Constitutional Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1824-1832, 1831-06-16
--latest from ENGLAND.

A-"itHoh papers To ule lUth ult. We n,
APP; D. Tor the loan OF papers of the latest datcs
toLAND.-Accounts from Poland are numerous
' ana IN some respects quite contradictory. 1t
appears That the Polish genealissmo has been compeed
to retreat before the combined corps of the Russian
my, ana was to take defensive position IL eages from
warsaw where general battle might be expected to
take place. \ new plan of operations was thus com
mencing, which was to overwhen the patriotic poles
by an united exertion. The road to Warsaw has ateIv
oeen prepared for vigorous defence; and treat thngs
appear to be hoped for from Schryznecki
There was much sickness and no little dismav NJ War
SAW Further particulars will be found our extracts
ne hiectlons in England were still favorable for tho
keforners. Belgium somewhat Disturbed Tho
portuguese usurper is said to have lost two or three Of
the Western Islands.
RUSSIA s. POLAND.
| From the Messenger dcs Chambres1
WARSAW, April 26.-We learn that Gen Dwern;c,;
mas completely beaten the Russians commanded bv Cen
munger, near Loutsk In this brilliant affair twelve
pieces OF cannon TAKEN and MANY prisoners among
whom was Gen. Rudger himself A whole polk of Cos
SUCKS was found dead in the river Styr The remains
o. the troops cut in pieces and dispersed 50 that
the corps may be looked upon totally DESTROYED This
I've, wh,cn we received from an authentic source is
confirmed by different private communications Ac.
corning TO direct reports which have Just arrived the
roles have also taken possession of military chest of
the Russians.
''Thc bold but udcious expedition of the Polish Go
neral Dwernick in Volhynia, with view to the deye
oPcment OF the nsurrecton and quiet the
OF the rear OF the Russian army will form
an important epise to that heroic struggle for freedom
made by the bravest nation of Europe, The German
FRENCH ana Polis papers, therefore, much occu-
Z
accounts generally leave great doubt upon the subject
Under the date of Warsaw April 26 we are told of
Victory gained by Dwernicki over Gen. Rudiger, at
Loutsk the fruits of which l2 pieces of cannon
and several thousand prisoners, among whom is the
Russian General himself.
On the other hand, from Vienna the same date (Apri
25 we have received news of totally opposte charac
ter According to this account Dyyerneck was beaten
near Doubno forced to the Styr and ntrench
himself on the left bank of the river. Pressed by the
corps of General Rudiger in Volhynia by that of Gen
hreutZ, detached from the great of Poland and
soon arassed as he will be by the corps of Gen. Roth,
who is rapidly marching for the frontiers Turkey the
Polish General would appear, by the news from Vienna
IN SUCH critical position that he already
to US ready to escape by Podoa and Moldava to place
himself under the protection the Porte Just Charles
the Twelfth did at Bender.
'The region of Vohgnia, (Loutsk and Doubno) where
Dwernick is now, is only distant from Warsaw from rs
TO gu leagues, whilst the distance from Vienna is more
than $50 leagues The fact therefore, proves decided
~ that the news from Vena, and that from Warsaw,
both bearing the date ofthe goth of April, relate
TO the affair.
ain addition to this, if Loutsk has been attacked be-
fore Doubno, it might be believed that Dwerncki after
first success had experienced check But the pas
sage OF the Bug having been effected he did not
march towards Loutsk, expected, but took his
march along the Austrian frontiers of Galica towards
the South, as far Radziwow, from thence to the
North upon Dubno, and then upon Loutsk
Inc AFFAIRS at Doubno must therefore have preceded
that OF Loutsk tor the absolute well as he
cause 1t could not have been known at Vienna and
Warsaw on the same day. 1t is, therefore, probable |
that the Austrian Gazette of Iceberg, in Iallics
whence the Vienna correspondent of the Austrian
Gazette derives the intelligence has represented as
defeat the difficulties and partial check which DIVER
nck experienced at Doubno, whilst the letters from
Warsaw of the 26th April, inserted in the Berlin and
Frankfort papers, might be quite in announcing
ma tho Polish General had achieved avctory at Loutsk
Dwernickl is man in Uther respects more likely to
beat the Russians than to suffer himself to be beaten
by them, not account ofthe superiority his forces
which, indeed merely a sort of movable column
but because he possesses in high degree military saga
city, and acquaintance with all the details of war
fare, by which he succeeds in throwing himself if
n
whehert be for the purpose of avoiding surprising
the enemy-concealing with much caution the object
OF his marches and countermarces, and never coming
to battle unless at an advantage to himself.
son consideration, do not any reason for |
dscredng the intelligence of the victory said to have
been gained by Dwernicki at Loutsk, and particularly
two commercial houses have this morning received
letters from Germany, which confirm it in all the part
Culars.
sit must have been seen by the extracts from the
Polish Gazette, that the head quarters of Skrzyneki
have been removed from Jakubow to Minsk, that is
to say, he has retreated towards Warsaw. We must
therefore, conclude that Marshal Diebitsch has united
all his forces before Sedec, which is his poin dappu
and that, on the other hand, at about twelve fifteen
leagues distant from their capital In the excellent pro-
Polish Generassimo explicitly informs his companions
in arms, and his fellow citizens that the contest under
taken with much mpetuosity is not yet at an end
and he exhors tem to confidence and perseverance, par
ticulary should the events ofhc require retrograde
movements.
"Dcbtsch is then about to march on Warsaw with
his army united mass, in place of advancing
formerly, in several corps, along it were, the rad
of circle, of which Warsaw to be the centre.
Thus, have already explained, series of mi
litary operations commencing After the checks
which the Russians formerly experienced and after
the fuitfulness of their different attempts, fourth plan
is about to be developed. Each of the armies has
sumed its original partthe Russians the oe nsve and
the Poles the defensive. But the Russians cannot
now, the former occasion arrive in sight of Pra
ga without having to fight battles the road and to
force positions with great loss of these positions
having been recently fortified with great Besides,
who tell that Skrzynecki may not by of those
bold and daring movements which peculiar to him,
again throw hmselfon the flank of Diebitscl and
force him to abandon his prey at the moment he believes
that he is Selling it
from the London Courier of May H..
Just as we were going To press we received Ham |
burg and other German papers the 9th inst. They
do not contain any further actual news from the the
atre Of war, but usual filed with reports of
conflicting nature The Prussan State Gazette !
gives sctDi-ofcIa Bulletin aud from this document
even would appear that there is truth in the de-
feat, which repor cd to have been sustained by The
Poles, at Kaluzyn, the 25th ut 1t is stated ffotR
Berlin. under date Of the first inst, that the main
army OF the Russians advancing against the