The Sun. — London, England, 1812-12-07 00:00:00

S N BTJLLETI N. itEPORT PROM PRINCE KUT . IISOF - 17 TO THE Bit PEROR. Silepska, ')et. 2(►, (Nov. 1)., Your Imperial Majesty will have perceived, by lily lamer cOminunications, that the intention of the enenlysi a; t go round me, and by that means to get to Kalbuga; and' force his way into out most fruitful provinces. This determined me to abandon the - old Kalouga road, and to occupy the nen , one. By this I,;oyeinent I anticipated the enemy. at MaloyaroShiritz. A considerable corps of the enemy was, sat the same time, on•the road from Moshaisk tOKalouga. At Maloydroslavitz the enemy was beaten back. I then, with the greatest part of my army, went to - 2vledyne, where A e enemy, in the mean time, ' was detained by a lapsly of Cossacks. The enemy, fin:ling himself anticipated Oil all the roads, began to retire thrOugh Vereya, on the Moshaisk road. - In conseqtience of thiS' I made the'following' disposition : 'my army marches di rect•upon Viasrna ; the corps of General Tilora dovitz (which forms nearly the half of my force), follows the enemy in a parallel line, between me . and the Moshaisk roads ; and ail the troops .froda, the Don have received orders to anicipate the enemy,: to destroy all the Inidges, to break up the roads, and to give him all possible annoyance. As I was about to dispatch the courier with This communication,: I received a report from-the General of Cavalry . , Plata, dated 19th Oct. (31st), while marehing, in which he 'says : " This morning, at dawn, I attacked, with two brigades, the left wing of the enemy's rear guard. The alarmed enemy then continued his retreat ; I caused him to befollowed ou the flanks With Cossacks and artillery, whilst I threw myself upon his rear with cannon and Cossacks. The enemy several times halted, and skewed ,against us infantry and cannon ; but, threatened in his flanks and rear, he was still compelled to retreat. Ile seemed disposed to make a stand on time height peal-Toe convent of licdotzk'; but our artillery obliged him to ,betake himself to flight, and we took 20 pieces of cannon. In consequence, of this fortunate attack bythe Cossacks, two entire batta lions were annihilated, and I send your Excellency their two standards. The enemy's loss is v ei.y con siderable, as the Cossacks took but few prisoners. To-say only about a hundred have been brought The'battle continues, and I shall again have to report - to your Excellency when it is ended, and I shall send your a list of all those who have dis tingnisbed themselves. " Yesterday Major General Ilovaisky cut down more than 500 men, I shall follow the enemy, and make him suffer dreadfully. His rear-guard it now pas - sing . Gridneve. His army may perhaps, be at'Gschatz this day. On the road,from the Convent to Moshaisk, the-enemy left more than -500 horses behind hint, and a great number of carts and 'baggage. He must suffer much front want of provisiOns and forage. He even caused Lis powder waggons to be blown up." Tire original report of General.Platoff T inclose, and your Majesty will see, that at the Convent of Kolotzk, the enemy had made a: stand, but were attacked and made to fly by General Platoff. He took 20,cannous and two standardS, Th e enem y retreated in such haste, that he burned all his Leavy baggage and powder waggons; and.diiring the night he even marched his artillery by the light of lanthorns: SMITHFIELD MARKET, Dec. 7. This day's market had •a good supply of prime Beasts, and the show of Cattle in -general was considerable. Mutton and Veal -were dearer; Beef and Pork support last prices, and the trade, for the most part, was somewhat brisk. The .:le; iu the. Hay-rnarket were tolerably lively Cloftr has'got up in price; Straw has dropped in prke ; Hay fetched ha price.—We subjoin an ccurate statement of the prices and numbers:— To sink the Offal, per Stone of 81b. • Beef, 4s. 4d. to SS. 4d. Mutton, 4s. 4d. to ss. Bd. Veal, .bs. Od. to 7s. Orl. Lana', Os. to Os. Od. Pork, ss. Od. to 7s. Od. • Beasts, 2,U10. Sheep, 12,400. Calves, 105. Pigs,;9o, SMITHFIELD HAT-MARKET. Hay, 41.05. to 51. los. Straw, 21.' 03. to 21. Ss". Clover, Gs. to il. 15s. COR:ti-ErICHANCE, DEC. 7.—We. had abetter supply of :Wheat tb;.clay than f6r some - .vmek,s past fine samples maintained the prices bf last ...Monday; but middling and ordinary were 3s. lower. The quaiitity of Barley was considerable, and a reductiod of 2s. per quarter may be noted in that. Malt maintains its former price. " The market wls but scantily supplied with Oats ; and that article experienced a rise Of 2s. per quarter. Nell' , Tick Beans were in great plenty, and 2s..lower. Boil ing Pease are rather on the advance, and , may be considered 2s. dearer. .FlOur remains the saute as last Monday. Wheat - - 875.975. I 02s. Fine ditto •- 4405. itve - - 755, 60s. 13:alev •- *- - 465. lits. Nets bitto - - • : 665. Malt - - 923. Wes. Fine ditto - - - • I OSs. 'White Pease (boil.)108s. 118 s. IsieW , ditto • - - - 1265, 1 11;rzy ditto - -84 s. Now ditto - ~563. , Tick Beans- - - •735. 78s. Old ditto - - - Small ditto - 1.9.05. 126.5. Feed Oats - - -41 s. 455. Fine ditto - - - • sOs. Poland ditto - -51 s. 555. Fine. ditto - 575. Potatoe ditto - Gls. Rape Seed - - - GOI. 701. Fife Flour -105 s. 1103. Swcouclii -100 s. 105, 3 CADiZ Ad) MADRID; Nov. IL—General, Basseeourt yes terday, entered this capital ; in the evening his cavalry- arrived, and to-sorrow thorning his in fantry win enter. Ile Einpeeinado and Medico ar also-here. . • CADIZ, _ N ov. Excellency the r:lnce Regent of England has consented to the app6int ment of Lord Wellington as General in Chief Of theSpanish : armies. , • (3:wiz, Nov. 24.---41nrin the recommendation Of the Duke of Ciudad Rodril., , o, the Regency has conferred the comniaud of the 2d, 3d, and -11.11 Armies, on Senor (iagtands, with the title of Ge neral in Chief of the forces of the South-. GRENADA, Nov. is. said that the French have evacuated Valendia. EXTRACT OF AN ARTICLE FROM MADRID. " Advice to the consequence of the entry of hiS 21Iajcsty into this Capital; there will be a general iihnninatliin to-nif , ht s and the two following ones, which is made known to the Public for its fulfilment by order of the Senor Cor regidor ad interim—►adrid, Nov. 12." AMERICA. The lidver oni-brig has captured, and sent into Plymouth, the tinitea States brig Express, which left New York for Bourdeaux - on the 6th'of No vember: Through this source the follol,Ving in C - telligence haS --- been received :130th Houses o f Congress met , at Washington on the 2d Of No vember, and *the President's Speech was expected to be delivered on the second day of their sitting ; but, though hourly exnected, no Copy of it had been received at New . 5 1 *ork previously to the sail ing of the Express. All s pe cu l at i ons on t hi s sub . • ject represented it as breathing hostility 'against Great Mritain, under the pretence that negqia- Lions for peace could not be entered into without eomprothising the .rights of the United States. The, overtures from this count=y were expected to be alluded to ; but the telim; it was supposed, would not be made public, but referred to a Se cret Committee. The 'proposal . for levying the war taxes was expected to be warmly opposed. Several of the States not averse from hostilities, had yet given htitructions to their Representatives to Vote against this obnoxious measure. ... . . It was believed that an order fbr a general emu.' bargo would' be one. of the first Acts of Congress, on account of the' innnense exportation of grain and flour from the United States. Accounts are stated to have been rtweived at New York, that the American ship which engag ed the ; Frolic 'Was the Hornet sloop of Iyar. After a severe action of two hours, hUth lay disinastcd, and the Honet 'could not board from the heavy sea. The' Poictie?s, cruising on that station, hear ing the fining, borc.down, captured the American, and carried her with the'Ffolic into Bermuda. The British frigate Junon,, with dispatches from Sir.J. B. Warren, which had been at New York about 14 days, left it With an.answer to the dis 7; patches about two :lays .before the departure of the .Erpress ; nothing was. known of the nature. of the reply. The Swiftsure packet was waiting. foe dispatches, and shortly expeetedlo sail for B'pg. land. _ EXTRACT OF A LETTER Fhom THE lINTITEP STATES. " The, war is beginning to be g everu ly f e l t i n this .country. In the interior the farmers and great landholders have 66: store-houses filled with grain, without being 'able to find any market. Until within these few months, the produce of their lands was purchased by merchants a nd others, mho kept stores in the cities and towns of the Atlantic States, and made periodical voyages in batteaux, along tie hanks of the great rivei's, to collect it. Their price was low, perhaps not more than three dollars and a half for a barrel of flour, (and other articles in proportion), which they sold again,' for exportation, at 12 or 1-1 dole lars. They never paid in, money, hut gave an order upon some neighbouring storekeeper for at flies to the amount. This mode of condlicting business was not• very advantageous to the fin'tner, as he : neve—ob.= tained the filch part of the - value of his superfluous produce ; but it-was better than letting it rot in his barns, and that is precisely lns present situ ation. Ever since the Non-Importation Act; the value of produce has decreased, as it was very dif-: ficult to export from -any of the ports on the At lantic; the number of travelling, purchasers has consequently diminished : and now that hostilities have commenced, no exportation of grain being allowed, except to the Spanish; colonies; the situ-, ation of the settlers in these immense regions is. not ,enviable. " The produce of their lands procures them food-and drink ;• but if Odor have sunk their ca pital in purchasing theik farces, how, are they to procure agricultural implements, ,clotlies, fur niture, &c. " In consequence of this'state of things, many of the settlers in the interior are feeding their cat= tle with grain. Party dispute's,' no6vithstanding, run high -, and • there is every probability of Mr. Madison being re-elected. " In the absence of all foreign trade, those ,towns where.manufactures'are ,carried on promise ,to he - very flourishing ; but the persons engaged in them bear no proportion to the mass of the po pulation who live by other means. " Most of our young men very gladly join the army: in the present state'of the country, this is the best - method of obtaining money, as they 'are found in every thing at the expence of the State, and receive for pay at the rate of 2s.' per day." At the !Middlesex Sessions, at Hicks's-Hall, on Saturday, trkrisporta,tion, having been Convicted of obtaining Cl. I2s. tinder false pretences, from the Earl of 'Besborough.---Ile came to the hOuse of the Noble Earl with three trunks, which he pretended were the property of Colonel Ponsofibv, now in Nati gal, Maid) were expected from Waterford, in Ire land. The trunks were addressed to the Earl, with a bill for carriage, wharfage, &c. subscribed by the of Fisher. The stratagem succeeded, and the money was paid by the porter, but on opening the trunks, they were found filled with stones and hay only.---The prisoner attempted a lilte fraud at the Marquis of Waterford's, where he was apprehended. PAPEtS. SOI4I-lANI'S REPOIt'I4. - , , [Cbutinued froU/ our raper of Saturday.] ' OA the morning of the ...?,sf.h, M. General MAu cuxil pasued .our reconnoitring parties on t!...e toad iU Ditenzit; and it was ascertained that the ,t3gltsh army Occupied the heights in front of that town, with his n frUnt covered by, the. Carrion, having strong detachnients, Who were th.arg-: ed with the defence of the apnyoaches to the bridges of, Son Isidro and of Villa.,Moriel Ge neral M. , .i..;coNE c at tSed a brisk attack to be made •by the 5. , ..11 division O n th e tete-du-pont at Villa 24(iFiel. 'The enemy was overthros.vn, and thrown hack to the ether side of the river in an instant. Our troops Were alread - y- preparing to radi on the bridge, When an explosion, made by a furnace of .mines, which he had preparel there . , threw down. one of the arches, and stopped the march of the column ,which were going to take it. I felt the . necessity of quickly fercing the enemy to evacuate the bridge of San Isidro, whi c h %Vas likewise un dermined, and I had given orders to pa'ss the Pi; suerga .by bridge above Banos ; but this bridge was blown up at the moment When the nnheineut was to be put in execution. Meat]While, the fur--; mice not having entirely produced the effect, in tended, the. part of the at ch which had not been de6troyed furnished the means of e.oithlally pass ing some squadrons of 'dragoons over the left. bank, .who vigorow lv pursued the English infai _ tryi - charged,vvith the detettee, of the 'br*.dge, and who, although supported by the cavalry, were surrounded and•inade prisoners. The enemy per ceiving that we were masters of 'the left bank of the Pisuerga, endeavoured to accelerate his re tre,,t, and blew up the bridge of San Isidro, si tuated on the high road front Torquemada to We are consequently occupied .in repairing the brid.ces. These work's:have been protected by the sth division and artillery, placed on the left bank of the Carrion, which destroyed the enemy's masses which . attempted to approach from the. river. The enemy this day lost 1000 men in killed, wounded, and prisoners. Whilst we thus found the English artily shame fully to abandon the fine position of-the Duenas, the right , Of the army commanded by General For took - possessio:i of Palencia. The enemy was .pushetl with such vigodr by the Ist diviSion, that in his flight he was forced to abandon the bridge of Palencia without having had tune to destroy it, notwithstanding the . p.reparations that had been made. Forced upon all points, the rear-guard or the enemy's army retired during the night; and On . the 26th, the bridgeS being repaired, the French attny conthmed its march. The head -quarters. were established . at Dumas. • On, the , 27th in the morning I observed the positions occupied by the enemy at, Cabezon, which the Pisnegra still separat2d us from ; and to render useless - his dispositions, I ordered the army to march upon Valladolid and Simancas, by the right bank of the Pisuerga, still haring the sth and 6th divisions opposite Cabe zon to observe the. enemy's movements. The . right . of . the Army occupied Zaratan, the .3d and 4th divisions marched in .advance of Cigales, near au t .l 4 ,,A;pl thy Pi3uttga, the remainder of the army was at cigales.. - On the 28th General Foy took possession of Simancas, and entered Tordesillas on The 29th.— The bridge of Simancas, upon the Pistterga, and that of Tordesillas upon the Douro, have been. destro . yed at, the approach of the French troops.. 7— The tete•du pout of Tordesllas was still occu pied by the English. It . was necessary to drive them front that position to be able to repair the bridge with celethy. Sixty brave men of.. the Ist division and some sappers, having at their head Cap,ain Gungret,, of the 6th light, threw them . - selves into the river, and carrying their .sabres between thei r t ee th, succeeded V in reaching the opposite bank, notwithstanding the brisk fire of the enemy, who, surprised Sit so bold an action, was thunder-struck, and left some prisoners in our porter. This enterprise rendered us masters of-tlfetete-dit-pont. The enemy, informed of this march of the artily upon the Douro, felt how, dangerous it Would be for him to remain any longer on the right bank of that river, made baste, while it was yet time, to abandon his. positions. tie continued his 'retreat on the 29th, after having successively blown up the two bridges of Cabezon and:Valla dolid. • The French army entered Valladolid cm the 29th, and on'the 30th its head -quarters were .in TOrdesillas. • The . loss of the enemy in 'these different com bats is 2000 prisoners, all Eng , liSh or Portuguese, a great part of them cavalry. In this number we reckon a. Colonel, a Major, 2 Lientenant-Co loads, and 25 Officers. The English army has lost 600 horses. Its loss in killed and wounded may, without axagf ' crd.tion, be estimated at `two thOusand live hundred wen men. The Spanish, General Alava has been dangerously Our loss amounts to three hundred men killed or ‘voundcd. • I owe to M. the General of . Division, "Clan, zcl, the eulogiurns which helms so well inerit ed by the flue condition of the - army, of v.hich he has transferred the command to me. - This Ge.- neral, although' still sick, • in Consequence of his Wounds, has rendered the greatest service by the knowledge lie has of the country, and w 1 has given us •great advantages over the enemy. M. General Count Caffarelli has et - in:illy sliewn the greatest -zeal to succour the Army of Porttigal, in case it had stood iii peed of it ; hiseavairy has covered itself - with glory by the charge which•it : made on the enemy's cavalry. General Baron La martiniert has 'sliewn, in these Jiiiferent a sirs, all the zeal and activity of which he is capable ; he is a very good officer, and is deserving of his Majesty the Emperor's favours:" • The General of Division Macsine has, in all the. affairs which he has had, known how to inspire the troops which he commands with. the same ardour and devotion of which he has already per sonally given so many proofs, • The Artillery, under the orders Of M. General Tirlet, has scraed with great distinction, and has Clone much injury to the enemy. Your Excellency will remark, that Lord Wel lington, in his retreat from Burgos, has made day marches thrice as long as the army of Portugal' did, when it retreated from Salamanca to the first, said city. The troth is, that the English liav - never rested at the positions Ivhich were indicated to them on their march. They have always been forced in their poSitiOns i and were obliged to go to rest 'three or four leagues further off,. • . It results, from the acknowledgment of the English themselves, that during. the siege of the Fort Of Burgos, they had 2500 men rendered Unfit for'service, which makes-the total loss cf the En— lish army in their expe:lition ag,aiust amount to 7000 men and 600 horses, Annexed I have giYeni a particular report of'the Officers who had distinguished themselves in the different, combats which' have taken place during the march of the army, and tintif its arrival on the Douro. I most particularly demand of your the rank of General of iirigade for . Colonel Shec, and thZ• 'Cross Of the Le:cion o'f Honour for Captain Linz, of the Engineers, at tached to my division, and for my Aid-de-Camp, Captain 9uzz . las. • (Signed) Count SounAm VIENNA, !Nov. 0.-The court Gazette to-div gives the oi9cial Bulletin of the corps d';innee. , , under the orders. of Prince Seh:'vartzenherg. Af ter having repulsed the eneiny at all ponts, taken a'great number of prisOners, and carried some important positions, the army advanced on 'the :2d inst. upon Bilsk and OrIQ. On the_ 4th; it passed the Narew,.near'Plosky and N..rewka, and eucanwed on the sth in the neighbourhood of Wahli and Rudma. On. the 6th, the Austrian corps was near Prizestowice ; the Saxon corps Swisidtz. On the 7th, the head -quarter s. were removed to Prizestowice ; th e army hiwouaced between I Schedlowieze and Nestebow,. and ex tended its advanced guard tollossa.—Gazette cle France, N0v.30. • General Cas3relli has returned by way of kinr gos to the usual cantonments of 'the army of tie North, bringing with him 1,300 English and Por tuguese prisoners, of whom there are 2f officers. Two hundred prisoners were left at Burgos, to work on the repairs of the fort. The King entered Madrid on the 2d, • !And was received with proofs o► affection on the part of the people., We also learn, that on the 4th his Majesty set ont for Vallactolid.- The Moniteur of the 30th contains the journal of the siege of Burgos, as transmitted by General Dubreton, the Governor. It is of great 1-.2ngth, and we can only find room for the following ex tracts : " During the early part of the siege the gar rison was exposed to one of the most terrible wants,---that of water ; it had no sort of shelter and the bad weather compelled it to he almost always in mud and moisture ; but it endltred every thing with a patience and firmness, of which its Chiefs set the example,, 'and particularly Ge 'neral Dubreton, to whom is principally due the ' merit of this obstinate defence." The 1 - olio-wing is tile account of the attack of the ,j Bth of October : " The enemy opened in the morning a viggrorm fire from his batteries, to enlarge the breaches ; it was s►tccessfully kept up till four in the afternoon, cluriii E , which he collected in his trenches eight battalions, who he formed in three columns fur three separate points of attack. " At four o'clock, on the explosion of the mine at S. Romano ; .which. blew up the crumbling wall Which defended that post, the three Columns advanced briskly,—one to the breach at S. Roinir no ; a second, carrying ladders to that point in the second wall, which was opposite the traverses of the entrenched camp ; and the third to the breach on the side of S. Michael. The con:patty which vas at S. 1t01119.110 not being able . to with stand the enemy, retired behind the second wall, and set fire to the trains placed in the church, whichisueceeded so well, that it istantiv tum bled doWu on the enemy, and destroyed a:: who were in - it. This explosion; and the fire whiCk issued from the half-moon, and flanked the co himn of attack, .caused it so much loss, that it retired in disorder to the ho uses i n t h e tow h , whene;... 'it had debonchell. The column which at tempted to scale with ladders the point of the se cond, was so vigorously received, that f it also The attack of the breach, wln,tre the enemv. bad placed 'his best troops, Alone succeeded for a moment ; for the breach' in the second wall was not.only carried, but the enemy mounted to that' of the body of the place, into \vhich a number of English had already p,..-netrated. However, the face of 'affairs Was soon changed, and the enemy driven hack,, amidst cries of tire the Emperor a: . ter seeing the bravest of their inen slaughtered in the . interior and on the breach." • The Report concludes thus--s‘ Such, is a faith ful narrative of the events of'a:sige which thirty-five days, during which the enemy exploded four mines, made five breaches, nd as triAny :ii saults, not one of which succeeded. 'On our side, we made five successful sallies. The loss' of the enemy was about 2000 men ; our's, in killed and wounded, 16 officers, and 607 serjeants and pri vates, of whom the killed amounted to 304." In the Court of Kina's Bench, an Saturday last, Burguin, a green -grocer, Oi Covent 7 gardc brought an action against Summers, x wholesale milkman, for 3/, ss. the value of pea-shells obt - ain, ed from the plaintiff's stall, by. the - defendant's servants, during th e l as t p ea - season, t o feed his cow ---, s.The defendant's. Counsel, Mr. ; :roi!.ING, endeavoured to prove a set-off in milk, cream, and suCkiuti-pigs, sent. to Mrs. Burguin ; but Lord far,t.z . ,:i3oitouGii being of opinion that these, arti cles could only be consid'ered as presents, the plaintiff obtained a verdict for.th'e amount._ On Saturday George Thlfe, a imker, , of Black moor-street, Clare-inarket, was brought before M. KINN:URD, the:sitting Magistrates, by the Overseer of the. Your of the Parish of SE.pienient Danes, charged with, selling at number of guar tern loaves considerably under the assize weio - 11. He was convicted in the ini!igated pet - 01y of '2s. did per dunce, on the 104 ounces. A woman of a respectable appearance, itlz .an infant about three years of age by her side, under went an examination, on suspicion of- uttering a for , - , 'd 21. Bank of England note.. She was cool witted fur further exauiination. L,l''''` .