Martinsburgh gazette. [volume] (Martinsburgh, Va. [W. Va.]) 1810-1825, 1810-11-30

best course TO that object! In consequence.
when she sends me orders contrary 10 her
true interest, l suppose that they have
been suggested to her by courtiers, her ene-
mics and | act in the manne which APP
pears to me to be most conducive TO her
glory"
Ia many circumstances, the genius OF
Souworow, overstepping the narraw linn
ITS of the orders he had received. led him
boldly on to certain victory. OF this the
following are instances:
In the campaign of 177t, in which he
served as major general, he received in
formation that the marshal of Lithuanis
was forming an army OF Poles, at Stale.
wi,z. He Immediately gave notice Of isto
Bp1:orf.:a, commander In chief OF the
Russian army, q very cautious and indo-
lent man ; requesting at the same time an
order for attacking them. B~outourlin,
knowing that Souworow had only a few
hundred men under him. expressly forbad
him to undertake any thing. But Souwo.
row, who, that very instant, had learned
thar the Polish ~confederates had defeated
the Petersburgh regiment, that their nun
bers were daily increasing, and already ex.
ceeded five thousand, judged that he could
not delay for one moment, the destruction
of a nucleus, already too considerable. He
hastily collected his litie army, amounting
to one thousand men only, and marched in
quest of the enemy. In four DAYS he
marched upwards Of Fifty leagues, fell un.
expectedly upon the Poles, in the middle
of the night, defeated and dispersed them
and took Ssalowitz, with twelve pieces o.
cannon. The day after he followed up his
victory, and destroyed whatever had es
capped from the FIRST battle. He then has,
tened to transmit to Boutouilin the detail:
Of this daring expedition, by writing tc
him: /" AS a soldier | have disobeyed; !
must be punished and | send you ms
sword-But, as a Russian, | have done
my duty, in destroying the confederate for
ces, which we could not have wi,hstoot
had they been allowed sufficient time ii
which to collect" Boutourlin was wonder.
struck. Not knowing in what mapner 4
act towards ~Senworow, he determined &
write to the empress for orders. On thu
receipt of his letter, Catherine wrote t
the victorious general: 8 Marshal Boutour
lin, as your chief, must put you under az
arrest, to punish the want of subordinatior
in the soldier as your sovereign, / reserve
to myself the pleasure of recompensing the
zeal of the faithful subject. who, by a
splendid action, has SO well served his
country" She sent him the order of St.
Alexander.
In 1890, the empress had given express
orders to take IsmailoH; the siege of thai
place having been twice raised. Potemkin,
who commanded the Russian army, fear
ing to disobey Catherine for the third time
communicated his orders to Souworow,
proposing to him, at the same time, to re-
new the siege, and to take the command
of it. Notwithstanding the dangers attend
ing an expedition which had already mis-
carried twice, Souworow, always relying
with confidence on his own resources, ac-
cepted the proposal by saying simply " II
is the enpress's zvish: she must be obeyed.n
He Immediately assembled his troops, and
after four days of forced marches, arrived
under the walls of Ismailof; several days
were spent III preparing fascines, ladders,
and all the instruments necessary for an as
sault. In the meantimc, he got a fort con-
structed in a remot place, to exercise his
soldiers in scaling walls and, the better
to deceive the enemy, he caused a trench
to be opened within thirty or forty fathoms
of the place as if he meant to proceed by
a regular siege. livery thing was pre-
pared for the assault" says the author, the
orders were given, the columns were be-
ginning their march, in the middle OF the
night, when an officer arrived with drs-
patches from prince Potemkin. Souworow
guessed that those dispatches contained an
order to retreat, or some secret snare
The fact was, that Potemkin could not but
shudder at the uncertainty of such an en-