The Sun. — London, England, 1812-08-12 00:00:00

FRENCH PAPERS. BULLETIN OF THE GRAND Amt y. • 1 t, ~ Gloubkoe, July E. , . , r , oThe corps of P r i nce BAGRATION is COmpOSCd f .f fc 'er division's of infantry, from 22 to 24,000 (~ r 1 t 4 11 0: 8401 1, bf Platow's Cossacks, f orm i ng 6000 f' ~, N e,, and f rom 4to 5000 cavalry. Two divi r ' of his cor p s ( t h e 9 t h an d 15 t h) w i s h e d to to ehs Joia.lihn by Pinsk :. they were intercepted; and obli„ ed t o s return by Wollay n ie. , ~ , . On the 14th General Latour Afaubourg, who . f ol .; 11 's the rear-auard of Bagration, ivA at R0..1 . .1 k a11.. . 0 _ b it : 1 it • On the 16t1y, Prince PoritavVowski had ' ead-quarters there. • la the affair. of the 10th, which took place ~., lloinanoff, the General kozniecki, command . - t he right cavalry a the four cavalry corps; tt , lt e ust 600 men kill e d, woun d e d, or m ade pi , ez r s• We have no superior °leer. to regret.— t l ercl Rozeniecki; states, . that, the bodies of • ` l rit Pahleu, general of division, and the fins- 844 Colonelsr eeo. Adrenow and Jesowayski have been i,Plzeti on the - field of batae. The Prince of Senwartzenberg had his head skitera on the 13th at Prazaua. On the -11th I Z . 12th he „occupied the inrini. taut position tsk, with. a detachment which took . some acid considerable magazines. Twelve Ans -417,11 Hussars charged forty 7 six Cossacks, pur 7 4f 7 them during several leagues, and took, six v t , ‘4 . 4441 . ',lle rrince of Schwartzenberg marchesc, -- ' 2 -Mtik. , ko .4eneral REGNIER returned on the 19th to 'him, to guarantee tile Duchy of NVarsaw from t h i ncursion, and to observe the two diVisions of e, a rmy which had re-entered Wolhynia. \v On the 12th, General Baron Pajol, who . 4 , 84 at Ighounien,„ sent Cdp.tain Vandois . with 50 k Ir airy to Khaloni. This detachment took there t 1' 41.1 4 of 200 carriages, belonging to Bagration :s „a Os, and made prisoners six officers, 200 cans eh i ers, 300 men attached to the train, and 800 hie artillery . horses. Captain Vandois, finding to Nself fift een l eagues di stant f rom t h e army , did A , t think* practicable t.o carry. off this convoy, „I burnt it. H e h as b roug ht wi th him th e h or ses --", the prisoners. ' . • 1.: On the 15th the Prince of Eckmulh was at Ironnien, General Pajol was at Jachitzie, having ' 4 4 on Swisloch. Bagration leaving this, re orunced the id e a o f marc hi ng t o B o brun s k; and c c 'eeetled. fifteen leagues' lower down on the side 4 4ozier. 0 On the 17th the P r ince of Eckmulh was at . ° log ii i no. .. „ i o un the 15th General Crou c hy was at Bori'- i n s• A party, which he, sent on Star-Lepel, ok consid era bl e magaz i nes , an d tw o, companies miners, of eight Officers and 200 men. On the 18th this General was at Kokanow. On th e same d a y, a t t wo i n the. morning, ' Ge neral Baron Colbert entered Orclia, where he t o °k p iossession of immense magazines of flour, t 5, and clothing. Lie afterwards passed the l ' l risthenes, and proceeded in pursuit. of a con °Y of artillery. " Smolensk is in alarm. Every . thing is re moving to Moscow. An Officer, sent by the Ern tror to c a u se the evacuation of the magazines of tt r eh., was quite astonished to find the place in l'e possession of the 'French. This Officer was ta ken with his dispatches. ``While Bagration was briskly pursued in his r e treat, anticipated in his projects, separated and' tmoved from the main army, that army, coin- P . anded by th e E m p eror Al exan d er , re t rea t e d on t he Dwina. On the 14th, General Sebastiani,4fol 4°Wing the rear-guard, cut down 500 Cossacks, a nd arrived at Dronia. , " On the 13th, the D u ke o f R egg i o advanced :Ton Duuaberg, btirnt the fine barracks which Vge enemy had constru c ted the r e, took a pl a n of e works, burnt some magazines, and took 150 l'rixoners. After this diversion on the 'right, be xn arched on Dronia. '.. • " On the 15th the enemy, who was concentrat ed 3 ill his entrenched camp of Drissa, to the num ber of from 100 to 120,000 men, being inforrned that our light cavalry did not keep a strict watch, t hrew over a bridge, sent across ,5,000 infantry,' a nd 5,000 cavalry, attacked General Sebastiani "expectedly, drove him back one 'league, and eaused him a loss, of,loo killed, wounded, and pri tqners, among whom were a Captain and a Stib identenant of the 11th chasseurs. The General °f Bri ga d e , St. G en i er , w h o was mor t a ll y wound ed, remained in the power of the enemy. . " On the 16th, the Marshal Duke of Treviso, With a part of the foot guards and the horse guards, and the light Bavarian cavalry, arrived at Glenbokoe. The Vice-Rov arrived at DOckee- . 11 . istie oa the, 17th. " On the 18th, the Emperor removed his head- Ittarters to Gleubokoe. ' "On the 20th, the Marshal: Duke of Istria and TreViso were at Onchatsch, 'the Viceroy p.t Xamen, and the King of Naples at Disna. " On the 18th the Russian army•evacuated their intrenched camp of Dressa, defended by twelve pallisadoed redoubts, united by a covered Ivav, and extending 3000 toises on, the river.-1 These works cost a year of labour. We have le . veiled them. "The iinmense.magazincs they .contained were either burnt or thrown into the water. " On the 19th, the emperor Alexander was at I 'v ilespsk • " On the same day General Count Nansouty Was opposite Polotsk. " 9n the 20th, the Icing of Naples passed the 4 Avina, and covered the right bank of the river With his cavalry.. " All the preparations the enemy had made to .defend the passage' of the Dwina have been use less. —The Magazines he has been forming, at a great expense, for ,these three years past, have been entirely destroyed.' ,The same has happened to his works, which, according to the reports of the people of the country, have cost the Russians in one year not less than 6000 men. One can hardly- guei's . on what ground they flattered : the!a -selves that they would be attacked in the encamp- Meats they hadiutrenched. . . General ethitii Grouchy hat riCtrarrepi.4ll4l.la..- bi novitch and Sienna. On ali sides we axe march ing upon the Oula. This river iS joined by a as:- nal to the Beresina, AVltiCh runs into the I.sbiys thenis. Thus we are masters of the coimflunica tion from the Baltic to the Black Sea. ‘,,‘ In his movements the enemy has lr.zen obliged to destroy his baggage, and to throw his artillery and arms into the rivers. All the 'Poles of his army avail theniselves of his precipitate retreat to ,to desert and wait in the woods till the arrival of the French. " The number of Poles who have deserted the Russian army"may be calculated to amount at least to 20,000 men. Marshal Duke of Bernina, with the 9th corps, is advancing upon the Vistula. " Marshal Duke of Castigliope• has set out for Berlin, to take-the command of the 11th corps. " The country between the Oula and the Dwina is very beautiful, and in the highest state of cul tivation. We often meet with beautiful country seats and extensive convents. In the town of Gleubokoe alone, there are two convents, which may contain each 1200 sick." • NINTH BULLETIN OF THE GRAND ARMY. " Bechenkoviski, July 75. " The Emperor removed his head-quarters on the 23d to Kamen, passing by the way of On chatseh. " On the 22d, the Viceroy occupied the bridge of Botcheiskovo. A reconnoisauce of 200 ca valry; sent on Bechenkoviski, met two sv,s'rons of Russian and two of Cossac hussars, charged them, and took or killed about a dozen of men; one of whom was an:officer. The Chef d'Esca dron Lorenzi, who commanded the reconnois- sance, praises Captains Rossi and Ferreri. At six in the morning of the 23d, the Vice i.oy arrived at BechenkoViski. At ten o'clock he passed the river, and threw a bridge over the Dwina. The enemy wished to dispute the pass age; 'his artillery was dismounted. Colonel La croix, Aid-de-Camp of the Viceroy, had his thigh fractured by a ball. The Emperor arrived at Bechenkoviski on the 24th, at two o'clock in the afternoon. The division of cavalry of General Count Bruyers, and the division of General Count St. Germain, were •s,ent forward to Witepsk; and 'passed the night • mitivay tlie • •," On the 20tii, the Prince of Eckmuhl marched upon•Mohilaw. Two thousand men, who fOrMed the garrison• of that city; had the hardihood to, wish to defend it. They were cut to pieces by the light cavalry. " On the 21st, 3000 Cossacks attacked the ad vanced posts of the Prince of Eckmuhl. They were the advanced guard of Prince Bagration, and bad; come from Bobrunsk. A battalion of the 856 stopped this cloud of light cavalry, and drove them to a gieat distance. Bagration ap peared to have profited of the little activity with which. lit 'was pursued, to proceed upon Bo brunsk, and thence he returned upon Mohilow. • " We occupy Mohilow, Orcha, Disna, and Polostsk. We are marcning on Witepsk, where, it appears, the Russian army is collected. • [" Annexed is a plan of the entrenched camp, and of the lines which the enemy formed in front of the Drissa. It was a laborious work."] PARIS, AUG. 5.--The' progress of the French and Allied Armies, as announced-in the last Bul letin, when examined by the map, exhibit the most important results, - and afford a certain pre sage of a glorious termination to the campaign. It is remarkable that the main body of the . French army, united at Oula, whcre.the Dwina And the Dnieper approach nearest to each'other, is now at a distance almost equal from Tilsit,- the ancient boundary, of the Russian territories, from Petersburg,. froth Moscow, and from Kiovie, the three principal cities of Russian Europe. Orcha, where one of the Corps of the Grand Army is at present ; is situated on the high road from Walla to Moscow, and upon one of the routes which lead from Petersburgh to Kiow. The distance from Orcha to Wilna, by the way of Minsk, is about 80 league's, (25 to a degree) to Tilsit ; from 13S to 140, and to Vaiscovic, by the way of Minsk and Honim, about 70. Orcha lies under the same me ridian With Petersburg, And is .1 . 35 leagues in a straight line upon the map, but the road is full of windings, on account of time lakes and marshes be twixt Witespk and Weliki Laki: The following are the distances from Orcha to Moscow,' accord ing to .the map of the posts .---From Orcha to Swolinsk,' 101 werstes, or 24-1 leagues ;, from Smolinsk to Dorogehasz, 87 werstes, or 214 lea gues ; from 'Dorogehasz to Wiaisma, 77 werstes, or 191 leagues ; from Wiaisma to Mosaik, -115 werstes, or 28_1 leagues ; from Mo - salc. to Mos cow, 99 werstes, or 214- leagues. Total distance , from Orcha of Moscow, 118 or 119 leagues. For the last fifteen days, the situation of the Russian armies has become more embarrassing. This is abundantly evident from a glance at the map. The Emperor Alexander had announced, in his' First Bulletin, that the army, commanded by him self in person, was to form a junction with that under Prince Bagration. This object has not been 'attained; The grand Russian army has in vain fallen back from Wilna to Drissa, and from Drissa to Witepsk, a distance of more than 80 leagues. The corps of French posted at Orcha has taken such a position, that the Emperor Alexander, at Witepsk, and Prince Bagration at Mozyr, cannot exchange intelligence, except by Motislaw and Smolmsk, a circuit of 110 leagues. In a military point of view, these two armies have no longer any communication, as they can no longer co operate directly. itnit likewise be - Observed; that the army un..• der Pdace tagratiOn is itself divided into two bodies, which cannot act in conjtinction. The two Russian divisions, *no hate returned to Wolhynia, by the road of - Pinsk, are. scrim:oo, from those that have.fallen back iron Mozyr, by the whole length of the marshes 'of .Polesia, tance of mote than fifty leagues, without any prac ticable route for a diVision of an army. 'After a short but painful dropsical 'cOmplaint, Vice-Admiral Villaut Joyeat, 'Grand Eagle of the Legion of Honour, Governor of Venice, died in that city, ,on the 25th of July.. This excellent: Officer; distinguished by his services and.the high situations , he, held' under. his Majesty, is univer sally regretted. GRODNO, JULY s.—The Grand French Army is composed of ten corps. The 10th forms its left wing, commanded by Marshal Macdonald, Duke of Tarentum. The Prussian corps, under the or ders of General Gravert, Constitute a p'hrt of it.— The centre of the army is-composed of the Ist. Corps, Marshal Davoust ; the-2d, Marshal °adi. not,;. the 3d, Marshal Ney'; the 4th - and 6th, the Prince Viceroy of' Italy; the sth, ith, and Bth, King of -Westphalia ;. form the right wing of the artny'. The 9th, (Marshal Victor's) is placedbe— tween the Elbe and, the Oder. His Majesty the King of fsTaples. commands all the cavalry. . The Wirtemburghers are commanded by the Heredi tary Prince, 'the'Saxons by Gen. Funk; the Bava , - rians by. Gen. Wreck, CRACO, JULY 5.-An army of reserve of 80,000 men has. already'assembled in the environs of berg• Prince Hohenzollern, General*of Cavalry; who who commands it, has his he,td-iruarters at/Lim berg. The General of Cavalry; Prince. de liens; Henry XV. who has hitherto had the chief Com . .- .mud in Galacia, has gone to the baShs for the re covery of his health. . • VIENNA, JuLY.2s.—The Limberg Gazette of the 15th July announces, that the Russian troops, before retiring from Buzesletecusky, burnt all the bridges upon 'the Bug, which were between that town and Terespol. Previous to their retreat, they set fire to a magazine containing 60,000 kerez of cheese. The Russians are retiring at very point, and it is not .supposed they will take, any position between the Duna and the Dnieper. Ac cording to intelligence from Bucharest, Muhadar Effende arrived on the 27th in that town. He is charged with a mission from the Porte, theobject of which is not at present precisely !non n. PARIS, .A‘ro. 6.—From the Gazette de France of the day:— PRISONERS OF WAR.--SEcaND ARTICLE. "' We are.not ignorant that England wishes to establish a difference between British subkcts de tained in consequence of our reprisals, and the military men whom the .fate of war has thrown into the enemy's hands ;' we must must therefore freely discuss the question: ".'Tie English Government seizes, in . the midst of peace, a merchant vessel, confiscates the pro perty placed un s der the guarantee W.' public right; takes, without any distinction, the crew and pas sengcrs prisoners.: , upon this intelligence, at which the whole of France is, with justice, indig nant, its GovernMent, full of sentiments of na tional honour, orders the arrest of the English who at that time sojourn in the empire. In; asrunch as the provocation is odious, the reprisal is just :and moderate. No persOn ...Can, deny this truth. • . " The time is passed in' which l'i4nces who piqued themselves upon a 'false generosity; who mistook their weakness or their indifference for equity and moderation, allowed England to do any thing without daring to attack her with her own weapons. - " If France had imitated this conduct, its Go— vernment would have been deficient in one• of its first duties that of defending and protecting subjects attacked in their, persons, property and liberty. In not stopping the .English it would have emboldened their Gov'ernment by a .dange-• rous impunity ; it would have deprived itself Unitarily of the means of, exchange, and come .quently abandoned Frenchmen, surprised by %ig lislt perfidy, to the despair of a detenlion which would have had no other term than that of the war between the two, nations. Now, if England will not allow that her children withheld. in France, .in consequence of a justretaliation, be legitimate prisoners, what will she call those. whom she hai taken from us by surprize and violence in full peace ?. Let her give up the ships, the crews, all the French whom she has unworthily arrested,. in violation. 'of the faith of treaties, and then, it will be just to open the gates to the English who are in our hands, by the reaction even 'of her perfidy. f' Let us observe in passing, that besides the prisoners which are in this situation, many others taken in arms have also broken their parole ; but let us for a moment forget the attempt which has excited general indignation ; let us even suppose the detention of the English to be illegal; and see if Lord Castlereagh has a right to coimplain of.the evasion of the French. Lord Yarmouth and his worthy imitators ob tained their liberty under the guarantee of their parole---in violating that guarantee - they have of fended the delicate sentiment of honour. Lord Yarmouth was the first to set an example, so much the more fatal, as its author is of the most ele vated rank. The unfortunate Frenchmen arrested in contempt of the right of Nations, despoiled of every thing in London, would'have been very cx-. curable in flying from misfortune and vexations, but they rather chose to suffer than debase them selves ; and an English Lord, enjoying among us all the con veniencies of life, violates his word with impunity ! He drags, by the authority which his name gives to hi e s fault, a crowd of his country men in the same indignity—and is the Govern ment who, has tolerated, .even encouraged, this subversion of all principles, to dare complain of us? . " Lord Castlereagh 'contrasts the officers of the old regime with those of the new, and eulogises the former at the eN!!ence of the latter. Without doubt he does not comprehend, in this hypocri tical interest, the French,whont his Government sent to perish on Quibeion rock, and all those un armed seameti, of which its 'fearful jealousy caused the loss, to the last Man. But; without detaining `ourseh:eS any longer with afflicting recrimins.- tionS„ v..e are , content to take up the gauntlet the Noble Lora has : every lime 'Ffenchnien have' helf; tliftn life ; the_ incontestible facts we liave dueed prove we have not degenerated ; and th;11 our officers. were, for a considerable yoked by example, before they followed it here is;the difference between the paSt and present—it was a moment of giddineSs in WI:x:1 Angloinarlia had inVaded . all France: At fiat .epoch our military men Would . , as at .present, have shed their blood- for their. country and their Prince ; but led away by a dangerous enthusiasm; kept carefully up by men who knew how to - proL fit by it, they had not at heart that love for the. country, that legitithate pride; that iiist_latre.i for our enemies, which now forms the thar..eer of the nation ; then scarcely any p&Son, nei ther the Monarch, the Court, not the People, had:an idea of the foree of France; nor.forsesa - w the grandeur of her destinies. NOW Frencli;;“4.: are thmoughly worthy of that name ;- they are proud of it, and we no longer find gidd'y - young, then to. praise in _frivolous societies the tactio, courage, and success of our enemies. In the same diStussion,, the same Minister, forgetting all the reproaches merited by his coml trymcn, upon the subject' even of his complaints; dtired „to threaten the French prisoners with a more severe condition. What are•the fresh bar harities'Which the Noble Lord promises us ? " According to an authentie Convention, signe4 at naylen, it' was decreed that 12,000 French should evacuate Spain, preserving their arms, on condition of not serving till exchanged. Scarcely had they arrived at Cadiz, when it Was notified to them, in the name . of England, that the Capi tulation would not be curried into execution, and that they were prisoners of war. Not a soldier., not any English General had appotred - upon the fteld of battle ; we had not treated with them under no pretence whatever could the English GO. vei.nment interfere to prevent the execution of a Capitulation signed between the two belligerent parties. _ _ But ". After such a violation of laws "observed in war by civilised nations, all..the.Yrench had a rignt to escape from the hands of thei►• - enemies,. As they have done, after a - detention of more than a year; Generals _Exulmans and Lagrange were demand ed by the English Causnl, and sent prisoners to London : but 12,000 men could not have this happiness : besides, the cruelty of the English Agents had provided every thing to enchain their victims. A Captain-General of a severe and just cha-;. racter, obliged all Andalusia to obey his orders and respect the prisoners. The English, whom he would not receive at Cadiz, had him changed ; a Minister worthy of them, .and at their direction succeeded the Captain-General. From that time the lives of tie prisoners were incessantly expos ed. Scenes of horror passed in all their canton ments ; "but the French Army having quickly re sumed.the Offensive, fear seized upon the Junta • and English Agent, and they threw the prisoners into floating prisons ; au inventi4worthy of the humanity of our enemies: ' At this epoch, Lieutenant-Colonel Vottur, of the Marines'of the Imperial Guard, and other Officers of the Marine, succeeded in escaping from the prison-ship of the Fortune, and landed in Africa. We recollect with what barbarity the enemies fired upon those unhappy fugitives, who only used a sacred right, and of - whom many pe , , rished in the water. • " Here may be seen the extremities to which the English Government reduced 'brave soldiers, who .4 ere not their prisoners. • ' . We will spare our readers all the sufferings of our unfortunate countrymen in their frightful prisons ; water was even ref Used them, and mato; died of hunger and thirstwithin sight of an Eitr. fish squadron, - provided- with every thing, and which .commande'd - the port. The enemy came to' a resolution to send a great part of our pris;fliers to the Balearic islands, escorted by the 11117,11d:1 ships of the line, Bombay and Nord, and Am buscade frigate. The Spaniards were not then to blame for . the bad treatment:; the English Cap tains were still more barbarous if that was pussi• • ble. Always at the bottom of the hold without suffering a single hatch to be open, the prisoners wanted every thing which could soften their fate. An American Captain, the Commander of the ship Sally; alone shewed,himself full of humanity and worthy of that generous nation which now with • such a noble audacity attacks a Government al ways ready to proudly, boast of its civilization, Whilst it imitates the bad faith of barbarous nations. Let us add, to , terminate this distressing picture; ,that after haling embarked the French under pretence of an exchange, for which an English frigate brought a counter order, they landed them on the• almost desert island of Ca p bera. " Stich is the treatment to which England sub jects, or allows to experience, those whom she considers' as her prisoners. Lord Castlereagh, having dared to raise your voice,restore teFrance the IZOOO men from Baylen—punish the atro cious 'agents who have for ever dishonoured the Eligtish name, at Cadiz, Palma, Cabrera, and who have established among our brave soldiers the re putation of cannibals. • " You, perhaps, will answer, that these ex cesses are exceptions ;• that_ you have no know ledge of them. Y.ou knew the French were not your prisoners; and you detained them in violation of a capitulation in . which you were not a c!on tracting party. You knew that the French were protected in Andalusia by a brave, a generous man, and it . was •at the itiOnynt that you had a , man in that country devoted to you that the sacres commenced. Your agents are charged with them, or rather yOu gave directions to:heap up the French; over whom you had no right, in prisons, where they suffered all kinds of tortures. 'You have had them transported to deserts, instead of restoring them to their country. "'the blood of those liho have perished, ,tbe cries of 'grief and despair which each of them raised towards Heaven, will fall upon the exe cutors of your cruel me%sures. N‘ hat can be tl.e cause of such barbarity % Ask all the nations of the Continent, Tartars, Russians, Swedes, Aus trians, English, Spaniards, answer you: that. they have been treated by us with the must attentive humanity ; not only have they al 3\-\