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'Ws, striveneie. /n dial last battles ire Isatre. taltin of Colo* Rie&gee, of the Goal* Regiment u
, five superior officers, and men .of lower rank, and Hussars..
they have left above 1000 men dead on the field of " Lieutenant-General Cazanove, en:lnton as he
battle. The loss on our side is trifling compared
perceived that his troopf were dose befor Polotsk,
with that of the enemy, it consists of one officer and
seventy-six men killed, and three officers and a hurt- threw himself also upon the enemy, and was the first
dred and one rank and file wounded. liwho marched with them into the town. In this man-
[The remainder of-'this dispatch consists of affairs ster, at three in the morning of the 6th, the place was
of posts, in all of which the Russians, who entered ;carried.
Pinsk, appear to have had the advantage. 3
stli 6 The loss of the enemy most be extraordinarily
!great, for all the places of action are covered with
dead bodies ; and, according to the report of the
:inhabitants, he was employed the whole of the pre-
`ceding day in carrying wounded men to the other
side. Marshal Gouvion St. Cyr is himself wounded
, in the leg.
1 "We have taken prisoners forty-five Staff and su-
, perior Officers, and two thousand rank and file,
among the former there are two Colonels. We have
also taken one piece of cannon, and a considerable
quantity of provisions in the magazine, which the
enemy had not time to destroy. ,
" The enemy's loss would have been much greater
if the Lieutenant-General, Count Stringell, had been
able to follow him to Polotzk, but to his great mot_
tification he was stopped by the intervention of sups-
/.,
tzior force ,five verstes from the town.
I• " Our loss is not inconsiderable. Of the Generals,
are wounded, Major-General Balk, in the head ;
Prince Libirgkoi and Harman, who have slight
contusions. Colonel Rote, of the 26th Gagers, se-
vetely wounded in the leg ; and the Gentleman of '
the Bed-chamber; Mordvino, a Commander in the
first Petersburgh Militia, has lost his leg by a can.
lon shot.
66 I can say nothing further of your Imperial Ma-
jesty's troops, than that they have fought with the
greatest possible valour ; that :the first Petersburgh
Militia, upon its arrival in my camp, was distributed
in the different regiments, and to the delight of every
body these warriors lave fought with such good will
and courage, that they could not be exceeded by
their comrades, the old soldiers, and they have dis-
tinguished themselves, in a particular manner, in co.
lumns, with the bayonet, under the direction of their
brave leader, Senator Bibikoff.
66 We have few killed, . but many wounded, and
the more from its having been almost impossible
to keep the men back in eolurtin, from their eager.:
ness to throw themselves into the enemy's batteries
and lines.
11 There is also a report of the 21st October, by
Lieutenant-General Count Stringell, detailing the
. r
particulars of his engagement with the corps of Mac-
donald on the left bank of the Dwina, having fallen
in with the enemy, on the seventh, near the riverl
Utchatch. He drove them, in concert with Count
Wittgenstein, within four verstes of Polotsk, at the
same time that Count Wittgenstein stormed that
place. The extrc me darkness of the night prevented
further proceedings :—and without counting killed
and a runded, Gen. Stringell made one Colonel, one
Staff Officer, 37 other Officers, mud 500 Non-com-
missioned Officers and privates, prisoners. The
Lieutenant-General speaks in the highest terms of
commendation of the assistance he derived from the
able exertions of Major. General Phox." '

LONDON GAZETTE EXTRAORDIN4tRY.
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 11.

FOREIGN OFFICE, NOVEMBER 11.

A Dispatch, of which the following is a copy,
has been this day received from his Excellency Ge-
neral Viscount CATHCART. his Majesty's Atisbassa-
dor Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary at tie Court
of St. Petersburgh, addressed to Loid :VASCOUIit
CASTLEREAGH, one of his Majesty's principal Secret
taries of State.

44 Sr. PITZIIIIIIOI4IIII, Ocit 27, 1812.

"My Loan-4 have the pleasure to acquaint your
Lordship that the guns are nowifiring, and Te Dame
is to be sung tomorrow in the Cathedral, for a mod
brilliant affair on the 18th, between the advanced
guards of the French and Russian armies near M
cow, in which the former, under Murat, were
feated with great loss ; and for the deliverance of
Moscow by General Wiuzingerode, on the 22d Of
October.

4g The bulletin is not yet published, but I have the
honour to enclose a copy of the note I have this
morning received, by the Emperor's command.
44 I have also enclosed a translation of the official
account of the defeat of Marshal St. Cyr, by Count
Wittgenstein, and of the storming of Polotzk on
the 20th October, as also that of the repulse of Mar-
shal Macdonald's corps by General Stringell.
,g Lieutenant - General Count Wittgenstein has
been promoted to the rank of General of Cavalry,
and Ts Darns for his victory was sung yesterday.
46 It appears that Prince Schwartzenberg has re-
tired to the westward, leaving some corps which
have been cut off ; that the Province of Volhynia
is entirely cleared of the enemy ; and that Admiral
Tchichigoff may probably have reached Minsk
about or soon after the 21st October.

(Sigtied)

66 CATSCART,"

TRANSLATION OF THE FIRST ENCLOSURE.

" St. Petersburgb, Oct. 27, 11112.
" On the 18th October, Marshal Kutusoff having
learnt that the corps of Victor had quitted Smolensk
to reinforce the Grand Army, resolved to attack the
advanced-guard, under the orders of Murat, being
4.5,000 strong, in face of our troop*, in order to der
feat the same before the junction of Victc,r, and before
Napoleon could support him with the main body of
his army. The attack completely succeeded : thirty-
eight pieces of cannon fell into our hands, as well as
a standard of honour belonging to the first regiment
of cuirassiers. We have made 1,500 prisoners,
amongst whom. is a 'General. Two thousand men
were left on the field of battle. Our loss is incon-
siderable.

‘, On the 22d, the corps of General Winzingerode
entered Moscow, and- obliged the garrison, which
the enemy had left, in it, to evacuate that capital in
such haste, that the French hospitals remained in
our power."

LONDON.

SECOND ENCLOSURE. '
EX TRACT FRONT THE REPORT OF GENERAL COUNT WITT•
GERSTEIN TO MS IMPERIAL MAJESTY, DATED PO•
LOTZK, THE 20th OCTOBER, 1812 :
" After a hard engagement for two days with the
enemy, thanks to the ALMIGHTY, Marshal Couvion
St. Cyr is on the other side of the Dwina, and I am
in Polotzk, with the corps entrusted to my command.
" On the 6th instant I directed Lieutenant-General
Prince Jaschevil to attack with his detachment the

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enemy, on the side of the village Guravischne, whilst- In our impression of yesterday, we laid before the
Lieut.-General Count Stringell continued his march Public such short and succinct accounts of the truly
this way, on the left bank of the Dwins. glorious intelligence from the North, as had. tran-
spired up to the latest hour of our publication. We
66 The enemy's advanced guard received me at the
village Guravischne, from whence it was driven into
have now the proud satisfaction to present our exult-
the lines. The engagement was most bloody, it ing Readers with the Gazette accounts of the almost
began at six In the morning and lasted till night.— totaldestruction of the French army in Russia. •
I kept my ground, and compelled the enemy tore- Amid the glow of enthusiasm with which we pits
treat within his entrenchments, whence he kept up a ceed to execute our editorial labours of today, there
very heavy cannonade in all directions. is a difficulty in repressing our feelings (not peculiar
66 The following morning, the 7th, I did not un- to ourselves we trust), so as to look calmly at the in-
dertake any thing, because I waked for the attack of telligence we have to communicate, to present a dig.
Lieutenant-General Count Stringell on the other side passionate view of the *short and triumphant career
of the Dwina, which took place accordingly. He of the Russian armies.
.drove the enemy from the village Bolonia, and put- The last. five Bulletins of the French army had
sued him towards Polotzk. I received this intelti- prepared us for some awful and sudden reverse in
gence a little before dark, and, in order to profit of their fortunes—the fine weather—the abundance' of
the situation in which the enemy found himself, I at-, provisions, of furs and pellisses, which the French ,
tacked on the evening of the 7th, at five o'clock, and pretended to have found at Moscow, were like these
drove him out of his strong entrenchments, to which disguises under which an unfortunate wretch seek: to
success Lieutenant-General Count Stringell's move- conceal the agony of his mind from his passing
meat greatly contributed. friends, by slight observations on the state of the
66 The enemy then threw himself into the town, weather, or the town-talk of the day. 'lt was when
which is surrounded by a double palisade, where be ,he found the Russians determined to blow the ashes
maintained himself nearly the whole night, keeping ; of Moscow into an universal flame of desolatiot—.
np a constant fire of musketry on all sides from be- • when he found no repose—no resting place—no win-
hind the palisades, as well as out of the houses. ter quarters for the bewildered savages who come
eel gave orders for my ordnance to fire upon them posed his sanguinary retinue, that their Leader re-
with round and grape, and at last directed my ad. solved upon cuttinghis way back to the Duna. On the
vanced guard to storm the
,place in two divisions ; 18th of October, therefore, he sent forward his ad,
the first under the command of Major-Generals Plas. vanced-guari ttnder that experienced-and hardened
me and Diebitchs and•the other under the command villain, Piliatab and of course is alOg favousim an-