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The celebrated BIININV4iN is the General who
commanded that part of the Russian army which had
she honour of totally defeating the advanced guard
!el the French. under MuRAT, on ;le 113th ult. His
;Upon to General .I.ITUSOFIP has now reached us,
and we subjoin it as another most valuable and inte.
**Sting document? on the subject of Russian affairs.
'The egregious falsoehoods of the 25th yrencb
'Lin are thereby made most palpable.
It is evident that this battle was most disastrous
to the French army. for it has, in all probability, corn-
iselled its leader to change hi; whole line of retreat,
sad thus Actin farther to increase his difficulties, by
greater distance he lLs to travel before be can
reach Poland; his original intention seems to have t
been to force his way to the Duna by the route of
Smolensk and Witepsk. At Smolensk he expected
es fall in with his reserve, under Vicvost, (of whom 1
pLATOW ancj his brave Cossacks will give an
',account by and bye) and there he might have made
:sOmething like a struggle for q a few moments
repose." To §nlpleiht he had previously (if we.can
believe the Fm.ch statements) sent off his wounded,l
Tl.ss of humanity seems to have been mentioned,
Sowever, merely with a view to quiet the apprehen-
inns of the Parisians, with respect to their Unfortu-j
pate fellow Countrymen ; for we know, upon better
autlu than that of BOXAPARTE, viz. from Lord
CATHCART% diTaidipt that the retreat from Mor
ow was not so deliberately rut in mention as to
admit of a single sick or wounded man being re-
moved, Desides, we have yet to learn that the Cor-
Sites, or any of his satellites, ever advanced or retired
II step in their hires to save their sick and wounded.
In General polmszN's narrative we have another
prcol of the efficacy of the bayonet: the tide of for-
..ne %sac not completely turned against the French,
;mail the Russians broke into their entrenchments and
;presented this formidable weapon at their recreant
breasts. It was then we may presume that the cowa-
rdly yell of terror-struck savages echoed through jhe
Trench ;Asks, and the Russians carried all befOre
them. A very gallant British Officer, who has seen
Pearly twenty years hard service in the field, has more
litan epee assured use that be has had 'a share in up-
Lards of a hundred brilliant victories achieved by the
bayonet alone. lie never yet saw a French column
stand even lentil this formidable weapon came in con'
t with their bodies : he has seen a British regiment
200 strong reduced, by a distant cannonade, in a few
i:oties, to 200, and he has afterwards seen this hand,
irol of men intrepidly ;barge and put to flight 2000
ehosenlrench troops, when by the issue of successful
nesuvres they werf.brought in cont .ct. But we have
a still morg remarkable fact to inentioa,as a proof
that the antipathy of the French troops to cslld iron is'
ormountable—of 10,000 wounds inflicted upon
by the bayonet, not one, perhar s, has been given
• front—an inspection of the field of battle, from mo-
of -humanity orcpriosity, must have frequently
;civet' this to thousands of our military readers.

We ve most anxious, therefore, that the Russians
.uld obey the it-junctions of the worthy and patriri-
"e Governor of Moscow—that modern Caro, who
as beep so infamously libelled by BPNAPARTEs be-
anie he sought to souse the enetgies•of his country.
• p against the countless swarm of robbers and as.
using which has been led across the Duna. There
sno occasion fur ammunition,—if there is not a sup.
of hiyottets (and we learn with satisfaction that
le re are ten candidates fur every spare weapon) I.
arm yourselves, heave and injured Russians, with
ythes, pitch-forks, and the usual implements of hus.
ndry Is a Frenchman more than a sheaf of corn
• the hands of a robust husbandman ?"
As long as a French invader remains to the North
• f tliR Puna, %hp ancient and prescriptive boundary
the Russian Empire, we arp for g wgr cf exterrni.
ation. Ihe French tactics hive entirely changed
I e. modern art of war, but we have another set of
• tics in reserve which they cannot resist-•-•We Mean
e tactics of Nature—ma most infrllible General
he Romans overcame their enemies by thp in.
cduetion of short weapons, which brought them in
•adtet, foot to foot, with their opponents—it was
• en that the moral and physical energies pf the
man race were first embodied for the attainment
I • one object, and they were uniformly triumphant.
' 'hose are the tactics which wp wish to see introduced
• ainst modern Frenclinten-a close personal corn.
• t will bring their courage to the test. On the sys-
m by which Op Itts,ffian, whom they call Emperor,
.11 cts his terrorrbound columns, THERE C4NAOT /111
TRULY .440 MIN ANONO Tien t
We are not fearful of being driven from this oer
vouri:e position, while the monstrous system to
• wt.ith we hAite just ajlucicilt is continued. We
• 'Mc with hori or from the recollection of their atro
ities in every country which the French soldiers
ire visited. There never yet existed a truly brave
an who was not a pattern of mildress and hum-
,
*ty in his intercourse with the uaaymed and de.