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OFFICIAL REPORT FROST GENERAL BARCLAY'DE
TOLLI, DATED lIMOLZE, 9th (21ST AUG. 1812..
_ (Continued from our Paper of Yesterday.)
, • General PLATow •detaelred part of his light
troops, and formed a chain of detachments frOni
Smolensk to Pnvilschiji, in such a Manner that
we could approach the high road to Moscow;
and scarcely had the 2d corps pasSed the village of
Oedengnowo, where the road divides, one of
which leads to Moscow, and the (-other to Bricli-
chens, to which the Ist column marched, when
the enemy drove back the rear guard, which was
on the high Moscow road and whilst they were
furiously advancing to take possession of those
points which the rear guard of Major-Gen. Korf's
division bad to-pass. . To-prevent any danger to
this General's detachment, which covered the re-
treat of the army on the main road,- and was still
at six wersts distance from the-2d corps, I order/.
ect Major-General Prince Wirteinburg-. to defend
-this post with-some divisions of the 4th division,
and the necessary quantity of artillery,.till Major-
General Korf should arrive with his detachment.
Notwithstanding the immense superiority of the
enemy, the Prince kept possession of this post
till. Major-General Korf, 'with his detachment,
him, and then protected our retre-et.
The enemy-, who did not succeed in this opera-
tion, now begaii to force Major-General Kor-
kow's corps, which was posted along the great
toad to Moscow, arul to pass troops from the left
to the right of the Dnieper, above his position, to
become masters of the points which lead to the
great road, before the arrival of the .second corps.
The 3d and 4th corps were already drawn up in
order of battle at this place"; but, in order to -de-
tain. the enemy, the advanced guard, under -Ma-
jor-General Tulsnkow, was sent against them.--
lie was was already four wersts from the high road,
- on which . the 2d division of cavalry and Major-Ge-
neral Korf's detachment , must pass. Not long
after, Major-General Tulscaow was much press-
ed by the enemy, and was supported by the 3d
and 4th diviSions of cavalry, in order to assist in
repelling the furious attacks of the enemy.
At six p. in. the enemy attacked Major-General
Tulchkow with their whole force, consisting ot
Davoust, Ney, a part of Viceroy of Italy, and
with the whole of the 'cavalry of the King of
Naples' corps, endeavouring,
_by every possible
exertion, to drive him from his position. In the
mean time, Major-General Korf's detachment,
and the 2d corps, arrived on the high -road, from
whence I also sent apart of the troops to support
General Tulschkow.
This action, which continued from 1 p. m. till
10 at night, was hot and bloody : your Majesty's
tjoops acted most gallantly ; and, notwithstand-
ing theimmenie superiority of the enemy, kept
possession of this, to us, important point.
-Our loss on this occasion- is very considerable,
but that of the enemy greatly exceeds it. We bad
cavalry attached to our left flank, which, notwith-
standing the superiority of the enemy's cavalry,-
repulsed several desperate charges. At one o'clock
of the morning of the Bth (20th) the army put
itself in motion, taking the direction of Solojewo,
whence 'yesterday a part of the troops had passed
the Dniester, and the remainder to-day.
The whole army will take a position on the road
half-way to Dogorobush, where the the 2d army
yesterday arrived. The greater part of-the irre-
t.psiar troops are on the right bank of the Dnieper,
and keep,up the communication with the detach-
ment of Adjutant-General Baron Winzingderocle,
who has beers ordered to take post at Dacha-
. weschteschino.
In these different actions we have taken 500
officers and soldiers prisoners, and . the irregular
troops have; during-the same time, made 800 pri-
soners.

It is said by . a celebrated Wr•ter, " That the
Ministers of a Country should look into futurity,"
The present Government stem
,possessed of this •
happy girt ; or how can we account for the Lords
'of the Treasury, in June last, so juaiciously ap-
pointing an event, to coincide with the General
Election, this Month, not only for the purpose of
enriching the Electors, but to enable the Candi-
dates to py their Expellees by some of the nu-
inerous Prizes of £20,000, X 3,000, &c. &c. in
the present Lottery, to be all drawn Tuesday, the
20th Instant ?

REPORT OF LIErT.-GE:::ERAL COUNT WITTGEN-
DATED SOI:OLITSELITSCHAy AUG. 22.

(SEPT. 3.)
" After my Latt report of the 16th. of August,
nothing tools place with the enemy, He is still
in the same entrenchments near Polotsk, and
suffer dread-fayby hunger and loss of men, in
consequence htty Nen desert from him every

day."
The Com/flan:la' lri Chief of all the Armies,
Prince Koutousow.,„nrites as follows, from head-
quarters, near iThe village Brodino, August' 23;
(Sept. 4) : „••: -
" The position that I had chosen in the vilnge
of-Borodino, twelve wersts in advance of 111. a-;
shaisk, is one of the best to be found in the plain
country; the weak points of this"position, which
are on the left flank, I shall entleavoue to mend by
.
art ; it were to be wished tlfate-the enemy would
attack Us'in this position„ ip-which case 1 should
have great hopes of yietofy. But should he,
when he finds mrpositio4n-Strong.,*,mannottivre on
the roads leading to Moscow', I shalhuti myself in
march, and take a position behind ,at-lVldshaisk,
where all the roads ineet •
" With respect to the enerny,.,it is to be remark-
ed, that for sou-le:days:be has been very cautious ;
and when he moves fortVard, he seems to do it as
it. were in fear,
Yesterday Col. Prince Kudaschew , -whom I
had sent with 200 Cossacks, obliged the whole
cavalry of the corps of Marshaillavoust, and that
of the King of Naples, to remain sitting on their
horses for some.hours. •
"Yesterday the enemy did not advance one step.
To-day the advanced posts of our Cossacks are
iliitant from me .bout 30 wersts, and the side
roads are very carefully observed.
" The 'corps of Gen. MilOradowitsch has joined
the army under my command,..'.
"To-morrow the MoskoW:ained force will arrive
from Moshaisk. Lieut.- Gen. Kouownizyn now
commands the rear guard. Nothing of import=
ance has happened to this corps, and the enemy is
held in great respect towards us. . Yesterday softie
officers and 60 men were made prisoners. /*-
cording to the report of the, prisoners, the sth bat-
talion of the French regimeas are arrived; these
are the best troops lie expects to receive."
The Petersburgh Gazette, of the 27th August,
contains the Report, of 'General Essen, which
states that he attackedi the Prussians before
and took 14 Officers, four Surgeons, one CoM-
missary, and 650 prisoners. He estimates their
loss at 1500 men, his own loss he states at 300
killed and wounded. He made his attack on the
oth of August.

CIRCUIT 'INTELLIGENCE.

AYR, OCT. 1.--The Circuit Court of Justiciary
was opened here on S.'aturday, the 26th ult. by the
Hon . Lord Meadowbank.
Two appeals from the Sheriff were heard, and
the sentence in both instance affirmed. His Lord-
on dismissing the Jury, congratulated them
an the absence of criminal trials at this assize,
and, in an energetic address, adverted-to the ex-
alted rank which Great Britain held in the scale
of nations: Notwithstanding a war of twenty
yaars continuance, the prosperity of this country
had increased by rapid progression. Commerce
and manufactures, atts and sciences, flourished
here in an eminent degree, in spite of the convul-
sions which shook the rest of the world.—llis
Lordship also took a view of the military charac-
ter of this nation, and the important consequences
that bad resulted; and were likely to result, from
the Victories achieved by an Edward and a Henry,
a Marlborough and a Wellington, Such was the
respect, the awe,. the-dread, with 'which the na-
tions of the Continent regarded Great Britain,
after witnessing the prowess of her warriors in
former times, that for ages afterwards they were
deterred from attempting to invade or . attack an
island which they deemed impregnable, and such
will be the feeling of Europe for ages to come, in
consequence of theownperiority manifested, at this
moment, by our countrymen on land as well as by
sea. If, with an inferior force, and in a foreign
land, we are capable. of beating those troops that
have been arrogantly styled invincible, what will
we not be able to perform on the shores of our
native and well beloved island.
From this the Court proceeded to Dumfries. *;*
STIRLING, OCT. 3.--The Circuit Court of Jus-
ticiary was opened here yesterday by the Right
Hon. Lord Armadale, and there being no business
at this place, the Court will proceed to Glasgow
. On Monday.

A. few days ago, When a large fleet of merchant
ships was collecting in Loch Ryan Bay, to be
escorted by one of his Mlljesfy's frigates to• Am-
erica, some of the officers and part of the. crew
went up to Stranraer to see the fair, when the
sailors there and their wives, taking the alarm
from the idea that the men-of-wars nt;:n were go-
ing to impress seamen for the service, began to
insult and abuse them, upon which an action cow-,
menced betwixt the parties, and before a right
understanding took place several were wounded
on both sides, but luckily no lives were. lost.
• It is a fact not generally known, that the Ame-
rican Commodore Rodgers is a Scotchman. About
twenty years ago, his father' rode with the mail,
then carried on horseback, between Montrhsc and
Arbroath. The Commodore Was bred a baker in
Montrose, but left that business early, and went
to sea ; and being soon after preSsed into our
navy, he took the first opportunity of deserting,
and entering into the AMerican service, where he
has gradually risen to the station he now holds.
It was on his-desertion from the British navy that
he assumed his mother's nanne,.Rodgeri,l Wis on
• name being Gray.—(Edinburgh Courant.)
A black ewe, the property of Mr. ALEXANDXR
DANGAN, in Challochmuir, parish of Glenluce,
Wigtonshire, had a lamb in the beginning of Fe-
' bruary last, which, when slaughtered at Stran-
raer, on the Bth of April, weighed S2lb. ; and on
the 24th inst. the sante ewe brOUght forth
,two
t -black tup lambs, marked with white faces, white
feet, and white tails, which, as well as-the dam,
are likely to do well.