Star.
London, England, 1812-10-12 00:00:00

what was passing.

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66 Moscow is the enteepot of Asia and of Europe.
Its warehouses were immense ; every house was pro-
vided for eight months with necessaries of every de-
scription. It was only the evening before, and the
day of our entrance, that the danger became known.
We found in the house of the miserable Rostopchin
some papers, and a letter half written ; be fled with-
out finishing it.
46 Moscow, one of the finest and richest cities in
the world, is no more. On tbe 14th the Russians-set
fire to the Exchange. to the Basar, and the Hospital.
On the 16th, a violent wind arose. Three or four
hundred ruffians set fire to the city in 500 different
places at the same moment, by order of the Gover-
nor Rostopchin. Five-sixths of the houses were built
of wood ; the fire spread with a prodigious rapidity ;
it was an ocean of flame. Churches, of which
there were 1600 ; above 1000 palaces, immense ma.
gazines ; nearly all have fallen a prey to the flames.
The Kremelin has been preserved.
gg Their loss is incalculable for Russia, for her
commerce, and fir her nobility, who had left all
there. It is not over-rating its value to state it at
many milliards.
46 About 100 of these incendiaries have been ap..,
prehended and shot ; all of them declared that they
acted under the orders of Rostopchin, and • the Di-
rector of the Police.

ig Thirty thousand sick and wounded Russians
have been burnt. The richest cesnmercial,houses in
Russia 'are ruined. The shock must be consider-

able. The clOthing, the magazines, and-the equip-
ments of the Russian army have been consumed.—
They have thus lost every thing ; they would remove
nothing, because they always thought it impossible

for us to teach Mt,scow, and because they were will.

ing to deceive the people. When they saw all in the
hands of the French, they conceived the horrible
project of destroying by fire this first capital, this
holy city, the centre of the Empire ; and they have
reduced to beggary 200,000 respectable inhabitants
This is the crithe of Ros.opchin, executed by felons
liberated from the prisons.
44 The resources which the army had found are
consequently much diminished ; however, we have
collected, and are still collecting, a number of neces-
saries. All the cellars are untouched by the fire ; and
the inhabitants, during the List twenty-four hours/
had saved many articles. They endeavoured to stop
the progress of the flames, but the Governor had
taken the horrid precaution to carry tall or destroy
all tt'e engines.

" The army is recovering from its fatigues ; it has

abundance of bread, potatoes, cabbage.., and other
vegetables, meat, salted provisions, wine, brandy,
sugar, coffee, and, in abort, provisions of all sorts.
The advanced guard is twenty wersts on the
road to KitSSALI, by which the enemy is retreating.—
Another French advanced guard is on the road to
St. Petersburgh. where the enemy has not a single
soldier.
44 The temperature is still that of autumn. The
soldiers have found, and continue to find, a number
of pelisses and turs for the winter. Moscow was the
.depot of those articles."
LI be M aiteur of thr 4th gives the sequel of the Ressiao Mi-
litary et, pun Pmclamacions, &Wake productious, cidtculed iu
a l.r.vlous Bulletiu.)
PARIS, oCTOBER 5.

Yesterday .her Majesty the Empress and Queen
repaired to the palace of the Thuilleries, where she
heard mass in the chapel, and was present at the
celebration of Te Deum, for the victories of big Ma-
jesty the Emperor and King. The
.Bishop of Ver-
sailles, chief Almoner to she Emperor, officiated.—
Alter mass there was a Levee, at which herilajesty
received the compliments of the Princes Grand
Dignitaries, the Grand Officers of the Crown, the
Ministers, &c. After the Levee, her Majesty returned
to the Pa: ace of St. Cloud.
The same day Te Deem was performed by the Car-
dinal Archbishop of Par a, in the Metropolitan Ca-
thedral. The Prince Arch-Chancellor, theViceGrand
Elector, the Grand Officeis of the Empire, the
Ministers, the Senators, Counsellors of State; &c.
attended upon the occasif.m. There were three dis-
charges of artillery, one at eight o'clock, another at
noon, and a third at half-past two o'clock ; and in
the evening, there was a general illumination.
Akin OF CATALONIA.
Brigadier-General Expert, in marching from
Arens-del-Mar to Mataro, with the 28d light itifan-
, try, the sth of the line, and a squadron of the 29th
horse chasseurs, was attacked between four and five
lo'clock in the evening of the 19th of September, by
iMilans, with a force of from two to 3000 men. The
enemy were defeated, driven across the mountains
and pursued until night came on. We made 70 pr..
scalers, including one officer. The field of battle %vat.
covered with upwards of 100 killed, and Genera.
Expert calculates their wounded at more than 200.
Expert's brigade had two subalterns killed) a four
officers mil 20 soldier{ vlttigided,

fORtINIVA PIPERS

CORUNNA, SEPTEMBER 56..

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Yesterday, at two in the afternoon, the English,
convoy, expected with reinforcements on board, help*
to enter this harbour.
SEPT: 80.—The Captain of an English frigate,
which has arrived at this port from the coast oflis.
cay, has assured us that the great Marquis of Wel.
lington had catered Vittoria, which we do not doubt,
because Wellington and Victory are synoninsous, and
must always be found together, and had so annihi.
lated and routed the French, that, of the 20 or 22,000
men, of whom the relicts of the great aid powtfui
army of Marmont was formerly compostd, not Insle
than 10 or ,f 2,000 had passed the Ebro, to whit,*
the well-combioC4 movement Oi Qu3 110(113s, both by
sea and land, have greatly contributel much
as the Castle of Burgos refused to surrender, it isßit
Lord W. had left it blockaded, advanced forward;
and that it had then, as we are assured, and do not
doubt, capitulated.

PRIVATS LETTER, FROM THE ENCAMPMENT A QUARTAR

OF A LEAGUE FROM BURGOS, SEPT. '29.
se We yesterday joined the Eughsh in pursuit of the
French,. who were retiring, and made a hell a learn
distance from Burgos ; about 2000 men have bLea
left in the Castle, upon which there is now (six ill the
morning) a terribli fire kept up, in cons.quence of
which* we soon exPct to be mask's of it."