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GO7TENBURGH M.IILS.
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RUSSIAN BULLETINS.

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Lord. This este he not only expressed his own
wishes,, but those of all the Ministers who conduct-
ed English policy since that moment in which rege-
nerated Franke resumed those rights and that rank to
which she was entitled among civilized nations.
doubtedly those times no longer exist—when effemi-
nate officers brought with them all the luxuries pi
cities, and presented themselves upon the figldief
battle, dressed with that gaudiness which would have
served at Versailles, or the Opera Boxes—thosepe-
tits maitrt warriors, who knew how to brave death,
knew not how to fight, and were frequently van-
quished by fatigue before coming intometiou. Those
are the men, Lord Castlereagh, vrho'm you regret,
and not the Marine Officers, who in the war of 1778,
bumbled the British flag, and which your Ministry
landed on the Coasts of Britsn,ny dariag the Revo-
lution. For us, we regret having lost them ; but
,fortunately, there are now forming in our ports,
dander the protecting influence of the genies of France,
numbers of 'brave men, who will, one day; make
you sutler for your pride and cruelties. Consoie
yourself, Lord Castlereagh, the times are passed
tifv?r again to return, whets nn English Commissary
insolently demanded the demolishing pf the Port of
D tukirk —when an imbecile and timid Government
allowed you to insult its flag with impunity, and
dared not revenge your multiplied injustices. Call
to your recollection the conduct of year Ministers
in the wars which have occurred between Prance and
England during the last century—was it not one of
she lint points of your policy to take all our mer-
chants' vessels before your intentions were suspected
of being hostile ? and did not Lord Chatham, more
frank than his colleagues, haughtily say its the Se-
nate—" if we are just to France we are lost?"
Alas ' If when you were guilty of the first act of
injustice France had had recourse to reprisals ; if the
lust time you detained French vessels which sailed
upon the ocean on the faith of treaties; if when you
first buried in your prison-ships the unhappy prison-
ers, your's had been subjected to retaliation, you
would, without doubt, have practised that modem-
flea, which now, in your mouth, is an insult to hu-
manity. You still take advantage of that seotimeut
of generosity, the principal character of the French
Coverument ; but do you not fear that your words,
coldly ironical, will arouse its indignation Z—Hi-
th?rto to you have been reserved the honour of the
infernal machines and floating prisons. Has the idea
of a just and terrible reprisal never occurred to your
mind ?

This last thought must have struck all those who
have read the detuils of all the atrocities committed
upon the French soldiery, who, by an express capi-
tulation, had their liberty guaranteed, and whom,
at the orders of the Agent of the English Ministry,
were thrown upon a desert islaud, and for several
days exposed to the horrors of hunger and thirst.
Mier 40 days passed in the island of Cabrera, the
Officers were taken away, to be put In prison at
Palma. Immediately on their arrival at that prison
they were visited and plundered. Nevertheless pro-
positions were made to the French soldiers who re•
;mined at Cabrera, to induce them to enter the
English service—they were rejected with contempt.
All the attempts of the Euglish emissaries were vain.
Not a single Frenchman would betray his country.
The cruelties were doubled, to punish them for their
devotion to their Sovereign. The execrable agent of
the British Ministry organized a revolt, which had
fce its principal object the massacreing all the French
Officers. He even appeared in the midst of filo sedi-
tious, distributing guineas and haranguing the mob.
Already had an English agent at Valencia violated
all the rights of humanity, by exciting the inhabi-
tants of that city to destroy all the French without
distinction. The agent at Malaga had pursued a
similar line of conduct, monsters, who the nation
that has produced them should disown—that huma-
nity repels, and who would only be protected by the
most perfidious of Governments. Never have there
been seen among the savages, not even 'among the
most ferocious Africans, such examples of cruelty.

Those are, nevertheless, the men who now talk to
us about honour and moderation ; who boast of the
ameliorated situation of the French prisoners. Let
Messrs. Baring, Calvert, and all the other defenders
of the British Ministry go to Chatham and Ports-
mouth ! Let them interrogate our prisoners,•interred
alive in their floating prisons—and these unfortunate
men is ill tell them," whilst your coo ntryinen,which the
chances of war have conducted to France, are lodged
even in the barracks of oar soldiers, in places where
the air is most salubrious, we here breathe on poison-
ens air; we are often, even, at the caprice of your
subalterns, who shut upon us the hatches, and inter-
dict us from all communication with the exterior air*.
Whilst the prisoners of your nation divert themielves
at Verdun and Valenciennes, whilst they estiblish
theatres, organize race courses, and give,tbatatelves
up to all those extra:ass which can be imetet-tirtbetr
health, or soften their captivity, we have a spice of
thirty feet, width serves as a promenade to sacral
hundred individuals. We are exposed to the insults
of your agents,velso behave with a barbarity unknown,
except in England. Report these words to your
Parliament, and if you are as generous as you pre.
tend to be, demand in our favour the first laws of hu-
manity. Give the English people to know how meek
they are dishonoured by their Government; then
you may talk of moderation, of justice, and those
words will not be in your mouth, words without any
meaning.

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• liy a refrnement of cruelty the French soldlen. who bare
pot bees accustomed to the sea, are heaped up ita Prism 64414
;tad the sailors sent to the interior of Scotland.

110PPLIVICOIT TO TUE COUNT GATIIITTIN fern eno
Frontlet Headlemon at atiebofcidwasi,
4th (Mb) 3817,
The away seat a very strong fore Girded the right wiark.
Tie first army moved to oppose them. Coot Wriebiesstela's
two corps, oo the right side of the Divine, waived then CCANN
of two Freud' regiments of easaleS' haslet apprateinei Ono
In egusequenee d this Inaveateaf, Me
Kobe; with the Cimino regimeot orViZrs,d adders*
rack. to pass the river. IC 'loot attacked the rreadi
with ibe happiest owes. Two meowed, of the eaemy:r72
;ad their Conitasader, Brividier.ersterai &. Geste,
iris Wire prisoner with wally other *Worse al toe mak ad
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Os the 1* (19th) et tido abooth, the corps et Menial Oadieet
domed itedthiteeeeraeberg, eel ei ecbockd eke Nina-

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ing it comMiced Maas* hyt the bridles
the garrison. According to the limMiestioe
ral !Cubed. Menemy re-cennemed his Ms*
inst. sod again he was repulsed with im
Prince Bagration has acquainted is with
broengral„ Phil, Tier the rutty.
Ady)pilatbeindxitheed :guard, under the orders
West HA agaientfacked our forms et Mete
regiments, under the cemand id Otago* of
Ukbi
This affair also terminated in oar favour, and the six regimats
' were ornpletelyeiMissyee. We blue tam' an leibieree Mir
bee of prisoners. The troops have behaved to admixotieg.. Geo-
ogail Plata speaks in very high teem of the RiseinnAd)ifteoP.
fdpialeeral Waschilcbikod, who, with his regime of howl, co-
d
alsarl at thee with the Comacies.^-41tir`
pkment to tke &gene, of 12li (4MMk) July.)
Ilead-quartars, 6th (18th) July.
We have received the following Weigel= from the
Subsequeoi to the Ole of the details above given,. the int "ow
of Cie left wing limadvanced rapidly towards Polotik, taking
- measures in coneurreete with the maim body to coentervoll the
movements of the enealy—slace which modem fortherhas Um-
pired.

PROCLAILATION. •
" By the Grace of Gan, re AtsaliSOSlS, ate. &e.—Theeoctil
has passed the boundary of our Inlpire, and proceeds to
his arms into the interior of Russia, is the hope through fano
and cunning, to dieted) the repose of oar Mooareby. Wide
falsehood in his heart, nod artifice in his mouth, does he saes.
Tour to bring upon us chains and fetters. 31rbilieWe pray to Gan
for assistance, we resist the enemy with our troops, which are
animated with courage to drive hiss back,and to dams him frith
the occupation of oar country. We place the tallest truth As
their strength sallromess ; het we moose asoiaal tram
tzttsubjects, tbat the fare, of the enemy collected from
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empires, is aseidderable, and that usdaefti readers flouww-r-
-rupted watchfolitess necesmry. Os this season we Meths
indispensible, in our full confidence of the bravery et threfielly:,
to form new armies in the interior, with, as idlikg
greater alarm to the canny. may form a seemed idoelltli
strengthen the first, and to defend the dwellings, wives; aid
children of each, aid every ries of us. We have already card
upon our city of Moscow, oar capital, and at present we call
upon all our subjects of all condidoes, ecclesiastical fir shies
! and invite them, by a unanimous and general rise, to support us
against all the designs and attempts of our enemies; and, we
trust, we shall Said in our progress at every step the true seas
of Russia, who n ill oppose them by all their power, without
giving ear to his &Veit. May he in every Nobleman led a
Pescharsky, hs every Ecclesiastic a Palitzen, and hi every Cl-
' tine a Mihn. High-born Nobility, you have In all times been
the saviours of your country ; holy Synod and Clergy. you have
' ever, through your devout supplications, called down grace and
blessing on the head of Russia." .

It concludes It ith a pathetic appeal to every elan and die.
auction of society, for the maintenance of the Esnpire, under
the formidable dangers.hy %bids it is threatened, and is signed
" ALEXANDER."

NOTICE TO THE INHABITANTS OF RIGA.
•• Rip, Jaly ES.
" In order to appease the public anxiety, the Governor thinks
It to promulgate the subsequent welcome intelligence.
" Last night Captain Tolhniska arrived here from the head-
quarters of Prince Bagration, commanding the Imperial Army
of Attack, with dispatches for the Government, according to
which it appears, that the Prince was assailed on his retreat
upon Polotsk by a division of Marshal Davoust's cavalry, sup- I
ported by several pieces of artillery. The attack commenced In
the afternoon, and before night the most dreadful carnage was
occasioned in the enemy's maks, who left between 5 and 6000
dead on the field, and lost more than 1000 prisoners, atsu►tr I
whom are between 50 sad.* 011icers of the Stag The artillady
fen kite the hands of the troops of Ma Imperial Majesty, so
whose side the loss is comparatively trilling, aithoagh they have
to lament the death of General Ziednen.

6, The other divisions of the army renal° to the positions they
before occupied. Pursuant to the original plan, Prince Bagra-
don, after halting a short thne, proceeded on his road to Po.
latsk."

ST. PETERJBURGM, JULY 26.—We have this mO4
meat received information that the exchange of the ;
rataification of the Treaty of Peace concluded between !
Russia and the Porte has actually been fulfilled.— 1
The latest accounts from the army were of the 21st i
of July, and state, that the first army, which bad
already left Poland, are pushing forward by forced
marches to Witepsk. The General, Count' Von, ;
Wellguestein, who has been reinforced by some bat-
talions of the Army of Reserve, is now at Drissa for I
the purpose of observing the enemy's movements, and
covering the road to Pskow. The junction of both
armies is the head-mark of our motions. The latest 1
°accounts from Prince 13awration, mention that the 1
van-guard of his army, under the command of Lieu-
tenant-General
Rayefske, was in the vicinity of Mo- ,
hilow. General Platoff, whoie corps forms the rear- j
guard of the Prince's army, was attacked near Re- i
manow by seven regiments of cavalry, which he i
broke entirely, and pursued them 15 wersta. The
first regiment of horse yagers, one of the best in
the whole French Army, and also a regiment ahem.
grenadiers, were totally destroyed in this affair.—'
Two Colonels, 16 Officers, and 300 men, were mils
prisoners. t !,
SMOLENSK°, JULY 21.—111 s Majesty, who ailliflad
here yesterday, op his intended journey to Moscow,
hos Thi,MOTIMMM vereitredthe intelligence of the Grild T,
Seignior having ratified the peace concluded between
the Porte and Russia. In consequence of which, his
Imperial Majesty intends to have re Deuns sung at
Moscow. The Nobility of Smolensko, bare volun-
tarily offered the Emperor to raise a corps of 20,000 I
men, it their own expence. Information has just I
arrived of the vanguard of Prince Bagmtiotes army
having arrived at Mobiles,.
Hs so, Ana. 3.—By a big of letters arrived here
from Itiga, we have advice, to the 24th alt. by which
we learn that Prince Bagration bad effected a junc-
tion with the main army, after cutting to pieces nine
Iregiments of cavalry, and taking 1000 prisoners,
among.whom were fifty Staff Officers belonging to
Davoust's division. The French are in full march
for Moscow, and the Russians pressing them hard
with superior numbers of cavalry.
RUSSIAN HZADAUAILTSILI, JULY 24.—Bonaparte
has issued a Proclamation, statipg his Intention of
mucking direct to Moscow, but the Russian army Is
6 aunty numerous to stop his progress whenever
think propel. • The French army Is daily dimi-
: ug very considerably by famine and sickness,
lbw that of the Russians rentaimi eomplete, its
Ipsa being bnessdlately replaced by the Emperor,
!*es an inpulese body in the roar. Barclay de 'roily

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20 artillery battalions.—These troops
cellent appearance. His Majesty often
reviews them himself., These corps will
march whenever circumstances retty se-
Jur..? SO.—kccordigg to Itie int. ill.
Majesty the King of Westpha waslitt
, the Polish army at Slack's
—e town
JAinising a guard of 1450 men.—The
corn liltere in ftdr "beaTty; 'ea" oaarei- mow
libualant tired( The ellecentiants of the Tartars,
who took nisei 'Llniania'several centuries ago,

rettiggegt of Tartars. • • • •

it R !MOMS ,T 11.19 DAT AT ONE O'CLOCK.
4191 19 ladlit Bonds 9 10 dts.
r Cent. Co.. - F.x &alder Rills 31d. $l9 dis.
4 per Cent. Red. 5411 Ditto Sid. 3 3 pr
r Cents. 714 4i Oinaltita Mie
sper Cent. Nary 891111 Cowell fbr Rat. 97f it
Lots. Amu 15 7-16 Lotte, flckits

".THR STATESMAN,

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LONDON:
AUCUST 14, *i4. •

Often have we pointed out the abeelate necessity
there was for Russia to make peaces With Turkey,
eepposing Aztiatretit to be seriously inclined to
break his friendly intercourse with NADOLEON:—.
She might have made a peace honourable to her arms,
'e ad have obtained legal authority to add easy thou.
I,
'illetsb more of human beings to the number of her
Slaves. But, iusatiite after territory as the tiger is
of prey, she wanted more than even the feeble power
of the Porte would consent to give up, although his
fittest provinces are subject to the ravages of inun-
dating hordes of Cossacks. She, however, would
not make peace with the Turk, except upon
b,: own terms : she continued to waste her strength
in the hope of new conquests in the South,
while • ktorm was gathering in the West, that
was to carry desolation into the heart of her
barbarous empire; and not till the storm ap-
proached could she be induced to conclude a peace
" with the Turk. Then ALIZANDEB, like a child that
weeps for a toy it has just cast away,standi trembling,
'lest the treaty, which had been dictated by his feu
relt
should not receive the sanction of the. Turk, Witiod
he had so long despised. We are now told thatlde
fears on this head are 'weaved-by the arrival of itlel.:
ligence at Smolensk, on the 21st of July, that the
Treaty of Peace bad been ratified at Constantinople,
and Amu Annus ordered lb Dare so besiingis con.
! sequence. This intelligence, if true, is certainly very
important to ALEXANDER at the present moment ; and I
it proves that a Mahometan Emperor hulas political
I knavery about him than a Christidn one ; for If
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ALEXANDER had had the advantage which the Turk
now possesses, he would soon have been at Cunstenti.: I
nipple, except some other conqueror had got there
; before him. ' News, however, from Vienna, of the
; 25th of July, states, that the Peace had not been ra.l
I tified by the Turk, and that the latter was ordering.;
fresh troops towards the Russian frontiers..
We have this morning received Gottenburgh Malls
to the 11th, bid the iutilligence which comes to the
'
; 9th is. the most intereetistg. BY that conveyance
1 we have received a Bulletin and other Russian does.
meats;- and, from reading theist over, we should be
induced to conclude that AL:MANDRIL and BAG RA.
ITION commanded two advancing and victorious ar-
, mies% did we not unfortunately trace their counter-
'
i steps, and read of their deserted camp and lost ma-
! gazinos in the French Belleau. The "French,
according to the Russian accounts, are every whhre
defeated with great lois, while the victorious Rus-
sians, who are so bravely defending their country,
suffer comparatively nothing. The writers of the
Russiai accounts, and their echoes in London, make
it appear, by their own account, as clear as the sun!
at noon.day, that the best possible plan of defend-
i isig a country, is lto destroy 4s VOW and desert ,
wain 'plan IS sure to secure ultimate victory to
Ilse Russian arms. We year nothing about stopping
to defend the sanctuaries of religion, the tombs of
their ancestors, their habitations, end their wives
and children : no! but we are told every day, in the '
most exulting manner, bur' the hardy. Rus turns '
' back upon his pursuer, looks at him terrific, strikes
hire in the face, and then runs again. This sort
4 reaioning might do very well Wit were told, at
the same time, that the. said army had orders tel
do all the possible mischief in their power to- a.l
country, which jt was the Intention of their rulers,'
that should never visit more ; but the Russia*
Monarchy stamped the word .eaters upon its Coro;
bead, in characters so deep, that neither time nor
elranistanoes ever can effete,. in order tq seize upon
the country that Ai-exempt* is now destroying emi
deserting. If hi iatended to adept the system he is
now pursuing, why did he coiled such vast maga.
steel, sad form such strong defensive positions ? If
,re were determined not to. make a stand until lie,
tot late the heed of Ms anemia dominions, why
did, he .wait the approach of the French In
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about—that the two armies base formed a juile(ion
at Smolensk, which stands_tipon the Dneiper, end is
11515 miles east of Drissay where they deserted their
camp on the 13th of July.

Of the battle which was reported to have bete
Vaught between the French and Russians, we riben
not heard any further intelligence; though, if a junc.
Lion has been formed by the two Russian armies, we
may expect every day to hear of a most dreadful con.
flict, provided the Russians should.'prefer fighting to
the adssirobie plan they have hitherto pursued,_
We shill then see whether ALfXANDER will be
the Fent% which hit panegyrists represent
to be. • nut how silly is the epoica.
two ',Jill'" arrested the progress of IlAnneu,
by .lawesoring upon the nsountains of Italy,
threatening every moment to pounce open his ad.
versary, like en eagle upon his prey; so mad so,
that HANSIDAL. was heard to say, " that cloud
which hangs upon the mountains will one day bunt
upon us like a thunder.stom from the (leavens:o
Besides the Russian news we have given, there iv
an Imperial Edict, dated the 6th (17th) of ialy, in
which It is ordered, that throughout the several pro.
Ivinces d the Russian Empire, five men fit for service
and of the established stature, shall be raised out of

every SOO of the population within a month, and a
little vitiation In the height will not he regarded with
'respect to such recruits as are surrendered at the
*pat within the first two weeks. It is computed
I, that this lery. Win raise an Amy of Reserve of
t 500,000 men. The Metropolitao Bishop has pub.
liaised an Address to the whole nation, inviting the
:people to take arms for the defence of their country
and their religion. _

; We are yet without any intelligence from Lore
Wat.taxarnsr; for thomh the Hermes, Captain
Baowx, arrived on Wednesday at Plymouth, from
Lisbon, yet as she left the latter, place on the 19th
ult. it is impossible she could bring any news about
the reported victory.

-Tlee-fotiorking is a correct Statement of the Troop
and Cavalry Reinforcements under Orders for ae
Peninsula, viz.:—

ith qrg!ment a Fost so RankFidrile.

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24th ittip.:ment of Foot jo ....Ditto

30th Rek'imrat of Foot lOO ....Ditto
91th Regiment of Foot ... ...... 90 ....Ditto;
slst Regiment of Foot . . 96 ....I ins
77th Regiment of Foot
A 83d Regiment of Foot ..... ...... tO • ...Ditto
. DragoonOuards 46 Ilona
4th Dr 'goon Guards .... 42 ....Ditto
bth ragoon Guards
)st Dragoons .. 5O ....Ditto
34 1/rogeoni
4th Dragoons
9th Light Dragoons
11th Light Drogoons
19th fight Dragoons .... i
r.ttit Light Dr goons ... . Ile ....Ditto
6th Ligot Dragoons
16th I.i ht 0r..0.0 4 .... itto
We are sorry to state, says a letter from Ply.
month, that In a gallant attempt of Mr. DAUB;,
Midbhipman, and a boat's crew of the Nieman, to
cut out a convoy on the coast of Feance, they were
overpowered and made prisoners) having previously
nine killed or wounded.

1111wEaorut. Oceltithavez AT Rtai.---We regretto
learn by letters which have been received in tons
Ifrom the Baltic,that a most calamitous and destructive
occurrence rook place at Riga on the 25th ult, Tke
garrison of the city, it appears, amounted to ghost
I 17,000 men, and, in contemplation of a visit from
the enemy, the demolition of the suburbs nes re.
; solved on as a measure of self.defence. In the cours
of the night of the 25th, an alarm was given, and he
telligence communicated to the Governor of the ar.
rival of the enemy within a short distance from the
town. " The garrison was immediately under arms
and the predetermined resolution of destroying the
suburhs immediately carried into terrible execution.
! The parts intended to be demolished were set fire to,
and the flames raged with such violence, and spreid
with such rapidity, that in spite of every effort to
extinguish or arrest their progress, above tiro
, hundred houses not comprehetsded the ',Ahab;
were destroyed, and, horrible to add, 2000 persons
are said to have perished on the occasion,
MUTINY AcT.—The following alterarous in the
Mutiny Act, for the present yes', respecting the
extension of the furlough of soldiers, has taken
place, eir.:—" Whereas soldiers nbsent from their
regimeneon furloughs g ranted to them by thAr Come
; mondial; Officer, are sourettmes prevented by sit*'
-fleas, or other unavoidable circumstances, returning
to their ditty before the expiration of the time limited
by such fdrleugh, and, doubts have arisen whether, in
such cases, the extension of a soldier's furlough by 11
Justice of the Peace is sanctioned by legal authority,
and effectual for preventing such soldier being oppre.
' !mauled upon suspicion of having deserted bis regi-
ment : Be it farther enacted, that any Inspecting
' Field Officer stationed on the recruiting district, or
any Meer of the rank of a Captain, or of a stifle'
rior rank, stationed within the district; or in rue
there may be no such Officers as aforesaid within
convenient distance, that any Justice of Peace may
and Is hereby authorized to grant in writing, under
his hand, an extension of furlough to any plicate
soldier."
In commemoration of the PRINCE Rr.ivr's birth-
day, the Officers of the Woolwich Division of goys'
Marines partook of a splendid dinner in their newly-
erectell mess-room, at which Major-General it Pee
Doboaase presided, when the company was regaled
with all the delicacies of the season, prepared utter
the immediate direction of Mr. PAR., their sutler.--•
After the usual patriotic and appropriate toasts Ilea
Am drank; the company were entertained, in the
course of the evening, with several Most excellent.
songs, varied, at intervals, by delightful pieces of
music ''he Rand.
a &fel was fought at
.en two gentlemen, Icb°
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other's breast, fired tor
.^4l dead. The seceods
ens 1p take are of

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