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■ | an( ] woti"Tu,in this action
both sides, very conside
■ and it could not be other
,.K n a constant .tire was
“K ’ ine<l from about 300 pieces
for more than twelve
K s ffithi a short instance ot
Krshal Augereau is wonnd-
K Generals Desjardins, Hen-
K nc i Rochet are also wound-
Gen. Corbincau is killed,
-sKre likewise Colonels L icuc,
■(Karats, and Bouvieres. Our
r Kole l°ss consists of exactly
,K 0 tilled, and 5700 wound -d,
’Kidding 1090 who are very bad
trK,cunded. But we have to set
:>K* )9t this loss 7 000 Russians,
ai^Kohave been counted dead on
f tK|| e ld of battle.
c^Bh' U3 the offensive! expedition
“Kjhe enemy, which had for
Kobject to bear down upon
‘Born, by turning the left wing
‘He grand arm --, ins been of
■ tno.t direful consequences to
Bni; 12 or 15 000 prisoners }a;
‘^K nv more nous dec,mbit, IS
Hards and 45 pieces of can-
K are the trophies for which
Bhave paid too dear, without
Bibt, by the blood of so m.i-iy
men. This expedition is
led, the encunv beaten &
Bren 100 leagues Irom the Vis-
Bi— fne army is about to re
its cantonments, and is a”
Kuttogu into winter quarters
Krom the London Courser.
■ Thursday', March 5.
■ The public mind has been
Krown into confuierable agi-
Kion, by the rumors of great
Hatties having been fought m
Boland, in which the Ruffians
Heredecifively defeated. There
Have been great battles, but
He French have not gained
■ny decitive victory. The
Ruffians have added frefh
Kurels to those they have ai-
Beady acquired, Sc Bonaparte
■as exerted the utmost efforts
Hf hi, military (kill in vain. In
■esc battles, he had projected
Be of those (weeping plans
Rich, at Marengo, at A us.
Krlttz, and at fena, had, with
■ Tingle blow, decided the fate
■fa war, and left his oppon,
■m no alternative except to
■ubmit or perish at his feet.
I .It appears from the 56th,
57b and 58th, Bulletins, that
there has been incessant fighting
liomthe 26'h of January, on
hich the French were defeat,
td at Mohringen. The RtH-
Gans with a promptitude and
an a&ivity quite equal to that
of the enemy, determined to
continue their fyllem of har
nffing the French by repeat
td attacks. On the 27th of
January they advanced again(f
Bernadotte, who, fays the
French Bulletin, was ordered
•o retreat. These rapid move
ments of the Ruffians, induced
Bonaparte to break up from
winter quarters. His objeQ
was to have penetrated be
•ween iheir centre and their left
*ing, to have turned their cen
,fc, and interposing his force
between the Ruffians and the
hege!, to have cut off their
•etieat. He failed. Ftom the
French Bulletins v;c are led to
>n r er, that the Ruffians drew
•heir left wing to the centre, ‘Sc
Prevented Bonaparte from cut
t!ng it off. Had nut this been
•be case, we fiiould of course
Five been informed of it.
the 2d of lafi month, the
French came up with the Rul
bans at Paflfenhcim. ’I hi
Ruffians afllmied
•be oftfenfivc, tays me Bulletin,
•aflenheim was entered In
Murat. The next rn.ruing
( be Ruffians wetc dilccveteu
‘• dayfignr ranged in order o
battle, and were attacked by
Bonaparte, with Key, Ange
rcau and Souk’s divisions, at
Bergfried, on the little river
Alle. The contefl was moll
sanguinary, & lasted till night.
1 he Ruffians ah? idoned their
positions ; but on the 4th the
attion was renewed with the
rear guard of the Ruffians,
who fought with great despe
ration. Little injury was
done to it. On the sth, the
French again advanced—the
main body of the Ruffians was
on the other fide of the Alle—
one column on this fide. Ney
was ordered to attack that co
lumn, part of which was cut to
pieces ; and the remainder es
fetled its retreat. Meanwhile
the main body of the Ruffians
was followed byTsonapaite in
person, with Soult, Davoufi,
and Murat’s divisions. The
iofs on the part of the Ruffians,
till the sth i.iclufive, is (fated
at several thousand prisoners,
besides a great number killed &
wounded—whilfl the loss of
the French, though the Ruf
fians afcicd offenfively, though
the aßioni were moll obfiinate
and sanguinary, is declared to
be about ico killed and 400
wounded.
The Ruffians adopting die
wife fyflem o r falling back, to
prevent the French ftom get
ting between them and the Pie
gel, continued to retreat, fight
ing all the way with the great*
e(t obllinacy. The French
approached PrtiffDn Eylau, a
town near the hanks of a little
river, that erodes the high
road to Koningfberg, on the
7th. The Ruffians resolved
to make a stand behind the
town—they had also poked a
ffrongbody in it. It was tie
cciTary to didodge them from
it, before any battle was fought
by the main army. A molt
sanguinary attion look place,
and it was ten at night before
the Ruffians were driven out
of the town. Some Ruffian
regiments had thrown the n r
felvea into a church, where
they defended themlelvcs fora
long time with ihegnsatelt bia
very. Both armies paded tiie
night under arms. On the 91b
the Ruffians began the attack
at day-light. The cannonade
was inciifint and tremendous,
&wecolled from thi 58th 13 u■ lc
tin, that it annoyed tiie French
troops greatly, for af er if had
continued for fome time, “ they j
became impatient ol fuffering |
so much, without any thing
decisive happening.” Both ar
mies manaeuvered to gam ad
vantages over each other —a !
heavy (now {form came on, & <
fome of she French corps
101 l their way, and the columns
getting too much on the left
wandered in uncertainty.” At
length the weather cleaved up,
and the battle raged with them
mod fury. The French infan- |
try we infer, fudered severely, j
and fome of the columns seem j
to have been in such danger of
being cut off, that a general
charge of the cavalry was or
dered, it having “ become ne
cetlaiy, in confcquence of the
cirumitances in which our 1 -
iimns were placed;’ the mean
ing of this, we luppofe to be,
that the columns which had
got so much to the led, and
wandering in uncertainty .were
in danger of being Unrounded
and cut off'. But this charge
of cavalry does not lecm to
have been fuccefsful —the kul*
fian cavalry is laid to have
been routed, and two mies ot
Ruffian infantry penetrated, but
.he third was charged in vain,
and it is evident drove hack the
cavalry. i his third line is
laid to have “ only maintain
ed itfelf because it had (import
ed i'feff upon a wood,” and
had it not been (or that wood,
ard fome of her difficulties of
the ground, this brilliant attack
would have decided the victo*,
r y-”
In the mean time Davoufl
was mKnceuvering to get in the
rear of the enemy, which, after
being much impeded by the
weather, he effetled, and this
decided the victory. After fe
verat attacks upon Davouit,
the Ruffians retreated, leaving
their wounded, and 16 pieces
of cannon on the field. The
French confels them loss to
have been 1900 killed, ?nd
nearly fix thouland wounded.
Generals Corbineau and Dal
nian, and Colonels Bouvieres,
Lemarais and Lac,e, were kil
led. Marfiials Angereau and
Hautpoult, Desjardins, Men
ds let andLochet, were wound
ed. But the Ruffians loss is of
[ course fisted to have been
I much greater than the French
J —7OOO were killed. But it is
Ito he remarked, hat the
| French do not give us the
! name of any one Ruffian offi
cer of difiindion, killed,
wounded or made prisoner.
Having gained, according to
their owrt account, such a great
victory, our reader?, no doubt,
expect to find the French impro
ving their successes, put suing
the discomfited Russians, and
pushing onto Konigsbergand the
Pregel. No such thing—Con
tenting himself with preventing
the Russians from turninghis left
W’ittg, and extending himself to
Thorn, Bonaparte concludes the
58th Bulletin by saying—“ that
the army is returned to its can
tonments (that is, has fallen back
to its former position), and is
going into winter q i trters a
gain.” And hence we assert,
that Bonaparte has been foiled in
his attempt, and has gained no
decisive advantage. He says
lie has driven the Russians lUO
leagues beyond the Vistula; but
ts he is going to resume his win
ter q tartersnsar the Vistula,will
not the Russians advance again,
and will not be have the sane
battles so fight over again? Was
it his object merely to drive the
Russians back, aud then fall
back htmsell? Ntr“-no. The
object was to cat them off, and
gain another battle of Auster
iitz, or of Jena. In this object
he has failed. Twice has he at
templed to cut off the retreat ol
the Russians, and twice the
skill and valor of the Russians
have defeated his manoeuvres. —
At Pultusk he exerted his ut
irio&t effort* in vain,and wasforced
to go into winter quatters. At
Eylau his efforts have been e
qually vain, and he has again j
been forced into winter quarters. !
The victory, therefore, arguing
even upon the French accounts,
has been on the side of the Rus
sians, and we heartily congratu
late the country upon it.
There is another proof, that 1
in the battle vt the Bth, the 1
French were debated. iierthier !
writes wotd on the 7sh to the j
Empress, “ to-morrow we shall
be at Konighbcrg.’* 1 o-morrow
a great battle takes place, and the
result is, that the French so iar
from getting to Konigsberg, sa>
that they are returning to their
former cantonments, that is, go
ing to retrcai. .
i hc more we consider the last
intelligence received Irom R* ; s
seat of war, the more we ate
convinced that a great victo:y i
has been gained overihr ireach j
.—and the cdteuer ive perune to; j
three last Bulletins, the ti-iot - j
ate we confirmed set the op::u-n* ;
that more grateful juforututtoo j
has seated) been icceivc-i
Bonaparte seized th i.upfetav
power. We have only me
French accounts of the itue hi.
tics. Yelu is upon lh.ti we l unm
ottr decisive conviction that Bo
naparte lias been foiled.
Twice has fie attempted to
concent his inability, to carry on
operations under the idea of put.
ting his army into winter qttar
ter9. Alter the itatile of Pultusk
he said, that being “ master of
the greatest part of the Russian
artillery, of all its positions, and
having repulsed the enemv forty
leagues, the Emperor has order
ed the, army into winter quar
ters.” T hese Russians, howe
ver, who had lost the greater
part of their artillery,and all their
positions, we find to be so un
grateful for the favor conferred
upon them by a victorious ene
my, in refraining from follow
ing up its successes, and in al
lowing them a little respite and
repose, that thev dare to ha crass
tie French at all points, beat one
division, nearly surround ano
ther, and makes such menacing
movements, that Bonaparte feels
it necessary to break up hiswhr ‘c
army from winter quarters, and
inarch against them. The weather
is allowed to he very line-the sun
is represented as shining daily,
and wc are told that the cam
paign has re-commenced. Ol
course we do not expect to hear
of vinier quarters any more. —
After a few days operations,how
ever, attended with signal suc
cess wc find the same language
held as after the battle ot Pul
tusk, the fifey-eigth Bulletin te
peats the words of the forty
eighth, and says that “ the Em
peror having defeated this en
ttt prize of the enemy, and dri
ven them |OO miles (30 or 40
leagues) from the VLuiU, the
army has returned to its canton
merits, and is going into winter
quarters again!!”
PATRIOT,
S4VANSAII, April 30, ISO 7
DIET), in th's eitv, on Mon
thly morning ia-H, in the 25th
year of his age, Mr. John Uig
iNt>, a native of Ireland,
Arrived on Tuesday Inst, the
brig Mercator, capt. Rodgers,
in eleven days from Si. T ho
mas’—A gentleman who came
passenger in the Mercator,
states, that the markets
there were very bad, in conse
quence of many Americans
touching there to sell alt articles
prohibited in the English islands
Lumber and Suited Provisi
ons are great drugs. The fol
iovving is a short statement, he
has politely hauded us:
Butter, 18 20 cts:
Rice, 4.1-2 dolls.
Hams, lb cts.
Spermaceti candles 45
‘Fallow do. 20 a2l
B;own Soap, 7 a 0
Flour, SalOdols.
Prime Pork 13
Do. Beef 12 a 14
Tar 5
P.P. Lumber 28 .30 —-
W. P. do. 15 <1 17
Cypress Shingles, 4 1-2 u 5
Staves (A- O. libel ) 30
Capt. Rodgers left at St. Tho
rr.a.\ on tiie 15th inst. —Ships,
Betsy, Ciiipmau, of Boston, tor
Cork—Mary, Case, ol N. Bed
lord, from New-York, bound
to Cork, put in under jury masts,
having met with a violent gale tu
the gulpn stream, vessel con
demn’d, imt cat go re-ship’d
BAgs, Polly, YVyitkoop, ol N.
Yuric, neatly discnmged —Phe;.
aiX , —, of New-York, u>
gall in six days —Fair American,
Fosset, of Bristol, to sail in tour
days for Jirisiol—-■ 1 nmutula,
Riley, of Portsmouth, it
let sad in seven days, lor Ha van
nidi —lie is > : KUbaioughjOt Bos
ton, nearly disCDargcU. Schu-.
Argus, Mat riacr, ol Ncvv Yoik,
• u sail in lour or Uve days Jomi
and WiiUam, ot \Vltmmgto, N.
C. bund to St. Croix,
Blank Manifests &c.
Apr -'in-'c al this Office,
A.G. (Tender havirq in
suliidme, ami rolnsing rtu- 1 (he
Siiti-f,action of n ytmtlfttian—f do
her* h-. publish 1-ini ns a l.useal ,
Scoundrel, A, I'cnard
CHARLES Ul 1 I.IiT, Jr,
April. 30. 4p
A Young Man ,
Lately from the Weft-In
dies, wishes a situation as
SUPERCARGO , to the West-
Indies, or anv port of Europe—
A line directed to G. L. and left
at this Olfire, will be immediate
ly attended to.
April 30. 48 if
Sheriff’s Sales.
On the prut Tuesday in ffune
next
WILL BE SOLD.
At the court-house, in the count!/ of
Af Intosh , between the hours
of ten and three o'dor h, the fol
lowing prepertu , viz.
/I Xh 1 1 act ot find, Iving in
‘vV Liberty county, containing
187 acres, more or less,bound
ed westward!) - on Wm. Carr’s,
southwardly on marshes of north
New-Port river.
ALSO,
Four likely Negroes, viz.
Habersham, Jack, Maria, and
Child; levied on by virtue of
sundry executions, against the
estate of Samuel Hastings, dec.
pointed out by the plaintiffs.
ALSO,
A likel) dark bar horse, 1 levi
ed ori as the property of Willi im
1 iinnions, to satisfy an executi
on in favor of John H. Breton,
pointed out bv the defendant.
ALSO.
A likely negro fellow ndmed
Jerry; levied on as the property
of Abraham F. Powell, to sa.
t.sfy an execution in favor of
Keen and Siilwill, pointed out
by the plaintiff’s attorney.
Conditions—Cash on the day
of salt.
T HEOD. MONTFORT,
S. M. C;
April 30. 48 1m
NOTICE.
r 7~'HE Subscriber being obliged
X to leave the United Stale*
in the month of June on business
of a famfiy nature, where his in
terests are ciq'r.j.ytjid, notifies
the public and iiTs creditors, that
he will transfer the lease he has
of the EXCHANGE, ar.d will
sell the furniture and effects it
contains in order to discharge
what he owes. Individuals who
are disposed to bargain, will
address themselves to fdr. Pent
de Villers, who ischaigetl with
his transactions, and pirsent
to him tiieir evidences of debt.
It is hoped that persons who have
contracted debts at the Exchange
will come forward and adjust
them.
L. GCEDES.
April 30. 48 law3w
N. B. He will sell on the sams
conditions Hfs estabiishtr.en t of
Public Baths,
Which are in the highest order,
and exempt from any reparation.
The SuLtfcriber thinks it
his duty to caution ail Merchant*
and Masters of vessels against
employing as seamen, James
Alai hews and Samuel Cede wan ,
who lately belonged to the snip
Commerce, of Philadelphia, as
iltey ard dangerous, mutimzing
Villains, lie also takes this op
portunity of returning his giate
ful acknowledgments to Messrs,
bn iSif. Howard, St Mr. Barnes,
lumber measurer, for their friend
ly assistance in ins diflicuaie-.
Should there be any demand*
against tlie subscriber, he icq icsti
they titav be presented tin.* ua.y
by ten o’clock at Mr. Gunn’s Col
ice House.
NAT HAN ILL RAY,
Ha?her cf the. S/up Commerce.
April 30, 4 s
WAN i ED,
A YOUNG MAN, to attend
JT%. a Retail Grocery nitre ■
/ij>. Iy at mis Office.
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