The National Register.
London, England, 1813-02-28 00:00:00

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I learn with satisfaction, though not °M .:laity, that a very consi-
derable corps is entrusted to Baron Wiutaingerode, and tbat he has
been promoted to the rank of Lieutenant. General.
The Emperor moved in the night of the 7th January from Wilna,
to join the division which comprehends the guards, and the head-
quarters of the whole army were at Mereez on the 10th of January :
it was thought they would continue there for a day or two.
The Austrians -under Prince Schwartzenberg had retired from
Bielistock, and were near Warsaw; bus not in force to render it pro-
bable that they would contend with the superiority that might be op-
posed to them.
Zambrow is said to he fortifiul and garrisoned ; but I do not con_
ceive than any disposable force upon the Vistula cau be adequate
to the defence of the tetes-du-pont and fortresses on that river, espe-
cially were active operations can take place upon both banks.
The Emperor remained sixteen or seventeen days at Wilna, where
his Imperial Majesty issued many regulations and decrees, for the re-
storation of order in various provinces which have suffered, and for
prevention of disease from the infection of prisoners, and from the nuin-
ber of dead bodies and quantity of carrion still above ground. In the
neighbourhood of Wilna sixteen thousand corpses are piled up in
heaps, for the purpose of being consumed by fire, when sufficient wood
can be procured, ; but numbers still remain uncollected in the roads
and villages; and the mortality in the hospitals at Wilna continued
to be very great.
The Emperor himself repeatedly visited all the hospitals.
Te Deum was sung in the Cathedral, in presence of the Court,
on New Year's Day (0. S.). in thanksgiving for the expulsion of the
Trench from the Russian territory, on which occasion the proclama-
tion, of which the inclosed is a translation, was read ; to which 1
have also added, the general order given out to the army at Wilna the
ed of January, by Prince Kutusoff Smolensko.
I have the honour to be, &c.
(Signed) CATHC•RT.
P. S. I add the statement, found at Wilna, of two regiments of
the French guard, by which the condition of the others may be in-
ferred. C.'
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Two Proclamations issued by the Emperor Alexander set forth the
losses and disgrace of the enemy in very forcible terms, and invite the
people of Russia to return thanks to God. In the second, his Ma-
jesty states it to be his intention to build a church at St. Petersburgh,
as a mark of gratitude to Divine Providence, to be called by the name
of the Lamour Jesus Christ.

The documents alluded to in the,pestscript of Lord Cathcart's
letter, relative to the state of two French regiments, represent the
4th- regiment of Voltigeurs, on the 16th of December, 1812, to have
bad present under arms at the departure from Smolensko-32 officers,
and 427 privates; loss since the departure from Smolensko—killed,
wounded, dead of cold and misery, or left behind-6 officers, and 398
privates; remained under arms—lo officers, and 29 privates.—The 6th
regiment of Tiralleurs, on the 31st of December, 1812, had present
tender arms at the departure from Smolensko-31 officers, and 300
privates ; loss since the departure from Smolensko—wounded, dead
of cold and misery, left behind, &c.-17 officers, and 290 privates;
remained under arms-14 officers, and 10 privates.
MY Loan St. Petersburgh, Jan. 29. 1813.
I have the honour to enclose a journal of the movements made by
the several corps of his Imperial Majesty's army, from the 4th of Ja-
nuary to the 26th of January.
Your Lordship will observe that, by the rapid advance of the corps,
on the right, the enemy has been diiven beyond the Vistula. The
Russian troops being in possession of Elbing, Matienberg, Marienwer-
der. aud Neuenberg.
The corps from Fining and Marienberg, being drawn from the No-
gat, attempted to wake a stand at the tete-da-pont at Derschag, but
were soon compelled to abandon it, and retired, part upon Demme aud
the remainder tipOn Stargardt, still pursued by the Russians.
It appears that the troops stationed in Dantzic, advanced to the Pre-
get, to favour Marshal Macdonald's retreat, and that they made no re-
sistance at Elbing. having abandoned their artillery beforctheir arrival
at that place.
The attack upon Marienwerder seems to have been nearly a surprise ;
and Beanharnois is said narrowly to have escaped being made prisoner,
There is no report of the surrender of Meta.
Oa the 13til January, the Emperor crossed the Niemen near
Moretz, amid the acclamations of his brave troops, and has continued
to march with a division of his arniy, in a western direction, through
Berjuiki, Krasuople, and•Subalki to Lague, wlience the last dispatches
are dads&