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London, England, 1812-12-16 00:00:00

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HOUSE OF LORDS, DECEMBER IS.
Counsel were beard in continuation, relative to the Appeal of
"The East India Company o. Antrotius and Others, Clerks,'
viz. Mr. Adam, as Second Counsel for the Appellants, and Mr.
• Richards, as Leading Counsel for the Respondents. To proceed
~again to-moirewt
A short conversation took place respecting the period of bring-
ing on the question of the Banbury Peerage, after Cie recess,
• (Lord Easzttaz having intimated bis intention so to do on the
' srst or second Tuesday) between his Lordship and the CIIA N.
CEI,LOR. The last raentioned Peer reminded the House, that
some important judicial business was fixed for that time, upou
which their Lordships would have to sit daily, at ten o'clock in
the mording; and with which a rangement, such a discussion to
the Committee of Privileges anent interfere. The result was,
that Lord EISKIN/ waived the days lie first intended, and said
he should bring it forward on the third Tuesd.ty.
• The Gold Coin Bill, and the Jamaica, and St. Domingo Inter-
course Prettentlon Bill, were brought up from the Commons by
Mr. LUSKINGTON and ether Members, and laid on the Table.
The Earl of LIVERPOOL moved the second reading of the
Gold Coin Bill, which accordingly took place. Ili • Lordship
nest moved that the Bill should be printed; which being or-

dered, he said, if the prints wire on ibe table, he should move
the second reading of the Bill on Thursday. The Noble Earl
then moved that the Lords be nununoned for Thursday.--Or-
dered. _ _

',mottos; who was so treacherously kidnapped at
Moscow, 'is restored to his country! In short, the
whole escorts of the Russian prisoners takeil by the
French, have been retaken.
While these events were passing near Smolensk,
VICTOR was defeated in another attempt to relieve
his Master. WITTGF.NSTEJN, his conqueror, has
joined Tscntrscnauorr, and Minsk is now occupied
by their united armies. Not a remnant of the French
army can escape.
But let us now present our Readers with the glo-
rious details, in the order in which they have reach.
ed us.—" Good Wine needs no bush !"
OFFICIAL BULLETIN.
At an early hour this morning, the following Bul.
letin was issued from the Foreign Office :
" Dispatches have arrived from Lord CATHCART,

dated November 24, containing the most important
and glorious intelligence of the advantage gained by
the Russians over the French army, in followi, np

Mr. Richmond, from the Commissioners of Customs, pre- I -- _y''._ ;rig
sented an Account of the Patent Places which h;ul been alto- their retreat, from the 11th to the 18th cf November.
lished in that Department, and the 915cial Regulati•ms that had
Besides various combats, in which a large number of.
taken place in consequence.
the prisoners
_.
An Account was presented, by Mr. Richardson, from prisoners and cannon were taken, they describe the
Bank of England, of the Number of Promissory Notes, &c. issued
total defeat of Marshal DatvousT and Marshal NET'S
by that Corporation, within a given period, pursuant to a recent
vote of their Lordships. ' Corps : near 24,000 prisoners were taken, 90 pieces
These documents were respectively ordered to lie on the table,
of cannon, besides 112, which had been left 99 the
The Sugar Brewery Bill, and the Starch Manufacture bill,
VIVIITT severally read a third time, and pasted.—Adjourned till -road. BONAPARTE fled from the field with his whole
tognorrow. i

suit. The battles were near. Krasnoi. It was hoped

he would fall into the lands of WITTGENSTCHI or
TSCHITSCHAGOIT."
The dispatches from Lord CATHCART were brought
by Mr. DANIELS, the Messenger, who landed at Har-
wich yesterday from the Auckland packet. The fol.
lowing is the account given by the passengers of the
defeat of the French armies :

LONDON.

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 16.

1‘ HARWICH, DECEMBER 16.
" By the Auckland packet, Captain BructE, ar-
rived in four days from Gottenbwg►h, we have the
pleasing satisfaction orhearing that the French have
again been most signally defeated in a series of
actions. The brave KUTUSOEF has defeated BONA•
ranre 'with great loss, and afterwards gained another
victory in a hard fought battle of two days duration,
in which Marshal NEY was killed, and EUCIENZ
BEAUHARNOIS taken prisoner. Twelve Thousand
French have laid down their arms, and Ten Thou-
sand more made prisoners. Immense slaughter took,
place, and upwards cf Two Hundred pieces of can-
non and ammunition waggons have fallen into the
bands of the victors.

-" The date of the above actions extended from the
llth -to tile 19th of November. The French, after
spending some days in fortifying Smolensk, at length
gave up that idea, and the whole was mined and
blown up. A short time after they were brought to
action by the Russians, at some distance from that
place, on the Minsk road. The Auckland brings 23
passengers, including Mr. DANIRLS, the Messenger,
with Di.patches, and Mons. the Marquis de. MA WON-
FORT, attached to the Russian Legation-at this Court.
The Diana has also arrived .from Heligoland,
but brings no news."

es GOTTENBURG, DEC. 9.

" We continue to receive most gratifying intelli-
gence from the theatre of war ; the following is the
substance of the latest news received :
" On the 17th Nov. in an engagement between the'
kussians and French, in which NAPOLEON (assisted
Iby the Prince of EciartaiL) commanded in person,
the enemy were defeated with the loss of 9170 men,
100 Officers, and one General, with seventy pieces of
cannon taken. On the 18th or 19th, NEY attacked
the Russians with a firm determination to conquer or
to die. when after a bloody conflict, 12,000 of his
men laid down their arms, and demanded quarter; all
their baggage, with 27 pieces of cannon, were taken.
The fields were covered with French dead ; the Rus-
sian loss is represented as but trifling. General
PLAYOFF in the space of seventeen wersts, took 112
cannon. NEY is reported to be mortally wounded,
and femur Generals killed.
" Other accounts state the number of prisoners
infinitely greater, and that the Cossacks and other
Russian corps were in close pursuit of the enemy.
, • 44 Further reports from Stockholm state, that
NET is dead, and the Vice-King of ITALY among

the prisoners."

OFFICIAL ACCOUNTS

'FROM ST. PETERSBURGII, OF 21ST NOVEMBER.

" The Field-Marshal Prince Kurusort reports to
his Majesty the EMPEROR, under date the 13th No-
vember, from the head-quarters at Lobkow (between
the town of Jelna and the river Duna), that General
MILORADOWITSCH had, on the 9th November, between
the roads to Douchotchina and Smolensk, taken 21
pieces of cannon, and made 910 prisoners.
" On the same day a Russian detachment, op the
road from Jilna to Smolensk, attacked a French
corps, which was endeavouring to join the Grand
French army : 2000 men, with the General of Bri-
gade, AUGEREAU, were made prisoners. This corps
of the enemy belonged to the division of General BA-
RAGUA.Y D'HILLIERS.
44 General Count WITTGENSTEIN was on the 14th
of November attacked near Senno by Marshal Vic-
TOIL'S corps. The action continued' during the fol-
lowiog day, and was extremely sharply contested.-
-The. French troops were 6nally driven back at all
points, with the lou of 1600 prisoners. General
Count WITTGENSTEIN has reported from Sennos, Ml-
cler.4ate of ;Niciv,tltther 14, that after the before-men.