The Sun. — London, England, 1812-11-12 00:00:00

7-t ti , t 1 1 ,4 DITI 0 SUN- OFFICE, THREE O'CLOCK. in a-ldition to the particulars mentioned in the Gazette Extraordinary, we have the satisfaction of laying before our Readers the following de tails In the: battle between General KUTUSOW and MuRAT, Prince PONIATOWSKI and the French 'Generals JoINVILLE, MONCEY, and DARU, were killed. The weather at Moscow was uncom rtionly bad, and the roads so cut up, that they Were nearly impassable, which was the reason that MURAT lost so many cannon. General PLATOW had been dispatched towards Smolensk, with fifteen regiments of cavalry.— Every thing that can be accomplished by activity Ad skill may be expected from this able General. The Russian horses are.in fine condition, while those of the French are, in general, feeble,_ and hardly fit for service, in consequence of their want of foiage. From letters and .Altona papers to the 20th ult. received by the Heligoland mail this day, we learn, that so great an alarm had prevailed at Warsaw, in consequence of the glorious successes of the Russians, and their advance, in the rear of the French, that a formidable assault 'from the Cossacks had been apprehended, and the gates had been barricadoed. In the course of a few hours, the Magistrates had, in some degree, recovered from, their panic, and had issued a Proclamation to quiet the_minds of the people, and to assure them that there was no immediate danger. The Fortunee frigate has arrived from Santander. It wai erroneously repoiled that she brought an account of a victory obtained by the Marquis of WELLINGTON over the French. Before the F.artunee sailed from Santander, an account had arrived there that Lord WELLINGTON'S head-quar- , ters were at Cubezo, and those of the French at Decenas. His 'Lordship had cut off a French ad i'anced guard of 300. cavalry and 400 infantry. In answer to the. Morning chronicle of to-day, it should be stated, that no Dispatch hn arrived from Loi•d WELLINGTON, of a later ,date than the 11th of October ; and that, no account whatever, of the affair of the 18th at Burgos, . has, been received by any of the Departments of Government. iVAL limn', Nov: 9.—The Clio sloop of war sailed from Leith Roads on Saturday, to the southward; and the Cracker gun-brig to the northward. The Apelles sloop of war arrived in the Roads last night from a cruize. NAVAL APPOINTMENTS.—uapt. Sir J.-Gore, to the Revenge; Capt. H. L. Baker, to the Conflict; Gre,nt Allen, to the command of the Pegase prison - hospital ship, vice- Decreurdoux.; - tient. Ditndas, to the Peaco;:l! ; Lieut. Thomas, to the Etna; Lieut. Simmonds, to the Satel ; Lieut, T. D. Debivas, to the Racoon ; Lieut. M. Miller, 'to the Christian VII. ; Lieut. C. G. Bennet, 'to the Impreg nable-' Lieut. R. Watts, to the Fortunse ; Lieut. 'G. Pratt,. to the Daedalus; Lieut. J. W. Green, to the . Hasty; 'Lieut. R. Pocock, to the Revolutionaire r Lieuts. W. Matthews and T. L. Wilkinpn, to - the Andromeda; Lieut. It, A.- Yates (from - the Niemen), Montagu Montagu, and •Lechmere, to the Barossa ; Lieut. J. Hall, from the York, to the Surprise ; Lieut. J. Peding, to be second Lieutenant of the Suffolk pri son,ship ; btr A. Reach, late Purser of the Sourabaya, t - ,) be Purser to the ; W. Allen, t, the ilecla ; Mr. T. Mason, to the Quebec; Mr. It. Chapman, to the Minerva; Mr. E. Bell, to the Penguin. NAVAL SUPERSTITION.—Capt , S. - Who was cut off in the very bloom of his professional talents,. when cruizing "off the Italian coast, had passed , several days without seeing a ship ; he learnt that the men ascribed this inanspicious circumstance to the Captain's having taken a black cat on board.— He innnediately.called the men aft, arid asked them if it really were so; they, without hesitation, confirmed the 'report—geerboard with the . black cat t_._.."°' That,", exclaimed an old- seaman, « is worse still,—she must be landed." " Then lower away the jolly-boat," said the Ciptain ; which haying been done, the cat was lauded with Much formality. .The sailors were doubtless con-' firMo in their, folly, .by the circumstance of their tapturing on that same night, the best prize which they .had taken in the Mediterranea'n. Thursdfly evening the house of Mrs. Atkins, - of Northumberland-street, Ma•rylebone, was broken open, and robbed of plate and other property to a considerable amount. "Saturday night, about nine o'clock,' as Mr, !lope, of Elizabeth-place, Kennington, was pass e in;; by the end of Chandos-street, St. Martin's lane, lie was hustled by a gang of three or four men, who robbed him of two gold seals and a key. There is now in the New Bailey prison, in Manchester, a woman, who has been confined for a length .of time., and from whoni about 15 months since a child was taken, under the presumption of it having been stolen, of which there appears little doubt; it is a girl, and when rescued from the woman appeared to be about three y‘.-trs old ; she could speak at that time, and said that her nand was Mary Ann Smith ; she said she had a father , and mother, and a grann-manarna, who kept horses and carts for the carrying, of coals to, the London market; from her seeming to understand coal-boats, it is presumed she was brought tip near a canal. She is now, and has been ekn'since, :Winder the care of a weaver, of CadiAeard, near, . 1 r - Manchester. NEW PARLIAIUENt, MEM BE RS RETURNED. Bute and Caithness (Coarity).—John iNiarjdri banks, Esq. Inverness, Dd.-=Charles Grant, Esq. sen. Rothesay, &c. (Boroughs).--Lieuienant-General Duncan Campbell. CONTESTED ELECTIONS. CORK (CITY).--.: , 'ls'At, Cr..osE. Col. Longfielfl 9IE I Hon. C. H. Hutchinson 632 Sir N. Colthurst 669 The two first were declared duly elected. CORK (ConNTY)..--Nov. 5. Lord Bernard '919 Hon. Mr. Ponsonby.... q 1.3 Hon. Mr. Flare ; . 1552 1 Mr. Leader TIPPERARY (CcitiNry).—Niw. 5. General Mathew 4713 Catouel Bagwell I Mr. Prittie FERMANAGH (CouNTY.) Eighth Day's State 9f • the Poll : Gen. Cole • 2951 I Mr. Brooke 1611 Gen. Archdall 1763 GOTTENBURGH MAIL. OFFICIAL II POItT PROM LIELTT.-GE4. OERTIL TO HIS IMPERIAL MA- JESTY, DATED THE -- SEPTEMBER, FROM THE TOWN OF MOSYR. Towards the end of • August, I . received infor mation from all parts of Gen. Dombrotiski having marched out of Mohilett - with his corps, and had collected. all the detachineuts left behind ; that he was besides levying recruits, and waS endeavour ing by, all means to join Generals- 'Morlac',owski and Dzgeyanowski, each of whom corwminds a division ; and furthermore, that General DOm browski was forming depots at Glusk, Witscha, and Gerbalscherya, with the Intent, after having Collected provisions togetheesand joined the others, to blockade the _fort OE Bobruisk, and there by to cut off , the communication between Bo bruisk and Mosyr., On. thii intelligence, I put myself in motion with tlie corps under my command to destroy the eitethy's magazines, and to heat them. I accordingly .left.the needful ,nutuber,of troops at Mbsyr for its defence, till my return, and-on the 30th Aug, (Sept. 12.). put my self in march on the road to' , Glusk, and on my road,fell in with many loads ofptovisions and rage - , as well as cattle which were going to thecae my. After having given commands to the drivers to drive this back again, and return the corn and cattle to the villages from whence it had been taken, I, on the 2d (1-Ith)' Sept. at-four P. M. reached a village, where I. foutid my van-guard, consisting of the regiment of, Don Cossacks of Grekowg, and of two squadrons of the hussar re giment of t'umysch, a company of the 41st relit. of Yagers,of the Smolensk regiment of infantry, and, two pieces of light artillery. Near this place the enemy ("illy perceiving our cavalry coming out of the woad; furiously - charged it, but Colonel Grekow4, with his re.. ; - iinetit, 4nd the squa drons' of` Sumysch hussars, threw them, and deove them back to t; -..+,!;. Even , the enemy's infantry, 1000 Strott , e. .IH.e..e en camped before Glusk, fell ba •- ; for which reason I ordered my t , and drive the enemy put of this plac.:•, he sought to establish himself. -The Gentsky, of the Smolensk regiment ot instantly arrived there' with 11;s detachnne. - a, :111 , sent a company of yagers of the 41st, and sonic volunteer sharp-,shooters belonging to the h:.z.tta-• lion Under his command, and placed himself, with one battalion, and two-) pieces of artillery, in front of the place; when the eneiny's infantry per- Ceived ours, they divided themselves into two parts. The one half - remained iu the empty houses, from whence they were, howevev, driven, notwithstanding .the obstinate defence they made, and their advantageous position, iri the course of an hour 5 -the other half at the . satne time retreated across the river, and in their:re- - . treat destroyed the bridge, on the other side of which he, however, halted, and brought up two pieCes of cannon to defend it, and the rernainder of their flying troops. Major Gentout took post nt Glusk, and acted so effectually with his corps, that, With the assistance Of the hussars of the Su mysk Regiment, and the Don Cossacks of Colonel Grekow, which• they gave on the other side, he threw the enemy into disorder, who, after a two hours' engagement fled, and left us masters' of the field of battle; and a , magazine of provisions Which they had collected, of which the necessary quantity was used for the support 'of the troops, and the remainder returned to its former owners. The7hospital, with 150 men, also fell into our hands. , We took, three Officers priSoners, among whont is the late ComMander, Glusk„ and men. ,On our side we had only one superior Officer„ and 23 men of lesser rank, killed.; ' Having gained the victory over the enemy at this point, I, took my way to Wiltscha and Gor batschewitsche, 'to prevent his joining the corps of General Matachousko; and to allow. the Others time to rec Over themselves. Agreeably to this, on the same evening, having repaired the bridge, nay van-guard crossed over to the other side, and on the 3d (15th) September,. at day-break, I be gan to pursue the 'flying enemy with the corps Un der. my command. On this road I likewise found , numbea 'of waggons laden, with provisions and fbage, all' which I returned 'to the places froth 'whence•they. came. At six wersts from Gehatschewitschi, my van guard, which was two worsts before me, was, in a very narrow defile, received by a considerable . number of the enemy, with a battery of two pieces of cannon ; on their flank, were posted sharp shooters. Finding 'myself at this distance from my van-guard, I surmised that the enemy, see ing only this detachment, would • endeavon: to cut it off. The enemy puShed ,hard on our van guard, which I dir:cted to fall back in good Or- - der, and with slow pace, to• join the corps. Af terwards my vanguard, composed , of. two Yager battalions of the .6th and 41st regiments . , and of the 'Don Cossack' regiunent,, I cominanded them to disperse themselves in the woods on the flank. 1 Myself marched forward, placing the brave Smolensk battalion' in front of the column, cans e„d the other battalions to Join it close, and com :'inanded, them not to stay behind the Smolensk hattaliori, and that the coiatMng should follow on each other. The rest of the artillery I pliteel in the :centre of the fant y , and the ca .vahy on the sides of - the roads on wile. l .l :the in fantry, Oil acbonnt OF the narrowness of the de file, could only meren iu half .plattu and the (-.tvairy two , abreal.:_t. After having ordered my troops in this manntr, I marched , for ward, and drove the enemy out of his first forti fied* pOsition.., Although . l. had to pa.ss through' narrow defiles, itnd stirroi,n_ded by the enemy, yet neither the danger; nor the heat Of the elle= nry's 'which NN * ' as tit) on us.- on all sides; could detain your imptrialALtjesty's trQops.. Smolensk battalion,*under its gallant Coannantie.r, distinguished itself in a most :striking nnanner) thrice it drove the enemy 'out - of the'very strongest *. poSilion, and it iris Merely•the darkness of the.. night, and our not being perfectly aequainted with, the roads and„ situation, which saved the th eher from total.destruction. " The - battle oom-, • menced at five o'clocli, and ended at eleven o',elock. at night. After the • quick retreat made by the enemy &Om all the'places possessed by him; I re- - - 116:hied on the field of battle till nine in' the morn-' ing. This cOrps, of. the enemy consisted .0f 5001) men, real French troops, commanded by GEncral Dztieanowske, and under hitn the Grand Major GuerSan; Adjutant to Marshal Junot, was next in command. After dcft.ating the enemy, and restoring the communication with Mosyr, I rctuined there again the following day,. all on the 10th (22) SITt. arrived here. ' In these battles we have taken five superior officers, and men of lower rank, and they have left above 1000 men dead on the field of battle. The losS- oil our side is, trilling - , compared with that of the, enemy; it consits of one' oiiicer and 76 men killed, and three Officers and 101 rank and file Wounded: , This, ciirersiou, so totally une.xperted ‘ by the enemy, has . olitained for us the following 4- vantages 1 _ General Dombrowski baS hereupon collected all his forces together, and is retreating ‘\baek to leaving the fortress of Bobruisk free, WhiCh was surrounded_ by him on all sides. 2. !All the convoys passing from Repichiza and Logew, with! the supplies of cqt-le for the provi sioning that fortress, can now pass without danger, and bring us 'sufficient provisions. 3'. The magazines (.•(ilected by the enemy are destvoyed,, and the whole eneiny'S corps of 5000 men, is, notwithstanding our very severe march, having been obliged to' perform 3SO worsts in _eleven days; without one day of rest, totally dis persed. were eight hours engaged in battle, and twice twenty-four hours we were -5 ,-- y;ithout water, and almost without any thing to eat : but no hindrances could, prevent your imperial Majesty's ,troops from pressing on to the defeat of their enemies. The re , riainder of this dispatch consists of af fairs of posts; in all of which the itnSsians, who e4ei-ed Pinsk, appear to hare had the advan tage. .„ NTERSBURreI, OcT. the Circle of Syts chewsisk, the peasantry anti burghers. have ga thered together from 41. places, armed with scythes, es, Vic. and dee: :red, that %%ill pot give a silig'e foot Out of their Cireie, so long as a drop of blood was in their veins. Their commander is a ths!)Andcd Major, and we have received good ar!conits of their courage.. They have already, La sever it skirmishes, cut down more than one tlioUsand French on the spot; and took three hun dred prNo.ters, make heavy complaints these rude warriors, and say they grant no quarter. BIW-STREET.—On Tuesday evening the Pit of Covent-Garden Theatre:was extremely crowded after the half-price.—Betwen the Play and En tertainment.the company stood up, is custoni - -- ary : Mr. William Tipler, pi Martin's-lane, Can non-street, was'standing near the orchestra, when he found himself' so very much pressed against, that he could not get his hands to his pockets, and he' noticed that the pressure had principally proccededfiom two men. In asitort time afttn.- wards, intending to take .a pinch of snuff, he put his hand into his coat pocket for his silver box, when he found the bottom of his pocket had be cut out, and the box taken ; he alsO discovered that.the bottom of.his insidecoat poCket had been cut, but 116 pocket book was not taken, it being a large one, and the part cut away *as not sufficiently large to let it out. He noticed that only one of the men who bad pressed against h remained in the pit., He went out, and 'procured. Donaldson and Lack, the, officers, and informed theM what had happened. The officers went•into the pit, and .Observed,the man who remained. — The other returned in a short time. When the latter saw Donaldson and Lack, he attempted to go back, but they called to hint, and asked hint where he had been ; he replied to buy some apples, hut. it turned out he haul, no apples about him.— The officers took Win. into ,custody together with the other nvm whom Mr. Tipler pointed out as having pressed . against him. They denied all knowledge of each. other. Yesterday they were brought beforeMr.,BIR NIE, the Sitting Magistrate, when they their names were Morris isaacsnud Humphrey Mortis, both Jews. Isaacs said he workcdtwo days in the week with a' Lew butcher,. and the other four days he sold fish. Morris said he was a watch-maker. They were ordered to be detained. UNION-HALL.trilliuln Sabine was brought up by Collingbourn and Glennon, charged by the Chief Mate of the Ceres receiving ship, at the None, with having received certain American bills for 270 dol lars, front two boys, Hull and Lloyd. The • bills iu question were stolen froin some American pri soners on board the Ceres by Hull and Lloyd, and sent by them, as they have confessed, wrapt up in a bundle of cloths, to Sabine, by a sailor named Coates. Sabine, however, denied having ever re ceived the hills front Coates. On further inquiry, Collingbourn found. a silk bankerchiel at a pawn broker's in th 2. Borough, which was stolen from one of the Americans, at the time the bills were stolen, and which was pledged there by Lloyd's sister. , Sabine was discharged as to the robbery, but being recognized by the officers as a deserter from the Leopard, lie was taken on board the ten der lying off the Tower. LAV/ RTTORT: COURT OF (-}:.lNt ERY, Nov. 11. HAS/ARKir,r - THEATRE.-MORRIS V. OLIVIAN, This long contested case came on, upon exi:ep.: tiMls 'to the Master7s t6VOrt, who under a :rttj Decree (it this Court; had prepared a deed for ad=t iiisti - nt* all dilfeyentes between the parties, and for Him:la - ging the' concerns in future. - The whole concern at - first belonged . to Mr. , ColMai, the de-: fendaTit„ who sold one-fourth part or share to tit plaintiff, another ,to Mr.. Winston, the :Sta:e -friatmor, and ,to a Mr. Shoerdon, 'retaining one balf or moiety of the whole to, himself. It wW;' covenanted between the parties, that none should Sell nits share; except to d, partner, or giving one month's notiCe'fothe - hthers but Mr. ShOerdou solilltiS;;Sliafe,. or -eighth part, to the ‘vithout ij*, , ,Corman's consent to such acce. , iiv: of po,ksTrA voting as this Would give hiin, lout as to ttie piotits of such sale he had no objection. tbcs . groandnexceptions were taken and argin'd fantlits defeirdant ,by Sir SAMUEL RomI.LLY and 2.41 r. ELA Mr. for the plaintiff, and against the ex ceptions, kyas' desired to r6tune on the next paper clay. SIR ROBERT SUTTON V.,SIR THOMAS JONES. This cause cable 'On upon an 'exception to the Master's Report, 'for'allbwing one shilling in the pound to Mr..Henniker,Jhe former agent and re ceiver of the late Lady Bath and her husband, James Pulteaey, for receiving the rents of fifteen hundred houses, in and about Piccadilly, which were devised to the ,plaintiff; now a minor - and infant, by Lady Bath's will, Tire exception was argued.for the plaintiff, who sues by Mr. and, Mrs. W6ght,•his next friends, on the grounds of the facility of receiving such rents,. and4the'infancy of-the plaintiff, &c.. After long arguments on each side of this ques tion, his Lordship decided that sue]) *an allowance could not be sustained Without knowing, the Ma's ter's reasons - for" the allowance, gs in some cases it may be 'too little, and in others too much, there being no fixed' rule in such cases. his ship ordered the case to be referred back to the Master for further inquiry,—Exception allowed. COURT OF KING' Nov. 11. ASPINALL V. HARRISON Mr, PARKE moved, fora new trial, in thiS case, oh the ground- of- excessive damages. It was an action by an Attorney against another Attorney, for an assault, for which the ,Eiry gave 501. da mages. The circumstat'ces of the case, as cd, were, that Mr. Aspinall had caused the de fendant and, another to be sued upon a bill of exchange; upon whicil Harrisat :vent to his office in Chancery-lane, to settle the business ; he tact Aspinall he had acted d—d shabbily'ia causing him to be arrested; to which' Mr. Asuitaall replied he lith id.given la indulgence enough', and that he had"taken his word. until he, was tired of doing it any longer. Upon this Har rison gave him a violent blow on the✓ neck, which would have knocked him down; but that he was. prevented falling ,by the Wainscot. Fir this as sault „ the Jury ga':e SJI. dania t es, which Mr. PARKE conrcinkid...vere ,excesSiv:. 1 4 ord Et.t.Eor.ouqa said he did not know that they were excessive ) it was not fler'Ay the blow that was to be compensated, bot the done to the feelings of a person in a 'respectable situation of life. He remembered a case wherein a person in the boxes of a playhouse; having had his hat knocked offi; for which the Jury gave 2001. damages;` and a new trial was refused. It vas done cry of" fiats off !" upon some occasion.: the plaintiff happened to be a foreigner, not understanding ;English, belonging to idle suite of an Ainhassador, who tick coniplying,, the 11e pendant' knocked his hat off, for - which the: Jury gave the damages above stated. And, comidering that Attornies nattst , meet daily in opposition, though not in personal hostility, it was fit that exemplary damages should restrain them within the limits of gentlemanly conduct to. each other. Rule refused. , COURT OF COMMON PLEAS.—Nov. 11. FECJEGE V. STANLEY,. Mr. Sedeant VAuGLIAN . 'flayed for a Rule to shew cause_why 'the execution' in this case should not be set aside, and the Warrant of Attorney de livered up. The Learned Serjeant.stated;that the defendant in this-e.ase, ; two or three days before he came of age-, : left 9ueen'S Crillegq, Oxford, and happened to meet, at thC Star and Garter, Richmond, with a Captain Wallace. in the-Course of the evening a game at cards 'was proposed by the - Captain. A little time after the; began to play at hazard, and the consequence_ was that 'Captain Wllace . won 3001. from the defendant, and a - sitm of the same - amount from another Gentleman N:!! , was present. M. Stanley was'not able. at the time to pay the money he had lost, and the next: day set off for Brighton,' lAither, he was followed by Captain Wallace, who threatened to charge him publicly with ungentlemanlike conduct, unless he paid, the 'money he had lost. The defendant by this means was,preyailyl upon to pass three bills of exchaT,ige for 1001. eaeh...When called upon to pay them, not having it in his .power. so to do, he ,passed a fresh bill'for leaVing the former in the hands of Wallace. He also executed a Warrant of At tofneye, upon which judgment had been entered up. :-Ttip,on these grounds the Learned Seijeant hoped the Court would grant the,Ride. Rule granted. READ V. TAYLOR. Mr. Serjeant SHEPHERD move for aßuie to sliew cause why the verdict in this case should not be Set aside, and a new trial granted. This was an action for malicious prosecution, in which a verdict had been found for the plain tiff, at the Westminster Sittings last term. Mr. Seijeant SHEPHERD contended, that as all the allegations in the declaration were not proved to he made with probable cause, there was suffi cient ground tOr a new trial, as, the declaration stated that the defendant Taylor did malic,ioinly, and without probable -cause,• indict the plaintiff (Read) for perjury. .Mr, Justice GIBBS said it was sufficient that some of the charges in the indietMent were made without probable cause.---Rule refusel