The National Register.
London, England, 1813-02-07 00:00:00

ITIE NITIONAT, REGISTER.

:cellency kno-ws that I do not dissemble my losses; they
redly con..iderable, and fill me with grief ; but the glory
,esty's arms has not for a moment been compromised.
(Signed) The Ni.trsh.:l Duk: of A tiestAdt,
Prince of ECKNIUL.

.OM THE MAASIIAL DUKE Of ELCHINGEN TO THE MAJOR

GENERAL.

Elbing, jan.lo.
GN It-I have read in the Petersburg Gazettes, that on the I
)~ember, at midnight, my corps, 12,00.1 stneag, sent a flag
id laid down its arms ; that I saved myself, alone and wool).
;sing the Rorysthenes over :le: ice. 1 cannot believe that
I of the R fission army ceuld, in his reports, have given
;ch untruth ; and although I know the little confidence
Europe is pail to tle•se reports from Russian Gazettes, I
discredited by the absurdity of their tales, I nevertheless ;
betty of %soiling to your Excellency, and I entreat you to
,tttr printed, to give a formal centradtetion to the statement,
rps laid down its arms, and that I alone passed beyond the
Very t.ar from that, on the 17th of November, I alone
all the enemy's eflirts. I had at that moment but 3000
my orders, and in consequence of the unfortunate circum-
which we were, 1 had no artillery. The enemy had a tune-
-1 hilted all day. I then discovered that it was not the
.try, for they several times attacked mt., and notwithstaraling
their great superiority of number, c -uld make no impression. At 10
p. in. a Colonel, with a the of truce, was sent to propose I should
aurrender ; to this impertinence I replied, by making the officer pri-
s-iner, and carrying hint to the (viler side of the Dnieper, to which I
made my troops repass, and 1 the next day conducted him to the head
quarters of his Majesty, at Orcha ; when 1 arrived there with my
corps, I scarcely wanted SJO m.n, who were killed in the battle of
t he pre :eding day.
All the Russian reports are romances. There is nothing true in
what they say, excepting the loss of my artillery ; and your Highness
knows that it was nut in human power to bring it away in the midst
of frosts, and over the ice, all my horses having fallen under the fatal
mortality oceasamed by the rigour of the cold. During the whole
4.. )(arse of the campaign, the Rus‘lans have not taken, either from me
or my comrades, a sitigle piece of cannon in the face of their enemy ;
although it is true, that when our draft-horse, tell dead with the chit,
we were obliged to break our artillery, and leave it behind us. To
hear these reports from St. Pitersburgh, it must appear, that we were
all cowards, who could not choose but fly befoie the terrible R itssian
legions ! It is true, that, according to their statement, we likewise tied
at the battle of Moscow, and th it they pushed us to the distance of 16
wersts from the field of battle ; consequently it must have been in our
flight that we occupied Moscow.
The. Spring will do us jostice for all these vainglorious boas.tings.
The Russians will every ev here Lind the men of Austerlitz, of P.:ylau,
of Friedland, of Witepsk. of Sinolensko, of the Moskwa, and of the
Berez:na. (Signed) The Marshal Duke of LC HI NGEN.

POSEN, JAN. Is.—His Majesty the King of Naples arrived here at
nue o'clock this night, and alighted at the Palace ot the Prefecturate.
M. the Duke of Abrantes, and the General of Division Friant, have I
been in our city fur the last week.
V srui. A. JAN. 22.—The Prince of Schwartzenberg's corps
d'arinee has taken its cantonments along the Vistula to the south of
\Varsaw. The Russians have not yet passed the Upper Vistula,
where they have three corps ; one under the orders of Gen. Sackett,
that of the centre commandel by Admiral Tschitschagott, and that of
Count Wittgenstein in the North : all these corps are under the direc-
tions of Prince Kutusuw. At this season of the year, and with the
weather we now have, the couriers go in tour days from Wilna to St.
Petersburgh. The cold ii creases with gr.•at force in the neighbour-
hood of the Vistula. There rages, as we are told, great sickness in
the Russian army, and principally among the horses. It is the Mi-
litia and the levies that perform service in the interior of Russia. •
WARSAW, lAN. (20.—His Majesty has given to Prince Poniatowsky,
Minister at far,Commander in Chief of the army of the Duchy, the
most extensive powers fur the orgaoizati.ni ot the army, the comple-
tion of the skeleton regiments in officers and soldiers, and the placing
in a proper state of defence, and provisioning the fortresses.
We have no news of the enemy ; some detachments appear from
time t• time, and immediately again disappear.
AtstsrEanAss, AN. 2J.—The Municipal Council assembled yester-
day, when an address was voted to his Majesty the Emperor and King.
We are as yet unacquainted with its cont,:nts ; but we know that the
good city of Amsterdam has offiered a squadron of horse chasseurs,
mounted and equip Fed, to form a part of the regiment whit.h is rais-
ing in the whole department. The other cities, the rural cantons,
and even the smallest communes, every where spew the same zeal
a;;d good inclination. Utrecht has made an oiler of twenty chasseurs,
mounted and equipped. The count ries united to th! Grand Empire,
are attached to it for ever. The inhabitants of Pat is, of Rome, of
Amsterdam. can have but one awl the sante way of thinking. All

Imisemmismem.
SIUTCARD, JAN. 14.—Yesterday passed through this city, his
Face Hence M. Barlow, Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary
from the United States of America, to his Majesty the Emperor of
the French. This Minister is on his return front Wilna, where he
passed some time with his Excellency the Duke of Bassani,. He
afterwards stopped at Warsaw, and is now returning to Paris.
STUT4ARD, JAN. 13.—The following publication has appeared
here :
" In the night between the 7th and Bth of January, a plank was
pulled out of the Hunting-box which had been erected on the road
between Murr and Pleidetsheim, in the grand ha liwick of Marbach,
for a hunt, which was to take place on the Bth, and in which box ai
king was to have been, whilst shooting ; and under it was placed a
long hag, containing. 44 pOunds of powder, with a flint and steel, a
piece of tinder cut lengthwise and a packet of tow."
" A reward is off'red of 1000 ducats, to any person that will discover
the author of it, or his accomplices. If the informer himself should
be one of the accomplices, and give certain information of the whole
plot above-mentioned, his name shall not be discovered, and he shall
have full and perfect impunity.
I)ANTI.IC, 1 AN. 17.—We have here a corps d'armec of 30,003 mcn
under the orders of Gen. Rapp.
Gen. itachelu, who commands a brigade six leagues from hence,
att 'eked on the 15th the enemy's advanced posts, and made 3 Russian
officers, 100 soldiers, and 15 hussars, prisoners.
DANWC, JAN. 17.—The following order of the day has been pub-
fished here :
" A report was yesterday circulated on the Exchange, that a Coun-
cil had Imo held at the Governor-General's, in which it was debited,
whether the fortifications of Dantzic should he blown up. Such re-
ports can only be invented and propagated by evil-dhp...sof persons.
" Not tally will the fortifications not he blown up, but if the ene-
y should dare to approach them, they will be defended to the last
extremity ; and if necessary, we will fight to the last enclosure of
Dantzic.
" It is reserved to the garrison of Dantzic, to prove, in the present
circumstances, to the Empire and its august Chief, that nothing can
shake its courage ; and that it will defend, at every risk, the important
place confided to its fidelity and honour.
" The Cenerai of Division, Aide-de- Camp of his Majesty the Em-
per,r and King, Governor-General of"
C Dantzic,
ount R A PP•"
Aor sauitcu, jAN. 17.—1 t is calculated, that according to the

,ueasures lately it.lopted by the Freach Government, 550,000 tnen
will quickly be disposable, without reckoning the army in Spain, or
the G rand A rmy.
UGSSUitG, lan. 17.—Besides the corps of 30,000 men, command-
ed by General. Grenier, and which will at this moment arrive at
Berlin,*.there is a corps of observation on the Elbe, assembling at
Hambureh, under the cant:nand of General I.auriston ; another
corps of observation is forming near to Mentz, to Wesel, and to
Erturth, which it is said w.ll be commanded by M. the Marshal
Duke of Ragusa.
Du sscLooar JA sr. IG —We have received an imperial decree,
which ordains a levy of 2,500 men, in the Duchy of Berg, ter the
Conscription of 1813. The drawing for our canton will take place
on the 20th of this month.
BERLIN, JAN. 19 —Lieutenant-General D'York,Commander of the
Prussian auxiliary corps, placed under the orders of Marshal Duke of
TarcAo, on the fsoth of December 1812, capitulated at the mill of Pos..
cheron, on his retreat front Courlaod, to the Russian Major-General
Von Diebitsch. By the report which Lieut.-Gen. D'York has made
to his Majesty, he slims, that he has been forced to this step by the
bad state of the roads, the rigour of the cold, the fatigue of the troops,
and the want of cavalry,, which, with a part of his infantry, had been
united to the van-guard under the orders of the Duke of Tarento, and
were ad iy and an half's march betbre him, but principally. because
of his b ing surrounded by three of the enemy's corps, which were
superior to him in force : he adds that he had taken this step to pre-
serve the corps under his command, for his Majesty. The King re-
ceived this unexpected intelligence with the greatest indignation ;
and true to his alliance with France, he has not only refused to ratify
the said capitulation, but has ordered the following dispositions to be
made:-
1. Thecommand of the Prussian Auxiliary corps shall be taken
from Lieutenant- General D'York, and given to Major-General
D'Kleist.
2. Lieutenant General D'York shall be immediately arrested and
brought before a Council of War.
3 Lieutenant-General de Massenhach, who adhered to the capitu-
lation is likewise suspended, and his tr-al shall tak,.. place.
4. The troops, in conformity with the stipulation of the treaty con.
eluded with France, shall he placed at the full disposal of his Majesty
the Emperor Napoleon, M. Natz:ner, his Majesty's Aide-de-Camp,
is already set oft' with these orders to the army-.
It is extremely afflicting to his Majesty that a corps d'armee, which
had during the whole campaign given so many proofs of bravery and
true tilelity, should have been put out of activity at such a decisive
-meat. His Maj,:sty has sent Prince Hatz kid to Paris to give his

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a:ld good inclination. Utrecht has made an oiler of twenty chasseurs, nis a t
is extremely afflicting ireaoy 5C 1 yll irif it II I •15..“.
to his Majesty that a corps d'armce, which
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mounted and equipped. The count ries united to th! Grand Empire. I
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are .attached to it tor ever. The inhabitants of Pat is. of Rome, ot had during the whole campaign given so inany roofs of bravery and
Amsterdam, can have but one and the same way of thinking. All true tiielity, should have bccu put out ot activity at such a decisive I
are Frenchmen, subjects of the G mat N a poleon. But in no part is moment. His Maifsty has sent Plince Hatzteld to Paris to give his
it more ardently wiihld. :Wet in Ho!land, to see the Blower of England august ally the necessary infornutiou concerning this equally dita,
diminished. , zit:cable and unexpected event.
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