Star.
London, England, 1812-12-07 00:00:00

MALTA AND CADIZ MAIL&

MESSINA, OC I'OBER s.
We learn from undoubted authority, that the British
Government has contracted with some respectable
merchants for a prodigious quantity of corn trorn the
Levant, for the support of the Engli,ll armies in the
Mediterranean and the Peninsula, and that a portion
is expected every day to arrive at Malta.
PA! 4RMO, OCTOBER 2.

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where he could see the fort, and in revenge he was It is with the greatest satisfaction we congratulate
galled by our obusses and our cannon, He has suf. the Public on the intelligence, that the health of his
fered greatly in this action, and left in the ditches Royal Highness the Hereditary Prince of the TWO
about forte dead, among which are three officers, and Sicilies, and Vicar-General, is so tar restored, that
likewise the ladders he brought. He must have he h enabled to resume his daily occupation in the at-
carried off a great numbsr of wounded, if we are to fairs of State.'
judge from the works abandoned on the points where MADRID, NOVEMBER 11.
e made his attacks. The rest of the night was em- General Bassecourt yesterday entered this capital ;
,ployed in keeping up a vigorous fire.
a•in the evening his cavalry arrived, and to-morrow.
••- Our loss during these 24 hours, consists in one !horning his infantry will enter. The Zmpecinuclo
Officer and eight men killed, and one officer and and Medico are also here.
[twelve mep wounded. On the '23el day, at day-light,
CADIZ, NOVEMBER 19.
we perceived the erection of a battery : the artillery
of the place ruined it in a very short time.
His Royal Highness the Prince Regent of Eng-
land has consented to the appointment of the Mar-
Ito request permission to carry off his dead and bury 44 At noon the English General sent a flag of truce, I
quiso.f Wellington as General in Chief of the Spanish
them. The Commandant gave orders to have theta, f armies.
Novette9t 24.—Upon the recommendation of the
carried two hundred wises from the counterscarp by
D
a detachment from the garrison. This operation Duke of Ciudad Rodrigo, the Regency has conferred
brought on a suspension of hostilities for three hours:
the command of the 2d, Sd and 4th armies on Senor
the reminder of the day was, according to custom, Castanos,,the S wins the title of General in Chief of the
employed in retarding the progress of the enemy's forces of
Walks, by means of rie artillery Of the floats attacked. I GRENADA, NOVEMBER it
[Here follows an account of the measures taken to It is said that the French have evacuated Valencia.
form a mine, and those adopted to prevent diem.] MADRID, NOVMBEIt io.
66 Night between the 27th and 28th.—The enemy ACCOUNT OF THE LATE OCCURRENCFS IN MADRID, EX
has commenced having his first parallel on the left, TRACTED AND IN PART ABRIDGED FROM THE CON..
on the heights of St. Michael, and on the left, on the ciso, OF THE 20ru AND 21st NOV.
suburbs of St. Pierre. He has carried on the work , On the 99th of October, at two P. M. orders were
with extreme activity, in such manner as to be en- I received from his Excellency the Duke of Ciudad
tirely covered by day; he has also perfected his Rodrigo, that the whole army on the Tagus sliould
works on the right. We have opposed it by a conti- return to Old Castile. It would be difficult to de-
nual fire of artillery and musketry. Our loss in these scribe the alarm which seemed to have seized all
24. hodrs are two wounded. the officers of Government, without reflecting on
"i Night between 29th and 30th.—At half-past the effect which so sudden and inconsiderate an im.
one A. the enemy set fire to the furnaces which he pression might produce on llteinhabitants. Nothing
had established in the plain ground on the side of the seemed to be thought of but the individual seculity
entreached camp, between the traverses and the of their persons, and the Junto having dissolved it.
powder ipagazine • but the powder having been phi- self, the Captain General, the Political Chief, and the
red too low, the breach was not found practicable, Intendant affixed a notice, in substance purporting,
and the enemy, who had presented himself there to that the entrance of the enemy into the capital being
Make the assaults was obliged to retire within his at hand, and considering that the sacrifice of their i
works; 'Leder a most destructive fire, at the same' persons would be useless, they had resolved to re-
time, he caused the froot of. the town to be insulted , move to another place, where they might issue thitir
by a' strong coltiarm, but which being vigorously re-' orders with more freedom.
ceived, met likewise with very little success ;we pro- On the evening of the 29th it was almost generally
kited of the remainder of the night by toiming a ' believed, that the French had broken the lines of the
mask of bags of earth on the breach. We had nine allied army • others reported the English army had
men killed and wounded. suffered a defeat in Castile ; yet notwithstanding, and
[Here follows an extremely long detail of events though on the morning of the 30th, the people were.
of minor importance, which took place up to the 18th without government of any kind, and the care of the
of October.] prisons and hospitals was abandoned, no robbery
ltith Day.—The enemy has, since the morning, nor mischief' of any kind was committed. The in-,
kept up a vigorous tire from his batteries, to Widen • dignation at the paper left by the Chiefs was indeed',
the breaches. He played with success till four o'clock great ; but it WAS not manifested by any cries or ex—,
in the evening. During the time, he had re-united • pressions which could propagate alarm.
eight battalions in his trenches, which he drvided in The two Alcades were among the first to abandon
three attacks, to make the assault at. tour o'clock, the people ; the greater part of the Regidors did the,
Under the fire of an attack by mine, placed at St. samebut there were, notwithstanding, men of a
Romano, which blew tie the whole of the indented firm character and generous soul, who, far from
wall which defended this post ; these three Columns feeling alarm, braved all dancer when the safety of
moved forward briskly—the one- against the breach the people was in question. ,Three Regidors alone
at St. Romano, the second, carrying scaling ladders remained, Don P. S. de Barnanda, Don. M. de Ri-
against the point of the second enclosure, in the face vacola and Gen bia, and P. Uriarte, who, having
of the traverses of the entrenched camp, and the third called in the assistance of the Regidors and' nomina-
against she breach on the side of Sc. Michael. The ted of common accord, as Corregidor, ad interim, the
company at St. Romano, not being able to stop the Corregidor Duano, Don Pedro Sans de Baranda.—
enemy, retreated behind the second enclosure, and 0, n the 31st an edict was affixed up in ail public
immediately set tire to tine powder which was placed places, calling for resignation and tranquillity.
in the church, and which had such effect that it fell On the Ist November, in the morning, when the
entirely down at the mument when the enemy well allied troops had entirely departed, an advanced
spreading themselves in that direction, and caused ghard of 4.•refich cavalry appeared at the gate of To-
the destructioe of all those near it. • - redo, with a Colonel at their head, and inquired for
" This explosion, and the file;kept up from the 1 the Justice. They were met by a deputation from
half-moon battery, which took the column of attack the Junta, and a notice to the public was issued, sig-
ht &ink,- cause's them so much damage iliatakei re. nifying that his Majesty was about to return to the
tired in disortter to the 'opuses in the town, fioul capital midi a part of leh troops, and expected to be

received with all the coosiyldtorhheatthtio;opcvzosmheinech.teredi eirs:
stances require, and corresponding to the ideah
peace atitiledelvreattleinrngitoyf with
aviic
the Municipality was established.
On the 3d, the Judges of the Tribunals were
pointed ; but on the 4th, inconsequence, it is said:,
a dispatch receiyed, Souk
sreturned to Old Coati
by the gate cf Guadarama, Marshal Jourdan
mainingin Madrid with the division of Drouet.
On the sth, at eight in the evening, Generalln
dan received a dispatch, but it did not transpire fil
whom nor whence, but it is generally agreed it ca
from Old Castile ; and at seven at nooa every di
was in motion, and the place entirely evacuated,
;On the 6th, an address to the inhabitants, reto
mending to them good conduct and orderly ho
viour, was issued. On the 12th, all' the sick i 4
retnotred. On the same day a report was spread d
the French had established themselves in the a§
bourhood of the Tagus.
On the 28th, it was reported a great battle h
,'taken place, and many carts of wounded hail
tarried off, but it proved to be false.
t-s
On the 29th it was reported there had been art
I battle, but that at night the French had passed,'
Tagus at two points, and that nothing could pi,
their entrance.
On the Ist November our guests were eipeo
every hour, but did not appear.
On the 9d it was announced they would shire
fore noon, 'as they actually did, and another not,
was given that 11:e principal guest wctild immediate
4ocarrive,ll4.andord manyer.
pawns illuminaied withou
p
On The 9th November, it is observed,%oo infi
to and 6 or 700 bone, commanded by J. Martin
Mondiden, entmed, and the Pen* at Matinci,
truly Spanigh enjoyed quiet?

RUSSIAN miutifir Mart

9 SILENSKA, OCTOBER to, (NOV. 1 '
cg Your Imperial Majesty will have perceived'
t)t.lamhaaienentdtntodoebioewyaubintention
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movement I anticipated the enemy at Maloy
viz. A considerable corps of the enemy was, a
same time, on the road from Mosbaisk 'to
lAt Maloyaroslavitz the enemy was beaten back.
then, with the greatest part of my army, went to lh
I dyne, where the enemy, in the mean time, was i
tained by a body of Cossacks.
" 4 The enemy, finding. himself anticipated on i
• the rnads, began to retire through Vereya; as a
Moshailk road. In consequence of this, I marled
• I following disposition :—MT army marched dire
1 upon Viasma ; the carp; of General Miloradovii
(which forms nearly the half of my force) fellowsti
enemy in a paralksl line, between me and the hi
shaisk roads ; and all the troops frivin the Boa he
received orders to anticipate the enemy, to dean,
all the bridges, to break tip the roads, and to gig
him all possible annoyance.
" As I was about to dispatch the courier with th
communication, I received a report horn &Gem
of Cavalry, Platoff, dated 20th October (Nov. 4,
while marching, in which he .says :—. This win;
at dawn, I attacked, with two brigades, the left xi
of the enemy's rear-guard. The alarmed em
then continued his retreat; I caused'him to beil
lowed on the flanks with Cossacks and anal
whilst I threw myself upon his rear with canntaa
Cossacks. The enemy several times halted, a
spewed against us infantry and cannon ; but, tlim
ened in his flanks and rear, he was still -compelled!
retreat. He seemed disposed to make a stand lad
height near the convent of Kolotzk ; but oared
lary, however, obliged him to betake himself will
and we took twenty pieces of cannon, In cosi
quence of this fortunate attack by the Coss-1.:4a
entire battalions were annihilated, and I send ye
Excellency their two standards. The enemy'sll
is very considerable, as the Cossacks took both
prisoners. To-day, only about a hundred Web
brought in. The batch; continues, and I shall ads
have to report to your Excellency when it is eadv
and I shall send you a list of all those who baia4
tinguished themselves.
" , Yesterday Major-General Ilovaiskz cut del
more than 500 men. I shall follow the energy,it
make him suffer dreadfully. His rear-guard ii
passing Gs idneve. His army may, perhart k 1
I Gschatz this day. On the road from the email
Moshaisk, the enemy left more than 500 harWil
hind him, and a great number of carts and blotto
He must suffer much from want of ptovisiew 81
forage. He even caused his powder wailem st) 1
blown up.'
" The original report of General fletsif 104.
and ydur Majesty wilt see, that at the Coat/
Kolotzle the enemy made a stand, but 'ere at
and made to fly by General Platof. He icait
cannons and two standards. The vi rt
ol boo
in such haste, that he burned all his hea Y Y
"and powder waggons ; and during the nighthiu eo
marched his artillery by the light of Worm' .
, •Failatacrs FttO* 'PRIV ATE t. MIRA MN ST. "
• TERM; Ron. • IS
" Petersbarfit Oda%
4 4 The French have again been defeated br:
genstein and Stenheil, and St. Cyr's corps is or
entirely destroyed. The French erns] is Pit
reduced to eat Imrse-flesh. Wittgenstein bow,
to his Imperial Majesty, that be hopes !IS:,
Frenchman would escape out of Russia. I . t
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fellow (Bonaparte) is done for ; and. &beef
the country with half his, army lie may P
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; stars."
"NovE MUM 10.—The news of this day ill
the French are marching in three columns ; de
toff has had an affair With the first divisienn:
and has taken 6000 prisoners, sortie sty VIM
others add, 60 pieces of caqpion.. As the earq
try to break through from Wilma by Del
and Rosloul to the south, which seems his
Ischeme, we hear, that to frustrate this plo,.
of troops, principally consisting of militia,I
rived at Rosloul, under command d Geo
tishtsheff. Wittgenstein and Tcbitchagoff are
to join in time towards Orcha ; if this be accot
I cannot see how Bonaparte-can possibly ee
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MORE GLORIOUS VICTORIES OVER THE
FRENCH IN RUSSIA.
bONAPARTE COMPLETELY SURROUNDED BY THE
RUSSIANS.

Two of the Gottenburgh Mails which were due

strived this day. They bring the following most
{l33pm-rant intelligence. It appears that in the French
Twenty-eighth Bulletin, which is dated Smolensk,
the 11th ult. all notice of any battles on the Bth and
gth has been Oppressed, in the same manner and for
the same reason as was that which took place at Ko.
lotsk on the Ist of November. We hasten to lay the
glorious details before our Readers, in the order in
which they reached us :

4, HARWICH, DECEMBER 6.

a The Lark packet, Captain SHERLCCIC, has this
67 arrived from Gottenburgh in nine days, and
brings an account of a desperate battle being fought
between the Russians and French, on the Bth and
9th ult. at Dorogobowz, between Viasma and Smo•

lensk, in which the French were defeated with the
joss of 12,000 men, and 3000 prisoners as well as 63
pieces of cannon. HETAIAN PLATOFF commanded
the Russians (all Cossacks) and was following up
his vittbry when the messengers left the army,
gißil glint

hopes were entertained that the French

would be nearly annihilated, as it was known that
Kurusow was in the neighbourhood 150,000 strong.
Whether BONAPARTE commanded his army or not on
that day, is not ascertained. The Russians are in
the highest spirits. The Lark brings 20 passengers,
and two foreign Messengers.
a The Russian fleet, consisting of 23 sail of the
Doe, and 17 frigates and sloops, had arrived at Wi ngo
Sound, and were' to sail for England the first steady
easterly breezes accompanied by Admiral Nom in
the &mom. ; they are represented as being very fine
ships, and are chiefly commanded by English of&
ters ; Admirals TATE and BROWN are among the
lumber. Some of them had lost their anchors and
cables in their way through the Belts, but Admiral
Hoes was enabled to supply their wants,"

ANOTHER LETFERI, SAME DATE.

" After the battle of Viasma, the Russian Light
troops purstied the French on the road towards Smo-
lensk ; and General PLAtopt, with .his Cossacks,
fell on them at Dczagobusch,killed 12,000, and made
$OOO prisoners with 60 pieces of cannon. The atter-
apted dispatches from the Viceroy of Italy repre•
, sent army _as in a most miserable state :—Tlat
they lose 400 horses daily, and do not expect to bring
;my of them to the place of destination."
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OFFICIAL INTELLIGENCE FROM ST. YETERSEURGH, OF
THE 15TH NOVEMBER.
" Three several couriers, who arrived here yester-
day from the Field-Marshal Prince Kutusoff's army,
have brought the following information :
" On the 7th November, General Meloradowitsch
attacked the French rear guard near Dorogobntsch,
end took 800 prisoners. Four pieces of artillery, and
four pair of colours, two of which belonged to the
French imperial guards, were taken on this occasion.
" On the Bth November, General Platoff attacked
&Viceroy of Italy's corps, and took 3500 prisoners,
62 cannon, and several stands of colours.
"The French General Jainson is among the num-
ber of prisoners.
" The Field-Marshal Prince Kutusoff is marching
with the Whole of his army from Jelua to Krasnoi.—
Another Corps is following the French army on the
high road to Smolensko, and the Cossacks harass it
on all sides.
" Adjutant-General Count Kutusoffitas left Mos-
eclti ad joined himself io the first Russian van-guard•
" General Count Wittgenstein marches on Orsza'
and it is reported has already arrived-there.
"The warn f provisions in the French army, and
the loss of artillery, baggage, and horses, is exceed.
great."
IrkTREE RETORTS FROM MARCUAL PRINCE EUTUIPOFF,
DATED FROM THE TOWN 01 BeLKOWN NBA* YUMA,
STEI NOVEMBER.
II I have most submissively to report to your Ins-
Penal Majesty, that since my last report of the Ist
/I""ther, concerning General Platow's movements
at themonastery of Kolotzk, Adjutant General Count
°riot, Denessow attacked, near to the town of Vi..
mine, and at several points, the remainder of the
°emirs regiments which had been beaten, and were
14,1 et that place. They made a desperate resist-
tue, but were every wl.cre beaten.
" In this affair we have taken a piece of battering
cry and 40 baggage waggons, and made priso.
. 'the Duke of Bassano's Secretary, Comuset, with
whole of his paper% Captain Hartung, of the
' inn Guards, the head surgeon, M. Schwabhau,
nee companies of Marshal Ney's corps, and 130
.Idlers. General Meloradowitsch attacked the cue-
• on the Sd November, near the town of Viasma.
' he battle continued even until the enemy retreated
the town, from whence he was driven with the
met by the 11th and 26th divisions, under Major-

Cent:tab Pasch, kesvitschi, add Tichoilottoir. The'
infantry regiment of Pernow, which was the foremost,
of the columns, the first that entered the town with
colours flying and music playing, abd Made a road
for the rem of the troops over the dead boe of the
enemy. According to the prisoners' report, three of
the enemy's corps were in the battle, namely., those
of the Viceroy of Italy, and of Marshals Davoust
and Ney.

,4 The loss of the enemy is 6000 men in killed and
wounded, and 2500 are made prisoners, among whom
is the General Pettier, with his Adjutant and the Chief
of Marshal Davoust's General Staff, Colonel Moret.
Our loss in killed and wounded does not exceed 500
men. After the taking of Viasma our van-guard ad-
vanced past that place on the road to Smolensk, and
our light troops, under the command of General Pla-
tow, pursued the enemy from Viasma as far as Ereni-
nar. We have taken from the enemy one pair of co-
lours and 1000 prisoners, exclusive of the sick and
wounded. He has, besides, left a great number of
dead on the road.—Stockhohn Port, November 23.

EXTRACT FROM THE JOURNAL OF MARSHAL KUTUSOFF'S
ARMY, FROM THE Still OF OCTOBER TO THE STH OF

NOVEMBER.

" General Miloradowitsch informs me, that the
enemy left Jaroslawitsch on the 26th October, and
retired to Borowsk in such haste that he lett behind
and destroyed his baggage, and blew up his powder-
chests. General Miluradowitsch made 100 snidiers
prisoners, as also one of Napoleon's stall-masters,
and an officer of the King of Naples' General Staff.
Colonel Kusserhoff reports he has seen the greatest
part of the enemy's army on the way to Borousk.--
Colonel Eframoff has made forty prisoners.

" All the prisoners which Colonel Kuserhafr made
on the 28th October report, that the enemy was in
full retreat to Smolensk. On the 28th, General Kar-
assou reported, that the enemy's rear-guard being for-
ced to quit Borowsk, had set fire pp the town, and
taken the road to Vereja.
" General Platow reports, on the 29th, that nine
regiments of Cossacks were in pursuit of the enemy,
who was retreating towards Smolensk—that he him-
self, at the head of twenty regiments, was in hopes
of gaining a day's march on the enemy, and to fall on
his flank near Ghiatsk.

" Major-General Ilowaisky, with ten regiments, is
already acting on the enemy's flank ; the prisoners
taken by him already amount to a very considerable
number. Colonel EframotT states, that one of his
detachments has made 50 prisoners. General Pla_
tow's engagement with the enemy at the monastery
of Kolotzk, has already been given in a separate
Bulletin.

66 General Platow reports on the Ist November,
that the enemy's army does not retire, but flies on all
sides in such haste us never before has been Wit-
nessed. It marches day and night, leaving iehind
it all its sick and wounded, and all its baggage : the
roads are every where covered with his dead and
dying men.
46 Within the space of two days, and in the view
of General Platow, the enemy has blown up 100
ammunition chests, and been obliged to leave as many
more in our hands. He has several times attempted
to make a stand, but the Don Cossacks and the ar-
tillery have, after his having shewn some resistance,
obliged him to take flight again, and continue pur-
suing him incessantly. He has not a moment's rest.
" The Cossacks disturb and plague him to the very
letter, night and day. The enemy's cavalry is in
such a miserable state that the infantry is obliged to
defend it. We have found 800 Cuirassiers whom the
enemy had left behind on the great high road. Colo-
nel Davedow has taken 70 baggage waggons on the
road to Viasma, and made six officers and 225 soldiers
prisoners. The General of cavalry, Platow, reports,
that Colonel Kaiserhoff took the advantage of a thick
fog to surprise the enemy's waggon train.
66 The French, who were ignorant of our real
strength, tpok flight, and were pursued by our
Yagers with great impetuosity. One piece of artil-
lery, the greatest part of the park and the waggon
train, together with a very rich booty, fen into the
hands of our soldiers.

64 On the 2cl Novemter the Adjutant-General Or-
low Denissow attacked the enemy at several points,
near Viasrna, and notwithstcnding the desperation
with which the French fought, they were driven
back at all points.
ig We have taken one piece of cattnon and 40 wag-
gons laden with a large quantity of articles plundered
by the enemy.
44 It was in this affair that Camuset§ the Duke of
Bassano's Secretary, was taken§ with the whole of
his papers ; Hartung, Captain in the Saxon Guards;
the head-surgeon, Schwabhaus ; and three Commis-
saries of Marshal Ney's corps."

SUMEDIENT TO THE STs PETERSIURGII GAZETTE OF
NOVEMBER 3.

46 The following are Official accounts from the Ar-
mies.—Dispatch from the Ctueral of Cavalry, Count
Wittgenstein, dated from the village Ustlialsch, 26th
October

After the defeat of the enemy below Polotsk,
and the taking of that town by me, I received an
account from Lieutenant - General Steinheil, that
he had fallen in with a strong force of the enemy,
and in consequence retired to Disna ; I therefore des
tached Lieutenant-General Sasasnow, with 12,000
men, to reinforce him, by marching along the right

bank of the tuna. then to pass the river at Diana,
and form a juactiou with him; I then crossed the
Duna at PAotsk, and learned that the enemy had
marchid in two columns on the village thicalschi.—
I shall not fail to give your Majesty the earliest intel-
ligence of any further movements."