the details. Bobruisk to Minsk.—Admiral Tchitscha- where the enemy, consisting of nine batgoff reports that Major-General Tschablitz | talions of infantry, and above one thousand dislodged the enemy from Wilna, on the horse, were preparing quarters for that 10th Dec. where they left a great number night. The infantry had already piled of cannon, and very considerable maga- their arms, when the hussars of Achtirsky zines, but time did not permit to furnish fell upon them, sword in hand, from all quarters. The whole of the Commandant's guard was cut to pieces, and he himself owed his safety to the darkness of the night. The magazines were at the same moment set on fire by shells; the enemy, dismayed and in confusion, fled to the outside of the town, where his infantry was drawn up in order of battle: but being pursued by our cavalry, they retired with the greatest precipitation to Taharschki. The inhabitants of this town unanimously declare that Napoleon was there in person; but that having been informed of his danger by some of those who were devoted to him, he had changed his dress, and fled at full gallop towards Wilna.- -The enemy has lost in prisoners within the space of five days, viz. from the 8th to the 13th of December, as follows, one General, 156 Officers, 9,574 soldiers, independent of wounded and sick, of whom great numbers were found in the villages near the high road; 168 pieces of cannon, two pair of colours, two standards, and an eagle, have like Head-quarters, Wilna, Dec. 12. Count Wittgenstein reports, under date of the 10th of December, that having sent out several detachments of cavalry in pursuit, one of these, commanded by Aid-deCamp General Kutousoff, had taken a corps of Bavarians prisoners, consisting of one hundred and twenty-six officers, and two thousand and twenty-four men, part of which consisted of an entire battalion, which having been surrounded by the able manœuvres of Lieutenant-Colonel Tettenbach, had laid down their arms without firing a shot. The requisitions of every description, which the enemy had levied upon the inhabitants, were recovered, and with these all the means of subsistence for their troops. On the 9th, Lieutenant-Colonel Tettenbach entered the suburbs of Wilna, notwithstanding the enemy were in possession of the body of the place. Major-General Borosdin, who commanded the other detachment, made many prisoners at Nementchina, took also a consider-wise fallen into our hands. able number of baggage-waggons. December 11.-General Count Platoff reports, that in passing near Wilna, he had driven the enemy back five wersts, as they were defiling in column by Pogoixlanke; and having allowed the first column to pass (with which Count Orloff Denisoff had already been engaged), he had directed Major-General Nachmanoff and Count Orloff to attack the enemy with spirit from our right flank; and Prince Kasatkin Rostoffsky, with some regiments of hussars and dragoons, from our left. The column of the enemy was divided into two, and entirely destroyed. General Lanzan was made prisoner; thirty other officers, and upwards of one thousand men, and we took two pair of colours and two standards. The remainder of the enemy was pursued, by the horse artillery, to the mountains of Ponary, near which another column was nearly destroyed by the sabre and bayonet; twenty-eight pieces of cannon, as many tumbrils, with their train complete, fell into our hands near this spot. Head-quarters of Field Marshal Kutousoff, at Wilna.-On the evening of the 5th of December, the partisan Sesslavin penetrated into the town of Oschnisani, Report of the Commander-in-Chief of the At the time of the capture of Wilna by of cannon were taken, and a number of waggons and carriages. The loss on our side was very inconsiderable. Colonel Flowaisky, and Lieutenant-Colonel Bibikoff, were dangerously wounded. -After the capture of Wilna, I employed every possible means to re-establish order, and to inform myself of every thing: but the shortness of the time does not permit me to present to your Imperial Majesty with this report, a detailed inventory of all we have found here, especially as the quantity of provisions of every sort, as well as the number of prisoners is so great, that it will take a considerable time to make an exact account.During my stay here, the Chief of the Staff, General Stawrakoff, and Major-General Besrodni, have collected from the different magazines of the town, 14,000 tschetwert of barley, five thousand tschetwert of biscuit and flour, an immense number of uniforms, muskets, pouches, saddles, great coats, and other articles of equipment. We have made prisoners seven Generals, viz. Vivier, Gousse, Normand, Gouliot, Le Fevre, Fwanofsky, and Sajontschik, 18 Staff Officers, 224 superior Officers, 9,517 soldiers, and 5,139 sick, were found in the hospitals.A great number of prisoners continue to be made in the neighbourhood; and several magazines have been taken, which we have not had time to certify. As soon as the reports shall be drawn up, I shall have the happiness to submit them to your Imperial Majesty. the 22d of December, for Memel; from which it appears impossible that they should not have been cut off, if they attempted Tilsit, which was occupied on the 11th by Count Wittgenstein, who was nearer to Konigsberg. I have the honour to be, &c. (Signed) CATHCART. DECLARATION. At the moment of my ordering the armies under my command to pass the Prussian frontier, the Emperor, my master, directs me to declare, that this step is to be considered in no other light than as the inevitable consequence of the military operations. -Faithful to the principles which have actuated his conduct at all times, his Imperial Majesty is guided by no view of conquest. The sentiments of moderation which have ever characterized his policy are still the same, after the decisive successes with which Divine Providence has blessed his legitimate efforts. Peace and independence shall be their result.These his Majesty offers, together with his assistance, to every people, who, being at present obliged to oppose him, shall abandon the cause of Napoleon, in order to follow that of their real interest. I invite them to take advantage of the fortunate opening which the Russian armies have produced, and to unite themselves with them in the pursuit of an enemy whose precipitate flight has discovered its loss of power. It is to Prussia in particular to which this invitation is addressed. It is the intention of his Imperial Majesty to put an end to the calamities by which she is oppressed, to demonstrate to her King the friendship which he preserves for him, and Foreign Office, Jan. 20,1813.-A Dispatch, to restore to the Monarchy of Frederic its of which the following is a copy, has been eclat and its extent. He hopes that his received by Viscount Castlereagh, his Prussian Majesty, animated by sentiments Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for which this frank Declaration ought to proForeign Affairs, from his Excellency Ge- duce, will, under such circumstances, take neral Viscount Cathcart, K. T. his Ma- that part alone which the wishes of his peojesty's Ambassador Extraordinary and Ple-ple and the interest of his states demand. nipotentiary to the Court of Russia, dated LONDON GAZETTE, Jan. 23. St. Petersburgh, Jan. 2, 1813. My Lord-I have the honour herewith to transmit to your Lordship copies of two proclamations together with a nominal list of the General Officers who have been taken prisoners by the Russian armies, which I have just received from Wilna, but which have not yet been published here.- -No further official intelligence of military operations has been received here since my last.-Private letters of the 30th, from Liebau, mention, that the French troops stationed at that place marched, on Under this conviction, the Emperor, my master, has sent me the most positive orders to avoid every thing that could betray a spirit of hostility between the two powers, and to endeavour, within the Prussian provinces, to soften, as far as a state of war will permit, the evils which for a short time,must result from their occupation. (Signed) The Marshal Commander in Chief of the Armies, PRINCE KOUTOUSOFF SMOLENSKO. PROCLAMATION. When the Emperor of All the Russias was compelled, by a war of aggression, to take arms for the defence of his states, his Imperial Majesty, from the accuracy of his combinations was enabled to form an estimate of the important results which that war might produce with respect to the independence of Europe. The most heroic constancy, the greatest sacrifices, have led to a series of triumphs, and when the Commander in Chief, Prince Koutousoff Smolensko, led his victorious troops beyond the Niemen, the same principles still continued to animate the Sovereign. At no period has Russia been accustomed to practise that art, (too much resorted to in modern wars,) of exaggerating, by false statements, the success of her arms. But with whatever modesty her details might now be penned, they would appear incredible. Ocular witnesses are necessary to prove the facts to France, to Germany, and to Italy, before the slow progress of truth will fill those countries with mourning and consternation. Indeed it is difficult to conceive that in a campaign of only four months' duration, 130,000 prisoners should have been taken from the enemy, besides 900 pieces of cannon, 49 stand of colours, and all the waggon train and baggage of the army. A list of the names of all the Generals taken is hereunto annexed. It will be easy to form an estimate from that list of the number of superior and subaltern officers taken. thereby to ensure public tranquillity and individual happiness.[Here follows a list of the names of 43 Generals taken from the enemy.] LONDON GAZETTE, Feb. 2. By His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, Regent of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, in the name and on the behalf of His Majesty. A PROCLAMATION. GEORGE P. R. Whereas, We have beheld, with the deepest regret, the daring outrages committed in those parts of England wherein some of the most important manufactures of the realm have been, for a long time, carried on; and being firmly persuaded that such outrages have been, in a great degree, occasioned by the wicked misrepresentations and artifices of illdesigning persons, who have deluded the ignorant and unwary, through the specious pretext of procuring additional employment and increased wages for the labouring manufacturers, by the destruction of various kinds of machinery, now most beneficially employed in the manufactures of this kingdom, and have thus seduced them to enter into unlawful associations, and to bind their consciences by oaths and engagements, not less injurious to their own welfare than destructive of the good order and happiness of society; and seeing that the extent and progress of the trade and manufactures of this country, which have been continually advanced by the invention and improvement of machinery, afford the best practical demonstration of the falsehood of all such pretexts: We, therefore, acting in the name and on the behalf of His Majesty, being anxious, by every means in our power, to bring back His Majesty's mis It is sufficient to say, that out of three hundred thousand men (exclusive of Austrians), who penetrated into the heart of Russia, not thirty thousand of them, even if they should be favoured by fortune, will eyer revisit their country. The manner in which the Emperor Napoleon repassed the Russian frontiers can assuredly be no longer a secret to Europe. So much glory, and so many advantages, cannot, however, change the personal dispositions of his Majesty the Em-guided subjects to a just sense of their own peror of All the Russias. The grand principles of the independence of Europe have always formed the basis of his policy, for that policy is fixed in his heart. It is beneath his character to permit any endeavours to be made to induce the people to resist the oppression and throw off the yoke which has weighed them down for twenty years. It is their Governments whose eyes ought to be opened by the actual situation of France. Ages may elapse before an opportunity equally favourable again presents itself, and it would be an abuse of the goodness of Providence not to take advantage of this crisis to re-construct the great work of the equilibrium of Europe, and individual interests, as well as of their duty to His Majesty, and of the regard which they owe to the welfare of the community, have thought fit, by the advice of His Majesty's Privy Council, to issue this Proclamation; and We do hereby, in the name and on the behalf of His Majesty, exhort all His Majesty's loving subjects strenuously to exert themselves in their several stations to prevent the recurrence of those atrocious combinations and crimes, by which the public peace has been so long disturbed, and the persons and property of individuals endaugered and destroyed, and which have so justly drawn down upon the offenders the FRENCH PAPERS. All the reports which have been circu- battle at Koningsberg; there has not been severest penalties of the law. And We do more especially warn those who may be exposed to such seductions against the dan-lated are false. ger of binding themselves by illegal oaths and engagements, to obey the commands of secret directors, who, keeping themselves aloof, involve their deluded associates in all the guilt and peril of violence, robbery, and murder. And We do further, in the name and on the behalf of His Majesty, earnestly recommend and enjoin His Majesty's loving subjects, whenever it shall be found necessary, to have recourse to the salutary measures which the wisdom of Parliament has provided for the protection of persons and property. And we do further exhort the proprietors of machinery not to be deterred from continuing the use and employment of the same, but vigilantly and strenuously to exert themselves in the maintenuously to exert themselves in the maintenance and defence of their property, and in the prosecution of their lawful and meritorious callings, in the full persuasion that due watchfulness and resolution, exhibited in the first instance on their own part, will, as has been proved by recent experience, most effectually prevent or repel such unlawful aggressions: And We do further, in the name and on the behalf of His Majesty, charge and command all Sheriffs, Justices of the Peace, Mayors, Bailiffs, Constables, and other Civil Officers, to continue their utmost vigilance and activity for the preservation of peace and good order, the prevention of nightly and other unlawful meetings of ill-designing and wicked men, and for the defence of His Majesty's peaceable and industrious subjects from the secret machinations and open attacks of the violators of private property, and the disturbers of the public tranquillity; trusting, | as We do, that by the constant and active exertions of all well-disposed men, the misguided may be reclaimed, and the mischievous kept in awe, without the necessity of recurring to the chastisements of the law, which it will be our duty, as guardian of the general peace and prosperity of the realm, strictly to enforce, if unhappily the renewal of such atrocities as We have lately had to deplore, should again call for the infliction of just and exemplary punish Letter from Prince Eugene Napoleon, Viceroy of Italy, to the Minister at War. Marienwerder, Jan. 6. My Lord Duke,-The St. Petersburgh Gazelles have fallen into my hands, by which I perceive how unnatural and false are the relations which they contain of the events of November and December; I will stop only at what concerns my corps d'armée. It is stated in these papers, that on the 8th November, Platoff attacked me, and dispersed my corps, took from me 3,700 men, and my whole artillery.These statements are false,-Platoff scarcely presented himself before my corps. He was repulsed in every part. If he has made some prisoners, he has not taken a single one with arms in his hands, but he may have picked up some single stragglers, who, during the night, to avoid the ex(To be continued.) Published by R. BAGSHAW, Brydges-Street, Covent-Garden. T VOL. XXIII. No. 7.] LONDON, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1813. [Price 1s. 193] SUMMARY OF POLITICS. PRINCESS OF WALES. -I have very much wished to avoid taking any part in the discussions, which have, in the public prints, been for some time going on, relative to the Princess of Wales, her Royal | Spouse, and their Daughter; but, I now find it impossible to keep silence upon the subject any longer, without abandoning what, as a public writer, I deem to be my duty.- -It is well known, that, for many years, the Prince and Princess have not inhabited the same house. I shall not affect any feelings of lamentation upon this score. Not knowing the parties personally, it is impossible that I can have any feelings personally towards either. I view the matter with the eyes of a spectator, concerned merely as one of the King's subjects; and, as such, I might have my feelings of alarm for the public welfare as affected by this domestic circumstance. But, I do not know that this bare circumstance would be of any weight in a national point of view. The circumstance, however, is not a bare was really the case or not, it is no matter: the fact was believed, and, therefore, the effect was the same. That effect was; that effect must have been, injurious to the Royal Mother; for, on what ground can it have been, that a mother was shut out from ac cess to her child?Many fathers and mothers have separated for life; but, what are the causes, which, whenever it is the ease, produce a prohibition against the mother visiting her children? I am not aware of any punishment much more severe than this; and, yet, the Prince's own Ministers have solemnly declared, that the Princess is free from crime.I shall now proceed to insert a paragraph from the Morning Chronicle of Monday last, from which it would appear, that Her Royal Highness has written a Letter to the Prince Regent, which he has refused to receive. I pretend not to possess any information upon the subject, except that which reaches me through the public prints. All my remarks, therefore, must be bottomed upon the articles which I shall cite; and I shall It is accompanied with others. We insert them as I find them, without the see the Princess not only excluded from her smallest change in any part.The first husband's dwelling-place, or, at least, (of the date before mentioned) is in the living away from it; but, we also see her following words:" The controversy without the means of keeping her state as "into which we were drawn by the unconthe consort of the Prince, her husband."stitutional insinuations of a well-known We see her living in obscurity. We see" Writer in The Courier, has drawn from her absent from Court. And, while we see "other Journals animadversions and cenall this, we hear the Prince's own Ministers "sures which we cannot suffer to pass undistinctly declare, that there has been no- "noticed. We are accused in one Paper thing criminal in her conduct.Were" of striving to sow divisions between fawe, under all these circumstances, to re- "ther and daughter, while another says main insensible to her situation, we should" that we prove ourselves to be utterly igdeserve the character of a cowardly, a dolt-"norant of the matter that so naturally inish, and even a base people.I wish not "terests the public. The first of these acto teach the propriety of prying into the "cusations is that alone upon which we domestic unhappiness of the Royal family;" feel it to be important to defend ourselves, I wish not to be instrumental in widening" because we do not conceive any conduct a breach, which, seemingly, cannot be to be more base or detestable than an at closed; but, I do wish to inculcate the jus-"tempt to sow divisions in a house; and if tice of letting the Princess of Wales see," this be true, even in the domestic circle that we feel for her as men ought to feel for" of private society, how much more heinany woman similarly situated.We saw," ous would be the crime if perpetrated in the public prints, some time back, an against that illustrious family with whose account of her having been prevented from" union and happiness the safety and wel one. G |