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To every thing that comes to us from the Grand*:
psy.— (formal tie Parity Dec. 19.) • ' II
VIENNA., DECEMBER 6.
A courier dispatched by Prince Schwartzenberg
arrived here to-day, and has brought that General's
Reports of the battles that have taken place in the
environs of Wolkowick.
• The head-quarters of the Prince was en the 22d
st Dwir Sachetz. The Austrian auxiliary corps has
• owed very little in the engagements which it has
bad with the Russian troops under the command of
General Sacken ; it bad nothing to do but to pursue
the enemy, who was already routed. Most probably
the first number of the roma Gazette will contain the
grits and details of those events.
Grand concerts ate given every fortnight in this
apical, the produce of which is to be thrown into
the box of the Ladies of Benevolence.
The police of Vienna last week discovered a se-
cret society, the members of which assembled with-
but the barriers. Among them were several public
functionaries. As the functionaries in general, on
entering into the service of the State, engage on oath
pot to be members of any secret society, these have
been dismissed. Such strangers as had been.admit-
ted into this secret society have received orders to
leave the capital.
His Majesty's indisposition having ceased, the cus-
tomary audiences will recommence, and will begin
on Wednesday next.
LEIPZIC, DECEMBER S.
The passage of troops coming through Saxony to
oin the Grand Army, always continues. The 3d
,attalions of the Sd and 105th regiments of French
infantry, forming a corps of more than 1000 men, ar-
rived here the day before yesterday, and this day
pursued their route.
The Saxon Lieutenant-General M. de Thielman,
has been nominated commandant of the legion of
honour. Nineteen individuals of the brigade under
his orders have been knighted. A regulation has
been published at Konigsberg, relative to the lodg-
ing of the troops. It is believed, that in the begin-
ning of December there was in this city a garrison of
10,000 men.

•,
• Wilna, and from thence, disguised and incognito, he
proceeded through Poland in a sledge—a fit vehicle
for the living epitome of all that is foul and unna-
tural in human shape. May it be ominous of the
speedy deliverance of Europe !—Of his reception in
Paris we know as yet little or nothing : there is an
article in the Journals, however, from which some-
thing may, perhaps, be gathered. There was a seri-
ous riot at one of the Theatres on the night after the
publication of the 29th Bulletin—are we to ascribe
this to the indisposition of an actor, or to the secret
workings of that spirit of gloomy discontent and dis-
affection, which the perusal of that document pro-
duced ? Those who are in the habit of watching the
statements of the French Journals can best answer
the question.
Laying aside for an instant the consideration of
what is personal to the Tyrant himself, let us examine
the state of his army, if that can be so called, which
" stands in need of re-establishing its discipline, of re-
freshing itself, of remounting its cavalry, completing
its artillery and its material."—We have marked.the
last expression in Italic:, because it conveys a most
extensive meaning—it tells us in one word that his
army is gone, lost, annihilated.—The material of an
army we know to be men—and although the number
of horses which died are carefully enumerated, there
is no attempt at giving even round numbers to those
miserable human beings, whom the snows of Russia
have long since enveloped in one vast winding sheet.
It was when the French army arrived at Smo-
lensk°, and not sooner, if we are to believe the vile
editor of the Bulletin, that all its misfortunes began.
The Umperor left Smolensko because the right wing
of his line of operations left the Minsk and took the
Warsaw line. This is a gentle way of reproaching
the Austrian army for its defeat or inactivity. Thus
r deprived of a point d'appui at Minsk, he put himself
in motion at "• a most cruel season," and thought to
arrive there before the enemy. On the 13th, he quit-I
Smolensko—on the 16th, he slept at Krasnoi.—
Not a word of the battle in which DAVOUST threw
away his Baton de Marechal, and the affair in which
12,000 men of Nev's corps threw down their arms is
passed over by telling us, that he was surrounded,
but that he extricated himself with his usual intre-
pidity ! On the I9th, the French crossed the Borys-
thenes at Orsha, and the Russians gave up the pur- •
suit ; but their invaders were destined to run the
gauntlet through a new succession of horrors.
TSCIIIISCHAGOFE had most opportunely taken up
his ground at Minsk on the 16th, and sent forward
his advanced guard under General LAMBERT to Bori-1
sow, where he defeated General Dosianowskr, the
Commander of the French corps d'armee, once station-
ed at Mohilow, and purposely called to the aid of the
Ifugitive Emperor. We always said that BONAPARTE
would owe his personal safety to Vic-roes corps; and
' this was actually the case. This GeUeint bore doWn
from behind the Oula, with WITTosnrrEIN close
at his heels upon the Minsk and,Borisowroads—Bo-
NAPARTE'S rear-guard was thus composed of com-
paratively fresh troops, and accordingly we hear
nothing more of the prowess of his escort. On the
24th, 25th, 2Gth, 27th, and the 28th November there
was constant fighting, uniformly to the advantage of
the French, if we caa believe their statements, for
they took many thousand prisoners.
On the 29th they remained masters of the field of I
battle, and they pretend that they had their choice
between two routes, and that the roads of Minsk and
Wilna lay open to them. They asiign a curious rea-
son for preferring the Wilna road—the Minsk route
lay through a forest of uncultivated marshes, where
it was impossible for the army to subsist itself. • Not
a word is here said of TISICHAGOWS main body being
at Minsk, in such force as to present a more formida-
ble objection than even forests or uncultiv,ated marshes.
To Wilna, therefore, the broken and discomfited fu-
gitives shaped their course, and the once mighty
hero there exchanged his Imperial barouche for a
humble sledge, and, thus reached the territories of
his tributary Sovereigns in safety.
Amid the painful truths, which this vain glorious
boaster is compelled to tell with an appearance of can-
dour, which would do honour to any other man, we
I discern his usual propensity to falsehood and exagge-
ration. We are eager, therefore, for the details of the
honest Russian Generals. We firmly, believe that the
; situation of BONAPARTE was for many days perilous
beyond any exatstple in ancient or modern times.