The National Register.
London, England, 1812-11-22 00:00:00

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gritted, anti h. barrassing his rert eat, would so diminish his
at umbers., as to render the junction of his armies, if possible,
•:unpioductive of anv united force, so superior as to ha-.
lance his own. In thk, we regret to state, he has been dis-
appointed. among sa many liberatPd provinces, some
4;neridas from the Norfh, and the anti active BAL-
LAST LI nos' et-4-I,s. seem to have been the only Si anish war-
s that joined our standards. The pr'ople rej.ficeil at
our victm ions mow rss, but stood still. The bu den of the
vas sutTeri-d to fall almost undivided !won our shouldets.
;Tbe eneinv 1,:-ought up his arms om the South, a march
,of upwat as of 300 miles, without any serious impediment,
sod the supinerv-ss of the natives, the chief cause of our re-
treat. has bern repaid by the re- es.ablishmeut.of the Usut per
yin the car ital of .-rain.

On Thursday a Gottenburgh mail arrived in town, eon-
taininv, intelligence from that place to the nth instant, from
Piga to the Sd, and St. Pete.slyntgh to the ‘.l.d instant.. Dis-
ratch,s were 1..1.4) received by Government, and notified in
the lowing Bul!etin

" .k tispatch lo•s he. ..1 received frOtrl Lard CA TT! C A T, dated St.
Xetursbnr,,ii, IN;.vetutur• I. Ile incloses the Bulletins of t; e tioien c,l
the 18th ult. also Rolm h hum General tirhtxuttt. cud Count WIT 1-
Nru I N Tice I„rtuei, its his inusait of the et•troty, h tailLl'n -411
waggons. 2'i stambods t I the Bavarian re,,inicuts, 800 duc:its tit the
thiloary che,t, seven ofK•ers. the Commissa, v General, with all Lis
emplou.ecs, ai.d made 100 orisoir•rs, on the ::5•11 of Octobtr; and on
~the Vtith, ke took from the enemy seven piecescf ry, aild made
seven officers and 1:)0 men erisoneo , .hesid‘s this taken in various
retied .trcs of the rear-guard, wherein the enemy had roach sacred.
Count \ViI'IrENSII.IN reports, that bye the operations of General
'Sri INUIT r, the Bavarian corps was separated from that of SI. CY It.
He himself, in the pursuit: had taken 300 prisoners and ten tutu-
,brds.; he found 500 horses killed on the road, and solve limbers, the
cannon belonging to winch, he suppses, were bet kI in the tnarstics.
7he enemy had retired to Lepe Ile. He adds, shat St. Cy It's corps is
so weakeded, that it is toposs:ble for hint to a• tack again till ice is consi-
reiotoret a. •(centrali HILT, dates from Koublieke, vn
the itith of Oct.ther ; and WITroEN ST h IN, Ott the same day,
from Ouchatelti.•— L td CA I II CA RI States, that nothing of moment had
been reported from the Russian Grand Army. The French were in the
Inmost waist of hirage and provision, and the It ussiens wire gtcatty su-
rel tor in the number and vifrour of their cavalry. The Preach lett se-
•ster-I Ilr.usand sick In M scow, in the most misei aide state."_ _

.v the St. Petersburg') Gazette, brought by the Mail, we
are furnished with various N'iss'an Bulletins, including Field
Marshal Ku ruso.w's account of the operations of the army
under his commdt:d, from the 4th to the 15th October. The
most impot tam affair which occurred dui log the above period,
beside the defeat cf Mt; it AT, on the 18th ult. was of the cap
ture of Wereja, on the south side of the great road between
Gshatsk and Moshaisk, by a corps under General Do Roc it ow,
who bad been detached by Kurusow, prior to the 13th of
October, to act upon 'the whole line between these two points
So great was the impetuosity of the Russians, that the i wrench-
silents were carried early in the morning by storm, in half an
hour, and the place completely in their hands. In the course
of the day, a French corps coming to the relief of the place,
made its appearance on the Moshaisk road, but finding that it
was too late, it commenced its retreat, in which, being pur-
sued by the Russian light cavalry, it suffered considerable loss.
'This action was remarkable for the co-operation of 1000 pea-
sants, collected by a Priest of a neighbouring Ch•arch. Be-
sides magazines and bread, the soldiers found a good booty in
money.

From the Journals of the operations of the Russian armies,
it appears that the detachments of Russians placed on the roads
approaching the French, besidts making prisoners, and pre-
venting the collection of provisions and forage, having daily
cut to pieces great numbers of the enemy, taken ammunition
waggons, blown up powder chests, and destroyed whole parks
of 'artillery. These parties formed an unbroken line of con-
nection all round the enemy's positions, so that he could not
=VI in any direction without being subjected to attack. The

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troops peculiarly serviceable in this species of warfare were
the Cossacks,. of whom no less than 24 additional re..;intents
had joined General Ku tisov), by the 12th of October; the
regular corps also, were complered by recruits from the uei-11.
bowing Governments. But it was not only on the troops, re.
gular or irregular, that the Gt net al had to rely. The villa..,ers
k.ept watch on high hills and church steeiles, and at siitht of
an enemy rung alarm bei!s, the sound of which assembled
thein all together, when they bound themselves by an oath to
mutual defence, tin] a4teed to punish cowai dice or desertion
as the basest of crimes. The Cossacks hovered on the flanks
of the Ft enrb army. and actually ventured to engaLe frc.
quent skirmishes. But this was not all :in the very streets of
Moscow, French Office's were attatled and murdered by the
natives ; and although it was not prudent to own so much, it
did certainly appear in 8:411e instances. that the blow was in.
tended for Buo• APA aTE himself. Meanwhde the French
cavalry and ammetniti!:n horst s suffered an alarming diminu-
tion, not less, it is salmi, than 60,000 in the whole. The men
also, feeding on hoise flesh, and in want of bread, became
sickly, and died in great numbets Meanwhile the supply i
provisions to the Utissiatis is %Yell regulated, that the unit'
army does rust sutrer the least want, aed the g' eat roads had-
int; to the army me covered with o': ts, which eoniefloni
all th- most fruitful Governments in the vicinity of which it ;s
s•atioiled. _ _

in the action with Mon AT, on the 18th, the colours given
to his own corps lot their distinguilted conduct in the battle
of Austerlitz, and inset ihed with all their celein ated p!oits,
were ladktn by the Cossacks, and have since been pi eAuitekl to
the Emperor At. EX A N ER.
It is mentioned in one of the le!ters from Sweden, that to
cTinterva!l the pro! osals of BU ON A P A RT 2 to the 1)01,s, an
(dli.eni;?.ldl(a)sinh.eteitilinc-i.rictt,o erect their country into an lndeectidaht
K guarantee of Russia and Great RI hail.,
and that Den maik and Sweden are invited to concur in this
arrangement; which is to involve the surrender
tait(t)til:ed as likely
Aristriail:olaml. 'the L
Prince of ODEN LIU " " II"'
to be proposed to the Polish nation ti r a soNe-
reign.
Fr"el) Pacers to the i inst, came to hand on Wednesday.
They contain no fresh Bulletin, nor is there eny intelhgence
of importance from the theatre of war in the Ntirth. Time
is a ptivate letter fi om Moscow. of the 19th, the design ut
which is evidently to pi epare the minds of the people of Frantse
fir the coming disasters of the enemy in their retreat new the
Rtei.sian territories; and an article from Vienna gives some de.
tails of the operations of the Austrian auxiliary face. From
Warsaw it is stated that no attack was dieacijd on that city,
though-Tchechazoff menaced it, but afterwards retired to le-
inforce "l'ormazoff
It is curious that there is not the slihtest notice of wheie
BUONA PA RTE himself was, when the last advices came front
the armies.
Advices, of a late date, received from Hamburgh, state,
that an imurrection had taken place at Fulda and Hesse
Cassel, on the same principles as the recent insurrection at
Paris, the parties concerned having previously spread a report
of the death of BUON AP ART E. Unforttpately the leaders of
the conspiracy were apprehended, and will probably undergo
the same fate as those in Paris.
The latest recounts received by the Cottenburgb mail,
mention that the Government of Denmark refused the re-
quest of the French Amba,sador to allow the Danish Royal
Authorities to be present at the Tc Deum sung
• in the Chapel
of the French Embassv_at Copenhagen, in consequence of
the entrance of the enemy into Moscow. It is even stated
that the Court of Denmark will speedily propose conditions
of peace with this country.
Conjecture has been very busy, relative to the object of the
French General, who sailed from hence in the Armide frigate.
on Thursday se'nnight. We apprehend that he has been landed
in Quiberon Bay, where a strong force is organizing undo
(he Bourbon banner, against the Corsican.