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forty kinth (french) builktin.
Warsaw, January g.
Breslaw has surrendered. The capitulation
has not yet been received at the head-quartets;
neither has the inventory of the magazines of
subsistence, nr of the clothing and artdlery, yet
come to hand, They arc, however, known to
be very considerable. Prince Jerome must
have made his entry into the place, lie is go
ing to besiege Rrieg, Schweldnilz, and koscl.
General Victor, commander of the tenth
corps of the army, has marched to hesiege
Coi berg, and Dantzic, and to take these places
during the remainder of the winter.
I M. Dc Zastrow, aid-dc-camp to the king of
Prussia. a wise and moderate man, who had
signed the. armistice which his master did not
ratify, was, however, on his arrival at Konigv-
Lurg appointed minister for foreign affairs.
Our cavalry is not far from Komgshurg.
The Russian ai iny is continuing its move
ment towards Grodno. We learn that in the.
last engagements it had a groat number of ge
nerals killed and wounded. It evinces great
discontents against the emperor of Russia and
the court. The soldiers say, that if their army
had been judged strong enough to fight with
advantage against the French, the emperor,his
guards, the garrison of Petersburg, and the ge
nerals of his court, would have been conducted
to the army by the same security which
b r ought them to it last year : that if on the
contrary, the events of Austcrlitz, and those of
Jena made it l>e thought that the Russians
could not obtain successes against the French
ai my, they ought not to have been engaged in
an unequal struggle. They also say, “ The
emperor Alexander has coinpiomissed our
glory. Wc have also been vanquishers ; \vc
had established and shared the opinion that we
were invincible. These things are greatly al
tered. For these two years past w- have been
led about from the frontiers of Poland and Aus
tria, from the Dniester to the Vistula, and
Tnade to fall every where into the snares of the
enemy. It is difficult net to perceive that all
this is ill-managed.”
General Michclson is still in Moldavia.
There is no newsof his having marched against
the Turkish army, which occupies Bucharest
and Wallachia. The feats of that war are hi
therto confined to the investing of Choczin and
llender. Gieat movements are taking place
th oughout all Turkey to repel so, unjust an
ggrcssion.
General Baron Vincent is arrived from Vi
• nu at Warsaw, with letters from the empe
ror < i Austria for the emperor Napoleon.
There bad been a great fall of snow, and it
liad frozen for three days. The use of sledges
li al given great rapidity to the communications,
hut the thaw has just begun again. The Poles
h sect that such a winter is unexampled in this
<• ninn y. The temperature is in reality milder
than it generally is at Paris at this scaaun.
FIFTIETH R-VLIETIN.
U r arsaw, January 13.
The troops found at Ostrolcnka several sick ;
Russians, whom the enemy had been unable to
i dvc oft’with him. Independent of the loss of
the Russian army in killed and wounded, it lias
smicred still greater losses by the illness which
increases in it from day to day.
()n the Bth of January the garrison of Brcs
-1 uv, consisting of 5500 men, defiled before
1 vince Jerome. The tow n has sustained con
siderable damage. From the first movement
\,hm it was invested, the Prussian governor
c .used the three suburbs to be burned. The
fortress was regularly besieged ; we were al
ready battering it in breach when it surrender
or • 1. The Bavarian and Wurtemburg troops
ill ing fished themselves by their iatcHigence
id bravery. Prince Jerome is now investing
and besieging at the same time all the other
fortresses to Silesia. It is probable that they
will not hold out long.
The corps of ten thousand men, whom the
prince of Pless had formed in the garrisons of
t fortresses, were cut to pieces in the engage
on the 29th and 30th of December.
General Montbrun, with the Wurtemburg
* dv, went to meet the prince of Pless. near
tm,. t, w hi; h he took possession of on the -’Sih
i iiiv evening. On the following morning,
.. five >*elock, the prince of Pless ordered him
io ~0 a ta, ked. General Montbrun, taking ad
\ i. cos the unfavorable \>osiuon occupied by
t enemy’s infantry, made a movement to the
’ ,mi ned hi n, killed a number ot men, made
, i pri-a.i.eis look lour pie res ol Cannon, and
an. ny ho. scs.
P. ■ p incipal forces, however, of the Prince
of P.css lay behind the Neir, where lie assem
1. eu the n after llie engagement of Strechlin.
Hr left Schurgah, and marching day and night
am .meed as far as the night encampment of
t'. ‘ Wurtemburg bridge, whicfrwcrc drawn
tip in the rear ol llubc, under Hreslnw. At
eight in the morning, he attacked with 6000
men the village of Gricsten, occupied by two
batei’.ioiw of infantry, and by the Litange light
horse, under the command of adjutant com
mandant Duvoyricr; but he met with so vig
orous a reception, that he was forced to make
a speedy retreat. Generals Montbrun and
Mi oucci received orders immediately, on their
return from Ohlau, to cut off the enemy’s rc
tieat. But the prince of Pless made haste to
disperse his troops, and made them return by
detachments into the fortresses, abandoning in
his flight, a part of his artillery, a great deal of
baggage, and several horses, lie had a num
ber of men killed in this affair, and left us 800
prisoners.
llis ma. | has given orders to testify his
satisfaction tc The Batavian and Wurtemburg
irobps.
letters received from Bucharest, give .some
deteifs concerning the preparations for rrr,
making by Barayctav and the Pacha of Widtlen.
On the 20th December, the advanced guard
of the Turkish army, consisting of 15,000 men,
were on the frontiers of Wallaeliia and Mol
dat iu. ‘1 lie prince Dolgorouc ki was also there
with his troops, they wcic thus in the presence
of each other, fn passing Bucharest, the
Turkish officers appeared very much animat
ed ; tlicy said to a French officer who was in
that town—“the French shall see what we arc
capable of; we form the right of the army of
Poland, we shall show ourselves worthy to be
praised by the F.rnperor Napoleon.”
livery tiring is in motion through this vast
empire ; the Sheiks and Ulemas gave the im
pulse, and every rue Hies to arms, in order to
repel the most unjust of aggressions.
Count Italinsky has hitherto only avoided
being sent to the seven towers, by promising,
that on the return of his messenger, the Rus
sians will have received orders to abandon Mol
davia, and restore Chorzim, and Bender.
The S* rviiH.s, whom the Russians no longer
disavow for allies, have taken possession of an
island in ihc Danube, belonging to Austria,
whence they ennnonade Belgrade. The Austri
an governor has ordered it to be re-taken.
Austria and France are equally interested in
not seeing Moldavia, Wallachia, Scrvia, Greece
Romelia and Natolia become the sport of the
Muscovites.
The interest of England in this contest is at
least us evident a.> that of France ami Austria,
hut will slie acknowledge it ? Will she impose
silence on the hatred which directs her cabinet?
Wjll she listen to the lessens of policy and ex
perience ? Should she shut her eyes to the
future ; should she only live from day today;
•should she listen only to the jealousy for France,
she will perhaps declare war against the Porte,
become an auxiliary of the ‘insatiable ambition
of the Russians, and form for herself an abyss,
tiie depth of which she will not perceive until
she falls into it. .. .
AI.TONA, February 15:
“ It appears, that after the battle fought be
tween the Russians and French, on the 25th
ult. at Mohringen. in which the French were
far from being victorious, the Russians retreat
ed to get more reinforcements, and .returned
to the field on the 26t’i ult, when they attacked
the Frendh left wing, under the Prince of
Ponte tfi nvo at Mohringen, and completely
routed and repulsed it. On this occasion, the
contribution, In money, which Bentadotte had
raised at Elbing, fell into the hands of the vic
tors. Unfortunately the Russian fietil. general
Auress lost his life in the first battle at Moh
nngen. It was the plan of the French, who
were absolutely without provisions, to proceed
strait to Konnigsbcrg, and every other part of
Prussia. For this purpose, Bcrnadotte, at the
head of 3000 inert, had entered Elbing, already
on the 2 1 st. w hile the. rest of the French wing
endeavoured to turn the right of the combined
Russians and Prussians in which however they
completely failed. Bcrnadotte suffered not
only a great defeat at Mohringen, but the Rus
sians, pur*:set! him farther. Martial bey came
to his assistance, but meet with the same
brave reception; and two French corps, who
were to have turned dm Russians, found their
whole left wing turned by the combined efforts
of the Prussians, who are Stated to have folhv
ed up their adv antages ; in so much, that the
whole left wing of the French was cut off front
every communication with the grand army, on
the 27th ult. The latter raised the blockade of
Graudcntz with great precipitation ; while the
Prussians from one quarter, transferred the
scat of war, with their allies, from cast to w est
and south Prussia, since the former -occupied
Marienwerder, and the latter Culm, at the
distance of a few English miles from Thorn.
The Russians followed the living enemy, who
fell back as far as the Vistula ; where how
ever, all the bridges were broken, and drag
ged away by the thawing shoals of ice.—
The news ol a battle may therefore be hourly
expected.
“ Marshal Kamcnskoy, with the Russian
grand army, was also said to be advancing from
Uvalistock, Ostrolenka, See. .which places the
French had evacuated for want of necessaries,
to make a diversion. The number of couriers
who have passed through Frankfort on the
Main, in the night of 6lh instant, were all to
demand the acceleration of the arrival of com
scripts, and other troops.”
General Victor, who is arrived a prisoner at
Dantzic, will it is said, be transported to St.
Petcrsburgh, at the express request of the em
peror Alenander.
LONDON, February 19.
An article from Warsaw mentions, that Na
polcan joined his army on the ‘27th. and that
it is expected that the campaign would be re
sumed upon the first return of dry weather.
The arrest of sir Home Popham states 1 , that
he left the Cape of Good Hope without any or
ders, and attacked a Spanish settlement on the
Rio de la Plata.
February 21.
His majesty’s gun-brig fit aiding, arrived at
Yarmouth ou Sunday afternoon, from the con
tinent, and landed his excellency M. Allo
peus, ambassador for Russia, who brings tltc
following very important news :
That the French were defeated on the 29th
ultimo, with the loss of 10,000 men killed and
wounded ; and since defeated in the begining
of February; in which engagement Prince Mu
rat was killed, and Bcrnadotte wounded—his
whole equipage was taken. Victor is a prison
er at Dantzick.
The Turks are said !• have joined the Rus
sians ; and the Austrians to have declared in
favor of Prussia,
The slave trade aboliation bill was this room
ing at 5 o’clock, carried in the house ol Com
mons by a very great majority. The numbers
on the divisions were ; for the abolition, 283 ;
against it 16.
February 25.
A Denmark “mail arrived at an early hour
this morning, with letters and papers from
Hamburgh and Altona, to the 13th instant.
The latest accounts which thev bring from the
theatre of war, arc dated Elbing and Warsaw,
the 19th January. We stopped the press yes
terday, to insert the substance of an account
received from a respectable quarter, of the
battle of the 25th, at Mokringen, stating, that
the forces engaged in that affair, consisted on
the one sine of the allied Russians and Prus
sians, under generals Benningsen andLestoco ;
and on the other, of the French, consisting
chiefly, of the corps under Murat, Key, and
Bernadotte. The allies were the assailants,
and the enemy were dispersed with the loss
of 6000 killed and 4000 wounded. General
Rapp is stated among the killed. Marshals
Murat and Bernadotte are wounded ; the lat
ter severely, and the former is taken with gen
eral Fourbier. Marshal Lasnes had both his
legs shot off; and Bernadotte lost all his equip
age. Although these particulars of the ene
my’s loss may not prove correct, the foreign
papers received this day, fully confirm crur o
pinion of the result of that day. An official
report to the loyal government, published at
Eibing, on the 29th, states, that the French,
in their retreat, lost 000 men taken prisoners,
besides 10 pieces of cannon, two stand of-col
ours, and the whole of marshal Bernadette's
baggage; that Bernadotte has been driven back
20 leagues from Filling, into the. forests of
Strasburgh, where he is surrounded ; but that
Key, who was also engaged on the 25th, had
effected a junction with Murat, and that a gen
eral battle was expected. The combined Rus
sian and Prussian army amounts to 200,000
men, and expected a reinforcement of 30,000
‘Cossacks; the whole still under the command
of gen. Benningsen.
Defeat of the French—re-capture of Elbing
and Culm, by the Russians and Prussians—
return of the King of Prussia, to Konings
berg.
Government received, at twelve o’clock last
night, dispatches from lord Hutchinson,
brought by Mr. Jackson, brother of the late,
minister to the court of Berlin. Four bags from
Husuin, also arrived with intelligence “of great
importance.
The Russian official report of the battle of
the 2Gth, between the Russians and Prussians,
and Bcrnadotte’s and Ne-y’s divisions, has been
received, and amply confirms us in the opin
ion wc have invariably maintained, that the
French were defeated. But the defeat appears
to have been much more decisive than vve
w ere at first induced to believe. That obscure
■part of the 54th bulletin which stated Ney’fi di
vison to have advanced twenty leagues from
its cantonments, and to have returned without
sustaining any less, is now explained—Key had
marched to reinforce Bernadotte for the pur
pose,"as it could seem, of pushing on to Kon
igsburg. But the Russians and Prussians, by
a rapid and masterly movement, interposed a
strong column between them, drove hack Ney, |
and prevented the junction. There appear to
have been tw o battles. The 54th bulletin in
alluding to Key's advance and retreat, does not
inform us that there was any action—it merely
says, that the Russian army took the alarm,and
made a movement on the right of Key’s divis
ion. But vve now find that, on the 24th of Ja
nuary, the Russians and Prussians attacked
Ney, near Mohringen, and compelled him to
fall back to Przasnez, in Fast Prussia, where he
joined Murat’s division. On the next day the
Russians attacked part of Bernadette’s division
under general Pacton : Bernadotte himself
then brought his whole division against them.
A desperate conflict then ensued, which termi
nated in the defeat of Bernadotte, who lost
4000 men made prisoners, and all his baggage.
The immediate consequence of this victory was
the evacuation of Elbing, by the remains of
Bernadotte’s division—indeed it should seem
as if, after the battle of the 25th, Bcrnadotte
had been unable to rt turn to Elbing, for the
official report ot the Russians and Prussians
states him to have been driven into the forest of
Strasbtn gh, 20 leagues from Elbing, where his
corps is completely surrounded, and, it was
supposed, would be completely cut off. A dis
patch, dated from Marienwerder, to the govern
ment of Dantzick, states both Ney and Berna
dotte to have been almost annihilated—Murat
to have been wounded and made prisoner:
Bcrnadotte wounded, and general Rapp killed ;
but this repot t is not of so late a date, by two
days, as the report from Elbing, which mere
ly states, that the Russians and Prussians
meant to give battle to Murat and Ney. The
consequences of tlfis buttle of the 25th are ve
ry important—the combined Russians and
Prussians have re.-occupied Elbing ; the Prus
sians are at Marienwerder, the Russians at
Culm, on the banks of the Vistula ; the block
ade of Graudentz, has been raised, and the
king of Prussia, who had retired to Mamel, has
returned to Kcfiigsberg. These are imporant
advantage* in point of position, but ihey are of
infinitely less importance than the advantage
and glory which the Russians have gained, in
having so decisively checked Bonaparte in his
career. lie has been above two months on
the Vistula, without being able to make any
impression, or gain any ground beyond it. In
all his engagements with the Russians he has
been worsted, and now, instead of being half
way to Petersburgh, as some of his admirers
prophesied he would be, we find the Russians
and Prussians themselves on the Vistula, hav
ing forced the French to evacuate Eibing, Ma
, rictr,vender, C ulm, and all the course of the
Vistula from Elbing almost to Thom. This
is the proper point of view in which the efforts
of the Russians should he contemplated ; they
have stripped the French army of its presump
tuous epithet invincible, and convinced the
world that they arc not only equal to the French
in braverv, but also in skill and discipline, in
rapidity of march, in dexterity of manoeuvre.
But to return to the operations of the war.
Bernadotte, dii\en into the forests cf Stras*
burg, is in danger of being forced to surrender.
The Russian army is thus posted—general Es
sen with 40,000 men, is near Brochi and Wis
sochi, in East Prussia—another corps 0f20,665
men, is near Johansberg and Cloy, between
the lakes—the other seven divisions extend
from I’asscnhcini and Neidcnburg towards Eg
lau. The Prussian generalL’Esfoco is posted
from Salfeldt to Mariemverdcr. The Russian
army exceeds 200,000 men, and expected to
be immediately reinforced by 30,000 cossacks.
It will thus be seen, from the position o-f the.
Russian army, that it has entirely abandoned
the line of the Narew. It is probable it was
the victory gained over Bernadotte, which for
ced Bonaparte to quit Warsaw, and visit the
cantonments of the army. On the first ins’t.
he was at Wittemburgh. A general engage
ment, we dare say, has taken place before now,
February 26.
A tetter from Elsineur, of the 10th, says-b.
“ that about six dajs before, the French forces
in Pomerania, attempted to cross from thence
to the island of llugen, in thirty vessels, hut
they were vigorously attacked by some Swedish
gun-boats, which destroyed twenty-nine of
them. This intelligence was received from
Yastadt and Landscrona, at Helsingberg ; and
from thence at Elsineur.”
Bonaparte is recovering from his late illness
—it is said to have been caused by his attempt
ing to live upon the same fare with the com
mon soldiers, on the banks of the Vistula ; h&
experienced an inclegistion, and was in conse
quence absolutely in a state of insensibility for
■four-and-twenty hours.
Gtilc in England.
YARMOUTH, February 19.
On Wednesday morning last, about 3 o’clock
a most tremendous and heavy gale of wind
came down from the K. N. E. in consequence
of which, several ships were wrecked; two on
the Scratfiy Santi, and another vessel came on
the sand, but afterwards got off, and sunk off
Lowestoff; the crews of which are all lost.
His majesty’s gun-brig Snipe, came on shoro
in the south ham, with thirty French prisoners
on board, many of whom, together with part of
the crew, and some women, unfortunately per
ished; in all upwards of sixty—the vessel'has
since become a wreck. Twelve ships came
on shore between Cromer and this beach, the
crews of which are most of them sat fd; one
ship was seen floating bottom upwards; and a
great deal of wreck—one vessel sunk, the crew
of which took to their boat, but unfortunately
the boat Upset, and they all perished a great
deal of damage, it is feared, has been done- oi\
the north coast.
RAMSGATE, February 20. ’t .
Every hour brings accounts here *5 fresh
distresses to the shipping on the coat* , £Ca .
sionfcd bv the late dreadful galo. ‘flock £. ast
from Deal to Dover, is strewed wkrjd in t *
and pieces, various articles, casks, kc. tgone ‘
ing about. Fifteen vessels of various !, *
tions are now lying on shore on Deaeft
and between that and Dover. So
gale came on, and its effect were fe! “f.
stantancousiy, that in two minutes
ping in the Downs, were in the most i wr
danger, by driving with their anchors,
running against each other. A great numbe v
of merchant vessels, transports, &c. of variant
descriptions, were wrecked before they could
possibly kit go an anchor. They were driven
by the rioler.ee of the wind and weather, in
clusters, two or three entangled together, and
the masts, yards, kc. flying about. The situa
tion was dreadful beyond any thing ever known
here. Among others, twelve ships of war,
frigates, gun-brigs, sloops, &c. were driven
from the Downs, and have not since returned.
Indeed it has been, and is still reported that
one or two of the sloops of war, or guu-brms,
have foundered, hut no account of such dis
aster had reached lord Keith this afternoon.
There are, therefore, great hopes it may not be
true.
Gale at \erv- York. * ■
NFAV-Y'ORK, April 1.
Yesterday morning, at 2 o’clock, a gale com
menced from E. N. E. with a hcavv fall of
snow, and continued until about 11,’ blowing
most of the time from E. About 12
the wind fell to a moderate breeze, and im me
diately veered round to S. S. YV. blew fresh
from that quarter until eight in the evening,
when the wind commenced a gale from \V.
N. W. It is a remarkable fact, that live tide,
at twelve o’clock, was from 12 to 18 inches
higher, than it has been known by the oldest
inhabitants—from this time the water fell,
though it was not time for high water til! past
three o’clock. Many cellars were fiiffd. and
considerable property damaged. During the
gale, the brig Signal Pole wus blown down, and
three schooners were driven from their an
chors, and lodged on the mud flats on the Jer
sey aide, opposite the city ; one of which is
the Cornelia, from St. Thomas. We have
reason to ffar, that the vessels on the coast
Loth those bound in, as well as those which re
cently sailed, have suffered. The ship Fran
ces, drainc, from Greenock ; and Four filters
Latham, from Ireland ; both rode out thegalej