Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1831-06-07

Z uifcCttQ us III uOuy upo0 oleOIoe.
The Poles did no, accept The comba', and retifed up
on kslnwin and Ssrowyn-our advanced guard follow
ed them TO Minso bury. G.n. Thiemsn 10 wa,ehius
the coun ry between the VIE purz. the Vis,uls. aps
the c,useway OF war,aw. Gen. r.veiuw.ixh oesu
pies Koch, AID Gen. 0ugr0umof will establish himsel
a, wegron.
Geo Umin.ky bad retired upon Puilusk, aud C n
Sachen was ordered to watch him.
Gen, Sierawski had passed on The oh to the left sid
Of the Vistula. with 600 men. Gen. Rudise or bavin,
learned that Dwernieki bad passed the Bug bstweei
tbs Latonic aud UteiluE, ha! concentrated forcss to AZ
tack him. Gar. Kreu z had received orders 10 follow
him, aud Gen. ID rinsdtf to Gu, oil his eommunica
,ions With Zamose.
Yesterday, Gen. Ojgroumof attacked the ccros o
Jumin' Xxi. VINO had placed himself upon The rigAt OF th,
Lie wick, in froOt OF Li,w, aud had ss'ahli,hed a tet
de p0nt The Russians overthrow the enemy, an,
even made themselves matters Of ,hs work. The,
had already taken many cannon, when a mess OF 2 list
cavalry forsed them to abandon their booty, aud 10 fall
back upon the infantry, which sustained aud repulsst
oil attacks. We have taken from 3 20 400 prisoners
tue Killed must have b-en numerous on the side Of the
enemy We have only a few hundred men hors d.
combat Gen. Ougrormoi remains in The position
which he had conquered, and has destroyed the in,
trsnchmsns formed by he enemy.
(Gaxette PEtat de Prusse,
Although In the preceding bulletin, tho Russian,
claim victories. yet it VIII be perceived, tina, they
were acting on the defen'ive. and according to theiI
own shswiug, they wero victorious only in repellinp
assaults from the Poles.
The French papers contain q proclama ion from The
Emperor OF Russia. pacing the Government OF Cur
ianu lu Wnith 10 WIna,J IN q state OF war, and IT,
Pesple under military exeeuiijp, thus autheniisaiins
the Polish accounts Of IN ipsurrecion thore.
The Courier Francois Of April 80, commenting on
rumour. that an engagement bad taken place between
he Russians and Poles, which terminated to the I'D.
vantage Of tho latter. ssys that Z" !, could not have
been in its'lf Of grea, consequ nee. The dsspatche,
which speak OF IL. only 70 TO eor6rm the near approach
OF the general battle. II night perhaps be a matter OF
regret. ,ha, Poland should bs subjected to the risk Of ,
siugls battle but the Cemmsnder-i Chief has here.
'ofo'e shown so much p~rudsnss and skill. that they
may be relied upon az most competent TO appreciate
the best means Of sustaining his cause.
The same pap,r says, that there 10 another pisss oil
news more distressing than that Of a battle, 10 wit -
tina, the cholera morbus had invaded some OF tho dlvi.
IONS OF tbs Poli,h army. THAI prevailed in the Rus.
sian corps Of Count Pahlen, ard been communicated
90 the PILES by prisoners taken In the neish5orhood Of
Setdllc. Aud tho conc ntration Of Diehi.sch's forces
IN those eoviron', will propagate il through his whole
amy. Ii Will PROBABLY be the same with that Of the
Poles.
Iii, confidently said. iha, Marshal Gusi.eneau bad
received orders TO enter Poland with bis army, and
that the movement had only been prevented by the 10.
su'rection at Liihusnia.
Letters from Warsaw, according 10 some journal no
named, " announced that among the prison srs AIKEN a,
lgmsDy, was the Prinse Paul, son Of the Grand Duke
Constantine aud that the Commander lin Chief had
demanded a court squipage to conduct a prisoner.
when, he says in his Dispatches. they will be much
surprised to SEQ enter Warsaw. They were lost In
conjecture, 10 the Capital, az 10 the name oil this per.
se1age."
SUCCESS OF THE POLES.
Extracts OF a letter from Dundee. dats 10Th April {:
WITHIN meIe last few dAys, ssv~ral vessels have ar
rive from Dant8ig and Memel. One yesterday. from
the later port, 10 seven days, the Captain OF which
reports, that a great battle had been fought be,w een
the Russians and the Poles on The l5k inst. in which
the former were totally defeated, and that 1000 had
gone over, during the battle, to the side Of the Poles
lie reports further, that detachments of the Russian
Troops were in full retreat upon Memel, where some
OF them had already arrived before he left. Also, that
he had himself conversed with some Russian officers.
who confessed that Gen. Diebitsch had been worsted,,
and that the Poles had been found a different sort of
eremy TO the Turks.-This account cannot, of course
be strictly relied upon-but the fact of a battle having
taken place on the 18th inst, in which the Russian Ar,
my were the sufferers, is confirmed by the arrival of
a vessel at Leith, from Dantzig, in a lew DAYS"
GENERAL OVERNIGHT IN VOLHYNIA.
Gsneral Dwernieki, whom the G ,rman journals have
go often announced as lost, " no with bis whole corps
was surrounded by The Russian Generals De witt,
keuiz, and Rudiger, though neither Of them dare attack
him, aud whom the Field Msesbai managed 10 destroy
iu each OF hi. reports, has en'.r'd V,lhyoia, after hav-
ing passed the Bug, near KrYlow, on the nisb nj the
10Th and llth Gu rent.
TIE .%fficer. Ksezkowski. who brought us this nevs.
iefI him on the 18th at Horouchaw, at Tho momsn,
when his column took the direction OF Dubno and Krz..
minlse. Our General met at Chorachow, recruits from
~YolbyDia, which the Russians we're leading in chains
He asked what was tho erimo for whish they we're en-.
chained. They replied that they had committed no
Grim. but that they were leading them in this w,v 10
join the army. Ask ihsse brave fellows, rtjoined &C.
neral Dwsrnicki, pointing to our men, ADD learn from
them II . single one Of them has been treated In 10
cruei d manhef 'hey VIII reply, that all OF them
have hsstened, freely and full of ardour, to tho defepcs
OF our common country; and on the order Of The Gene.
raj, our laneers and our ch asseurs broke the chains
which afforded an affecting spectacle. Embrace each
other them said the General 10 them, you are all bro.
theirs. Tears flowed, cries OF Joy were heard and the
Volhynians mingled with our troops. The enthusiasm
Is general contributions fJw in; and the ibh abitanis
arrive from all sides with arms in their hands.
the entry Of General Dwernicki into Volhynia pro.
misses US great advantage it will be the signal oil 10.
surreciion Tor all !hs Russian Polish PROVINCES: and Ia
will ensure US besides great supplies of provisions.
volhynia was the magazine for the army ol'ths Field
Marshal, who had already obtained from 1t a con.ide-
rable transport OF corn. Nothing resisted The entrance
OF our General. He is said now 10 be a, Dubno. and
that on bis road he routed some d%etaohmenis of the an.
emy.-Every body 10 aiming; already several suuad.
rons are ready TO march. You can form no idea of
the enihusiasm Of the inhabitants, who, al every st,n
arrive to crowd the ranks OF our brave men, For he
last half a century our brethren OF Simogitia, of Vol.
hynia, OF Podolia, and Of the Urkrans, have groaned
under the weight OF servitud', and Of hostile occupa.
ton. Nineteen long years have pa st since The ipbabi
tants beyond the Bug have seen for once The Polish
lance. Dwernicki showed Them again our yie,oriou,
phalanxes hearing the standard Of liberty.
The London papers OF the 28ih published the fol ow
ing paragraph from The Constitutional Of The preceding
day:
at is rumoured that a courier arrived yestsrd,v
from Germany, with the ne WIS that tbs heroes of tbe
Visiuia, sfter a terrible battle Of three DAYS, tough on.
ly seven Leagues from the frontiers, between Ru,.i,
and ancien, Poland. in which they displayed prodigiss
OF valor, bad completely routed the army OF the snesy,
They intercepted a courier from Marshal Disbit,eb
to the Emperor, Informing him that the Imperial Guards
wera entirely disheartened and disaf. ctsd."
Ihis Intelligence being too good 10 be true, has moi
been confirmed.
The Dutch and German papers on the contrary, re.
present the Polish forces as diminished In number. and
exhausted In energy, while daily endorsements add.
vigour to the Russians. IL we arc TO Judge by past
effects, the latter picture must be false on the truth
OF the fsrmer, a lew days will d ecide.