The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1813-03-16
FOREIGN.
From, the London Gazette Extraordinary,
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FOREIGN OFFICE, Jan. 18th, 1918.
Dispatches. of which the following are
copi.s, and an extract, have been received
by Niscount Castie,eagh, Ills Majesty's
Principal Secrotar of State for Foreign
Affairs from General Niscount Cathcart.
X. L. His MaJesty's Ambassador EXtraor-
binary and Pienpotentiary at the Court of
St. Petersburgh.
ST. PETERSBURG Dee. IS. 1918. q.
My LoRD-I now avail myself of Swe-
dish courier TO forward trauslations. Of two
bulletins. viz. one from Major General Ku-
tusotf, Aid de -Camp Gen. OF the Cd Dec
and one from Gen. Count Wittgcnstein, OF
the 4th December.
Your hordship will perceive by their re-
ports that the passage of the Berezyna has
cost the French upwards Of twenty thou
sand men, killed, wounded, drowned, and
prisoners, and the remains of Bonaparte' s
army with WHICH he is still present, are
underwriting to proceed towards Veleika,
while Gen. Wittgcnstein's corps is moving
upon its right, & with every expectation OF
getting before it (; the Moldawian army upon
the left, is moving upon Molodetchno, and
the main army, under Count Tormazcff,
is moving in parallel direction to that of
the Moldavian army, at no great distance
from it, while Count Platoff, with strong
detachment of Cossacks. light cavalry, and
light artillery, with the infantry, under
Erniaioff, is understood to be in front of the
frenchln the very line they are pursuing.
Ihe French force, as stated By the Adj
mlral, is evidently much over-rated.
The last place named by Count Witt
gensteia (Nementehina) is one or two sta
ges north from wilma. Wv.
Ine Russian patriotic levies continue TO
come forward with unabated zeal, and a
new army OF fifty thousand infantry and
twenty thousand cavalry, from some of the
southern provinces, is reported ready for
service and assembled. p.
The French march at night, and halt
during the day, in hollow squares; sur
rouHded as they are by CossaCks, their
supplies must be very precarous, &C mum
oers are said to be found dead of cold and
famine on every ground their army quits.
The Field Marshal is with the Moldavi-
an army.
Marshal Macdonald is reported bv the
Commandant of Riga. to occupy and are
cutting off the angle formed by the Dwina
with the Baltic; his right at Fredericks-
ham, his left at Tuckuma, and his center
at Eskay.
He menaces Riga, but probably with in
tention to prevent interruption to the sup
plies he wishes to send to meet the French
| army.
| have the honor to be, &c.
CATHCART.
hid de Camp General GobelnfsfSchof XII
fuse6's Retort TO his I,nherial IlIajcsfv
dated Beresind, December 3.
BY my last report, 1 had the satisfaction
to acquaint your Imperial Majesty of IN,
arrival, together with my corps, at Ba.
binowitseby. ] there received the first In
telligence which reached me Of Coun,
Wittgenstein's corps, who was establishing
the communication between himself and
our grand army.
In the mean time, / not only did no.
cease to act on the enemy's flank during hi
retreat, but obliged his advanced guard Il
keep CT regular defensive f-o.. G-sha ::
Borissof. On account of the continued attack
OF my detachments, the enemy every where
met the COssacks on his road; & the corp.
under my command took, in the skirmishe.
had with him, three generals, 70 staff ant
other officers, and FIVE thousand nine hun
dred and twenty nine privates. at least a.
many more have been killed.
Not far from Borysoff united myself tc
the corps under Count Wittgenstein, in con.
formity to whose orders am directed To
protect his right flank and in order that
there may be no obstacle in the passage of
the Beresyna, and to get the start of the en-
envy on the road to Wileyka, / wheeled
my corps to the right towards Berezyna,
from whence am in hopes to be better en-.
abled to cut hin OFF Arrived at. Lepel, |
vas there Informed by the inhabitants, that
n considerable corps of the enemy under
Gen. Wrede, was az Doktchizar. imme
diately ordered there a strong advanced
guard, under the command of Lieut.. Col.
Terse nborn, who has reported TO me, that
no sooner had he been perceived by the en-
enfy, than they retreated by the Wileyka
road, probably in the intention of uniting
with their main body. | am now going in
pursuit OF the enemy, and shall continue u
remain under the command OF Count Witt.
gcnstciD, conformably totEe orders / receiv-
cd to that effect from the Commander in
Chief Of the Armies.
Rehorf ./rof, The General ofcauaEyV Couul
WitfgeHsfe;H to Ms Imhcriat .NljesfV'
dafcd En- EiUouac, Hear kfemeH, 4th De-
ceH6er.
Immediately after Napoleon had effected
his passage over the J3etezyna, near Ston-
ilenzit, sent offtbe Md de camp Gene
raj hutusof, who had just arrived, with the
whole of his corps of light cavalry. to Lee
pei, in order that having crossed the river,
he might be enabled to act OH the enemy S
Hank ana at the same time keep observing
the remains Of the Bavarisns. under Gen.
Wredc, and who we're at DottChitZe. Ar
rived at Lcpei, he learned that these Ba-
varians had airsady quilted the place and
were marching 10y DoiginoF and Wilcyka.
and eodeayorrrg 70 unite themselves with
the main body Of the army at Smorg3nIa. -
In consequence OF this information, he sent
after them a detachment under Lieut.. Col
I..ts