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London, England, 1829-08-24 00:00:00


RUSSIAN BULLETIN..

Head-quarters. Aida, Jaly 14 (Mb).
" After the successful actions of the sth, 6th, and 7tl (17th,
tbth, and 19th) had opened to the army the passage of the Hunts-
chik and the road over the Balkan, the Commander-in-Odef or-
dered the army to advance across that mountain, which has long
been regarded as ene of the insurmountable bulwarks of the Turkish
empire. The right column, under Gen. !Wiser, reached Funduria
Dere, on the other side of the village of Annular. On the nth (90th
July its advanced guard having pushed forward to near Avadthid,
the left column, commanded by General Roth, marched towards
Aspro, and its advanced guard reached Paktum, on the crest of
thu Balkan. The second corps, under the command of Count
Paden, remained with the head quarters at Dervish•Yovan, and
at the Kamtschik.

" Admiral Greig, with a squadron of three ships of the line, se-
veral frigates, and a great quantity of transports loaded with provi.
lions, sailed into the bay of Mesambri, and vigorously bombarded
the town fot the space of tiller bears.
" On the 9th (41st) of July, Gen. Rudiger reached Avadsbik,
and his advanced guard, under Gen. Shiroff, arrived at Erketsb, a
village situated on one of t►e highest points of the great Balkan.
General Roth entered EraeJla ; his advanced guard remained in
Paliobano, and occupied with a detachment the village, and the
cape of Emine. The head qu and Count Pablen's corps took
a position between the village of Amender and Funduri-Dirf..
" On the I1)th A29d) of July, General Rudiger's advanced
guard, consisting of two battalions of An 37th Yager regiment,
and the Cossack regiments of Chernuikine and Yligne, descended
the southern declivity of the Balkan. One of the enemy's divi-
sions attempted for a moment to dispute the passage of a defile
through which the read passes. The 37th Yaws did not reply to
the enemy's 6re of musketry, but charged theialwith the bayonet,
and in a few 'aliments overthrew them. The defeat of the Turkish
detachment was complete. The Cossacks pursued the fugitives
with great activity, and out of 9,00) took 131 prisoners, among
whom were two Colonels. They also took one Gag. The loss of
the enemy in
.killed and wounded was considerable, while on our
side we lost only six men.
" On the morning of the same day, Gen. Roth proceeded across
the Balkan to Pallobano. The rocky ground presenting great

difficulties at first to his march, he found it necessary to reinforce

the 6th battalion of piuneen with2,ooo labourers dsaughted from the
infantry, in order to make a road. He afterwards repulsed the ad-
vanced•guard of an enemy's corps, near Monastyr-iiiori, which en-
deavoured to check the march of the column, but which was obliged

to male a retrogade movement towards the small river of Yoshi-
Idol.Dere. The Seraskier Abdul Raman, Paths of three tails, who
commanded the troops on the Kamtschik, the garrisons of Messer*.
tria, Achiolln, and the corps of observation opposite Sisipolis, and
Bourget, assembled 6,000 or 7,000 men on the right bank of the
Yostld-Riot-Dere, probably with the intention to cover, by that
central position, all the places on the gulf of Boargas, and to offer
battle to such of our columns as marched to Mooastyr-Kiori.
" Gen. Roth advanced with the 4th division of Huhn', and the
battery, No. 26, of horse artilkry, and the two Cossack regiments
of Yeshoff and Boclanoff. through that village. He was followed by
the 4th battalion of the 3d brigade of the 17th infantry division,with
eight pieces of light artillery. He instantly attacked the enemy's
position, without waiting the arrival of the main body of his co-
lumn. Abdul Raman ?ache withstood the fire of our batteries
only a few minutes. His troops abandoned their position, and were
so vigorously punned by the Helens. the Cossacks, and the horse
artillery for nearly 10 rem, that they left behind them two, batte-
ries on the coast of four guns each, a wharf, in which there was a
corvette of 15 guns ready for launching, without making an effort
for their preservation. We took from the enemy besides, 400
prisoners, 7 standards, and four field pieces. General Roth left
the task of pursuing the fugitives to the Cossacks, and directed
a part of his advanced guard towards Mesambri. This place is
fortified, and an intrenched camp in front of the tongue of land
which unites the town with the country, protected the passage
to the town. As soon as the infantry was coocen dat the
bead of the Huhn' of the advanced guard, our batteries were
directed against the intrenched camp. Their fire operated so
effectually, that 500 men who occupied the intrenchment being
harassed by our grape-shot, and seized with a panic, threw down
their arms, and surrendered at discretion. They left In our
hands three cannon and ten standards. Our batteries were
now turned, without loss of time, against Mesambri itself,
which was completely commanded by them. Osman Packs, who
commanded at Mesambri, being at the same time threatened by
Admiral Greig's squadron, and closely pressed by Gen. Roth's
artillery, readily listened to the summons of the latter, and it was
agreed to allow him that night to prepare the garrison and the in-
habitants for a capitulation, which was now unavoidable. Ac.
cordingly, in the morning of the following day, July the 11th (23d),
he delivered to Major-General Wacbten, Chief of the Staff of the
Sixth Corps, the keys of the town, twenty standards, and fifteen
cannon, and surrendered himself with 100 Turkish civil officers
and 2,000 prisoners of war, to the officers charged to convey them
to Russia.

" On the 10th (Mid) of July, the head-quarters were in &betels,
and on the following day in Ynshl-Kol, where a part of the second
corps joined, while the other half of that corps remained in
Kelleler. On the 11th (23d) of July, General Rudiger's corps
marched upon Alacharia. An enemy's corps hastily retreated
before them towards Aldo', and left in the camp in the village of
Alscharia a great quantity of ammunition and two field-pieces.
General &kW, who was charged with the pursuit, found 1,000
pounds of gunpowder, 6,000 chewers, of buck-wheat, and a great
number of other articles of less value, In Dandy. The garrison of
Achiolin, intimidated by the astonishingly rapid march and the
brilliant success of our army, abandoned on the morning of the
same day that garrison, which was occupied by a detachment from
the crew of a ship of the line cruising before the place. We found
here 14 cannon, one mortar, three powder magazines, and one salt
magazine.

" Meanwhile General Roth's advanced guard, commanded
by Major-General Nabel, received orders from the Commander-
in-Chief to march upon Bourg's, and General Roth was directed
to move forward his oat-posts to Romely-Kloi, on the road to
Aidos. On the 12th (24th) of July, in the morning, when
General Nabel approached the fortress of Souris', the troops
of the garrison had the hardihood to march out agahrst him ;
bring, however, immediately attacked and defeated by that
undaunted regiment the 4th Sulam, they sought their safety in
flight. General Nabel took, in the first place, two beta pieces,
which the enemy had brought out with him ; and having driven
him, sword in hand, back to Bourgu, our troops rushed into
the fortress along with the fugitives. The garrison abandoned
every thing, and fled in complete disorder through the southern gate
of the town. Ten pieces of cantwoolnligazines of all kinds, and the
possession of this important poloeisirs Abe trophies of the brilliant
deed of arms performed on that ocendon. On the 12th (24th) of
July, General Roth proceeded with the 6th corps towards
Ala-
charia. General Rudiger direct4ls march upon Riskibubly ; a
part of the second corps occupied Alacharia; the rest of the army
and the head-queen encamped hrthe central redden of Greek

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" The movement of our u towards the Kanitsokik was so
completely concealed from the Grand Vizier, in Sheath. that it
was not until the 9th (tlst) of July. four days after the commence.
merit of our march from that fortress, that he detached a carps. con-
sisting of nine regiments of regular infantry, a nglonent et regular
cavalry. and 1,000 dells on foot, with three field pieces, to reinforce
the post of Kuprikiol. These troops marched from Sheath under
the command of Ibrahim. Pasha of three tali% sod Manned
Pasha of two tails. wbo had recently arrived from roostandsople
to take the command of the regular troops of the Turkish army.
When this corps arrived on the HamtacWk, it learned that our
troops had already taken and occupied the latieschaumts on that

river. The Pulses, upon this, retreated a few wersts, and then
directed their march on Magi and upon the village of Chaluko,
where they were on the 11th (23d), quite uncertain what resolu-
tion to take. However, having learned on the evening of that day
that Abdoul Rabman Pacha bad been defeated upon the plains of
Bourgas, they directed their march towards Aidos, where they ar-
rived on the 12th (24tb) of July.
" On the 13th (45th) the Commander-in-Chief ordered General
Auditor to direct his march upon Autos, and to take a position
within four or five werste of that place, to wait for the concentra-
tion of our troops, instructing hint not to attack Aidos except in
the ease In which he should be certain of a successful result. Ge-
neral Roth was to advance by a forced march, and establish him-
self in a double line behind the troops of General Rudiger. The
corps of Count Pahlen was to march upon Rawly Kiol and Aidos,
to a distance of 4 worsts of the latter place. The Pachas thought
the moment favourable to the execution of their plan. They re-
solved to attack the advance of our army before it could be sup-
ported by the troops which were coming up. The Turkish cavalry
and a division of infantry made a sortie from Adios and attacked
Gen. Rudiger's Cossacks, who retired on the position. Gen.lludiger
assailed on his front, but, confident of victory, Immediately de-
tached a brigade of the 4th llulan division, and directed it so to
march as to turn the left wing of the enemy, which was vigorously
attacking them. The fire of our batteries, and the movements
of the Hulans, did not fail in producing the expected event.—
The Turkish advanced guard was overthrown, and obliged to re-
treat In disorder to Aidos. Gen. Rudiger pursued the enemy with
eight battalions and 16 pieces of cannon, under the command of
Prince Gortshakoff. On arriving in front of the place, he found a
corps of Turkish infantry, from 6,000 to 7,000 men strong, posted
in the rear, and ost the flank of the town, and with its left *dog
resting on the old intrenchmenta, which the enemy had begun to
repair. Gen. Rudiger, regarding the town as the key of this posi-
tion, directed his batteries against the main body of the enemy,
and ordered a battalion of the 38th, and another of the 37th
Tigers, to advance with the bayonet against the old fortifications
of the town. The enemy at first defended himself obstinately ;
but soon forced back within their works, and into the narrow
Streets of Aides, they were on all sides beaten in detail, and
pat to the sword by our brave troops. The impression made
by this bog operation was so great, that the Turkish regiments
stationed behind Aides dispersed, and fled along the footpaths
leading to the Balkan, and in the direction of Karabin. The
Huhn. and the Cossacks immediately rode after the fugitives,
and made a great slaughtfr among them, while the infantry, corn.
mantled by Prince Gortssakoff, cut down all who were not so for.
astute as to escape in the first Instance. We obtained possession
of the whole Turkish camp ; we found in it 600 tents, 500 barrels
of gunpowder, 3,000 soldiers' cloaks, and a great quantity of arms.
Four standards. and four pieces of cannon which had been brought
from Shumla, were also taken from the flying enemy. The town
and its environs are bestrewed with a considerable number of dead
bodies of the enemy. The number of the prisoners is less consi-
derable—it is only 220 men. Our loss amounts to scarcely 100.

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" This brilliant victory doses the operations of the passage of
the Balkan. Daring the whole duration of this memorable enter-
prise our brove troops have given fresh proofs of that undaunted
courage, and dist unwearied zeal, by which they are distinguished
from an others.

" Surprised and defeated at the same moment, the Turks bad
nil time to remove from the plain of Bourgas the inhabitants, who
are for the greater part Christians, and are now tranquilly follow-
ing their rural employments. The ports of the Black Sea promise
to present a scene of scot activity."
" The reports from the corps of observation in the Venibasar,
dated July 11 (23), mention that General Arassovsky, after baying
on the 3d(lsth) and on the 10th (22d) reconnoitred to the out-
works of the intrencbed camp at Mum* had returned on the 11th
(23d) to Yenibaaar, without having been disturbed on his march by
any enemy.
" On the 12th (24th) of July, General -Pelmet, commanding in
Sisepolis, made an attack on the enemy's intreoched camp near the
village of Atei. On his approach the Turks abandoned their re.
doubts, and some went, further on they left in their flight, Dear
the village of Chingansti-Baki-Lessy, their artillery, consisting of
four field-pieces."

THE POPE'S ENCYCLIC LETTER.
TO OUR OUR BROTHERS THE PATRIARCHS, PRIMATES,

ARCHBISHOPS, AND BISHOHS.

Plus VIII. Pupa.—Ventraidu Ikothas, salutation and beat•
diction.

Heady to take possession, in the church of the Lateran. accord-
ing to the usage of oar predecessors of the Pontificate, which has
been confided to us. notwithstanding oar imperfections, we open
our bean to you with joy, venerable brothers, who have been given
to assist us in the discharge of such an important office.
However, notwithstanding the consolation which your courage,
venerable brothers, imparts to us, we cannot help experiencing
an acute feeling of sorrow, on seeing, in the midst of peace, the
children of the world causing in us the deepest afilictioo. We are
speaking to you of evils which arc known to you, which are com-
mitted before the eyes of every cm—which cause our common
tears to fall, and which consequently demand our common efforts
to correct, to oppose, and to extirpate. We speak to you of those
innumerable errors—of those false and perverse doctrines which
an attacking the Catholic faith. no longer secretly and in the
dart, but openly and violently. You know how culpable men have
declared war against religion, by the assistance of a false philosophy,
of which they declare themselves the doctors, by means of frauds,
drawn up with worldly ideas. This sacred seat, this chair, upon
which Jams Comas has laid the foundation of his church, is par-
ticularly subject to their attacks.
Sacred things are unworthily made a mockery, and the worship
of the Loan having become an abomination to the wicked, all that
belongs to religion is considered as ridiculousjahulous, and vain
superstitions. We say with tears—" Yea, the lions are let loose,
roaring against Israel. Yea! they are united against GOD and
against Camay. Yea! the impious cry out aloud, destroy, destroy
to the very foundation."
This is the object of the dark mansuvres of the sophists of this
age. who regard with the same eye the various professions of faith,
and who declare that the port of safety Is open in every kind of
religion.
Venerable Brothers, the people must be fortified against these
deceitful masters; they must be taught that the Catholic faith is the
only true one, according to the words of the Apostie—" (Me Loan,
one faith, one baptism"—and that, consequently, be is a profane
man, as St. Jerome said, who eats the paschal lamb out of the
house of the LOON and will perish In the deluge, and udi not be
suffered to enter the ark of Noah. lodeed, after the A
name of Jews
a there is not another given to man, by which to be saved; fie who
shall have believed, will be saved; he who shall not have believed,
will be condemned."

Another object of our •igilance is those societies which publish
new translations of the lives of saints in all the vulgar tongues—
trauslatioos wade in opposition to the most salutary rules of the
Church.

k ia, besides, your duty, venerable brothers, to turn your atten-
don towards those secret societies of factious men, the declared
enemies of Goo and Kings. who devote themselves entirely to de-
solate the Church, to destroy States. and to confuse the universe,
and who, bursting the rein of true faith, open a road to every kind
of crime.

Among these secret Societies we have determined to point out
paniettlarly to your notice, one recently formed, whose object is to
corrupt the youth educated In Colleges and school+. As It is weft
known that the precepts of masters are aßpowerful in forming the
bean and mind of their pupils, all sorts of pains and artifices are
employed to give to youth depraved masters, who lead it in the
paths of Baal, by the means of doctrines which are not of the Lord,
It is thus that we with sorrow see these young people arrived
at such a pitch of licence, that having dismissed all fear of religion,
banished all moral restraint, despised the holy doctrines, trampled
under foot the rights of one power and of another, they no longer
feel ashamed to be guilty of any disorder, any , or any at-
tempt ; tbat we may say in the words of Saint Leon-le-Grand,
" theirlaw is falsehood, their God is the devil, and their worship
is that which is the most disgraceful." Remove, venerable bro-
thers, all these evils from your dioceses, and endeavour, by ail the
means in your power, by authority and by mildness, to effect that
men distinguished out only in the sciences and letters, but also for
their purity of life and piety, shall be charged with the education
of youth.
There is still, regard being bad to the circumstance's in which
we are placed, another object, which we have determined to re-
commend to all the ardour of your seal for the safety of men's
souls. It is, that, full of soUdthde for the exactitude of the mar-
riage ceremony, you inculcate to your flocks the same regard (or
that sacred tie, in sea a manner that nothing may take place to
lessen the sanctity of that holy sacrament, to dishoooor the purity
of the nuptial bed, and finally, to give the least doubt of the indis-
solubility of the conjugal union. The only means of arriving at
this happy result is by carefully instructing the Christian pee
that the marriage ceremony is not only subject to human laws,t
also to the divine law ; and that it should net be ranked among
terrestrial objects. bet among holy things, and consequently that it
Is both* with the chunk to regulate it.
May she Rings and Prime of the world, those whose minds
are so gveat and so elevated, Latour air seal and our efforts; and
smy He, who has given to them a heart iodised to obey his cons-
wand. solhower his precious favours open them, that they may be
enabled courageously to do that which may wad tas the peolperity
and to the safety of the Church anicted by each heavy calamities,

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