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and forego sulicient to eutiallho whole army, due.
ing ten days, were found in ths Piece.
Head-quarters of the army at Dabroi (great road
to Orsha).
Novemsam B.—The Aid-de-Comp) General Count
Oscharofsky, reports, on Al 7t114 that the French
army having abandoned, t the night of the Bth,
the village of Kenn, h 4 marched to Dombrowna,
and that many prisoners had been made in their flight,
of which, however, the-Count could not yet St the'
number, as it increased every moment.
Head-quarteva at Heleanoff.
Nov. 9.—The Count Oscharofsky reports, that a
detachment seat by him pursued the rear-guard of
the enemy on their retreat from Kosan. The Cos.
sacks, in following it on each side of the great road,
had cut oft part of it from Dombrowna, and regard-
less of the fire of grape-shot, threw themselves, tog
gether with the chasseurs, upon the enemy's column,
killed more than a thousand men, took four pieces,
of cannon, with the caissons laden with grape, be.
sides a considerable number of carts, and made sic''
hundred prisoners.
Major-General florosdini reports, on the 4th, that
having with his de achment driven the enemy from
Dombrowna, he hid pursued him to Orsha, on which
occasion he took above four hundred men and eight
officers. At Donbrowna was found a small maga.
zine of flour, oats, and hay.
General Coum Platoff reports on the 7th, that
proceeding from Smolensk* to Dombrowna, he hail
destroyed a detachment of the enemy, which, after
the defeat of the French army at Krasnoi, had sated
itself by flight, and paced over to the right bank of
the Dnieper, in order to come up again With the
main body. The Count made three thonsaad pri-
soners, among whom is the late Chief Commissary
General at Smolensko, de Puibusque. In a lava&
report, General Plato states, that, cOatinuing en
the 7th, his route to Dombrowna, he was informed
that Marshal Ney was marching with the remains oti
his corps to Loubswitsch, and had been seen in the]
afternoon at -Gousuiroff. Having occupied this
place with his Cossacks on the left, General Platoff
ordered masked batteries to be raised on the road ;
and baring permitted the enemy to adrance, he sud-
denly opened upon the a tremendous fire of grape
shot, so that confounded, and seeing it impossible to
pierce through to Lonbawitzeh, they threw them-
selves late she woods on the flanks of the Dnieper,
and covering their mnrch by chasseurs, pressed along
the bank of the rives until the night was far ad-
yawed ; and threes Into k the fi of

MY Loao,—l have the honour to transmit the re-
part of the defeat of Victor's corps by General Count
Wittgenstein, on the 27th November.
It ,woeld seem that this corps had altered its
direction fiorn Borisoif, and was proceeding up the
left bank of the I3erezina, when it was charged by
Count Wittgenstein. On the 161 h, at daybreak,
the Count pursued Boilipnrte on a road which
leads to Wiles, Still upon the left bank of the Be-
rezina.

A bridge, had been thrown over the river, at a
plat about thirty wersts froth gorisoff, where. there
was an advantageous position for the enemy's rear-
guard, and for covering the passage.
In this day's march the French lost the whole of
their equipages and plunder, and were vigorously and
repeatedly attacked at the bridge.
The position on the left bank being continually
reinforced by fresh troops. was contested till night,
when it was evacuated, and the bridge was destroyed
as soon as the rear-guard had passed.
.There is a
cross road from this point which leads to the great
road to Witna, and it was the intention of Count
Wittgenstein to pursue, as soon as he either received
pontons, or re-establised the bridge.

Genoral Platoff had already got to the right bank,
probably at Borisoff.
Admiral Tchichagors quarters appior to have
been at no great distance, but no particular report of
the distribution or movements of this part of the
force, has as yet been received, since the affair of
Count Lambert.

It appears, however, from the conclusion of Count
Wittgenstein's last report that he-expects the concert
and support both of the Admiral and of Count
Platoff.

General Millaradovitch was stated to have arrived
at Borisoff when the last accounts came away.
The headivarters of the main army were still ad-
vancing on a line parallel to, and to the southward
of the main road from !imolensko to Minsk, but con-
siderably in the rear of the present operations.
There are long defiles to pass on the road from
Borisoff to Minsk, as well as on that spoil which
Bonaparte is supposed to be marching; and it
scarcely appears possible, that the remains of his
army can get through these difficulties in presence
of so many troops, with artillery and cavalry, reguy
lar as well as irregular.
I have the honour to be, &r.
(Sipped) ed) CATHCART.

Our pieces

St. Petersbargh, Der. 7, 11312.

My LORD,—While in the act of dispatching the
messenger, I received from the palace a report from
Admiral Tchichagoff, dated the 29th November/
upon the march to Ostachcow, detailing his proceed-
ings from the 21st November, and stating, that, in
concert with Counts Wittgenstein and Plata, be is
in pursuit of the French, whose force he estimates at
seventy thousand men, including Oudinot and Vic-
tor, and which he says is provided with cavalry and
artillery.
I have the honour to be, usc.

PROCEEDINGS QP THE MILITARI.
RUSSIAN ARMY, TROM THE
NOVEMBER.

Nov, 13.--The Ai&do-Cat
• Oicharoffsky, as he wtti proceedi
with part of the detachment un
fro-1 Sclikloff -.rds Mobilo w,
ts, wh9
pa which s•
ea fireall
, information,
itho, .ef thee,
Paltawa, inowitod the ,419
night with his earatry artillery,
..16-tetew4e; freer Wheace Jell lamiediatal)
at 01, sills Oa fultiilDS •

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--et ; . cannot;
they bed with them. - ; iSIFORT PROM THE CEMIRAL OF CAVALRY, coax',
WITTGENSTEIN TO- RIF IMPERIAL SIAJZSET, DATED
The Bth, at obese- six o'clock in * morning,
ETA ROE BO RESSOFV,. NOY. 29TH.
the advanced guard came apt ways ten enemy in ad- Yesterday I had the honour most submissively to
vanes of Domini:mtg., Ile was n received with report to your Imperial Majesty, upon the defeat
grape shot on comieg out of a forest' on the road, of the corps of Marshal Victor, from whom the
Our Ccssacks, profiting by the disorder of the
enemy, and the welladirected fire of our artillery, troops of your Majesty took four cannon, two
standards, sixty-seven staff and other officers, and
attacked wlth the lance, killing many, and making three tho arena prisoners, independently of a considers.
800 prisoners, among which was a Commissary-Ge- able number in killed and %speeded. After this vie.?
floral and 10 Officers. Marshal Ney, seeing his ter
tae defeat, threw himself into the forests, and co.I, tutu there earreq:eredv the Claerig Ditision
Parthensut, the feral of the
teeth% the troops whom the attack of our COMMIES Chief of the Stsff d'Elett; Numb Camila en Ile.
had dispersed, he occupied the Allege of Jarouboff, moat 1 ale oolousts firtgoesotewucolosigv:
where he defended himself wish obetinally, until banaad and twenty4mse tom, vill eaves,
night, which pot an end to the combat. sand eight bemired prlfiltes; amongst these were
Nov. 10.—General Count Platoff reports, on the two whole regiments of cavalry, fallt Mottittfall_llol
9th, that during the perm* of the enemy to Orsha one a Saxon- regiment, and one of Be IMb
he mode 400 prisoners, The Poesy &fetid, the pas- i
! wards resolved on attacking Napoleon himself;
sage of the river with his artillery, while he gives the' which I did 'not fail to perform on the same day.
town up to the fames. The Vaitiean Dasideff at. The enemy approached the passage of the 1)1
i' tacked the enemy on the 9th at Kopys, and killing , twine •in great force', and inept there tq defeadlt
I many, made 485 primmer., besides taking a quart- with the greatest obstintic), ice order to save hls
tits of equipages; passing afterwerds the river by ! same_ry J
any. baggage • without being diaceneetted
swimming, he sent various partly; to Schkloff, Sta.; by
,•
his great efforts, baggage;
him bock the disisnol
roselije of three wersts. The engagement lasted es.- vOOlll
The ' and Orsha. ! Count Platoff reports, on the 9th, that the . day. To-day I compelled him to cross' tte de
lenemy had, after some resistance, been.driven from ;„ear Stoudenzie, where, after having peed it, he
Orsha, and that at one o'clock the town had been burned the hridge ; but having received pontoon
occupied by our troops. The enemy left there 20
pieces of cannon, some provisions, and his hospi- i from Admiral Tchichngoff, I .arty et thie moment
occupied in getting them thrown on the rives I
talc, in which were found, of Officers alone, fifty
----, I shall pass it immediately, and shall set 1,-. emitint•
persons. -lion ,lth him and General NOE yeleniq ell
On the 11th, the Grand Army halted at Lannike.
NOVEMBER 12.—The Aid-de-Ce• took from the enemy one field-piece, mid mei
Oscharoffsky reports, on the 12th, that having ar-
mPC'euend Count fifteen hundred prisoners. To-der we tpnk twills
rived on the 11th at Gorlii, he had vent Major Rschef- ' pieces of cannon, and a considerable tletntierof the%
,he east himself into the river. I have also takeat
sky, with 'the regiments of Cossacks of the Don, of
number of Officers and men ; others arn continually
Schamscheff, and
one hundred and fifty hussars, in arriving, so that I have not as yet beer able to tall
pursuit of the 'enemy, who had just quitted the
any account of them ; they bring in, besides, moment
place. The Major Riehefsky canio up with and carriages, belonging to Bonaparte as well as to
nearly destroyed them, making four Officers and
w
werst is covered rivate individuals that
them, so as not to allow
that the distance of half e
two hundred and fifty soldiers prisoners, and taking .
tinny equipages.
!persons to pass either on foot or on horseback.
The head-quarters of the army at Morosoff. I have been obliged, therefore, to dispatch three
The Tirailleur of the Ist grenadier company of
later
the regiment of infantry of Moscow, Stepan Jere- troops. Upon these carriages, most of tl.iett
menko, had been left, in order to be cured of the companies of militia to clear a passage only for the
the property of -Moscow families, 'Pat Mal at
wounds he had received at Smolensk°, to the care of • sides a great booty for the troops,
the principal 44 that Government, the Snb-Lieute- church plate and other effects,
nant Krestschetoff. After his cure had been cont. had stolen at Moscow. We are occupied
d
pleted, and during the retreat of the French, a de. letting it all together, in order it to the
to
send
this
tachment of forty-seven men passed by the villages Governor-General of Moscow. Iu reporting
_lay at the
of Mlethiuo and- Polsino. He immediately assembled 'most humbly to your Imperial Majesty,
,i. ,
are
whicah gthe
inenyeziy.
the peasants of those places, and encouraging them
by his example, he killed seven of the forty-seven, taken fro. the enemy.
and having bound with cords the forty remaining, he., We have lost, during these ;lays, above 3000 men.
same time at your feet the standards wince I a
sent them with, the peasants to the outposts of the
Cossacks. The said Jeremenko having by so coura-
REPORT
geous an action shown his zeal for the service, and 06
MPG a proof of the spirit which characterises the seeing
Russian soldier, his Highness the General Field- with St,
Marshal has advanced him to the rank of subaltern known
Officer, and has likewise given him the badge of the ray last
military order of Si. George.

to the outposts of the
Le having by " c"ra- REPORT eV Alimmtar. TENNI' AGM, ON THE nog, or
x
for the service, and osTscmszo, o THE 29TH Or NovrmßEß.
rhich characterises the
geeing the possibility cf communicating directly
the General Field-
with St. Petersborgh,. I profit of it, to make
the rank of subaltern
known to your Majesty all that has happened motehim the badge of the
my last report. The following day after my it-
rival at Minsk 1 reinfor..ed my advanced vird:
r OPERATIONS Or THE Borisew.,
and ordered General Limbert to go on the side of
On the 21st of November he attacked at
13TH To TILE 16tH '
the break-of day the redoubts occupied by the rear.
guard of Gen. Domhrowsk who bad arrived in great
imp General Count haste from Beresina to take-, possession of it. The rz•
ceetling on the 12th, ! sistanoe was very great; they fought a long tide,
under his command, , and with fury. Your Majesty possesses in Count
w, was informed by Lambert an active, courageous, and able General,ca•
had left that place, pable of surmounting every difficulty, who having
t had remained there, perceived the importance of this post, in
II within their reach ; enemy had collected ail their force to maintain them-
Mien, Count Oscha- ; selves, decided to take•it, and completely succeoleti•
ordered on the Cos- , The enemy lost two thousand men in killed, and we_
*the flernen, and at- I have made u many prisoners.
.The. remains of the
Irby and artillery, in corps of Dombrowsky have been pursued and dis..
beat* he loomedioAcly parsed.
UN *ill illittital the ,' la the soul time whilst my advanced guard wan
• which the
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