The National Register.
London, England, 1812-10-11 00:00:00

THE NATIONAL REGISTER.

OCT. )1,

issued a manifesto, in which lie lays the blame of his retreat
on the triumphant corruption of the land, which has baffled
all his efrotts and shot higher and stronger from his pruttin2,..
Let him draw a specious veil Ayer his disgrace, and shrink
back into obscurity ; we shall not call up the shade of the
popularity which he sacrificed at the shrine of avisice., to
haunt him in his retirement and distuth his pence. lle has
read the funeral sere ice himself over his political exis►ence,
and we henceforth consign him willingly to the oblivion he
courts. It may be some consolation for him ti know that on
quitting the stage of public life, he leaves no regretting
fi lends behind.

Not so will it he amongst the lovers of merriment, what
they learn4hat honest Jock l'uLtnt, who never spike a
word that did nit come from
,his heart, and did not convulse
all parties with laughter. is also retiring to roar out truth• no
longer. No mot e shall his ruddy countenance illuminate the
[louse, and his blustering thunders elicit from the alarsind
Speaker, a gentle call to order. No more shall he soften
the rugged features of the most important business, and make
lleayen-born Euphrosyne take her scat beneath the roof of
the serious Goddess of debate. In hint Parliament may lie
said to have lost -the most passionate promoter of good
humour in others.

Notwithstanding these secessions, it nine pretty eon ectly
be inferred .from the progress which the general election has
already made, that the next Parliament will be very nearly
composed of the same Members as the last. The election
itself bears a different character, and except in a few in-
stances, seems to be can ied on with an unusually small degree
of opposition, and an uncommon share of good humour,
liberality, and independence.

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

PARIS, Ocr. 3.

Aloscow, Svev. M.—After the 'battle of ifolivra the 1....eiv.h
army pursued the enemy upon Mo-eow, 'u the three route., Nlojais!:,
Svcnig• rod, and Kalougit.
The Ring of Nripies was on the tit lionhiii•Tio, the Viceroy at
Riniza, and Prilioe Po, iatouski Ihe lie.tit ipuirters
were on the lath transferred front ,)il‘ j iisk to Pe-cline ; on the I.lth
they were a' the c....stle of Bentska ; on the it: h, at we
entered Moscow. Ihe enemy Ltd raised on the Sparrow Motel:din,
two wersts from the city, smite redoubts, which he abandoned.
1 he city of Aliiscow is es large as Paris : it is art extreindy rich city,
full of palaces a=f till the nobles (tithe Empire.. The Russian Gteritor,
Rosnipchin, %jelled to roin fine City when lie saw it abandoned by
the Ruzssiali army. I 1 had armed 3000 inulefaCtors whom lie had
taken flow tie 41'0r...eons he also sammoned together 6000 satellites,
and dust ributed,eims union g them front the arseti:•.:.
Our advanced guard, arrived in the centre of toe city, was received
by a fire of umsketry which issued from the Kremlin. The King of
Naples ordered n battery of it few pieces of c.tnitelr to he opened, dis-
peised this rubble, and took poioession of. the Kremlin. We hat'
found in the armpitl silty thousand thew muskets, and One hundred and
,wen y pieces of cannon. ou their carriages. Iha molt complete
anarchy reigned iu the city ; sonic drunken nuidmen ran through its
ditfereut quarters, and every where set tire to them. • The Governor
Rostatichiu had caused nil the mer.Azants and shopkeepers to be carried
tilt, through whose instrumentality rdor us'At ha.e hi en re-eitabli•lied.
More than 44)0 French and Gerfuans were *fretted by his orders ; its
fine, lie had taken the precaution of carrying off the firemen with the
Ere engines ; so (hat the most complete anarchy has desolati'd this great
and tine city, and the flames are devouring it. We have Mond in it
• considerable resources of every kind.
The Emperor is lodged in the Kremlin, which is in the centre of the
city, like a kind of citadel. surrounded by high walls. Thirty thou-
Sand wounded or sick Rutsiant arc iu the hospitals. allaaduned, with-
out succour, anti without nourishment.
The Russians acknowledge that o.ey lust fifty thousand men in this
battle of the Moskwa. Prince liagration was mortally wounded. A
lice h.is been mad! of the Russian Generals wounded or killed in Oaf
battle : it aniumutii to between toriy-fare end filly..