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London, England, 1812-08-08 00:00:00

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TH E EVENING STAR.

LONDON:

BA.fiTRDAY, AUGUST a

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DEFEAT OP THE FRENCH BY THE
RUSSIANS AT DUNABURG.

The Lord Nelson Packet, Captain DEANC hat
imived at Hatwich, from Gottenburgh_ direct, with a
mail and passengers. Before this vessel left Gotten-
i,urgb, a tiessel had arrived at Stockholm, which left
kip the 2f)th July; with the important intelligence,
that the main body of the French army had at length
advanced from Wilma Ipod Dunaburg, where the
Russians were entrenched, and that the latter had
gallantly repulsed three successive attacks upon their
entrenchments. The French had thrown several
bridges over the Dwina with their Usual dexterity,
and amid 4 tremenduous fire from the opposite shores,
tut they were finally defeated, with immense loss.

We hive no doubt that we shall speedily have it
in our power to comfirm the above glorious intelli.
get* upon official authority; for the French Papers
inform us, that BONAPARIT set out from Wilna on
lilt 17th, and if he travelled with his usual rapidity,
be ma)t have reached the army on the Dwina so as
to direct its nperationt nett day. The distance be.
tween Wilna and Dunaburg does not exceed 60 miles.
The battle; in all probability, was fought upon the
19th, and the intelligence would reach Riga, which
is st the month of the Dwina, in eight or ten hours.
The following are such additional particulars of
this important event, as we have been able to collect
frnm the letters and papers brour(ht by the above
Nsil

GOTTENP.URCK IULY 28.

Letters from Stockholm, received this morning,
tnention that a vessel had arrived there without con-
4toy, which left Riga on the 20111, and reported that
great bustle previoled there, on account of a battle
tvhit.h had been fought at a place c..l.ea Dunaburg,
about '2O Gil-man miles ft care thence ; and it was
confidently said that the French. had attacked that
place with the greatest fury three times, and were
thrice repulsed with very great loss,
" No man was allowed to depart from Riga, but
were all most actively employed in adding to the for-
tifications and defences of the place, The women
Ind vbildren had been sent off to St. Petersburgh,
&ockholnt, and the island of Oesel.
" Admiral Bentinci arrived at Revel one the Smith
bltinto, and immediately proceeded to headi Licit ter s."

'I VIENNA, JULY 11.
" We no longer doubt that hostilities have recont‘
menced between the Russians and Turks ; the preli-
minaries of peace not having been ratified by the
Grand SeigniQr.
" The Russian troops, who have received another
destination, are returning towards the Brinks of the
D4nube."

" BRESLAU, JULY is;
" On the 6th, the Russinn Minister at Berlin had
strived at Kuningsburgh, on his return to St. Peters,
burgh.

" Lithuania is provisionally divided into three de,
partments, viz. Mina, Brzeic, and Grednn.

" The King of Westphalia is near Minsk, as well
ai the Polish army."
The Swedish Papers contain an animated Procla-
mation from General BARCLAY DE TOLLI to the Gin.
man troops now serving under BONAPARTE, in which
becalls upon them to leave the banners of the Tyrant,
lid fight for the common cause of mankind, while
filusia and Sweden are now in the field.

STAR-01410E, THREE O'CLIOCK.
We stop the Press to state, that although Govern-
tent hawk received no regular official reports of the
Battle of the Dwina, between the Russians and the
French, all the letters from Mr. Taionsron and the
British resident's in the Baltic to Ministers, concur in
the intelligence above communicated, and state that
8 was cOildently believed in Sweden.
The following letter from St. Petersburgh, is the
test which has been received from that quarter :
iITRACT OF A LETTER PROM ST. PETERESURGII, DATED
28TH JUNE (BTH JULY).
" Nothing decisive his taken plate any where—
the rear of our army beat off a few attacks, in which
we made several prisoners of distinction. If we are
fictoriou.; in the battle expected, we hope that busi-
Sias will revive h'ete, in some measure at least.
" Out army is in good condition, and full of
SPiritS as to success, and there is not the least
doubt of their being victorious when opportunity
Offers. oul Cossacks are very successful in the
Wicks and skirmishes.
4 It cannot be long before the blow is struct, and
11)°1* to GOD our arms may prove successful. ' You
see Botinpanta has not done what he expected, and
trust he may not be able to accomplish be foul
clequ.s,

On Thursday the ?mice REGstir, and most of tbe
Ministers, dined With ;he Duke of CUMBEItt-1141).
-YeSterdat Admiral Sir J. B. Wanner.; was intro-
tp duced to the eItINGE Ittocc-r by Viscount MEt.vaut,
his departure for America.
Yesterday, Lord MULGRAVI had au audience of
tile 1)141:C1 RIKANT.

EARL NirEttigCtOWS GRAND VICTORY.

Still we are without the ( Ificial communication
from the Hero hitt:self; on the subject of his late
glorious achievement in the Peninsula ; but our spirits
are not depressed by any diminution of our confi-
dence in the truth of the otiginal and subsequent
statements. We now find hy our Plymouth letter of
this morning, that Sir Hosts Porttam's accounts
of the battle Were brought to Torbay by the IN-
soteNT gun-brig, Captain BRAZIER (not BLAQUIERE,
at stated yesterday by mistake), who instantly set
off for London with the account. The INSOLENT,
Alter landing Captain BRAZIER, made sail for Ply-
mouth, whe►e she has arrived : she had several men
killed and wouoded in one of Sir HOME Pormases
late •ilerp: izes.
While on the subject of the confirmation of Lord
WELLINGTON'S victory, we ought to remind our
Readers, that the wind has been adverse during the
whole week to the arrival of any vessel from Lisbon ;
besides the long series of operations, which the inte-
resting period between the 14th of July (the date of
the gallant General's last dispatches) and the 24th,
when his Lordship is said to have completed his victory
must have required much labour and attention on the
part of his Lordship and Staff, to collect the various
details necessary for his dispatches to Government.

The last dispatches received from his Lordship at
Rueda, in some measure prepared us for the glo-
rious event. He was possessed of intelligence that
MARMONT, having been reinforced by BONNET,
thought himself strong enough to attack the British,
and with that view was repairing the bridges over
the Douro at Toro. Lord WELLINGTON was also
aware that Xing JosEPH was on his way from
Madrid to attack him in the rear, and so early as
the Ist of July, he had made arrangements to con-
centre in Avaliegoz, if MARMONT should- pass
the Douro : he recalled Don CARLOS D'ESPAGNE
and Don JULIAN SANCHEZ, wh6 a few dayS before
had advanced within a league of Valladolid, and
who, it appears, were warmly engaged on the left
of our file on the 18th. Besides all these mas-
terly arrangements, which bespeak the foresight
of one if the greatest Captains the world ever saw,
we have the satisfaction of knowing that 8000 men,
as a reinforcement, had passed Benevente on the 224
to join his Lordship, and that 8000 More, which were
besieging Astoiga, would join the instant the fortress
fell. His Lordship's retreat from his advance at Rue-
sla to Salamanca, was no doubt a masterly feint to'
bring MARMONT into the plains of the Tormes, where
his destruction was as certain as it was complete.

By a fetter from an Officer on board one of his Majesty's ships
off Flushing, we learn that the following is the amount of the
enemy's Fleet there-83 ships of the line, 12 frigates, and 111
sloops; our force consists of 25 tail of the line, 5 frigates, and
10 sloop, under the command of Admiral You NO.

The Right Hon. GEORGE PoNsotosv, Lnrd MU&
atERRY, and Lady LOUISE CONEL LYI are among the
latest arrivals in Dublin from England.
Yesterday Viscount CASTLEREAGH gave a grand
entertainment to the PtuNca REGENT. His loyal
Highness arrived at the Noble Viscount's house, in
Ch4rles street, St. James's- square, about seven o'clock,
and was received by his Lordship. at thy door. The
party consisted of the Dukes of YORK, CUMBERLAND,
and CAMBRIDGE, Earls of LIVERPOOL, WE•TMORLAND,
BCCEINGHA MSHIRE, YARMOUTH, HARROWBY, Vis-
counts MELVILLE and SIDNIOUTH, Lord MULORAVE,
Sir W. :-.,cur 1., Mr. VAN SITTA RT, Mn B. BA TH UltsT,
Mr. RYDER, Mr. COOXE. Mr. G. ROSE, Mr. LONDOCC•
ROWING tslATClL—Yesterday, pursuant to adjourn-
ment, in consequence of fouling on the regularly ap-
' pointed day, (the Ist of August) the Coat and Badge*
live pounds and three pounds, the annual Prizes left
by Mr. THOMAS DOGGETT, the Comedian, were con•
tested for in good style by
memo, of Rothertithe; Stowe, of the Towers Hairls, of
Bank,ide ; Fuller, of Blackfriars ; Reynolds, of Hungerfurd ;
and May, of Westminster.

The competitors started from the 01d Swan, Lon-
don pridge, about three o'clock ; the match was well
and fairly contested, and they reached the Swan,
at Chelsea, in the following order:
May, of Westminster, t ; Fuller, of Blackfriars, (Surreysside,)
2; Reynolds, of Hungerford, 3; Harris, of Bwokside, 4 Stowe,
of the .1 ower, 5; and Mussett, of Rotherhitbe, 6. A great num:.
Ler of boats, with genteel company, were on the river.
A poor tennale maniac was yesterday morning
found wandering about Cheapside. She had on a
straight waistcoat, and seemed to have recer.tly
broken from some place of confinement. Her ac-
cent was Scotch, and she said her name was SIM-
AitT. Site was conveyed us the Puuitry Compter,
where she now remains.

Lady MELBOURNE gate a grand supper on Thurs-
dal evening at her elegant mansion, Whitehall, to
his Royal Highness the PRINCE REGINT, and up-
wards of 100 dissinguished personages.
The Pope .has been removed from Fontainbleatt,
lest, in the absence of the army from Italy, some at-
tempt might be ma.!e to release him from Savona,
and crewe an insurrection in Italy.

Tim following is an extract of a letter, received yes-
terday from au Officer with the expedition in the Me-
diterranean :

" liis Majesty's Swop Neniesls,Pott Mahan, July 6.
" We have been at Carthagena and Alicant, and
are now mustering here a very large expedition.
against the French in Catalonia. There will be
tto,ooo English and Spanish troops, and ten sail of
line of battle ships ernigoyed
Monday, as some labourers were employed In
throwing stones froins the ground to a scaffold, erected
on a h•iuse near Knacker's-hole, Devon, a man on,
the scaffold advised one below not to throw any mare,
as the scaffold would not bear any more. He had
hardly spoken when the scaffold fell on the unfortu-
nate man below, broke an arm and a leg, and a long
nail entering his side, put an instant end to his
existence.