Martinsburgh gazette. [volume] (Martinsburgh, Va. [W. Va.]) 1810-1825, 1813-01-15

rected fire Of the Russian artillery OBJ
llged the epemy's cavalry to re,reas.-
len officers and one hundred and City
privares were taken prisoners. Four
French regiments, VIZ. eleventh aud
twelfth Chasseurs a Cheval, the 5th and
! 9th Hulans, a Wirtemburg regiment of
Prussisn Hussars, and the Polish Hus-
sars, suffered considerable loss in this
| action.
Marshal Kutusow had received a re-
porrfrom generals Tomazow & Thitcha.
kow, of the 10Th September, stating
that their army had passed the Styra, on
the I'd, which movement had obliged
Prince Schwartzenburg to fall back on
Bresch.
Lord CathCart's dispatches speak in
the highest terms of the state of the Rus.
sian Army.
LONDON, November 10.
1t appears by letters from our fleet off
the Scheldt, that the defeat of the French
near Moscow was known at Flushing on
Monday. 1t was known also at Ostend,
where according to the statement of the
Captain of a vessel from thence, an ac-
count had been received just before ne
sailed, !" that the French were driven
out of Moscow and that Bonsparte was
almost OUT of Russia"
One material fact has perhaps not
been sufficiently impressed upon the pub
lie mind. Victor had been ordered from
Smolensk to Join Murat before the 18th,
the day on which Kutosof attacked the
latter. But the attack was made before
he could join him, with such effect, that
it was Immediately followed by the eva
cuation OF Moscow ina very precipitate
manner. And though Bonaparte march-
ed with the troops under his immediate
command, though Victor's division may
have united itself to Murat after the bat.
tie, Bonaparte with all this force did not
think it prudent to attack Kutusof, at
least had not for four days after Murat's
defeat. He seems to be chiefly intent
upon securing his retreat-And the Rus
sian General seems to think so himself
and not to expect a battle, or he would
not have detached SO large a body of ca
valry under Platow, Is regiments to
Smolensk, to attack the enemy in that
quarter. But B~onaparte if he be hardly
pressed in front or in his rear, may be
under the necessity Of hazarding a battle,
not with the view of regarding the ground
he has evacuated, Blu. of cutting his way
back to Poland.
The Russian successes have occasion.
ed a great sensation all along the enemy's
coast, and, we will venture to say, have
not been felt less in land ; though we have
not yet had an opportunity of learning the
public sentiment.
The extent Of Bonaparte's losses, and
the necessities of his situation, may be
inferred from the enormous levies and
CONSUMPTION which are to be demanded
90 out of every 100 of young men who
may happen to be 10 years of age.
This new and most enormous conscrip-
ton coming upon the back OF disaster,
for disasters cannot be concealed, must
increase disaTection. The late conspira'
tors were all military: The French ar
mics must be tired of this warfare In eli
mates where disease cuts off those who
the sword has spared-and even the vas
sal powers of Austria, and Bavaria, and
Saxony, must be 10th TO furnish contin.
gents in a cause foreign to their interest
aud destructive of their resources. Ia
citus, who was so well acquainted with
human nature, has put into the mouth OF
Galgacds the following observations, The
truth of which we yet may live 20 see
proved against Bonaparte;
IAN army compounded Of many ma.
tons, SO different, that il is success alone
which holds them together, mistortunes
and disasters viii surely dissolve them.
Unless you suppose that the Germans and
tbs Gauls are yet attached to them by any
real fidelity and affection, whilst present
ing their blood TO establish a dominion
altogether foreign and unnatural to them