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'oppose that he has put himself in pinch to join the
Saxons opposed to the army of Gen. Tormazoff."
Lieutenant-General Essen reports as follows to his
boperial Majesty:
4. RICA, AUG. 29, (SEPT. 14)
id The, position of the enemy in the vicinity of.
Riga still continues the same ; nothing occurs but
sow, skirmishes at the out-posts, and on the side of
Frede-ickstadt. I have no accounts that the enemy
bas yet crossed the Duna. 1 have free communica-
tion and frequent correspondence with Lieutenant-
General Count Wittgenstein."
The latest dispatch from Kutusow is the following,
dated the 10th instant :
The battle of the 26th has been one of the
bloodiest of the present times. We have maintained
the field s
it battle completely, and the enemy retreated
to the posion from Whence he had advanced to the
attack ; but the very severe loss we have likewise suf-
fered, and especially the circumstance of our most
distinguished Generals being wounded, have induced
me to retire on the road to Moscow. To-day my
head-quarters are at Nora, and I myself am obliged
to retreat still farther, to meet the reinforcements
which are coming to me from Moscow. The pri-
soaers state the enemy's loss to be, according to the
belief of the French army, torty thousand. General
,Bonami is taken, and several killed and wounded.
Marshal Davoust is wounded. There are continuall
skirmishes with the rear-guard. I have just received
information that the King of Naples' corps is at •
Bonza, and that General-Adjutant Winzingerode
has made a movement towards Smolensk, to cover
the road to Moscow."
The further advices from the same quarter are from
Wittgenstein to the 3d, and Essen to the 6th Sep-
tember, as follows:

" Head quarters, Polotslt, Sept. 3.
te Since the last report I had the honour to make
to your Imperial Majesty, the enemy's force opposed
to me under General St. Cyr has made no move-
ment of consequence. I understand it has received
some reinforcements from Marshal Victor, who has
arrived with the sal-my
,of reserve from the banks of
the Vistula, and.that it. is the intention of the French
Generals to attempt to. drive me from the positions I
now occupy. The enemy's troops labour under great
- privations, owing to their distance from their maga-
zines: he is deficient in tents and camp equipage,
and the soldiers' rations have been reduced. I still
communicate with General Essen, who informs me
that the enemy have made no material progress in
the siege of Riga. Marshal Macdonald is kept in a
constant state of alarm by the enterprizes of the gar.
rison, and tl.a expeditions undertaken against his rear.
66 WITTGENSTEIN."
General Essen details in his dispatch the late suc-
cessful sorties of the garrison, which have been already
published. His dispatch concludes thus :
" The French have hitherto confined themselves
to a strict blockade of this fortress ; but though their
heavy artiliery has arrived at Mittau, they do not.
!mike preparations to commence the siege in form.—
At present they have actually fortified the positional
they hold, as if they were afraid of being attacked ;
or rather as if we were the besiegers and they the be-
sieged. They expect to derive facilities in their ap-
proaches to this place from the cold weather ; but as
J anrinformed that their troops already complain of
she hardships they endure, they will be retained with•
dithculty in the depth of winter is so arduous a duty.
" The Prussian officers whom I have made priso-
ners tell me that they are restrained from quitting the
' service by the threats that their families would be
imprisoned, their property confiscated, and themselves
outlawed. Both officers and men have likewise long
arrears of pay, which are withheld to bind them to
the service.

" I have rendered this fortress as defensible as time
and circumstances would admit, and am determined
to defend it to the utmost of my power. With the
blessing ,of Gon, the enemy shall never obtain posses-
sion of it, but find a grave beneath its walls.
" I cannot conclude without bearing testimony to
the conduct of the English Naval Officers and sea-
men, our brave allies : they have performed the most
essential services tohis I mperial Majesty in this quarter.
Their courage prompts them to ttndertake the most
kaaardons enterprizes, which their skill and foresight
triable them to execute with success. In every danger
they are foremost, and in every difficulty capable of
counselling. I have derived great assistancefrom them:
Rig, Sept: 6. (Signed) " VOW ESSEN."
4ROCLAMAI lON OF THE EMPERQR OF RUSSIA, ON
THE TAKING OF MOSCOW BY THE FRENcH.
" EY ORDER 0? HIS IMPERIAL MAJESTY.
'6B his with a heavy heart we are compelled to in-
everi km of the • country, that • the enemy en-
tered Moscow on the &I (15th) of September. The
'glory of the Russian empire, however, 'is not thereby
tarnished. On the 'contrary, every individual is in-
spired with tresh courage, firinness, and hope, that
all the evils meditated against us by.. our enemies,
'Will eventually fit upon tl.eft own beads. The enenty
has not become roaster Of Moscow, hot overcoming,
or yeakeni4 our fo,rits the Commander in Chief,
.101aitdvrceof fictional of War,,, has found it ma-
Pediept to retbe:ai'a moment of necessity; in order by
the best and effecivat ineatis to turn the 'tran-
sient triumph of the'neriiy to,his' inevitable ruin. -
However painful it may be to Russians, to hear that
the original capital' of the empire is in the bands nf
the enemy of their country, yet it is consolatory,:to
reflect that lie is posseised merely of bare walls, con-
g within their circuit neither inhabitants nor
Pi'maions. The hanghty conqueror imagined that
cn Lis entrance into Moscow he would become the ar-
biter of the whole Russian empire, when he might
;,:rescribe to it stitch a peace as he should think pro-
w; but be is deceived in his expectations : he will
asith.er have acquired the power of dictating, nor the
means of subsistence. The assembled and daily in-
creassing forcee,of the districts of Moscow, will not
neglect to blcck Pp every avenue, and to destroy such
Parties as may be detached for the purpose of collec-
ting provisions; 'until the enemy shall perceive that
his hope; of astonishing the world by the capture of
Moscow were vain, aid he be conipelied to open a '
passage for himself by force.
"His situation is as follows :—He entered Russia
with 300,000 men, the principal part consisting of na-
tives of different kingdoms,_ serving and obeying him,
not from free will,--not in the defence of their respec-
tive countries,-but solely from terror. The half of
this multifarious army has been destroyed, partly by