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44 Colonel Krufer arrived at Koni“giberg on
the 3d of January, with difpatches from General
Kalkreuth, and a Rutlian Meffenger followed the
day after, with difpatches from General Kaminikoy.
Excepting a trifling affair on the 28th December, in
which a detachment of French cavalry made an un-
fuccefsful attempt to cut off a corps of Coffack4,
which was polled in advance of Rozaw, it does not
appear that any engagement had taken place fubfe•
quent to the 26th.
" The vislory of the Ruffians on the 26th was de-
cifive ; its confequences would probably have been
more important, had not General Benigfen been re-
ftrained in his purfuit of the enemy, by intelligence
that the divifions of Ney and Augereau had formed
a junaion near Grodzifk, and were advancing in his
rear—the approach of night likewife cont. ibuted to
the efcape of the enemy.
4‘ Upwards of 70 pieces of cannon, taken from
the enemy on the 26th, had OR the rth arrived at
Ofirallenka, feveral others were buried in the roads.
The peafantry oheer fully affifted in their c Inveyance.
" I:refit troops are daily joining the Ruffian army,
which, by the middle of February, will comprife
three hundred thoufand men, between the Ni.men
and the Villula.

" Get eral Tolfloy commands a corps of 16,000
men at Sicice ; General Bagonaut is polled at the
little village of Martioky, on the Onvticin, actor,
which river he has eflablifhed a bridge ;—General
Toll) commands the advance of the left wing of the
army at Siclun ; the rear, with General (Merman,
has fallen back upon the ftrong pofition of Kole() ;
and the other corps of the army under the orders of
Prince Dolgorouncy, General Somcloff, Br.c. occupy
.Vizna, Bannock, Mazow, &c. General Buxhovden's
aiviiion occupies Nowygrod, Clinki, 140/11Z3, &c.
4. The whole of the army is thus concentrated
within the circuit of a few miles, notwithtlancling the
difficulty to provide provifions and forage ; and it
is hence obvious that General Kamittkoy is deter-
mined to refurr.e offenfive operations the moment he
is in the condition to do fo. The Ruffian army is
impatient to meet the enemy—nothing can furpafs
their enthufiafm and confidence. General Sitoff,
previous to the affair at Fraingnrkaw, read, at the
head of his detachment, one of the French bulletins,
containing fcurrilous reficetions on the Ruffian army,
on which the foldiers, in tumultuous indignation, ex-
claimed, Lead us on, and we will punifh our ca-
lumniators."

44 A ftrong Pruffian corps has taken poffelli-m of
the defiles of Nikolar ken.

44 The French divitiqn, under Ney, has fallen back
behind the Driberaz ; and a corps of about 300 men,
which had purhed beyond 011eror'e, was furronaded
by a Pru(iian regiment at Deutflifi E)lau, and cut to
pieces."

The following Extrasts from the Official Reports
of General Beniglco, as tranfmitted from the
Cabinct of Sr. Peterfburgh, to the Ruffian Miniaer
in London, and by his Excellency communicated to
our Government, were circulated yeflerday

ST. PETERSBURGH, JAN. 6.

On the 4.111 and sth of January, Meflingers ar-
rived from the Army, bringing the following Intel•
libtuce to his Imperial Majesty
• Skirmithes of the ont-p- 'ls have taken place al-
rrott daily, hnce the 23d of December, in which the
French were repulfed in every infience. At the mo-
ment General Baron Benigfen, with the troops under
his command, had taken a pofition near Pultufk, he
was attacked by the divilion of the enemy under Ge-
neral Suchet, which attack lalled three hours ; but
the enemy wcre repulfed with confiderable lois.
• On the 26th of December, the greater part of
the fourth divition, under Prince Gallitzin, had join-
ed General Benigfen. The enemy made an attack
at eleven o'clock, with a numerous force, under the
immediate command of Bonaparte, led on by his
Field-Nlarlhals Davoutt and Lafnes, with a detached
corps under General Suchet.
• The battle was molt bloody, and continued even
chair?: part of the night. At the commencement
of it, General Davoull, with a corps of 15,000 men,
fell upon our left wing, in order so polrefs hiadclf

of Pultulk, in our rear. General Baggavont, who
defended this place with 4oco man, was ohli2ed to
give way to the fuperior forces of the enemy; but
as 1;)or as this was perceived by General Benigfen,-
he ordered that this detachment fhould be reinforced
from his Tight wing, by a force under General Count
.011erman, which joined and checked the progrefs of
the enemy.
" The attack upon the right wing was impetuous.
Martha! Lafnes' numerous corps of infantry, under
the command of Bonaparte in perfon, moved through
an underwood upon our advanced guard, which had
been polled there to cover our wing, and fell upon it
in fo defperate a manner, that General Barklay de
Toffy, commanding there, found himfelf unable to
maintain his pofition. His retreat having given an
opportunity for a mafked battery to play upon the
enemy, the difcharges of grape flint (mitrailles) foon
lopped their career. They attempted again to out-
flank this battery, and obliged General de 'roily to
fall back once more. General Beniglen upon t`tis
ordered his whole tight wing to change front, and
fent a reinforcement for the lupport of General de
'roily. He thus checked the impetuofity r.f the enc.
my ; but the fire of artillery and mufketry fill con.
tinning, General Brnigfen determined to attack the
enemy himielf ; for which purpofe he ordered General
011erman to advance with the ref of his infantry to-
wards the right wing, and fupported him with a
Prong train of artillery, and twenty fquadrons of
cavalry. To the ref of the cavalry he gave direc-
tions to fi rm their front in hi 3 centre, in order to
keep that of the enemy in its pofitinn. The French
defended thenifelves with delpera i-n, but were oblig•
ed to yield to the valour of his Imperial Majelly's
troopt, and being entirely defeated, were driven in
confufion from the Icene of anion.

The priforiers we have taken, declare that they
have loft in killed alone, above 6zoo men. Our lots
does not exceed zoo° men.

" General Benigfen extols the courage of our gal
lant &Idlers, and mentions that Major General Ko-
fen, with the Cuirailier regiment of the Imperial
Body-guard, and two fquadrons of Cargopol dra-
goons, charged a detachment of the enemy, confifl.
ing cf 3coo infantry, which were upon the point of
cutting off Major-General Baggavour, and, not
withftanding the galling fire of the enemy's artillery,
they were cut to pieces to a mai.
" Thus BONAPARTE'S attempt at the dellruelion of
t to corps under General EENNING:EN, was defeated,
and a complete victory gained over him."
The molt enthufialtic jry prevails here in conic-
quence of the late vietory of the Ruffians. They
have in Poland abundant fu; plies of every kind. The
only thing wanting is mon:y. A liberal fubfcriptir,o
has been fet on foot by the Ruffian Nobility, and
two millions of rubles have been already railed.
The war is univerfally and corlially approved of.
The Britifh Merchants here have fubfcribed r5,0c01.
The Emperor was much affeeted by this mark of
liberality, and expreffed his fatisfaelion in the moll
flattering terms.

PRIVATE LETTER FROM 6 VERY RESP'eCTABLE MER•

CHANT •T ST. ?ETERS/MS.OH, TO HIS BVITHER IN
LONDON, DATED 25TH DECEMBER 0. S. OR 6TH

JANUARY.

" Long live our brave Emperor and his gallant
Army ! is the univerfal exclamation at St. Peter(
burgh. Vaflilzikoff, the Courier, arrived from the
army in Poland yeflerday at eleven o'clock, and
brought the aufpicious sidings that our brave fuldiers
had defeated the French in a malterly Rile, with the
lots on the fide of the enemy of 4030 men killed,
and 6000 prifoners. The particulars I have this in-
Rant learned from a highly refpeaable quarter.
They are as follows,:
‘, The fcarcity of provitions in the French army,
and the hope of ending the campaign by a decifive
blow, concurred to induce Bonaparte to pars the Vif.
tuba at the head of 60,000 men. On the 23d of
December he advanced to the ourpoits of General
Benigfen's army, where General Oflerman com-
manded. Although Benigfen's force was formida-
ble (55,100 men), he preferred at firft the prudent
alternative of retreating during the 23d, 241 h, and
25th init. On each of thefe days fkirmilhes took
place, but on the 26th the two armies made a Rand
in fight of each other, at a village called Selim,
which lay between them. This village, Bonaparte,
who commanded in perfon, fit on fire, to cover his
attack on the Ruffians, whom he thus thought to
envelope in frnoke. This artifice, however, was loon
turned againft himfelf, for Benigfen, difcovcring hi:
intention, inftantly formed his referve into a hollow
fquare, which advanced, unperceived, under the
fmtAe of the village. This gallant corps marched
with fixed bayonets ; the Ruffian line opened their
files to let them pats through, and they never flop-
ped until they reached the centre of the French.
Here an obßinate conflia took place ; but the Ruf-
fians fucceeded not only in routing the centre of the
enemy, but alfo in turning both their wings. The
left wing of the French being fhaken by the Ruffian
infantry, was entirely borne down and difperfed by
General Chaplitz, at the head of the cavalry, who
killed zOOO men. Their right wing shared a fimilar
fate from General Knfen, at the head of his Yager'.
The rout of the French was complete. Davouft,
Lafnes, Bonaparte himfelf, all fled in confufion to
Pultufki which is eleven voiles front the fgene of ae•

tion, and had been Benigfen's head quarters until
the 23d inft:
" It is inconceivable what exultation this vitlory
has canted throut hoot St. Petedburgh. Benigfen is
by birth an Hanoverian ; but fuch is the enthufialin
for Britain in Rutlia, that the people perfill in calling
him an Englifhman. His viElory is very generally
compared to the battle of Maida. Bath of there me-
morable events have proved that the only way of fight.
ing the French, is to charge them with the bayonet.
" The Coffacks particularly fignalized themfelves
in this glorious affair. The general orders from Ka-
minfkoy are, to rufh venire a terre, into the very heart
of the French artillery. It was this artillery which
annoyed the Ruffians In dreadfully at Aufterlitz ;
but we truft our brave irregulars, the C, Ticks and
Bathkers, will prcvc an overmatch for it : in which
cafe Kaminfkiy has declared he will anfaier for the
fuccefi of the war, !ince our infantry is decidedly fu.
perior.

" Bonaparte's fpies appear to have been as 'lnfix-
cefsful as his foldiers. When Kaminlkoy was at
Grodno, one of thefe, pretending to be a Proflian
General, brought a letter, figned apparently by his
Prudian Majeßy, and reqne:ling a confidential com-
munication of the inten.'ed route of the Ruffian
forces., The fagacious veteran ittflantly penetrated
the fraud. Two Colh:cks (tripped the wretch, and,
after adminiflering to him tome falutary correction,
Kaminikoy ordered him to return to Bonaparte, and
to thew him on his back the route of the Ruffian army.
"• The aCC'itlnt I have given yon has been pc:ton-
ally confirmed I.y VaffilzikofF, the Courier, who was
an eye-w itnefs of the aftion ; and I fend it you by a
Mellinger who is on the paint of departure for Eng-
land."

ANOTHER LETTER, DATE!) PETERSBURGH, JAN. g.
a It is confidently lima that Bonaparte, finding
the means of lupporting his army extremely fcanty,
determined to make a bold pufh and poffefs himfelf,
if poffible, of the Ruffian magazines. On the 26th
ult. for this purpofe, when in fight of the Ruffians, he
fired a wo:41 to windward of them, in the hope of
confuting their operations by the fmoke. The Ruf-
fians in consequence made a feint, as if to change
their pofition and retreat, upon which the French ra-
pidly advanced. The Ruffians continued to retreat,
but it was with the drlign of giving room for a maf.
ked battery in the rear tri play upon the enemy. The
plan fucceeded, and the fitc of the battery (wept away
3coo of the French troops. The cavali y and Cof-
facks then charged and cut 3000 men to pieces, and
took 4oco.prifoners. Bonaparte's Adjutant General
was taken prifoner. A report is now current here
that a fecond battle was fought on the aßth, in which
the RON tr.s took go pieces of cannon and 30,000
'prifnners. Benigfen alfo commanded in this battle,
as Karninfkoy was ill with the corps de referve, at a.
dinance from the fcene of aeion."

The report of Karainfkoy being fick at Grodno,
we are happy to contradiel upon the authority of
General Benigfen, who mentions his welfare on the
26th of December, which was Come time after Ka-
minikoy left Grodno.

The above accounts decide nothing pofrivtly, re
fpeting the reported battles fubfequent to Dec. 26,
but, on the whole, they render it highly improbable
that any took place from the 26th to the 3oth ;
the Ruffians were retreating on the 27th, and we
have before been informed by the French Bulle-
tins, that they were alto retreating, and of courfe
both were increafing the diftance between them.
That the Ruffians, who, in the firft intlance, coming
as auxiliaries rather than as princip.ds, found them-
felves oppofed to the whole French army, have made
even a fuccefsful retreat, laying vittoty out of view,
is, we think, no (mall confolation. We hardly ex-
peeled it, after the rapid advance of the French into
Poland, and confidering that the French calculated
that a meeting with the Ruffians and their defeat
would be the fame thing. Now the Ruffians, though
at firft unprepared for this contra, have made their
retreat without any confiderable lofs ; certainly with
an army unbroken—with a viCtory by their own ac-
counts.

B: the details what they may, this is the great
fad. The Ruffians are on their own frontier unbro-
ken. Will the French open the campaign againft
them in the fpring, or will Bowartars try to patch
up a peace, knowing hcw little he has to gain, and
how much to lore, by combating at once againft man
and nature ?

We have feen accounts from Hamburgh, which
fpeak of batiks for three fucceflive days, without
mentioning the date, but which, from fome of the
particulars, appear evidently to allude principally to
the battle of the 26th, and to nothing later. They
afcribe the vktory to the Ruffians. The only new
fait they mention is, that NAPOLEON was fo ill as
not to be able to mount his horfe, and was then on
his way from Wallaw to Berlin, travelling on a
litter by eafy Rages, his troops having gone into
winter quarters at the former place, before he fet out.

Accounts have been received in Town from Ph:.
ladelphia, dated IA month,. which Rate that a (hip
had arrived there which failed from Bengal the Isth
Augu(l, when a number of Country (hips loaded with
rice, had failed for China, where a famine culled.
Rice was at nine dollars per big. Above two mil.
lions and a half of dollars were expelled in Bengal
from America.