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uArriat OF GOLYMIN.

46 While General Benningfen's corps was beaten
at Pultufk, that of General Buzhovden affembled at
Golymin about noon. The divifion of Panin, be-
longing to this corps, which had been attacked the
evening before by the Grand Duke of Berg, and
another divifion already beaten at Nafielflc, arrived
by different routes at the camp of Golymin. Martha!
Davonfl, who purfued the enemy from Nafiellk came
up with them, charged them, and took poffeffion of a
wood near the camp of Golymin. At the fame time
General Augereau arriving from Golaayma, took
the enemy in flank. The General of Brigade La-
piffe, with the 16th light infantry. carried with the
bayonet a village, which ferved for a point of fup-
port to the enemy. The divifion of Hendelet formed
in line, and advanced againft the enemy, at 3 o'clock
in the afternoon ; the fire was extremely hot. The
Grand Duke of Berg made feveral fuccefsful charges,in
which Klein's divifion of dragoonsdiftinguithed them-
felves. Night coming on too loon, the battle con-
tinued till eleven o'clock, when the enemy retreated
in diforder, leaving behind his artillery, his baggage,
alma all his knapfacks, and a number of dead. All
the enemy's columns retreated towards Oflrolen-
ka. General Feneroilles, Commandant of a bri-
gade of dragoons. was killed by a cannon ball. The
intrepid General Rapp. the Emperor's aid de camp,
was wounded by a vitae, fhot at the head of his di-
Tifton of dragoons. Colonel Sensele, of the brave
24th regiment of the line, was wounded. Marffial
Augereau had a horfe Thin under him.
" In the mean time, Marffial Soult with his corps
had arrived at Mofatl, two miles from Makow—but
the horrible Houghs, the confequences of rain and
thaw, arrelled his march and faved the Ruffian army,
of which not a man would have ntherwife efcaped.
'The dettinies of the army of General Benningfen,
and that of Buzhowden, feemed as if they would
have been completed on this fide of the little River
d'Orege—but every plan was thwarted by the effed
of the thaw, and that to fuch a degree, that the ar-
tillery could not move more than three leagues in
two days. The Ruffi.sn army loft eighty pieces of

eannen, all his ammunition wagzentlonore ti,ar I 206
baggage carts, and ta,coo men in killed, wounded,
and prifoners. The movements of the French and
Ruffian ctilumns will fur hifh a fubjat of real curio-
fit, for military men, when traced upon a map. They
will then fle that the whole Ruirian army wasn't the
point of being annihilated in the coutfe of a few tins
—and that in confequence of a finglc oyes-fight in the
Ruffian General.

K We have loft eight hundred men killed, and
two thoufand wounded. Matters of the greatenpast
of the Ruffian artillery, of all its potations ; and
having repulfed the enemy near forty leagues, the
Emperor has ordered the army into v inter quarter,.
Move this expedition, the Ruffian Officers fay they
had 150,000 men, new they fay they had but half
that number. Which is to be believed, the Ri(Gan
Officer, before, or the Rudi 40 Officers after the battle?
4' Petfia and the Porte have declared war again!!
Raffia. Michelfun attack, the Porte. There two
great empires, neighbours to the Ruffians, are kept
in continual au; iety by the fallacious policy of the
Cabinet •)f St. Pete: (burgh, which for ten years pan
had aged by them in the fame manner as it conduitei
itfelf for fifty years, wills refpea to Poland.
" M. Philip Segur, Camp Marfhal to the Emperor
on his way to Nafielfk, fell into an Asnbufeade
Coffacks placed in at woccien houfe behind that place
He killed two of them with his own hands, hat va.
made prifoner. The Emperor claimed him immes
diately, but the Ruffian General bad already fati,
him off to St. Peterfburgh.

FORTY-EIGHTH B ULLETIN.
" Warfaw, jap. 3.
" General Corbineau, Aide•de•Camp to the Em.
peror, had fet out horn Pultufic, in put Ink of the
enemy, with three regiments of Light Cavalry. After
occupying Brok, he reached (Movie', on the tit
inft. On his march he picked up ,}no Ruffian fol.
diers, feveral Officers, and a great quantity of bag.
gage waggons.
" Martha! Soult, with three brigades of light horfe,
part of Lafalle's divifion, has taken a pofition along
the banks of the little river Orcyc, in order to cover
the cantonments of the army.
" Mat fhal Ney, the Prince of Ponte Corvo, and
Martha! Barterer, have cantoned their troops on the
left bank.

66 The light corps under Marthals Soult, Davnufl,
and Lannes, continue to occupy Pultufk and the
banks of the Bug.
" The enemy's army continues to retreat. The
Emperor arrived at Warfaw on the zd of January.
.. We have bad !now and !roil for two days in con.
tinuance ; but it has begun again to thaw, and the
roads, which were becoming fomewhat better, are
now as had as before.

"6 Prince Borghefe has inceffantly been at the head
of the tft regiment of Carbineers, which he corn.
mands. The brave Carbineers and Cuiratners tea&
ed the molt anxious defire to meet the enemy; but
the divifions of Dragoons which came fir 9 into adios,
by carrying every thing before them, left the former
no opportunity of attacking the enemy.
44 His Majetly has appointed General Lariboi
here a General of divihon, and given him the ens-
mand of the artillery of the Guards. He is an officer
of the higheft merit.
" The troops of the Grand Duke of Wurtaburg
compote the garrifon of the city of Berlin. They
conlift of two regiments, which make an excel/as
appearance.
" The corps under Prince Jerome continues to be.
liege Bream That beautiful city is in aches. A
difpofition to wait the murk of events, and the hops
of being relieved by the Ruffians, have prevented the
garrifon from furrendering, hot the liege makes pro-
grefs: The Bavarian and Wirtemberg troops hare
merited the praife of Prince Jerome, and the elite ;
of the French army.
" The Governor of Silefia had colledad the gar-
rifons of the fortreffes not yet blockaded, and formed
out of them an army of 8000 men, with which force
he had commenced his march to interrupt the opt,
rations of the army befieging Breflau.
44 Againfl this force General Hednuville, the Chief
of Prince Jerome's Staff, detached General Mont-
brun, Commandant of the Wurtemberghers, and Ge•
neral Minucci, Commandant of the Bavarians. They
I came up with the Pruflians at Streblen, put them to
flight, and took 400 men, boo hones, and feveral
convoys of provilions, which the enemy imended to
fend into the fortrefs. Major Herfcher, at the head
of ryo of Leiningfen's light honk, attacked two
Pruflian fquadrons, and completely routed thew,
making 36 of them prifoners.
•' His Majefly has ordered a part of the colours
taken at Glogau, to be fent to the King of Wine&
berg, whole troops made themfelver mallets of that
important fortrefs. His Majelly being farther dea-
rous of rewarding the good condruft of rhefe troops,
has appropriated for the Wirtemberg corps, ten of
the infignia of the Legion of Honour.
66 This day were prefented to his Majefly a dere.
tation from the kingdom of Italy, connfling of M.
ca, Minitler of Finance, a man of the greater
merit, Renier, one of the Magiftrates of Venice, aid
Guaflavillani, a Member of the Council of State.
" The fame day his Majefly gave audience to all
the Conflituted Authorities of the country, and the
different Foreign Miniflors at prefent in Warfaw."

BERLIN, JANUARY to.
It is enimated that 71,000 men have paired through
Berlin within a Mort period, on their way to Poland,
inclu five of soo Hdians and soo of the Imperial
Guards. General Polenz commands the Saxon con-
tingent. The Governor General of Berlin has re-
ceived a letter from General Lagrange,dated January
3, in which he informs him that tranquillity rc•
itored in Hare. An Italian regiment has arrived at
Cal Tel, and the meafuros which have been taken are
a fufficient guarantee for the perfeet enjoyment of fu-
ture tranquillity in that country. The 19th regiment
of Yagers, which General Clarke bad difpatched to.
wards HelTe Calla from Putzdam, has returned.
The Porte has fent orders for the army under Pi-
wan Oglou and fslullApha Barrajetat to enter we-
lachia, and thete troops are encamped very near each
other.

Among many other unfounded rumours, that of a
change in the Miniary at retetiburg may be rcckns•
ed. fhe union of the Turks and PerGans apunit
RuOla is a novelty not unimerelling at the ref*
timo.

DREADFUL CALAMITY.

. •• s
JAM*:
JAvuArr t 3.—Lag sight, about five o'clock, the
lahabitants of this city were alirmed by a moft
lent coneuffion, proceeding, as it was thought, from
the North Well. The windows of revere' bodge
were forced open by the (hock. At firft it was
imagined that the powder magazine at Delft had
blown up I but, after the lapfe of a few hours, it
Appeared that all was tranquil in that city. To.clet
we learn, with horror and anoniament, that the moR
magnificent part of Leyden was the fcene of this
terrific explofion. It feems that a velrel, laden with
ten 'holland pounds weight of gunpowder, from
tmfterdam, defined for Delft, and then lying in the
Rapenburg Canal there, by tome means took fire, and
inflantanconfly blew op, deftroying all the houfes in
the vicinity of the canal, and oceafioning the pre.
mature death of Tome hundreds of the inhabitants.
'hen this account was written, the flames were (aid
to be Rill raging. Of fixty children in a boarding
fehool, five or fix only are Paid to have been Caved,
bet feorched dreadfully. Some fay that the Univer.
ay is nearly deftroyed,and that the JewifisSynagogue
is reduced to antes. Of the veffel, on board of which
were the ownes's two Eons and a fervent, not an atom
is vifible.

Jaw 20.—1 t is our melancholy talk again to
advert to the difinal cataftrophe which occurred at
Leyden on Monday, the s ath inft. and to eonfefs that
no pen can exaggerate the honors of that mournful
fcene. We are credibly informed, by eye whitens,
that fcarcely a tingle houfe or building has cfcaped
without damage, and that on the Rapenburg, where
the deplorable event occurred, the hosifes to a large
extent are levelled with the ground. At the awful
moment, many families were fitting at dinser with
their friends, and thus precipitated into eternity :
fathers, mothers, children, fetvants, all were rapidly
hurried to one promifcuous grave. Huibands have
101 l their contorts and their offspring, and the latter
their hullsands and their fires. Of the number of
the dead, 'whin' conjetlures have been formed ;
many refpeOable perfons have been dug out, and
others are known to lie Rill in the ruins. Among the
dead are feveral of the molt refpedable families in
the city, and many Rrangers then on vifits. Property
to a large amount has been loft, great part of which
irrecoverably; and many of the neceffaries of lite
fpoilt by the (bowers of broken slats which filled the
Mops and apattments.
The King, on learning the accident, inftantly re-
paired thither in perfon, after having ordered the
guards and fire.engines to follow. He remained the
v-hole.night in the ftreets, not without fheddbg tears
of coruniferation, and atlitting in perfon to recover
and refute thole will lay buried in the ruins, and en-
couraged others by rewards to exert themfelves in
the glorious work of humanity. Provitions, money,
artificers, every thing has fence been fent from the
Itague and other cities, to comfort and relieve the
wretched (offerers. A few have had wonderful
etcapes ; while others, on the point of being re-cued,
while bleffing Providence for their prefervation,while
promifing rewards to their deliverers, were crulbed
to death by the fudden falling in of beams imper-
ceptibly refting on or withheld by obftacles which
had been removed.

ante to the veffel which blew up, lay a yacht, on
board of which were from fifteen to twenty perfons,
nor a vellige of whom was to be found. The caufe
of this dreadful catadrophe no one can either afcer-
gain, or even conjeCture. The quantity of powder
on board is ellimated at about 40,0001 b. weight,which
was fatally and unaccountably confided to the care of
two young men, brothers, and a fervant man.
Two Frofeffors of the Univerfity are listed to have
been killed, and feveral other perfons in that celebra-
ted feminary. It being fortunately vacation, great
numbers of the 'indents were ablest ; and thole who
were prefent, are Paid to have efcaped.
The ling, with that peculiar goodnefs which cha-
raaeriaes him, repaired for the fecund time to Ley-
den on Friday 'all; vifited the wounded and maimed,
afcended the ruins, mixed with the labourers there,
And encouraged them to perfevere in their unwearied
Diligence. On receiving the thanks of the Magiftrates
and Clergy, he returned them the molt amicable
anfwer, asked after individual loffes, and left them
with there words : 44 The dead I cannot reftore to
you ; that is above human power but all that I can,
will Idp for your city." His Majefly made an offer
of the Palace in the Wood to fuch refpeClable perfuns
as had been deprived of their habitations.
His Malay has empowered the Magiltrates of this
nnfortunate•city to make a general colic/lion through-
out the whole kingdom; and ordered that too,ooo
gliders, out of the Tresfury, to be left to the .iifpo-
Ado': of the Minifler of the Home Department, far
relieving the molt preffing neceffities of the poor, and
thofe who have 101 l their all.
Several perfons have been taken out alive from
under the ruins ; but fame expired almoll immedi-
ately afterwards. Great numbers Rill lie busied, the
ribbifh forming fuch vaft heaps, that a confiderable
time will be required to clear them.
After the explolion, which was awful in the es-
-1
Mime, feveral fires broke out by the fcattering of
the lighted turf and coal in the hearths ; and this ca-
kinky unfortunately drew off, for a while, the atten-
tion of the citizens to their fuffering fellow-creatures,
pining and lamenting beneath the ruins of their habi-
tations, but &only before the feat of hilarity and of
focial intereourfe.
A. jewith School fuffered confiderably : fixteen
children in it are laid to have loft their lives. A
Charity School near it reel the fame fate. Dead
'bodies of children near the fpot ate difeovered from
time to time. Fifty children at a Boarding-School
niptroarly efcaped by the collifion of two walls, which
&mimed the beams and roof; two, however, were
cruthed to death,and a third died &only afterwards
in its father's arms. Thofe who were jived, refhed
into the court-yard, where they were fhortly after-
wards jilined by their eager but trembling parent.,
and there enfued a fcene of tenderneli which may be
imagined, but cannot be deferibed.

A letter from Lemberg, in Gallicia, dated Dec.zo,
mentions, that the Court of Vienna had refufed the
Ruffian General Nlichelfon permiffion to pals through
the Anllrian territory with his corps, which was lea,.
ing Molda•ia,.in order to reinforce the army on the
„Bug. Zr is added, that a Proclamation will fonn
appear, by which the Emperor of Auftria will abfolve
hieolills Cubit& from their oath of allegiance to him.

ST.EGE OF BRESLAU. •

STUTGARD, JAN, 3.
The following official information has been receiv-
ed recpeding the proeeedinp and progres of the
corps which befiers Brefian :
" Intelligence from the Royal Wirtenberg head.
quarters informs ns of the recent warlike operations
in Silefia, which are now confined to the liege of
Brellaw.

" In the night of the 7th December, the Wit'.
tensberg light infantry occupied the fuburbs of that
city, in fpite of the oppolition of the enemy and
(bowers of red hot bulletts, which let on fire the
greaten part of the fuburbs.
" On the toth of December the town was bom-
barded by the batteries which had been crated
againn it, and a few hours afterwards Prince Jerome
who had come to the fiege in perlon the day before,
funsmoned the governor to furrender.
44 As the befiegers did not cline filch an °WU-
nate refinance, the carrying on of the bombardment
was interrupted for want of ammunition and heavy
cannon, although there were already two parallels
opened before the Nicholas Gate, the fecond of
which was fcareely tgo paces from the glacis, and
24 pounders are only wanting to go on with the
breaches.
" The Wirtemberg army has been nrengthened
by a Bavarian divifinn ; and all the forties of the
garrifon, as alto the parties fent out from the for-
trefs of Scliweidnitz, were immediately driven back
I by the allied troops.
" The lots hitherto fuffered by the Wirtemberg
troops in the liege, amounts to 13 killed and 46
wounded, among whom there is no officer.
" His Majefty has been pleafed to promote the
Officers who diflinguifhed thensfelves.
" The Governor of Breflau having obninately re-
filled to furrender the fortrefs, notwithßanding the
`repeated fummons which were fent to him after each
bombardment, General Vandamme refolved to make
an atfault. The night of the aI ft was appointed for
this purpofe. But as the fortifications, in which no
breach had been of erred, have a double ditch of great
depth, filled with water, and as, on the other hand,
the portable bridges which are employed on fuch oc-
cafions, were not fo ufeful as it was thought they
would be, the attempt failed, and there were fume
perfons killed and wounded. _

" Among the former is Captain Schraifbrion, and
among the latter Lieutenant Seybothen. The at-
tempt, notwithflanding, appears to have had Come
effeft upon the Governor, and is, perhaps, the caufe
of his having offered to capitulate fome days after.—
A truce for 24 hours has been granted to hint. We
therefore coped, every moment, intelligence of the
furrender of Breflau, particularly as the attempt
made by the Prince of Anhalt Plefs, to raife the flee
with the troops he had raifed in Siterra, has failed. In
c'nfequence of the battle fought near Strehlen.—
The Prince intended to concentrate his troops in the
neighbourhood of this city : General Vandamme
being informed of it on the 23d of December, ordered
on the fame evening the Wirtemberg cavalry and
fome flying artillery, under the command of General
Montbrunn, to march towards Strehlen, and detach-
ed at the fame time for their fropport, the Bavarian
General Minucci, with his brigade.
66 The following letter, dated from Alt Grolburg,
from General Montbrunn to the Wirtemberg Gene.
ral Seckendorf, contains the particulars of this battle:
" General, I have the honour to inform you, that
at ten o'clock la(t night, I fet out with three hundred
cavalry from Kreitern to Strehlen. This morning, at
half pall fir, I arrived at Alt Gro(burg, where the
corps halted an hoar, and then continued its march
to Strehlen. All the accounts which I received on
the march agreed that the enemy had paged the night
inithat town; the lawn intelligence,lhoweveropprifed
me that they had left it at day break.,l Rill continued
to advance, and fent forward a fquadron to recon-
noitre the town. The enemy had placed no fenti.
nels ; and, when the fquadron entered, it was Teeth-
ed by a warm fire of niutketry from the enemy's foot,
who were hid in the houfes, and was at the fame time
attacked by 200 cavalry, and obliged to retire by the
road which leads to Brieg. At the moment that I
withed to fupport the fquadron, an Adjutant, whom
I had detached with another fquadron to ohferve the
roads leading to Schweilnitz and Nimptfch, fent me
word by an officer, that a large crilumn, confining
of infantry, cavalry, and artillery, was advancing by
the road from Nimptfch to Strehlen, and was at no
great dillance from me. This intelligence obliged
me to quit the pofition which I had taken on the road
to Brieg, and to refume that which I previoufly oc-
cupied, oppofite Strehlen, on the road to Breflau.—
There, with my 300 honk, I oppofed for two hcurs
2000 infantry, yon cavalry, and fix pieces of cannon.
At length the regiment of cavalry, whofe arrival I
impatiently expeaed, and which had miffed its way
during the night, arrived, as well as the artillery
which I had left behind. I was thus in a condition
to wait quietly for the Bavarian infantry under
General Minucci. He arrived fhottly after, and took
a pofition to the right of my cavalry. The right wing
of our line relied upon the village of Seegen ;—the
left wing upon the village of Kolchtln. 'I he enemy
bad its left wing polled upon the heights commanding
the road from Nimptfch to Strehlen ; its right relied
upon the lag of thefe places. The greaten part of
its cavalry was extended beyood that place on the
road to Brieg. As the moment appeared favourable
for an attack, the Bavarian infantry, led on by the
brave General Minucci, advanced in quick time, and
with great refolution, towards the enemy. At the
inflant that the enemy's cavalry moved forward to
,fupport their infantry. I alfo ordered my cavalry to
advance, and they were attacked at all points. The
attack was executed with an impetuofity and bravery
which decided the victory ; the enemy was obliged
to give way on all fides, and retreat in the greaten
diforder. _

•• I purfued the enemy for three hours, during
which he (Whined freth loges in killed and prifoners.
All his artiDery, confuting of fix fix-pounders, with
the ammutfftion cars and his baggage, fell into our
hands. The prifoners amount. to Goo infantry and
300 hoefe, without reckoning thole who have thrown
away their arms on the field of battle, and hid them-
felves in the neighbouring woods and lunges. All
thole who were fortunate enough to make their &ape,
did not attempt to repair to the different fottreffes,
but went direaly to their feveml homes.
•• The lots of as enemy in killed on this (Keaton,

amounts to oat hundred; the tvottaded may be about
two hundred. The refi of the corps was either diG,
perfed or taken ptifooers. On our fide Lieut. Hehl
was killed, and Captain Brenning of the cavalry was
!lightly wounded. I have not yet received an ac-
count of our lots, but I believe it does not exceed fix
killed and ten wounded."
M. de Latour Manbourgt Secretary to the Ensbaify,
arrived at Connantinople on the 14th of December,
from the French head quarters.
Jan. 6.—lt is faid that the Emperor of Raffia hat
folicited his brother, the Grand Duke Conliaotine,to
accept the Crown of Poland.
Accounts from Vienna fay, one of the many con-
jeaures here refpeeting the objea of the French Col.
Montefrinieu's miefinn is, that Andria Stall have
poffeilion of the provinces of Moldavia ani Wallachia,
for which the Emperor Napoleon engages to obtain
the confent of the Porte.
_ _

Their Majeßies the Emprefs of the French and the
Queen of Holland, it is faid, may fhortly be expeaed
ut or Warfaw.

WARSAW, DEC. zy.

LA night, when the Emperor came before this
place on horfeback, attended by only two orderly
men, the Guard would not admit him, not being
permitted by the Commandant to admit any perfon.
" What, do you not know me ?" faid the Emperor.
NO," was the anfwer. " Very well. I am the
Emperor."—" In that cafe, you may pafs," was the
reply. This adventure has contributed very much
to his Majeity's amufement.