary to the Emperor of Russia, dated the 30th November, and 6th and ith instant. MY LORD, St. , Petcio,burgh, Nov. 39, 1612. In my dispatch of the 25th instant,• I had the honour ,to state to your. Lordship the important and brilliant success of his- Imperial Majesty's arms in the affairs of the 17th and ISth, in the former of which Marshal Davoust's division was defeated . and dispersed with great loss, Burma- parte and the Marshal flying from the field of bat tle ; and in the latter. Marshal Ney's division, near the same plaee,, said to have consisted of eighteen thousand men, appears to have been, completely accounted for by the numbers killed and wounded,, in addition to those who afterwards laid down their arms. I also stated the general distribution of the armies as they stood at chat time. I have now the honour to acquaint your Lord ship, that ,General Field-Marshal Prince Kutusoff . Smolenski, reports, on the 23d Novewber, from Laniky - Farm, that i3uonaparte, with his guards, left Orsha on the 20th November, and marched on the road to Kochanoff ; and that on the 2.lst the remaining troops of the enemy marched out of the former place, leaving twenty-six guns, and some hospitals, in which were upwards of fifty wounded _I rench officers. - _ ..„ General Count Platoff is ordered to follow the army marching on Kochanoff. A detaChment under Major-General Ermaloff, consisting of fourteen battalions of infantry, some cavalry, and two companies of "artillery, is directed to move by Orsha to rcinfoxce•Count Platoff. The advancgd-guard of the main army, under the command of General - gillaradovitch, consist ing of the 2d and 7th divisions of infantry, and the 2d division of,cavalry, was to cross the Dnieper on the 23d, at Kopys, and was to direct its march upon Tolotchina to join General Ermaloff's de tachment. . The main army will cross the Dnieper, at KoPys, on the 24th, and March by Starasel to Tsetzershioff, from whence may be directed ac cording-to circumstances, either upon Bobra or Berezinoff. General Witt7enstein reports on the 24th No-. vember, froth the village of Cherai, that Admiral Tehichagoff.was at Borisoff on the 24th instant, whence Gen. Laugeron informed *the Count, by letters of the22d inst. that General Count Lambert was at Borizoff on the 21st, where he defeated the whole corps of Dembroffski, laking six cannon, two colo'urs, and three thousand prisOners, driving them on upon the road to Orsha ; that Count Lam bert had also taken -at. Kaidanoff two guns, and from two to three thousand prisoners, and that, in cluding the hospitals at Minsk, in the last eight days upwards of 11,000: prisoners, and 24 guns bad been takerh Victor and Oudinot have retired from before Count Wittgenstein upon Borisoff; the latter is marching in pursuit of them, aril on the 23d took 806prisimers,and many carriages. Count Wittgenstein repo that General Pla toff is marching aw,linst the ;relit body of the ene my'sl6chin by .1 • it !orps ni.on ~ow, ,whichap pears the e.nealy is inclosed on three sides—Ge neral Platoff in -his rear, Admiral Tchichagoff in their front, and Count Wittgenstein on their flank. A report was received yesterday of another ge neral (Aker, whose name I have not heard, having been taken prisoner ; and I have also understood that accounts are received, that Gen. Ertle was at. , rived at Egonmen. The detachment under Gen. Sac:ken is under stood to be fully adequate to keep Prince Schwart zenberg itt check. The attempt to blow up the cathedral of Smo lensko failed, the match having gone out before:it reached the mine. The fate of Marshal Ney has not been ascer tained. 'I have the honour to be, &c. (Signed). C A THCAILT. MY LORD, , St. Petirshisrgh, Dec. G, 1812. lhave the honour to transmit the report of the defeat Of Victor's corps by Gen. Count Wittge nstein, on the -27t11 Nov. • It would seem that this corps had altered its . di rectiOn from Borisoff,. and was 'proceeding up the lett bank of the Berezina, when it was charged by Count. Wittgenstein. On the 16th, at daybreak, the Count pursued Buonaparte on a road which leads to . Vilna . ; still upon the left bank of the Be rezina.- . A bridge had been thrown over the river, at, a, place about thirty versts fro►u Borisoff where there was an advantageous position for the enemy's rear-guard, and for covering the pas- sage. • In this day'Smarch the French lost the whole of their equipages awl and were vigor ously and'repeatedly attacked at the bridge. The position on the left bank being continually reinforced by fresh t: naps., was contested till night, when it was evacuated, and the bridge was destroyed as soon as the rear 7 guard had passed. There is a crossroad from this point which leads to the great road to Vilna, and it was the inten tion of Count Wittgenstein to pursue, as soon as he either received pontons, or re-established the bridge. General Platoff 'had already got to the right bank, probably to Borisoff. Admiral Tchiehagoff's quarters appear to have been at no great distance, but no particular report Of the distribution or movements of this part of the force, has as yet been received, since the affair of Count Lambert. It appears, however, from the conclusion of' Count Wittgenstein's last report that he expects the concert and support both of the Admiral 'and of Count Platoff. • General Millaradovitch was stated to have ar rived at Borisoff when. the last accounts came !I NV ay. The head-quarters of the main army were still advancing on a line parotid to, and to the south- ward of the main road from Smolensk° to Minsk, but considerably in the rear of 'the present ope- rations. There are long defiles to pass on the road from Borisoff to Minsk, as well as on that upon which Buonaparte is supposed to be marching ; and it scarcely appenrs possible, that the remains of his army can get through there difficulties in presence of so many troops, with artillery and cavalry, re= gular as well as irregular. • ' • I have the honour to be, &c. • (Signed). • CATHCART. MY LORD, St. Petenburgh, Dec. 7, 13 it While iathe act of dispatching the messenger, I received - from the palace a repnrt Iron - IA(111,4ml Tchichagoff, dated the 29th November, upon the march to. Ostachow, detailing his proceedings from the 21st November, and stating , that, is "concert with Counts Wittgenstein and Phltoti, he is in pursuit of the . French, whose force he estimates at:seventy thousand men, including On dinot and Victor, and which he says is provided with cavalry and•artillery. I have the honour to be,.&c. • (Signed) CATIICART. Journal of Military Operations from the 7th to the 13th Nov. 18162, dated Head-quartets Kopys. Nov. 7--Major-Ganeral Borosdin av ing driven the enemy from Laeda, pursued them with a part of his detachment as tar as. Bolschoi KolotOlsky,l and with his Cossacks as. far as Kosan, where they were relieved by the st - of the -detachment com manded by the aide-de-camp General Count Os charofsky. The enemy lost-,in his flight 7 pieces of cannon, and a number of carriages. The General of Cavalry, Count "'laud, reports, under date of the sth instant, that having on the '3d approached Smolensko, and having learnt frail the inhabitants, who were quitting it, that the enemy Occupied the Fauxbourg of Peersburgh, be gave immediate orders to his troops to attack under cover of the fire of the artillery of the Dons Colonel Kaysaroff, after having with his Chas seurs broken the barrier which the enemy had placed, vigorously pursued them into the Faux-, Bourg itself, from whence they fled in alarm and disorder within the walls of the fortress, where they were expos'ed to a fire of grape-shot from the neighbouring heights. Whilst the Cos sacks anti the chasseurs were engaged ins the Fauxbourg, the enemy Made a sortie . in two. columns, with eight pieces of cannon and a mortal', resolutely determined' to repossess themselves of the Fauxbourg. But Major-Gene ral Koutchinkoff with his Cossacks, and Colonel Kaysaroff with his chasseurs, • fell upon them, and having repulsed .the infantry ; took their cannon. The Pauxbourg was retaken, When 'light putan end to the. contest. On the 4th the enemy 66- blished themselves behind the palisadoes, keeping possession of.the left bank of the Dnieper, whilst his.columns quitted the town with precipitation. Count Platoff caused Te Deum to be sung in pre sence of the troops, accompanied by a discharge of artillery and a hurrah of the soldiers. • The enemy on quitting the town, sprung the mines which they had formed under several places of the fortress, which set fire to the houses of the FauxbQtyg of Petersbourg, WhiCh Wet e situated opposite the fortress.' The Aid-de-Camp, General Baron Mettersako •mselsky reports, that the officer whom ,he had de tached with three. squadrons, had discovered an enemy's column at three w;rsts from WinniSa- Louki, and having surrounded them, he sent th.! Stlabs-Rottmeister of the Hussars of the Akim fieldt guards, with, a proposal to lay down their arms. This commission he executed with com plete success—the 'number of prisoners amounted to 2 0 500 men. Intelligence has been received, that the detach-: meat under Count OschaUfsky, has occupied Mo hilow after having dislodged the enemy. Provi sions and forage sufficient to subsist the whole . army, during ten days, were found in the place. Head-quarters of the army at Dabroi (great road to Orsha). November B.—The Aide-de-Camp, Gen. Count Oscharofsky, reports, on the 7th, that the Trench army having abandoned, on the night of the Stb, the village of Kosan, had marched to Dombrowna, and that many prisoners had been made in their flight, of which, however, the Count could not yet fix the number, as it increased every moment. Head-quarters at Romanoft. Nov. 9.--The Count Oscharofsky reports, that a detachment sent by him pursued the rear-guard of the enemy on their retreat from. Kosan. The Cossacks, in following it on each side of the great road, had cut off part of it from Dombrowna, and regardiets Of the fire of grape-shot, threw them selves, together with the chasseurs, upon the ene my's column, killed more than a thousand men, took four pieces of cannon, with the caissons laden with grape, besides a considerable number of carts, and made s;x hundred prisoners. Major-General Borosdin reports, on the 4th, that having with his detachment driven the ene my from Dombrowna; he had pursued him to Orsha, on which occasion he took above four hun dred men and eight ,officers. At Dombrowna was found a small magazine of flour, eats, and hay. . General Count Platoff reports on the 7th, that, proceeding from Sin°leak° to Dombrowaa, he had destroyed a detachment of the enemy, 'which, after the defeat of the . French army at Krasna; had saved itself by flight, and passed over to the right bank of the Dnieper, in' order to come up again with. the , main .body. The Count made 3000 prisoners, among whom is the late Chief Commissary General at StholenskO . de Puibusque. , In a second report, General Platoff states, that, continuing on the 7th, his route.to Dombrowna, he was informed that Marshal .Ney was marching with the remains of his cor ; 43 to Lowbawitzch,, and had beeryseen in the 'afternoon at Gousuiroff. Having occupied this place with his Cossacks on the, left, General Platoff ordered masked batteries to be raised on the road ; and having permitted the enemy to advance,' he suddenly opened upon them a tremendous fire Of i grape shot, so that con founded, and seeing it impossible to pierce through to •Loubawitzch,, they threw themselves 1 into the woods on the banks of'the Dnieper, and covering their march by ebasseurs, pressed along the Wulf of the river until the night was far ad vanced ; and threw into it the four pieces of CAD-- non they had with them. The Bth z . at about six o'clock in the mornins; the advanced guard came up With the enemy ot advance of Dombrewna. He was again receivA with grape shot on coming out of a forest on the: road. Our Cossacks, profiting by the. disorder of the enemy, ond the well-directed fire of our artil lery, attacked with the lance, killing many, and. making SOO prisoners, among which was a Com missAry .Generai and ten Officers. Marshal Ney, seeing his total defeat, threw himself into the forests, and collecting the troops Av . hout the attack at our'Cossacks had dispersed, he occupied the village of Jarouboff, where he defended himself with obstinacy, until night, which put an end to the combat. November 10.—General Count Platoff reports, on the 9th, that during the - mmuit of the ene-n-y -"Orsha he made. 400 prisoners: The enemy (:e -I,nds the passage of the , river with' his 1-a-til l :e; - y, • • while he gives the town: up to the , flames. Tue Partizan Dasidoif attacked the' enemy on the !id; - at andkilling many, Made 26) prisoners; besides taking a . quantity of -equipages ; passing afterwards the river by swimming, he sent va rions parties to Schklotf, Staroselije, and Orsha. The Count Platoff reports; -on the 9th, that the enemy had, after some resistance, been driven from Orsha, and that at, one -o'clock the town had been, occul;ied by our troopS. Thu enemy left there twenty pieces of cannon, same.povi- , • sions, and his hospitals, in which Were found, of Officers alone, fifty persons.. On the Ilth the Grand Army halted at Lan like. November 12.---The Aide-de-Camp Generai Count oscharofisky reports,' on the 12th, that, having arrived 9n the 11th at Gorhi, he had sent: Major Rscliefsky. with the regiments of Cossacks of Don, of Schamscheff, and .150 : hussars, in pm-- snit of the enemy, who bad iust quitted the.place. The Major Rschefsky - came up with and nearly destroyed them, maNing four Officers and 250 soldiers prisonerS, and taking many equipages. The head-quarters of the army are at Moros )If. The Tirailleur of the Ist grenadier company of the regiment of infantry' of Moscow, Stepan Jere menko, had been left, in order to be cured of the wounds he had received at Smolensko, to the dire of the principal of that Government, the &Co- Lieutenant KrestsChetOff., ' After his cure had been completed, and -during- the retreat of the French, , a detachment.of forfy-seven men .pass ed by the villages of Allethino and Polsino. He immediately assembled the peasants of those places, and encouraging them by his example, be killed seven of the 47, and having' bound - with, cords the 40 remaining, he sent them with the peasants to the out-ports of the Cossacks. The said Jerernenko having by so courageous an action shewn his zeal for the serice, and given a proof of the spirit which characterises the Russian sol dier, his Serene Highness the General Fiekl-Mur shal has advanced him to the r , inkot. Stiaaltefn Wirer, and has likewise (riven him the badge of the Military Order of St. George. Proceedings of the Military Operations of the Ras siam4rmy, front the 13th to the 16th November. November 1.3.---The Aide-de-Camp General Count Oscharoffsky, as he was proceeding on - the 12th, with part of the detachment under his com mand, from Schklofl -towards Mohilow, was in formed by some of the inhabitants, who had left that place, that the enemy's troops Ntilid` had remained there, had threatened to . set On Lire all within their reach ; ityconsequence of.this intor- Coin,;: . oscharoffskv, without loss, of time, ordered on the Cossacks from Palta'ira, mounted the riflemen, and arrived /before night with his cavalry and artillery,. in time to save the town, from whence he immediately drove the eae my-Lthus at the same tune relieving the place, and many large n-n-mazines which it cont•ined, from the danger with whiCh it was threa,tened. • Another part of the detachment;. under the orders of the Staabs-rost-meister of the Hussars of the Guards, Natschakin, which- had been sent on the road to Knaeschnitzi, came up 'with the , enemy -on their retreat from that place, attacked - them, and took.one officer and one hundred men prisoners, putting the rest to flight, whom they pursued for six versts beyond' Knaeschnitz,i. In the magazines at Mohilow, there were thirty-four thousand kouls of provisions and forage. General Millaradovitch reports' that, on. the. 12t1t, he shall be with part of his- van guard at - Tototschin: The'o•rand army halted at Kopys. • / November 1.4.---General Piatoif reports that en the 12th, some' of the enemy's troops, which had separated from the road to Loubawitntz, sfirren- ; ', tiered, to the number of 100. men. The. enemy's loss in prisoners was, indeed, so very great that. he found it unnecessary to- make any particular report on the occasion, as it seldom occurred th-,.t he took less than a 1000 prisoners each day.' . Colonel Potemkin, belonging to, General, Mil loradovitch's van-guard, in his report of the 15th , states, that Major General Kai pow had assembled (100 prisoners at Zolotschina, and that at Kostel they had found 100 Jsehetwerts of rye. On the 13th General Platoff reports, that' ijieu tenant General Martinott having attacked the enemy, with Major General Koutenikoff's bri galle, as lie was marching on the high road, killed .500 of them, and made . - 400 prisoners, ahiongst whom was General Dseworofsky. Th c head-quarters were.at Staroselije. `o4' FIBER 15.—Lieutenant General Schefe lert's report of the 10th states, that the . major part of the mere ants of Ratslatt Polosott; toge ther with the citizens of that town, animated by the love-for their country, had ..!quipped a detach ment of 100 cavalry; and having armed them with pikes, swords, and muskets, during, the whehc .of the continuance of the military operations in the government of Smolensko, they had made several excursions, in which they had many affairs with the enemy, with advantage to the)l 7 selves, by which means they in fact saved their town from being plundered. The head-quarters at Krouglo: Report from the General of Cavalry Count Wittgen stein to his Imperial Mujety, dated Staroc Borr sof, November 29th Yesterday I had the honour most subm'ssiveL7 to report to, your imperial Majesty, upon the d. -