The Statesman.
London, England, 1813-02-25 00:00:00

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Two 'mire #oftenburgh Mails -'l44krtrati
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melting three. the sere*. e we
hare the longoeiglitivd."Official 'aitionrifaa
• S . ther suctesseeor V iticric hots Prince-- -1
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if the tontents'O itre private-letters, hteljelt
by the same conveyance, were to be impli asst:-.
dited, the conditiOn, of our Northern. AllAltorsld,
proudly pre-eminent indeed. lint we'. hesitate :to
give credit to the full extent of the favourable ac-
counts they give?and the still more flatterinaisictumil
they draw. We cannot persuade ourselrewthat Thai*,
is in the hand; of the Russians, muckjess. that,
flu:se successful pursuers of the fleeing French en-
tered Dentzic am the 9.76. ult. That Ministers bay
bus sent by the-Court of Vienna to Wan*, and'eron,
to Stockholm dee:is highly probable, es -,*p_
have long foresOsyhe natural coot tquencel of . the,
actual state of affairs in that part of the, Coqtitient
at present. Mu:h reliance is made, and a great deal:
of speculation held, vu the- probable capture ofl
Dantzic by the Russians: 'Qf the fihelihnod tif suet 1
an achievement by. our Allies, we Ogler fiatterea otu. • j
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Readers. An inresttnCtst .b.c..blocskade is all. we ever
expected : but a siege at this distant period from the I
!'reach disusters..is unreasonable .w exnect.• 'The
Russians would.tk put to it to obtain' artillery and
ammtmition for a rciular and continued sealbefore
so strong a phicc, provisioned. .Beildes, in
loss than a month the Frenak will have pushed for-
warls the. van of their troopyfrom the depot in the
neighboo flood ..of, Frankfort. From the. pllratt
Letters reesited 1444 .welsaioeibected
Cie following Extract of a Letter from lE4siingsberg,
dated January
" You wilt hair teemed by previous • accannti. the dksol.u-
eau of the Grand Freuch Army, consisting Of above 100,(00
recu, whereof the greater Part pad passed thrhUgh this city,
scarcely :At 90 base returned. and' these are mnstly cripple:.
1 ley arrive day at t night : Marshal., I;enerals, Officers,
44,1 soldiers, all, ainociated• • together, in sledges, and on foot; !
'lel we could scarcely dittingaish the_ one from the i
r• . r You would scarcely have credited that these little
I +l.l'y ruissiau end skdges. cJald contain so many
Olteer!. perked like' herrings. Many a these gentry
pit runt; among r!leiu 'General Rapp, the tio-
of Daataic, with frozen no.;•• and feet. I am en.
z• led ta give'OU'ari official list of the arrival. front the
• Recenthev:-255 Generals ; ti 99 Colonels ; .10-10 Captains
acid Lieutenants t.'28,930 corporals and Soldiris-; 6000 in
ri.- hospitals. Is evening some regiments of Poles, Balm.
r ans, and Westphalian of Macdonald's corps rctriated. The
Prussian, ruder .D'York, 15 or 18,000 men, had concluded a
tlyvreution, itad.nre expected' here to-day or to-morrow, pro.bably to
follow Site Russians, with whom we are on the best
".ms. Scarcely bad the French began to set out than the Corm.
~;(1.: arrived. They entered the city between twelve and one
r'etnek in the moraing, galloping through the streets, and very
nmeeahly enquiiing for Frenchmen. All the lower parts of
houses were"lighted up. In the tuorniug arrived cavalry
ud artillery, infantry and Comas, won continued their
one: part look the road to Brandenburg, and part to
lhe K hole carps adder Mitcdonald is cut off, 'since the Russian
Lin :,rips iinJer Viittgeastria is marching rand by Friedland
l'russi.m Lytaa tlt bibing, add prbceedit to Dautzle. Casa(
ittreiNtrin orriNe3l here the day before yesterday, in the eve*.
4: six o'clock nod w cot immediately to SIW Flab Tba,
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