The National Register.
London, England, 1812-12-27 00:00:00

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Lon Don,
SUNDAY, DECEMBER 27.

TWENTY-NINTH FRENCH BUI.I.ETIN—BUONAPAP.TE AT
PAR
We give, in another Fart of our colums, the g9th French
Bulletin, containing an avowal and a list of greater disasters.
than any incur' cc' by the Gallic armies since the commence-
ment of the Revolution. It is a docuosent too interesting
and too impot taut at this auspicious dawn of better fortune,
not to be carefully read and canvassed by every rea sonab!es
man through the whole extent of the civilized wollld. To
echo the reflections which must spring in every mind, is not
our intention. We shall briefly recapitulate the acknoty•
ledgmcuts it makes, and cast up the probable strength of rho
weeks of the enemy's force.
The proud army of 150,000 men, compris;ng at least
.10,000 cavalry, and 500 pieces of artillery, which ponetratedl
thiough the bloody field of Borodino to Moscow, left that
city on its return, 85,000 strong, and reached Smulensko„,
decreased in its numbers to about 55,000. Bete it thought
to take rest, but the combined advance of Tcuttaiaoorir
and ‘l. VIGEN:.TE,II4 forced it to continue its retrcia. In a
few days, out of all that cavalry, so tremendous in its outset,
only 600 horses remained, and these, tnounted by Marshals.
Generals, au d other Officers, formed a guard fur the impel or„
of which the Subalterns were Colonels, and the Private b consist-
ed of Captains and Lieutenants.—And bet e let us ren lark, that
throughout his retreat, N A PO L EON seems tO have en deavour-
ed to preserve his Officers at the expeuce of bit t-htn. tiumaa
lives, he knew, the conscription woad afford him in alma.
dance, but it could not supply him with skilful comtnatiders. •
Ile therefore collected his most experienced and valuable
officers in the van, and left but a see.. small proportion of
them to the corps most exposed. This accounts for the
otherwise asionishing difference between the number of pri.
vates and (Alice's taken prisoners by, the Russians.
At Smolensk° he united with one halt of VICTOR'S divid
sion, consisting of 15,000 men, and his army was swelhed-tes
70,000. Of these. at least, 25,000 were captured and !Illicit
in the two battles fi ught at Krasnoi. The 45,000 reimiininc
felt in with about 6,000 under Dom UR OWSKI, after Iris
de-
feat on the Borisow, and proceeded through Orsha tx, that
river. Meanwhile W rrTGEbiST EIN advanced so rapidly as tcs
indueeVicroa to attempt to check his march, by an attack on
his van on tlw Oula. There Vic TOR lost at least 2,001, men,
so that the grand army was reduced to 49,0!)0 combatants.
About that period, however, OunmoT's corPs, Ia to ?..;T.
C Y Ciwinposed of the Bavaria s, and of the other fifteen
thousand formerly belonging to V icTort's division, lout de

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