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WAR IN THE NORTH.

FRENCH PAPER&

FARM JULY O. •
FOURTH BULLETIN of the•ORAND ARMY.
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On the 27th the Ernperor.arrived at the adisnced
post, taro hours before midsclay, aosd put the army in
Motion, with a view to approach Warta.. apd attack
on the 28th, at break of day, -cite fluOtn army, if
they chose to defend the place, or. tonentazi the caz-
ture, in order to save the immense magazines they
had collected there. A d:visi aof Russians occu-
pied Troki, and another was fo..tcd on the heights
of Waka.
On the 28th, at day-break the King of Naples
began to move with the advaneed guard, and the
light horse of General Count gruyere. The Marshal
Prince of Eckmuhl supported him with Ids.diyision.
The Russians fell back ow all quarters. After ad
exchange of some cannon shot, they recrossed ttap
Villa in great haste, burned the wooden hedge of
Wiltia, and set fire to immense magazines, valued at
many mlions of roubles. About 150 qttintals 9f
corn, an immense quantity ..f f rage and oats, and .
numerous suits of regimentals were burned, A grrat
quantity of arms, of %Melt the Russians in genera •
are in want, and also of warl.ke set res, were el her
destroyed or thrown into the Vilia. At noon, the
Emperor entered Willa: In the space of three hours
the bridge was restored. All the carpt'wers of the ,
city were asiluoubly employed upon it ;atthesame
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time that the lightermen were erecting another. The
division of Brnycres pursued the etteltry upon the left
ban% In a sl:ght skirmish of the rear guards. fifty
carri..ges were taken from the Rxissians. We had - •i
some men killed sad wounded, and amimg the latter;
Seger, Captain of Hussars. The Polish light l'Orse
made a charge upon the enemy, on the right of the
Vilia, put them to fl.ght, pursued them, and took a
considerable nimbi! of Cossacks pi isiners. '
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On the 25th, the Duke of Reggio pa•sed theVlia
upon ab i ige thrown ovi,r it near to Koehn,. On
tls! 26th he marched to Jeivoa, and on the SfTth to
Chatoui. This movement obliged the Plitt& of •
Vittgenstein, Commander of the Ist division of the .;
Russian army, to evacuate the w!:ole of Servidgitito -
and the country situate betwixt Kowno and the Ben,
and to fall back upon Wilkomir, being reinforced at •
the same time by two regiments of g•.ards.
A rencontre took place on the 28th. The Marshal
Duke of Reggio found the enemy in order of b ale
over against Deviltovo. A cannonae!e took pl ice ;
the enemy were driven from post to post, and fea
crossed the bridge with such precipitation, that thee
were unable to burn it. :rhea kubd fijaaaissiLealie.
sorbets, among wino Were several officers, and 100 .
killed or wounded. Our loss amounted to 50 men,
—The Duke of Reggio praises the brigade of fight
horse, commanded by General Baton Caster, and
the 2d regiment of light infantry, composed entirely
of Frenchmen from beyond the Alps. The young
Roman conscripts displayed much intrepidity. The
enemy Set fire to their great magazine at Wilkothied.
The inhabitants plundered some casks of corn, Cf
which a part has been recovered.
On the 29th the Duke of Elchingen threw a bridge
over the Vila, over against Souderva. Some column s
were ordered to march in the direction of Grid's°
and Wollryaia, in order m meet and attack the dit-
ferent corps of Russians that were dispeteed in %bait
Vicinty. .
Wilma is a city containing from 25 t030,0tA3 ine
habitants, having a great number of couyents, fine
!torts. s, and a population full of patriotism. Four or
five hundred of the young men -belonging to the •
Univers•ty, upwards Gf 18 years of age, and belong.'
mg to the best families, hive requested to be fornit.d
into a regiment.
The enemy falls back upon the .Divina 1 a grid' •
number of officers of the staff, and cow iers fall every'
moment inttronr hands. We have proof of the ex,'
aggerations which Russia has publ•abed about the
extent of her resources. Two battalions only out of
a regiment are with the army : the 3d battalion, the'
statements of whose condition have been intercepted
in the correspondence of the officers, of the depots
with the regiments, amount, for the most part, only
to 120 or 200 Men.
The Court depatted from W ilna twenty-four hors'
after having heard of our passage at Ko alio. Sa-
mogitie and Lithuania are almost wholly evacuated.
Bagradon having cimeentrated his forces towards the
North, has much weakened the troops that were to
have defended Wolhynia. The King of Westphalia;
th the, corps of Prince Poniay.- toski, along with Met
ti
th and Bth,_ was to enter Grodno on the ligaCh......
yfferent columns have been dispatched to mita
Wagration'i troops ih flank, Mho received orders, on
the 20th, to advance by forced thatches to Proujattonl
uponthe Wane, and whose van had got within her_
ittizes march of that city,. but whom the events that
lied taken place forced to fall back, and of whoa rtes
ire now in pursuits 4-, .
Hitherto the tathpaign has not been bloody, coda
Vining chiefly of manceuletes, by which we have mad 4
ale thonsAnd piisoners. But the eisusiyhas" lose the
'Capital, and the, greritetpar,t of Wish preeteesso
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Nthictr are itt a state of instant
Ilrbe slfible of
'the magazinel of the first,tBo .the thirst
'liner, collected' by two years of . vaned site
more than twenty: mill ons of roubles, haveektife .
been ccinseieed by the flames, or bar iattlett into oar
hinds. In a Vitkd, the head-ljuditets of the.rtfuth
,Army are in a.p4ae Whose, sit nee!' agog thiretaite
seSitied. . . ,
Anteing treiliktiuddiet of intertotted ietteti4 the
tort; follisiOng &setae neilit end Is from Mat
tendatit el. the Itislistan Alloy, -*he spoisee •
-respondent,. that fliflottfams, MAI Om A
e the itYaga 'glutei of tlk fitd, the eseettd, apt
id Wee. *re kited to' fart new odes wide allP.
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