Star.
London, England, 1813-02-25 00:00:00

HOUSE OF COMMONS.

Mr. CREEVEY gave notice, that on Friday, when the Army
Estimates were tube brought up, he should submit to the House
a motion for the purpose of abolishing the office of die of the
Paymasters of the Forces.
Mr. M. A. TAYLOR gave notice, that on Tuesday next hi •
should move foi leave to bring in a Bill, for the purpose of sepa.
rating the Bankruptcy huffiness from the other business in the
Court of Chancery.
tit- O. CLERK postponed his• motion relative to the Mall
Coach Toll Eiemptlon until Thursday 'tonight,
The Cominktee on the Deputy Itententhcanner Addis laths
quer Bill was postponed tin Friday, March S.
Mr. LOCKHART g:.ve notice, that os the 05th of Merck
be should submit to the House a motion relative to the Basis.,
rapt Laws.
Ihe Bill for regulating the Office of Registrar of the High
Court of Admiralty, was reed a first time and ordered to be
read a amend me on Monday, the Bth of March.

AllOTloti NOR !SACS.
Mr. WHITBREAD withdrew his swum on the subject ot
Peace, which wood for this day semi& , reserving the power
of bringing it before dieliouse at any period prior to the sod of
the Session.

CATHOLIC PETITIONS.
Colonel BAGWELL presented a Petition from
the Protestants of the county of Tipperary, signed
by an immense number of the most respectable ..1
this c.Ass of persons, and praying that their rights
might be protected.
G-Nteral MATHEW rose, and warmly protested
against receiving this petition, which he affirmed did
not express the sense of the county of which i.e :tad
the honour to be one of the Representatives. He
complained of a petition's being presented by Mem•
hers who did not represent the county, an 4 Asserted
the present to he one which had been emuggled
through, and therefore unworthy to have that regard
from Parliament which they would attach to what
was voted by a regular County Meeting. He enter.
ed into a ldng detail of the manner in which it had
been originally framed, mid signatures procured. and
thought it should not be received, as the names of
one or two Noble Lords were affixed to it, not by
themselves, but is consequence of letters from them,
authorisingthisto be done.

CoIonerBAGWELL replied, and said, when the
respectable and honourable names signed to this pe.
tition *ere read, he trusted the lionoufable Gene-
ral would be as prompt to retract as he had been
bold to assert, that it had been owed throuzb the
country. It had received the signatures of about 50
resident Magistrates, and 3000 Protestant Freehold.
ers-,-(hear.)—Of persons ably to comprehend what
they were doing, and not one of them a marinnaet.
(a laugh.)—The Honourable Colonel explained that
this was the common term in his country for those
who could not sign their names, and made their
mark instead of a signature—he had been unwilling
to do so, but the harshness with which the Honour.
able General spoke of these petitioners, compelled
him to tell the reason of their thus coming to Parlia-
ment. They came to Parliament chiefly on account
of the speeches in which the Honourable General '
himself bad lately indulged on the hustings, which it
was uurtecessary for to repeat, as the
able General had himself promised to do so, word
for word, on the first day he was set lace to face
against Ministers in this House. But he would state
that part which had caused these petitioners to feel
a sense of their danger, and deem it necessary to
pray for legislative protection. The Hon. Galleral
had called on the multitude whom he addressed, ne
longer to approach the Throne or Parliament with
petitions; but to demand their rights, and be said,
" I (General Mathew) will lead you on if I should
spill my blood in your cause." (Loud cries of Hear,
hear.)—He (Colonel Bagwell) had received letters •
from many persons who espoused that side, regret.

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ting much the intemperance of those among whom
Ise would class the Honourable General, who had by'
• th;t intemperance impeded the progress of the cWnts
4ey pretepded to advocate.
General MATHEW confessed be might be wrong
in baying used the word inivala4 but persisted in
the opinion that the Petition had been forwarded in
a clandestine manner. Nes.her hiniself nor his col-
league could ever get a sight of, it, till at length he
had ,seen it by chance at Cashel, and again *bow an
hour ago, in The hands of the Sheriff, to whom he
had made the observation relatise teethe signature oil
the Noblemen's flames, which he did not consider to I
lie their own. He was sorry the Hon. Colonel had.
alluded to what he had said at the hustings, but since
he had done so, he trusted the house would indulge
dim with a few words. As for his repeating his %en-
" tinient, he only waited till to-morrow for the Catho-
lic Question, to tell his Majesty's Ministers that be
thought them incompetent, aTid that every man ought
to assist in their overthrow, and in accelerating their
downfall. He was convinced he had never used the'
words imputed to him, as he entertained the utmost
respect and regard for the Prince Regent, and could.
never have called on persons to be led, on against the
Throne. From that Illustrious Personage, to whom
he understood he had been represented as having
spoken disrespectfully of him, he owed the highest
gratitude for the kindness and attention which he
• had ever received from him, and he now declared,
before Goo and his country, he bad never spoken to
his diSparagement. All that he said was, that he
would not have the Catholics to Petition Parliament
or the Legislature, but demand their privileges as a
right which belonged to them.
Colonel BAGW ELL professed to know nothing
of the mode of applying the signatures alluded to ;-
and reasserted that the Hon. General had called on
the populace to demand and insist on their rights ;
promising at the same time, to lead4hem on.
The SPEAKER enquired if the Hon. Gentleman I
• ,tad any reason to doubt that the signatures were those
of the persons they purported to be ? _
Colonel BAGWELL answered, " None in the
world."
The SPEAKER then asked General Mathew if he
would take upon hitnself to assert that they were not
General MATHEW replied, he had been in-
formed so.
The Petition was received, read, and ordered to lie
on the table.
I'HE LORD MAYOR OF DUBLIN.
The Lord Mayor of Dublin was admitted to the
Bar of the House with the same forinalities as the
Sheriffs of London, and presented a Petition from
the Corporation of that City against the renewal of,
the East.lndia Company's Charter. He then retired,
And on being admitted a second time, presented a
Petition from the same body against the unqualified
grant of the Catholic Claims. His Lordship ap-
peared in his official gown, &c. There was .a pretty
general /angle in the House on putting the question
for his being called in.
' Lord ngsART presented a Petition from Gee.
Lordship
and others of the County of Kilkenny. 'His
Lordship prefaced his motion by stating that it was
very numerously signed, and was worthy of attention
es coming from one of the most Catholic counties of
Ireland. But it merited attention still more, from
its speaking the opinion of an enlightened and ho.
nourable class of men, who did not draw their con-
elusion from theoretical principles, but from eipe.,
rience of what was every day before them, and what
they met perpetually in every walk of life—(Hear,
has.) It came from persons fully competent, and
enjoying the best opportunities to form ajust and cor-
rect judgment. It was even signed by many, and,
among others, by the highly respectable Chairman of
the Meeting where it was agreed upon, and who had
been friendly to the moderate requests of the Catho;
tics, but were roused to the resistance of their unqua-
lified demands.
Sir JOHN NEWPORT attached less value and
importance to this Petition than the Noble Lord. He
noticed that the meeting was not called by the Sheriff,
Fed intimated that he, the Sheriff, disapproved of it,
and that in consequence of the opposition raised
against it, the Meeting was dissolved by the Chair-
man without taking the sense of the assembly upon
the question of adjournment, moved by persons of
the greatest property in the County. He, from indiss
position, had not been able to attend it himself; but
the two County Members were there to oppose it,
!etc' it was opposed by persons of the first considera-
tion, whose property amounted to fifty times more in
-the County than the Noble Lord's and all his asso-
• Oates. After tieing defeated in the first instance, they
had however adjourned to a private house, and ef-
ifected their purpose there of smuggling through this
ipgrious and fabricated docament, to sign which they
had enticed people by every means in their power.—
yet, he affirmed, it was disapproved of by 7-Bthsof
the property in Kilkenny.
Lord DESART said he was glad the Hon. Ba-
toilet had avowed he was not preseot at this meeting,
since it allowed him to declare that all he had stated
,was destitute of touudation. The Petition had been
twice read, and was signed by himself and many others
before being submitted to the Meeting. The circum-
stances attendant upon this Meeting, as sonic of those
who bad espoused the side advocated by the Honour-
able Baronet, were extremely sorry, for what bad
been done on the occasion, and had since expressed
their regret at !twin concerned in these transactions,
as well as a hope that nothing might be said to call for
explanation rp the subject, he lamented to be obliged
to notice: but die Hon. Barona had made charges
which no man of character or honour could sit silently
and bear advanced. The Sherill's name was attached
to the Petition, of which he perfectly approved,' and
there was only one instead of both the county map,
hers at the nae,:ti-ag. But it was singular that thote so
earnest and loud for emancipation and freedom them,
selves, world not allow these benefits to be enjoyed
by p7iltrs. h was strange that the Catholics and
thew h lends, who were permitted by the protestatus
to meet every day without interruption, within 4 very
short 'distance of the place of this meeting, and thence
to issue their mend. tes and eireats as they pleased,
would not suffer the Protestants to meet only puce,
without breaking in upon thew-I-(Weer.) Qught
this privilege not to be allowed to the *wet- order of
Protestants, mho were more nearly and vitally inte-
ieeted in this Question than the 'higher otars ?
p 401,11.4 ,the;, who met the c4tboi,ip upon an equality

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in every,walk of We, lie debarred from ate
of this right ? and should'Oi/on. Baronet, with tA.,
aristocratiespride whith he assumed to himself, place
the rental of every man In the -county before them,
as a scale on which to measure ths4r opinions ?
He would disdain to enter into an argument on this
subject (Hear, hear!). The Noble Lord then detailed
the mode of calling, and the proceedings of the meet-
ing. Abundant notice was given, and the. Protes-
tants friendly to the Petition were summoned toge-
ther. But they were broke in upon by persons of
another description, and by a number of Catholics ;
and, upon a watch-word given, a cry was set• up, to
prevent any one being heard who was inclined to de-
liver hit sentiments in support of the Petition; so
much so, indeed, that it was only by loud clamour-
they were informed that the question of adjournment
had been moved. Under these circumstances the
Chairman had dissolved the assembly, and they with-
drew to a more orderly and quiet place. It was curi-
ous to notice, that after they had retired, a few Ca-
thGlics, who protested against the meeting as illegal,
remained behind, and notwithstancting this sentiment,
appointed a Chairman, and agreed to certain Resolu-
tions, which, however, (being afterwards ashamed of
their conduct,) they had the good sense not to pro-
mulgate.. As to Petitions being signed through spu-
rious means, he denied the fact; and with regard to
threats being used, that was not done by the pronto-
ters of the Petition, but by the other side. He knew
tenants who were threatened by their landlords if
they signed the Petition, and required to sign against
it; some of whom had declared, that they would not
be induced to sign against their conscience, their
King, and the securities of the Constitution. Many
of these persons he had advised not to sign this Peti-
tion,as it might draw down more individual injury
on emselves than their single names would do ser-
vice on the parchment—(Hear.) The House, he
trusted, would receive it for what it purported to be,l
" the Petition of the undersigned," and speaking the
sense of the real proportion of the Protestant popula-
tion of the county.
Sir JOHN NEWPORT explained.
The Petition was then read, and ordered to be laid
on the table.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER
presented a Petition from the French Protestant re-
fugees resident in London and Westminster against
the Catholic Claims.

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Sir JAMES GRAHAM presented a Petition to
the same effect from the Parish of Mary-la-bonne.—
This Petition, he observed, was most numerously and
respectably signed, by householders, whose places of
residence were appended to their names. They were
not roused by Protestants to take this step, but they
were roused by the tone and manner in which the
Catholics advanced their demand.

Mr. BARNARD presented a Petition from the
Protestant inhabitants of the King's County against
unlimited concessitma to the Catholics. He stated,
that the Petitioners did not object to the repeal of the
law; affecting the Catholics, on certain conditions•;
but they earnestly prayed, that should the House feel
disposed to concede these claims, that our civil and
religious establishments may be protected ; and he
took that opportunity of stating, that though he
should vote for a Committee to take these claims into
consideration, he would not agree tq any measure
that had not for its object sufficient security against
foreign dominion and influence.
Mr. GUSTAVUS ROCHFORT presented a Pe-
tition from the Protestants of the county of Westmeath
against the Claims of the Catholics.
These Petitions, with one from the Archdeacon
and Clergy of Nottingham, presented by Lord New-
ARK, and several others, were all received, and orde-
red to lie on the table.
General MATHEW presented a Petition from
certain Catholics in the County of Tipperary, pray-
ing for unqualified emancipation.—Laid on the table.
'The Hon. General then presented a similar Peti-
tion from certain Protestants and Dissenters in the
same county, signed by the Sheriff only.
Lord DESART enquired if in the body of this
Petition were inserted the words, a we require and
demand the immediate grant of our rights ?"
The Petition was read by the Clerk, and the words
appeared to be, a we desire and demand the imme-
diate adoption of this great and conciliating mea-
-1 sure."

The SPEAKER stated, that being signed by the
High Sheriff alone, the Petition could only be recei-
ved as his.
Lord DESART said, that the High Sljeriff bad
objected to the words he had pointed out to the no-
,tice of the House. The meeting had been attended
by 13 or 14 Protestants, and the Sheriff had autho-
rized him to disavow the Petition as speaking his
sentiments, he having signed it only in his official ca-
pacity—(hear.)
It was ordered to lie on the table.
Mr. WHITBREAD presented a Petition from
certain inhabitants of the City of Chester, in favour,
of the Claims of the Roman Catholics.—Ordered to
lie on the table,
Mr. W. SMITH presented a Petition from the
Dissenters of London and its neighbourhood in fa-
vour of the Catholics.—Ordered to lie on the table.
Mr. W. SMITH presented a Petition from the
Dissenting Clergy in London and its neighbourhood
against the Claims of the Roman Catholics. This
Petition was, he sAid, agreed to unanimously at a
meeting cf these Clergymen.
. Mr. BUTTERWORTH said, that he knew from
certain authot ity, that the Petition had not been
unanimously agreed to at the Meeting, but that there
had been a majority in favour of it. The ,Petition
was then ordered to lie on the table,
Mr. W. SMITH presented a Petition from the
Members of the Unitarian Society in South Wales,
who conceiving themselves aggrieved by the penal
laws prayed for relief. Ordered to lie on the table.
dr. HUSkISSON presented a Petition from his
constituents in Chkhester, praying that Parliament
should take iato consideration the Claims of the go-
, man Catholics, pursuant to the Resolution passed
during the last Session of the former Parliament.—
Mr.lipskisson then went on tq state, that much miss
' chief had been done to the cause of the Catholics in
ChiOestet and it neighbourhoods by the distribu-
tion of hand bills, containing extracts from what he
callid a libellous publication, entitled, a A State-
ment pf the third Part pf the ?cl3O Laws rerard-
ipg Roman'Catholics."
Sir 49v41 NEWPORT okietrvcd 4bat the clistri-

FURIHER EXIRACIS FROM THE GOITEN-
ZIU'RGH MAILS.

OFFICIAL ACCOUNTS PROM THE ARMIES.

The Commander-in• Chief 'of the armies, Marshal
Prince Kutusaff of Smolensk°, has presented to his
Imperial Majesty the continuation of the Journal of
military operations from the 30th December to the 4th
January, N. S. which contains as follows :

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DECEMBER SO.—Major General Prince Orvuso
on the 27th inst. joined the army with five entire re-
giments, which are under his orders, and are ipten.
ded to complete it. Major General Ignatuff on the
25th inst. caused a battalion of Kourmski infantry,
and a' detachment of the regiment of Lithuanian
Uhlans, to depart from the fortress of Bobrynsk for
Lithuania.

DECZUSIIR 31.—General Count Wittgenstein in-
forms, under date of the 29th, that Lieutenant Colo-
nel Tettenborn, who was at Ragnit with his detach-
ment, having received advice that a large body of the
enemy's cavalry had :hewn themselves on the road
to Tilsit, immediately put himself in motion to meet
them. He discovered four squAdr,iis of Prussian
Hussars, who were immedwely .Llacked and broken
-by the Cossacks. We took from tile enemy three
officers and fifty soldiers. Lieutenant Colonel Tet-
tenborn perceiving that the enemy WA,' reinforcing
himself with infantry and dragoons, and that he had
artillery with him, retired on Leitken, and placed his
advanced guards at Upper Eislen. After occupying
Gumbinnen, and Insterburgove took 81 prisoners in
pursuing the enemy as far as Wehlau.
The Aide-de:Camp General Wassiltschikoff re-
ports, that fonr regiments of Don Cossacks had, on
the 22d inst. united with his detachment. He like-
wise meations, under date of the 97th, that the Aus-
tiian corps, under the orders of Prince Schwarizen-
berg,'had parted at Tikotchinek and taken two diffe-
rent routes ; his left wing takes the way of Wisna and
Lomza to Ostrolenka, and he is putting himself in
order to pursue the enemy with all possible rapidity.
Colonel Jouswsowitsch, whom he has in the mean
while detached with two regiments of Cossacks, and
Charkoff's regiment of dragoons, 'On the road to
Wysokomasowets, is likewise to pursue the enemy,
and keep up a communication with his corps.
JaNuaar I.—Lieutenant-General Baron Von Sac-
ken reports, under date of the 29th, that Major-Ge-
neral Count de Liewen, who was marching on Wys.
sokolitovsk, had detached Lieutenant-Colonel Mi.
nitzky from his corps, who having advanced on Brest
Litovsky, occupied that town on the 25th, and there
made upwards of 100 prisoners. H:s patroles went
as far as Biala, Janow, and Drogitchine : Major-Ge-
neral Boulatoff, who was marching by the way of
Prougeani and Cherecheff to Kamenetz Litovsk, has
on his way picked up about 500 prisoners. He pushes
his patroles as far as Briansk and Bielsk.
The A ide•de-ca m p General Wassiltschikoff reports,
under date of the 30th, tharthe corps under his orders
entered Tikotchine the preceding day. The inhabi-
tants and clergy, bringing bread and saltscame to meet
the Russian troops wick the most lively transports of
joy. The women left the houses with their children
in the tenderest emotion. The cries of *re, a thou-
sand times repeated, and the none of his Imperial
Majesty, which reverberated from all sides, announ-
ced the joy with which every one was animated.—
General Wassiltschikoff is meanwhile in pursuit of
the enemy on the road to Warsaw.
2.--Qn the 2*li, General Count filatof de-
tached the regiment of dragoons of Negine to go to
Bialystock, by the way of csrodnial under the orders
of the Aide-de-Camp, General Baron de torg,.—
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Biahrstock, etith the body of troops under his ordtm,
arrived on the Slit at Wolkowitsk. Lot
Taw. S.—Lieutenant-General MasigArffaußicci re-
po, ta, under date of the 80th ult. tha the occu-
pation of Mietatr, he directed Lieutenant-Colonel
Kounitsky, of the regiment of Polish Uhlans, to put.
sue the enemy, who *ere dispersed in the woods;
and that this officer, in marching by Granzheff,
Gegary, Martynischki, and Oktniani, had taken two
officers and 80 soldiers prisoners.
On the 21st, the Marquis put himself in march,
with his column, from Mietau to Erauenburg, where
his van-guard, under the orders of Lieutenant-Colo-
nel Sanden, of the artillery, came up with the enemy
on the 213 d, and defeated him, taking 60 prisoners,
and making himself master of several carriages taker;
ulltier requisition, some waggons laden with biscuit,
flour, and oats, and took about 40 horses.
On the 24th, he arrived at Schninden, where the
enemy abandoned considerable magazines.
•On the 2.5 th, he was at Upper Barthan, front
whence he caused his van-guard to advance, which
having, oa the 25th, come up with the enemy, be.
tween Rutzau and Polangen, near Buderdizhoff, beat
them, and took two officers and 80 soldiers.
On the 26th, the column proceeded as far as Po-
'angelic where it was rejoined by Lieutenant Colonel
IK,ounitsky.
On the 27th, it arrived before Memel. The pr.
-sison, after some resistance, surrendered prisoners of
war, to the number of two staff officers, 20 subaltern
officers, and upwards of 7)0 soldiers.
It was thus that our troops entered Memel on the
27th. We there found 200 sick, and about 100-4
our prisoners. We seized on three aimed sloops of
the French flotilla in the harbour; we likewise took
six sloops belonging to the Prussian flotilla, with 80
guns ; 51 vessels belonging to different nations, and
a considerable quantity of colonial merchandise
ported by the French.
In the town we foiled five pieces of cannon, 900
fusils, 19 carbines, 19 pair of pistols, 900 cartridge-
boxes, 26,000 cartridges, 60 sibres, and 19 hussar
saddles, S field bakeries, with s.offiecrs, 84 soldiers,
45 surgeons, one chariet, 85 horses, and 4 iron boilers.
The magazines contain large quantities of all kinds of
corn and of brandy,
The head-quarters of his Imperial Majesty and of
the Marshal, continue to be for some time past at
Wilaa. Thus there no longer remains an enemy in
the whole eztent of the frontiers of Russia, and all
the former Polish provinces, at this present time un-
der subjection to the Russian sceptre, are evacuated
by the foreign troops.
The Anointed of the Loan had without doubt said
by inspiration, " I will not lay. down .spy arms entil
I have driven from the -Russian soil the enemy
who has jdared to pass its limits." This pro a;
fulfilled. The only traces of the enemy which'arls
yet perceptible, are his bones
.spread over the field;
tram Moscow to the frontiers of the empire 1.
SUPPLEMENT To THE ST.PETEUSBURGti GAZETTE'
ow Tilt 19111 JANUAR,.

The Commander in Chief, FteldeMarshal General
Prince Kutusoff of Smolensk°, has laid before his
Imperial Majesty the continuation of the operation;
of the war...from. the Jab to the'lOth oFJanuary. •
The 4411 of January General Count Wittgenstein
reports under date of 'the 31st of Decemter, that in
the direction which he h-ad taken towards Prussia, to
act.against the corps of Marshal Macdonald, ho had
overcome ali the difficulties in his way on the country
roads, and had come up with the enemy, **rad,' as
Tilsit. He immediately surrnunded Macdonald's
troops of the -van, with his cavalry, and separated him!
froth' the Prussian troops, under ' the command or
General d'Yorck, by the detachinent of Major-Genes
ral Diebitsch, (21, whom he, it the lame time, ink
strneted to eater into a negoeiatien vvitlathat.Gent:ral,
On the 30th of December, Lieutenant-General
d'Yorck signed au agreement, to remain neutral with
the troops under his command, consisting of SO bat,.
cations of infantry, and six squadrons of cavalry, with
30 pieces of artilltry.
By this means, Macdonald has not more than about
300 u troops of all descriptions remaining with hurts
and 20 pieces of artillery.
Ad)jutant-General Wassiltschikew reports, on the.
31st December, that the Austrian creeps continue
their retreat, having divided themselves into three
columns, and directed their march towards Warsaw,
and that be is at Menshenin with 11:s detachment,,
General Count Platoff continues his march towards
Insterburg, with the regiments of Don Cossacks under
his command.
Admiral 'rschitschagoff has sent in three report%
all of the Ist January. In the first, he state% that
he had detached Major-General Lanskoi from the
van-guard, with the Alexandrian and White Russian
regiments of hussars,,the Livonian regiment of drag
goons, and the 3cl Ural regiment, with orders tc
march to Augustow. In the second, that he arrived
on the 2d of January in the village of Werbalin,from.
whence he will proceed, in three marches,' to Inster-•
burg, and that General Count Platoff marches-before
the army with his regiments. In his third,. he states,
that all the Prussian inhabitants are well satisfied with
the approach of the Russian trews, and every where
receive them with joy. •
Lieutenant-General. Baron Sacken informs, under
date of -the 2d of January, that he has pursued the
corps of General Keynier as far as the Bug, and that
the enemy has lost within that time upwards of 1000
men in prisoners, and an equal numberof sick, whttla
they had left behind at different places,
Lieutenant-General Sacken, with his corps, is at
present between Grannym mad Thoren4 in which late:
ter place he has the left winget his army.
JAN. s.—General Count Wittgenstein reports, tin•
der date of the 3d ofJanuary, that when thePrussia-A
troops, 18,000 strong, with 60 pieces of artillery,
were obliged to conclude the agreement of becoming
neutral, Macdonald, finding himself separated lrona
the Prussian% determined on making a weedy retreat
with the remainder of his troops, l'he cavalry pur.
sued him vigorously, and on the first day todk seve-
ral Officers, and about 800 men of the lower ranks,
prisoners. Count Wittgeastein having, in the mean
while, obtained intelligence that the enemy's troops,
which had been in Dantsic, were marching to Tap-
lakin and Wehlaw, prObably with Intent to strengthen
Macdonald, or to cover his retreat, he turned with
his corps against them j—and • LieutectunZeneral
Count Steinheil was, on the 3d otJanuary, already
in Taplaken and Welgaw. He likewise seat a strong
party of cavalry into the low country behindXatigs•

berg, and minds kitirag.• , fee titkoperi' of bd+eii.
log the enemy of all Means of cdtmfrprovisions ;
at, according to accounts received, the enemy is
&left in corn of different kinds.
Admiral Tsc)iitschagoff states, that on the 3d of
iaivary his headmost troops entered Insterburg ;
Liencenant-General Tschaplitz's vanguard entered
aunibinnen, and Major-General Count Woronzow
Marched into Nemendorff.
. Lieutenant-General Tschaplitz informs, .that Ma-
jor-General Count Orurk was, on his entrance into
the Village of Stalupenen, received by the inhabitants
there with iindiuenibled joy and transport ; they all
Cried unanimously-4, May the Emperor, Alexander
be the protector of the innocent suffering nation I"
and immediately went to work to procure provisions
and forage for our troops.
Jitn. 6.—Adjutant-Gen. Wassiltschikow reports,
hnder date of the 2d of January, that according to
bertain intelligence obtained from the inhabitants,
The whole French army has passed through Inster-
borg, on its retreat ; there was not at that time left,
of the whole French guard, more than 1500 men. i
JAN. 9.—General Count Wittgenstein reports, un-
der date the 7th of January, in completion of his for-
mer statement concerning the taking possession of the
city of Konigsberg, that the enemy were driven out
of that city by the four regiments of Cossacks, viz.
that of Major-General Radienow, (2d) ; of Lieute-
bann-Colonel Tschernosubow, (8) ; Loschtschilin ;
and of Major Seliwanow, all under the command of
Colonel Riediger. They had observed the enemy's
motions from the commencement of the evening, and
notwithstanding the darkness of the night, took ad-
Vantage of every step he made for his retreat.
On the 4th of January, at two o'clock after mid-
night, Colonel Riediger, with the Cossacks before-
mentioned, pushed vigorously forward, and after an
obstinate fire of musketry, entered, on the enemy's
shoulders, into the city, in which about 1300 men
were made prisoners.
The quickness with which our troops forced their
way into the' city, obliged the enemy besides this to
leave about 8000 of his exhausted troops behind him,
and to sink in the river about 30 pieces of artillery,
with the cartridge-boxes which belonged to the be'.
sieging train that was in Courland, and which the in-
habitants are now employed in getting out. Besides
this, several Russian Staff and other Officers and pri-
vates, who had at different times been made priso-
ners, were again restored to liberty, and a considerable
quantity of provisions and forage were likewise found
in the magazines. '
After taking possession of the city, Col. Riediger
again set out with the aforesaid cavalry, without
making the least delay, in pursuit of the enemy.
In the course of our pursuit of the enemy, from
Tilsit to Konigsberg, and after taking possession of
that city, he has lost 51 pieces of cannon in the whole.
Adjutant General Wassiltschikow states, 'Under
date the sth •of Januarys that the Austrian troops,
after strengthening their advanced posts, had drawn
themselves towards Warsaw.

The head quarters of his Majesty the Emperor, and
of the Field Marshal, arrived this day in the village
of Meretsch.

GOTTENBURGH, FEBRUARY 9.

The Austrian Ambassador, Count Nupping, passed
Helsingburg on Bataday last, on his way to Stock-
bobs!. ' •

ELSINEtiIt, FIBRUAILY 7.

An arrangement is likely to take place between
this country and Russia, by which it is expected that
the trade between Denmark, Norway, and Russia,'
will be permitted by the British Government under
certain restrictions.
ELSINEDR, JANUARY so.
Private accounts from Hamburgh state, that Dant-
xic is inves;ed by the Russians. Jr• appears the latter
are marching along the shires of the Baltic, and not
towards Berlin. The Emperor Alexander has con-
ferred new and gteat honours upon Prince Kutusoff,
and made him a Prince of the Royal Family. Ge-
nerals Platoff and Wittgenstein have also obtained
large shares of Royal favour..
lc is said a convention has been concluded between
Prince Kutusoff and Prince Schwartzenbseg, in con-
sequence of which the latter withdraws his army
through Poland and Galicia.
When the last post left Vienna, it was currently
reported that a Minister was to be sent from thence
to Wilna, and a mission to London.
Macdonald had left the army and gone to Cassel.
COPENHAGEN, FEBRUARY 4. •

Bcinaparte has taken possession of the Hamburgh
bank. He has defnanded 60,000 cavalry horses of
the Danish Government ; to which they replied, that
they will only furnish 15,000, which they even will
!•.ot suffer to depart till the stipulated payment has
been made. They have declared their determination,
in the event of the French employing force, to remove
the Court to Norway, and deliver up Copenhagen to
Abe. English. The Russians have entered Warsaw,
and the Emperor has declared his btother Constantine
King of Poland:
WILNA, JANUARYI ti:
On the day, before his Majesty the EMperoris de-
pasture from this place, namely, on the 6th of Ja-
ntiary, the follotvirig Order was issued from his Ins-.
petial Majesty to the troops :
" Soldiers ! Your •alour did persevetatice have
been rewarded by a renown which will never die
among posterity. Your names and deeds will pass
from mouth to mouth—from your sons to your grand-
children and great grand-childre9, to the latest pos-
terity.
'" Praise be to the Morr HIGH ! The hand of the
Loan is with us, and will not forsake us. Already-
there remains not a single. enemy on the face of our
country. You have reached the borders of the em-
pire over their dead 'bodies and bones. It still se-
mains for you to go forward over the same, not to
make conquests, or to carry the war into the coun.l
tries of our neighbours; but to obtain a wished-for'
and solid peace. You go to procure rest for your-
selves, and freedom aad.indepcndence for them. May
they become our friends.! The acceleration of peace
will depend on your conduct. You are Russians I
You are Christians ! It is necessary, in addition to
these names, still to put you in mind, that it is. a sol-
dier's duty to be valiant in battle, and peaceable on
the march, and during your 'residence in peaceable
centuries. I do not threaten you with punishment,
because I know that none among you will ldeservelt.
" You tare seen la our ow* country, the robbers

•
that "pinuellied thi Wad of the
Ira your just modals of tevenim egainst mem. you
have punished those villains. Who ironlal *swigs
them Should Itch as one, can to expjetetion,
be found, he cannot be a R • will be litivim
from among youl.-Soldiers, this is clenslanded sot
expected from you by your true religilin, your Dative
country, and your Cuss"
•411 LETTER PROM FIELDWARMIAL PRINCE ICOTITIOFF:0*
SMOLENSICk TO HIS EMINENCE AMBROSIUS, METROPDIsk
TAN OF NOVOGOROD AND BT. PETERSBURGH, DATER,
JANUARY 4 :
44 Bestow your benediction on this present offered
by our warriors to the GIVER OF VICTORY. The
brave Don Cossacks restore to GOD the treasure
plundered from his temples. They have entrusted
me with the duty of transmitting to your Eminence
this silver, which was once the ornament of the
images of the saints, afterwards the prey of barbarous
robbers, and at length wrested from their gripe by
the brave Don Cossacks!
4g The Leader of this corps of Cossacks, Count
Matwei Iwanowitsch Platoff, all his brave warriors,
land myself, wish that this plate. which, in weight
amounts to forty puds, shall be made into images of
the four evangelists, and adorn the church of the
Mother of God of Kasan, in. St. Petersburgh. All
the necessary expences' of casting these holy images
we take on our accouat. Your Eminence will have
the goodness to order that able artificers may be em-
ployed to fulfil the pious wish of our warriors, by
casting these images of the Holy Evangelists, which
they offer in their zeal for the temple of GoD. As
soon as.you shall inform me what the expellee will be,
I will remit to you the money. It appears to gee,
that these images would be appropriately placed close
to the door of the. sanctuaty, and before the great
communion table, that they may strike the eye of the
devout when they enter the temple. On the pedestal
of each of the images must be engraven the following
inscription The zealous offering of the Corps of
Don Cossacks."
66 Hasten to erect in the temple of Goo this monu-
ment of battle and victory, and while you erect it.
say, with thankfulness to PROVIDENCE," the ene-
mies of Russia are no more : the vengeance of GOD
has overtaken them on the soil of Russia ; and the
road they have gone has been strewed with their bones,
to the utter confusion of their frantic and prolad am-
bitioo."
INTERCEPTED LETTER.
THE FOLLOWING IS FROM A PETERSBURGH PAPER.
The comparison of dates is the greatest enemy
which the Emperor Napoleon has to dread. It is
the triumph of truth ever falsehood, and the destruc-
tion of the system of deceit which has so long deso-
lated humanity. On comiltring the intercepted let-
ter of the Emperor Napoleon, (which we are about
to present to our readers), with the twenty-ninth Bul-
letin, we shall perceive what we ought to think of
the iO,OOO remount horses which General Bourcier
had collected on the 3d December (N. s.), at the dif-
ferent depots, and of that artillery whicff'then, ac-
cording to the same Bulletin, had already repaired
his losses. The following is the letteroi

44 Sotolensio, November I ltb, 1812."

" MONSIEUR DUKE DE Bassano —Your Estafettes
have come to me at once, so that I have all your
letters to the 7th. I approve of your bringing tip
the 34th division to •Kowno. The principal consi-
deration is, that it may be well supplied. General
Loison writes, that he had made• bargains for 600
horses for his artillery, and that the same dealer pro.
posed to him to bargain for 10,000 other horses. Send
this proposal to General Bourcier, that he may make
this bargain if he thinks proper. 'l'elllGeneral Bour-
cier that it is necessary, he should immediately in-
crease his order by 6000 horses of all kinds, and 6000
artillery horses and for military transports.
" Every day our losses are very considerable from
the frosts, and the cold of the nights. I have no oc-
casion to impress on you the importance of making
these purchases ; General Bourcier ought to go as
high as thirty thousand, or perhapi beyond that num-
ber ; his limit ought only to be what it is possible tof
procure of good quality—horses! horses I And horses
tnr Cuirassiers, for Dragoons, for Light Cavalry,
as well as bit Artillery and military equipages. This,
in the greatest of all our wants, ten thousand ca-
valry on foot are soon to march upon Minsk.
" It will be necessary that General Boarder
should direct them upon Konigsberg and Warsaw,
according to the places where they may Wive horses.
—Take care that there be no delay or hindrance.
Write Prince Schwarteenburg to hasten his move-
ments, and make him sensible of the importance of
so doing.
" I have received an Aid-de-Camp from the
Duke of Belluno, who left him on the 9th, I have
sent him positive orders.:—l pray GOD to have you
in his holy keeping. t (Signed) gi NAPOLEON.
_"

THE EVENING STAR.

LONDON:

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1813.
PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK:
Red. 5811}.z-Cons. 59 51111-.-for se. 0 8811-4 per Ct. 76* 78
S per Cent. 8811—Bds. Ss. 7s. dls.—Ortudurn 7
Bank Ltltts Anns. 15 3-18ths--Exeb. Bills 4s. ss. pr.

Yesterday we bad the satisfaction to relieve the
Public anxiety, in some measure, by announcing the
arrival of a Gottenbtrgh Mail : in the course of the
afternoon, three more arrived ; they, were brought by
the Lord Duncan and Auckland packets, which ar-
riv ed at Yarmouth late on Tuesday night. The in-
telligence brought by them is precisely of that de-
scription which Me warmest friends of Russia and
suffering Europe could wish.. AU is over with the
French army in Prussia—nay, we may add, that the
whole of the North of Germany is now freed from the
French yoke: The Twenty-ninth!tilletin contained
the expi.ing groans of the Tyrant ; his Speech to the
Legislative Body may now be regarded as a mere
brown fulnies6
To the Official details from the Mullah Generals
I we refer our Readers fot a suscinct account of their
victorious career, since the date of the last advises.--r
I The private aocounts from the. shores tithe Bahic

.•
164 Jowl the tellistiee inch Wei
r Might ieasonibli be expiated. are intladated to 's-
ine still most sankoise bipectatiotis respecting the
Csnttnent. The *Nun of these &adonis may, kiln
their honest zest id a good cause, be subject to the
charge of exaggeration, but the maid outlines df their
communications are unquestionably correct. Upon
their authority rests the report of Danttic hairing stir:
rendered, on the 27th of January, after a short
bombardinent. This fact seems probable; when me-
!recollect that the Russians entered Elbing, which
is only 27 miles distant, on the 12th. They would be
able to bring up their battering train in about tea
days at the farthest ; and, indeed, that they did beed.
td invest it about the 22d, is evident from the French
papers. On that day, one gate only was open. We
ought however to state, in contradiction to the report
of its having surrendered on the 27th, that there are
letters from Carlscrona in Town, which. mention, that
ien that day the bombardment continued.
The anxiety with which the dispositions of Prussia
and Austria hate been watched by all good men
I during the recent crisis of BONAPARTE'S affairs, is
I now gteatly relieved. Every where throughout
Prussia, the Russians have been hailed as deliverers.
-In public, the populace uniformly shout, Long live
ALEXANDER and FREDERICK WILLIAM !" Similar
manifestations, if we may credit the same authority,
have teen made by the Austrian Guiernment. A
Convention is said to have been signed between the'
Austrian General SCHWARTZENBIZEG and the Russian
General opposed to him, by which the former obtains
permission to take home his troops, to await farther
.erders.. One fact is, however, certain,—an Austrian
rAmbassador has arrived at Stockholm : his name is
Count NEUBERG, and he is reputed to be the personal
friend of BERNADOrfE, and a sworn enemy to BONA-
PARTE. His reception, immediately after the dis-
missal of the French Ambassador, speaks a volume
on the subject of what may be expected from Austria
in support of the common came.—Such are the Al-
lies with whom BONAPARTE, in his Speech to the Le.,
gislative Body, declares himself to be well satisfied!
Lord CATHCART is understood to be now with
the Emperor ALEXANDER at Wilna, or on the
road to Warsaw, where rumour adds, that the Grand
Duke CONSTANTINE will be crowned King of Poland.
We trust, however, that this spectacle will be deferred
until the wishes of the Poles are more unequivocally
made known en the subject than they have hitherto
been. They ought to be declared a free and inde-
pendent nation in the first instance—now that they
have seen the effects of French regeneration.
Next to the mild and conciliatory tone of the Ras.;
sian Proclamations, on their entering Poland and
Prussia, nothing exhibits so legibly the characters orl
true wisdom, as the line of militat y operations which
they have since adopted. Their great object was,
,4 to secure the Sea Coasts of the Baltic,"—in cem
parison with this, all other projects, even th pursuit
of the Austrians, and the emancipation of the Poles
and Prussians, were secondary.
It is with pleasure, therefore, that we see them
pushing hair main armies along the coa-st., • Dantzic,
when in their possession, is the key of the Baltic, for
Hambnrgh, Bremen, and the Hanse ToWns; must
speedily open their gates to receive them: In Ham-

burgh, according to private accounts, the greatest
consternation already prevails among the French fac-
tion, and they are preparing to decamp. Connected

with the same subject, we have a rumour that the
' Danes have decidedly declared against France, and
threatened to throw themselves under the protection
of Great Britain. The latter part of the retort is,
we think, at least premature.
On the whole the intelligence from the North is
highly gratifying, nor have we any thing to regret'
but that the Courts of Austria and Berlin should have
as yet adopted only that hesitating kind-of policy
which leaves them the power of still professing at-
.tachment to the destroyer of Europe The very cir-
cumstance to which we allude, chews that the same
debility and indecision, which have been among the
principal causes of the disasters which have phrsued
the old dynasties, still predominate in these Courts.
Till this is counteracted by that bold energy which
has at tithes characterised some individuals, and even
made Generals, from pure loyalty, put their own So
vereign under arrest, till the enemy was crippled or
defeated, temporising policy will probably continue
to characterise the conduct of such Courts. They
fear to be decisive. They would gladly see the
Tyrant destroyed by any other Power, but they
will not thetineltet let the at fall, dreading that they
may miss their blow. We have every reason to be-
lieve, that the recent and glorious successes of the
Russians would never have been gained, had the
conduct of that Power been dictated only by the
Head of the Executive. If we are rightly informed,
the Emperor ALEXANDER sent his brother on a mis.
sion to Moscow, after that placti was in the bands of '
NAPOLEON. We need not enquire what was the ob-
ject of his journey ; for it Was defeated. One of the
Russian Generals hinted to CONSTANTINE, that he was
out of his way, and that to find the right road it.
would be necessary, in place of travelling South
East; that he should travel Nortk West, exactly
the same diitance he had already travelled !
An accident, not quite unusual in the history of Rus-
sia, might have befallen ALEXANDER, had he persis-
ted in the object of CONSTANTINE'S journey.—A dif-
ferent policy was pursued from that moment, and

chi 4itafigt;, aft la lONA
hive elreadY &Wired fbi. bold *44 i *he
ark have been lepeatiSi, hid Anserlai Pittisiir wit
the other Powers which have io ges4 updif.
French tyranny, instantly jollied their fecti tti
of the conqueror,. and foilOired op the blows Usti
these Powers hate the Tyrant, Mid diet diet kyik td
insist in•giving him the coesigleireler,
their temporizing policy leaves tfieiii cipolied to IA
acted upon by any paroxytin of float which iliac gi
excited by an inipttdent aid daring mosetMent on ibi
part of the enemy:

tHE ARMt

teiterday 45f3 of the Third Iteginient bf Guard!
'reitiiied orders to hold themselves in readineis to
join the artery tinder bird WELLINGTON; Other re:
giments of the line are ordered to embark with the s.
division of the Guards for the same destination.
The detachment of the 3d Guards March on Non; •
day neit from Portman•street Barracks for Porti;
thOtith, to embark for Cadiz.
The whole of the fine Hussar Brigade; ikw ate
happy to announce, landed safely at Ltiben after tt
fine passage, and without the lost of.a single horse.
We are happy to learn', that the report of the Houser
hold brigade having lost many horses, is ?old of
foundation. This !Foe brigade, commanded by Sir
ROBOT HILL, has marched f6r the Alentelo,. and
will be in Sir RoVrtuttith Hugs army. Sir GitANII
CALCRAFT commands the Hussar Brigade i the
were to be immediately marched of tdthe arm,
when our letters left Lisbon.