The National Register.
London, England, 1812-08-09 00:00:00

THE NATIONAL REGISTER.

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Government. We have received the Liverpool papers of
Thursday last, which makes no mention of any such news,
or of any arrival from North America.

DEFEAT OF Tilt FRL NCH 1.1 THE RUSSIANS:

The Lord Nelson packet. Captain DEANE, has arrived at
Ilarwich, from Gottenburgh direct, with a mailand passen-
gers. Before this vessel Icft Gottenbutgh, a vessel had'ar-
rived at Stockholm, which left Riga the 20th July, with the
important intelligence, that the main body of the French
army had at length advanced. from \V ilea upon Dunaburg.
where the Russians were entrenched, and that the latter had
gallantly repulses: three successive attacks upon their en-
trenehment. The French had thrown serval bridges over
thc Dwine, with their usual dexterity, aed amid a tremen-
dous fire from the opposite shores, but they were finally de-
featid on the I9th ult.. with immense loss. We have rea-
son, however, to believe that the report to its full extent is
unfounded. There ate dispatches ft om Adm. MA RTIN, who
is at Riga, and
.near the scene of operations, which state that
no battle had been fought, but that there had been
.attacks
made by the French upon the Russian tote-de-ponts on the
Dwina. There were two attacks on the tete-de-pont at Duna-
burg, about the ! 4th ; the French were repulsed in loth
in the first with the loss of 100 men, and in the 2d with the
loss of 1,000. _ _

The liu,sian General has rub!ished a vigorous address to
the Gel mans, to rescue themselves from the yoke of Buo:4A-
PART E.

Paris papers have bees, received to the :id inst.
BUONAP ART E left Wilna on the 17th. and was on the
nest day at Gudroycie, from whence he was to proceed to
the banks of the Dwina.

These papos contain a long vindication of the French
pi isoners of war in this country, from the charge of breaking
their parole, which they retort upon us.
The Gazette of last night contains a revocation of the
Orders in Council, of DeCember, 1807,. granting reprisals
a:?ainst the ships, goods, and subjects of the Emperor of
sia.

Extract of a letter from the Swallow, off Frejus, dated
June 16 :----" This afternoon we have had a very severe en-
4age:aent with two enemy's ves:Th,, nearly double our own
iotee it was preconcerted by them for several days, and.
therstvild pledgvd to the inhabitants to take us into Frejus,
•thlt eveiiing, or both go down alongside of us. We engaged,
gum newly touching, arid after an action the most saw
goiriiiry (in which they four times attempted to board, being
of trim; s) they made all sail, and took refuge under the
batteries of the town. We have been desperately cut up,
and um sorry to add, lost several brave fellows. It is now
ten cock—tieo' betl done tolling,after burying the dead, and
I have just left the deck after performing the last and melan-
eholv ri.es due to Chi

It is apdrelitmled, that the enterpt ising General, BA L LAS.
T E ROS, who had been enticed forward to the enemy, aban-
doning Nlaiaga, has been cut otf from all points of reheat
tvith an inferior force, as a French corps of 8000 men has
appeal id in hi, tear at St. Roque.
By accounts from Quebec to the sth July, we learn, that
an en.hargo was laid on all vessels in that Port on the Ist.
But it was thought that it would be taken oft' in a few days.
Sir Gk:ORGE PREVOST issued, 'on the °nth June, a Pro-
c: mation, announcing the Declaration of War on the part
of America, and ordering all subjects of the United-States to
quit Canada in a given time.


AUG. 9.

Government has issued the following official connnunica.
tion on the subject of American licenses:—
All Licenses grautA to American vessels num be exhibited to the
Marshal of the Admiralty Court, in Doetoes%Conu.ns,• le be endorsed
11 him before the vessel will be permitted to depart.
" Thy reesels at the out-posts cannot depart till the Licenses have
been endorsed by the Marshal, and must be sent to London for that
purpose, and in Cot: to be returned to allow vessels to depart belore the
15th of August."
Thursday, the tank gave notice, that they would maLe
all the payments on the Omnium, except the last, when the
whole must be redeemed.

Admiral Sir J. B. WARREN has been appoioted Coin.
mander in Chief on the Amet lean coast, and a fleet
!:,4ecd
under his command, with which he will sail to teinforce the
squadron in those seas in a few days.
Contrary to the opinion asset ted by some of the News.
papers, and an impression that czits in the minds of others,
it does not now appear that General 3ERNADOTTE, she
Crown Prince of Sweden is the suggester of tin .mt,de „f
warfare now adopted by the .Russians ; but that it is a pho
acted upon so far hick as e mont'A of June, ) 811, at the
particular instance of the War MMister, whc recommended
such plan to the Emperor ALEXANDER, upon the eveLt of
again commencing hostilities with BOVN AP A RTE. In con-
sequence of the approval of his Imperial Majesty, it was
determined from this early period to put the troops in mo-
tinn towards the western frontiers of the empii e. The Com.
missariate underwent some material regulation; Duna!), rg,
Witcpsk, Polotzk, and Smolinsko, were fortified. These
circumstances prove a settled plan of operation as far back
as thirteen or fourteen months, of not passing their own
frontiers, which its conceived may have its origin from his-
torical experience, as one of the finest examples of the suc-
cess of this plan, is met with in the reign of the geattst
Sovereign, Russia ever had. For PET ER the GREAT exe-
cuted it precisely in the same country, which contains the
present theatre of war; the borders of Lithuania, on the
banks of Niemen, in the environs of Kowno, and of Grod-
no, in 1708, when PETER encountered CH ARE IS XII.;
who, after having reduced Poland and Saxony, and drained
front the latter, by enforcing extraordinary contributions,
all She specie she possessed, proceeded to attack Russia,
threatening to march direct to MOSCOW and dethrone
hii
rival, he led the greatest army Sweden ever had, having
under him Generals of the most renowned talents, besides
an immense treasure. He sought by every means to engage
the Russians ; but PETER knew too well how to avoid a
battle, when he was certain the best way to overcome
his
enemy was to protract the war ; and that drawing htmn ""
to advance was depriving him of his depots,
magazines, and
every resource that might come to Aim ; thus avoiding .a
battle, but retiring in the best order, breaking up the road,,
removing or destroying all the provisions and forage and
harrassing the enemy with his light troops, taking all
his convoys.
CHARLES, by his conduct, was forced to give
up his intention of marching to Moscow, and was indeacd
f.r his safety to the treachery of MAZEP PA, who revolted
from his Sovereign, and invited CHARLES into the Ukraine,
where he had prepared magazines fur him. Those ac-
quainted with history know the events of 1708, and the
wretched situation of CHARLES during the winter and d-
oe
year, when the battle' of Poltawa completely dle-
strnyed his power. The planitow adopted by ALExasoLB,
is then no other than that of PETER the C gut r, which was
resolved. upon long before the Russian power could calcu-
latei 'upon the good understanding that now subsists betwee
her:aud the Swedish Court.