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

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

TAY ENTY-N INTH BULLETIN.
Moledetschno, December 3.
To the 6th of November the weather was fine, and the •movement
of the army executed with the greatest success. - The cold weather
began on the 7th ; from that moment we every night lost several hen.
died horses, and numbers of men diet in consequence of be
viouackiug. Arrived at Smolensk° we had already lost many Lava!),
and artillery horses.
The Russian army frgm Volhynia was orposed to our right. Our
right loft the Mir.sk line of operations, and took for the pivot at as
operations the Warsaw litre.
On the 9th, the Emperor was informed at Smolansko of the
change in the line of operat lens, and conceived what tie enemy v:ouhl
do. However hard it appeared to him to put himsall in movement
during so cruel a season, the new state of things demauded He
expected to arrive. at Mink, or at least upon the Beresite, befate
, the enemy ; on the 13th he quitted Smolensk° ; t,u the lath tie aen
at Krasner.
The cold which began.on the 7th, suddenly increased, and ce, tie
1-Ith. 15th, and 16th, the thermometer was 16 act la degrees oelae
the freezing point.
The roads were covered with ice; the cavalry, artillery, and leg.
me horses perished every night not only by hundreds but by thea-
sands, particularly the German and French 110ICS.
In a few days more than 30,000 horses perished—our cavalry were
on foot—Our artillery and our baggage were without conveyeee.
was necessary to abandon and destroy a good part of our canticle la-
, munition, aid provisions.
This army, so fine on the 6th, was very difKrent on the lath
most without cavalry, ‘eithour artillery, without trunsports. With'
out cavalry, we could not reconnoitre a quarter of a league's distsncea
without artillery, we could not risk a battle, and firmly await it: a
was requisite to march, in order not to ba constrained to a bale
,
vvllich the want of ammunition prevented us from aesirina
requisite to occupy a certain space not to be turned, eve' that ..e
without travail y, which led and connectel the columns.
This difficulty, joined to a cold which suddenly came on, rendzed
our situation miserable. Those men, whom nature ea'a not stale
ciently steeled to be above all the chances of fate and for
reamed uoe, be
t.
peered shook, lost their gaiety, their good huoar, and d
m
of misfortunes and catastrophes ; those whom site has createl
msuee
rior to every thing, preserved their gaiety and their ordin.ey
ace,
and saw fresh glory in the dillatent aifficulties to be surtoounte.l.
The enemy, who saw upon the roads traces of that lagioau, cal
mit y which had overtaken the French army, endeavoured to raaey.
vantage of it. He surroanded all the columns wiAl his boa`"osr•
who carried off, like the Areas ia the deserts, the trams and
tiages which separated. This contemptible cavalry, whiaa
make noise, an •I is not capable of penetrating through a cornea
voltigetirs rendered themselves futmidable by favour of ta tip.
stances. 'Neverthelass the enemy had to repent of all tie: sere_
attempts which he wished to undertake : they were overtheeea
the Viceroy, before ivhom they were placed, aed lost many m
th al,l:r_
The Duke of Elehingen, with 3,000 men, had blown ma
parts of Smolensk°. Ile was surrouneet, and build hen el
tif,..c'v
rical position; but he extricated himself from it wt' h tilt
with which he is distinguished. Aftdr. having kept the caea
eistance front hitn during the whole day of Ina lath, a d Lone,
repulsed him at night, made a mov, ment oe the right, pa. sad
ry sthenes, and deceived all the calettlatioes of the enemy.
On the 19th, the army passtel the Ito..yathenes at Oran,
ttasian army; being iattgued and having lost a great numoct
ceaaed tam its attetilpts
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