Star.
London, England, 1813-03-01 00:00:00

BRECON CIRCUIT.

The Hon. CFORot HARDINGE and Aar! Mel's? r. Esq.
Cardiff—Tuesday, April 6. Brecon--Iveschy, April IS.
Pflliteigne—Monday, April 19.
FOREIGN OFFICE, FECRUARY 27.

Dispatches, of which the following are copies, have
been received by Viscount Castlereagh, his Majesty's
Principal Secretary for Foreign Affairs, from Gene.
ral Viscount Cathc..rt, K. T. his Majesiy's Ambas.
sador Extraordinary Plenipotenti.ify to the Court
of St. Peteisburgh

Sr. Parr burgh, Jan. S, 181 s.
MY Lonn—l have the pleasure to acquaint your
Lordship, that Count 1 feller arrived here last night
from his uncle Count Wittgenstein, with accounts of
the surrender of the Prussian corps which served i:i
Courland under General Yolk : and this officer statcs
that the French Marshal, Macdonald, has written to
Count Wittgenstein to treat for capitulation, appa-
rently not aware how completely he w as surrounded.
Count Wittgenstein had sent Prince Repuin to settle
this business. Accounts were received last Monday
of the capitulation of the garrison of Memel ; and I
saw in the hands of Field-Marshal Count Soltykoff,
the copy of the capitulation. The Prussian corn.
mandant was a major, and the garrison consis!ei of
two Prussian battalions ; but there was no return of
their strength, °I of the ordnance and stores in th::
place. Your Lordship will observe, that Gumbitinea
and Insterburg are occupied, and that detachments
are sent to Allanberg, Krelitzburg, and Braultsbelg,
between Dantzic and Konigsberg; so that I have no
doubt but that the latter place is occupied by the
Russian troops.—J have the honour to be, &c.
(Signed) CATIICART.
[Here follows a Journal ut Military Operrions from the YStfa
to the 30th Dec. the substzice of which ua• already arptartti,l

PROCLAMATION.

By the Grace of Guo, Wr, AL lailtier the First, Emperor

and Autocrat of as &c. &c.

GOD and all the world are witness with what objects and what
forces the enemy entered our dear country. Nothing could avert,
his malevolent and obstinate intention,. Proudly calculating on
his owl, force, and on thn:e which he had embodied aganst us
from almost all the European Powers, and hurried en by desire
of conquest and ti irs: for blood, he hastened to penetrate t yen
into the bosom of air great. empire, to spread amongst us the
horrors and all the misery of a %via of devastation, anti to tome
upon us by surprise, but for n !deli he bad lung been preparing.
Having foreseint, by gamer proof- of h s unmeasured arni.ciun
amid the violence of his prwedings, what hitter sufferings Is was
about to inflict upon us, and seeing him alrea,ly pass our frontiers
with a fury which tiothing could arrest, we have been compMeJ,
though with a sorro Nisi! and wounded heart in invoking the aid
of Goo, to draw the sword, and to promtve to our Empire that
we would not return it to the scabbard vo long as a single olvllly
remained in arms its oa- terri.ury. We fixed firmly in our hest t s
this detertninatios, plying on the 'ramie of the people whom
Goo has confided to us; and mr,t have not been deceived. What
proofs of courage, of bravery, of ptety, of patienc:, and of foul.
Itude, has not kut•sia shewnt Ihe enemy, who penetrated ioto
her bosom with a;I has characteristic Fero sty and rage, has not
been able to draw from her a single sigh by the severe wounds ha
has inflicted.

It would seem that with the bl4od which flowed, her spirit of
bravery iitcreared : that the burning vil.a:es animated her pa.
triotism, and the destruction and profanation of the temple:: of
Goo strengthened her faith, and rourished in Ler the sentiment
of implac.* • revenge. The army, tie nobility, the gentry, thy
clergy, the merchants, the people, In a word, all chests, all
estates of the empire, neither sparing their property nor their
lives, have breathed the same apirit—a spirit of courage and of
piety, a love equally ardent for their Guu and tor their country.
'ibis unanimity, this universal seal have proe:uced effects hardly
credible, such as have scarcely existed in any age. Let US contem-
plate the enormous force collected Irons twenty kingdoms and
nations, untied under the same s'anehrtd, by an ambitious and
atrocious enemy, flushed wiih ,LISTe34, entered our cows.
try; hall a maims o 1 soldiers, infantry and cava'ry,'ACCi nipannier
by fi.teen hundred pieces of cannon. With forces so powerfaf,
he pierces into the heart of Ru-sia, extends Mmself, and bei,Lii
to spread fire and devastation. But s a mouths haviscarcely
elapsed since he passed our frontiers, and what is become ul him ?
Let us here cite the words of the Holy •.salruist
" I myself have seen the ungodly iu great power, qui flows
rishing like a green bay-tree."
" I went by, and 13, he was gone: I sought Wm, but his place
could no where be found." PSALM 11/Vll. v. M. S 7.
This sublime s.n.tesice is accomptshed is all Its fore-, on our
arrogant and impious enemy. Where are his armies, hie a mass
of black clouds, which the wind has drawn together? fiery are
dispersed as rain. A great part wetting the earth with their
blood, cover the Gelds of the Governments of Moscow, Kalouga,t
Smolenako, White Russia, and Lithuania. Another part equally
great, has been taken in the frequent battles, with many Gene-
rals and Commanders, in hue, after numerous bloody combats,
In the end whole regiments, imploring the magnanimity of their
conquerors, have laid down their arms before them. Th, rest,
eonipo,ing a number equally great, I ursurd in their pf ::cipitate
flight by our victorious troops, overtaken by cold and hunger,
have screwed the road from Moscow to the trontiers of Rus-i;
with carcases, cannons, waggons, and baggage; so that, of those
numerous forces, a very inconsiderable part of the soldiers, ex-
hausted and without arms, can with difficult y, and almost lifeless,
return to their c:aintry, to scree as a terrible example to their
countrymen of the dreadful st4ferines which must overtake those
rash men, who dare to carry t4ir hostile designs into the bosom
of powerful Russia.
CD day we inform our well-beloved and faithful subjects, with
a lively joy and giaieful acknowledgments towards God, that •he
reality has surpassed even our hopes; and that what we announzed
at the commencement of this seat, aczompleffied beyond ail
measure: their is no longer a tingle enemy ,111 the face of out ter-.
story, or, radii r, there they all remain, but in n hat state !--ele
wounded, and prisoners. Leco their proud Chief himself has ssit 1.
the utmost difficulty escaped, with his piincipah officers, teavirgei
his army dispersee', abd abanduning his cannon, o: which therea:c
more than loon pieces, ezeinsive of this • buried or thrown into
the water, which have been recovered, and are now its our hau.ls.
the scene of the destruction of his armies surpasses all belief.
One almost imagines that our I yes Elective tit, Who has been able
to effect 'Liar Without derogating buns the merited gin yof the
Commander in Cbici our armies his distinguished General,
wh, lies rendered to his country services for ever mensora'ile, and
without detracting from the merits of other valiant and able
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, , - ---"- wing wanting to your Majesty‘s glory but to put a stop to it. Cornmandeis, sho have distinguished themselves by t'iteir zs
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Emperor Alexander tu be informed of the pos-ibiltty ot a re-
cutitess that ts hat they trave acconiplislod Snip .
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ie on the cowl:tem of dtearirg war against England.' Austria, 01 all Lngrish merchandt;e or colonial produce wherever they conciliation, I augur sufficiently well, from the 1.1..git..ri nsi yof
that Monarch, to dare assure you that he will wilt nvy Alper to Acknowledg. , then, PieovineNes tois w•mderfil
and ardour, t or from t :set
vent Let us prostrate ourselves bet. re his genera; btavet yof the trews, we ettin
ken her resolution. I have been a song time the dupe of Preis- ported contrary to the tenor of the treaty and posterior to the
. overtures that may be tonally equitable foryour .L.ii gee tor c •hand h stisin ride anal i of
a and of you—she at I nrth came to find, by the cata.ttoptie King's declaration, which interdicts the British commerce with North. If
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boasung and glorying in our vi
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law
' Hollai.d, that lt was weessary to come to a deter mina:ion; his States. I have further to declare to your xceEency, that his td she frankly adopted a state of War, Veltman; has dune so e 'al and Ro 1M •
such •
p ya Majesty attaches importance to the prq• bleu your Majesty I •
_ could take place, how many nations of the w.iuia ant t, ri il•le example to he modest and pearea t xrcutory
s sacred tar atilt
'Their gratttude would he augmented I y
cud ,
his will; to resemlili• nut thn•re impious gritteretnis t
The trade of Stralsund. by the Kines orders, paid the value posals which in his name I have just Anuounced, that tic has ex- reason of the horror which inspire them against the rerun. ut 4
• :upset (It trOD cateasey, ss .1 ou tiu 1, •
• this privateer, which Wfi Llken ;may tonsequewe of her pres.ly ordered me, in case the King should 440: Judge proper, scourge which has lain so heavy ou them, and the ravages of .fout for dogs and crows. Goo is mighty in his kindt.es- :in.: In
in
Ina icurrutlencs, full 414 withoyt restjActionit• consient to it; v.eithdiaw
.which have left such mei traces b,ttaktul it.' his anger, 144 us be Fuidtd by the justice of our ~t;.::, u:4l
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