The Sun.
London, England, 1812-12-19 00:00:00

ItEI'ORI" 07 TILE 2aTa NOVENl3filt.

" Fully resolved to cut off the retreat of Mar-
shal Ney's corps, and wishing to insure it, I re-
inforced Gen. Millarodovitch, and ordered him to
occupy the villages of Ch!rokorenie and Tc.her
risk, and to await there the arrival. iof Marshal
Ney.

_" At three o'clock in the afternoon the Cos-
sacks discovered the enemy. la the beginning,
a thick fog allowed us not to distinguish the
number of the French columns, which advanced
upon our batteries with a firca'resolution of dis-
lodging us.

" At the distance of 230 paces, they were -re-
ceived with,. grape shot from 40 pieces of cannon.
The' moment was terrible and decisive. But far
from-being dismayed at the sight of inevitable de-
Sr- •
struction, they ,only grew the more enraged, and
with the utmost fury rushed upon our batteries,
which, continuing to be well served, carried death
and destruction into the enemy's ranks, and ren-
dered all attempts fruitless.
" General Paskowrtch, geeing ether columns
of the enemy arrive to succour the first, threw
himself upon them with his brigade, and being
reinforced by two other regiments, charged them
sword in hand with so much impetuosity, that he
destroyed whatever he met.

" The field of battle was covered with dead
bOdies. The enemy ah'andoning standards- and
cannon, fled into the .adjoinng forests: The
number of prisoners is...very considerable.

At five o'cloc& 'P. M. other French columns
advanced towards us, with a' full. determination
to conquer or. die. A batter of 24 guns,. advan-
tageously placed, arrested their first ardQur. At
the very moment when our cavalry 'had turned
and attacked them,in the rear, the enemy came
to a resolution of sending a flag, of truce to Ge-
'neral Miloradovitch to be,g for quarfer.
At midnight', the
_enemy to the number of
12,000 men, laid 'down their arms ; all their ar-
tillery, Consistingi of 27 pieces of cannon, their
baggage, and their military chest, fell into the
hands of the conqueror Upwards of 100 Offi-
cers were made prisoners, Marshal I:cy received
a wound and saved himself by flight to the other
side of the Dnieper. The Cossacks are in pursuit
of;him. The prisoners say that the four Generals
who commanded were killed. The field of battle
is Covered with dead bodies. Our loss in the van
under'S General Miloradovitch, amounts ouly to
500 men killed and wounded.

".The enemy, after blowing up some fortifica-
tions, evacuated Smolensk° on the 1 ith and 18th.
General Natoli, leaving only a regime.nt of Chas-
seurS and lOU Cossacks, set off himself at the
hca.l of 15 pules from the Don, with artillery,
and of one regiment of Chasseurs, to the right
bank of the Dnieper, in order to pursue the enemy
by way of Katane, towards Poubrowno.
" With a view of pursuing also the enemy who
has left 'Smolensk, General Platoff has detached
General Dttlissoff with two pules of CaSsacks, six
squadrons of dragoons, and two pieces of cannon.
General Platoff, in carrying on his operations
upon the right bank of the Dnieper, is commu-
nication with General Kutusoff, the Aid-dc-
Camp and if the enemy should attempt to march
upon Seuno, the junction of thes'e two Generals
would become very fatal tc)
" Oar Grand Annyis at b:rasnoi, and our van,
is at DubrownO, will regulate its march
by the movements of the enelny's army, and will
endeavour nat to lose sight of it.

. .
" General Plato privatelettey addressed
to me, at-mon:ice's, that the enemy has left near
Smo/4nk 112 pieces of cannon, 144 n extent of 17
versts. •

" The mntberof prisoners is far-more consider-
able than I have stated in my twolast Reports."