The Sun.
London, England, 1812-10-08 00:00:00

COLCHESTER ELECTION—WEDNESDAY.
537 Davis-
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Majurity jin fat;

ur of Thornton.

HULL.-FIRST DAY.

The poll for Hull is just opened this day. The
two late Camiidates, Mr. Staniforila and Lord Ma-
hon, are opposed by Mr. G. W. Denys, Nephof
of Lord Pomfret. He was passing to :Bewley
when he was requested by the independent voters
of Hull to become third man, and is now Toiling
in great strength. The numbers at the close of
the first day were as follow :
Mr. Staniforth. 737 I Lord Mahon.... .. .. • 155
Mr. Dully's. 395 t

Second Day nt Three o'clock.
Mr. Staniforth. -.0.1379 I Lord It,lnhon ...... ' .... 332
Mr. Denys •1

•
On Tuesday night the Election closed at Sud-
bury :
Sir John Cox Hippisley, Bart 471
Charles Wyatt,- Esq. 469
• Sir Felix Agar • 363

Lora'
WESTMINSTER ELECTION. This day
COCHRANE and Sir FRANCIS BURDETT were elect-
ed Rcprcsentatives for Westminstee without Or
position.

FRENCII PAPERS>

NINETEENTH BU3I.LETIN OF THE.GRAND ARMY.

PARIS, OCT 3.
Moscow, Sept. 16.
After the battle of the Moskwa the French
army pursued the enemy.upon Moscow, by the
three routes, MojaiSk, Svenigorod, and Icalouga
1 he King of NAPLES was on the Dth at Koubin-
skoe, the Viceroy at Rouza, and Prince PoNlA-
oWsxt at Fetkiinskoe. The head-ctuarters were
- on the; 12th transferred froM Mojaisk to Peselina ;
• on the 13th they were at the castle of lierwska ;
on the 14th, at mid-day, we -entered Moscow,—
The enemy had raised on the Sparrow Mountain,
two wersts from the city, some redoubts, which he
'abandoned..
• The city. of Moscow is as-large as Paris ; it is
an extremely' rich city, full of palaces of all the
nobles of the Empire. The Russian Governor,
IlosTArcnitc, wished to ruin this fine city when
he saw it abandoned by the Russian army. He
had armed 3000 malefactors whom he had taken
front the dungeons,; he • also summoned together
6000 satellites, and distributed arms
.among them
from the arsenal. •
Our advanced guard, arrived in-the centre of
the city, was received by a fire of Musketry, which
Issued truraAhe Kremlin. The King of Naples
ordered a buttery of a few pieces of cannon to be
Opened, dispersed this rabble, and took possession
of the Kremlin. 'We have found in the arsenal
60,000 new muskets andl2opioces bfcannon on their
Carriages. Themost eompl etu anarchy reigned in the
city; some drunken Madmen ran through its different
quarters, and every where set fire to them. The
Covernar RdsrArcurg had caused all the iner-
chants and shopkeepers to be carried off, through
whose instrumentality order might have been re-
established. Mdre than 409 French and Germans
`were arrested- by his orders; to fine, be bad taken
the precaution of carrying off the firemen with the
fire-engines; so that the most complete anaschy
has desolated this great and fine city, and the
names ,axe devouring it. We have, found in it con-
resources Of every kind. '

The Emperor is.lodged in the Kremlin; which
is in the centre of the city, like a kind of citadel;
surrounded by high walls. Thirty thousand wound-'
ed or sick Russians are in the hospitals, abdn'-.
cloned, without succour, and without nourish
went.
The Russians acknowledge that they lost fifty
thousand men in the battle of MOskwa. Prince
134GRATio1 was mortally wounded. A list has
'been made of the Russian Generals wounded or
14;116 if' the battle : it'ainounts to hetween forty-
fineand fifty.

FROU THE ZIONITEII3, OF SEX 4. 29.
ARMY IN THE ,NaaT/1 O SPAIN.
Cha the 27th of last Atignst, at three in the af-
tenicion, eneial Count CAFFARELLI entered•Bil-
hoa. The enemy dared not await him, but fled
in all directions, Two, pieces of cannon;and se-,
Iteral English vesSelS were taken at Portugalete.
Tile inhabitants of Bilboa, whom the insur-
gents had forced to leave this place, returned at
tlte call of the General-in-Chief,- who, 'after re-
Itaining
.there some days, left that town to put
himself in communication with Santona; and con-
thiCie his
,operations.
The same day on which General CAFFARELLI
tlltered l3iiboa, Gen. SOULIER marched by Ot:exei)
Chiefs f
him. General SOULIER met theo
tai,' Air
5, .aAARQUiSITO and LONGA, near Areta, at
Lead of more than 5000 men, occupying, a
Y fine position: He :nunediately attacked them
the greatest vigour, the position was carried
k'ltit the bayonet.
The enemy were completely routed, and par-
. %ticd till nine at night. They left,3oo dead-on the
the field of battle, and more than 800 wounded ;
b4t officers and fifteen soldiers were made pri-
%°uers ; 800 muskets were thrown away by the
/41erny, Who abandoned a considerable•quantity of
&c. This affair does the more fio-
ll'ur to General SOULIER, by the Manner in which
.bas been conducted ; it cost us but a few men.
On the 22(1 August the General of Division
41,1 E, set out with 2LOO infantry, 200 horse, 'and
alPieces of cannon, from Pampluna ; he reached
in Carrascal. This Chief had with him
411
Ills bands, consisting of five battlions, 450
tllvalry, and two pieces of cannon. The superi-
tY of number and poSition had inspired him
the greatest confidence, but the good disposi-
tions of General ABBE, and the valour of his troops
-verearne every obstacle, and rendered the action
luaby glorious to the French, as 'murderous to
the
(twiny. According to the most moderate
°lints, the insurgents, in this affair, lost up-
s of 800 men; of whom 200 were killed; our
s does not ainount to half that of the enemy.
tI 4 the 19th August there was another affair on
die side of Burgos. The Adjutant Commandant,
"10NT, left that town on the 15th August, with
400
-Inen c-• '

• Ark

and twn niproc nr 1"....3171Tirirl 11 rt r,

Ohuillos on the 19t1i.:12e was attacked by 4,590
infantry, and 900 Cavalry, under MARQUESITO and
SJILAZAR. ,The. Commandant FROItIONT, masked
his pieces; for Med thossts",7and waited for the
eneiny; when they were within pistol shot, our
•
troops,cOmmeneed a most liirely fire, which fire,
followed by a vigorous charge, put the enemy
completely to the route. They were pursued upon
Pisuei•ga;
.after having more than 360 Wounded;
and 120 killed. This affair, whicii does so much
honour to the Adjutant Commandant FE6MONT',
cost us about GO men.

•
WARSAW, SEPT. B.—On the 2d inst: h detach:-
ment of the 3cl cavalry regiments- of the Guards
arrived here from Grodno. This' reglint:lA iS en-
tirely composed of young Lithuanian gentlemen,
and commanded hi- the General of Brigade Ko-
NOPKA. It is scarcely six weeks since the decree
for the formation of this corps, and-already there
are 4.00 men. under arms; well nthin4ted and
equipped, who in a few days i gill proceed to join
the Emperor's head-quarters.

MiNISTRY OF WAIL

ARMY OP PORTUGAL.

While-the :army of Portugal was collected at
' Valladolid and its vicinity, in expectation of the
reinforcements which have been sent to it froth
Bayonne, General CtAtrzEL, •w.ho has commanded
this army since the wound of the Marshal Duke
of Ragusa, knowing that the ,garrison of.
Astorga was not .suffiefently supplied with pro-
-,
, visions, determined to send a detachment to re-
'victual it. He destined for this purpose two
divisions of infantry,,with one division of light
Cavalry, under the orders of General FOY, who
was besides directed to attack the insurgent army
of Gallicia, which it was supposed must have as
sembled near Benevente ; but with whatever
pi:Jay General .Fox marched, it was impossible.
for him to arrive in time at Astorga. The garri-:
son having completely exhausted, its means of
subsistence, had been compelled to surrender,
and had come out of the place on the 19th of
AuguSt. General Foy arrived at - Astoria' on
the night. of the 20th, without being able to
come up with the enemy's rear-guard, except
near that place. The- insurgents, compelled to
'fly in haste into Gallicia, marched from 10 to
1.2 leagues a day. In evacuating Astorga, they
had left our sick and wounded, who were brought
back by General FOY. That General hav;ng learnt, '
on his return to Benevente, that General SU.-
ftlU:k.' Was still in tile. vicinity of Zamora, march-
ed against him by Tabara and Carvajales.
Sas.* him regaining in all haste the frontiers of
PoY•tugal, but our cavalry could never come up
with him. -

About the same time, Gen. CLAUZEL learnt,-that
the English General ANSON, having fr,ont 1;000
to 1,200 horse, had Maintained. his posts in the
valley of ,the Esqueva. His division, composed of
the'llth, 12th, 14th', and 16th regiment§ of light
dragoons, and of a battery of light artillery, Was at
Villa Vanes and Tudela. \ On the 19th of Augusty'
Gen:ll,lAue o NB ivas'char,;ed to advance, for the Pitr-
poe of reconnoitring on the sideof Tudela, in order
to compel this cavalry to pass to the other frank of
the Doura., -Sorne.cannon and inikketry shot weie
exchanged with the enemy ; the dragoons of the
15th charged him at the entrance of 'rudela, and
compelled him to repass the river : GeneralANsobr
retired upon AldeaMajor, and 'the corps of ob-
servation of the English army retreated between
the 20th and 24th to Olnyed,o, and then to Are-
vain.

VIENNA, SEPT. 17,—According to the latest in-
telligence from our corps•d'arrnee, the head-quar-
ters were on th‘e. Bth instant.at liololy, between
Kowel and Stockod. The advapf ed-guard, un-
der the orders G.: General Frolich, :.observed the
enemy's position behind the river Slur, from
Kelhe to Luck. General Alohr. occupied Pinsk
xvith-considerableforces. The seventh corps was
near Kesclen ; General Kosinsky near Bablowitz,
upon the road which led front Vlading to Luck.
The' Austrian army was in the best condition, and
had taken possession of these positions without
any fresh battles.

. _BERLIN, SEPT. 1 6.—We are assured the Dui.e
of Belluno has joined the Grand Army.

The Moniteur of the 29th Sept. is almost filled
with details of the operations of the French army
in the' South of Spain, during the month of May,
1812.

The papers of the 29th contain no intelligence
from the army in Russia.

Yesterday a Court of. Directors was held at the
East India House, when Captain Hughes was
sworn info the command of the Bridgewater, do 7
stifled to Madras and China. The Court adjourn-
ed at six o'clock till Wednesday next.
Major Woot,roE, who was wounded with the
Fusileers, in VOrtugal; is appointed an Assistant
Adjutant-General in Ireland. • ,

The West. Gloucester Local Militia, commanded
by Lord Ducie, were on Friday inspected ofi Duni
ham Down by MajOr-General Gordon Cumming,
who expressed himself in the highest terms of ap-
probation of 'the superior state of,militaq disci-
pline to which this fine body of men has been
trained. On Tuesday last the Duke, of Beaufort
honoured the ,mess with his 'company at Man-

• tR(11c1. THE'
LONDON GAZETTE--EXTRAORDINARY-

WEDNESDAY, OCT. 7; 1812.

•- Foreign gffice,,SApt. 7, 1812.
A dispatch, of whieli the follo,xing is a. copy,
was this, day :received bi-Viscount Castlereagh,
Ins MaieSty's, Principal -Secretary Of *'-61.:6
reign Affairs, from his E'xcellencv Viscount' datil-
cart; his nilesty'4 A mbassador VixtraOrAnerv:aild.
Plenipotentiary to the tourt of the Emperor of
Alt the Rn ssi as . , .
MY LOiLD, St. Petei'sburL:th, Sept.:l.7,
/ am most happy In having to h.:!ri Lo!--
1-espondence from St.Petersbargb,
thilt the arms of his imperial Alaje.t‘', have Len.
victorious in t most ohstinate gelierul action,
fought 'on the 7th September, at the.:viliage of
Borodino,' between Mojaisite and .Tjate, and
on the great road from Smolensk to Moscow.
It appears that Iltionaparte had concentrated hiS
forces. fter the affair of Suldlenlz: . .
Prince' iiimtousoff, on his.part., had selected a
position, and ,had established his forces in its ,

vicinity.
On the 4th September the enemy nylcie„a re-
connoissance in force, and was driven back with
lass.

On the sth September, the French attached the
left, and were repulsed with considerable shir.gh-
ter, both in'the nl and in the retreat, aud.with
the loss of seven or eight pieces of 'ol.4w:race.
On the„6th September, nothing of conseque,nce
took plaFre ; but Prince Koutonsoff brought up
his reseryes, completed his dispositions,. and
added several entrenchments, and batteries on
his eft., , •
011 thel7th September; under ,cover of a thick
mist, the French .attacked the left. with
gr'eat impetmisity", and with all the means and
successions of fresh troops that they htive hitherto
employed, in• their ipOst desyerate exertions. . •
They were receilred-,hy the divisious of gre-
nadiers:,belonging to • the left wing, commanded
by 'Prince 13agrotion ;- and the centre of the
Russian line: having in its. turn, attacked the
mass directed against the left, the affair became
general. • •
• • ,
• Prince KontousoT dates his dispatch fron. he
field of battle. •

. ,
ine enemy are stated to have, covered their re-
treat by the AVirtemberg infantry, and by large
corps Of. cavalry.
Geptrif Platour, however, with the COssacs
followed them, and killed or took great numbers.
he enemy 'retreated upwards of 13 wersts. I
have detained this dispatch two days, in expecta7
tion of further events, and of a more detailed re-
port, but as letters -have been received as late as
the 9th Septeml)er, l.have thought it expedient,
to transmit in its preFrnt form, the account of an
-affair which must for ever add lustre to the mi-
litary andevemeats of this empire, and which,
though it may not be decisive, must at least
prove,a most important featdre in the history of
this war.

I have seen letters from distin7uished officers of
great experience ' they consider till's as by far the
most dreadful and destructive .engagement they
ever witnessed, infinitely beyond that of Prussian
Eylaw.

Several General Officers have • been wounded,
besides those named ; and the loss- of Officers of
other ranks is stated to have been in proportion
to that of the: men. I have not heard the Rus'sian
loss estimated at leSs than twenty-five, thousand

The lOss of the. French should be infinitely
greater, because of the pursuit, and because the
fire of their artillery ceased at an early hour, while
that of the Ritssians continued as long as the guns
could be brouirlit to bear.

• The new raised troops from Moscow were
broiTcrht nu, and appear to be perfectly erlAcient.
,-
tflitise",,vho were engaged behaved well. The right,
wing was not much called upon ; and of the
'guards one hattaliOn only is stated to have sustain-
ed any I,iss.

Reii,,rts have been received-of -the junction of
the head of the army from Moldavia with General
Tormazotf's corps, xviiich, arvlther corps,
consisting of several divisions, which has joined
that officer, will amount to an army of eighty
thousand men of the best description:
.The corps -of eighteen thousand men which
embarked at Helsingfors, has landed at Revel,
and is by this time near Riga, which will lead to
an immediate reinforcement of General Witgen-
stein's corps. •
Too much praise cannot be given to the national
spirit which animates all ranks of the Russians,
especially those properly so called, and the most
sanguine expectations which were formed of their
conduct have been exceeded.

It appears that much reliance was placed •hy
BilOnaparte on the effetts, of his. attempts to intro-
duce Vrench nrinciples and a popular cry of eman-
cipat:on and liberty ; but that they have been re—
ceived as an artifice to destroy their 'liberty and
their religion ; and it is very confidently asserted
that he haS given very strong marks of indignation
against those upon whose reports of the disposition
of the people he relied. ' ,

I have enclosed herewith translations of the
bulletins of the affairs' of the .sth and 7th Septem-
ber, new -style. •

The accounts oi= the battle of the ith reached
the rnperor early On the morning of his name-
dayi which is always celebrated with religions and

.
other ceremonies,, and illuminations. His impe-
rial Majesty immediately sent an Aide-de-Camp
to notify it to me; and after divine worship in the
Cathedral, in preFence of their Imperial Majesties
and the whole Court, an officer was ordered. to

read►the bulletin -•aloud, which gave the populace
an opportunity of expressing their exultation.

A corps of-,militia, of ten -thousand ,men, re-
ceived their
,colours this morning, and are to
march' in two (lays from hence. ,
, I have the honour to be, &c.
(Signed CATHCART.

(Translation.)—Bulletin, ;No. 1.
Prince Koutonsoff, Genel•al of Infantry, Com-
mander in Chief of all. the armies, reports to his
Imperial Majesty, as -follows, from the village of
Brodirio', under date of the 6th September :
After mTlafit most humble report to your Im-

waiting the attack- of the enemy -in the position of
file cire Led
• •
I a very s)-ro'n.;
Cow:nen:led by Prince B.,lgratipn: Observing
the. with ‘ybielrthe-Inain fo:(11 co; _he
enentyth re:7, tnenise!ves;on this -point. I in .Jed
it neCessar_y, in order to fix his attack, to dir2ct it
against the neights,,, which) had been' previously
fortified. The engagenient *.,.isted'.with great ob-
stinacy, froth two o'clock until very late at night :'
and yOur Majesty's troops displayed on th;,:t-day,.
the 'bravery I Ii v! obsevvtd front; niy 'first
jOining the ar.r.r.w. The-second
rasiers.- b eityr• o to second: attact in
the dusk, par4.-leult.rly .distinguished. 4-self, and in
general all the traons, so far froin losing an inch, -
of
.ground; defeated-the enemy an every side, with
Math greater loss ;'lan thpv.sustained themselvei
gun-were taken, of x'v-- hie!) three, being reri- -
qt.red totally useless,-ete left on the field.
Manv-Oflieers deserve to be individually-nanicd.
to-your -Afejesty, a list of whom' shall forthwith -
have the happiness of transmitting ; the pre,-
sent I confine myself. to giving. your Majety's
short precis. .

(Transiation.)—Biiiletin, N 0.2.
General Pr :,lee Koutonsoif, Commander in Chief
of the armies makes most respectfully to his Im-
perial rslajesty the following-repyrt from the field
of bAttle at the village of Bro:lino, the Sth of,t;ep-
tewber.

. •
Since my report of the attack which fi.e enemy
hid math: aa the (.itiLinst?nt, with a:considerdt&t,
force opont.inc left flank of on:. army, nothinv
importance 'was undertaken againq durir!g the
vehole of ,the 6th. But yesterday, at day,hre.,i4,'
that is tp say, about four o'clock in tee
the eacoiy avaiiing him-self o:.the foggy. vciathe;-,
again directed the.whole of his forces our-
left fia.nk.

The batile became
,gencral, until
night :.the loss on both sides is great; that of the,
entlifiTrifijinigefrom his terrible attacks upon our.
fortified ATeition, .must: greatly have surpassed
ours. . 2,1:-.•jesty's troops fought
with incieV•ible va10ur...,-The.batteries passed front
the posscssion of, one party to that of the other,
and the,result was, that.the enemy with his supe-
rior,force, has, in' no onc.,part, gamed an inch of
of ground: I remained at night master, of the
field' of battle. So soon as.. I shall-have recruited
Limy troops; supplied my artAlery,- and: augmented
niv. forces by reinforcements •from Moscow, .1
shall; trusting in the assistance of the Almighty,
and the incredible valour; Of,the artily, see what Vs,
can undertake against the.cnemy, •
Prince Bagratioa, to our. great regret, has been--;
\minded in the foot by a ball. . Lieutenant Geue,,
rats Toutschkoff, Prince, Gortschakolf, -1)1c.n.7
Generals Baehmstielf, Counts Woronzoff. and
Kretoff, .have been wounded, WO have, taken
from the -enemy some prisoners, sonic guns,.and a ,
(.4enetaLof Brigade. it is still night ; and 1 hstve
not been able to-procure any more details.
His imperial -Majesty,-- in aCknowledgment,of,
the diStingnihed services of the .Generatoflnfai-
try' Prince Koutousoff, has been Tleased to ap- .
'point him Marshal General,. and ta.4-rant to hint;
100,000-rubles, and also five roubles to each
sol-
diet who has had a share in ibis memorable battle.

THE THEATRES.—As we were obliged to with
draw what we said yesterday of the new dramatic
Romance .at Covent-Garden Theatre, entitled
The Ethiop, f,:,r Child of the De3art, in order to
make room for the Bulletin respectinz Russia,
those of our Reaciers who did not see our Corn-
ments"rnay ey,pect us to recur to the subject. We
have only to repeat that the piece is very magni-
ficent in
.seevery, that the music is pleasing, and
that the acting is excellent, and that as to the
intrinsic, merit of the piece, it is fitted for the de,
prayed state of the public taste at present, but has
very slight pretensions, indeed, to critical com—
mendation.

If;cEum,---The entertainments. concluded at
-this place last night, after a _season in which the_
zeal and assiduity of the Man.igers, and the aility
of the Company were (-:onsp;cuous, with an
propriatc' Address.._

ye may jud:r.e of the :intrepidity and patriotism
of Major CARTWRIGHT from what .he said at th©
Westminster Meeting an Monday, when. be de-
. clared that he had, as. an Officer, declined going
neon service abroad, because bethought he couA.
serve his country better at ,home. ,Obedience is
the duty of a soldier, and if every Officer employe d
in, the naVal and 'military service of his country
were thus to .follow his Own opinions, what would.
become of the. two branches of our national de7
fence, and, consequently, of the. :independence of
the country We do not approve of the political
opinions of Lord Coo HEAN E but to require him.
to give a pledge that he would refuse to quit Par-
liament when ordered upon national service, was
'to wish him to sacrifice. his professional charac-.
ter, and indeed to ,devote himseifto infamy. . But
Lord -CocußANs, in our,opinion, appears to most
advantage whea.he is on,his proper element, the
sea; and instead of requiring a pledge from hint
that he will disobey occiers from his superiw s, the
Electors of Westminster ought rather to entreat
him to devote his mind to a profession in wilich
he might be of service to his country and do ho-
nour to himself. As to Politicians, with inch opi-
nions as abioK CARTWRIGHT aVorrs, and
,after
such conduct as he has acltnOwledged, it. is evi-
dent that, if such Politicians could, obtain an as-
cendancy, the whole ..frame, of society would be_
subvert: d, and civil discord would prevail, tall the
State became a. prey to a foreigu potVei, who
would find: our soldiers to.o much of :Politicians to
be able to defend their country, even if eiiey were
disposed to turn their- thoughts front theory to
practice.

Tail Coach Robber?! ,---The Galway NI
.wbich left Dublin last night, stopped by a
numerous band. of raob.ers, neqr Kilcock, and
completely pluncie: ed. The robbers, before they
stopped the coach, firecl.a volley, .by which the
guard a”:.1 one of the passengers were killed. They
,thee plundered the coach, which carried,iz is said,
property to a considerab!e amount for the Fair of
Ballinasloe. The. .I%lail-coact; corning from (.al-
way fortunatelv stopple" for several hOurs L) 1-
beggan, on h: and the atrocious
stance, and.thas avoided' a ,simllar