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victory before ,hem--On the other sue
appear the ruins Of an Immense army
10 which numerous foreign nations were /
united together to destroy Powe'lul
nation in the bosom Of its native country
they were encouraged by = view OF
the result, but this result was deceptive.
One single heavy blow threw TINS I'M
mepse host into confusion-they n.y.
pursued by fear and terror; thsy arc
followed by hunger, having no 1000
they are in despair forced to eat aeaa
horses-ferced to do what their pohs"'
ed contemporaries can scarcely believe
feed upon the bodies of their own dead
brethren. The roads by which they fond
" dreamt to retire in triumph laden
with booty, are covered with their dead
bodies; their sick and wounded are
thrown aside by them on their march,
and left prey to famine and the cold
all these unfortunatcs, condemned !"
perish far fron their own countries
curse in different languages, ambition
as the cause of their destruction ana
those who remain under the colors OF
the broken legion., follow them without
courage, without hope. Worn out with
sufferings, they have lost all confidence
in fortune and in their generals lnei:
cannon are taken by hundreds: they
themselves surrender in whole detach'
ment,. At the first shot, they either
throw away their arms, or fight out OF
mere desperation. Such is the condl-
ton of the two armies which are now
to decide the fate of many nations.
From the London Gazette Ertroord'na-
ry, January II.
FopE1eN OFFICE, Jan. II, 1873.
Dispatches, of which the following
are copies, and an extract have been
received by viscount Castlereagh, his
n,ale.ty's principal secretary ofslate for
foreign affairs, from general viscount
Cathcart, K. T. his majesty's ambassador
extraordinary and plenipotentiary at the
court of St. Petersburgh.
ST.. PErERsBuxGH, Dec. l3, 1918.
NV Lord now avail myself OF a
Swedish courier to forward TRANSACTIONS
of two bulletins, viz one from ma]or
general Kutusoff, abide. camp-general,
of the I'd December, and one from gene
raj count Wittgenstein, of the 4,h De-
cember.
Your lordship will perseive by their
reports, that the passage Of the Berezy-
ma has cost the French upwards OF 20
thousand men, killed, wounded, drown
ed, and prisoners, and the remains OF
Bonaparte's army, with which he is still
present. are endeavoring to proceed to-
wards Veleika, while general Wittgen"
STEMS corps is moving upon its right,
and with every expectation of getting
before it; the Moldavian army upon the
left, is moving upon Mslodetchno, and
the main army, under count Tormszotf,
is moving in parallel direction to that
ofthe Moldavlan army, at no great dis
lance from it, while count Platoff, with
strong detachment of Cossacks, light
cavalry, and Ii 5ht artillery, with the in
fantry, under general Ernialoff, is un-
ds-stood to be in front of the French in
the very line they are pursuing.
The French force, as stated by the
admiral, is evidently much over-rated.
The last place named by count Witt
genstein (Nementehna) is one or two
stages north from wilma.
The Russian patriotic levies continue
to come forward with unabated zeal, and
new army of fifty thousand infantry *
twenty thousand cavalry, from some of
the southern provinces, is reported rea-
dy for service and assembled.
The French march at night, and halt
during the day in hollow squares sur
rounded as they are by cossacks, their
Supplies must be very prccarious, and
numbers are said to he found dead of
cold and famine on every goound their
army quits.
The field marshal is with the Media.
Wan army.
Marshal Macdonald is reported by the
commandment of Riga, to occupy an arc,
cutting off an angle formed by the Owl
ma with the Baltic bis right at Frede-
ricksham, his left at Tucksnia, and his
centre at Eskay.
He menaces Riga, but probably with
intention to prevent interruption to the
supplies he wishes to send to meet the
French army.
/ have the honor to be. SC.
CATHCART.
.dtd-de-camt General Gs6etnistchoFKu-
tusof's Refort to his Imherial la-
jesty, dated Beresyna, December 2.
BY nay last report, had the satisfac-
ton to acquaint your Imperial Majesty
Of my arrival, together with nv corns