The Sun.
London, England, 1812-12-21 00:00:00

Foreign Office, Dec. 21, 1812.

A Letter from Mr. Thornton, dated Stockholm
the nth inat. ;Ili:lust:. a proai4 of tke Prinea of
SaL,lensko to the 24th November, dated Peters-
bui.glt, the 28th. November.

'General Count LAMBERT, who commands the
advanced-guard of Admiral TcnicuAoorF, has
defeated BUoNAPARTE 's advanced-guard, under
DomeaousKt, and made three thousand prisoners.
The killed are in proportion..
Count WITTGENSTEIN :is at Copyssa, in.coru-
Munication with Admiral TCHICHAGOFt. In his
report of the 24th he states, that 'he had killed a
great numbet of the enemy, and taken eight
tui,cired prisoners.
Accounts from the Grand Army of the 23d Nov.
state, that the Prince of Srnolensko was marching
on Orsha, and Moghilow, parallel to BuoNA.
PARTE's retreat. Nothing could prevent the junc-
tion of all the armies, if necessary.

WINDSOR, DEc. 20.—Yesterday the Duke of
YoEx arrived here, and after dining with the
QUEEN and PRINCESSES, SCS off at six A)'eloek for
atlands.

This morning Princess CHARLOTTE of WALEs,
attended by Lady DE CLIFFORD, went to St.
George's Chapel, and
.4eard a sermon, by the
and Rev. Mr. STOPPORD. After service the
Bishop of. SALISBURY ordained eight Gentlemen
in Priests's Orders. Princess CHARLOTTE of
WALES staid to see the ceremony.

Yesterday the Lord CHANCELLOR had an audi-
ence of ale PRINCE REGENT at Carlton House.

Oa Saturday Viscount CASTLEREAGH gave a
valid (Honer_ to about thirty Members of the
,douse of Conmiris. Yesterday the Noble Vis-
Count gave a dinner to about 20 Members; and on
Thursday he will give a grand dinner to Count
LIEVEN, the Russian Ambassador, and the other
Foreign MinisterS: the Cabinet Ministers are
luvitcd to meet them.

The Earl of MoiRA entertained a select party
of friends at dinner yesterday., at his house in
St. James's Plice. ,
. A4hatidsome gold snuff-box, of the valtie of
1000' guineas, _liieautifully enamelled, with an
elegant portrait. of his MAJESTY, tastefully set
round with brilliants, is to be sent to Russia, as
a present. from his Royal HighneSS the PRINCE
REGENT to the Emperor ALEXANDER.
Saturday, at . half-past one o'clock, the LORD
CHANCELLOR bitoke. up the sittings of Chancery,
in Lincoln's Inn.llall, and proceeded to the Coun-
cil Office, Whitehall, to attend a Meeting of the
Lord, of the C',ouncil at two o'clock, which Wits
attended by all the Cabinet MiniSters, the .1 ntlge
of- the, Admiralty, Sir JOHN Nionot,, the Master
of the. Rolls, and Mr. RYDER. 'The latter Gen-
tleman attended in
_consequence of the business
having originated at the time he was Secretary of
Stqte tor the Home Department. Their Lord-
ships sat till about three o'clock, when the Cabi-
net Ministers adjourned to the Foreign Office,
where they held a Council, wllich- sap Al past
five. •

lIVSSIAN IWLLtrINS.

REPORT FROM .1133t:TAN P-GEN. KUTCSOW TO HIS

IMPERIAL MAJESTY

41st Nov. from the To--:n of paYinnwi tche

" After my departure from Moscow, I, in the
course of 14 days, not only came up with the ene-
my's army, but likewise sent out detached parties
to cut off the road of his retreat. In consequence
of this.,:two French Generals, llautren and Casin,
the Polish Colonel Count MalaChowsky, several
officers, and a great number of privates have been
made prisoners. I shun have the :happiness of
sending your Majesty a report of those; who in
these different skirmishes have signalized them-
selves by their activity and exertions. 'Count
Prince Wolkonskji, your Imperial Majesty's Ad-
jutant, deserves particular notice, he having taken
one.of the aforesaid Generals prisoner.
" I am, by means of the detached parties, al-
ready in communication with the corps of Count
Wittgenstein. Colonel Elmuisen, of the regi-
ment of body Cossacks, who was detached with .a
separate party,' has this moment sent me seven of
the enemy's officers, and 400 privates, as prisoners,
who, according to their report, had endeavoured
to find a place of refuge for themselves after the
battle of Krasnow, and intended to defend them-
'selves in the 'villages; but being suddenly at tack-
ed, they were at length obliged, after an obstinate
defence, to surrender to the arms of your Impe-
rial Majesty."

ItEr•ORT rROM THE GENERAL OF CAVALRY, COUNT
IrITTGENSTEIN,DATED VILLA.GL TSCHAsCHRAKA,
NOV. 17.

" On the 1-Ith November, Marshal Vic Ton
having collected all his troops from, different places,
and having been reinforced by a division which
had remained behind, attacked with great fury
my advanced-guard, under the command of
Lieutenant-General Prince Jascit wit., who) ac-
cording to my brders, retired towards the corps in
the position of the estate of Smolna, in the best
order, and as if it were merely executing a ma-
noeuvre at a review. The enemy immediately ad-
vanced against the centre of my position and threat-
ened, with an overpowering force of troops, whirls
marched in columns, my two flanks, I suffered him
to approach near, and then received him with my
Sharp-shooters and artillery. The action was
very hot, and continued the whole day, especially
in the centre, on which he particularly pressed to
take my main batteries,Which were on a height be-
fore my position, having in front the Village of Smol,
na,which was six times taken by the enemy, and as
often retaken by us. At length is the evening,
thanks be to the Almighty, the giver of all good
things, and praise to the brave troops of your Im-
perial Majesty, the enemy, after having lost about
800 men, and some officers taken prisoners, with
a great number of killed and wounded, (for the
a great number of killed and wounded, (for the vil-
lage of Smolna, as the field of battle was full of dead
mortified et the failure of his euterprize. Lame- '
diatcly after this, the enemy Withdrew in my
sight, with the greater part of his troops,
along the river Ula upon Baitshckow, where,
however, he was received unexpectedly, by
my reserve, under the command of Major General
J"ocK. Ile,there made a halt to pass the night.
Meantime he. made a strong demonstration in the
nightiby throwing bridges over the River Lukomla,
intending by this movement to turn both my
flanks, and get in my rear, and thereby force me
to quit my position. But when he found this at-
tempt totally defeated,. he returned hack on the
3d (15th) at eight in the morning, and marched
past me, with his whole force, which was
very great, at a considerable distance. Be at
length left a strong rear-guard, opposite to
to my position, and which remained there until
late in the night, when lie moved further along
the road to the village of Akswza.. 1. cqumpawied
my van-guard to pursue • him: with cavalry,
which has already made. upwards of sik hun-
dred prisoners. Should he continue his re-
treat further, I will, 'according to. circum-
stances follow him in person with my whole force,
and I shall not neglect submissively. to give your
Imperial Majesty information of the direction he
may ,take. It is, at present, impossible to know
whether he means to retire, he having halted in the
village of Melisehkowelscha, from whence there
are two roads, one leading' to Sennd and the other
to Tschercga.

I cannot sufficiently praise the valour and
steadiness shewn by your Imperial Majesty's
troops, as well as of all the Generals and Officers
commanding the same.

Our loss in both: the van-guard engage-
ments, and in the battle of yesterdly, amounts
in killed and wounded to 18 staff and chic( officer:,
and upwards of 1000 privates. The Senator, BI-
BIXOW, has received a severe ontusiou hi his foot
by a bullet."

itkiNikt oir Aint/tAt GtNEttAL kArsatit
PAUL 14E1V) TO HIS IMPERIAL MAJESTY) DATED

RIGA, NOV. 18.

In my dispatches of.the 15th, I had thd
nest of informing your Majesty of the taking of
the town of Kreuzberg by Maj. FILATow. At the
same time I made an humble representation of My
intention of taking possession of the town of
rtedrickstadt, 'and it being a point of conse
quence, from whence the enemy might easily hate
made inroads, both into Livonia, and the Go-
vernment of Pskow. For carrying this into
effect, agreeably to the plan Ihad formed,, the
following has been performed detachthent
from the corps of Lieutenant General LEwIS, con,
sisting of 1300 men, under the command of Major
BoJowNow, attacked time town from the left bank
of the Dwina, whilst the troops under Colonel
REDINGER attacked it from the right bank of
the same river.

To cover this attack, and prevent the enemy
from assisting the town, another detachment from
Lieutenant-General LEWIS'S corps, consisting of
1000 men, under the command of Major JULIS
TRATOW, was detached to make a false attack on
WaMIA for the purpose of amusing the enemy,
and taking off his attention from Frederickstadt.
The attack on this town was made on the 15th
inst.. at nine o'cluck A.M. and .at one o'clock
in the afternoon, the enemy, after a defence ra-
ther obstinate quitted the town, and fell back in
disorder on Jacobstadt. He was pursued about
the distance of 10 wersts, on his retreat, by Major
BOJOWNOW. In this affair we have tAken one
Officer and about 70 privates prisoners. On our
side, We may e3timate. the loss of all the three
detachnients At about 260 men. The dead bodies
found in Frederickstadt, and round that town,
prove the loss of the enemy to have been very
considerable.

As I had previously supposed, Marshal MAc- •
DONALD detached a considerable reinforcement .
from Misshof to Frederickstadt, which being on
its way opposed by the-detachment under Major-
General IcLEsTRow, attacked him, but not being
able to ,force their way past him, could not pre-
vent
the capture of Frederickstadt; in which there
were about 600 Bavarians, and three squadrons of
Russian cavalry. The enemy having for sometime
past formed a plan for fortifying his right
flank he for this purpose, on the morning of the
3d (I3th) attacked the detachments of Lieute-
nant-General LEWIS, which covered Riga, and
endeavoured to force him to retreat into the forti-
fications of the city, in order thereby to cover his
right flank, and by taking advantage of the river
Dwiva being frozen, to find LI-Jowl. of enrry;ng
his operations in my rear.

[Want of room obliges us to postpone the re-
mainder of this Report.)
STOCKHOLM, DEC. 10.—It is reported, and
generally believed, that negotiations are on foot
between Russia and Austria.

Above 400 guns taken from the French, are to
be formed into two monuments at Petersburgh.
A great number of stands of colours, taken from
the enemy, are placed in the Carzan church at
Petersburgh. Lord Walpole, it is said, has pro-
iceeded from St. Petersburg to Vienna.

On Saturday the &spatches by the Charley
Grant, Marquis of Ely, Perseverance, Marquis
Camden, General Harris, for Bombay and China,
and Ceres for St. Helena, Bencoolen, and China,
were finally closed at the East India House, and
delivered to their respective Pursers.
Two squadrons of the lOth, or Prince Regent's
own Hussars, will set off this day for Epsom and
Ewell, where they will remain for a short time,
previous to their ,embarkation for Portugal ; as
also another squadron to-morrow for Guildford,
Surrey. They will be relieved by a party of
the 7th Dragoons, who arrived at Knights-
bridge on Saturday, and will do
,duty at the
llorse-Gnards.

THE THEATRE.--,The Tragedy of Romeo and
Juliet was represented on,Saturday last at Drury-
Lane Theatre,. with a general magnificence in
scenery, costume, &c. worthy of the English Stage.
Mr. RAE, who has acquitted himself so respect-
ably. in Hamlet and-Young Norval, performed the
part of Romeo, and in such a manner as to add to
his professional credit. There is a pensiveness in
the general tone,7 aspect, and manner of this ac-
tor, which is peculiarly well calculated to expreSs
feelings •..c,f --diroppointment and if he is not
equally successful In representing the more spirit;
ed and violent emotions, it is because, in real life,
characters that are marked by traces of a melan-
choly nature • are not prone to such active emo-
tions, and such we conceive to be his disposi-
tion. His performance altogether was interest-
ing, affecting; and impressive. He was through-
out deservedly applauded. Miss SMITH was the
Juliet, and she rendered the part highly promi-
minent. Her acting always displays an evident'
study of the character, minute and comprehensive,
and wherever she fails it is not for want of atten-
tion. The pervading feature of her acting is
energy, but where delicacy and softness are re-
glared she is not equally successful There is,
however, a dashing spirit in her performance,
which covers all minor defects, and if she does
not often excite the sympathy of the audience,
she strongly appeals to the imagination, and en-
forces their applause. •Her efforts were most libe-
rally requited by approbation.
'EXECUTION.—CharIes Frederick Palm and Sa-
muel ,Telling, convicted at the Admiralty. Sessions
last, week, of Murder on the High Seas, this
morning suffered, pursuant -to their sentence, at
Execution Dock.—John Bruce,• convicted of the
same offence at Milford Haven, and who was to
have suffered at the same time, bas been
for fourteen days. respited