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

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from his corps who having advanced on Brest Litovsky, occupied th
town on the 13th (25th), and there made upwards.of too prisoners.
his patroles extended as tar as Biala, Janow and Drogilehene. Major-
Ge:lend Bonlatch', who was marching by the way of Preugane
ChircheN to Kaminitz Letoesk, hale on his way, picked up shout .ice
prisoners. He wishes his patroles as for as Bri'ansk and Bielsk.. The
Aide-de-Camp General Wassiltschikoff reports under date of the 18111
(30111), that the corps under his ordeis entered Tikotchine on the pre-
cediog day. The Inhabitaats and he clergy, bringing bread and salt,
came to meet the Russian troops-with the most lively transports of jog.•
The woman left the twines with their children in the tenderest emo-
tions; the cries of intrt a ! a thousand dotes repeated, and the name of
h:q Imperial Nlajesty-, which reverberated from all sides, anneunced
the Joy with which every cinemas animated.' General Wassiltschik off
is meal,seltile in pursuit of the enemy on the road to Warsaw.
Dile. '2l (Jan. 3.)—On the 17th (29th), General Count Platoff de-
tached the regiment of dragoonsUf Negitte to go fo Bialvstock by the
way of Grodies. under the order% of the :hide-de-Catop General Baron
de Kerff. General Ddctorff, iitho liken ise takes the rout to Bialystock
with the body of troops under his orders, arrived tea the. 19th (31st) at.
Wolkawilsk.
Di O. 'et. (Jan. V.)—Licutensnt-General Paulucci reports, under
date of the 18th (30th), that after the occupation of 'Mitten. he di-
rected Lieeternott-Colonel Kounte!ki, of ths. regiment of Polish Uldans,
to pursue the enemy who were dispersed in the woods, and that this
Officer in matching .by Granzhoff, Gegary, Alartynischki and Okutiana,
had taken two officers and $3O soldiers prisoners. On the 9th (21st)
ditto, the Marquis put himself in march with his column from Mitten
to Trouenberg, where his van guard, under the orders. uf Lieutenant-
Culo.tte! Sntiden, of the artillery, came up with the enemy on the 111 h.
(23d) and defeated him, taking 60 prisoners, and melting himself master
of several carriages, taken under requisition some waggons laden with
biscuits, flour, and oats ; and took itbuut 40 h=orses. On the Itth,
(24th) he• arrived at Sertinden, where the enemy abandoned con-
siderable magazines. On the 13th (15t1t) he wes at Upper Barthau,
from whence he caused his van-guard to advance ; which hating an
the 14th (v6th) come up with the enemy, between Rutzaw and Po-
langen, near Butlerschaff, beat them, and took two officers and eighty
soldiers. Oil the 14th (e6th) the column proceeded as far ae PuHa-
gen, where it was rejoined by Lieutenant Colonel Kounitski. On the
I.sdi (17t1i) it arrived hefo e Memel. The garrison, after some re-
sistunce, surrendered prisoners of war, to the number of two staff offi-
cers, twenty subalterns, and upwards oh 700 soldiers., It was thus that
our troops entered llietnel on the 15th (27th) ; we there found 2.00
sick, and ahont 100 of our prisoners. We seized on three armed sloops
of the. French fltnills, in the harbour; we likewise took six sloops be-
loneing to the Prussian flotilla, with 30 gulls ; 3l vessels belongine to
different nations, and a consider:llle qu amity of colonial produce,
imported by the French. In the town we found five pieces of cannon,
90u fusils, 19 carbines, 19 pair of pistols, 900 c.earidge boxes, 26,000
cartridges, 60 s.bres, and t 9 hitssa• saddles, teree field batteries, with
eve Oificers, 84 Soldiers, 16 surgeon', I chariot, 05 horses, and 4 iron
boilers. The ruagazinea contain latge quantities of all kinds of corn
and of brandy.
" The Head-qnarters of his Imperial NI ajesty and the 74..irshal con-
tinued to be fur some time ti.st at \Vilna. Thus there no longer re-
mains an enemy in the whole extera of the frontiers of Russia, and all
the former Polish provi,:ces, at this present time under subjection to
the Rteoiati sceptre, are evacuated by the foreign troop'.
" Tee anointed f the Lord has, wit fired doubt, said by inspiration—
' I n ill not lay down my arms until I have driven from the Russian
soil the enemy who lies dared to transgress its prophecy
is whined The only traces of the enemy which are yet perceptible,
are his hones spread over the fields from Moscow to the frontiers of the
Empire !"
The Commander in chief of the Armies, Marshal Prince Kuttisoff
of Smolensko, has reported as follows to his Imperial Majesty, from
his head quarters, Orany, 28th Dec. (9th Jan )
" Konizsberg, the ancient caoital of Prussia, is subjeCt to your
Imperial Majesty. This vast city was captured on the '2sth Decem-
ber (Jan. 6), by Count Wittgenstein's advanced guard, under ate
orders of Major-General Sehepiliff. Marshal Macdonald occupied the
town with a corps d'armee, composed of old French guards, and
some troops who had escaped the general destruction of the enemy's
grand army.
" The wreck of his particular corps, constituting part of this total,
was reduced to 2,500 men, after the Prussians separated front them ;
there remained to him' in all about 7000 men. At the approach of the
advanced guard, which briskly I,foC'teti'4, the enemy, without hal ti:sg,
passed by Konigsberg, and abancioncl it to Major-General Schepile,
who entered it without meeting any resistance. This astonishing
facility in giving up the possession of this city is a conseauence of the
Victories with which the arms of your imperial Majesty have been'