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- PRICE OF STOCKS tIiTS DAY AT. TWELVE; o'cLrlcTc. Consolg sBlk I Reil.Ann......srn 1 Omni= .... sii pr. THE SUN . SOLENI QVIS DICI:11.1; ?I ? LONDON, SATURDAY, AUGUST 22, 1812. The homeward-bound Jamaica fleet has been spoken with, in Lat. 43. N. Long. 36. W. by tie Alert sloop of war, and -informed of the Ame. maw war. We have inserted this 'clay 'further and very ample extracts, from the American Papers, which will serve to chew the disposition, or rather per haps the hesitation, at lea.st•so far as regards the Legislature, which has , marked the commence ment of hostilities. As we observed yesterday, the whole of the intelligence in the Arne : rican Papers must be - considered; with refe rence to this material fact, that the . revo cation of . our Orders in Counej had• not leached the United States ; and from the clisih • clination shewn by the Legislature - to afford the means for carrying on the war with vigour, and the very small majorities by which the warlike measures were at length carried, 'we are dispoied to draw a favourable augury) ; for although Con 7. g . ress has adjourned, still the President, upon the revocation of our Orders in Council being known in America, can scarcely venture to persist in the war ; the only. great exciting cause used, to keep up the 'war fever being thus at - once removed. To persiSt in the war, under such circumstances, would indeed tend immediately 'to the destruction of his own po-.ver and influence, and this, if no other motive operates, will, we think, be imperative upon him. • ' Paris Papers reaehed town last night, contain ing the 10th • Bulletin of the French army in the l\Tarth, dated Write')A, July 31st. 'This, "it Nvill he observed, is the same date as that of the RuS . sian Bulletin, arbielt we inserted yesterday, but' to the 'action mentionedin the latter - it 'ilaes not re . fer. In four. other aCtions, on the 23d, 25th, 26th, a-al 27th, the French claim victories ; but their stafPments are- vague, and not given with that trinnanhant boast which, has so frequently ac -companied, the announcement of victories they have actually and indisputably gained.. The last, 'we have litVe doubt,, will turn out to be that the affairs to which they refer, were merely partial actions, and the results of little consequence. We are the more inclined to adept this opinion, because it must. be evident to every one- who reads the Balletid, that' the FreriCh had been unable to change the character of the waa a or em barrass the Russian operations. It is quite clear • that the Russian line remained unbroken, and that no part of the army. was either cut off or turned, because the Bulletin acknowledges that BUONATARTE made preparations to :bring On a ge-, neral action on the 28th, but the Russians, perse vering in that system which they have hitherto stea dily acted upon, retreated to Smolensk ;which retreat BITONAPAIVIT appears to have been wholly unable • to impede, who merely states that his army af- • terwards -entered Witepsk (which had-been previ ously the Russian head-quarters), a town of `39,000 - inhabitants, and which has twenty con - • vents where also he found some magazines, but he carefully abstains from enumerating them, ex , cept one of salt. It also clearly appears, by the ad mission of, the.Bdlletin, that in spite of the victory claimed over Prince BaGaarrioN, the French were unable to prevent his pursuing his march to Smo lensk.' Thus, thetefore, all the efforts of Buo- NAPARTE to break the RusSian Arne, and obtain a decisive victory, without which he must be ulti-. MatelY defeated, whether the Russians Pgain any great advantage in the field or not, have, ,hitherto Wholly. failed ; all that he has dune has, been to advance a certain distance into the Russian territories, incurring a _very considerable loss in men and horses, which must, (from the French statements, evidently have been the case), and with his army thus- weakened, .and his distance from his resources every day increasing, he has still to encounter the whole Russian Army in 'the heart of their own country, and.with their re sources, misequently, immediately at band. Let the Russians but persevere in the system which they have thus so happily aced upon, and, judging from all history and from all experience, thereacan be no donl.4 . that they will ultimately defeat the enemy. Buo NAPARTE may vapour about prisoners taken, and troops driven before him, but rance, as well as the rest of Europe, must laugh at his bopts, if he Cf prflaUCC no better proof of vie-, tory than following the Russian army .from tta;'' to stage i.. _their own .country, at a respecttul distance, and picking up a few „stragglers by the way; and his own_troops must soon painfully feel the privations to which such Q. march must ine vitably subject them.. A MeSsenger arrived this morning rrom Con stantinople with dispatches to Ministers. The .::oatents ) however, had not transpired when thiS Pipe: v►as put to pre.3s, NAVAL NEWS. PLYMOUTH,: AUG, 20.—Arrived the Swedish brig Apollo, 13'631A, master, from-Gibraltar, with a cargo consisting. of Wine and cork, bound to this portfiar orders.; came a running sailed on the :24th July, and is under:quarantine. l'olurs*rount,JULY 21.—Arrived his Majesty's -ship - Castilian, with a convoy from the Downs. The Decoy cutter is appointed convoy for ditto. His MajesivN ship TeilCdos will positively sail for Ha lifax and North America, outside the Gulph of Sr. Lawrence, with the ships under convoy the first. fair wind. A convoy will be appointed iu a few days for,NewfouridlAnd. The For and Leona, having a battalion of Ma rines on board,will sail for Portugal the first fair Wind. Also the Prince of Wales man of war with transports for Lisbon. A. convoy ivill also be appoiiited foi Africa as soon as ally vessels are ready forthat destination. FALMOUTH, Atfo. 19`.---Arrived his Majesty's slip Sabrina from Plymouth, with the transports No. 63,1'332, and, 88, bound for Lisbon, with , horses and driveis ; also' arrived the brig Comm:, HAiultsoN, from Curacoa ; Nancy, HU tiTEP ; Xlisha ULU, LE BitowN,from Plymouth, bound to. the Mediterranean. Passed up 'his Majesty's ship lfotspur from Lisbon, with dispatches, for Portsmouth.- . It is .repented ‘ that the SuiPsure pack-et is ap pointed.to carry mails to. Corunn4— 'The Barbadoes, HERBERT, arrived at Liverpool from Honduras, sailed on the 21 - St of June ; on the Bth JulY, Cape Antonio S. S. W. distant forty leagues, joined the Jamaica fleet, about thirty sail, under convoy of the Thetis Anil Garland fri gate; On the 13th hoa'rded the Aurora; one of the fleet ; early the following day parted from theiu off Cape Florida. SOUTH AMERICA. ItUENOS AYRES, Mtr 27. The-following official information has been ad dressed' to the public " Yesterday arrived in this capital Lieut.-Col. Don Juan de. Rademakor,. in the capacity.of En voy Extraordinary from his Royal Highness the Prince Regent of Portugal. He was received at the quay by one of the Aides-de-CaMp Of 'the Superior Government, and conducted to the pa- . lace in the•eitadel where suitable apartMents had already been provided for him. At seven in the evening he etas visited by the Secretary of State, Who announced to him that the Government would give him audience in their , Hall 0-f D;s patches. The EnVoy immediately repaired thi ther, and was received with the greatest demon strations of respect and esteem. His powers having been recognized, and the ,Sitting being opened, he set forth, that the views of his Royal Highness had no other. object but solidly to, re establish the relations of peace, friendship; and good undetstanding between both territories : that, for-this purpose, - his Royal Highnesi-had al ready given orders/to D . . Diego do Sousa to retire with his whole 'artily,: and that without - loss of time,' to the Portuguese frontiers :---that he sup posed him to be : already on his march, as,he had sent him his Royal Highness's disptches a week ago :---and that, for the purpose of -settling and sanctioning the terms of negotiation, he demand in the name of his Royal Highness the Prince Regent, that hostilities should cease between the two nations, and that the retreat of the Portuguese to their territory should ,meet with no interrup tion. At the .same time he presented a letter from the Ambaspdor of 'his Britannic Majesty, at the Court of his Royal Highness, in which he offered the. mediation and guarantee of the King of Great Britain, for the confirmation and maintenance of the treaty which should be agreed upon. The GoVernment, faithful toits principles, and in order to give a positive proof that the vie torions arms of the country have have .no other object but to humble the pride of the tyrants, and to defend with honour the liberty and civil inde•-• pendence of the United Provinces of the river Plate, have agreed to grant the' armistice, 'and to order our troops to retire from the PortugneSeter ritory, while the negotiation is carrying on, and till the treaty is ratified by the intervention of the respective authorities, with which it. will immedi ately acquaint the people, for their information and satisfaction. ." FELICIANO ANTONIO CIII . ,LANA, " JUAN' MARTIN PITEYRREDON, " BERNARDINO RIRADAVIA. " NICHOLAS 11 - EI:JURA, Sec. cr Buenos Ayres:, May 22, 1812." • "There are many private letters to tl;e same purport as the above official document, Nyllich it is unnecessary to insert - . We subjoin the fol dowing as containing information . upon other topics BUENOS AXRES, MAY, 29. EXTRACT of at LETTER. " We have effected surne,sales for you, but we fear the prices we have obtained %will not give you satisfaction.. We, however, considered it more prudent to accept them", • than to hold your goods both on account of the very depressed state of Our markets, and the verygioorny aspeCt of Politics in this country. The latter, we are happy to add, has changed very much in the last two days, in consequence of the arrival of a• Portuguese Mini ster to this Government to concitile a peace with them, which has actually taken place this day; and as it is supposed here, that the British influence ,at the Portuguese Con:1, has been the cause of this embassy,, there has been the most sudden change in the Opinion of the people ; they now speak warmly in favour of the English, who two. pays _ago durst scarcely slew themselves in the streets. We hope this may be beneficial to our trade, which is much depressed, and now glutted with your manufactures, ,from the recent arrival* from Brazil, 'at any rate, it relieves us from the ,painful anxiety ,Ave have been in fo' r a considcra-, able time, for the safety of our persons, and the great property in our hands." SECOND E 111 ON. S UN- , TWO O'CLOCK. Dispatches from AdMiral MARTIN We-re receiv ed at' the Admiralty thizi morning, the .contents of which correspond exactlywiththe Russian Bulletin which we inserted yesterday, and they are further strengthened by accounts from Governor ESSEN, who had himself received a letter frOm General, WITTGNSTEIN, which stated that lie was ,still pursUing the enemy, and every moment- taking • prisoners. FRENCH -PAPEP.S, RECEIVED,EARLY THIS MIEgNING. TENTH BULLETIN OF THE GRAND ARMY. " . Witeysic, Jtily :31, 1812. " The Emperor of Russia and the Grand Duke Constantine. have quitted the army and, repaired to the capital. On the 17th, the Russian army left the intrenched camp at Drissa, and marched towards Polotsk and Witepsk. The Russian army, which was; at Drissa, - consisted of five corps . - d'armee, each of tvlo divisions, and of . four di, •visi.(9us of cavalry. One corps , i'armee, that of Prince Wittgenstein, • rcm'ained. f6r , . the pur-. pose—of covering ,'..7t.'Petersburgh 4 T-the 4 other corps, having arrived on .the 24th at Witepsk; crossed to the left bank 'Of the Dwina. The corps of Ostermanri, with aparty of - the - cavalry of the Guards, put itself in Motion at. day-break of the, 25th, and marched upon Ostrovpo. 3AME OF OSTROVNO. "'On the 25th olJalY, General Nansouty, with the divisions Bruyere and St. Germain, and the Bth regiment of light infantry, encountered the enemy two leagues in advance of Ostrovno„ The action commenced. Several charges of cavalry took place ; all of • them were • in favour' of the French. . The light cavalry covered itself with glory. Tha King of Naples mentions the brigade, Pire, composed of the Bth Hussars, and Ifith Chas sears, as having distinguished itself. The Rus:- . sian cavalry, : of which a part belonged to the Guards, was overthrown. The batteries which the enemy opened upon our -cavalry were car ried. The Russian infantry, who advanced to Support their artillery, were broken and sabred by ourlight cavalry. " On the 26th, the Viceroy marching with the divisiOn Delzon, at the head of the columns, au obstinate. action.of the advanced guard, of froth 15 to 20,000 Men, took place a lea - gue,bey'ond Os trovno. The Russians Were driven from their po sitions one after another. The woods were car- - riedi by the bayonet. " The King of Naples and the.Vicerov-men tion with praise Generals Baron Delzon, "hard, and Roussel. The Bth light infantry; the 84th and 92d regiment of the line, and the Ist regi ment of Croats, distingtiished/adhselves. General - Roussel, a brave soldier; after being the whole day at the head of the battalions, was visiting the advanced poSts at ten at night, when a sentinel took hint for an enemy, fired upon Lim, and the ball shattered. his skull, Ile ought to have . died three hOurs sooner on . the field of battle, by the hands of the enemy. On the 27th, at day-break, the Viceroy made . the division BrousSier file off in advance.- The 18th regiment of light infantry, and the brigade, of light cavalry of the Baron de Pire, ,wheeled to the right. The division Drowsier marched by the great road, and repaired a small bridge which' the enemy had destroyed. At day-break:the ene my's rear-guard, consisting of ten thou Sand ca valry, was perceived drawn up en echelon on the plain ; their right resting on the Ds:ina, and their left on a wood lined with infantry and. artillery. 'General Count - Brounier took post on an emi nence with the 53d regiment, waiting till the whole of his division had passed the defile. TwO companies of Voltigeurs had marched in advance, alone ; they skirted the bank of the river, advanc ing towards that enormous mass of cavalry, which .made a forward movement, and surrounded these two hundred men, who were ttiouglit to be lost, and who ought to have been so.• It happened 'otherwise. They concentrated themselves - with the greatest coolness, and remained during a whole, limn hemmed in on all Sides ; having brought down more than three hundred horsemen of the enemy ; these two companies gave the French ea, valry time to debouche. ' • ‘‘. The 'division•Delzon defiled on the right.• The King of Naples directed the Wood and the enemy's batteries to be attacked. In less than an hour all the positions of the enemy werecarried,- and he was driven / across the plain, beyond a• small-river which enters the Dwinabel ow Witepsk. The army took a position on the banks of this ri ver, at the diStance of a league from the town. " The enemy displayed in the plain. 0,000 ca alry, and 60,000 infantry. ' A battle 4vas':ex pected next day. The Rusians boasted that they wished to give battle. The . . Emperor spent the remainder of the night in reconnoitring the field, and in making his dispositions for next day ; but at day.,break the Russian army was retreating in all direetioris towar6 Smolensk. ".The Emperor was on an height very near the 200 Voltigeurs, who alone on the plain had at tacked the right of the enemy's cavalry. titiueli. by their tine conduct, he sent. to inquire what corps they belonged' to. They answered, the 9th ; and three-fourths of us are lads of ris.' TOI them," said the Emperor, • that .they are brave fellows ; they all deserve the cross !' . . • " The fruits of the three actions "of Ostrovmo are ten pieces of - cannon of RusSian manufacture 'taken, the cannoneers sabred ; 20 caissoons of ammunition, 1500 prisoners, 5 or 6000 Russians killed or wounded'. Our loss amounts to 200 killed, 900 wounded, and about 50 prisoners. The King of Naples bestows particular praise on Generals Bruyere, Pire, and Ornano, and Co lonel Radzivill, Commandant of the 9th Polish Lancers, an officer of singular intrepedity. " The Bed Hussars of the Russian Guard have been cut up. They lost 400 men, many of whom were prisoners. The Russians had three Generals killed or wounded: A considerable number of Colonels and superior Officers of the army re mained on the geld of battle, " On the 28th; At day-break; we entered Witelisk, a town of '30,00 inhabitants. It lief:; twenty convents. We have found in it' some magazines, particularly one' of salt valued at 5,000,000. While the artily was marching on Witepsk, Prince of Eckmubl wa.:3. attacked a.t.Mobilow. Bagiation 'passed the 'Berezina at Bobrunski, and marched upon .Novoi-bickow.. At day-breali on the 23d, 3000 Cos3aek , .: attacked the 3d regiment of Chasseur:i, and took 100 of them, ain6»g / Whoin were the Colonel and .four Officers, all wounihtd; Thdgcnerale was beat; an action commenced. 'fire RUssian General Sieverse,--vith two sefect divisions began the attack: from eight in , the morning-till five in the afternoon, the tiring was : kept up on - it strip of wood, and at a bridge, which the Russians wished. tolforce. At five, the Prince of Eckmulii canSed three ::hosen bzittalioni to advarice; Taut himself at their head, overthrew'the Russians, carried their positions - , and pursued their fo.i . a h, league: The loss of the Russians is estimated at 3000 killed and iv" - niuled,. and 1100 prisOners„—.7 We lost 700 killed and sounded. Bag kat , pulsed, retired upodßiekoW, where.he pas:ed . the BorySthenes, to advance towards Smolenzk. The battles of,ill - ohilow: and OsirO‘no have been ,briiiiant and honoigable to our army. %V never have engaged more than bat i "of tlzv force which the.enemy . pri"!sented; the ground not being suitable for greater dw4opements." [Then follows a Proclamation - of the. Emperor Alexander to 'the: Russian Army, d. ~t ett Wthqr, June 25, 1812; which • has already been pub.- lished.] • 'Report on the demolition of the intrenched Camp of Driisa, said on the position of.Dro,:ia,;to.his Excellency the Doke „ • of Reggio,' commanding in chief the Second Corps of the • Monseigneur,--I have the honotir of ac- . (painting your Excellency, that, conformaoly to your Orders, I repaired on the 21st inst. to Dronia, with M. De Laplace, Aide-de-camp to' his Higlt.- ness.the Prince of Neufchatel. . We found our last videttes about tbreegriar ters ofa league from that town, on the road of Slobodka ,We, however, peitetratec.l thither; - ana fUund that the town Was. totally eVactrated• by the enemy, =who confined hirnself to obServing the river with one company of Cossacks and two of dragoons, at least so we were told by some inha bitants.with whom we were able to converse. " The river is very Much" confined at this place, and its banks . are rugged and. irapracticable. It appeared ,to me to ,be about sixty Wises' in width. 'I here were two batteries on the otl:er bank, one . of.seven embrasures, to enfilade the avenues of the town,,.4nd. other ,ravines ; • but as ,these batteries were not 'fired ; we supposed that they were no longer nionnted.with eannon. " " ~‘fter having examined the position of Dronia, I,next day repaired to the intrenthed camp of Drissa, where I arrived at the same time with the rear : guard of the division of General 'Merle. I inunediately Set about reconnoitring ;the camp ; but the enemy still - occupying a portion of. ground inthe rear of their lines, and even some works on .the right, (turning your - ha& to the river,) it was . not possible fur me to penetrate every where ;-the besides, prevented me from continuing thiS' reconnoisance. " The demolition of the works linid'been begui immediately- after the -arrival of the troops. The arch of great breadth; forthed by the line of the work's; is about two leagues in extent, and is connected with the other bank by batteries. There were also batteries on the left bank ; but they were quite open in their gorge: The camp is about 2000 toises in its greatest depth, from the most advanced works to the river. .It vas defended by a series of redoubts, and- by open' batteries dated in the intervals of the redoubts. intrencbments very 'stew, and of 100 'toises in length, are form ed: infrOnt of each redoubt. There are two li;ies ofworks hearly similar. The ground more ex_ posed and more practicable on the.left quarter, in. - dated the enemy to increase his defence on . that •side, and he placed the're a large lenguiened work, , consisting of an immense bastion, two curtains , and two redoubts, instilatedfroni the . works h! their *fosses. . The enemy had placed, also, to-. Wards the centre of the curve'formed by the river, 'a very large flat fortification to serve as a tete-de lmit. It was on the middle, of the gorge of this work that the principal bridge waS placed, upon very large pontoons... . . " The works in general, but' particularly this . last, have a considerable relief„ and are perfectlY we)lexecuted. The batteries have fosses wider than those of the redoubts; doubtless in conse quence of the greater quantities of earth required by the. breadth of the platforms. These batteries are neither palisaded in the fosse, nor enclosed at the gorge ; almost all the redoubts are palisaded in their fosses. Soule Palisades of the tosses, 4 'portion of the platforms - of the batteries, some .barriers, and some 'trilling entrenchments.on the left, Were all that remained still Unfinished what the enemy evacutated the cainp. . " It is sufficient to glance at the annexed sketch, taken with the eye while the demolition was P ing forward ; in order to form au idea of the ,pro digions•labour which such a camp. must have cwt. the enemy. Besides the of it extent. it may be said. that works have' een lavished upon it without much necessity. These works are a.k. o very : ill placed, because they do not flank each other at all, or do it -iosutficiently : and it astonishing that tike Russian engineers could cout. - mit so great a blunder. • " The enemy was obliged to cat down a corisi7 derable extent of wood on the left, both to erect his work and to unmask them. Though th e wood is marshy and &Limit of access, the enemy had still forined abattis of sixty or seventy toiset in width,. even at the opening of. the wood; S° that the portion of the circuit, of the camp is N I strong, as well as that of the continued w°' ^ upon which it touches. The quartet on the r i g a ': is less • strongly defended, and here would rav e been the true point of attack. During the night which preceded the dePar" tare of the division, the enemy burnt all his ma' gazines on the other bank. They were immense/ and were estimated at many millions. 19 ( 1 S 2 i ‘ g ,, ned) "wraa c c c iE, 26, D 21 OAS . Lieut,-Colonel •,eerS• iJ~_