The Sun.
London, England, 1812-12-08 00:00:00

VICE-CHANCELLOR'S BILL.

Lord HOLLAND, previous to the Order of the
-Day for going into a Committee on, this
made his promised motion for that information on
the subject which was before the other Rouse of
Parliament, for the use of their Lordships. Ile
declared that nothing was farther from his inten-
tion than to interpose any unnecessary delay, but
he thought, it rig.'fit that the House should be en.
abled properly to consider the merits of the case,
before it agreed to a myasure of such- importance.
lie also delineated the introduction of the Bill,
at a period when several Noble Lords, much more
conversant in- the subject than himself, would
have no opportunities of delivering their senti-
ments upon it. De would prOpose the. Bill's going
to a Committee, bk.t must, say that he knew, since
.the measure came to be more zenerally canvassed.
lunch-. doubt was entertained upon it. He 'then
moved, " That a Message .he sent to the Com-
mons, requesting them to transmit a copy of the
Report of the,Comm;ttee appointed to inquirer
into .the causes cf the delay with regard to the
decisions of t3le Court of Chancery."
Lord REDESDALE observed, he should' not op-
pose .the motion of the Noble Lord, but must de=
precate every thing in the shape of. unnecessary
.delay, to a measure of, such speedy and evident
necessity. .The motion howe.vcr, respected An'
inquiry- into suppressed delays in the Court of
Chancery ; a questionin which. he was not aware
tbtit any well founded complaint existed. The
object of the. Bill was *to prevent .the justice of
itheir Lordships House from being so much, retard-
ed in. future. The.-Bill now before the libuse was
the result of the investigation of a Committee of
their Lordships, attended by some of their ablest
and most intelligenp Members,- aiid to the plan;
founded on that report, he did not understand any/
objection was made. Without such a 'remedied.
Measure it ciould be- 12 or 13 years before they ,
could get through the arrea-r of causes:, 'which now
a.inounted to. more more ?than ::70. The Noble
and Learned Lord entered info some detailed 0b...
serrations as-to
,the .state.atull, process of the jtidi-^
vial busineSs- of their Loidships, and also„of that
in'the High Court of Chancery, but more esoe7
cially respecting the former ; n 1 J which, he argued
evinced the necessity. of speedily passing the Bi!l‘i
a meastit.e w!lich at the.cloie of the last.SeEsiOn,
he had announced his intention of bringing forward
the earlieSt oppOrtunity in the present; in which
to render it salutarily operative, it must he passed
tolerably earlY. •
- The question was then put, and Lord Hot-
-I.;AND'S inotipil agreed to, •
On the qUestion for going into a Committee on
the Bill, •

:Lord HoLLAwp rose, and made a variety of oh-
.servationsin consequence of what fell from the
Noble and te\rael 'Lord. lie repeated„ his 013,-
jest was 'pot to defeat the Bill, but to' retard it

only fur the purpose of insuring discussion.
The apparent attempt to hurry it through the
House, had induced him to'come forward, though
not qualified to speak as be could wish upon the
subject. He agreed as to the necessity of prevent-
ing delays in their Lordships' judicial- business ;
his only doubts were as to a proper remedy. What
he was principally apprehensive, in the measvire
of the Noble Lord, was, that by it the Lord High
Chancellor wouhl be rendered nothing more than
a political Lord 'Chancellor (he kneW this.would
never be, the ease- while the Noble and Learned
'Lord-now on the Woolsack filled that office), and
the.ViceChancellor would become the supreme
efficient Judge in the, High Court of Equity. He
regarded the present institution of the Chancel-
lor's office, combining that of a High State Of-
heels with that of the Supreme Judge in the princi-
pal Court of Law, to be one of the most salutary
institutions in the country.
Lord REDESDALE replied at considerable length,
and pointed out the transcendant importance and
utilities of the Chancellor's office, which arbitrat-
ed more cases of commercial importance than all
the other CoUrts of. Law put, together ; and ex-
pressed his opinion, that the .presiding in that
House, as the dernier resort of the Head of the
Law, produced that salutary uniformity and con-
sisiency of leval decision in this country.. 13y the
plan winch he had the honour to suggest, . the
eliice of Assistant to the Chancellor, would be no
addition to the country. He wasfar from
agreeing wit:_ the Noble Lord as to his appre-
hension of the measure inducing a change in the
character of the Chancellor's Oflice.--lt would
rather, lw thought,.haVe the contrary effect. The
high 'Officer in question was invested with so
Many, and so ifivortant duties; he was held out
to the public in so conspicuous a poincof view,
that no Minister Would dare - to appoint en 'inef-
ficient map to the station. -With respeiit to the
progress of the T,iiL, he had no wish to hurry it
unnecessarily ; his wish particularly was, that the
measure should receive the fulleSt investigation '
in the other House,' through which he had no
anxiety it should pass before the Holidays.
L'ord LOLL AND spoke in explanaacm,-aS did the
Noble and Learned Lord.
The House then resolved into a Committee on
the Bill, jn which a few amendments, chiefly of
a verbal nature; were made, on ihe suggestion of
Lord Itedesdale..
Lord HOLLAND wished to know whether there •

Avas a clause in tne Bill to disqualify the principal
-y-odieerter be appointed by it,'-from sitting
,in the
• other mouse of Parliament
'Lord REDEShALE answered (as we understood
his Lordship), that as the office would be one of
new creation,;:there was no necessity for such a

provision.
The Bill being gone through, the f-lOus'c re
sumed, ,and ordered the Rep Oft to be received to

Morrow.

Adjourned at Seven o'clock..; • -
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THE SUN.

SOLE:4 (XIS DICERS FAI4SUM AUDEAT ?

L 0 N D 0 AT,
TUESDAY, DECEMI3tR 8, 1812.

We have again to announce the further suc-

resses of the Russians, and the utter discomfiture

of that immense Army with which BUONAPARTE

last Summer, threatened to overwhelm the Rus-

sians.

Never did Europe behold such a force

assemble:l as that with. which that ',T'yrant crossed

the Niemen, five months ago, and the wretched

remains of it are now flying in despair, abandoned

by their 4eader,• without tents, withotit ammu-

coition, without artillery, and almost ivithaut pro-

visions, pursued by an active and continually in-

creasing enemy, harassed by continual attacks,

and perishing under the rigour of a Russian win-

ter, and from the dreadful fatigues to which .they

are exposed.

But this is not all; they are still

at an immense distance from the Polish frontiers,

and they have in their front the armies ofWITTGEN-

STEnC, TORMASOW, and TSHITCLTAGOFT, flushed,

with =success, and daily increasing in numbers.

Under these circumstances, we think we are not

too sanguine when we anticipate the complete an-

nihilation of the French Army. It-is not, indeed,

impossible that BVQNAPARTE himself may escape,
but even that we think very unlikely. The last

,French bulletin is dated at Sniolensko, the 11th

of November, and the French Papers which arrived

yesterday, of the 3d inst: contain no news from
Itussia‘ Now if BUONAPAIiTE had reached any part
of the Polish frontiers, be could have communicated

intelligence of that event to Paris in nine days,

therefwc we may be sure, that as late as the 224

of November, he bad not escaped.

The only

chance he had of getting off, was by pushing for-

ward with his cavalry, before WITTGENSTEIN

anti TCHITCHAGOF had formeGt a janction in his

front ; that junction, we know, had taken place.

The length of the Gazette 'Extraordinary coin-

pejs•uS to curtail our observations upon this sub=

ject, but, at the same. finie, the details

are so clear, that they almost render all comment

unnecessary. We, however,' beg to call Coe par-

titular attention of our Readers to the intercepted

letters of BEAUHARNO I§ ; they describe, in the

strongest terms, the miserable state of theTreach

army.

This morning a Mail arrived from Gottenburgh.

Government have not received by it any later in.

telligence than that which.arrived yestdalay.—LA

number of reports, however, were in circulation

at Gottenburgh,' which our Readers will find de-

tailed in the folloyiring letter :

HARWICH, DEC 7.—The 'King George,packet,
Capt. KING, has this morning. arrived in four
days from Gottenburgh, and fuliy confirms all
.the accounts, brought 'by the Lark yesterday,
and farther announces, that BuoNAr4lcrE and
MgRAT; accompanied by 15,000. men, -1044:13.1..4.
rated from 'the French Grand Army, at Smolen:
sko, and taken the direction of Mohilow, whither

TSCHITCItiGOFY had • pursued him, and accord-
ing to some accounts from StoCkholm, had 'over-

taken him, thougl.the result was. 'not known.—
That ' UGENE BEAuFARNois, with. 50,000 men,
was surrounded completely by the Russians at
Smolenskoi; that the Italian Guards having lost
their cannon, had'; to a" man, laid dDwn their
arms, and fifteen of their superio-r Officers join-
ed the Russians, The Germans are
,repre-
sented as deserting by thousands ; and Russia",
, •
profiting by the circumstance, was about to or-.
,
ganize an immense German Legion in Finland.
That GOUVION ST:CyR was dead:of hi 3 -o.F4mulds; •
and that VICTOR who had broken up for the pur-
pose of reinforcing that °Ricer, having found'his,
army completely annihilated by WrTTGEN6TEIN
and STEINHILT, was retracing his steps, and that
Prussia, unless she alters her polities, - must be
completely overrun in the course of a month, the
French not being in a situation to give her any
assistance.

The Russian fleet were to sail from Wingo
Sound for England, accompanied by Admirals
Hope and Momus, on Thursday last, and, no
doubt but they are now on the coast, as the wind
has been fair ever since.

'The King .Gcorgc brings two Messengers, and
fifteen other passengers.
Arrived the Lord Duncan 'packet, 'with a mail
and passengers, from Heligoland, and the King
George packet from Gottenburgh, with a mail and
passengers.—Nothing further was known about
the homeward-bound fleet ; a few scattered ships
were at Gottenburgh, bitt little hopes were en-
tertained of their getting to England this winter.
The French are still experiencing great reverses :
—the Guards of the Viceroy of Italy have laid
down their arms.

YARMOUTH, DEC. 9.—Sailed his Majesty's ships
and Britornart, Beaver and Priiicess of Wales cutter,
in quest of the .RusBian Fleet, to render them as-
sistance, if required.

We this morning received some German Papers,
frOm which the following are extracts

EXTRACT FROM THE DAGLISH ALLETRANDA, OF

NOV, 24.

The great Russian army, is moving from Jelna
to Krasnoc. The Cossacks perform wonders.
They not only destroy the. columns- of infantry,
but even attack the artillery itself with the greatest
bravery. The French 'have lost between 30 and
40,000 men' on their retreat from Moscow. The
whole road is covered with the dead bodies of
men and horses, atnmunition chests, baggage,
and gun-carriages; in one word there yever has •
been an example of such a flight in the memory,
of man. All the' valuable articles which bad been
plundered, at IVoscow are re-taken ; upwards of
100 waggons have fallen into the bands of the
victors.

The French are in want oCevery thing; acid are
reduced to the necessity of eating horse-flesh ;
their cavalry no longer exists, and they are daily
losing part of the little artillery they have left.—
Fifteen Officers of the Italian Guards have ar-
rived in oar army, and requested to be taken into
our service. We are assured that the strength of
the whole Grand 'French Army does not now
amount to above 60,000 men.

Intelligence received from Count WITTGEN-
STEIN, stated, that he is at Orelia ; Major Gene-
ral HARrE, who was sent forward by Count WITT-
GENSTEIN, reports, that the head of the French
columns had arrived at Smoleusko.

EXTRACT OF A LETTER FROM COPENHAGEN.,
RATED, NOV.. 25.
We have• received, accounts here that Prince
ECKMTJUL is dead of his wounds„

LONDON GAZETTE EXTRAORDINARY,

71.11SDAY, ngc. 8, 1812.

F6i-eign Qffice, Dec.' 8, 1812.

_ .
Dispatches, of wilich the fifflowing are copijs,
were yesterday received fr6M General Viscount
Cathcart, K.l'..his Majesty's,Ambassador Extra-
ordinary and Plenipotentiary at the -Court of
Russia, by Viscount Castlereagh; .one-of his Ala-.
jesty's Principal Secretaries of State.
MY LORD, St. Petei'sburgh, Noy: 11, 1812.
I have the honour to acquaint your Lordship,
that Buonaparte has escaped. from the Government
of 'Aloscov.,, and h'as followed the road to Smo-
lenskO by which he came.
Generals Count Platow and Count Orloff Deni-
soff have been incessantly in his rear, and on both
flanks of his ling of march ; the former attacked a
position defended by infantry and cannon, which
he carried, taking two colours, twenty-two pieces
of artillery, and such prisoners as could be saved.
Count Orloff Denizoff has likewH, :.let with re-
sistance, which he has every wiL2r,' vApowered,
and has taken many trophies an,l qn!,.ntities of
baggage, ammunition waggons, with ;aisoners,
and some ordnance. ••

Front the quantities of ammunition 'Li!IN,VII up
tip, by, the enemy, awl_ from the state of the road,
deicribed to be covered with the bodies of dead
men and horses, the retreat of the rear divisions of
the French is stated to have every character of
continued flight.
On the 3d of November Gen. Millaradovitch,
with the column under his command, reached- the-
main road near Viasma, where he had a sharp en,
gagenlent with_ the rear guard, which is reported
by the prisoners to have been composed of the di-
' visions of Beauharnois_ of Davoust, and Ney ;
their divisions in vain attempted to arrest his pro,
tress, and, after several brilliant charges by the
Russian cavalry, were di iven through the town of
Viasma at the point of the. bayonet, and pursued
to Facnina by the light cavalry umitr Gen. Pla-
tow : in this attack,, the infantry regiment of Per-
noff, led by its Colonel, General TchoglokOff, and
by Major-General Parkivitch, formed the head of
the coliunri, and charged into the townwith
drums beating and colours flying.
.The loss of. the .enemy in killed and wounded;
in this affair, is stated to be at least 6009; with
2500 prisoners, among which are General Peltier,
of the artillery, and Colonel Mora* Aid-de-Camp
to Marshal Davoust.

In the course of the pursuit from Viasma, great
numbers of the enemy were 1,!(1, one standard
and three pieces of cannot were taken, al)] up-
wards of one thousand Uien made prisoners
In the former part of the retreat, 2.arrY,se, Se-
cretary to the Duke of Bassano, was tA.,:b, with
all the Chancery.
Referring to the relations which have been re--
gularly transmitted •for more 'minute details of
the several. actions, I will briefly recapitulate the
few great movements which have taken place
since the arrival of the French at-ilfoscow.

Marshal Kutusoif continued in his position be-
hind the River Pokhra till the 28th of October,
covering the old road to Kalouga, the Toida and
Rezan roads ; but having made occasional move-
ments on the same line, according as the enemy's
operations appeared to point to either flank.
In the mean while the enemy, by Ilk own 20th
Bulletin, and by his conduct seems to have been
for some time uncertain of the position of the
Russian army. As soon as it was ascertained, a
considerable portion of the army under Murat oc-
cupied the intermediate country between Moscow
anal the Pokhra.

I It was presumed that the French, having it in
their power to bring forward their
,whole force to
either flank
.of Murat's position, 'would endeavbur
• to manoeuvre so as to induce Marshal Kutusoff to
retire behind the, Oka, in order to procure a more
extensive theatre of ground, with the convenience..
of moving either on Kalouga or ,Smolensko ; to
avoid which, and with a view to preserve a more
Certain conveyance 6.n- pro. visicins and reinforce-
. \ments from the south, and at the -same time to
'hold the command of the Smolensk° road, the
Russian army. *began its march to occupy the po-
sition behind.. the River Nara, changing its front
to the right, upon or parallel to the old Kalouga
road.

This position, strong in itself, and strengthen-
ed by art, was not likely to be attacked in front;
but it was .or course foreseen, that if it were to
be attacked, a previous disposition must be made
by the enemy on the- new. Kalouga road, to turn
the left and rear of this position, and the Marshal
professed his readiness to meet the enemy upon
that ground..

Th. movement was completed on the 3d of Oc-
tober ; on-the 4th of October a smart affair of ad-

vanced guardtobkplace with most decisive suc-

cess on the side orthe Russins which was lowed on the sth of October by the flag of truce
sent by Bnonaparte, with an overture to obtain

an armistice and to open a negociation, which
was rejected.
At.thii period several ecnsideraUle (letachruentz

Nere.made.t9 harass the enemy, which appear tc)
lame been conducted ttjth equal skill anti succOs
the_ most important of these was the one ari9st
Tort:ea, which place was taken by assault on the
14th of

On cfe 6th of October, several. regiments Of
CossacK < : i arrived, -it was proposed -to attack
attack did not take place till the 10
of C:4-tz!!),.r.

The enemy after this affair, of wlikh I had the
honour to transmit to Nour LOrdship a rep(irt
in my dispatch, retreated behind the little river
Moza.

• Buonanarte was not heard of out of TifOsCovr
or its vicinity till after this period.
.The only d,.:zachme,nt of any impOrtance mall°
by the
.French in a northern direction, was Vic
one stationed at Demetrioff, which was recfalletti
in great haste, as soon as the evacuation.
Moscow was deterthined on. Tie linssians
oc-
cupied the latter citron the 22d of October, wit'
the loss of Lieutenant-General Winzingerodel-,
most treacherously carried off; With hiS
Cinp; -Captain Narishkin, while advanced ,vitb,
a flag of truce to remonstrate against i protracteo
and unnecessary resistance on the part. of the rear
guard._

On the 24th of October, the French army was
reconnoitred by an Officer of Cossacks belonging
to the corps of Moscow; who saw four camps, eott
on the new Kaloug9 road near 136rofsk, and three
on the left bank of the Protva.

In the night of the 4th of October, General
Dorocoff was ordered to occupy Mala4aroslalf,'
post-town on the new Kalouga. road, between
Borofsk and that place: that General alreadY
found it occupied in force by a French detach-
ment; a very obstinate contest immediately tooti
place, inthe course of which the troops on both
sides were,reinforced,• and the town was take')
and retaken eleven times. The Marshal, in the
mean while,. put his army in motion by the left;
and arrived at Mala-Jaroslaff, establishing his
head-quarters two versts to the southward of that
town, which was burned, and detaching a consi-
derable corps under General Platow, to Medinar
on his left, where he took 11 pieces of cannon,
and left the ground covered with dead.
The obstinacy of this contest for Mala-Jarosdr,
with other circumstances, tended to confirm the
Field-Marshal's opinion, /hat the object of the
enemy was to force a passage to the Sonthern
Provinces; and although there were also. strong,
grounds to believe that' he was prepared to at-7
tempt a retreat upini, SMoiensko, and by Vilna to
the Niemen, yet the Marshal deemed .it necessary'
to direct his principal attention to the roads
pointing .to the southward; and, with ft view
to more complete command of them, re
tirce ,• osition within forty vetsts of -Kai° usa,

that the enemy was moving, by Verret,
.
Tusk, he again advanced upon Medina, 041
ins received intelligence that the French. head-
quarters were, on tbe3Oth of October, at Co!okit
a monastery not far from Borodino, he formed his
disposition to attempt to intercept him near Sino-
lcnsko.
Platow and the Cossacks having been detachcd.
for the purpose of har:asing and surrounding ae
enemy, Marshal Irtioriatireiajore ed enerol
laradovitch's corps to upwln.ds of IS,Ofiti .men, and
directed him to march by his left twwards,Vi:•s-
mai, the *Marshal himself proceeded by koi
and Celinka, in a parallel direction to that allotted
to General Millaradovitch ;
.the .main road. form-
ing an arch, these parallel lines of march weri
shorter, but exposed to greater difficUlties, the
'roads being less practicable:
The head of General Millaradovitch:s column
reached the main road' first, near Viasma ; the
head-quarters of Marshal Kutusoff were establish—
ed at the village of Bikovoi, a little to the 'south-
ward of Viasma.

In regard to the French army, it appears by the
papers of a Commissary-General, who was made
prisoner, that they victualled 120,000 men, but
that their efficient force was "educed to &VW,
at the period of the evacuation of Moscow, and
that Buonaparte had contracted with a company
of Jews for a supply of provisionS in the line Of '
his retreat. His ' fruards, and some select corps,
have been nursed with peculiar care, and kept as
much as possible out of the . action, and these
corps appear to have preceded the retreat of the
remaining troops.
It is reported that Buonaparte travels in a coach,
accompanied by Murat, who has received a con-
tusion in his knee, and Berth ier..

It is hardly to be conceived that this rear,guara
at'least can continue its march without halting, in.'
which case, witlrthe assistance of thelight troops,
the Russian army will be enabled to overtake
them. They have before them the gallant and ac;.,
tive Count Wittgenstein, Whose character for
zeal and entarprize is so well established, and they'
have also, on the Minsk road, to encounter Ad-
miral Thichagolf, with the Moldavian armv,which
it is to be,hoped may have time and notice either'
to , unite with Count Wittgenstein, to wait for
them on the above named road, or to move to
either flank.

Marshal Kutusoff has sent out, among others,
a considerable detachment, which was at Elnee,
nearer to Smolenski), under Lieutenant-General
Shepetoff on the Ist of November, and which .may
have the means of interposing delay.
Thus the fruits of .the incursions of the French
to .3Alvseow, at the ,expenee of the lives of so
many brave officers and men, seem to have been
limited to the burning and destruction or that
city, and to.tbe ruin and desolation of the inha-
bitants and proprietors near, the great road, and
iu the vicinity of Moscow ; while, on the other
hand, it will, to the latest period of history, retkct
lustre on the spirit and patriotism of the Russian
Empire.

The last accounts from Count Wittgenstein are
dated the 3d November, at Tchasnik, two stages
east of Lepel. After -the affair of Polotzk, that
General detached a corps to observe Mac Donald,
whilst he sent General Steinheil on the.road to
Vilna, who, after having
.cut off the Bavarian
corps. from that of, St. Cyr, and entirely disperied
it, with the loss pf . cannon and colours, joined
Count. Wittgenstein, who proceeded to attack. the'
remainder of the French under the 'command of
Le, Grand, Marshal St. Cyr having retired on ac-
count of his wound. This corps was reinfOrcei

VictorUv Marshal at the head .of 15,000 men,
and, having taken post near -Tchasnik, was there
defeated on the 31st of Cictober by Count Witt-
genstein, who, considering the enemy's position
a good one for himself, had continued to occupy
it; detaching • a com• a to take possession• of
Witepsk.
AdmiralTchichagoff's last dispatches of the 22d
of October, from Breslitow, report the success of
a detachment under General Tchaplitz, who,
on the 20th of October, took the Polish General
Konotkolf with the whole :of, the 31.1 reiiment of
Hulans, of the FrenCh gnarl. • -
• Prince Schwartzenberg had, crossed the Bog
without giving- the Admiral an opportunity of
bringing him to action.
• Admiral Tchichagoff and Count Wittgenstein
had reciprocally sent detachments to ascertain each
others position.
Sir Robert Wilson, with his usual activity, has
been in every action, and has contrived to see
• every remarkable occurrence ; his last dispatches
are dated at Viasma the 4th of November, his ac-
counts tally with the official BulletirtS, which
have been published here.
Lord.Tyrconnef has joined Admiral Tchichagoff,
by whom he has been received with •every possi-
ble attention ; his letters of the 22d of October,
have been received by Sir Robert Wilson at
Vi-
asma, and by myself. His Lordship speaks in .
high terms of the condition of all the corps of
that army, which he had until then had the
means of seeing.
Having obtained the Emperor's perintssion for
Major-General Dornberg to serve as a volunteer
in the army under General Count Wittgenstein, I
have given to that General Officer instructions si-
milar to those of Sit Robert Wilson and Lord
Tyrconuel, and I expect bY the next courier to
have the pleasure of learning his safe arrival at the
head-quarters of that army:
I have the honour to be, Btc.
CATHCART. •
IsTovEsdisea. 12.-11 having been found imprac-
ticable to pass the Neva, the messenger has been
detained until this morning. I have now the ho-
Pour to inclose herein the report of the capture-of
Witepsk, -by General. Count Wittgenstein,- who
has made prisoners the Corrimanding OiliCer of the
enemy's forces there, General CountPou get, and
the Governor of the town, Colonel Chavondes.

BULLETIN

St. Petersburgb, Novep-ibeol, 1812.

\Vitepsk is taken by Couiit de Wittgenstein.
The General Count Ponget, who commando d the
troops, is made prisoner, as well as Colonel Cha-,
vondes, the Commandant of the towu.

MY LORD, St. petersburo, Nov. 15, 1812.
I avail myself of the departure of a Spanish
courier to acquaint your Lordship, that several
Officers arrived here in the course of last night,
dispatched from the head-quarters of Marshal Ku-
tusoff, at Elnee, on the 9th November.
The-Rield-Marshal reports, that the flight of
the enemy continues with increased precipitation ;
and that the pursuit, by the' q!ver.al, corps of the
Russian army, has been constant, Vigorous, and
successful ; a part only of the relation of the af-
fairs which have taken place has, as yet, been
'published ; the remainder is in the press : the fol-
lowing are the most important particulars.
On the sth November, General Millaradovitch
reached a village forty versts from Viasma, on: the
road to Smolensko, in pursuit of the enemy.
neral Plato" marched to the right of the yoad, to
endeavour to reach the head of the cc-Annul, whil
the main army moved; on the left of it, under the
Field Marshal, towards I' nee.
Sir Robert. Wilson describes
,the march on the.
main road as one a:ch exhibited scenes of destruc-
tion without example in Modern War,' from the
'l:lumber-of dead and 'dying men, and 'carcasses of
horses,.many of them cut up for food ; peasants'
houses every where on fire, anununition carriages '
blowing up, 'and quantities ofwreck of every de.,
seriptiOn.
It may be • observed that the frost is set' in,
and is stated ':o have been froth tenth fifteen .de-
grees
The effect 'of famine, fatighe, and cola upon, a
flying army, through a country full of exasperated,
peasants, may be easily understood. .
In the course of , this march time Cossacks took
two standards from the Hulans of the:imperial'
guard, who are left
,behind with the army now
retreating, and the eneiny also abandoned a:how-
itzer.'
On the morning of the ith November, General
Millaradovitch entered Dorogobugsh. The enemy
attempted same resistance, but was driven from his
advantageous .position by the Russian chasseurs,
with the loss of three hundred men taken prisoners,
exclusive of the sick and Wounded. In this attack,
and on the preceding day; one howitzer and three
gnats were taken-,• and upWards of one hundred and
forty atinnunitiOn waggons. The number killed
at' this place must have been very great, but I
brave not yet heard it estimateci Two, Russian
officers of note were retaken on this
• The enemy.are described to be in. a:state Of lunch
insubordination, and it was understoOd that their
navel' is directed upon Sniolensko.
On the 9th of November, Marshal Kntusoff had
arrived at Once, where he received a report front
General Platow, of his having overtaken lour divi-
sions of the French army, under the command of
Beanharnots, upon the road from Dorogobugsh to
Doughovtchstchina.
That General states, that the Cossacks charged
through this body, dividing it into two parts, with
great slaughter andthe capture of sixty-two pieces
of ordnance, which had been already brought in
and counted, and' some standards; many plans
and papers of con Sequence, and upwards of 3;000
prisoners, among which, as well 'as among the
'killed, are many officers of rank and distinction.
Part of the remains of this corps fled in the di-
rection of Dorogobugsh,
.and the other part, in
the direction of Doughovteltstchina, closely pur-
sued by the Cossacs and light cavalry. ' •
General Sanson, Quarter Master General of the
Whole. French ttrmy, was taken, with fife hundred
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