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his Maje.tv at Wilna, and submitted to his approbation and protection
the Act of Confede..ation.
To the Act of the Confederation, his 'Majesty replied as follows :
" Gentlemen Deputies of the Conlederation ty. Poland,
" I have heard with interest what you have related to me.
" Pole.! I would have thought and acted like you : like you I would
have voted at the Assembly at Warsaw. Love of the country is the
first duty of civilized man.
• " In my situation l have many interests to conciliate, and many dit-
ties to perform. Had I reigned daring the Ist, 9d. or 3d partition of
Poland, I would have armed all my people to support you. Immedi-
ately that victory enabled me to re'tore your antient laws to your capi-
tal, and a part of your provinces, I did it, without prolonging a war
which would ha% e continued to spill the blood of my subjects.
" I love your nation. For 16 years f have seen your soldiers by my
Side, in the fields of Italy, as well as those of Spain.
" I applaud all yon have done ; I authorise the efforts you wish to
make ; I will do every thing that depends on me to second your MO-
hitiOnS.
!f your efforts are unanimous, you may conceive the hope of re-
ducing your enemies to acknowledge rut rights ; but in these coun-
tries, so distant and extensive, it is entirely upon the unanimity of the
efforts of the population which covers them, that you must found your
hopes of success.
" I have held to you the same language since my first appearance in
Poland ; I must add here, that I have guaranteed to the Emperor of
Austrsa the integrity alas dominions ; and that I cannot sanction any
mancesivre, or any movement, which may tend to trouble the peaceable
posse.sion of what remains to him of the Polish provinces. Let Lithu-
ania,.. Samogitia, Wetewsk, Polotsk, Mohilow, Volliynia, the Ukraine,
Podolia, be animated with the same spirit wliich I have seen in Great
Poland, and Providence will crown with success your holy cause ; Ile
will recompense that devotion to your country which has rendered you
so intert sting, and acquired von so many claims to my esteem and pro-
tection, upon which you may depend under every circumstance."
[The Moniteur of the and 30th contains nothing farther respect-
ing the armies or the Polish Confederation.]

RUSSIAN 13ULLETI

FROM ST. P ETERS BIJ RUH GAZETTE.

•FFICIAL ACCOUNTS'OF THE OPERATIONS OF THE WAR,
FROM HEAD-QUARTERS, NEAR ALKASMA, JUNE Is;
(JUNE SO.)
This day the army is posted at the following places :—The corps of
Count Wittgenstein, at Breslau.; the '2d and 3d corps, at Deden ; the
Ith, at Nawloky ; the sth, at Melaschi; the 6th corps, at Novgrodi.
The movements of the enemy have increased, which has caused
some sliirmishing. Major-General Curl, commanding the rear-guard
of the ed and 5d corps, has repulsed all the attacks of the enemy in
the road to bozos. By prudent measures he succeeded in keeping the
enemy in check, although they had a great supermrity of cavalry.
The horse artillery. under the command of General Count Kutusow,
forced them to retreat with loss. We have made prisonets Colonel
Puntzen, in the service of Wurtemherg, and 30 privates. The Com-
manderlin-Chief praises the conduct of Count Kutusow, and likewise
the bravery of the Imperial Cossacks and Polish Ilulans.

June 19, (Jell( 1,) N. S.—The Fr•nch army seems to have divided
itself into two parts; one follows our movements, and the cther tries to
out-flank us on our right..
Our first army pursues its march to the appoint:-d direction ; it has
already united seven': detached corps.
The enemy has attempted attacks at different points, for the pnrpose
of reconnoitring ; however, he was always repulsed with loss. In one
of these skirmishes Count Orlow Denizzow•, Adjatant.General, has made
many poisoners, among wltum is Count ()davit's Sermr.
On tte 18th, the corps of Count Wittgenstein was between Willtomir
and Noltinany.
The corps► of Lieutenant-General Tutschkow, and that of Count
lichuwalow, approach Swenzany.
The corps of General Doktorow is on its march from Oschmany to
Swenzany.
General Platow has left Pjalistock, and is proceeding to Wileika.
Prince Bragationcontinoes to approach with the first army.
Jolty ?1 (Jyr.r I.)—Nothing particclar has ()centred during these
two Jays; the troops are concentrating from Swenzany and ‘Vidzv.
By thi• movement the communication between the different corps of
the General of Infantry Doktorow has been re-established ; Count
,}'Alden who at the t,e7ironing of the campaign was at Grodtto, will join
.arsia iu du• Lime. la this Mamie; the different carps till pow have re-