The Sun.
London, England, 1807-01-26 00:00:00

5 Per Cts, 75 f. QO C.

ConsaiptS7AV-e2,learn from Nice, have
been wandering abOut in the monntaini, •wher'dthey
thought they 'were in security, but the government
obsei'Ved'thein,•.and took thea'stirei" to seize them al-
lbgether `this has now been enticed, and the Gend'.ar-
Measures so well, ,that the whole of
these ichidgitilgiliVes been-conduaed to prison.

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FORTY-I'll'TH BULLETN OF THE GRAND
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Pkor:27.;--The Russian General BEN...
NINC;SEN o‘i the command of an Army which was
estutiMpl, r rr
00;9000 men.' At first he intended to cover
NVai ; but he took a lesson horn the intelligence
of the occurrences, which had
.taken place in 'rus-
sia, to retreat towards the Ruisian
frontiers. Without having been compelled almost
to fight a single battle, the Fretfeh entered Warsaw,
pa'ed the Vistula; an occiipied:Pita. I n -I he. mean
time Field Marshal KANENTskovgjottied the Russian
Army, just at the moment when Geberal BEIST
NlN(ismi'scurps'formed a junction with that under

1171Hovots. • tie
was inchgnant at the retreat 01
4.40 4tissiatis, cOnc,eiving that it tend ;,,d• to ,wiiy the!
honour of hiS country's'a' rills, and. he accordingy"
made a movement in advance.
' Prussia remonstrated with the most earnest iiii- '
pOrtunity ; and complained, that after all thelr;o-,
wises of support made to her, she -was abandon 5.,i ;•..
representing, that' the way 10Berlin was pc)..- 1);,
Grodno; Olita, or Brerse; that, her subj.-.W.14 '''fi'asi
began to abate in their zeal for their 6ovewign ;
and that the habit of beholding the Throne of.lier..
lin in the possession of French was dange.rous
to him'and favourable, to the. enemy. The It u,sian,
not only ceased their retrograde .movemerif,- gilt
they again began to advance.. On the sth of .pq-
cember General BENNIbIGSEN,. moved forward 'his
• head-quarters to Puitusk. The orders issued 'we e
to prevent the French from passing the Narew, o
retake Praga, and to occupy the banks of theNistua, ~
until the moment when more, important offensive'
operations could be adopted, ,
Thejunetion Of Generals KA7IAENSKOY,I3oxtioy-
pEN, and BENxikdstsiz; Was 'celebrated at the Pallice
of Sierock with rejoicings and illuminations,, whith
were descried from the'steeples of Warsaw. Ne-
vertheless, at the moment when the enemy were
cheering themselves With festivals, the Narew was
passed : 800 Frenchmen. having. suddenly crossed
that river at its junction with,the Ukra, entrenched
themselves the same night ; and when the enemy
appeared next morning, with the - intlen tion of forcing
them back into the river, 'they found themelves
too late. The French. were secure agaiht every
event.
~Being informed of this change in the eue,
my's operations, the Emperor left Posen pO toe.
16th ; at the'same moment he put his Army in mo-
tion. Every report which. had been •xeceived of the
movements of the Russians gaVe-him tortindersjarid
that they designed to resume-offensive
.Operations,
Marshal NEY had been for several days. master of
Thorn be united the different corps of his 'Army
at Gallup. Marshal BESSIERES,, with the second
corpi of the cavalry of reserve,- consisting, of the
diVisions of dragoons of SAfiuc and GROUIll'i., and,
the division of ,HAuTPouLT'se cuirassiers, marched
from Thorn to proceed to Bieiun. The Marshal
Prince of PONTE CORvo marched with his,,corps: to
support them. Marshal Sout.'l' passed .the. ViAtila
opposite Pluck. ; and Marshal AUGEttEkb paS'sed at
Zackrocyn, where the utmost exertiori':t.-as '! made
to establish a- bridge. The same aNivitysiwas. k-
erted in constmaing •that -on the Narew., On The'
hod the;.bridg-e .on the Narew was. eompleted. ,
_Ail
;the
_reserve of cavalry instantly phased the Vi4tula at
Praga, on their marcfi'telhe Narew; where-gidghal'
DAV OUST had colleCted the Whi-ile of his,corlis., At
one o'clock itt the morning, of the 23d
.the'. Em-
peror set out from. Warsaw and passed theiNarew
at-nine. ..On recounoitring the Ukra, and" the, con-
siderable entrenchments thrown up. by 'the etliily,
he - ordered a bridgeJo be thrown across at fheWon- -
'fluerree of the Narew and Ukra. By the :zeal of
the General of Artillery, the bridge was comi)leted in
two hours. . • . • • . -. .. ---,.

[The BOlletin - then proceeds to 'give the details
of the affairs of Czarnowo, Nasielsk, and t:.e pas 7
sages of. the.. Ukra and Sonna. It concludes as
follows] the coluintis of the enemy, are
broken, and. Wandering about in a state of'' disorder
diffictilt to imagine,: 'lite...Russian General eon =: .
mined the 'error of posting his army so as to have
~the Frencharmypn his ,Rank, sepfirroed, it is true,
by. the N:n.ev.', but lia ing.a bridge ,iICI-0:35 that river.
Had the season been favourable, one might have
prediOedthat the, Iluss)an.army could not have re--
treated;and that it would have been destroyed
ith-
out a batik ; hot at a season When it is daik
ibur, and where it is not 'light till eight, the .enemy
we are pursuing-. has4very chance of escape, par-.
Ocularly in a country maturally:diffictilt .and inter-
seaed with -woods. Besides, -the'rtiadS arc font-
feet deep of mud, and the thaw continues. The
artillery can no longer advance. moire ~drslit two
leagues in a da.s,.. It is therefOre easy to for:.,,ee that
the enemy win effeel his retreat-from the :etitharrass=l
ing situation in whichltels'placed ; tout, lie-will lose
all-his. artillery, waggons, and h:egg7:gei the
:evening of the 2.ith, the following was, tht. position
of the French artily': the. left, •I:onsi,tieg, '-hf the
corps under the 'Marshal Prince of PosTV,Cou.vo,-
and Marshals .NEY and „BEsstEtins, were mad-citing
from Biezun on the road to GroduO. I\.larshal
SOULT was entering CZartiowo Marshal. AII6E:-
it-Eau was inarching.tOrGlivinin and-:Polttrik. Mar-
shal LAN :s was at Pultusk. In these two days
we made from fifteen htindred to. sixteen hundred
prisoners, and t 60.4. from twenty-ti to thirty pieces
of Cannon,. three pair of colours,-andne .graticlard.
ahe .weather here Is extraordinary. warmer
than in the month of Oaoher at Paris-; but it Is.
rainy 5 and in 'it c„ Nr.: re there ale no regular
-roadS, one is in' tile Mucl.a:. every step;

FOR rY-51 XTII 11

GOLI.MIN, DEC. 23:—MarShal 'Nay, Charged
with executing'' the mancruvres •-by which he was
to. drive • the- Prussian Lieutenant. General LLs-
!roc Q. from Wrka,, to, outtlank and by
these means to. p44..0ff 11ii, cor i rii ica.tion.w i-th the
Russians, has executed these Movements with his
accustomed 'ability' and 'intrepidity. On the 23d,
General' MARCHA 411;S division ,movod
,t(is Gurmu.
On the 24th) the..enemy, was pufsued to bruck.
On the 25 t h the division (.;ttile td an a&ioit, by
which alb enemy rear suffered- some losS. '-On the
26th, the enemy having ColleOed at Soldau and Miawa,
Marshall ,Nzy was .determined to advance and attack
him. The Pl-ussians Were in posses is of Soldau,
with Goon infantry, and about i 000 cavalry, and,'
being defended by -morasses and other'. obstacles
about the place, they thought themselves secure
against any attack. All these ditheulties, however,
were surmounted by the 69th •ankr.76th regiments.
The enemy defended themselyesjAiall the ~;treets of
the place, And were every where. driven :with fixed
bayonets. General I,ETosc(i., Observing the small
number of the troops that had at ttickeci him, wished
to retake the place. -in 'the course of the 'night he
made four successive attacks, withogt effett He
afterwards retired to Neideoburg. Six pieces of
cannon, some colours, and a great nuLnj)ck:of.pri7,.'
soners
Na
the- efteds of this altair Soldan;f Mar-
shal .I.VF)t. praises General VONDE.tilqiwr, Wlio
was wounded. He, also 7tbakes' pattiCtio='Hinett-•
tion Of Colonel of the 6th,:. whci,e.belta,
viour was highly encouraging. 'Olithe sarile,ctay .t
59th marched to Lauterbarg. During tliJ scion dt
.oldau, General MARC HAND', UIViSIOII dove