The Sun.
London, England, 1829-08-28 00:00:00

the passages over the Kamtsbik were in our
possession. On the Bth (20th), he detached a
corps of between 10,000 and 12,000 men to
drive us out of Kuprikioi and Dervish-Yovan.
However, as his troops, in order to accomplish
their march over the Balkan, were under the
necessity of making a wide circuit through the
village of Chenga, where the road was altoge-
ther impracticable for heavy artillery, this move-
ment upon Chenga could not be effected until
the 11th (23d), when the vanguard, consisting
entirely of cavalry, arrived at Beloff and Sutvu-i
luff. As is already known to your Majesty, the
fortresses on the Gulf of I3ourgas were in cur
power on the Jlth and 12th (23d and 24th),
and the Cossacks sent out from General Rudi-
ger's corps were already patrolling the road to
Aidos. The rapid and unexpected appearance
of our troops obliged the Grand Vizier to aban«
don his first plan, and to order the corps to
march in all haste towards Aidos, which he in.,
tended himself to defend to the last extremity.
The corps commanded by Ibrahim Paella of
three tails, with two other Paellas under him„
was stated to consist of nine regiments of regu-
lar infantry, 1,500 regular cavalry, and 1,500
delis or irregular cavalry, with three pieces of
cannon. This information of the prisoners was
confirmed by our spies, with the addition that
the enemy expected considerable reinforcements,
which the Grand Vizier was in person to bring

from Shumla.
" In order to avail himself of these favourabic
circumstances before the arrival of the Grtmd

Vizier, General Rudiger continued his move-
ment upon Aidos. He, however, found himself
suddenly attacked by a mass of cavalry with such
impetuosity that his Cossacks were obliged to
give way. The General immediately ordered
the 2d brigade of the 4th Hulan division, aid
four pieces of horse artillery, under the command
of Major-General Sheremetieff, to support the
Cossacks, and after a severe action, the enemy,
notwithstanding the superiority of his force, was
driven from the field of
`battle, and pursued to-
wards Aidos.

" The enemy's infantry occupied the town in
strong columns, had taken positions on the
other side of it, between the Karnabat and
Shumla roads, and had prepared themselves for
a vigorous resistance. The well-directed fire or
our artillery, which was advantageously posted,
—the movement of the 36th and 37th Yagers,
which, supported by the whole of the infantry of
the 18th division, under the command of Major-
General Prince Gortshakoff, marched from one
side upon the town, and from the other on the
enemy's right wing, in order to turn him ; and,
finally, the movement of the cavalry, by which
the enemy was in danger of having his retreat
upon Karnabat cut off, began to produce confu-
sion in the Turkish columns, on which a general
attack was at this moment directed. The town
was taken, and the enemy, after an obstinate
[contest of three hours, completely defeated and
driven into the mountains along the Karnabat
and Shutnla roads, whereby they lost 1,000 men
in killed and wounded. A number of dead
bodies which were found in the town, and on
the ground where our new camp is pitched,
were on the same day buried. We took from
the enemy seven officers, 220 privates, three
pieces of cannon, and four standards, which last
I have the honour to lay at the feet of your Im-
perial Majesty. Our loss amounts to about
100 men.

" In Aidos we have found considerable sup-
plies of every kind, and, in particular, 600 tents,
448 barrels of powder, 236 cartouch-boxes, 10
gun-carriages, and about 3,000 balls, and other
artillery projectiles, various engineering tools, a
great stock of hay, and a magazine containing
biscuit, and about 3,000 new military cloaks for
the troops. I have also the pleasure of inform-
ing your Majesty that we have found in Aidos
the cannon belonging to our 19th artillery bri-
gade, which was lost in the battle of Kurtepe,
on the 18th (30th) of September, last year, but
which has not been used by the enemy.

" On the 14th (26th), Major-Gen. Shiroff's
Cossacks occupied Karnabat, where they took
40 prisoners, and on the 16th (28th) Gem Ru-
diger's corps entered that town.
" A division, consisting of the sth regiment
of the Black Sea Cossacks, and the Archduke
Ferdinand's Hussars, under the command of
Major-Gen. Montressor, occupied the small
reconnoitringrrison
thoi
ef
village of Itusso-Kastro, thus obtaining a strong
position near Karobunar, and establishing corn.
munications on the right with Gen. Rudiger,
troops of Major-
and on the left with the Cossacks of the Bakla-
Bourgas, and who have posts on the Bouroas
GnoefFmregsi:lnireonfftis wchoosbsailkonsgetil.etotl
road towards Faki. Several
lthe
garrison
Yambol and Slivno roads, along which the
enemy fled.

" It is with much pain I feel myself bound to.
inform your Majesty of the oppression which the
unfortunate inhabitants of the country have had
to endure from the flying enemy. Ap the
Chris-
tian churches in -Aidos are, destroyed,
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