The National Register.
London, England, 1812-10-11 00:00:00

OCT. _I 1.

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of the left on the sth, whichbe denies,; alid dt denies the cap:
ore of any of the tedouhts oil the 7th, which, 4t.
passcd'continualty fro the one side to4he other; and yet
itstA weretes that limy, ie only disputed until ten (kind:" in
the forenupor and that in the evening.'" the enemy was forced:
to abandon the little grthind he had gained in. the morning,"
evidently alluding to the .temporarty po,sessiou of those -re-
• doubt:. It • then concludes as Lord CATIICAN.T'S dispatch
with the retreat lnd pursnit of the.ennmy eleven wersts
dts-
•tanc•e (7i ftom the village of Boeudino, but without
mentioning the amount of his loos in killed, wounded. and
prisoners, a knowledge which the possession.of the field of
battle mutt give, and which the accounts, being dated the,
iity after t• e engagemen,, might have contained.
}low to t'econcile thee statements with the actual advance
of the enemy to liojaisk, ten miles he. mid this field of action,
and his entrance at Moseor seven days after the battle, after
. a tn.ach of eighty 'files without encountering an opponent,
is not within our power. To deny that he has advanced at
won!d alone solve the difficulty, and this has been at-
temoted-; but the impeached au thenticit) of his 19th Lune-
tin, dated Moscow,. Sept, 16, has unfortunately been oda-
Wished, .and his unobstructed march to that city proves that
.the battle 'of fltioskwa,
,whatever. its vicissitudes may have
been, has left him the power of aiming on offensive opera-
tions, of which it has, we liope,.only for a time, deprived the
Russ an Commarder.

. This is not a fla.tering, but it is not a daustire, view of
t1;0 Russian campaign. The fa tof the occupation of :\los-
eiow is now ascertained, not only. by the arrisal of minor
•French Papers, containing the nineteenth Bulletin, hut by ,
letters ftotn Stockholm, where the event was known. To
sdisguh.e 'the truth would be only to. delay our disappoint-.
,Went, in order to render *it more severe. We &cad the
.consequences of the vain hopes excited at St. Petershurgh.
4nore than we should have :done the loss of another battle.
The fall of Moscow will burst like thunder on a prince and
people„, wholondiy imagine thatilhe invader is flying dis-
comfited from their laUd it will in:-,tantly.'ereate a -be!ief'
that they have been deceived, and confidence once de,troyed
AO I not revive. They wi!l.fancv the evil still greater than
it is, and the depression which they must experience, will
she deep,- we fear, in prjportion to the excess of their joy,
and the elevation of their hopes. The battle of Ft icdland
was also represented •as *a victory by the. 'luau' com-
mander, and the effect of disappointment on AtEX AND ER'S
mind was so great as to• lead immediately to the treaty of
Tilsit. It is, we trust, only.to the unfounded. expectation
of a similar'result, sin the .present instance; that we are to
attribute the following report of the commencement of a
negotiation between France and Russia, received on. Friday
from Morlaix, and given in a .Mlnibterial Paper of yes-
terday.
" It is said *that the Emperor ALEXANDER had solicited
an armistice from BUM.: A PARTE. which was granted on the
following terms, being conceded as preliminaries ton treats,
viz. Moscow ta.remain in possession of the French during
the winter—Russia to become a Member of the Confedera.
lion—to pay secenty milligng of, francs--0 shut her ports
against Englandrrand OoNs't TINE
shall be sent to. the, 'FrenChltpadLquarters as an hostage for
the perfortnance off-these conditions."—(Morning if('raid. )
The suspicions, which we • hare several times expresEr:d,
of the sincerity of the. Ca.owit PRINCE of Sweden, ate
4.tilY gaining gticiund, and l'eeni .64 reached our Mini-
ster at the Swedish Court; Whci his presented a strong Note,
enmP:Ria4ig of .the endless delays in the'sailirig-Of the'ex-
redition, which lies Still quietly in 'port, only 3 'Small rant
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