Constitutional Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1824-1832, 1831-06-09
FROM the ~. 4. Commercial Advertiser Of June T.
Four Days Later from Enpl.,,d


ing from Liverpool, whence she called on the 81 OF
May. BY this arrives the Editors of the CONNER
cia Advertiser have their usual files 10 Saturday t,
''h OF May, inclusive
with respect 10 the Polish war, there is no FIR
ther news OF ch"crins character. We give below
TWO farther official accounts from the Poles them
serves IN one OF which they acknowledge defeat of
tie detachment of Gen S,eraenski, who had impru-
gently ATTACKED with 5000 Polls, Russian army Of
S',ooo ne lost 1900 men, and driven back and
compelled To rccross the Vlstul,
Inc longer Of the official articles 70 which we oro
u w .ee,tinS that signed by the Polish Commander
~ I'M! himself, bears The date as that pub-
shed from the same source Monday of last yvee
w; the iIh OF April In that DESPATCH the tri-
"mphant entry of Gen. Dwprnicki ,nto Volbvni,
was announced Fhe present despa ch leaves Thar
important fact somewhat doubtful Other accounts
however speak of the Remittance of The Co,no,
sr ,1 mo that Province: end some of them
hnd out hopetha he may be able to carry the famp
81 instruction into Podolla and the Ukraine The
Russian forces were fast concentrating and a preat
atie was expected.
hf'Faft from an ial Despatch addressed to L:s
~ 1NGtLDn1f Government.
The enemy, whom our victories OBLIGED 70 abyn
don the right bank of the Vistuia and who concen
rated his forces on the Sedlec road uneasy at secn
ms communications with Balystok by tho yv.y ~.
frame, cut off. detached against General ITr;nI;
the corps of General Ugt0mow, consisr,ng ~ &c
9TH regiment Ct infantry division of cTs'nadirrs
one battalion of sappers, two regiments If coy,Ir,,'
md two batteries of artillery one of large calibre ~
AT sight OF SO superior force General Umpski
thought II advisable recruss the Dwiec lea VIM
only one detachment to defend the hastily reconstructed
bridge head, which the enemy attacked yiporousJv
Grn Umnsk ordered Tie lst Huans TO ford the
RIVER and attack six OF the enemy squudr. ns which
were posted on the opposite bank This order was
successfully executed. GU: cavalry repulsed that
OF the enemy, killed 50 men, made 500 prisoners
ana captured 200 horses. Observing, however that
the enemy was newing his attacks on the BRIDGE.
mead with continue supplies of fresh troops, General
OHinsRl gave orders for evacua,ing the post and
then Major Chlcwskl and fifty wounded soldiers
were made prisoners by he Russians. The enpage-
ment terminated by heavy cannenade, and on his
occasion our ariery-men gave proofs Of extraordi-
nary courage, having only few field pieces to ODD.
pose to numerous artillery OF large ca!ibre Our
loss In these affairs has been 90 officers 90 subo
Gers and men, and 200 wounded. On the 10th of
AprIi' Gen RAJ Uminski again took Wygrow, where
he found 40 OF our wounded men, and was enabled
to estimate the extent of the enemy's loss The
number of his wounded amounted to 400 aa,on9.
hon were Leu Col Tylle, of The Sappers a
Major. and inferl.r officers. On The field of hat,
tie were found severa. hundred muskets and In Wv
grow q quantity of provisions.
All the right bank OF the Vis,ula is cleared of
ne enemy. The army corps of Generals Pac and
Serawski have crossed the river and are in full march
towards the palatlnacs of Podlachia Lublip where
they are takng possession Of the Russian maga-
zines General Dwernicki, who was detained for
some time by The badness OF the roads in the neIg-
borh"od OF Lamosc, advanced, in order to deceive
the enemy, as far Zwrerzyniec, in the direction
OF the Vlsua, where he gave orders for collectiu,
supplies OF provisions at Turobn and Zanew His
uesgn OF routing the enemy by forced march sue
ceeded perfectly, as is ahested by the report Of
Field Marshal Diebltsch himself However, Come
raj Dwernicki prohed by his halt near Zamosc 10
provision the fortress more abundantly, to complete
It's garrison and the army corps under his COM
mand, by the taken from the communal puard
and the volunteers who thronged from all parts
and, as as he found the road passable marched
towards The Bug. He routed and took some cnemys
cfa nod a.
which he passed with his troops Thus the neisn
OF our cannon resounded on that spot which had SD
long been subjected, to foreign yoke. Every where
Oh his ma ch Gen. Dwernick and his troops were
received as d,liverers by our countrymen the Vob,,
mans The last report of Gen. Dwerncki is dateI,
three marches beyond the Bug.
r. Signed sKRZYNEcKr.
Head Quarters at fgdrzeIow, April H.
Warsap, .4p,iE 2I.-GeneraI SIrzvnecki baa
sent report 10 the Polish Government in which
lie states that corps of COCO men, in their ardoY
attacked Russian corps of $4,000 men, and could
not long sustain 20 disproportonate struggle The
GENERAL ln-Chief states hat the corps were COM
PEELED to cross the Vistua precpitately with loss
OF 200 men. and two Lieutenant-C olonels one Of
OF whom was drowned The other was the Minis
Ter for Foreign 4 fair. Malachouski No ay
tlllery, however, remained in the power of the
Russians The Generul-in-Chief in giving an &C.
count OF this unfortunate affair." endeayOrs to impress
upon MS courageous brothers arms the necessity
whatever may be their confidence in their conrege
promise their cause.
, Among the rumors from the scat of war; was one OF
the capture Of Siedlec, be the Polish Gen. Tminski Of
Ter an obstinate conflict with the Russians This news
announced IN the official Gazette of Warsaw together
with the retreat of the left wing of the Russians sta
tloned at Kock upon ViePrz and Dadiew; and the no.
treat OF Marshall pebtsch himself across the Bug an
nounced by the Warsaw Courier of the 10Th of April
Upon these rumors the Messenger des Chambres, re.
marks:
'Nothng can explain these remarkable and serious
facts, which would decide the freedom of Poland, but
the instructions of the Lthuanians Volhynians and
even among the Russian themselves, which have obi
ged Debsch to march to the assistance of the en-
pre-, menaced with dismemherment by revolution
which appears to extend from Llvonia to PodoIia and
self. ~
After the vigorous resistance of The Russians at
Sedlec, where almost the whole Of The Army was
occupation ofthat place by the Poles
IS pert 'cys xPlicable, unless admit the news
OF the retreat Of Marshal Diebtsch who could only
have made that stubborn resistance in order TO con-
cea his retrograds movement, and, prevent the re-
treat bringing oiter it the destruction of the whole
Russian army-or. at least, the loss of tho ~