The Rhode-Island Republican. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1809-1841, 1813-05-13
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Europe, on the 10th oil March -
PrLLAu.--Gen. Castillo occupied with
1900 men The fort Of P;llau. lie capitolat-
ed on the 26ih of January This capiiulauon
Is a convention by which the French troops
marched out With arms and baggage to re-
turn 10 France. The conduct OF Gen. Cas-
tilla, who surrendered. without snstalng 4
siege, the fortress which be commanded,
.hafl he examined by Council OF Enquiry
DAnrzIc Gen. Rapp, having under his
orders the Generals Of Division Hcndclct aud
Crandiean, lhe gen. Of cavalry Csvigoac, gen.
Campredon, commanding the engineers, and
gen Lepin, commanding the artillery, has IN
the fortress OF Dantzic. gairsoa .ot more
than 10000 men, and 4 su.ieiency OF bread
for $50 days, and OF meat and Other articles
for more ihan a year. The Russian army APP
broaching~ Dintzic about tho latter.eDd OF
January he marched 10 meet it, overthrcw
the advanced gtiard and took 400 prisoners.
Towards. the middle of February, he himself
marched out al the head Of 5000 men, and
$500 horse, carried three redonbts which the
enemy had constructed, and took from him
pieccs Of cannon and 300 men, He drove
the enemy to three leagues distance from the
place. The Russians hoped, in the course OF
Ecbruafy, to take advantage OF the ice TO at
tack the Holm, but the ice had been broken
by the care of Government The enemy
was allowed 10 advance, and when arrived
within shot, was destroyed by grapc-shot. lie
left at the foot Of the works, many killed and
wounded, Tho ihaw having commenced on
the | 81 ofMarch,it is expected to be inundated
THonN~--Thc engineer general Poicurin
Commands at Thorn. The garrison consists
OF 1000 Bavarians, and 500 French. The
Russian srmy, in the course oil fe5. made
three attempts 10 carry the works ~ advance
of the fortress, but was rcpulscd, and IT'S loss
was not less than from 10 900 men killed
or wounded. Thorn has bread for more than
nine moaihs. 5t'ff
MoDLIa-- Daendcls, general OF division,
Commands &t Modlin. lis garrison Is compo-
srd OF 1000 Saxons, 100 French, and 5000
Poles Fhe fortress is proyisioncd with
bread for several years with meat and other
articles for nine months. These great sup
plies of bread in the fortress of Vis,ala pro-
coed from The immense army magazines,
which were found IN them.
XAinosc has a garrison Of 1000 Poles.
Czsnlochan has u garrison of 900 Poles. The
prince OF Schwartzcnbcrg, on the l2th OF
Feb had taken the position Peloca.s A fresh
Austriao Gorpsso OF observation was collecting
on the frontiers Of Bohemia. General Reg
nicr, with the 7lb corps, marched by Patri-
kan and RaMa, upon Kaiish. His cavalry was
attacked, on the J 3th of February, by Rus
sian corps OF troops, which passed the Vistu-
Ia, upon the ice between Thorn and Modln,
on the side of Flock. Gen Resnier repuiscd
,his attack, even in the town OF Kalish. A
Saxon General Of Brigade, with his brigade,
was cut Off by the enemy, bot he fell back
opon Gen. Ponia,owsky's corps, which had
elected its junction with the Austrian corps,
and was between Plica and Cracow. Gen.
Regnier has repasscd the Oder, and taken a
position in the from, oi Dresden. SO much
for Poland. @
Tie Viccroy bad, in the beginning Of Feb.
caused ihc ,ilth corps To advance HON Ber-
lin tovurdsstnc Oder. THIS corps arrived at
Frankfort jas, when toe Niccroy, being In.
formed oil the evacuation OF Warsaw, per-
Ceived tha, his position on Poscn was then OF
no further utility, and he returned without
being disturbed, behind the Odor. .a.
Onahc ISth OF February, corps OF $500
Russian Light Cavalry crossed the Neither
Oler,; over the ice, The Marshal Duke OF
Castiglionc ordered Gen. Poinsct TO meet
them with two battaions of infmtry and 100
horses. In Reconnaissance lew leagues
from Bcrlio, that General killed about 60 Of
their pen, and among. o,hers, Prussian cen
tlcman called the Count de Schwc rih. In
che r.igh: the encmy's horse turned Berlin;
they surprised the post which guards the
sa,o OF Oraounburg, and, or 400 Of them
penetrated into the city this was un the morn
ing OF, abe 2sth February The Duke of
Cas,ighooc caused some caunon shot to be
fired az them, aid drove them away.owith his
infantry The lower class Of people at Ber-
lin cndeavoured to profit by this Circumstance,
but the:bdrger Guard, which is composed Of
all the citizens, performed the part of the
police, and order was immediately re-estab-
lished. Aher this affair. ,he encmy's light
srocps disappeared. .' ...-
On the 22d February, the Yiceroy with
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