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PARIS, NOVEMBER s.
TWENTY-FIFTH BULLETIN OrTHE
GRAND ARMY,
NIONO/OCt 20.
• 44 All' the sick who were in the hospita of Mos-
cow, left them on the 15th, 16th, 17th, and 18th
instant, for Mojaisk and Smolensk. Tip artillery
caissons, the ammunition taken, a great quantity of
curious things, and two trophies, were packed up,
and sent,off on the 15th.

•' The army received orders to bake biscuit for
20 days, and hold itself in readiness to march ; in
effect the Emperor left Moscow on the 19th. The
heard-quarters were the same day at Diana.
66 On the one side, the Kremlin has been armed
and fortified, and at the same time it has bet mined,
in order to blow it up.
46 Some think the Emperor will march upon Toula
and Kalouga, to pass the winter in these Provinces,
and occupy Moscow, by a garrison in the Kkendin.
" Others suppose the Emperor will blow'," the
Ex Milk. and burn the public establishsnemirhich
• .
• in„atkd that.lutsAl,maaclpsitHlti anfiindrest
caries of Polindeio establish his winter•quarters
a friendly country. and near to receive evqy thing
which exists in the magazines of Dantzic, IKowno,
Wilna, and Minsk, and recover from the fatigues of
war ; the latter observe, that Moscow is distant from
St. Petersburgh 180 leagues of bad road, whilst WIT
tepsk is oaly 130 leagues from St. Petersburgh; that
from Moscow to Kiow is 218 leagues, whilst from
Smolensk to Kiow is but 112 leagues ; from whence
they conclude. that Moscow is not a military posi.
tion, or that Moscow possesses no longer political im-
portance, since that town is burned and ruined for
one hundred years.

44 The enemy chewed many Cossacks, who annoy-
ed our cavalry ; the advanced guard of cavalry
placed in advance cif Veukovo, were surprised by a
horde of Cossacks ; they were in the camp before
they mad mount on horseback. They took of Ge-
neral 4ebastiani's park of artillery 100 baggage wag.
gons, and made about 100 prisoners.
" The King of Naples, mounted on horseback
with the cuirassiers and carabincers, and perceiving
a column of light infantry, cf four battalions,
which the enemy sent to support the Cossacks, he
charged it, broke it, and cut it in pieces. General
Dezi, Aide-de-camp to the King, a brave officer,
was killed in this charge, which honours the cara-
bineers.

" The Viceroy has arrived at Fomenskoe. All
the army is in march.
" Marshal the Duke of Treviso has remained st
Moscow, with a garrison.
" The weather is very fine, like ihat in Frlanee
during October, perhaps a little warmer : but on the
first days of November we may expect colds.
" Every thing indicates we must think of winter
quarters—our cavalry particularly require it.—The
infantry refreshed themselves at Moscow, and are
very well."—( ATonitesr, Nov. 9).
FROM TliE JOUENAL DE LIEMPIRE OF NOV. 10.

The movements of the Grand Army,. mentioned
in the Twenty-fifth lialletin, were announced some
days ago in private letters from Moscow. The rapid
march of the army upon that city, and the brilliant
-victory of Mrijaisk, would have ensured the conque.
Tors good winter quarters, if the rage and despair of
a barbarous enemy had not suggested to him the
frightful resolution of -destroying, with his own
hands, one of the capitals of his empire.
Assam as Moscow was reduced to ashes, it was
no more than the advanced post of the French army,
the occupation of which must be subbrdinate to the
general plan of the campaign, or what must be, at
the end of October, the principal and even the only
end of a wise Captain, who Ands himself at the head
of an immense army in the middle of Russia,
that of ensuring good winter quarters before the win-
ter should come and surprize him,
In the first days of November, the Russian win.
ter may be expected from one moment to another ;
the abundance of the rains and snows render the roads
impassable till the period of the great frosts ; the
humid cold, much more dreadful than the dry cold,
menaces the health of the troops, and prudence im-
periously demanded that an army before this epoch
should provide winter quarters, tranquil, commodi-
ous, and Extensive : it was not sufficient to remain
in inaction ; it was requisite that so considerable a
mass of men should breathe upon an extent of terri-
tory capable of nourishing them. They must have
-shelter and places to repose in ; it was in fact neces-
sary that these quarters should be covered by a chain
of posts, which could prevent all the enemy's parties
from penetrating it, and troubling the repose of
the troops.
It is neither military plans, nor topographical posi-
tions, which decide the choice of winter cantonments
the quantity of provisions, and the facility of receiv-
ing fresh resources, are often the greatest causes of
it. They were similar considerfaions which, in the
campaign of 1807, decided the Emperor to quit Ear,
tern Russia, and bring back his victorious army to
the, fertile banks of the Vistula, where they pirated
the winter in abundance, covering, by their position,i
the siege of Dantzic, from whence they moved, on
the retyrn of summer, to dictate the terms of the peace
of Frit dland and Tilsit,
The pkan of the present campaign is traced upon I
too grand a scale to admit of any supposition upon
the choice of a inter quarters, which the army is going
to take. Will it occupy Kalouga and its fertile pro-
vinces ? Will it menace liow and the rear of Tor-
, rnassow's army, Will it cover the siege of Riga ? Or
will it remain at Witepsk or Smolensk in a central
petition; and froth whence it will be able to march,
at the lust moment of th; favourable seasons Wheretk.:

victory calls it ? Whatever may be the positions of
which the army may make choice for winter quar-
ters, we are assured, that during their repose, as in
their activity, our invincible legions will command
the respect of the enemy's hordes; and we render
thanks to that foresight which equally knows how to'
precipitate victory, and stop.at that point which wis-
dom dematids. We think with pleasure that our
friends, our brothers, our sons, assembled round the
flags of their country, are going to enjoy some mo-
ments of repose. If they should even purchase this
repose by fresh battles, it is good to observe that the
fruit of these battles, however brilliant they' may be,
neither can nor must be any thing else than the dis-
persion of the enemy's columns, which perhaps sup-
port those bands of Cossacks by which the positions
upon the Nara have been disturbed.
All the movements the army shall make will have
only for their object, the ensuring of as tranquil and
abundant winter-quarters as possible.. These move-
ments naturally require a large line of operations,
and Moscovi being the extremity of the position which
the army occupies, the head-quarters, the focus of all
movements, could no longer remain there. To say
that the Emperor has left Moscow, is only to say that
this father of soldiers marches wherever great opera-
tions demand his presence. His presence commands
victory---.his presence will still watch over the fafety
of the victorious army.

BERLIN, OCTOBER SI.

On the 20th Lientenant•General d'Yorck had his
head-quarters at Mittau ; his corps had taken amore
advantageous position than the first, where it in a
great measure bivouacked in the marshes, which
would in this advanced season have been very preju-
dicial to the health of the troops.