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LONDON,
TUESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 16, 1828

REVERSES OF TILE RUSSIANS.

Frankfort Papers of the 9th inst. contain most
dismal details of the Russian army, founded
upon the authority of a letter from Bucharest of
November 17. It is rather singular, however,
that a week ago we had accounts from Bucharest
of the 19th November, which do not give such
a gloomy picture of affairs. According to the
present accounts there was a severe action of 18
hours' duration before Shumla, on the 15th of
October, but • the result is not given. Count
WITTGENSTEIN, before commencing his re-
treat, destroyed every thing which could be of
service to the Turks. The retreat was expected
to be very slow, on account of the number
of sick amounting, at an exaggerated rate,
to 32,000. The roads were covered with
the carcasses of many thousand horses, while
the soldiers, in want and tatters, sunk
beneath the accumulation of their miseries.
Varna was invested by 30,000 Turks, and
20,000 fresh troops had been thrown into Silis-
tria. But the following account is altogether so
gloomy for the Russians, as to warrant a belief
that it is of Turkish or German manufacture :
NUREMBURGII, DEC. 6.
The Journal published by the name of the
Friedens and Kriegs Koiirier (Courier of War and
Peace), contains a letter from Bucharest of the 17th
November, which gives the following particulars
(some of them, indeed, already known) from the
theatre of war :
We expect here a new Metropolitan from
Russia to regulate the ecclesiastical sffairs of the
principalities. A President, who hits arrived here,
is commissioned to form a Senate on the model
of that of the year 1810. The same scarcity of
bread is daily felt more sensibly; it is affirmed also
that cases of plague sometimes occur, and several
waggons with dead bodies are sent every night
from the hospital at Sweti Sava. A few days ago

150 bricklayers and carpenters were sent from this
city under a military escort to Ibrailow, in order to
convert the Palace of the Paella in that town. into
a military hospital for 700 patients. It is stated by
a well informed Boyard that Varna has a garrison of
12,000 men, and that on the whole .55,000 have re-
mained between Varna and Bazardjik. Count
Pahlon, before he left the city, required of the Divan
the settling of all the accounts of the Treasury, and
every Boyard was obliged to declare what his income
was. The loss which the Russian army has suffered,
especially in horses, exceeds all expectation. Six
regiments of cavalry, which passed a few days ago
through Tokschani, are said to have had only 200
horses in all.

The hospitals, too, are crowded with sick, and the
patients only half convalescent are often obliged to
giye way to new corners.

4 few 44ys ago the corn market was to be held

here as usual, but as the Government wanted to fix
a m3xiinum price, which the sellers found too low,
they all went home without selling any thing.
Count Pahlen has returned, and immediately af-
terwards a great Divan was assembled; it is supposed
to have deliberated either on a a new loan from the
h:fyards, pit• on the deposition of the present Metropo-
litan. Within this lust fortnight a Rtissian laboratory
has been established here, which has tp supply ten or
twelve hospitals with medicines. Count Diehitsch is
gpii4 to St. Petersburgh. He demanded here provi-

sions for the army; and when theßoyards endeavoured
to excuse themseoes, alleging the poverty of their
vassals, he sent military commissioners about the
onntry, who took all they could fmd. Yesterday
100 patienta (4174,0 here from the camp before Si.
listria, most of them with their feet frozen,- The

Greeks here affirm that the Turks have succeeded

in throwing a reinforcement of 20,000 fresh troops
into 4-44 t fortress. It is also reported that on the 3d

(15th) Octoi►e; *,2,re was a severe action of 18
hours' duration, near Siiinnfr,. Count Wittgenstein,

before he left the head-quarters, caused all the 41n.

munitien and baggage-waggons, and, in short, every
thing that could nit be carried away, to be collect-

ed together and burnt; afuir which the Rusiuri

main army before Shinnla commenced itis re

te;ar, which, however, will be very slow, as
the numbey of the sick in Bulgaria is stated

(but this is RN1414 exaggerated) at 32,000

ep . An eye-witness describes the retreat in the
most gloomy golaars; the roads sire poyerpd with the

carcasses of many thousand horsps, and airnpst irp:

passable, while the soldiers famished and in tatters,

pipered with filth and vermin, can with difficulty
puraug A* march, and frequently sink under their

manifold fatigue, ;'aria is closely invested by 30,000
On the 4th of Now., ;.hp fold was so severe

men.

about Silistria that the Danube began to freeze i at
the 'tattgr end of October the roads were impassable,

so that in an attack made by the Turks, the Russia►

Light Horse are said to rave been driven into a
morass, frAtn which very fe,ty were ably to extricate
themselves,

His MAJESTY held a Council yestordv
Windsor, at which it was decided that Parlia-
meiii`' 4-I)Ppld meet on Thursday the sth of
February for the e,-,spatell of business.' The
first February is the 4 clay fo,
theassembling
•••/ -
Parliament, but the Frencfi
Tuesday in
or
Charnbero. ,7 re to meet on Tuesday the 27th of,
January, and it is surm:exl that our Government
are disposed to wait not only to see the French

King's speech, but to learn what effect it may
have in political circles, as well as to afford time
for having some communications, if necessary,
with the French Government. A proper un-
derstanding between England and France must
give the tone to the political campaign of Europe.

The French Papers contain little news. The
Gazette de France contradicts the report th h
Mr. STRATFORD' CAWING and General
GUILLEMINOT had leli Puros for Cowtanti-
nople. We suspected at the time that the re-
port was some stock-jobbing inanceuvre, and
therefore paid it no attention. It will be of little
use for any Ambassadors to visit Constantinople
in the present temp er-of the SuLTAN,.vatinting
in the glory of the past ankboasting in the an-
ticipated achievements of the future. The Turks
have yet to learn much of what adversity has
already taught the insolence of the Russians,

According to the Messager des Chanibres.;
the French army, instead of quitting the Morea,
are only preparing to make their stay there more
comfortable than before. We shall be much
surprised indeed if they leave it for six months
to come.

Extracts from Dutch and Hamburgh Papers
will be found in another column. Accounts
from Odessa, of November 21, say, that nothing
was known there from the Theatre of War, ex-
cept that the Russian troops, in consequence of
the wet and rough weather, had left their positions i

before Rudschuk and Silistria, and re-crossed the
Danube. Other accounts say that many Russian

General and other Officers, to the number of sixty,
have left the army in Bulgaria, and taken up their

quarters in Jassy ; while some accounts state
that HUSSEIN PACIrIA has already crossed over
to the left bank of the Danube, for the purpose of
invading Moldavia. His army was to debouch
through Silistria, and form a junction with the
army of the Pacha of Widdin at Bucharest, and
march from thence on JaSsy. This may be true,
but we have great doubts on the subject. The
Turks have not yet met the Russians in open
battle, and we think they will be very chary
in risking their present good fortune by a
general battle with their more disciplined_
foes. It is one thing to defend a strong
fortification, and another to manoeuvre in the
battle field. We suspect, much as the Russian
soldiers have been dispirited by the want of
provisions and the inclemency of the weather,
that they are yet more than a match for
the Turks, if they can but meet on any thing

like equal terms. If the Turks, in the exube-
rance of their unlooked for success, attempt to
drive the Russians beyond the Pruth, they may,
in the event of discomfiture, find it rather diffi-
cult themselves to re-cross the Danube. But
time will soon confirm or disprove the correct.
ness of the numerous, and even contradictory,
reports which at present distract public attention.

It is said that the Emperor of AUSTRIA has
refused his sanctiun to the project of a steam-
navigation on the Elbe.

The Duke de MONTEBELLO and Count de
BEtYsoN had arrived at Norfolk, North America,
in 28 days, from Brest, on their way to South