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London, England, 1812-09-05 00:00:00

FRENcII PAPERS.

19.—Our last intelli7ence from
lieild7quarterS is ktett the 16th. His l‘iflesty the
Emperor and King continued w 11. The troops
are animate:( with the greatest ardour,
.and the
army offers the most magniAcent,appcarance,
We have just .been informed, that. Prince
Schwartzenberg has had a very serious engage-
ment.with tlee Russian General Torn4.ssoff,
that the-latter lntd been
.conipietely beaten... We
are assUred thl,q the enemy sari:credo an enormous
loss in kilcd, wounded, and:prisoners. • We im-
patiently expect the details of this affair, which
appears to be very brilliw4t, and la whicb the
Austrian cofs greatly distinguished itself. ,
VlEvNit, 19,--Soldiers who had been Ab-
sent ou 'leave, ofi the 10th, leisu'rely set out for
their depot, from whence they Yv.ll. proceed by
,casy, marches to join the different corps to which.
they belong: this clearly proves, that the
isnot in great want of reinfort:-..
ments.

They write from Turitesi. that Czerny Georges
had arrived, at .13elgiade, and dtel3red .tha, e-
nate.of the Servian nation, that it-could no longer
rely. upon the itnssians, who had fated in all the
enogements which they had cy.aracted with tn;,.._
unhappy country. He: nevertheless added, that
General Oralk, bad proposed the
.continuation of
the.support of Russia, only on condition of their
submitting to,that Power, deliVq„ring up all their
fortresses and places, and piaeing.their troops at
the disposal'ofthaEimperorAlexandcr. The pro-
positions liere-rejected..
:AUG.:I9.—,-,The King of Prussia only
arrived :,t Toeplitz: oii the IGth inst. :During the
jouriity hi...s.jesty maintained the Most strict in-
cognito, He ,stopped one day at Prague, from
whence lie directly proceeded to l'oeplit,z.„...

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,PAIII AUG.. 3.0.—A1l the letters from Warsaw-
speak. of the victory obtained.by General Regnier
and the lrinee'Schwartienberg over the Ru.sians.
Thks-yietory appears to have been much more im-
portant. than was at first.said. • It appears to have.
entirely diseoncerted the eneiny'S nlans 111 this part
of the theatre of war. :

General lislonapta is occupied at Groan° in the
organization of a regiment of Lithuanian- s, for the
imperial Quard.•
BARcELONA, AUG. 1.-.--`The Gerlfral of Division
Baron Lamareete, Commandant of Upper Cata-
lonia, gives an .account, that in the night, be-
tween the 21st and 22d, Colonel Petit, commande
ing a brigade between 010 l and-Besaln, marched
a battalion Of the .p7th regiment, and 40 horse
chasseurs, towards St., Ltevo, to surprise the
troops, of Rovira's party. , The chief of battalion.
Martin, who cornmanded this. expedition, con-
ducted it SO ,well, that , he surprised.. the, enemy
whilst they were distributing out wine, The car-
nage was immense : mbre than 400 muskets re-
mained in our, power ; and not a man would have
e..,caped hut for the vicinity of Gran, which fa-'
vouredskbe retreat of some fugitives.
GERONA, AUG. 4.—One of the greatest obsta-
cles experienced, in the war of Catalonia, is
the diiiicuity of 'communication ; the ancient-Go-
vernment believed it was a means of defence,
and that idea joined to the idleness, of the
Ministers, was the
:cause of that fine 'province
being without roads. Some great town's, such as
(.3crona, Olot, and Vich, communicated only
by roads passable for mules ; for a, long time it
was not known that the grand road from Barce-
lona, when militarily tfaced, passed under the.
forts of Figueres', Gerona, and Hostalrieh. After-
wards was made Hilt road called La Marilee, when
the fort of Hostalrich was reodered useless, being
nolonger upon the line of operations. •
At -the cemmencement of thiS war, the EngliSh,
who thought more: of the safety of some points
which they occupied upon the coast, than the in-
terests of Catalonia, intersected the Marine road,
and the towns of Caltille, conet, Aunys, &c. had
no,longer any. coniMunication except by sea, or
small paths traced out upon the declivity of the'
mountains: This want of communication ren-
dered difficult, the occupation of the coast;
and the insurgents established themselves in
Mataro and' Arens del. Mar, where. they re-
ceived succours from the English, and, be-
lieved themselves unattackable; Things were
-in this state, when Larnarque's division, braving
the proximity of the English squadon, occupied
and fortified :Mataro. Not wishing to repair the
Old•road, it undertook to form a new one ; and,
to the great astonishment ,of the Catalonians and
English, who could- no't .prevent it, , a fine road
was opened from Mongat to Cafillo, a space of
nearly tear leagues. it. is every where out of the
reach_ of the enemy's ships ; already have many
convoys passed over it ; it is, another bond which
attaches Beecelona to France.
The army has since made a' road from Figueres
to Olot. ThuS the famous defiles of.Castelfollet,
of which so Much mention is made in the Me-
moirs of M. de •Nooilles, are passed without dm-
-ger, and the artillery is conveyed where mules
could with difficulty pass leefore.
The port of
,Palamos; v filch appears to be the
natural port for the chief place of t.',le department,
had no practicable communication with (Gerona.
They will now be. able. to proceed thither by two
roiftes, of which one passes by the Col de Calouges,
and the other by Palafrugel. A third road, pass-
ing -by Patz, will open I.`communication with •i•o'r-
.ruella de i'efongre, and Figueres. Eveey where
the peaernts., who assist the soldiers in these worki,
do so without any kind of CoNstraint ; and short-
ly' they Will reap_ the advantages of them.. "..(ilS•us,
on one side, the English, calling etleeniseives the
Friends of the Catalonians; ravage and destroy ;
1:1)_e French repair or create means of awe-
lioratierCor proSperity.
• VIENN4%,, A .19:---The Court Gazette. give*

the continuation of the journal of the operations
-of the Austrian auxiliary corps :
" On the 16th of July, Captain Braqueville, of
the .hussars of Kienmayer, passed the Bug at
_Madowa, surprised a piquet of Cossacks., and
made the Officer and his soldiers prisoners.
On the-17th we. took at Pinsk, four`Russian
Officers; and 134 soldiers. On the same day the
column of the reKimentof hussars- of Hesse Hom-
burg, which had been sent
.to the banks of .the
of Ogins\ki, took a convoy 0f.198 waggons,
and 393 holvs.
" On the 18th, the Aotrian auxiliary corps
marched in two columns -upon Nieswitz. The
one took the great road of Slonim ; the other,
commanded by the Field-Marshal Lieutenant
Baron de Frinaont, inclined upon Pinsk . and So-
Liczin.. Captain Paulini, of. the hussars of the
Emperoe, surprised on that day a Russian post at
Lubiti, and took the Officer and horses prisoners,
Some. Russian troops:having come up to support
thiS post, Lieutenant CountForgacs, of the same
regiment, overthrew them,- and killedthe Russian
Commander.
On the 21st, a Saxon regiment of cavalry
and two regiments of infantry entered Koslow,
to relieve the Austrian Major-General Dach-

weister.
""On the 25th, the Russians advanced 'upon
.Pinsk, which was occupied by the Field-Marshal
Lieutenant Baron de Frimont. The object of the,
enemy was to retake the" considerable- magazines
which had been before taken' from them : but
after several hours' skirmishing, they were eblig-:
ed to retire with great loss. The waggon train
of the Austrian auxiliary corps emptied 'a part,of
these magazines into 966'waggons. On this oc,
casion a company of the, Tegimcnt of the fron-
tiers of Waradin, made a fine defence against
the enemy, who attempted to proceed beyond
La Pina. _ _ _

" On the 24th,-the Field-Marshal Lieutenant
Frirnont gave up to the the position which
he bad till then occupied, as well as the maga-
zines of Pinsk, which had not been. emptied ; and
began his march, to effect at Niesivitz his junc-
tion with the first column of the auxiliary corps.

" On the 25th, Major-General de Zachmeister
was relieved at Kobrin by the Saxon General de
Elengel, and proceeded to rejoin the corps
d'arniee at Nieswitz, where the head-quarters az-
. rived on the 27th.
• "On the 30th the corps d'armee' was to have
continued its niarch by Minsk, when intelligence
was received from the Vrench General Replier,
that the corps of the Russian General Kamenskoi
had driven in the Saxon posts at Brzesc, attack-
ed their advanced guard at Kobrin, and that the
object of this corps seemed to be . to advance to
cut off our- communication with the Duchy of
Warsaw. In consequence, the Austrian auxiliary
corps remained at Nieswitz, to support, in case
of need, General
.R.egnier, and to be able to at-
tack the enemy in concert with him.
" On the 31st, in the afternoon, intelligence
was received from General Itegnier, that the
Saxon General Klengel, after having defended
Kobrin with much bravery during ten hours, bad
• been obliged to surrender with the greatest part
of his brigade ; and that the enemy detached his
patroles to the environs of Pruszana. In con-
sequence of this intelligence, the army began its
march in the night of the 31st, from Nieswitz upon
Shaw. _ _

" Lieutenant-Colonel Count Kinsky, of the
Beaulieu infantry, remained with a detachment
of three companies, and 100 horse, at Kletzk, 'to
Observe the debonche of Pinsk, and maintain
' the communication with the French General La-
tour Maubourg, who had left some regiments at
Bobrinsk.
On the same day, Lieut.-Col. Count Latour,
who.had been chargedwith a Mission to the head-
quarters of Prince Poniatowsky, returned from
Mobilow, with an account that in the environs ,of
that town General Rajenski had attacked the Mar-
shal Prince of Eekmuhl with two divisions of gre-
nadiers, forming part of the second 'Western
Army,. - commanded by General Pr; nee Bagration
in,' order to open his way upon i‘.3ohilow ; but that
the enemy, after having lost 4000 men, was
obliged to desist from his attempt.
" The General of Cavalry, the Prince of
-Schwartzenburg, gives assurances that the corps
d'armee under his command is in the best condi-
tion, that it is abundantly provided with every
thing necessary, and is particularly distinguished
for its discipline and good appearance."
'KONIGSBERG, AUG. 9.—On the alt arrived
here Marshal the Duke of Belhmo. The next day
he reviewed the troops in this city.
WARSAW, AUG. B.—lt -is confirmed that the
Emperor Alexander has extended the left wing of
his Corps d'Armee- to Smolensk, to facilitate,' by
that means, his junction with Prince Bagration.
We have reason to expect, that for once the cue-,
my will make a stand, and defend their own coun-
try. From this , movement upon Smolensk, it
seems that the Russians have no other object than
that of covering the two capitals of St. Peters-
burgh and Moscow ; the first of which is menaced
by the French army, which marches with celerity
towards it by Newla and the Wielku Lake ; and
the second by
,the army which marches upon
Smolensk. •

EXTRACT' OF A PRIVATE LETTER.
A( WITEPS AUG. 9.---The Emperor is still
here: His Majesty is iu excellent .health'; the
fatigues of war, and labours of the Cabinet,
r,,ap-
pear to strengthen his health. lit season is su-
perb, but the beat is .texcessive. Every day con-
voys arrive, and provisions become daily more
plentiful. ' Our small carriages which our rapid
marches hod left in our rear, have, rejoined us ;
they have been to us a great resource. The chiefs
of corps have very severe reviews and inspections.
'The material awl personal are by turn-the objects
of their inquiries. Never, was there an army
more numerous, more warlike, More impatient-to

conquer.
" His Majesty labours day and night he sees
every thing himself,' and descends to the ininutest
detailti with a truly paternal solicitude. The
hospitals are, in particular, the objects of his at-
tention-: their organization leaves nothing to be
wished for ; in them the wounded receive all ima-
ginable care.
" Witepsk is a considerable town, but not well
peopled. The greater part of the inhabitants are'

composed of Sews and Germans. Mgazines
were, however, found in it, which were very
useful to the a:rmv. The Emperor is well lodged.
ale occupies th'e. Palace of the Prince of Weir-
temberg, Governor of White Russia. lie is the
same :Who, in this place, issued such fine Pro-
clamations.

." It appears that the Russians are,prOdigal of
'discourses, addresses, and manifestoes ; one would'
say that they had with them a battalion of writers.
The Emperor Alexander and General Barclay de
Tolly, scarcely let a 'day pass without issuing a
new invocation to the God Of armi..s. In propor-
tion as they retreat, they swear to advanee.; and
it is at the very moment in,which they abandon
their most fertile provinces, that they engage to
defend the integrity of their empire to the last
extremity. We are assured the Emperor Alexan-
der is gone to Moscow, to' organize and preach
to his levies. Ile does well to make haste, for
we have arrived at Witepsk, at the same time .that
his decrees order the people to rise en masse and
annihilate us.

" Every. morning at' seven o'clock, there is a
grand parade before the palace. Yesterday Ge-
neral Frianfwas received as Colon'el;of the grena-
diers of the Imperial Guards, in the room' of Ge-
neral Dorsennc. Ever): body has, with pleasure,
seen that this reward was ;panted to a General,
who for 15 years has ,always been, found at the'
pdst of danger and glory, and who in Egypt, Italy,
Germany, and in Maud, has continually taken
part in all the fatigues and successes of the French
arms." ,

AUG. 30.—" The Caroline privateer, of
Naptes, carried into that port, on the l Och inst.
an English ship, bound to Multdplatien with wine,
honey, &c."

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