The Sun.
London, England, 1812-09-01 00:00:00

OFFICIAL, FROM KOBRIM, July 16 (28.)

`,‘. I have the honour to congratulate your Im-4'
perial Majesty on the total defeat and taking.of
the whole Saxon corps prisotic..rs, whO'had occu,-
piekKobrim, and defended it nine hours on the
I,sth (27th) of July. The trophies of this vi-tory
are.B pieces of cannon, and a. great .nuniber of
-arms. Among the prisoners are the , Commander
of'the corps, General MAclengel, 3 Colonels, b
Stuff Officers,: 57 Officers, and 2234 men .- above
1000 men left dead on the field. The loss on our
side is inconsiderable. The Saxon corps, under
the French• General Regnier, marches from Slo-
nim. The first corps was here. Prince Schwart-
zenherg marches through Sluzli: to Minsk.'r .

ACCOUNTS FROM RIGA OF THE 91''a --FROD/L-T;ln

OFFICIAL BULLETIN.

". General Barclay de Tolly and Prince Bagra-
stion had joined a Smolensk. The 'third army
under . General Tomasoff defeated a Saxon -cOrps,
At Kobrim, took four standards, eight pieces of
cannon, and made prisoners General Klengel, 7°
Officers, and 3000. men.. General Platoff, com-
manding the advanced guard of. Gen. de Toily's
had daily shirnitshes, which . had always
proved iavourable to the Thissian arms.
`: The army.employed i'orkey had reached
the province of Voilivnia. It was reported ley th(3'
deserters, that Buonaparte was not Up with the
army. The Austrians remain quiet, and are said
to b greatly discontented with the ,interference
of the Freneh in re-establishing the kingdom °
Poland.
"' Moscow had •contribtited toVrards the Nvos'
3,000,000 of silver iubles, and 100,000 men
equipped. At St. PeterSburgh immense subscrip-
tions- were making, and 70,000 men Were there
organising. The entlinsiastic. patriotism of 61
'ranks in -Old Russia; in succouring the army, is.
beyond .deseription.'!"
The general inferences which.the most impar7
tial criticism will draw from the above, when coo-,
tectedWith the St. Petersburgb Gazette, eannntl
we think,. bill befavonrable to the Russians and
their cause. Buonaparte has certainly made an
advance such as it is,--r-a tortuous and wry one !°
Witepsk :
•but he has himself suffered greatly in
the body of his army in carrying this movement ;
and in' his, war of detachments; that under,l3-eg-
nier, and even that under Oudinot,. appear
to
have been defeated; The Russian array is ceNi'

centrated at Smolensk ; 'while the. French one can
hardly be considered as concentrated in the front
of it; the Saxon corps being demolished by _Gen.
Thomazolf, and the body left behind to face Witt.-
genstein having been most evidently .defeated by
that General. This,- which Was a matter of some
doubt at first, is now, we think, placed beyond
all question, bygitittgenstein'S official report, and
the general aspect of -affairs in that quarter :
especially should; t prove true, as is rumoured,
that Macdonald, having lost his covering army,:
• has been obliged to retire from before Riga. We
do not wonder, therefore, that Buonapart--.: found
it necessary to halt at Witer:, and shall be still
less surprised if his next motions are found to be
retrograde. The force of the Russian arniy which
is said- to have entered Voihynia • tin-his rear) is
not mentioned : perliaps,—we speak by guess,-4.--
it may amount to fifty thousand men ; veterans
they are too, so far as a ivar with the Turk's can
make men so ; and if not used to French. tactics,
they are, at least, familiarised to all the hards,hip.S'.
treiiimpaigning: uch a force, therefore, so si-
tuated, must attract the attention of Buonaparte
to another quarter, widely .different from that of
Moscow and the interior• of the Russian empire.
Our hopes may, in truth; deceive ns,
.but we -can-
not help considering the war as in the most spro-
misinc, state. -•
The accounts from St. ,Petersburgh state. the
expectation there of a general battle, as it was tin,
derstood toibe the determination of the Russians
to dispute with all their forces the farther advance
of the enemy toSniolensk.
, Exchange at Pet.-e")'sburgh on the 27th of
July (a day ,latei• tl -an the letters generally re-
ceived) was at 20i. .
The sailing -the expeclNon. from Sweden ,is
ow• said to` he fi:,!::edir the 15th of September,
" GOTTENBURGHi AUG, 25.-'---The French are
marching for Smolensk, where it is understood the
Russians have determined Co male a stand; and a
general battle may therefore be daily expected.—
The "Russian army , that opposed the Turks has
Joined the main arrhy.,
" Since the Commencement of the campaign,
- the Russians have been 'successful in evefy en-
gagement. A. smart action has taken' place near.
Icobryn, between the Russian General. Thomazow
end a part of General. Regnier's corps. .A.ccOrd.:
ing to Regnier's oWn accOunt„three-Saxon-regi-
Inents, infantry and cavalry, fought for ten'hobrs
against eight times their namber,.and were at last
tompelled to surrender,. the:Rnssians,having de
.ttroyed a bridge to prevent their retreat Reg-
tier has retired to within 15 miles of Warsaw : he
Writes, that .he hopes very soon .to ,be able to act
on the offensive. '
- et-
, ..uttters from Russia say, that the war is so
very popular, that there is, scarcely a person of
any property throughout the empire who has not
Volnntarily contributed very largely to..the army :
a Lady has -raised a corps of .1200 cavalry, and
completely equipped' it.
" 1-lis Royal HighneSs' the . Crown Prince of
Sweden has left. Stockholm, for the purpose of an:
interview with the Emperor of Russia; at Abo;
Where it is expected hiS Excellency Lord Cathcart
will meet them. •
." Yesterday was -the day appointed for '-the
Vrhole of the SWedish army to muster in their .6
e
-districts -for inspection,-and they nave- re-
teived orders to hold thernselves in readiness for
trabarkation."