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-a‘ the number of prisoners, is so vcat. !hat it will s:lke a:consi.leci
able time to make an "ex. rt 'acenuntr— - •-----7.-'-'""•••"•-- •
• During my stay here, the Chief of the Safi, Ceti Stawrakoft, and
Maj 4-General Beiroditi, have collet ted from the different magazines
' of the town, 14,000 tsehetwe,t of barley, 5,000 tschetwert of hisculf
and flour, an immense stunsber of uniforms, muskets, pouches, sad.
dies; great-coats, and other articles of equiptnent.
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We have made prisoners seven Gtmerals, viz. Vivier, Goussa, Nor:
i mand, Gouliot, Le Fevre, Fwanofsky, and Sajontchik ; eighteen staff
officers, and superior otikere, 9,517 soldiers, and 5,139 sick were
found in the hnsilirals.
A great number of prisoners continue to be made in the neighbour:
i hood ; and several magazines hays been taken, which we have not had
soon time to ceri ify. As soo as the wont: shall bedrawn up, I shall have
1 tke happiness to submir them to your Imperial Majesty.

LONDON GAZETTE. EXTRAORDINARY'.

HEDNYSDAY, JAR. W.

VOREMN-OFFICE, JAN. 19.
n;spalches of which 'he following are COpit'S, Ilarfl been received br
visv.w.t rustleleagli, Ilis Nlwirsty's Principal it•Cretary of Stale for Fo-
reit.tn Allah's, front Gencral Viscount Cathcart, N. Ilis.Nlajesty's
Ainhabsador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary at the Coati of st.tic-
iersburgli.

St. Petetsbumh, Dec. 31, 1-812.
My Lord—The military reports addressed tithe Emp, rUr at St.Lieters.
burgh, awl which followed his Imperial 11Iajesty, are not yet returned
to be made public; but 1 have now the honont to inclose herewith the
translation it. a journal of acitary operations froM.the 13th to the -45j.h
instant inclusive.
From these reports your T.ordship will observe, that the putsuot RUM
%Vilna has been carried ou in separate routs upon Kowna by Counts
Wittgenstein and Plana. But the former having taken and destroyed
many of the enemy in his ling, of march, had proceedeei down the ,iN.re•
men to Younbourg, airs! thence towards Tilsit, which place Wat&
yanced guard had occupied befbre the t3d inst: . •
Count Plana found a considerable part el the remaining force of 'the
enemy at Kowno, which force,' understand to have emapt ised conscripts
and convalescents which had been stationed at that place aid at Whine.
This corps made considerable resistance, but the Ilin Cossacks haviitit
passed the river on the ice, and got into the rear of the position, the
enemy abandoned it in the night, with the loss of 21 pieces of cannon,
and about 6,000 prisoners. . .
The remains of this corps, being dispersed and pursued by the Cos.
sacks, fled partly in the direction ofT ilsit, and partly that of Wilcovitch,
many of them being killed and taken. in the pursuit to the latter place
Admiral Tchichagt,ff had pursued in the direction of Gheruo, andby
detachments had cleared both hanks of the river : Gen. Lanikoy,- with
part of the advanced-guard, having marched upon Colvary endWil..
coyitch. to connect with GM Platoff upon Gtimbinnen.
General Tormosoff, with the coltuno which, had, been led'by the
Field-Marshal, in person, was moving, upon G retitle, and your Lard.
ship will observe, that count Ogoroffsky had by his detachment, ta.
ken possesion of that place, in which ColOnel Davidoff had *eitablialy.
ed himself on the 20th inst. The Austrians hid detached towards
Grodino,but wired every where on .the advance of theßussian troops,
and one ftat.,sian detachment was ordered to move tifson'.Bialystock.
Lieutenant-General Baron Sachen was following the retteat of the
principle Austrian corps through Pinsk, and'Sronim, and eipeetedr to
be at Ruguna on the 24th. .
The corps late.under General Fare,
.vJas coMmantled by General
Touschott, to which another detachment has been joined,. havingpas.
sect through Minsk, was on the Yin at Candanotl, on the road from
the latter place to Sloniw.
All the towns on the right .banks of the Niernem appeared' to be
full of roagazints, and the country on the left bank is full of resour-

ccs.
His Imperial Majesty has expressed his satisfaction Othe appear-
ance of the army. and of the great exertions they have m4des and
is
which the greater part are still engaged. •
His IniperialiMajesty has invested the Field Marshal ,with the
G rand Cross of St. George, and present at a hill given *by the Field-
Marshal, in celebration of His Iniprial Majesty's birth day.
The prisoners of war that have been forwarded into difE:rent Govern•
runts, since the battle of Borodino, are stated to exceed 150,000 men
many of these may have become the victims of cl,,iiate and fatigue,
but His Imperial Majesty has directed every possiale care and aucn-
to be paid sto Om. I have the hOnour to be &c.
piped) CATHCART.
Continuation ,f the Journal of Military operations front the 334 to
the 19th Dectlithe •
DEC. M.—General Tormascef repats on the 1 Ith, that the different
parties, detacl ed by the Aide de Camp General Wasilt4chikotf had dig-
covered at 131. hese an Austrian corps a Mull men) advance.'

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