The National Register.
London, England, 1812-09-13 00:00:00

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C.),ltitander ot v ts 7
ill, vie y :1;s been highly creditable to the Spanish army. The
result. and the confidence it inspires in this
w.w.) Artny vv ill, I have no doubt, pr. duce the very best el-
'file enemy's torce apptat s to have been from five to six thou-
-6,1,1 We uriderstatid, front prisoners and deserters, that Rouget,
ll,tvernette, and assother Geoeral, 'tom France, commanded in
this actt. n.
On boat.i his Nlajes, v 's sill) Venerable, ofrPortwalette, Aug. 2G.
I have the :tortoni to acqu.tiot > our Lord:Atli), that we have just re-
ceived information that C.litarelli, who is much exasperated at the
failure and fief a 1 of Rouget, has marehed a force of trout two thou-
sand five hundred to three thousand men to Durango, to reinforce
Roug,et, and that they purpose m..king another attack upon Bilboa.
I ant returning to join General Mepdizabal. The troops are in the
Ligti:bt

WAR 1N 'IIIE NORM.

The idle report which was circulated last week of the
death of BON AP ART E has tut ned out, as we were confident
it would, to be a miserable fabrication, and has thereby
pro% ed that the contempt with which we tleated it in the
first instance was well-founded. The 13th and 14th 'French
Bulletins, since received, not only prove that Bu ON AP ARrE
has sustained no set ious injury, but that he has gained ad-
vantages of importance. From the Bulletins, which we have
uiven at leng.h, it w:11 be seen that there has been some hard
and though many of their statements are wholly
unworthy of credA, it is evident that they have been success-
ful at Smolensko. Every thing that we bad previously heard
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on the subject, led ,:s to believe that it was the intpntion
the Russians to make a stand at Smolensk(); and their re- II
treat from that place we cannot but regard as the result of
a discomfiture, and as that which was not contemplated in
their origin.:' plan. Their force, however, we have the con-
solation to know, may be said to be still unbroken, and, in-
deed, has not been materially imraired. The hrench have,
doubtless, greatly mavified the loss of the Russians, and pro-
porticoatelv that of their own. We have reason
to btlie% e that they feel the difficulties of their situation fast
growin.., on them, and their sarcasms on the conduct of the
Russians in avoiding a general I.Y.lttle, arc certainly not to be
received a:: very strong evidence that our allies have acted
injw:i(ionsly. From the prjmptitude and satisfaction with
which the French appear to discover, in their 14th Bulletin,
that spacious bui'dings will make good hospitals, it may
fairly be inferred that they have some occasion for spacious
hospitals. Upon the whole, though there is but too much rea-
son to believe that the enemy hes been victorious at Smolen-
sko and Valentina, and that the retreat of the Russians has
been in some measure forced, we see no reason to despair of the
issue of the contest, as nothing decisive has et taken place;
and we hope the Russians will ere long find themselves able,
if not to crush, at least to arrest-in its desolating progress,
that gigantic power which, in the plenitude of its arrogance,
and in time madness of its ambition, aims at nothing short of
universal empire.

GOTTEN BU RW4 MAIL,
A Gottenburgh Mail arrived on Wednesday, by which
we have received adviccs from St. Petersburgh to the 19th
ult. and from Gottenburgh to the 2d inst. The latest of-
ficial accounts from the Russian Grand Army are not so
late by a fortnight as the 13th and 14th French Bulletins ;
they reach down oilly to the gth August, and contain a
short notice of the defeat which the corps of SZBASTIANI
Sustained from General PLATorr at Inkovo. On the
Dwina, General WITGENSTEIN report; from Oswaja, in a
dispatch, dated the 12th of August, that he had defeated