The National Register.
London, England, 1813-01-24 00:00:00

FRENCH PAPERS.

PARIS, JAN. 11.—There was yesterday a grand review of the Im-
perial guard and garrison of Paris. The troops filed past his Majesty
the Emperor, from noon till half past two o'clock, amid the repeated
cries of" V IVE L'EMPEREUR."
The horses which have been demanded for the remounting of
th: cavalry, are to be paid for in ready money. Each department
must furnish a certain number. We arc assured this measure will
volute ;10,040 cavalry horses, which will be ready in the month of
January, and ready to pass the Rhine in February.
LETTER TO TILE PRINCE MAJOR GENERAL
• Til it, Dec. 23.
MONSEIGNEUR-1 have the hononr to inrorm your Excellency of
the arrival -I the 10th corps, which to-m)rrow will be united up ,n
the left of the N:emen. Your Excellency knows,that the R ussims oc-
cupied Tilsit the same day on which my rear guard retired from the
Mittau. The enemy had inundated with cavalry, artillery, and some
few infantry, the circles of Rotsiena, Ch trek, and Tileh.
The head of the corps &armee arrived before Puksuponen on the
2tith, and found General Lascow in a position.
General Kutusow had a second one at Tilsit, upon the left of the
Niemen. General Dieditch comm mded another column upon my
right Hank. 1 immediately ordered the position of Puksuponen to be
attacked -, the Russians were overthrown by a fine crge, executed
by the Black fin sacs and the Prussian dragoons. Two.ha regiments ot
R ussian infant' y laid down their arms ; wz besides took an howl, zer
and its caisson. The light Pr tissian battery, commanded by General
Gratimann, fired wit It great etrct ..nd exactness. Lieutenant-Colonel
Treskuw again dist:eguished himel.f ; he lost one of Iris brave Cap-
tains M, Martin.
" My heads of columns arriving yesterday, I made a disposition for
attacking the enemy,but they did not think it prudent to wait an attack,
which would hive been very fatal to them ; they retired on both
banks of the Niemen, which they ascended. There no longer re-
mained at Tilsit but some Cossacks, when General baihelti, who
the preceding evening, attacked witli so much vigour. the position
of Puksuponen winch covered Ti!sit, up,,n the left batik, entered
this town at eight o'clock in the evenine. General Bachelti marches
this morning upon Itagun. General Grandjean has his ?Al. brigade
in position at Baohlen. My A idei-de-catnp, Tramnoy and Crnnavd,
charged with the dragoons at Puksuponen. I recommend them to
his Majesty's favour, as well as the other officers whom 4j will

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'point out in the more detailed relation of our retreat flom the. Dwina
to the Niemen. • Acc t vonseiptc
MACDO N A D, 'The Mats-ha We of of Tarento.

The MONITEUR contains the following notes upon passages in
English Newspapers :
ENGLISH PAPER.-11apoleon's afFiirs are like himself, in extremis,
an.i there arc hopes that events of importance, ace.
MONITEUR.—The English Ministers, who write these articles,
are right. The Emperor's affairs are in the same condition as its
health. They are again right—afftirs of importance are going io take
place in France ; but in an invetse sense to what the English :Ai-
nisters expect.
ENGLISH PAPER.—We announce, with regret, that on Monday
last, a meeting was held at Nottingham, to consider it it was proper
to present to the Prince Regent and Parliament Petitions for Peace,
&c.
MONITEUR.—here is the true explanation ref the Emperorsindis-
position ; here is the true explanation of Lord Walpole's mission to
Vienna, and of the couriers from Vienna who were made to arrive in
London ; of all the reports which are raised of troubles in France,
of the discontent of the people, and in short, of all the intelligence
which can deceive the English people respecting the situation of
affairs. • It is the English peon le who are weaty of being excluded
from the Continent ; it is they who are fatigued with the wars
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Spain and America ; it is they who on all sides express wishes which
would oblige the Oligarchs of that country to become wise, and give
peace to the world. To turn the people from this object, and amuse
them, :hey are made to believe that the French troops are abandoning
Snaio, and that there will no longer be any sacrifices to be made by
the English people, because their troops will be masters of the Pe-
ninsuta, to the Pyrenees ; tiler the Emperor is sick and dying ; that
his bad state of his health has an influence upon his mind ; that there
is nJthing more to fear fram him ; that the French, discontented and
di.heattened, are without energy, without love for their country,
without nari•inal spirit ; that they are ready to revolt, and accept of
any conditions. What miserable shifts 1 The wars in Spain and the
North will he considered primary objects ; 300,000 men, all French,
will, in the course of February, be collected at Hamburg!), upon the
Elbe, upon the Rhine, and upon the Oder, independent of 200,000
men who ate with the grand Army ; and *the ensuing campaign will
be opened with a French army, nearly twice as strong as the last cam-
.paign. At the same time, the French army in Spain will be reinforc-
ed, and maintained at its full compliment of 200.000 men. England
boasts of having, including tier marines, 400,000 men upon foot, in
Europe, the Indies. Asia, nod America. • The population of France
is at least quadruple. Thus if England•has 400,000, the proportion
of Fraace should be triple. In withdrawing from this calculation
200.010 men for the marine and the coasts, there will remain an
effective million of men, which France can have on foot with equal
ease as England can 400,000. .
ENGLISH PAPER.—We are assured that CA:ImM has set out fur
France with 4,000 cavalry and 10,000 infantry.
MON ITEUR.—FaIse, very talse; reinforcements are, on the contrary,
marching for the North of Snail].

The celebrated Twenty-ninth Bulletin conveyed to the
'while the enemy's representation of the passage of the Be-
rezyna : the following narrative 'of the same event has bees
received from Gottenburgh, and was, we understand, 'written
by Sir ROBERT WILSON himself:—
" Admiral Tschichagofi had, on the morning of the 28th of No-
vember, c:im•nenced his attack on the corps of troops that covered
the ailing of the enemy's army across the bridge: this. corps was
commaudzil by Oudinot, and strongly posted in a wood. The Rus-
sians, fro.n the nature of dr.: ground, could only ule their tiralleura,
and lost 4,003 men i the action enemy not s) but Ge-
neral Le Grand wasn killed; Maraal Oudisrito Goma' Mere, and
another General, w( and d
• ' Towards dusk Wittgenstein's advanced guard reached the heights
that coomianded the original bridge, and a new foot bridge on the Re-
rezrna, over which the enemy was passing. Three batteries wrre
Hun diately established; but as soon as Buonaparte heard the guns
tiring on his rear, he instantly ordered tiv bridges to be burnt, when
the mast appal:Mg scene of horror and confusion ensued ; carriages,
gun , infantry. cavalry, men, women, and children. all hurried or
rushed towards the flaming pile. The rear was comps ed of persons,
w.o)111 Bu.,naparte would not save to the haz rd of his hest troop.:.
'Many were drowned, many burned, many- crudie Iby the fall-of the
flaming timbers, many kilicd or mangled by the shot born the Rth-
sian batteries, wh ch were now directid with tatahaira to this:man-
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conveying the plunder of the churche!
treasure, much of which was in French
of Count Wi:tgeostchl'a atwy. The
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