The Sun.
London, England, 1812-11-12 00:00:00

SECOND INCLOSURE.

EXTRACT PROM THE REPORT OF GENERAL COUNT
WITTGENSTEIN TO HIS IMPERIAL MAJESTY,

DATED POLOTZK, THE 20TH OCT. 1812.

After a hard engagement for two days with the
enemy, thanks to the Almighty, Marshal Gouvion
St. Cyf is on the other, side of the Dwina, and I
am in Polotzk, with the corps entrusted to my
command.

On the 6th instant, I directed Lieutenant-Ge-
neral Prince Jaschevil to attack with his detach-
ment the enemy on the side, of the village Gura-
vitchne, whilst Lieut.-General Count Stringell
continued his march this way on the left bank of
the Dwin a .

The enemy's advanced guard received"me at the
village Guravitchne, from whence it was driven
into the lines. The engagement wars mast bloody ;
it began at six in the morning and lasted till night.
I kept my ground, and compelled the enemy to re-
treat within his entrenchments, whence he kept
up a very heavy cannonade in all directions. The
following morning, the ith, I did not undertake
any thing, because I waited for the attack of
Lieutenant-General Count Stringell, on the other
side of the.Dwinw, which took place accordingly.
He drove the enemy from the village Bolonia, and
pursued him towards Polotzk. I received this
intelligence a little before dark, and, in order to
profit of the situation in which the enemy found
himself,, I attacked, on the evening of the 7th, at
five p'clock, and drove him out of his strong en-
trenchments, to which success Lieutenant-Gene-
ral Count Stringell's movements greatly contri-
buted.

The enemy then threw himself into the town,
-which is surrounded by a double palisade, where
he maintained himself nearly the whole night,
keeping up a constant fire of musketry on all sides
from behind the palisades, as well as out of the
houses. I gave orders for my ordnance to fire
upon them with round and grape,
,and at last di-
rected my advanced guard to storm the place in

two ilivisions, the first ander the command of 71:1,:-
or-Gerierals_Plestoff and Diebitelt, and the other
under- the' command -of Colonel 14..ieclig,er, of the
Grodno regiment of hussars: ' Lieutenant-Ge,:e-
ral Cazanove,_ as soon as he --perceived tbaChig
troops were close before 17,21.-Lk, threw hirnsc:t
also upon the enemy, and was the first - who,
marched with them into the town. In this marl-,
ner, at three in the morning of the Eth, the plaeO
was carried..

The loss of the enemy mast be extraordinarily
great, for all the places °faction are coveted with
dead ‘; and according to the report of the
inhabitants, he was employed the whole of .the
preceding day in carrying wounded men to the
Otter' Side. Marshal Gouvion St. Cyr is himsel
-vvtnded in the leg.
We have taken,prisoners forty-five Staff'and
periOr fdflicers, and two thousand rank and file;
among the former there are two Colonels. We
have als, taken -one piece of cannon, and ,a con-
siderasle quantity of ptovisions in the magazine,,
which the enemy had not time to destroy.
The enemy's loss would have been much greater,
if the Lientenant-General Count Stringell had been
able to follow him to Polotzk, but to his great
mortification, he was stopped by the intervention
of a superior force five versts from the town. Our
loss is not, ineonsiderable. Of the Generals, are
wounded Major-Geneial Balk in the head, Prince
Libirgkoi•and Harman, who have 'slight contu-
Colonel Rote of the 26th 'Yagers severelf
wounded in the leg, 'and the Gentleman of the
Bedchamber, Mordvitio, and a Commander in the
first Petersburgh militia, has lost his leg by a.
•
cannon shot.

sions.

I can say nothing further, of your Imperial Ma-
jesty's troops, than that they have fought with
the greatest possible valour ; that the Ist Peters-
burgh militia, upon its arrival in my camp., was
distributed in the different regiments, and to the
delight of every body these warriors have fought
with such good will and courage, that they could
not be exceeded by. conirades, the, old sot-
iliers, and they have distinguished themselves, in.
a particular manner in columnspwith the bayonet,
under the direction of their brave leader, Senator
Bibikoff. We have few killed, but many wound-
ed, and _he more from its having been almost im-
possib;: to keep the men back in cohinni, from
their eagerness to throw themselves into the "elte-
my's hatteries.
Th?re is also a report of 117 e 21st October, by

Lieut. General Count -Stringell, detailing the par-
tic& trs, of hi', engagement with the corps of Mac-
dor aid the left bank of the Dwina, having
fallen in witil the enemy on the 7th near the river
Utehatch. He drove them in conceft with Count
Wittgenstein tour versts of Polotik, at the,
same time that Count Wittgenstein stbrmed that
place. The extreme darkness of the night pre-
Nented further proceedings ; without counting
killed and wounded, General Stringea made one
Colonel, one Staff officer, 37 other officers, and
500 non-commissioned officers and privates pri-
Tile Lieut. General speaks in the highest
terms of commendation of the assistance he de.,,f
rived from the able exertions, of Major General
Phox.

soners.

As BUOIsTA.PARTE has given such contradictory
accounts of the destruction at Moscow, of which,
by his first statement, two-thirds were sacrificed,
and by his last nine-tenths, it may be inferred that
he is himself at sixes and sevens.
There is likely, it seems,' to be a strong compe-
tition at both Theatres during Lent, as the par-
ties, are at this, time actively enlisting performers
for the Oratorio ;eason.

KEMBLE is re-engaged to perform, during the
Winter season, at Edinburgh.
Mrs. JORDAN and the theoretical Committee of
Drury-Lane, are at variance as to the terms upon
which she was negociating for, an engagement,
and the Lady finds that she can employ her talents
better in a provincial ramble than even at a mag-
nificent Theatre in the metropolis.

The French /Papers contain the following
laughable paragraph, under the head of Englisb
news The elections for the new Parliament,
are strongly conteited.; Alderman Wood, Gen,-;,,
Grosvenor, Colonel Alban, Sir T. 8v,?t,;,;,
veil, and many other Alerpl,,,ctS of the old Parlia-
ment, seenicertain of being re-elected."
A,firther volunteering fr tf e mTtig
o
is eNpeeted to take place soon after the_inceting of
Parliament, as the only means of augmenting our
army in Spain. It is undei'eood -temporary, ranl4,
,will be given to such Officers_ as extend their set-
vices, in the proportion' of 1 Captain and 1 Li-en'
tenant to every- 100 men, and permanent .rank to
an Ensign ; and on a reduction, they will be ea'
titled to half-ry accordirigly.
Friday night, a one-pound note of. the. Cool'
mercial I3anl Of Scotland, wholly written with 3
pen, and tolerably well executed, was offered
a soldier in a shop in Glasgow, for paynient (.1
some goods. The ::hopkeepe.r, suspicious of 10
being a :-)rge,ry, went out to shew it to a neigh'
hour ; i!! the meantime;the soldier slipped out of,
the shop, and made off.
Thursday se'nnight one • of the ricsilers of 11-19 d-r
dington, when killing a calf, five or six moritbsi.
old, was SurpriSed to find another in its yooinh'"'
Perfectly forked, -and perhaps a month
which i 3 now in the'.o:msession cf Mr.
Nishit, in a 3t.lte of I.,ez-,ervatio:i.

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ti ,t 11,4 DITI 0

SUN- OFFICE,
THREE O'CLOCK.

in a-ldition to the particulars mentioned in the
Gazette Extraordinary, we have the satisfaction

of laying before our Readers the following de-
tails

In the: battle between General KUTUSOW and
MuRAT, Prince PONIATOWSKI and the French
'Generals JoINVILLE, MONCEY, and DARU, were
killed. The weather at Moscow was uncom-
rtionly bad, and the roads so cut up, that they
Were nearly impassable, which was the reason
that MURAT lost so many cannon.
General PLATOW had been dispatched towards
Smolensk, with fifteen regiments of cavalry.—
Every thing that can be accomplished by activity
Ad skill may be expected from this able General.

The Russian horses are.in fine condition, while
those of the French are, in general, feeble,_ and
hardly fit for service, in consequence of their want
of foiage.

From letters and .Altona papers to the 20th
ult. received by the Heligoland mail this day, we
learn, that so great an alarm had prevailed at
Warsaw, in consequence of the glorious successes
of the Russians, and their advance, in the rear of
the French, that a formidable assault 'from the
Cossacks had been apprehended, and the gates
had been barricadoed.

In the course of a few hours, the Magistrates

had, in some degree, recovered from, their panic,
and had issued a Proclamation to quiet the_minds
of the people, and to assure them that there was
no immediate danger.

The Fortunee frigate has arrived from Santander.
It wai erroneously repoiled that she brought an
account of a victory obtained by the Marquis

of WELLINGTON over the French. Before the
F.artunee sailed from Santander, an account had
arrived there that Lord WELLINGTON'S head-quar-,
ters were at Cubezo, and those of the French at
Decenas. His 'Lordship had cut off a French ad-
i'anced guard of 300. cavalry and 400 infantry.

In answer to the. Morning chronicle of to-day,

it should be stated, that no Dispatch hn arrived

from Loi•d WELLINGTON, of a later ,date than
the 11th of October ; and that, no account
whatever, of the affair of the 18th at Burgos,
. has, been received by any of the Departments of
Government.

iVAL

limn', Nov: 9.—The Clio sloop of war sailed
from Leith Roads on Saturday, to the southward;
and the Cracker gun-brig to the northward.
The Apelles sloop of war arrived in the Roads
last night from a cruize.

NAVAL APPOINTMENTS.—uapt. Sir J.-Gore, to
the Revenge; Capt. H. L. Baker, to the Conflict;
Gre,nt Allen, to the command of the Pegase prison- hospital
ship, vice- Decreurdoux.; - tient. Ditndas, to the Peaco;:l! ;
Lieut. Thomas, to the Etna; Lieut. Simmonds, to the Satel-
; Lieut, T. D. Debivas, to the Racoon ; Lieut. M. Miller,
'to the Christian VII. ; Lieut. C. G. Bennet, 'to the Impreg-
nable-' Lieut. R. Watts, to the Fortunse ; Lieut. 'G. Pratt,. to
the Daedalus; Lieut. J. W. Green, to the .Hasty; 'Lieut. R.
Pocock, to the Revolutionaire r Lieuts. W. Matthews and
T. L. Wilkinpn, to-the Andromeda; Lieut. It, A.- Yates
(from- the Niemen), Montagu Montagu, and •Lechmere, to
the Barossa ; Lieut. J. Hall, from the York, to the Surprise ;
Lieut. J. Peding, to be second Lieutenant of the Suffolk pri-
son,ship ; btr A. Reach, late Purser of the Sourabaya, t-,) be
Purser to the ; W. Allen, t, the ilecla ; Mr. T.
Mason, to the Quebec; Mr. It. Chapman, to the Minerva;
Mr. E. Bell, to the Penguin.

NAVAL SUPERSTITION.—Capt ,S.- Who was cut
off in the very bloom of his professional talents,.
when cruizing "off the Italian coast, had passed
, several days without seeing a ship ; he learnt that
the men ascribed this inanspicious circumstance to
the Captain's having taken a black cat on board.—
He innnediately.called the men aft, arid asked them
if it really were so; they, without hesitation,
confirmed the 'report—geerboard with the . black
cat t_._.."°' That,", exclaimed an old- seaman, « is
worse still,—she must be landed." " Then
lower away the jolly-boat," said the Ciptain ;
which haying been done, the cat was lauded with
Much formality. .The sailors were doubtless con-'
firMo in their, folly, .by the circumstance of their
tapturing on that same night, the best prize which
they .had taken in the Mediterranea'n.
Thursdfly evening the house of Mrs. Atkins,- of
Northumberland-street, Ma•rylebone, was broken
open, and robbed of plate and other property to
a considerable amount.

"Saturday night, about nine o'clock,' as Mr,
!lope, of Elizabeth-place, Kennington, was passe
in;; by the end of Chandos-street, St. Martin's-
lane, lie was hustled by a gang of three or four
men, who robbed him of two gold seals and a
key.
There is now in the New Bailey prison, in
Manchester, a woman, who has been confined for
a length .of time., and from whoni about 15 months
since a child was taken, under the presumption of
it having been stolen, of which there appears little
doubt; it is a girl, and when rescued from the
woman appeared to be about three y‘.-trs old ; she
could speak at that time, and said that her nand
was Mary Ann Smith ; she said she had a father ,
and mother, and a grann-manarna, who kept
horses and carts for the carrying, of coals to, the
London market; from her seeming to understand
coal-boats, it is presumed she was brought tip
near a canal. She is now, and has been ekn'since,
:Winder the care of a weaver, of CadiAeard, near,
.1r- Manchester.

NEW PARLIAIUENt,

MEM BE RS RETURNED.

Bute and Caithness (Coarity).—John iNiarjdri
banks, Esq.
Inverness, Dd.-=Charles Grant, Esq. sen.
Rothesay, &c. (Boroughs).--Lieuienant-General
Duncan Campbell.