The National Register.
London, England, 1812-08-30 00:00:00

THE NATIONAL REGISTER.

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to have been killed or wounded, and 14,000 made prisoners,
Such is the report ; it comes from the following letter, said
to have been received through Harwich, but GoVe:nment
have no snch advice. . •
(,oTrENßuitcu, AUGUST 21.—We have le,lotious news here.—
MILLS, the Messenger, is now on his way to your ,ountry, and %via
most likely arrive by the time you get this. The amoant of what I
can collect from; good authority is, that the Russian.: and Frcmh
have had a most desperate engagement—it took place on the 15th in,,t.
—The Corsican commanded in person—it was tough: on the plains
near Braslaw, a small village, about
.rlyiway between Polot4; i,r.d
Riga. The French had p:evkusly retreate across the Luna, and
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all his strength in the centre, and BAGRATION tell unexpeLtekby en
his left, aided by a great bud) of cavalry.
" The right of the French were at first victorious, but it continued
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dl on the titqoe of ex peeraton, waning further Intel.
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Accounts front Cottenburgh, say, - th'tt an expre;s had
k eleven o'clock at night. St. Pcteishurgi, had been illuminated
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French army of MAcDoN A LD and Oupt sun', who lost all
1. wounded.—This must be the battle of the 3(01 and 3 ist

July.
Another letter states, that a dreadful battle has been
fought, in which the Viceroy had been wounded, and his
Aid-de-camp killed, and the French lost 15,000 men, with
a great number of their artillery.
We give all these merely as rumours.
FROM THE sr. PETERSIX MAI (JAZETTE Annst 5. -
" BA GRATION has effected his juneti.in, taken the
'First .Aid-de-Camp of the Viceroy of Italy prisoner, at:d
wounded the Viceroy. General WITTGENsEI ha,- gained
a battle, in which he made 3000 prisoners, Nvotindtqi and
killed 5000 and took 70 pieces of cannon and al.l the baggage
of Marshal OLTDI N oT."
• The following paragraph appeared last night in a third
edition of an Evening Paper, to which however we ei not
give much credit, notwithstanding it wa' given with he a,-
sertion that it might be regarded as an Official Bulletin flow
the Admiralty :
" A small British cruiser in the North Seas has pick, d up a fi-hcr-
man at sea, who left Holland on the 25111 instant. Ii wa* repor•cd
in Holland when this man came away, that Boost AP A. tut r lid fought
a dreadful battle with the Rossians, in which he had LOiT BETWEEN
THIRTY AND FORTY THOUSAND MEN !"

FRESH REPO RI r.l) V ,CTORIEs
At an early part of the week, the following letter posted
up at Lloyd's, excited the most lively hopes :—.. The Sta ,
CLEMENT master, arrived at Jersey on S,,turday last, left
Corunna on the 18th inst. Captain CLEMENT states, th .t
two days before he sailed, a Major had arrivel with
dispatches from Lord WELLINGTON, and was waiting f-r
a conveyance to England in a ship of war. It was
reported at Corunna, thAt a second battle bad been
fought, in which the enemy lost 15,0'10 men, and 24 p_ec es
of cannon. Another vessel had arrived at Guernsey, fr bra
Corunna, with the same account." The rumour was
corroborated by pas,engers from Jersey, but set at rest by
the arrival of Corunna papers of a later da e, in which no
mention whatever was made of the subject. It was revived
yesterday on the authority of the following postscript to a
I letter., from the Captain of a British ship of war, cruis.ng of