Macdonald has written to count Wittgenstein, to treat for capitula tion, apparently not aware how completely he was surrounded. Count Wittgenstein had sent prince Repnin to settle this business. Accounts were received last Monday of the capitulation of the garrison of Memel; and I saw in the hands of field marshal count Soltykoff the copy of the capitulation. The Prussian commandant was a major, and the garrison consisted of two Prussian battalions, but there was no return of their strength, or of the ordnance and stores in the place. Your lordship will observe, that Gumbinnen and Insterburg are occupied, and that detachments are sent to Allanberg, Kreutzberg, and Braunsberg between Dantzic and Konigsberg, so that I have no doubt but that the latter place is occupied by the Russian troops.

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St. Petersburg, Jan. 16. My lord,-In a former dispatch I had the honour to inclose a journal of reports, received at head-quarters, to the 30th ult. with the addition of the important news of the capitulation of Memel, and convention of the Prussian part of the corps under marshal Macdonald. The particulars of this transaction have not been published; but nothing can exceed the joy manifested by the Prussians on finding themselves at liberty to embrace the Russians, and to renew their former habits as companions in arms: of this there is the most certain evidence. The terms granted to the Prussians are extremely liberal. A detached corps under general Mussenbach was included, in the event that orders could reach him: these orders were in time, and, with the addition of the corps in question,

the Prussian troops included in the convention, it is stated to me, amount to 15,000 men. Macdonald, however, availed himself successfully of stratagem, and, while treating for conference, had made progress in removing the remainder of his force in the direction of Labiau. He was closely pursued during the night from the 1st to the 2d inst. and lost 600 prisoners; but reports being received of a French corps in force at Wehlau, it became necessary to direct the attention of the principal part of the pursuers to an attack upon that post. The occupation of Konigsberg by the Russian army is detailed in two short bulletins, which have been published, and which I have the honour herewith to inclose. His imperial majesty has been occupied in forming a new distribution of his army, which is divided into several corps, which are advancing in dif ferent columns. I learn with satis faction, though not officially, that a very considerable corps is intrusted to baron Winzingerode, and that he has been promoted to the rank of lieutenant-general. The emperor moved in the night of the 7th of January from Wilna, to join the division which comprehends the guards, and the head-quarters of the whole army were at Mereez on the 10th of January; it was thought they would continue there for a day or two.-The Austrians under prince Schwartzenberg had retired from Bielestock, and were near Warsaw, but not in force to render it probable that they would contend with the superiority that might be opposed to them. Zambrow is said to be fortified and garrisoned; but I do not conceive that any posable force upon the Vistula can be adequate to the defence of the têtes-du-pont and fortresses on that

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river, especially where active operations can take place upon both banks. The emperor remained 16 or 17 days at Wilna, where his imperial majesty issued many regulations and decrees for the restoration of order in various provinces which have suffered, and for prevention of disease from the infection of prisoners, and from the number of dead bodies and quantity of carrion still above ground. In the neighbourhood of Wilna 16,000 corpses are piled up in heaps, for the purpose of being consumed by fire, when sufficient wood can be procured; but numbers still remain uncollected in the roads and villages, and the mortality in the hospitals at Wilna continues to be very great. The emperor himself repeatedly visited all the hos pitals.

St. Petersburg, Jan. 29. My lord, I have the honour to inclose a journal of the movements made by the several corps of his imperial majesty's army from the 4th to the 20th of January. Your lordship will observe, that by the rapid advance of the corps on the right, the enemy has been driven beyond the Vistula; the Russian troops being in possession of Elb. ing, Marienberg, Marienwerder, and Nauenberg. The corps from Elbing and Marienberg, being drawn from the Nogat, attempted to make a stand at the tête-du-pont at Derschag, but were soon compelled to abandon it, and retired, part upon Dantzic, and the re mainder npon Stargardt, still pur. sued by the Russians. It appears that the troops stationed in Dant zic advanced to the Pregel, to favour marshal Macdonald's retreat, and that they made no resistance at Elbing, having aban, L813,

doned their artillery before their arrival at that place. The attack upon Marienwerder seems to have been nearly a surprise; and Beauharnois is said narrowly to have escaped being made prisoner. There is no report of the surrender of Pillau.-On the 13th of Jan. the emperor crossed the Niemen near Moretz, amid the accla mations of his brave troops, and has continued to march, with a division of his army, in a western direction through Berjuiki, Krasnople, and Subalki, to Likue, whence the last dispatches are dated. Generals Milaradovitch and Docteroff, with the troops which crossed the frontier at Grodno, move in a line parallel to that of the emperor, on his left, and general Sachen's column is still further to the left. There are also intermediate corps to keep up the communication between each of these columns.-The Austrians remain, ed on the Bug, probably with a view to create a diversion in favour of the army retiring upon Dantzic, as long as their own line of retreat may remain open,-Graudentz has a Prussian garrison.-The Russians have uniformly been received by the inhabitants of the Prussian dominions as friends and deliverers, of which there is ample testimony in all private letters from the army, as well as in public reports.-The retreat of the French through Prus sia has, like that from Moscow, been marked by the abandonment of magazines, tumbrils, and other

Berthier, Victor, Mac, donald, Daru, and Beauharnois, are named among the generals who are gone to Dantzic. The precise force in that place does not appear to be clearly ascertained; but cannot easily be estimated at more. than half the number of an ade

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quate garrison. courier from Bonaparte to Ber, thier is said to have carried orders to complete the provisions of Dantzic for a long siege. The service upon the Vistula appears to have been very ably performed; and I have inclosed a copy of the thanks that have been given to general count Platoff, and the officers and troops under his command, in general orders. The intense cold has continued, and the marches of all the columns have been long and severe. I have, &c.

CATHCART.

Field marshal prince Kutusoff Smolensko has laid before his majesty the continuation of the operations at war, from the 4th to the 10th Jan. (N. S.)

"The 4th Jan. count Wittgenstein reports under date 31st Dec. that in the direction which he had taken towards Prussia, to act against the corps of marshal Macdonald, he had overcome all the difficulties in his way on the country roads, and came up with the enemy at Tilsit. He immediately surrounded Macdonald's troops of the van with his cavalry, and separated him from the Prussian troops under the command of general d'York, by the detachment of major-gen. Deibitsch, whom he instructed to enter into a negotiation with that general.-On the 30th Dec. lieut.-gen. d'York signed an agreement to remain neutral with the troops under his command, consisting of 30 battalions of infantry and 6 squadrons of cavalry, with 30 pieces of artillery. By this means Macdonald has not more than about 5000 men of all descriptions with him, and 20 pieces of artillery. Adjutant-general Wasseltchekow reports, on the 31st Dec. that the Austrian troops con

Jan. 5. General count Wittgenstein reports under date Jan. 3, that when the Prussian troops, 18,000 men strong, with 60 pieces of artillery, were obliged to conclude the agreement of becoming neutral, Macdonald, finding himself separated from the Prussians, determined on making a speedy retreat with the remainder of his troops. The cavalry pursued him vigorously, and on the first day took several officers and about 800 men of the lower ranks prisoners. Count Wittgenstein having in the mean while obtained intelligence that the enemy's troops which had been in Dantzic were marching to Taplaken and Wehlaw, probably with intent to strengthen Macdonald, or to cover his retreat, he turned with his corps against them, and lieut. gen. count Stenheil was on Jan. 3d already in Taplaken and Wehlaw. He likewise sent a strong party of cavalry into the low country be hind Konigsberg, and towards Elbing, for the purpose of depriving the enemy of all means of collecting provisions, as according to ac counts received, there is driving in corn of different kinds. Admiral Tschitschagow states that on Jan. 3d his headmost troops under count Platoff entered into Insterburg; lieut.-gen. Tschaplitz's van-guard entered Gumbinnen; and major-gen. count Woron zow marched into Memersdo.. The lieut.-gen. informs that major gen. count Oruk was, on his entrance into the village of Stalupenen, received by the inhabitants

Jan. 9. General count Wittgenstein reports, under date Jan. 7, in completion of his former statement concerning the taking of the city of Konigsberg, that the enemy were driven out of that city by the four regiments of Cossacks, under the command of col. Riedeger.They had observed the enemy's movements from the commencement of the evening, and, notwithstanding the darkness of the night, took advantage of every step he made for his retreat. On the 4th Jan. at two o'clock after midnight, col. Riedeger, with the Cossacks before mentioned, pushed vigorously forward, and, after an obstinate fire of musketry, entered on the enemy's shoulders into the city, in which about 1300 men were made prisoners. The celerity with which our troops forced their way into the city, obliged the enemy, besides this, to leave about 8000 of his exhausted troops behind him, and to sink about thirty pieces of artillery, with the cartridge boxes, which belonged to the besieging train that was in Courland, and which the inhabitants are now employed in getting out. After taking possession of the city, col. Riedeger again set out with the aforesaid cavalry,

without making the least delay, in pursuit of the enemy, In the course of our pursuit of the enemy from Tilsit to Konigsberg, and after taking possession of the city, he has lost fifty-one pieces of cannon in the whole. Adj.-gen. Wasseltchekow states, under date Jan. 5, that the Austrian troops, after strengthening their advanced posts had drawn themselves towards Warsaw. The report of the military operations, from the 30th Dec. to Jan 4, transmitted by the prince Smolensko, contains, amidst some unimportant matter, the following. passages:

Our troops entered Memel on the 27th Dec. We there found 200 sick, and about 100 of our prisoners. We seized on three armed sloops of the French flotilla, and in the harbour we likewise took six sloops belonging to the Prussian flotilla, with 30 guns; 31 'vessels belonging to different nations; and a considerable quantity of colonial produce, imported by the French. In the town were found five pieces of cannon, &c. The magazines contain large quantities of all kinds of corn and of brandy. The headquarters of his imperial majesty, and of the marshal, continue to be for some time past at Wilna. Thus there no longer remains an enemy in the whole extent of the frontiers of Russia, and all the former Polish provinces, at this present time under subjection to the Russian sceptre, are evacuated by the foreign troops. The anointed of the Lord has without doubt said by inspira tion, "I will not lay down my arms until I have driven from the Russian soil the enemy who has dared to transgress its limits."This prophecy is fulfilled: the only traces of the enemy which are yet perceptible, are his bones spread (C 2)

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Wilna, Jan. 11.

The emperor Alexander departed from this place on the 7th inst.: the preceding day he issued a proclamation to his troops.

The commander-in chief of the armies, marshal prince Kutusoff Smolensko, has reported as follows to his imperial majesty, from his head-quarters, Orany, 28th Dec. (9th Jan.)

"Konigsberg, the ancient capital of Prussia, is subject to your imperial majesty. This vast city was captured on the 25th Dec. (6th Jan.) by count Wittgenstein's advanced guard, under the orders of major-gen. Schepiliff. Marshal Macdonald occupied the town with a corps d'armée, composed of the old French guards, and some troops who had escaped the general destruction of the enemy's grand army. The wreck of his particular corps, constituting part of this total, was reduced to 2500 men: after the Prussians separated from them, there remained to him in all but about 7000 men. At the approach of the advanced guard, which briskly pursued, the enemy, without halting, passed by Konigsberg, and abandoned it to major-gen. Schepiliff, who entered it without meeting any resistance. This astonishing facility in giving up the possession of this city, is a consequence of the victories with which the arms of your imperial majesty have been crowned during the last two months. Macdonald's corps is pursued by Wittgenstein's and Tschitschagoff's army, by diagonal

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MARCH.

The Gazette of Feb. 27 contains a notification from the commissary

any officer of commissariat, who shall have lost a limb, or an eye, or totally lost the use of a limb, shall be entitled to a pension, commencing from the time when he was wounded, and depending in its amount on the rank he held, according to the scale annexed, the pension to be held with any other pay and allowance. The wounds for which pensions are granted must have been received since the commencement of hostilities in 1793: the pension will be proportioned to the rank he held at the time of being wounded, and will be paid from Dec. 25, 1811.Commissary-general at the head of a department, 3501.; ditto, not at the head of a department, 3001. ; deputy commissary-general at the head of a department, 3001; ditto not at the head of a department, 2007.; assistant commissary-general, 1007.; deputy assistant commis sary-general, 70l.; commissariat clerk, 401.; commissary-general of accounts, 3601.; deputy commissary-general of ditto, 2001; assistant commissary-general of ditto, 1007.; deputy assistant com. missary-general of ditte, 70%.; commissariat clerk, 40%.