The National Register.
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tion with the greatest part of his army against the former.
as though he intended
.to force his way into the mamuthem n
provinces, and winter there. Prince KuTusow, who le.d
already surprised and beaten the advanced guard under
Men AT, followed the mo-vements of tic Graed Maly
closely, and at Maio-Yaw:daft* a sanguirary battle was
fought, at the close of which the Russian ( 'ommander, Pew
convinced that the invent of the Preach to pcoetate into the
south was real, fell back forty wemsts, to take a st (anger posi-
tion with his whole force, and fiusti ate their design. soc-
ce:msful in this feint, NAPO!. EON, iteaearl of fol!oeing
hastily retired by his light to Mo•aisk, and having thus
gained some marches, proceeded for a few days without
experiencing any other annoance than- the dilienity of the
roads and the sere:lw of the cold About that critical
reiiod, however, fresh reit) forcements of (7o:sacks
joined Prince Kt; TUSO w, who detached them, supported
by a strong corps of infantry under M ALA ItA VON' TCH
to harass the retiring foe, whilA he proceeded with the,
remainder of his army across (14c country towards Sim)•
)eusko, in the ho;.e of reaching that place befee the enemy.
The second dispatch, or postscript added to the fit st by hi.
Lordship, details some of ihe intro' tant and alimet inces
sant advantages gained by the activity and bravery of the
Cossacks over the French divisions commanded by the V CE-
RO v _iA 1.1 and DA VOUST. ',Cite intercepted letters of
the former give a still mote complete picture of the sutler-
ings his corps has undergone, the sacrifice of almost all his
artillery, and the despair of his soldiers, who, dispirited and
exhausted, flung themselves into the arms of an unsparing
enemy father than endure the protracted misety of a dicas-
irons retreat. Defeated at every attack; Viasma, Doroglio-
ba, the Dnieper, witnessed the destruction and capture of
thousands. of those late haughty conquerors who basked it)
.the blaze of a burning capital. In the last Bulletin of Prince
liv!resow,. and that i-sued by Government on the art i-
sal of time Gottenbumgh mail last Thursday, will be found
an enumeration of unexampled triumphs gained over an
enemy hefore whose skill and audoeity all, save Ihitish
prowess, had It the; sunk unavailing. The leader of half
a wog Id in arms fled with his van-guard to Smolensko,
vainly trusting that he should find W itespk, Pohask,
and the line of the Dwina in the possession of his ttoepr.
On the magazines which he had left under the proteetion of
St. Cva end Vic Tott, he flunk' !died to ref' esh and :up.
portihe starving fugi lees, once dignified with the n. one of
his grand army, hut t't. R lead Leen d ivc» f.oin ,his
post with the loss of f his division, and V tcroa, who hurl
marched with the gre,lter part of his force to his relief, had
only joined him to share his fate in .a sebsequent engage-
ment. W TC; ENST EIN, master of 1% itespk and of the ma-
gazines it coati oce!, after a series of glorious act low, com-
municated with TSCHIC;IACOFF, in the rear of Smoiensko,
and the artival of Kurt:sow in the ne.e,libottm hood of that
town completed the zone of -hostile armies by which it was
surrounded. There, the last French Bulletin, and the French
Papers tell us, NAPOLEON remained on the 12th ult. probably
unable to penetrate farther, and eetlcayouming to re-organize
the wrecks of the S:e000 men with whom le: left Moscow,
but which it is bat moderate to say, hase been reduced to
cou,iderably less than 60,000 : perhaps, the part of Vie-
Tott's corps left at.t hat place, may swell the present grand
army to 60,000. The sick and wounded who quitted :Nit:s-
e,w before the Emperor, cannot have gone beiond Sraolen-
s'io, which was almost entirely burnt in his triumphant
much to the capital. The few magazines which had been
furmed there, cannot suffice to feed the numbers collected •

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together for any length of time. In the midst of ruins zn,tl
desolation, with scarcely any shelter from a freezing sky,
with famine, staring in their face, and hostile ariniei
gatlwring around them, NAPOLEON and his choicest I,i;t
reduced and exhausted' troops are now taking up their
winter (;carters. Will they be able to contend long‘.yriihi
!hese three dreaded antagonists, Russian snow.% unsat atcil
want, and the sword of the patriot ? If not, what will it
avail, that the vassals of NAPOLEON, still overawed by the
te; rots of hiS name, send the flower of their subjects to pt
in his cause ? The numerous reinforcements on their
march to the Dwina, according to the last Gotienburgh mail,
must prove useless if he be unable tq maintain his pnsit:rm
until their arrival : and yet he has no other alternative, if
this is beyond his means, than to rush with the impure of
despair through the hosts that cut off his roceat, and Nor
or die; or like CssA a, with committed his life and hi., for-
tune to the billows and the storms, to incur all the peril, of
a solitary flight fiom an army which he has led to de:tr:ic-
*ion, and amidst a people where every hand is raised in %en-
:4eance against his 11;asi. It has indeed been mentioned tfat
be hid left Smolensko with his guards forMobilow in order to
c-seape into Galicia, hut this hitherto only rests on rumour.

kGottenburgh wail arm ived last Thursday, in con7-equence
of which the fol!owing ()Giciat Bulletin was issued:
. .

" Government this miorninA rcce;vel accounts
_from Gottenstirtli,
of the :10:11 of November. There were no tank:. dispatch'. tr.,ta
Lord C ihcart at Gottenburgh when the packet came j%V.:V ; but ti,e
aecounts from the Russian armies are of the most tiatteriitt debcrip.
Lion. General Platolt' had taken 900 men and 20 pieces of cannon, at
the passage of the Dniel'er. A corps of 2000 men, Ge_,eral Augeteau,
brother of the Marshal of that name, had surrendered at discretion to
Count Orlott'lleniz,:lf. The last accounts fro,rn Kutus hcaJ-
quilt tern were dated Lobkovo, ten wzrsts in advance of Sm on
tit. 13th of November. Nothing, then was known of litionap4rte.
Victor has hVell defeated with great loss."
The arrival of a Prussian vessel at. Dover from Dieppe,
with an Irish Gentleman, preduced a strange effect in the
City on Friday. Because his dress was plain, it was insinu-
.tted that he must have concca!ed in his trunk some very
rich cloths ; a medal or masonic badge was converted int.)
the insignia of the Legion of Honour ; and because he
sailed. from Dieppe, it was immediately whispered about
that he mwt have come from Paris, and that it was mwe
than probable he had originally come from the Giami .Inpy
with an overture which he communicated to the Duke of
11AsFANo en t•assant, and then made the best of his way to
Dieppe. Or at least mi:!:t have brought an actnuit
131..T0s ApAAT CS death.—The en! leman's unwininp,ticss' to
answer a thousand questions was immediately imputed to
some diplomatic cause. Ilk reserve, it was insisted, was not
natural, and becaie,e he chose to be silent, it was instants
asserted that lie was silent for the same reason that Loni
Br a LEIGH is, in the eagerness to get to los
native country (not %cry unusual we should think for a rr-
son just arrived from France) was attributed to the nece,',lty
of delivering his important dispatches, and in :,hoot nothing
was talked ofand no other question was asked in and nor
the Stock Exchange, but " who is this stupendous stringer
N.() doubt he must have been amused on his arrival with the
hustle he had created, and with the effect he bad produeol
upon the public funds, which rose upwards of one per cent.
In the muse of the afternoon the Prussian vessel was con-
verted into a flag of truce ; nay, as the night approached,
some saw double, and would have it that two Bags of truce

were arrived.
Sonic of .the Papers had in consequence a grand bit at
BUONA PART E. Thew had i:ound out the day,
the hour, and
mode of his death, and they killed him " lu ,good bet terai,