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ATHENS, eioRQiA: fvslished my ALEX ANDER M<DQNNELL
LATE fcf IMPORTANT FROM
EUROPE.
Boston, Dec. 8.
T.-afV even! g at rived rne {'hip
P nvnatcan, Herrick, 42 days from
J. erpnol, B- this arrival we were
f.vmrrd T4it a London papers to rhe
21ft of O&ojjsr, and Liverpool to
ti • 24 h.
Letters of Marque and Repri
fsL have bee© ’* fiV \ agamft Arne
ri a by dbe Brit (h government.
C vr>y S W.-f. to fail from
Eug iid for Newfoundland and the
Weft I idle*.
The f'f&.ial account of the fur
rruder i General Hui!*s army had
bc*r. rob*idled. T g*t~er with
Hu?!* and CvVs fta.rrmea**, newf
y -i- r ‘ philips s, &c.
l"-'r American colors taken at
Fo have been hu*g up in
V. ebai! Chcpel, near tkt French
arc! fbrdarcb.
C k *s appointed B ‘ga*
chv G-.vsfaUo ferve in Canada.
Dres* account of the lofs
•n -he Gaerriere is pubMhed in the
l imdun mpers. He fays nothing
c Uf.Yt ./c 5 and compil
ing's Hull for hi* treat
s < fficen and Teamen.
The A*go, 44, is ordered t© Ja
tr.E ? j >in Araianu is to return to
h?*
and ex tiedinor* agstnft the craft
©f k I** 1 vss p;e ;l snag :n E glaoß.
Ti.r* f fr)g*rs were ready fui tea
at B ; n** -*- x > the iaftdares.
TT* R nfh rra >r rtprefeated
as mn * mbafraff-J.
Ihr I£l trsi which lately appear
ed near : ‘v Azores, ha* funk again,
Icav : g ,v (foot).
I he R**n. George Carn??!g is re
turned it numbered Parhainent for
L oh with Ge *-rai Galcoyne.
Mr. R eg- am ants Creevy of
enurk i ft the tletSin-**.
Mi, Duadas has beta dt&ed far
E.'i< burgh.
Mr, Wnherferce has voluntarily
declined a r clc6Uen > Pa:! aorm*f.
I: *s cai> uH..rd mat Mi*iHers will
M -t zr accefpan cf ferry Members in
Stic New Parliament.
A petuioo for peace ha* been
Vfctcd ar Drhv.
i r-.< F k h entered M Trow,
f•|> , ?5. K inp f-ught no battle
aicc. •- - ‘f PvL fk
ry R fjflUn <*& l account fays,
V ’ -<• --. Freni’ it entered Mol ©W?
•* ■;*i *:r ■.aumblrs, the ft*, res in the
ar ;; ..d aim oft a i other pro
p* :v rr.'fd’ and prva-.c, turt pre
v r • fl and fcarctir -an
in-hJfdii jcnf re in ih* t‘W i.—•
The i“ a.’icc o? the Freach into
Kl ‘fcow is not an annihsL-icn'of the
Empire. A-iva?i r ag-.* rua/ a rue
f. >m om abandoning the cap ‘at.—-
We ftiall hr enabled to cu? £P ail
reinforcement* marching to j nn him
ftmn cre rear. vYc hope r > com
pel the enemy to leave M fcow,
and change kf Pne of ep*-ra 100*. ’*
The Rul2. fi G*neral Kurulow is
daily rrceivu.g icinforctaienra, and
is wel- lupplied. R fS,i Er
peror a<5H wiih great fiimncii. A
new levy cf 400,000 men is order
ed.
The Mold*nan army was advasc-
GEORGIA EXPRESS.
W MAT SMALL MSU TO Att 72.0, AM© S.MOWLBBOI WSALL 3Z INC*XA3I*. M
injj. Patriotic donations continued;
h is laid irvrrai French • ffi ers
hsd been r.ff fllnatcd a: Mofcow,
being; m fLken for Bonaparte.
Bo iaparte hss lent propafals of
pe?,ce to >.h ;j Emperor of Ruflia.
It is laid the Emperor rej died
Borpparte/s overture, and has de
termined to rrfufe every overture,
whiie the enem’< is in hir, rnuntry.
Since the entrance of the French
into Mofcow, the Emperor >f Ruf
fi-i his iffjed a very es. eilent d
clar#iion. ic lavs tc the cnemv is
p ft ITfd of bare wails,
nrnnrr inhabitant! t*er prfviftons.
I'he haugh y conqueror im- gined
©n his eriuenrg M tcow, he might
prefcr’bt a ptac-e, bur he s dc* c:v
cd. He entered R* ffia wi t> jc®,
obo troops, by w.i , de.lrrtl a, uck
oefs, war, lu:. he has i- ft one half.
We have an army ft ill before b:m,
and three endeavoring to cut off his
retreat.**
The treaty between Rufila and
Turkey is pubHbed.
Someslarm cxifted at Peterlb-irat
•©
—and application Wris made to fh p
feme of the trading prop? rrv The
Emperor fad he law n© ground for
fear j but gave (he perm iff n, and
fome articles had been emba ked
Hemp had fallen rn price. iVl*-a
fre* were taken vr h a view to ti e
proteftion o? St. Per- fb ug.
At the iaft dates the Rufuans
were s<R ; ng agouti the
French near Moicotv, and driving
th min er cutting them off. Tsk
i;g convoys of rdnance on the
r. vd (rum Sirck fk One RuffUn
General wts opf atirg wbh lti-.eela
near Ruufa and Mj- fk; and ano
ther on the D*.n*. An expedition
fr m R ga a£x* ‘ft Mittau has fuc
ceeded l ike French weir driven
from it. Palladium.
Extracts from French Bul
letin
Frt.a the 19 tk dated at Mofcew^
September 16.
“ After i.rtc hi tie uf Mr fk va,
the French a-my puriued tnc er.e
mv no n M Low, by thiee routes,-
Mcj; fk, Svct ig irod and Ralor g©
—On tne 14 kat mid-day, we en
tered M ifuuvv.
(i The city of Mofcow is as large
as Part* ; it * an cxtremtly rich
city, full of Pulaces of all the N*
bln of tht Empire. The Rt fTun
K ftapchln, co
ruin this fine cic, w> ; en ke faw it
ahande-ned by the Ruffian army.—
He had a;m and 3000 rr
whom he cad tsk ,1 frosn the dtm
g j he alte fumaioued together
liooo fl e* an i aiftiibused arms
aits ngft them fr.'m the arfcnal.
“ Our advanced guard strived in
the rcarre and the urv, vras received
bv aft 1 1 f mpfk ry, which lffued
from the Kr* ml.n. Th* K’.ag of
Naples ordered a brtteryof a few
p.cces of cannon to be opened, dif
pcrFd thl* rabble, ad took pcffcf
fion of the Kremlin. We have
in the arfcnal 60,000 new
and 113 pieces ©f cannen
on heir canfcg*B. The molt com
plete anaichy reigned in the city—
fbnif d r u k*n madmen ran through
it* different quarters, aad every
where fcr fire to them. The Go
vernor Roftap hm had caafed ail the
merchants aad Ih pkeepers robe
carried eff, through whofc inftru
memaiity order m ghc have been
re~rftabliihed than a hun
dred French G.imar.s were arrefled
by hs order* j in fine,, he had uken
the precaution of carrying f the
firemen with the fire-engines j fo
that the molt complete anarchy has
defoliated .-his g r est aad ti ie city,
anvi the fl4mc ate devouring it.—
We have found in it confiderablc
refcturccs of every kind.
“ Fhe Emperor is lodged in the
Kremlin, which is in the centre of
the city, like a kind of citadel, fr
rounefcd bv high walU. Thirty
thouia >d wounded or fick Rufthns
are 11 the nofpirah, abandoned,
w*th r Uv fuccar, and without anu
fh merit. The Rfljjat s kow
ivdg,* fhat riser ITt 50 coo men in
th: battle of the M fkva. P mce
Bsg at ion was iQoruiiv wounded.
A aft was made of the R *fUah Ge
nerals wounded or killed iu the
batik —if. amounts to bataeen 45
a id 50*’
Frcm the loth dated Mefcrw Sept 17.
c ’ Moicov/, (j>\t of tn li eft and
r; cities in the world it ao more.
On th* 14 h, the Ruffiaa* fet fire
to thf E. hangr, ta t*:e and
the Hoipiral. On the 16th a via-
Icnt wii and arofe. Three ©r four
hundred rufiSans fet fire to the cicy
in 500 and fferect places at the fame
m me u, by order of the Governor
Roft ;phon. Five ftitihs ©f the
h uft* were built *?')d j thr fire
Ipread w*tn a prod -g ous rapidity ;
it was an ocean mft .nne Church
es of which there r6ooj above
1000 ptUcet, ifli vienfc magazines,
i>atty all have falfca a pieyto the
fl aies. The Krenaeiia haa bten
preferred.
(< The lofs is incalculable for
Rtjffxt, for her commerce, and for
her nobTity, who had left all there.
It is not ©verratirg its vaiuc to ftate
it many milliards.
{i Abetit 100 of thefc incendia
ries have been apprehended and
fhot; all of them dechred that they
adted under the orders of R ;ft©p
chm, and the Diredory ©f the Po
lice.
c< Thirty thoufand fi k and
wounded Ruffians have been burnt.
The riem ft commercial houfet in
Uuffu are ruined. The fhock muft
be conftderablc. The clothing,
the mag sines, and the equipments
of the R*.flian army have been con
fumed. They have thu* loft every
thing ; they would remove nothing,
becaufc they always thought ic irn
psffible for us to reach Mffcow,
aad becanfe they were willing to
deceive the people. When they
faw all in trie hands of the French,
they conceived the horrible project
of drftroying by fk this firft capi
tal, this holy city, the centre of the
Empire ; and thev have reduced to
beggary 200,000 rclpeftaeie mha*
b tanrs. This is the crime of Ro~
ftopchia, executed by felons libera
ted from the piilcns.
(t Th*; relources which the army
had found, are confequrntLy much
dimiaiihcd ; hewer er, wc have coi-
FRIDAY, JANUARY 8, 1813.
fcffed and are ftiil cellcffirg, a
number of neerflaries. ASi r.hn
fcllars are uarouthed by the fire;
and the inhabitant* during the iait
twenty-four hours, laved
articles. They endeavored to fton
the progrefs of (he fl.im/'s, but the
Governor had taken the horrid pre
caution to carry eff aad deft toy all
the engines.
The army is recovering from
its faiigur*} it has abundance of
bread, potatoes, cabbages and other
vegetables, rnear, fait and
w fir, brandy, fugar, coffee, 3n j in
fhorr, provsfi\r.s of ill forts.
“ i he advanced is tv/enty
wrrfts on the road to K (Lby
which rhe enemy is retrearmg. A
nmhrr French advanced guards on
the road to St. Pet lb ?r£, where
the enemy has not a fitigie fold.cr.**
Froth the 2\Jt } Mofcow, Sept. 20.
1 hrc hundred incendianes hi^vc•
bren arrefled and ih it. They
were provided with lui-es, 6 inck
es long, which they had between
pieces of wood j they alio had
iquibs, which they threw upon the
r© fn of the hi/ufcs. The wrerch,
R ftopchin, h<d thrfe prepared ori
the pretence that he wifhed to lend
a balloon, full of combi ft blc mat
ter, armcfl the French army. He
has got together the fquibs and
other materials, neccfiary for the
execution of his {K. pct.
The fires lubfided on the ij*h
and r.oth—three quarters of the ci
ty arc burned—amon g other pala
ces, that beautiful one of Catharine,
which had been r.ewfy furnifluci—
not above a quarter of the houfci
rersia n.
“ While hir"was fakirg
away tft fire engines of the city, he
left behind him 60,000 mufk.rs,
1 50 pie rs of cannon, more trn
600,000 bail* aad Ihdls, 1.500,000
csrtndg *, 400.000 pounds of gun
powder, 400,00© pru. da or uk
p*tre apdfulphur. It was not usiil
the 19th that the powder, lalt-pe
tre and fuluhur, wt:re difcovered at
a fine tftabliihment, half a mile
from the city—this is a matter ©f
imperiance i we are now fuppln and
with amtuunition for 2 campaigns.
We every day difeover cellars full
of wine and brandy.
u Manufactures w**re beginning
to floui fh at Mnfcow } they are
deftr©ytd. The ccmfi-igradon of
this capital wiil thro* Ruffia back
100 years.
“ The weather is becoming rai
ny—the greateft part of the French
army Is in barracks in Mofcow.
Printed bulletin §f the Gov. General
of Mo/cow.
Sept. 11. —I fhali proceed to
morrow to confer with fils Mghnefa
the Prince Kutufom, in orvTr to 3-
dopt, in conjur;&isu with him, fuch
me ass as will lead to the exieroii
tion of your enemies.
Wc will deprive thefc gjeft* of
thvir lives, aad fend them to the
devil.
1 will return to dinner, and we
will commence o k op** r a i©ns to
gri if thefe perfidious wretches to
pcarder.’
(No. 233.