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MAIIS. Attatvr,b-1 Gottenburgh, 1 freligoland, 3 Dublin, 2 Water. ford. T)(7E-1 Cadiz, 1 Gottenburgli, g Guernsey, 2 Jer. se}, 1 Brazils, i Waterford. PRICE OF STOCKS MIS DAY AT TWELVE O'CLOCK. Consols.... 614 H 624' 1 Red. Ann... 594 604 Omnium 94 94 Fr ti SOLEM QUIS DICERE FAESUM AuDEAT ? L ND ON, V'DNESDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1812. 'MOST GLORIOUS NEWS ! TOTAL DEFEAT OF THE FRENCH ARMY IN RUSSIA. It is with sensations of the most lively joy that we announce to our Readers, and the public the complete triumph of the Russian Arms over 1 1 1.10NAPMITE. Reduced by a series, of disasters to the most perilous situation, it became neces- nary for BUONAPARTE to make one desperate ef- fort to rescue himself, and the wreck of his Army. That effort was made, and most corn- pletely. failed. The details of this glorious news were brought by a Messenger, who ar- rived at the FOreign Office at an early hour this morning, and in the forenoon they were published in the following Gazette Extraor- dinary : FROM TUE LONDON GAZETTE EXTRAORDINARY. WEDNESDAYS DEC. 16, 1812. Foreign ggce, Dec. 16, 1812. Dispatches, of Which the following are copies, were received last night by Viscount Castlereagh, one of his Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State, from General ViscOunt _Cathcart, K. T his "Majesty's Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary 'to the Emperor of Russia, dated at St. Petershurgh, the 23d and 25th of Novem ber, 1812. MY lORD, St. Pcteriburgh, ICTv• " 43 , 1812. In my dispatch of the 15th instant I had the be. *. - .our to detail such operations of Marshal Klan sOtV'S afniv as had come to my knowledge up to the 9th of November; since that date no report has been received of the further proceedings of the' corps entrusted to General Platow. The Field- Marshal' had calculated to reach Krasnoff on the 14th inst. but although he had approached within a few wersts of that place, I have not beard :that his head-quarters Were established (here on the 16th. His last dispatch of the latter tlatean nonnces his intention of .forwarding a journal of, the precoding days, which will Contain important relations, but it has not as yet been, received.— , On the 9th of November, Count Orloff penizoff, being advanced on ,the roads towards Smolensko and Kr i asnoi, received intelligence of the• march of a French corps from Smolensko in the di rection of Kalouga, composed of fresh troops intended for, the different regiments of . guards this force was under the command. of General Barrage Dillier, having with him General Char- penticr and Brigadier-General Augereau, bro ther to the Marshal of that name. They were (Hs ' tributed in flue three villages of Yasvin,.Lakoff, and Dolgomust. A dispoSition of attack was immedi ately made by three partizan corps, commanded by Capt. Seslavin, Col. DaVidolf, and Capt..Phigner. 'The result was that the corps Mulct' Charpentier was nearly cut to • piece,;, that Barrage Dillier baying patiently heard a cannonade for several • flours in the quarters of Angereau's division, made good his retreat to Smolensk°, and that Ang,e - reau'.s corps of three thousand men, after losir.g nearly one third of their number, laid down their arms and capitulated to Captain Phigner, who had Rot one thousand five hundred men, and who -appears to have conducted this affair with infinite address and gallantry. In this corps were two squadrons of cavalry, well mounted. The prisoners amounted to one general, sixty staff and other 'officers, and two thousand rank and file: The officers Who capitu lated stated the object of their march by that route, was to open another communication in the direc tion of Kalouga'; they Werenot . aware of- the re treat of their army. Since this affair, three General Officers, up wards of twenty pieces - of cannon, and - 4000 pri soners have been taken near Smolenske, but 'the particulars are not yet reported. On the 14th instant; peneral Count Wittgen stein was attacked , by Marshal ,Victor, whO had orders to. drive him to the othei side of the Dwina. The enemy was: repulsed,- with the loss of two or morning in his retreat towards Serino, when six hundred prisoners were taken. I have the honour to inclose a copy of Major-General Baron Dora berg's report of this affair. Nothing material occurred at this post till the 18th, when CoUnt Wittgenstein was joined by Colonel Chernichef, Aide-de-Camp to his Imperi al Majesty, who bad been detached by 'Admiral .Tshichagoff, with a small corps of light cavalry, to discover and ascertain General Count Wittgen stein's position. In the course of this expedition, the Col. had the singular good fortune to rescue Major-General Baron Winzengerode and his Aid de-Camp, Captain Narishkiu, between Vilna and Minsk ; they were proceeding / towards the fron tier, under an escort of gensLd'armes, and had been marched from Verrea, where they were pre sented to Buonaparte, With the French guards un- . tier the charge of Junot. Cot. - Chernichef also took three couriers, one coming from, and the other two going tol'aris.—, From these sources of intelligence it is avertained that Buonaparte was' at . Smolensko on the 13th' instant. Admiral Teln i ebagoff intended,, according to Ins route, to arrive at Minsk on Tbelith instant. Colonel Chernichef 'arrived at the palace' yes teiday, accompanied by the prisotiers he, has re leased, and bringing with him the intercepted dis patches.• • Those'frOm r a.ris contain nothing but, military plans anii mans. The exp.edit,F,on of Col. Cheruichef was a con tinued and extraordinary exertion, he having, marched seven hundred wersts in•five days, and swam across several rivers. It is stated, but no official report has , been re ceived, that General Saclien has been left with a detachment to observe• Prince Schwartzenberg, and that General Dater has advanced to and oc cupied•Mohileff. I have the honour to be, &c. (Signed) CATHCART. MY LORD, Jamich, Gov. 15, 1812. I am very happy to inform your Lordship, that Victor has failed in fulfilling the orders he received from Buonaparte, to drive Count 'Wittgenstein be hind:the Dwina. Be attacked yesterday morning. Count Wittgenstein ordered the advanced guard to retire to the Position. This was executed in a mas terly manner : they retired in echiquier,, under a very heavy fire, as if it was in a field day. In the position thapench were received hy a well-directed fire from the artillery, hy'whieh they must have lost a great number in killed and wounded, I sup pose between two andthree thousand. The firing only ceased about seven in the evening. The French had made strong demonstrations on both wings, but the centre was chiefly engaged. .This morning 'they began their retreat towards Senno. The troops who are in pursuit:have as yet made abort 600 prisoners. . • . It is really a pleasure to see these troops 'fight. The new-raised militia vie, with the' oldest re . • giments. One battalion of this militia being 'with the advanced guard, on receiving orders to fall back, first refused to do so, saying, the Emperor had not sent them there to retire, but to advance and beat the ',.:netny,. which _they were willing to do. • I have; fir, (Signed) DORNBERG. Precis of the Journal of tho Operations of the different Corps of the Army under the Command of Fiekt-Marshal Prince Kutuso*, from the 11th to the 15th November, 181'2. On the 11th November Gen. Millaradovitch re ports, that on the 9th the advanced guard-under his command was to be at the village of Alexecoly; the next • day at that of Nakoff. 'Lieut.-Gene ral Sheppelef reports, that a detach cent, sent by him on the 29th, met a body of the eneiny,,and drove it out of Ellice 3 part of the Don Cossacks pursued it on the Smolensk° road. ' The head quarterS of the army were this day at the village of Lob coff. , Nov. 12.—Lieut. -General Count Orlof Deni zoff learning that a considerable foraging party of the enemy's .cavalry, and artillery depot were dispersed in the villages, attacked them, killed up. wards of one thousand_five hundred, made one thousand three hundred prisoners, and took one thousand horses, and four hundred carriages,most ly loaded with stores. Two corps of Gen. Millaradoviteh advanced to the village Of IvergkOff. The army halted. Nov. 13.—Captain Naschokin, of hussars of the guards, detached by'Adi-t Count Orgeroff, attacked a dcf,,- of the enemy in the village of Ihnan,i, with sonic chasseurs "and light cavalry ; the combat lasted four hohrs, when the enemy retreated to the village of Michailoff, where he pursued and took them. Detachments under Colonel Prince Radbolk, and one sent out by Major-General Carpo, made --.1- _ I i I Geoeral Millaradovitch . reports on the 12th No vember, that Major-General Neoff had made one huntir(Nl atll fifty prisoners at Charvanuolf. l'sfajor-(4e;ieral Volosdini reports, that Colonel Kreiganobski defeated a detaelnnenf of seven hun- circl men.. under Major i Aber2eu, killing a part, and making prisoners, the remainder, 370 men, -18 officers,' andd-one staff-surgeor., Major-General Platoff reports ,on- the 9th Nov. that baying pursued Beauharnois's corps, he came up With- - it at the river Bone, near the estate called • Yandsoff, and withont regarding the ad vantages of his position, lie attacked the enemy ; on this occasion, besides numbers of killed and wounded;. he tools thirty-three pieces , of cannon and two hundred prisoners. He further reports that, during the pursuit of Beauharnois's corps on the Bth of November, sixty-nine guns were taken, and not sixty-two, as formerly reported. General Phitow is now pursuing the remains of the same corps. , Adjutant-General .Orloff Denizoff: attacked the enemy on their march to Krasnoi, killed five hun dred and. took four hundred on the 12th instant. The next day he took soine prisoners some of which were officers. , Nov. 14.—Admiral Tchichakoffteports on the Flth instant, having, left, the - principality Of Warsaw a corps under the comniand of General Sachen. He marched with the remainder to Preyan; intending to purSne his march through Slonim and Neswich, to-Musk, where he proposed to arrive• about the 17th or 19th November; that he had sent orders to Major-General d'Leipers and Lieu tenant-General Bartel to march upon the same point. The former from Volhynia by Pinsk, the latter from Mozern by Lutsk, and that he would not fail to detach parties of light troops on the side of Vilna to keep up the commun.-..ntion \7ith detachments on that flank. Intelligence having been received from wine French artillery prisoners, of the place's Where the enemy bad concealed cannon and arms near.Bold insky'monastery, twenty-seven cannon - , five or six thonsand stand of arms, five hundred sabres, and fifteen, thousand shells,. have been dug out. Tbe head-quarters of ' the army were this clay at the ' village of TTroff. Nov. 15.--Major General .Platoff reports' of the 11th instant, that Beauharnois's corps having turned from Duckotchina road towards Smolensk°, he continues to surround it, and cut off all pro visions and forage. Adjutant-General Count Orjeroff reports, under date of the 14th November, that he attacked the village of Krasnoi. The yagers, disregarding the fire of grape, attacked the enemy's columns with their bayonets, and after a' co►nbat, in which our artillery and cavalry were also engaged, took pos session of the town ; but observing strong co lumns of the enemy moving from. Smolensk° upon Krasnoi, they fell back three wersts, to the farm of Mika. In this affair one Colo ‘ nel and 250 rank and' file were taken. Lieutenant-General Count Ostermann Tolstoy reports, that being with his division of infantry on the 14th iu the village of Kovisoff, and learn ing that the enemy was within half a werst of that place, he detached a squadron of the lial',lo - regiment, which killed apart and took ten prisoners. Gen. Millaradovitch reports, on the 12th, that tieing at the village of Knageneim, he sent a pa trole upon the road from Smoleusko to Krasnoi, to reconnoitre the enemy, which returned, having made seventeen prisoners . . The same day, Co,unt Osterman Tolstoy sent, the Pskofki regiment of dragoons to examine the state of, the villages oc cupied by the enemy. This regiment. perceiving three squadrons of cavalry, attacked, and took five officers, and 290 men. The enemy remained also this day in the village of Usoff. Adjutant-General Count Orloff Denizoff also sent in two Generals' of the division of General Ain - liras, and a Brigadier-General Burt, with an account of his having taken twenty pieces of can non, near the town of Krasnoff. MY •LORD, • St.P.eteriburgh, Nov. 25, 1813. In addition to my dispatch of the 23d instant, I have now the happiness to inclose a translation of reports which have been received from Field- Marshal Prince Kutusoff, of the 10th and 20th instant, containing the details of the total defeat of the divisions of the French artily under the command of Marshals Davoust and •Ney. Near two hundred cannon, and twentylhoasand priso ners, have been taken in these affairs. Buona parte is stated to have been with Marshal Da voust's corps in the night from the lfith to the )7th, and to have left the field of battle at full speed. Every measure of .precaution that could be thought of at this distance, - has been provided for by the Emperor to prevent the escape of the - enc., my ; and it appears that every exertion has been made by the several commanders of corps ilar Smolensko. Bonaparte has prob a bly sent for 'ward his favourite guards, the Polish divisions, and part of the Italian ; but if Adiniral Tehicha goff has arrived at his ground, it does not appear that this corps would escapeto the frontier. The display of force before General Count Witt genstein's post, after the, attack; was probably with intention to favour the movement of the • It is not improbable tit A part ,of Victor's corers may liaye taktii: the - sfime direction. General Wittgenstein-i+ reinforced by' the ca valry formerly undir: General Winzingerode, for , the present conunandcd by, Major-General Kott:- soli, who had made a niost rapid march to Babi . nowitch,. where he auived time enough on .the 18th . to receive fonr hundredprisoner's from one of the French In had also taken' two Generals and one Colonel. •-•- • . The Fuench,, With their 'usual savage and saeri- legiousicrocity, wantonly hkvli - up the venernbl: cathedral of Smolensk° bJorethe luft that • The battle la ited the vrhole day; the eqeD , Y"'cl . "-! completely defeated, and dii:,orsed th a 'e uelo- bouring wood, f or diStanee (..f five wersts the b;:nks of the rniieper—thus the corps of ce— neral Davoust has. been colrnletely ‘-let•troyed. The loss in .killed and wouili!ed is immense. We have made prisoilers two Ger.csrals, bgiGers of Cliiferent 'ranks, 9.170 prisoner, 70 cannon, three standards, and taken the batcai of. Mart.hai Da voust. re Ileum has been, sung . this day in the Great ', Cathedral, in preself‘c:e of their imperial Majcsties and the whok Coml ; , i 4 .llato'n de ;',lareschai" of Marshal Davonq,' and'such of the t , agles and. colours taken in tL last laffair'as are:alread'y ar \ rived . here, were previously braught to the cathe dral, in which the Other numerous trophies of war arc aheady deposited. inayelle honour,tole, &c. .. (Signed) CATHCART The Commander. in Chief 'General Field- Prince Ikuttnotr, from his .head-(jurte.rs at the village of Dubrovn,.submirs to -;iis Imperial Majesty the two following reports. FIIIST REPORT, DATED THE I STII NOVEMEE7I After the battle, near Viasina, of the 22d -Octci her, my army made vcry effort to turn, if not - aft the enemy's corps, at least its advanced inard, thie road from Telna to Krasnoi, in which it coinpletely suceeeded on• the 170:- vacs IStil of November. The 16th of army made a move raent by advancing five wersts, as far as the Lawn of Krasnoi. The advanced uard, fell in W , th she enemy, 'olio were cowpletely defekited by LieaL tenant-sGeeral Onverow. On this _Rccasion 'we became masters of one standard, some cannon, and Made a gnat number of prisoners, one of whom was a General. General Millarodovitch, commanding the ad vanced guard, with the 2d light corps of infantry, and' the 2d cavalry,' perceiving the Corps coin nianded by Marshal Davoust advance near KrAs noi, detached thither Lieutenant-General Prince The enemy conceiving himst.if turned on all sides, began to defend himself. Our artil lery made, a terrible,, carnage in the enemy's ranks. Napoleon himself was an eye-witness of the battle, and not waiting for the' issue, be fled with his whole suite to the village of Liadani, and abandoned the corps of Davoust. On the 17th. November, being informed that 'the corps of Marshal Ney, forming ake rear guard of the enemy,' Wail 1116ving in the mid leading to k... - rasnoi, I made, the following dispo sitions : SECOND REPORT'. In order to obtain a. certain victory over Mar shal ,Ney, and to , cut off entirely his communica.• tint with the rest of the army, I reinforced. Gen. Millaradovitch with the Btlh corps,, giving bitn. or ders to prevent 'the Marshal's advance, and ,to take a position near the villages 6yroberenic and Tchcrijska: Major-General Louritenski liercek ed, about three in the afternoon, .the enemy ad vancing. The thickness of the fog prevented him from ascertaining h 7 - 1111 - 11 - M!'rS 1 1: march ing forwards.till they v. - erc close. :.our batteries. -ting in vain to pierce through Cfl f] V abet Oil' ill ceeivc d, .at the -distance '0f:250 paces, a g:neral :discharge of musketry and of • forty pieces of cannon : the effect of this fire upon the enemy was . extremely.fatal. ,Finding he bad no hope of escaping, he at length sent a flag - of truce to General Millaradovitch. At midnight the whole corpS d'annee of the.enemy,:amounting to 12,000 men, were , obliged to - lay down their arms. AU their artillery, in number 27 pieces of cannon, ..,11 the baggage and military chest, were the fruits of our victory. in the number of prisoners were above one hundred oflicersfof different ranks. Marshal Nev was 'wounded, but saved himself by flight, and was pursued by ihe - Cossacks beyond the Dnieper. The loss of the enemy is enormous : acco-rding- to the report, of the prisoners, four Generals of di vision were wounded. W have .not lost above 500 men hi killed and wounded. The army is at present it Krasnoi, and the ad wtneed guard at Dowbrowna, from whence sv,! &hall follow the movements of the enemy: -General Platow informs me, by a private letter annexed; that She enemy left behind him, 17, wersts from Smolensk'o, a great quantity' of artil lery, amounting to 112 pieces. Letter of General Count Platoff to the General Field Mar shal, dated 17IIT November. After the signature of my repOrt to your High. ness, C;lptain Parkin arrived with the. rations, and states that, at the distance of 17 wersts front Smolensk°, - in the great road, he had counted 112 cannon, besides a great number of tumbrils and carriages. I. ant not able to send your Highness a report inform; mit havim; received it from the covet-nor of ,Smolensko. 1 join the unanimous voice of the troops in • itriiisounc•ing-LHourra your most Serene Highness ! This morning , the Admiralty Sesions coma !Deuced - at the Justice Hall, Old Bailey, before Sir WN.LtAmScoyr, .Lord ELLEN . rioaou6H, •Ba rod THOMPSON, wheirthe, trial of the _Marquis of SLIGO came 'on, for haring enticed and duce - d several of his Majesty's seamen to enter oa board his yacht, while he lay oft Malta, in the month of May; 1840. ' 'After the case had heea opened on the part of the Crown,., witnesses were called to substantiate it. The trial was roce;