The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1852-10-01

i for in the absence Of a Napoleon, an Iturbids
can always be found.
i The deputation from the city Of Moscow, of
which M.M"*s speaks, was composed OF q do
zen Of the dregs Of the people, very badly clad.
He who represented the nobility, the clergy,
the authorities, and the entire body Of mer-
chants, was simply a ueighboring citizon.-
/ Napoleon, seeing how ridiculous farce it
was, turned his back upon them.
The escort Of police dragons, of which n.
Ma. speaks, was composed of ten men, to
accompany the wagons, 10 which were the
papers of the Administration. As for myself,
l was on horseback, and left the city the mo-
ment the cannon atthe kremlin was fred
Before finishing this little narrative, design to
make few observations upon the bullet ms of
Napoleon, dated from Moscow. Ii will be seen
whether or not, they form proper materials for
history. as
Bulletin No. 10. Sixteenth September.
The most complete anarchy reigned in the
city; drunken lunatics ran about the streets,
and SCI FIRE to it in all directions.
| Observation. s-t4....
| The few inhabitants who remained in the city
kept themselves closely shut up in their
houses, being induced to do SO by fear and
doubt. II, at the entry of Napoleon, the luna
tics were already FIRE raising, why were they not
| arres,ed7 as,:fr.,--s.g "a
The bulletin. 1s'4' ass-~-"s Fl
Governor Rostopchin had caused all the mer-
chants and tradesmen to be sent off, by whose
means order might have been established.
Observation. re- -s--e. e --ssa e.
All those persons had departed of their own
accord several days before. Besides, how could
merchants establish order at head quarters, and
10 an entire army? ..-r 49,. AL
Bulletin. -- ~. 5..t .,fs~.
| More than four hundred French and Ger
mans were arrested by his orders.
Observation. asa ta-rsss.." a-r
Not single one.
Bulletin. .-.,s.s. ~ ..e. 1890. SIS -.f e.
In fine he had carried off the fremen with
the engines. v1.7rAEf 49,.
Observation. rssf ...F - .ssE
l have already said that ninety-six pumps
with all the appurtenances, including the corps
of iremeu, had been sent into the interior of
the empire. ssa es..5s5 e.s
Bulletin. IL .sesr5
Thirty thousand Russians, wounded or sick,
were left at the hospitals, without attendants,
and with out food. fgs r5.
Observation.
Sixteen or seventeen thousand set out in four
thousand carriages the day before the occupa'
ton of Moscow, from that city for Kalomena,
whence they descended the Okla in large CO.
vered boats, to the government of Reza ma,
where hospitals had been established. Two
thousand wounded remained in Moscow.
Bulletin.
The Russians had lost fifty thousand men at
the battle of Borodino. An estimate has been
made of the Russian Generals killed or wound
ed in the battle. They amounted to forty-fve or
fifty.
Observation.
The lost in killed and wounded only thirty.
FIVE or thirty thousand men. One thousand
seven hundred and thirty-two officers, and
eighteen generals. Napoleon, himself los t in
killed and wounded, more than fifty thousand
men, twelve hundred officers, and forty mine
generals. l had all the returns from an officer
who had charge Of them, and who was in the
staff of the Prince of NeufchateI. That off.
Ger, who was wounded in the battle of Boro-
dino, was left at the hospital of Galitzen.
Bulletin. s
There were found in the house of the mis-.
creant Rostopchin, papers and letters half
written. -. -...7s -,.-.-.--.-.
Observation. ~.. s. -
All those papers, for the most part Of no va
lue, were recaptured BY the Cossacs, and were
not worth the trouble it cost to send them back
to me. was not come upon of sudden; ne.
vertheless, was the entry of the enemy sur
prise to mel it is hardly possible, then, that l
should not have had time to finish letter. |
left the city on horseback, at slow gait, by
the barrier of Rezana, and did not leave the
boulevard until had learned that the advance
guard of the French army had entered the city.
Bulletin. ...l -4 ..
On the 18th violent wind arose three OF
four hundred brigands took advantage of it to
uIo Tue CITY III i've nuuQTcu places al once, by
order of Rostopchin. s
| Observation.
Thus, those three or four hundred brigands
waiting for violent wind, remained four DAYS
in the midst of the French army. They mus,
have been very active TO set fire to the city in
FIVE hundred places at once, seeing that the.
numbered only three or four hundred. As fo
my name, it serves as refrain to the conHa
grafton, as that of Marlborough does in the
song. 5r-5.
} THE MISSION TO CHINA.
The New York Herald very justly remarks
! that in no respect has the acquisition of Cali