Alexandria gazette, commercial and political. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1812-1817, 1813-04-08
net w;th An answer; whereupon Eassa.

no ordered the generaloi cavairy BGur.
,ier. 10 move forward with the dlspa-a.
HE troops from wilma to meet Napo-
leon. Boursier found him ~ S,z las4,
at the very moment when tic US ih I'M
noinent danger Of berg talen III the
house where he hal a.lghted by some
Cossacks Who suddenly rushed IN. He
was protected however by ~ 'ol ais At
tendants or guards, interposlng tlc'a.
selves between him and his assaliaa.s,
During the scufflr IN bis room, the e'"-
peror escaped through wlndow Ito tne
ward, and hastened on foot, through ma
nv windings and byeways, to the troops
of Boursier, who ultimately succeeded
in conveying him to wilma. Bet Mp
leon staid only two hours a. Wilma. De.
clared Murat gencaraliss'mo Of all tic
troops, and, uader the name OF the duke
of Viccnza, proceeded, according to one
account, by the way of Kowno, Wiiko-
wicke, Wirballen, &e. to Warsaw dl-
rect; but cording to another, BY way
of Thorn to Glogau. Thus much iscer-
tain, however, that by abandoning bis az
my he has saved his own person; and
that the fugitives arriving here, receive
orders to repair to Glogau. All the par
ticslars which l have stated Of Napo-
Icons personal danger are matters of
fact, and have been declared by eye wit
nesses who stood around him at Sy.
Zemsk.
1t iscon6rmed that Bassano, and seve-
raj French dignitaries. with the foreign
ministers, all set of between the 5th and
9Th inst. for Warsaw. The descriptions
Of the misery at wilma, and of the arri,
val of Iugilives, would exceed all belief.
Marshals, generals of brigade and OF di-
vision arrived there disguised on foot,
on horseback, without saddle,in sleighs
whore FIVE or six Of them were huddled
together, dragged BY single wretehed
horse, and covered with all manner of
Ill assorted dresses and cloaks. Rldlca-
lyus as was their various and piebald ap-
pearance, it was calculated to excite
compassion, as their distress was ex-
treme The men died by thousands thro'
the cold, which on the 7lh was here at
twenty degrees, and to this day CONT
MUGS from fourteen to fifteen degrees of
Reamur, with great fall Of snow. The
roads are choked up with the dead, and
contagious distempers are frequent at
wilma, Kowno, and other places on our
frontier.
DYc. 1.-THE fugitives, who arrive
here every nour, exhibit most atfict-
ing spectacle. Their distress exceeds
all description. The flight from Auer.
stadt and Jena was nothing compared
with the present. We see generals ar.
irving here Just as they did at Wilma, on
foot bereft Of every thing, and in pea
SAINTS Clothes. The high dignltariss,
though they come in slodges, two or
thrce in each, are most of them so
w.etchedly clothed, and have suffered 80
much by frost aud hunger, that they are
pitiabe objects For instance, Prince
Adam of Nuremberg arrived here with
his clothes in rags; he had not changed
his shirt for Ave weeks, nor during tina.
time lain iii any bed.-The whole time
he was with the army, he sp~nt under
he open sky. For three weeks he was
Obliged to live on horse flesh. A per-
son of distinction who visited M-ye.
sterday, relates that he was Obliged to
live in the same manner and 10 witness
the shocking sight of the wounded gnaw-
ing, through hunger pieces out of the
flesh Of their wounded comrades. The
soldiers did not take the trouble to kill
the horses first, but stabbed them and
sucked their blood to quench their own
thirst; and then, with atrocious cruelty,
cut pieces out of their flesh whilst alive,
and ate these raw From this sketch
1T their extreme wretchedness, you may
easily judge, that the grand army is to
be considered as in a state of that dis.
Dec 2a.-Yesterday there was still
great throng of persons returning from
Russia, in every shape of wretchedness
How long this passage of wrecks and
,keletons will last is uncertain but i!
is thought that it will be over this day.
Pursuant to printed order, which ap. |
peared yesterday, the places on the Wis.,
iula, for assembling the troops, are the
same as / have stated, with the eacst:
tim Of Dantzic and it seems, they have
some hopes of collecting some troops,
and making a stand on the Vistula.-
Hence 1t is, that the dignitaries intend
to stay here for the present In my OPT.
6ion this depends entirely upon the fac
al tine corps under Macdonald. Ofici..l
was yesterday received, that
!ais cops had only broken up on the
18th; consequently, by forced marches,
it may reach the river Mcneil to-mor-
o~, unless molested by Wittgepsteln
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