The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1852-10-02
CONCLUSION OF RosToPCHIN's PAM
pHIET


PHLET.
Bulletin.-The churches Of which there
were sixteen hundred.
Observation. were exactly two hun
bred and sixty-seven.
Bulle,n.-The loss to Russia is incaicu'a-
BILE. 1t would not be too high valuation 10
estimate il al several thousand millions.
Discrimination the calculations made
by a commission, instructed TO inquire to the
subject, the loss produced by the confagration
and the war, as well in the city as in the 60
verument of Moscow, amounted TO 81 ,0O0,e0O
of roubles; it was thus very far from being
seyera thousand million.
Bulle,in.-Thirty thousand wounded and
sick Russians were burnt.
Observation.-I have already said that only
two thousand of the wounded remained be-
hind; will add, that the hospitals in which
they were were not burnt.
Bulletin.-Two hundred thousand substan-
tial inhabitants have been reduced to beggary
The crime is Rostopchin's, and he psrpetrated
il by means of wretches let loose from the pri-
sons.
Observation.-On my return to Moscow al
ter il had been evacuated by the enemy, found
there twelve or fifteen hundred persons, of the
poorer class Of people, who were in condition
of extreme misery. These were lodged, clothed
and fed, fo1a year, at the expense OF The govern
ment. As for the wretches, who, according to
the bulletin, were employed to set fire to the
city, they were, at that time, at least nifty
leagues distant from Moscow, having Quilted
il four days before.
Bulletn.-The soldiers found many cloaks
and furred coats for winter. Moscow is the
store-house for them.
Observaton.-Yes, but all the furred coats
had been carried off at the commencement, and
the militia of Moscow, of Turer, Of Jaroslaw
and of Weademis having purchased sixty one
thousand, very few remained.
2lst Bulletin, Goth September.-Three hun
dred incendiares were taken and shot.
Obseryation.-Here is an error of two hun
dred and eighty seven; for have already said
that only thirteen were shot.
Bulletin.-The magnificent palace of Cathe-
rine which has lately been provided with new
furniture.
Observation.-It was never furnished at all
as palace. Built at the extremity of the
city, it was converted, by the Emperor Paul,
into barracks, and l used it as hospital for
the wounded.
Bulletn.-While Rostopchin was carrying
off the engines, he left behind him sixty thou
sand muskets, one hundred and forty can
non, and one million FIVE hundred thousand car
tridges.
Observation-Disclosures hundred muskets, re-
paired at the arsenal, were given out to the
militia of Moscow. As for cannon, there were
ninety-four six Founders, with carriages and
caissons. They were on the way to Nigeny
Novogorod before the enemy entered Moscow.
The latter found at the arsenal six cracked
cannon, without carriages, and two enormous
culverins. Since Napoleon was compelled TO
leave in the kremlin more than thousand
carriages, of every description, he could not
have carried away any Russian cannon, and
we should have found them where we left them.
The greater portion of that artillery afterwards
made the campaign of 1913, with the militia
formed by General Count Tolsstoy. 1t is true
that powder magazine, where cartridges were
made for the Russian army, was left behind
the night that army passed through the city,
1t was not set on fire through the same negi-
gence which occasioned the burning of the
bridge OF Leipsic before the proper time.
Bulletin.-The burning of that capital will
retard the growth of Russia one hundred years.
Z Observation.-The capital has been rebuilt
proof that its inhabitants were not ruined
1t contains almost the same number of inha-
bitants that it did before it was burnt, with this
difference, that it is now built entirely of brick,
instead of acood. Magnificent palaces, whole
streets entirely new, and superb public squares,
render II, already, one Of the most beautiful
cities IN Europe, thanks to the paternal care
and solicitude Of the Emperor Alexander. Rus
STA, SO far from being retarded century, has
ienrned the secret of her gigantic strength,
wealth and resources.
Bulletin.-There were found in tie Kremlin
several ornaments used in the coronation of the
Emperor, and all the standards taken in the
wars with the Turks within the last hundred
years.
observation.-The ornaments used in the
coronation, and which are part of the trea-
sure as well as those used in the consecra,ion
y Inc Patriarch, the two being valued at d.
"o'ooo roubles, had all been dispatched be fore
me entry of the enemy to Nigenys Ncyogorod
and 'ologda. As to the standards tax in the
vars with the Turks, they are all in the arse
nal at St. Petersburg.
naa'e"n.-A Madonna set with diamonds
was found. itwas likewise sent to Paris.
opsefSa''on.-it is custom among the Rus.
sans 70 ornament with precious stones, images
"n'cn 'ney regard with peculiar veneration.-
~ seems 'hat trophy never got to France anv
A'0'e 'han Inc enormous cross, which sur
mounted the great steeple called Franel;t; -
TWAS OF gilt iron. but German travsllsr nh j.
came to Moscow during the reign Of III. c.. ~
Alexis III know NOT uDon wba, .,l