The Statesman.
London, England, 1812-08-24 00:00:00

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did not, from that time, loose sight of it. —.;nothing
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On einit day, at nine o'clock in the morning,' i
sisted of a regiment of Dragoons,
tars, a regiment of Huhlans and two troops of cc::
thets ha ceki
formedimis ~a i ottlihfuebttroohedbeol;rg,douefagrrrtdehone;ft theserdbeiaastort;
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;the enemy themselves obliged* to continue their r..
preventedpositionrcam ent ;Lb, pge
locononiguasmn, ocntohoneftri
continuing
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on the bridge. Our chasseurs, in consequence, re.
ceived orders to dislodge the regiment by a 61;4
: charge, which was accordingly made, and al ten,!;4l
with such complete success, that the enemy's carat...
were routed, and pursued for a quarter of te
But the enemy perceiving that the rei;iment
rapid movements, getting to too great a dictan,
ihif rest of the irigide and the column of I, -
vetoed guard, and that they were pursued
alone, they immediately rallied, and made a corn.
bined attack upon the regiment, which they not
only gallantly sustained, but completely repulied.-..
The enemy being thrown into great confusion, en.
.deav‘aured to rally, under cover of a wood, and
1, were preparing for another attack, when the other
regiments of the brigade arrived, and completed their
defeat by a combined attack, in which our Colonel
_Count de Waldburg had orders to take the enemy is
' Rank. In this third attack Lieutenant-Col. liohen.
'oho Hinhberg, who had advanced too far, was taken
' prisoner, after having been slightly wounded. The
less sustained by the regiments amount to 19 wound-
, ed, among whonvis Lieutenant Weigs, four subaltern
1 officers, and four chasseurs, who were taken prison.
era. The brigade took a Russian Lieutenant and 31
dragoons and six horses.—(Same Paper.)
[ Posre JULY 28 .-•-The Warms Journal ha
published some fresh particulars respecting the dith
sion of General Rozniecki. On the 9th of July,
lone sw.dron of the third regiment of Huhlans en.
countered before Pieszeozna a numerous carpi of
Cossacks, which it charged and pursued arum the
city of Mir. The Cossacks were constantly receiv.
ing reinforcements. and soon amounted to live regi.
mentr. Colonel itadzimiski arrived with the re.
mainder of the 3d regiment ; but finding himself sur.
rounded by the enemy, five times superior to him in
number, be confined his efforts to endeavour r. 'erg
a passage sword in hand through the enemy's cone,
in order to form a junction with two squadrons of
of the .18th, and one of 16th regiment of liutVor •,
which were coming up to his support. The 10,5 of
the enemy was very considerable in this brill
fair. Our division continued its march up ;. .% :
end Nieswiez. On the 10th the enemy met oat au.
vanced guard near Siennikar. Aware that we were
very inferior in number, he assembled all his forces
,composed of Cossacks under Platoff and Hawaiskie,
with which several divisions of helmet and dragoons
were united. In an instant the plain of Siennkot
was covered with the cavalry; the enemy discharged
a shower of grape: our 7th regiment overthrew the
corps of Cossacks which was opposed to it. The
' battle became general ; the 3d and 16th regiments of
a crgedsitsht
ing o
e en emf thyae vbove f
regiments,lih
rearguard,ivanscharged
irov
consisting
the greatest nln liytehst'sim:
lits front, at nine o'clock in the evening, a cloud of '
Cossacks and irregular troops, but the immovable
firmness of the retry-guard, the unskilfulness r-guard, and andeist
hadlO Our
i ihr
fulness of
the enemy, prevented them from profiting by their
seperiority. Our cavalry was reinforced by the di-
vision of General Tyskiewits. His artillery in•
stantly arrested the enemy, .who, when attacked
'1
anew, fell back upon the forests, and abandoned to
us the field of battle, covered, with a very consider.
{ able number of Comas, Kalmucks, and Baschkins,
killed, or wounded. One Lieutenant-General and
i two Lieutenant-Colonels *ere found amongst the
dead. Our force amounted oely to 3,000 men, who
maintained with glory a long contest against 8,000
Cossacks, 3,000 regular cavalry, two regiments of
infantry chasseurs, and 30 pieces of cannon. Oa
the 18th .of July the Polish dieksion of General
liteeiasowies marched upon Sluck,ln''order to repair.
4 the bridge, which the Russians, in their retreat, had
burned.—(Journal dfrEmpire Aug. 18.)
BERLIN, AUGUST B.—His daiesty the King set
out on sth from' Charlottenburg for Silesia. Dr
Chancellor of State, M. de Hardenburg, the Coun-
sellor -of State, Jordan; Lieutenant-General de
• Koeckritz, the Aids-de-Camp Meyer, Wrangel, and
de Locke, Major de Thiel, and the Privy Councillor
of the• Cabinet, M. D'Albrechk, accompanied his
Maiesty. The Minister Count de Golz has also'sat
ant for Breslow, as well as the Councillor of State,
De Bogultin. Gen. Augereau has left this to proceed
by Stettin to Dantzic. The Prince of Wittgenstein
hos departed from this city for Dresden. Baron de
out fonG
de,n9 8471.. of
It
theKi
appearsng ot
that t h
f Westphalia, o
corpsrpsof t
has
the
army under Marshal thaDuke of Tareotum is intend.
alto, form the siege of Riga. The Marshal passed
the Duos et Frederickstadt, between Riga and Duos'
berg t Ise advanced with the .Bavarians and Poles ea
i the-right•bank of this. The Prussians, who have hi.
1 vosacimed since the battle of F.chau, have advanced oa
i Vie lift bank within two miles of Riga. The place
I was recoonoiered on the 23d, even 'Whin the rang*
of thelqns bf the tete-de-pont. The Russians have
hurtsed the tut urbs of Riga.
1
'eTtassr 420.—At Kamy sberg, where the hospitals
A 'or thealitty tel., there is a garrison of 10,000 men,
W
*s li'daily Increasing by the arrival of new
"tesixops
E
r : he Ceestaat pa*. rang of troops, artillery, and the
a
softly/es of provisions and atoms following the army,
litterrupt the serico of the poet& lig every place
'.oa-tho touts of communication with the head-quar•
I fare of the French army. pas of waggons hive beat
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