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fiery crowned his heights. The davantagt of pa= sition which the enemy's batteries had enjoyed for two hours, now befonged to us. The parapets Which .had been occupied against us during the Attack, were now to our advantage. The enemy saw the battle lost, which he thought had only commenced. A part of his artillery was taken ; the rest was withdrawn to his line's in the rear.-- In this extremity he vttempted to restore the com bat; and to attack with all his masses those strong positions which he was unable to protect. Three hundred pieces of French cannon placed on these heights, thundered upon his masses; and his sot- fliers died at the foot of those parapets which they had raised with se, much labour, and as a pro tecting shelter. The King of Naples, with the cavalry, made various charges. The Duke of Elchingen covered himself with glory, and displayed as much, intre pidity as coolness. The F,uiperor ordered a charge of the front, the right in advance; this movement made us masters of three parts of the field of battle. Prince Poniatowsky fought in the wood with va- ,rious success. There still remained to the enemy his redoubts to the right. General' Count Morand marched thither, and carried them ; bui‘ at,nine in the moaning, attacked on all sides, he could not main tain himself there. The enemy,'"encouraged by : Ibis advantage, made his reserve and -his Flast troops advance' to try his fortune again. The p,eriaLGuards ±brnied'a part of them. He attack- ed our. 'centre, which formed the pivot to our right. For a moment it was feared that 'he' might carry the village, which Was burnt;. the. division Friant advanced thither eighty 'pieces of French cannon immediately arrest, and then. annihilate the enemy's columns, which stood for two , hours in close order, under the chain-shot, not daring to advance, unwilling to retire, and renouncing the hope of victory. The sing of Naples decided their uncertainty. He caused the 4th corps of cavalry to make a charge, who penetiated through the breaches which our cannon-shot had made in the, condensed masses of the Itussians,- and the squadrons .of their cuirassiers ; they dispersed on all sides. The General- of Divisron Count Cau lainCourt Governor of the Emperor's Pages, ad vanced at. the. head of the sth regiment of Cuiras siers, overthrew every thing, 'and . entered the re doubt on the left by its gorge.- From this mo ment there `vas no, longer -any uncertainty. The battle was gained. turned upon the enemy the 21 pieces of cannon which were found in the redoubt. Count Caulaincourt, wbo had distin guished himself in this fine charge, has terminated his career. He fell dead, struck by : abulltt - ; a gioriousAeath, and worthy 'to be envied. - It was now two in the afternoon; the enemy - bad lost all hope : the battle Was endoci the 'cannonade still continued : the enemy fought for iatreat and safety - , but no longer for viclory. • The loss ol the enemy- is enormous ; • from 12 to 13,0(10 men, and from 8 to 9000 Rugsian horses, have been counted on the field of battle sity pieces of cannon and 5000 prisoners have remaitred ln our power. We have had 2500 killed; aniftb' rice aint nuns- `ter wounded.. Our total loss nay be eStirhated it 10,000 men . ; that of the mien - Iy, at from 40.t0 5.0,060. :'ever was : there 'seen such a field . of .battle. Out of six dead °bodies, there were five Russians far one Freuchman,.Forty Rt.isian Ge nerals Were 'kille4,,.wOunded, or taken; General Bagrat.:on was wounded. We baye lost the 'General of Division Mont brun, killed „hy. a cannon-ball ; General Count caulaincourt, who was sent to occupy his place, Was killed .by a shot of. the same kind, an..bour afterwards. The Generals of brigade Compere, Plauzonne, .Marion, and lluart, were killed seven or eight (4 . enerals were wounded, the most of them slightly. The Prince of Eckmulit has received no injnry.— : The French troops covered themselves with glory, and displayed their great superiority to the Russian troops. • Such, in a few words, is a sketch of the battle • of Moska, fought a few leagueg in the rear ofZ.lo jaisk, and twenty-five leagues fliomMoscow„' near the little river Moskwa. We fired 60,090 can non-shot, which arc already replaced by the ar . of 800 artillery-carts., which passed Smo . preyious to the battle. All the woods and Villages from the field of battle to this place are euvered 4rith dead and wounded. • We have found here 2000 killed or amputated Russians'. A num ber of Generals and Colonels are prisoners. The Emperor was never exposed ; neither the f oot nor horse-guards were engaged, nor lost a tingle mtni., The victory' vas never uncerpin.-.-- 4ad the enemy, when driven from his entrench ., /.4ents, not endeavoured to retake them, our loss Would have been greater than 'his; but he de sesfroyed hi§ army by keeping it 'from 8 o'clock till A vz, unde r the fire of our batteries; and in obsti- Vo — ti4tel v attempting to regain that which was lost„ every dne 4istinguisltecl himself. 'rite tilt tot Naples ) and the Duke of Elchingtp, were pecu liarly pouspicubus. - .The artillery, and particularly that of the guards, surpassed itself. The actions which have ren dered tbiS day illustrious shall be made known iii detailed reports. " Monsieur Bishop of , the passage of the Niemen, of the D'wina, the Borvstbeues, the coinbats 'of Mohilow, of the Drissa, of Polott,k, of Ostrowno, of Smolensk, and, in fine, the battle of Moskwa, furnish so many respective reasons for addressing thanks tb the God of armies ; our will therefore is, that on receiving this present letter, you concert measures with those to ,whten it of right belongs. Assemble my people it the churches to chaunt prayers, conformably to the usage 'of the, Chureti simila4circuinstances. This letter having no other object, I pray God to have you in his holy keeping. " Front our. Imperial quarters at Mojaisk, the 10th of. September, 1812. " By the Emperor, . (Signed) toNApor.Do!4. • . " The Minister Secretary of State, (Signed) • ",Count DARU." , REPORT TO HIS MAJESTY TIIE'EMPEROR AND KING. SIRE, The result of the examination of the prisoners, of- whom the . greaier . part arc ignorant recruits; or men taken before the close, and off the field of. - battle, as welt as almost g all of them wounded with bullets, .ad the grehter part dying, has af forded me the following it forquition with regard. to some divisions of the enemy's army Ist. The 12th division, forming part of the 7th corps, composed of the infantry regiments of SmOlensk, Narva, 'Alexopoi, and New Ingria, ' well as of the 6th• and 41st regiments of foot chasseurs; and commanded by' Major-General Palitzin, , who had succeeded - General' Kulbakin, wounded at Mohilow, received its:recruits, which were draWn from depots, and brought up by Milo radowiti on . the inst. in can Sequence of which'. the regiments of infantry were raised to SOO each, and the ehasseur regiments to 1200, which Makes the Strength of this' division to .have amounted, before the battle, to . 4,600 men, exclusive of two companies of artillery, with 24 pieces, of cannon,, from 6to 12. pounders. - On the day of the battle of the ith of Septem ber, this divlsion was' stationed in the centre of the first line. About two in the afternoon it had already w sustained great losses, and was in ant of ammunition. A !lieutenant of the regiment o Alexopoll, named Peter Voronin,who, having been sent to the reserve to demand more, lost his way among the brush-wood, and was taken after the retreat of the army,. declares, that Gen. Rajewsky, commanding the corps d'armee, received- a 'se vere contusion, which obliged burn to quit the field of battle, and that the General-in-Chief Prince Wt.' gration was wounded. All the .prisoners of this division agree in stating. that it lost more . than half of its number ; that its confusion was. com plete at the time of its retreat ; anti that it, owed its safety solely to Meow and Uvaroh, who Co vered 'it Those of the 41sechasseurs say, that there scarcely remained 50 men to each Company. 2d. The Ist division of grenadiers, consisting of . the grenadiers of the body-guard, of St Peters burgh, Ekaterinoslav, Taurida,. Palowski, and Arakschezeff, otainmanded byCoutit Strogonoff, and forming part' 'of the 3d Corps d'arniee, was on the extremity of the left, 'in the rear of the battery, where it suffered Considerably by the fire of the ,artillery ; it was flanked by two 'squadrons of cui 'raSsiers, - which equally suffered without being : . brought. into action. The respective strength of -these grenadier regimentt - amounted, before the battle,. to from -8 to 900 men, TheirloSsiS - estimated at one third, which they 4 aSBribe . ..to the cowardice 'of the' officers, who abandoned their ranks,' and concealed themselves in the brush-wood., Two regiments of chasseurs attached to this di ,which were stationed in advance were disper4ed ; their loss is unknown. A soldier,, named GregOriot rlePskow, who has •:served for nine years.in the regiment of St. Peters burgh, declares, that 'he never saw his regiment' give way as it did on this occasion.. • He says, that before. the battle, General Kansa' rode along their, line - and harangued his troops, which, how ever,.• did not ,-prroduce much effect. - This man adds,, that he heard Major Dalin, the .Command ant of his regiment;• say, that about mid-day, Benigscn had gone 40 versts beyond Mojaisk, to prepare there the means of .defence:: he believes that he went to •Little Viasma.. • •:.. • • • It was notknown What had becOme of Tutsckow, the Commander in Chief of the 3d corps, or of the 3d division af Kanowitzin, which , formed part Of it. 3d. The 2d division of grenadiers,consisting of the reghnents of Astracan, Fanagoria, Kioff, Moscow, Little Russia, andiSiberia, commanded by Prince Charles of Mecklenburgh, and forming part of the Bth corps of Borosdin, was stationed on the sth of September at the great redoubt, which was taken on the same day, and where it lost its cannon, a colonel, and more than the half of its men. The regiments of this division were quite full . on, arriv ing at Sinolensk ; but they had not more than 1000 each on the sth, before the action ; and numbered not more than from 7 to 800 each, on the morn ing of the 7th, when they . were in the village which they were charged to defend, in advance of the batteries of the left flank. It was at this time that the Prince of Mecklenburgh was wounded. , . . . 4th The 2d corps Of Bagavout had manoeuvred on the 6th and 7th,in order to advance to the left of the line, to support the 3d corps. Altthe pri soners assert that not one half of it returned to Mojaisk. • The. musketeer regiments of Minsk, Tobolsk, Volhynia; and Krcnientschug, as well as the 4th and 34th chasseurs of the 4th division, command ed by the Prince of Wurtemberg, amounted to 800 men each ; and after the battle, none of them could muster 400: it was the same with the regi ments_ of .Raizan, Belosersky, Brese, and Wii manstrand, as well. as the 30th and . 48th chasseuri ~c rtf Al ccinfi ff A tni•4Aitern of the regiment of itaizati, name ProhOroff, declare's, that his Colonel, Avens, was killed .and that during the retreat, he -saw on the hank of the river, the General in ehid Ttitschkoff 'wounded, as Well as the ColOn el of the Grenadiers of Moscow. This corps had few officeis killed, but many wounded. sth. The 24th division of the 6th corps, which was, stationed in the grand central. battery, mus tered after the battle only s 3O men each company though two days before they amounturto 100 each in -the regiments of SchirwanSk; Bittinkas, and Toinsk ; while the companies of the 19th and . 40th chaSSeurs amounted to 115 men each, by, means of recruits drawn frOm Novo gorod-Sewersly. 6th. The 2d division of the Gnards, composed of the Ismailoff and Lithuanian regiments of •Gre nadivrs, .and of two Chasseur regimentS of • the Guards of Finland, under the orders ofGener. - -,1 LaWrciff, were stationed in line in the rear of the three battthies, on the_ left of the centre. These -regiMents suffered considerably from the artillery; but that of Ismailoffhaving advanced With the bayonet,, Was so vigorously charged by the caval ry,. that not more than 40 men each company were left to it. General Krapowitski, command wing a brigade, and the,Colonel of the regiment.of Ismailoff, were there wounded. • (Signed) SOKOLNICKI, General of lDivision, charged with a Special'Service. Mojaisli, Sept. to, 1812. brn it ?. ON ink LATE MEETING TO PETITION' FDA I,Ecdir When laie the faCtious iebel rout Made all that mighty stir.-about, Petitioriing for PtAtE ; These disuffeeted Demagogues, ilarg.ngtiltig mobs of itlie rogues. Deciar'd that.Wmt should cease! And cagy srcll th6r fakce oti; They each biA ricifi-Cori parsii As mischief was their aiiri : Ptil•sic and Law, however planed, To aid the cause were mit ashalied fati the factious clause. These mighty thief's, in concert join'd, Their doughty speedies had Ourlciin'd From 'JACOBIN \REVIEWS : Each prompted each when menery fdirdi And Ministers were loud assaild With rancorous abuse. Should Sweden ALEXANDER join, In BONEY'S read• their hosts combine. With RusSia's deadly gale; They'fear their staunch and potent friend Might bring iris glories to an And their predictions If Itussia . send him to the Devil, • Who always eras to ahem sv ciril, Thett ail-their hopes must end Fle.was their faith and their strong hold, 'Twas his success that made them bold .Rebellion to defend; Their 'abject Erst, or I'm mistake% Is meant to save friend BONEY's baton, (Thus courting execration) Our rulers next they hope to vex, Thwart all their measures and perplex, But never serve the nation. Nix. Derby, Sept. 26, 1312 GENERAL ELECIION. PIFFIN WILSON, WILLIANI LOFTUS, and E. t. LACON, Esqrs. are the Candidates for Great Yar inontb. - J.. R. ASTLVE, and T. W. COKE, - Esqrs. are Candidates for the County of Norfolk: JOHN PArTESONi Esq. notwithstanding reports tO the contrary, again stands for the City of Norwich. Lord PALMERSTON and JOTINT HENRY SMIPTVe, Esq. the . late'Members, are the only Candidates who have yet offered themselves for the Univer sity of Cainbridge.--LorA CHARLES SOMERS= MANNERS :-(TIOW in Spain), one of the AidesLde- Camp to the-Marquis of Wellington), ' and 'Lord FRANCIS GODOLPHIN OSBORNE, Of GOgrlngog the. late, Members, are expected to be re turned without opposition for theCounty.--Ge ner.4l-..the Hon. EnwA.ap FiNckt and ,(3en.erat MANNERS, the late MembPrs, have canvassed.thz the voters, aud_will certaiktly be re-cleofed - for _..•: the Town. - J.-FANE, Esq: and Lord F. A. SPENCER Ftr.nd •of the • Cottutv of Oxfoid J. I. LocT.J.-rAwr, F. BultToN; GEORGE :EDEN, 'JOHN ATKINS WRIGHT, and 11. R. CURZON, Esqrs. are Candidates for the City.. The Hon. CHARLES DUNDAS and WM: HASLET, Esq-. , stand for ,the County of Berks . . Lord NUGENT and T. HussEY, Esq. stand for • the Borough of Aylesbury. The Hon. WILLIAM HILL, retires from Shrews bury. The present Candidates are. ,the Hon. HENAY GREY BENNET, Lieutenant-General Sir `RoWLAND HILL,. and BENJAMIN BENNET, tsi. . 11. BROWN declines for Bridgenorth. Lord HENNIKER stands for the County of Rut land.. He also offers for the Borough of Stain .conjunction with E. FOULKES, Esq. They are opposed by Messrs..ODDY and G. N. Nox4. W. E., WELBY ,staads for the Borough of Grantham. ROBERT HERON, Esq. offers for Great Grimsby. The Hon. C. A. PELHAM and CHARLES CHAP , . LIN , Esq. stand for the County of Lincoln.— J. N. TAZAKERLEY offers for the City, in the room of LordiVuxson9uGii - , who declines ; Mr. OSBALDESTOI•T' also declines. Tlie late Meeting at Derby, for. the purpose of • petitioning the - PIINcE REGENT, and both Houses of Parliament for Peace, was held in the Market giee, the Mayor having refused to lend the Town 118.11..:: The Meeting was attended, we un .derstand; by a motley crew, consisting chiefly "of women and children from tile silk and cotton - mills, .to the number of beiWeen four and 500, which hav'e been•magnified--into . as . many thousands. . SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. NEWMARKET FMST,.OOTOBER MEETING; ism FRIDAY, OCTOBER 2. IA Foley's Osprey, Bst. 7Th. beat Ld Jersey's Antlionio, est. 21h, T. Y. C. 230g,"5, h. ft.,-6 to son Oiprev. Mr. Prendergats's Skirmish, beat Mr. Baririg's br. c. by Totteridgc,..-est, 7114 each. rah,. M . ..-500g5.--5 to lon AIETEOWOLOGI BY R. B MOSOPHICAL INSTRU Thermometer. !AL JOURNAL ANKS, ENT' MAKER, STRAND! r '4" I 4 --;" ,Tt a • • ) en I 'Weather. 7.- zzic. H 3 10 .14 29.23 iix P.M ider an+ I triVtr. at noon. Ire iit 04; Fair* Cidy. Itain Cldy. Do.- rtaiu•t• Do. Do. Rain (1:londy Do. Fair PULTCE~ Alcock and Geora-e -were charged with stealing various articles 'of wearing apparel, in the.dwelling- house of a poor N!..)man residing in Fan-street, Bridge , .vater-Gar, deny: It appeared that the complainant was , absent from.home, at market, yesterday morning; and on her return she missed the articles in question. 'A boy who lived opposite told her that he saw two men go into her shop a few minutes before, and come out with a bundle. These men, he said, went into the Bunch of. Grapes public-house.— The poor woman' immeitiately went thither in search of them; the men were, however, gone, but , in the kitchen, she found a pair of stockings drying, which it was stated to her the prisoner ill had taken out a bundle, and begged permis sion to dry. An officer was then procured, and the.two prisoners were apprehended;' when they came back to the house in the course of the morn ing. The other clothes lost were, Wowever, not forthcoming ; and upon the strong presUmptive evidence 'detailed, they were committed for trial.• IhnoN-HALL.—John Lee was, charged by Mr. Martini a lighterman in the Borough, with rob bing him of his pocket:44*, containing several Bank-notes, on Thursday evening last. When 'Mr. Martin, Who was passing over London bridge, about seven o'clock, saw the prisoner and two others coming towards him; laying holttof each. others arms, he endeavoured tO.avoid theni ;- but they, as it by accident, ran against •bim, and two of them taking hold of one arm, and thethird (the prisoner) hold of the other, they twisted him nearly rouad, the prisoner at the same tinge press- . iris, hard ag:itiuSt his breast pocket. -At soon as he was , able to disengage himself, they Wall three ran of, :end he putting his hand to his pocket im mediately missed his book. He observed the.pri soner.run towards the Borough, and having, the - Strongest suspicion of him, pursued him, calling " stop thief !" and Friend, the constable stopped him in Tooley-street, and took" him into custody. On searching hiM, however, no pocket-book was to be fOund. This statement was corroborated by: a Gentle , man .wbo.was passing over the bridge at the time Mr. Martin was hustled, and witnessed the whole transaction. The prisoirr expressed a. wish to , enter-the army or navy ; , but the Magistrate in formed him, the offence with 4nich he was charg ed Was of too serious a nature, to allow of any in dulgence being granted to him. lie was fulls - committed for tri;ll at the Assizes. PIRACY ON THE RIVER THAMES. THAMES POLICE OFFItE. , - . -Ge s .orge' Harris' was this' day brought sip for final examination'' before Mr. HARRIOTT, the Sitting Magistrate, unddr the charge of being an accessary both before and after the robbery of a vessel in the river on the 12th of July last. Theseveral depositions ofthe owner of the ves sel and. others,, taken last Saturday, as : to their suspicion of his guilt, were read, and Mr.. Prater, to whOse house part #of the stolen - silk; 129 pounds . , weight,. had' been carried, through the referenCe of Mr,,Farrow, the silk-brolter,..hy. a .woman who' delivered it in the presence of. George Harris to Mr. Codd, the Clerk, in the absence of his' em ployer, now attended, and testified, that :on -.his return home, the instant he saw the state of the. goods, 'he ordered them to be 'taken aw'ay. as. suspicious circumstances had attended the trall action 5 . Harris having, on' the delivery, • given ,a 1 memorandum With his name subscribed thereto to the Clerk, directing htin to deliver the goods; if not approved, to any. person hringing . a note with the like. subscription, and having declared to the broker that he sold the goods on. commission for a respectable person, whom, in his declaration of confession on Saturday last, he , admitted to be liobemeooper, the prisoner. . The Clerk of Mr. .Prater was, allowed to mend his former depositidn, and the case appeared strong 'again'st the prisoner, nor was the . woman who carried the silk produced. Mr. ,Ano.;.rxus appeared- as Counsel for, the prisoner, and principally laboured to have hint 'admitted to Mr. GURNEY' attended for the prosecution, and opposed the 'aPplication for bail, contending, - that it any ground of distinction could be established between the prisoner and the six others already committed for trial, in mitigation Of this charge, it . could only avail him by a motion to the . Court 'of King's Bench, in Term time., The Magistrate -was decidedly of opinion, that he bad not power, from th,e.evidente in this case, to admit the prisoner to bail, and refusedthe ap plication. frhe prisoner was; after considerable discussion, ordered to stand fully committed for :64, .96 .70 SO 00 Tilt si Thun E.--a 1 Ldligl fter a s' ;litning it daya a lber.