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THE STATESMAN.

LONDON:
Timms, DECEMBrit 4, 1212.

FREZIGII PAPERS RECEIVED THIS MORN-
ING, containing' the TWENTY .MG HTII
• FRENCH BULLETIW.

.Paris Papers arrived at a late hour this morning,
op to .the 30th ult., containing the Twenty-eighth
Bulletin ui the Grand Army, dated at Smolensk°,
Nov. 1 t.—By these accounts it appears, that the
French army are placed in a perilous situation, after
having differed considerable losses from the Sereeity
of the climate, and the continual attacks made upon
them by the Coscacks during their retreat.

TWENTI.LIOIIIII BULLETIN OF THE GRAND
ARMY. '
"-Smoleasko, Nov. 11.

" The Imperial head-quarters were, on the Ist of
November, at Viasma ; and on the 9th, at Smo-
lensk°. The weather was very fine up to the 6th,
but on the 7th winter began. The ground is cover-
ed with snow. The roads have become very slippery
and very difficult for carriage horses. We have
lost many men by cold and fatigue; night bivouacings
are very ihjurious to them.

66 Since the battle of Nlalocaroslanitz, the ad-
vanced-guard has seen no other enemy than the Cos-
sacks, who, like the Arabs, hover upon the flanks,
and fly about to annoy.

" On the 2d, at two in the afternoon, 12,000
Rttssiatt infantry, covered by a cloud of Cossacks,
intercepted the communication, a league distance
from Viasma, between the Prince of Eckmuhl and
the Viceroy. The Prince of Eckmnhl and the
Viceroy marched upon this column, drove it from
the road, and overthrew it in the wood, took a
bleier-General, with a good number of prisoners,
and carried off six pieces of cannon ; since that time
we have pot again seen the Russian infantry, but
only Cossacks.

41 Since the bad weather, from the 6th, we have
lost more-thin 3000 carriage horses, and :early 100
CaiSsens have been destroyed.
46" General Wittgenstein having been reinforced
by tba Russian division from Finland, and by a
great number of troops from the militia, attacked, on
the 113th of October, Marshal Goution St. Cyr; he
was repulsed by that Marshal and General Wrede,
who tank more than 3000 prisoners, and covered the
geld of battle with ibis dead.
44 On the 20th inst. Marshal Gouvion St. Cyr
baying been informed that Marshal the Duke of Bel-
limo, with the 9th Corpa, was marchiug to reinforce
Mm, re-passed the Drina, and marched to meet
him, in order, on having effected a junction with
him, to fight Wittgenstein, and oblige him to repass
the Dwiiia. Marshal Gouvion St. Cyr bestows the
highest eulogiums upon his troops.
C' The Swiss division distinguished itself by its
eassifrold and bravery. Colonel Guchenew, of the
t6th Regiment of Light Infantry, was wounded ;
Idaroial St. Cyr received a ball in the foot ; Marshal
the Dike of Reggio ha arrived to replace him, and
retaken the command of the 2d corps.
The health of the Emperor hat never boon
better."

itEPORT 01, SIONSIgUIt TltE MARSII.tL OOUYION ST.

CYR TQ 4.113 1.10(a15E33 ritixcE MAJ()R•Gk:-

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Octoher O.

4C By my last, of the 17th inst. I informed your
ifighness, that the 'ld corps would probably be at-
tarkod un tlta following day by all the forces Gated,
under the orders of Count de Wittgenstein. I
have 'pita to you of the ruinforcements which he
bad received from St. PAersburgh, and which
amoutued to 17,000 men, including in that number
6or 4,10 i) men which had been scraped together
in St. Petershurgh and its environs. lie has further
received the '2lst division, which was fresh arrived from
Ylttlant;! one part of this division only has had an:en-
gagement in an affair against the Prussians. They
formed a junction with the troops under Wittgan-
ste:4 at I.)isna, on the 16th, at the moment when
he lied dislodged the post whteh I had placed
there, On the 18th, at six o'clock in the mos-
M, de Wittgenstein debonehed before Polotsk,
in four columns, and eftending bis troops past my
Position, and profiting by the en6rmons superiority
of which bp was possessed, to take the reverse, and,
without any danger, make himself master of the pa.
eition which I had occupied on the left batik of the
Polota, in the face of that which he had before oc-
cupied on the Prlssa, Ills first serious ethic's was
ialtde MOW a Witt e/4a berbatta), which I had
caused to be establisW in gain arivelitageous postiee,
and which it was necessary, at soy rats, to occupy,
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tn order not to expo. to the *Way the weakest
pert of say position.;. that is to 147, the.firpti.t of the
Wilt which (arid lie Mbar difileslty on a

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