The Sun. — London, England, 1812-12-29 00:00:00

N& T a Numerous MEETING of Noblemen an Gentlemen, convened for the purpose of considering of a Subs:ription for the RELIEF of the POOR SUFFERING INHABITANTS of _the different GOVERNMENTS of RUSS i 4 thi ough which the French Armies have passed in their late atrocious Invasion of that Empire, held at the Crown and Anchor in the Strand, the 23d day of December, 1812,, His Royal - Highness the. Duke of YORE,,in the Chair; Resolved unammously,-Xiat this Meeting views with the strongest sentiments of admiration and gratitude, the heroic constiacy displayed by th'al,knssian Government and Nation, in. a: contest, in which not only - their own honour and independ ence, but the best interests of this country and of the civilized world are deeply involved; and feels the warmest sympathr, for the great and unmerited sufferings brought upon the peaceful inhabitants of, Rizssia by an unprincipled invasion, attended by circumstances of the Most atrocious violence and vastatiiin. • - . .Ueso'.ved•unanimously, That this Meeting feel it to be their duty as MeE, as tiritom, and-as Christians, to contribute, by every means in their power, to relieve distress co.aggravated and so undeserved. _ _ Resolved unanimously, That a subscription be opened for the relief of such of the inhabi,tan of Russia as have suffered in consequence of the Frerich Invasion; and that the produce -of the snoscription be remitted to hiS Majesty's Ambassador, at St. Petetsburgh, to be by him applied in aid .of the sub scriptions there raised for the_same purpose, or otherwise, as his Excellency may think most expedient and effectual. Resolved unanimously, That a.Cominittee he appointed for the management of the said Subscription, and that the follow itig gentlemen he members of the said Committee, viz. ' The Right Hon. George Rose J. Julius Angerstein, Esq. (The Right H 0,.. Chas. Long J. C. Weguelin, Esq. The Right.Hon.John Sullivan James Brogden, Esq. Sir Hugh Ingli, Bart. Thomson lionar, Esq. Samuel Thornton, F.sq. William Wilberforce, gsfi. A. H. Sutherland, Esq. William Henry Hoare, Esq. Robert Thornton, Esq. ' John Thornton, Esq. . Edmund Antrobus, Esq. That three be a Quorum, and that the Committee have au- . thority to add to their number such names as they may think fit. Resolved .unaniumusly, That Samuel Thornton, Esq, be re quested to undertake the office of Treasurer to this subscrip tion, and to maitse the remittance thereof under the direc tion of the Committee', and that books , be opened to receive the names of Subscribers at the Bar of this House, - Iv wee a Gentleman-will attend. for that purpose daily,. from Eleven till Three &Clerk, and the Money subsc,ribed may be paid there, or to the different Bankers of LoUdon and Westiainster, under the title of " Crown and Ar:clior Subscription for the Russian Sufferers." - YREDEtICK, Chaiiman , . . Hit Royal Higliness‘the Duke of York havi:ag left the Chair, It was Moved by Mr. Samuel Thornton, and resolved unani mously, That to Thank 4 of this Meeting be given to his Royal Highness the Duke of York, .for his truly noble and philanthropic conduct upon this occasion. At a Meeting of the Committee, the 28th of Dec.,1812. Resolved—That the Right Hon.Lord - Whitworth and Mr. Serjeaut Pell be added to the Committee. • SAMUEL THORNTON, Treasurer. Ampunt ofSubseriptious already advertised, ,C4).9(i=1., The Rev. B. Bridge The I3uchess Dox‘•ioger of Leeds Injor-General Burr ' The; HOn. Mrs. C. Windham Sir Win Geary Bart: 8 5 .. 5 0 .. 10 10 i 0 0 .. 10 10 . .. 'Pie &4icitoe-General Samuel Prince, Esq. s') 0 Anonymous, by the hands of :"`_c...r... Greenwood.. 105. 0. William Gee, Eq. ..* Mr. John Brickwood .. 1 1 Sir Itohert . Ainslie, Bart. , Mr. Charles Dignum Francis 'Newton, Esq Matthew Wilson - , 10 10 Richaril Thompson, Esq. Grosvcuor-street ...., lO5 0 Jeremiah Dyson, E5q..... . -5 .3 'Charles Boone, Esq. The Hon. Mrs. Perceval 2l 0 Thrquis Carden Lord Frederick Campbell ... , : . 52 10 Jitues. Allen Parke, Esq. . - - , 3O 0 Lord Ardeß . . ' 100 0 Earl Bathurst Viscount - Melville . ' 105. 0 The Rev. Wm. Champagne . 10 10 • The Earl of Radnor . - - 105 0 Charles Montgomery Campbell, Esq . 10 10 The EMI of Westmorland lOO 0 Mri Lioucherett . 5O "0 Matthew Winter, Esq. ' '11: 0 Lor:1 Whitworth - 2OO 0 The Earl of Norinanton . • • OOO U Ceorge.Holford, Esq. NIA' lO 10 Messrs. Down, Thornton, and Free '2oo 0 George Yeats, Esq. ' . 5 b Wm. - Holden-, EN MAILS. AnatvEn--2Gotteaburgh. Dui:—i Lisbon, I Brazils, I He ligoland, I Guernsey, I JerSey, 3 Dublin, 2 Waterford. PRICE OF STOCKS TILLS DAY AT TWELVE O'CLOCK. Consols, THE SUN. SoLEM QUIS DICERF. FALSUM AUDEAT L 0 ND 0 N, TUESDAY, DECEMBER. 29, 1812. We this morning received a great variety‘of important intelligence both frem France and Russia, upon which we have scarcely room at present to make a single comment. BUONAPARTE has, according to the illon . iteur, been waited upon by the Senate and the Council of State. The speeches that passed upon that oc casi9n'are well worthy of the attention of our Readers. \ They will, we think, observe a cks pondency in BCONAPARTE'S tone, which is very unusual to him. The accounts from Russia, by the two Gotten burgh MA which arrived last night,. are most gratifying. The French' ivere, as we con jectured, defeated at Beresina, and their loss was enormous ; we still retain the. opinion, that scarcely any of the French Army, except only the few, that'attendcd BUONAPARTE'S person, will escape out of the Russian. territories. We must refer our Readers to the ,following Official Bul letin : OFFICIAL BULLE'I'IN. " Foteign (Alice, 28th Dec. 1812. " Dispatches have, been received this evening from, General Viscount CAT H CART, dated St. Pe terburgh, the 4th, Gth, and 7th of December, containing the accounts of the successes of the Ruisian army to the 29th of November. A By, these it appears, that General Count WyTTGENSTEIN reports on the 24th November, from the village of Chesai, that Admiral Tct6r cu.koorp.was at Borizofl en the 24th instant, whence Gen. LANGERON informed the Count, by letters of the 22d, that Gen. Count LAMBERT was at Borisoff on the 2lit,.when he defeated' the whole corps of nowt/tows-kr, taki-ng . six cannon, two colours, andthree thousa id prisoners, driving them, on upon the road to Orsha ; that Count LAMBERT had also taken at Kaidanoff two . guns, and from 2 to '3OOO prisoners and that, including the . hospital at .Minsk, in the last eight days 'Towards of 11,000 prisoners, : and twenty faur guns, bad been taken.. " VICTOR and OuDrNoT had retired from be fore Count WITGENSTEIN .Upon Borisoff: the latter is marching in pursuit of them ; and on the 23d took 800 prisoners and many carriage. " The attempt to blOw up the Cathedral of Smo, lensko failed, the match being extinguished before it reached the mine. " General count WITTGENSTEIN reports on the 27th November, that he had defeated Marshal VICTOR, and *taken four cannon, two standards, sixty-seven Officers of the Etat Major, , and 3000 prisoners, besides a great number which.the enemy had lost in killed .iend wounded ; and that in - con= sequence of this victory, the General of Division, PARTHENALT, General of Brigade, BiLizn; the Chief of the Etat Major, DEL - mu., Generals CAmixs and BLAMONT, five Colonels, fifteen Lieu tenant-Colonels, 224 Officers, and 7;800 sol diers- including two entire regiments of cavalry, had laid Gown their arms : after which had at tacked NAPOLEON and his armyin passing the mina, near Btadinski, and defeated him „The enemy made the utmost resistance, in order to'save his baggage as lunch as possible, and then burnt his bridge, which was soon re-established.. On the 26th he took one thousand five hundred prisoners and one cannon : on the 27th, 12 cannon ; and he states that the baggage taker; from the enemy filled a space of hale a vers,t, so as not to be able to pass along it on foot or on hotsebaelc. having esta blished his bridge, he was preparing to, join pur- suing the enemy. "Admiral TSCHICHAGOFF reports on the 29th that the enemy, having in vain attempted to forCe the Beresinitat Borissow, found a position at the dis tance of 13 wersts, where he established,a battery of 30 pieces of eannon, ; by which he was enabled to pass the river when it was extremely narrow. On the 28th, he attacked the enemy, who had passed iii front, whilst Count WITTGENSTEIN and, PLATOFF attacked their 'rear. Ue repulsed the enemy to the distanee of 4 or 5 wcrsts,witli the loss of one cannon, many Officers, and several hundred prisoners, lie closes his report by stating that the enemy -was retreating, and he was marching in' pursuit. Admit al TsCHITciiAGOFP States, that NAPOLEON 110 been joined by all his forces, awuuuttng to near seventy thousand men ; and that his Guards, and the corps of OUDINOT and VICTOR were not in bad order or deficient in ca valry and artillery. " Admiral TCHICHAGOFF Was marching on Ostachevo. General MiLAßADowirca had arriv ed at Borissow. " General SACHEN, who had been left near Brech, had completely executed his orders. Prince SCHWARTZENBERG bad twice approached Slonim but General SACHEN had also twice attacked REGNIER, and obliged him to join Prince SCIIWARTZENBERG, after the loss of one standard 'and 1000 prisoners." The recent conspiracy.at Paris has been further deicloped, and it appears to have been the inten tion of the Chief directors of it, Generals:Al - Aml' and LAHORIE, td get the Empress of FRANCt, as she is styled, and her son into their power, then to convey her to Dieppe, and immediately after wards to this country. This plan, it teems, was to ,be accomplished by means of a letter, pretended to have come from the Emperor of AusmA, in forming his daughter of the death of her husband, and desiring her to hasten with her infant to Strasburgh, to which place an Ambassador should be sent to receive her. But, instead of pro ceeding to Strasburgb, they • were, according to the design of the conspirators to take the be fore...mentioned route, and the detection and frus tration of the plot, put an end to their arrange ments. It does not appear, however, granting this statement to be well-founded, what was the precise view of the conspirators, if conspirators tbey should be called, who endeavoured to rid their country of. a detestable foreign Usurper, in their intention to send Buonaparte's wife to Eng land. We are happy to find that the report of the Gryphon sloop of war having been taken, into Prance is unfounded. Sunday di vipe service was performed at Carlton House, betore his Royal Highness the PRINCE RE GENT, the Duke of CUMBERLAND, and the•House bold, by the Rev. F. W. BLOMBERG, Clerk of the Closet and Chaplain in Ordinary to his Royal High ness. The Duchess of BRuNswicfcgave- an elegant entertainment on Christmas Day to •a large party of fashionables, at her house is HallOVer-Square. Admiral YOUNG is arrived in tOwn, and on Sa ttirday attended the Admiralty Board. NAVAL NEWS, DOVER, I Fc. 28.—8 y the arrival of the Dwdtf cutter ; Lient. aohDoz, fro m off Boulogne, we feel most happy in being able to contradict the malicious report of i one of our slokips of war hav ing mutinied, and been carried, into a French Port by her crew. The Dwarf and the sloop alluded to exchanged signals last evening. I cannot find that there is much more truth in the reported arrival of a flag of truce, the only arrival neitig a French fishing-boat. PORTSMOUTH, DEC. 28.—Arrived his Majesty's ships Vca,sieur and Princess Caroline from off Cher burgh . . , Sailed his Majesty's ship Tortoise for the Downs, and the Beagle sloop of war, with a convoy for ditto. His Majesty's ship Pembroke has not yet got off. The Purser of the Macedonian frigate was lauded at Bristol ou Saturday, and immediately proceeded for LondOn, where he arrived late last evening. DEAL, DEC. 28.--Came clown from' the River several vessels and remain. ,Sailed his Majesty's ship Mosqiiito for Sheer ness ; and the Deal Pilot cutter .drgus foi: off Dungeness. • FALMOUTH, DEC. 26.—Sailed the Princess Elizabeth packet for .Lisbon ; and the Lady Pel ham 'packet for Surinam.; .the Mary ,cnit packet for Gibraltar and Malta has gone into the Roads. LFITII, DEC: 24.-1 he Rifleman and Snake sloops of war arrived in Lcith Roads yesterday, and the Gallant gun-brig sailed on a cruize. A Danish schooner and galliot arrived in the Roads yesterday, the one a prize to the _11)01(4 sloop of war, and the other to the Sarpedon ; like wise the Helen, Greenland ship, from London to Kirkwall. She is to sail from that port. The hope, GORDON, arrived i Leith Roads on Tuesday, from Gottenburgh, in four days, brings no news. D:STZIBUTION 01 7 MIZE-MONEY.. Aquilon, for the John, on board, at Sheerness; recalls at 22, , Arundel-street, gtrand., Reyolutionnuirc, for the Resolution; Boxer, fur the Mi chael; Boxer and Escort, for the Fra:de ; Raleigh, for the Friimien; and Archer, for the Thisted, on Thursday next; recalls 0. 4 22, Arundel-street._ Strtnnous, for the Medege Haab, Danish schooner, No. 53, Cliss Lyhkens . Haab, Joh :noit Elizabeth, Danish schooner (name unknown), and Alicia, on the 13th of January; recalls at 9, New Broad-street. Hero, for the Charlotte, and Wandering Man, on the sth of Jan.; and Unicorn, fur L'Esperaucc, this day; recalls at '23 2 Norfolli-street, Strand. The Nlereutius, for the Johanna Maria, to-morrow, at No. 12, Clement's Inn. The Growler, for the Sorcier and Voltigeur, on Thursday next, at No. ld, Tohenhouse-yard. The Wrangler, on Thursday lasti on board at Chatham ; re calls at No. 23, Norfolk-itreet. The Rosamond, fur the Dolphin, on board,.on her arrival at Spithrad ; recalls at No. 42, St. Mary-street, Portsmouth. The Princess of Wales, for, the Boston, Julius Cies:ir and De Jonge Dirk Voss, on Friday next, on hoard, at Yarmouth ; recalls at No. 2, Adelphi-terrace. The Ethalion, for the St. Ivan, on board, at Sheerness, to morro‘V; tecalls at Nu. 70, Greatßussell-street, Bloomsbury. TIIE COSSACKS,. Any authentic account of those brave and pa triotic troops who have been so greatly, so glori ously instrumental in reducing the once " Grand Army" of the dastard and sanguinary Corsican to its present state of almost utter annihilation, must be acceptable to our Readers ; we therefore pre sent them with the following :-IThe Cossacks are a people originally inhabiting the confines of Poland, Taitary„ and Turkey, between the Jaik and the Dneister. They are divided into several branches, the Kosakki la Porovi, or Cos sacks on: the Boristhenes ; the Kosakki Donski, 'or .Cossacks on the Don ; and the Kosakki Jaiki, who are the wildest of theta all, dwelling in large vill:iges along the banks,of the river Oural or Jaik, and the North coast of the Caspian Sea. They are now entirely subject to Russia, and the Ukraine, - or countryof the Cossacks of the Boristhenes,is become a Government under the name of Ekaterinostay, The Cossacks are , large and robust, have blue eyes, brown hair,and aquiline noses; the women are corn plaisant to strangers. Theh towns are built of wood; like those of the Russians. The Ouralian Cos sacks, which form so large a portion of the whole, are a people that inhabit the Russian province of Orenburg, in Asia, on the south side of the river Oural or Jaik. These Cosiacks are descended from, those of the Don : they profess the ;.:reek religion ; but are a kind of dissenters from that established; and are called by the Russians Oos kolniki, or Separatists, they stile . themselVes Staraverski, or old Believers : they consider the services of the established church as profAne and sacrilegious, and have.their own priests and 'ce remonies. Tile Ouralian Cossacks are all enthu siasts for the ancient ritual, and seem to 'prize their beards more than their lives. The river Jaik or Vaik, being now called Oural, they are deno minated Ouralian Cossacks ; they enjoy the right of fishing on the coast. of the Caspian Sea, for 47 miles on each side of the river Oural. Their principal fishery is for sturgeons and beluga, whose roe supplies large quantities of caviare ; and the fish, which are chiefly salted and dried, afford a considei able article of consumption in the Russian Empire. On Tuesday night last, several seamen belong ing to the Centaur, broke into a house in James street, either for a frolic or with the view of com mitting a robbery, but they were frustrated in their intention, Whatever it was, by the calling in of a guard, which took all of them into cu:tody, and conveyed them to their ship, where they were punished yesterday. One of them, perceiving a cradle in the house, leapt into it, for the purpose of destroying an infant he supposed to be there, by trampling on it, but his abominable project was defeated by the infant's hiving been provi dentially laid in another place. (Dock Telc r3 , graph) SSIA - N itULLETI:.iS, Gortighi:hdit , , DEC. i —Reports from 3)::n -mark state, that it in contemplation by that Government to make peace with Great It like Wise said that Deputies from the British, Russian, and Swedish Admiralties • are to be a rattle on. the Danish ieJen of war that nily hare been lost, and i the remainder to be reta ned to Denmark, which is to receive a compensation for the damages sustained by the bornbardtu It of Copenhagen, for which the Danes are to join. 50,000 men to the Russiai: and Swedish arnia. ments for attacking the French army in its retreat through Germany. ST. BETERSBURGE!, DEC. • I . INTERCEPTED LETTER FEUM Till , : PRINCE OF NEUF-. CHATEL TO MARSHAL DAVOUST. " PRINCE OF ECKMVLI:_,,-I.t is of the Emperor, that you support the Duke of Elehirt: yen in the retreat which he is making with 44 rcar guard, while the Viceroy, to-moriow; march to take post at Krasnoi. You will, there- : fore, take care to occupy the pOst which you shall judge Advkable, and which the 'Viceroy shall evacuate. The intention of the EMperor that you - with your corps, and that of the Puke of hlchingen, retire from Krasnoi, and make this' movement on the.l6th and 17th. General (That-, pentier, with his g'arrison, consisting of three 3d Polish battalions and a regiment of cavalry, will leave the town at the same time with the rear., Before i you march ,out, you will blow up th ramparts which surround :Smolensk, as the mine; are ready, and only need to be set fire tO. You will take care that the an:Munition, powder chests, and every, thing that cannbt be carried sway, be destroyed and burnt, as 'alto the mus kets ; the cannon should be - buried. .General:, ChaS'seioup and Larelossiere will take care, eacl in his department, to ca,rrytbese orders into pro per execution. " You will take care to send out tha! no marauders may remain behind ; yom ill also leave as few persons as possible in 'the Ito! - pitals. (Signed) " Prince of NEUFCHATEL, Maj. Ge " Smtlensii, Lvov. 2, (14.)" THE GENERAL OP CAVALRY COUNT wITTGrNsTE MAKES THE FOLLOWING REPORT TO His LAC' RIAL MAJESTY, DATED STAROY 110R150T/i, 1i 11[ (29T11) OF 110VEMBER Yesterday I reported to your Imperial-MajLi-tr that 1 should proceed to the river Beresina, near. Studintzy, which I the same day accompii,hd. On coming up with the enemy at the abov tinned passage, they halted, and with a vcry. strong force defended the passage, in daler to save . their baggage and heavy waggons. - Notwithstanding this, I drove am feom first position, and pursued them three wtn-sts.— The action continued the whole day. T )-day forced them across the river at Studintzv ; hving done which, they burned the bridge. Tchichagoff having sent me pontoons, I am t establishing the bridge. • I shall then act in con cert with him and Count Plato lf on the opposite side. Yesterday we took from the enemy, ond gnu, and. 800 prisoners ; and this day, at the passage, we took 12 guns, many -more having. been thrdwn into the river. Several Stall' and General Officers were taken prisoners, besides others of inferior rank, and more continue to be brouglitin, which I have not yet been able to take an account of. . . The number of waggons belonging to Govern ment and private persons is so great; that space of half a werst sonare is so covered with them, that it is iinpossibie either to ride or walk through them; and three companies of the new raised militia have been employed tnerelv'to clear a passage for the army. In these vehicles, which chiefly consisted of carriages of different descriptions sent from 7."vlos etm, we found besides a very great booty for the arniy; silver and other articles belonging to the churches which were plundered by the enemy at Moscow . :" we are now collecting them, and shall dispatch them to the Governor of 2.loseom Congratulating your Majesty on the above, I itri at the feet of your Imperial Majesty a stand of co lours. The los's in' killed and wounded is : Var course of thest two'dnys exceeds 3000 men. REPORT FROM GENERAL COUNT 1V ITTGENSTELIt, TO HIS IMPERIA4. MAJESTY, DATED ISORISSOW, NOV. 28. I had the - honour, on the 24th of November, most submissively to report, that Marshals Victor and Oudinot were retta sting before me towards Borissow. I marched after them frOm the town of Tschituga. . General Platow followed the roe my'sGrandArmy. Admiral Tschichagbw was to receive the enemy at Boris-sow, and by this menus it was intended to inclose hint on three sides. In consequence . of this arrangement, I caused any van guard, under Major General Wlastow-, tw pursue the enemy. This General defeated General Dintiln's division, - near the town of Patera, and within two days, - one Lieutenant-Colonel, 36 officers, and 2000 men were,made'prisoners.. Ai-- I- theh perceived that the enemy were quickly re -treating, I undertook making a 'flank movement from Kolopenitche, and marched towards time town of Baran, in order from this point to cut him off from the Lepilska road, and be enabled fo act on WesselowO and Stadinvy, where he was forming bridges. •When I arrived at the town of Kostrizy, I re ceived information, that Napoleon would cross. the Beresina river, and that Victor's corps formed his - rear-guard : I therefore put myself in march to attack him whilst crossing, and desired General Platow to hasten to Borissow, which he accord ingly did. lie proceeded on the Toletschin road, and after 0/, arrival with the whole corps . at Old . Borrissow, cut off the enemy's rear . guard, con sisting of half of Victor's corps, and attacked it . . on yesterday afternoon. After a heavy fire, of rimsketry, which continued for four•hours, and: by, the effect of lour artillery, the enemy were throwo into disorder, and put to flight : we took one piece of artillery, and 30 officers, and 1000. men, were made prisoners. Ile suffered a great loss besides in killed. and wounded. Meanwhile v, , sent a flag of truce to inform the enemy of our Superiority of force, and tell him that he was stir. the tie -rn e to '0 't• v Jai; Ph 18 , Pic hal st 1%1 Ti