Virginia Argus. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1796-1816, 1813-01-28
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Thus, Of the $4,000 efficient men carried |,
way from Moscow, nearly one half have beer
put hors de combat on the road from Moscow
to Smolensk, whilst Victor and st. Cyr's divi.
| sions have been entirely ruined.
Thus the whole morale OF the enemy is near
ly DESTROYED whilst the spi its of the soldiers.
yielding to the pressure of defeat, sickness, and
want, have left them incapable of. active or vi
gorous eSertions; and Eeauharnois, who we
may be sure, draws faithGr picture of his ar.
my declares, in the two intercepted letters we
have published, that his mee are driven to
| such desperation to suffer themselves to b.,
| taken by the enemy" -
A more deplor:5le accouHrot The situation
| OF AN army cannot be concevcd.-6nd it's suf-
| ferings are not yet at an end. Beyond Smo
iensk we know they had not got on the 18th
of last month-an,l before that time Wittgen-
stein was at Vitepsk and Orsha directly in the
| front, communicating, no doubt, with the Mol
davian army, fresh and entire, under lorna
zow and TehickagoF. On the 9th Kutousoff
was at Elna, but three days march from Smo-
lensk, on his road TO Krasnoi which is on the
west of Smolensk. Meanwhile Platow Milla-
| radovitch have driyep Beauharnois from Doro-
gobuz out OF the main road-to. Smolensk, and
having forced hne to fly ~. MISUNDERSTANDING
have increased the diiIida lilies of. his march
an and le"gthsaed his dsta from the French
In this situation, FIJI of aeriI, WOE and want.
we leave them, rem&king, shaS@vfr, that he
Austrians seem to be little incIi6ed to share
| the miseries of the French, having crossed the
| Bug, with the apparereineenfion of finding that
which their friends are seeking for in vain,-
comfortable winter quarters.
or all the French armies, the only one entire
and the most numerous (what changeD is
that under Soult. What should hinder him, ii
he chose, from playing. the part of Monk
| Two more GottenD ID mails arrived last
night-but government lesnot received later
news from Petersburg NJ that inserted in the
| Extraordinary GazetteA Nut we find by the
following letter from oui,intslligent correspon.
prevailed at Saskatchewan Ne last packet
left Gotienburgb, that BeauIMrnois had been
surrounded al Smolensk-,)sf Buonaparte hav-
ing deserted the main army and taken Is, 900
men, had reached Mohilow, where he fell in
with reheehagoff, who attacked him-that the
| result was not known. ~
"HARw1cH, Dec Z.
This morning arrived the King George
packet, Capt. King: she bringsa report (Which
was generally credited) prevalent at Stock
holm, that Viccroy Beauharnois was surround.
ed at Smolensk, AMI that Bonaparte, who has
| deserted ms main army, with 5000 men had
reached Mohilow, where, however, they were
fallen in with by Tschettchykoff; the result of
| this rencontre is not~knowu, The Russian
feet was expected to lesye Wmgoe Sound the
day after the packet canie aYay.S
We received this morning Gerhan Papers to
the goth ult. and Swedish to the Cd Nov. The
| following are extracts from. them, and our rea-
ders will see the contrascGBeswesn them, the
former being entirely under ting influence of
| France -
Extract Of a letter from Copenhagen, dated
Nov. IS.
"We have received accounts here that Prince
Eckmuhl is dead of his wounds.
/ WARSAW, Nov. H.
can officer who left Smolensk, as courier
in the evening of the 8lh, set out at the mo-
ment that the Emperor wasSeptering with his
headquarters. He had an.spportWity of seeing
his M1 $es, and fssurin he was
..The army was also intRe mostSsatisfacto.
~ state. The season favored the marches -
They are made without aay,seious hnnoy ance
on the part OF the enemy, who~at fst announ
ced an intention of troubling lhsf move ment
but two or three vigorous receptions similar
70 the battle Of Maralovotz, in which he great
ly suffered, quickly disinclncd him from al
attempts.
"rhey talked seriously ofrgoing into winter
quarters, and in truth they cannot defer them >
GermansPapers,
Extract from the Daglish, AllslszAla IF Nov "a
The great Russian arIhyi moving from Jel
ma to Krasnoi The Cossacks'perform wonde rs
they not only destroy the columns of infantry
but attack The artillery with the greatest brave
ry. The French have lost between so anC
, 10000 men in their retreat from Moscow
The Whole road is covered with the dead bo
dies OF men and horses, ammunition chests
baggage, gun carriages, in one word there neve
has been an example OF such flight in the
memory OF man. All the valuable article
which had been plundered atAIoscow are reta
ken, upwards of one hundrede Wagons hav,
fallen into the hands OF the &ictors Tn
French are in want of eyef@Atlting, and are re
duced to the necessity Of eatitg horse hesl,
Their cavalry no longer Aex3sts, and they ar
daily losing part of the lit artillery they hav,
left. Fifteen officers of the Italian Guards hav
arrived in our army, and requested to be takcl
, into our service. We are assured that tin
1 strength of the whole French army does not ex
ceed 10000 men.
Intelligence received from Count Wittgcr
o steiT states, that he is at OrclIa. Mai. Genera
Harpe who was sent forward by Count Witt
genstein, reports, that the head Of the Frenc
columns had arrived at Smolcnsk.
Moscow, Oct 25.
. The following was yesterday made publ
: by Msj. Gen. stowaiskji;--
/, f" The enemy, who is daily put into difficult
y les, and beaten by our troti5ssxas forced TO
: bandon Moscow on the 1lth inst. but even j
= his tight he thought of aAiabolical expedier
: to dcpress the pious Russian nation with
. fresh cause Of sorrow, and by means of mine
4 to blow up the Kremin and the Temple OF Goo
!. But wonderful is God in his sanctuary
part OF the walls Of the Eremlin, and nearl