cartridges, 400,000lbs. of gunpowder, 400,000lbs. of saltpetre and sulphur. It was mot till the 19th, that the powder, saltpetre, and sulphur, were discovered at a fine establishment, half a league from the city; this is a matter of importance: we are now supplied with animunition for two campaigns. We every day discover cellars full of wine and brandy. Manufactures were beginning to flourish at Moscow. They are destroyed. The confla gration of this capital will throw Russia 100 years back. The weather is becoming rainy: the greatest part of the army is in barracks, in Moscow. Twenty-second Bulletin. Moscow, Sept. 27. The Consul General Lesseps has been appointed Intendant of the Province of Moscow. He has organised a Municipality and several Commissions, all composed of the inhabitants of the country. The fires have entirely ceased. We every day discover magazines of sugar, furs, clothes, &c. The enemy's army appears to retire upon Kalouga and Toula. Toula contains the greatest manufactory for arms in all Russia. Our advanced guard is upon the Pakra. The Emperor is lodged in the Imperial Palace of the Kremlin. We have found in the Kremlin several of the ornaments used at the coronation of the Emperors; and all the flags taken from the Turks for the last hundred years. The weather is Bearly the same as at the end of October at Paris. It rains a little, and we have had some white frosts. We are assured, that the Moskwa and the rivers of the country are not frozen over before the middle of November. The greater part of the army is cantoned in Moscow, where it recovers from its fatigues. Twenty third Bulletin. Moscow, Oct. 9. The advanced guard, commanded by the King of Naples, is upon the Naia, twenty leagues from Moscow. The enemy's army is upon the Kalouga. Some skirmishes have taken place for the last three days. The King of Naples has had all the advantage, and always driven the enemy from their positions. The Cossacks hover upon our flanks. A patrole of 150 dragoons of the guard, commanded by Major Marthod, has fallen into an ambuscade of the Cossacks, between the road of Moscow and Kalouga. The dragoons sabred 300 of them, and opened themselves a passage; but they left 20 men upon the field of battle, who were taken, among which is the Major, dangerously wounded. The Duke of Elchingen is at Bohoroduck. The advanced guard of the Viceroy is at Troitsa, upon the road to Dmitrow. The colours taken by the Russians from the Turks in different wars, and several curious things found in the Kremlin, have been sent off for Paris. We found a Madona, en riched with diamonds. It has also been sens to Paris. We add here a statistical account of Moscow, which was found among the papers of the palace. It appears that Rostopchin has emigrated. At Voronovo he set fire to his castle, and left the following writing attached to a post: "I have for eight years embellished this country house, and I have lived happy in it in the bosom of my family. The inhabitants of this state, to the number of 1720, quit it at your approach, and I set fire to my house that it may not be polluted by your presence. Frenchmen, I have abandoned to you my two Moscow houses, with furniture worth half a million of rubles; here you will only find ashes."+ "Count FIDOR ROSTOPCHIN." "Voronovia, Sept. 29. The palace of Prince Kurakin is one of those which have been saved from the fire. General Count Nansouty is lodged in it. We succeeded with great difficulty in withdrawing from the hospitals and houses on fire a part of the Russian sick. There remain about 4000 of these wretched men. The number of those who perished in the fire is extremely great. We have had, for the last eight days, a warmer sun than is experienced at Paris at this season. We do not perceive that we are in the North. The Duke of Reggio, who was at Wilna, has entirely recovered. The enemy's General in Chief, Bagration, is dead of the wound which he received at the battle of Moskwa. The Russian army disown the fire of Moscow: the authors of this attempt are held in detestation among the Russians. They consider Rostopchin as a sort of Marat. He has been able to console himself in the society of the English commissary, Wilson. The Staff-Major will cause the details of the battles of Smolensk and Moskwa to be printed, and point out those who distinguished themselves. We have just armed the Kremlin with 80 pieces of cannon, and constructed chevaux-de-frize at all the entrances of it. It forms a fortress; bake-houses and magazines are established in it. In truth, he set fire to his countryhouse, but this example has but few imi tators. All the houses in the neighbourhood of Moscow are intrenched. davia have joined General Tormassow. Those of Finland disembarked at Riga, and they came out and attacked the 10th corps. They were defeated, 3000 men were made prisoners. We have not yet the official account of this brilliant combat, which does so much honour to General d'York. All our wounded have been conveyed to Smolensk, Minsk, and Mohilow; a great number have recovered and joined the corps. A great deal of private correspondence between Moscow and St. Petersburgh informs us of the situation of this empire. The project of the incendiary of Moscow was kept secret; most part of the nobility and the inhabitants carried nothing off. The engineers have taken the plan of the town, and marked out the houses which have been saved from the incendiary; from which it results, that there has not been saved of the town but one-tenth part, ninetenths exist no more. Twenty-fifth Bulletin. Noilskoe, Oct. 20. All the sick who were in the hospitals of Moscow left them on the 15th, 16th, 17th, and 18th inst. for Mojaisk and Smolensk. The artillery caissons, the ammunition taken, a great quantity of curious things, and two trophies, were packed up and sent off on the 15th. The army received orders to bake biscuit for twenty days, and hold itself in readiness to march; in effect the emperor left Moscow on the 19th. The head-quarters were on the same day at Disna. On the one side the Kremlin has been armed and fortified, and at the same time it has been mined, in order to blow it up. Some think the emperor will march upon Toula and Kalouga, to pass the winter in these provinces, and occupy Moscow by a garrison in the Kremlin. Others suppose the emperor will blow up the Kremlin, and burn the public establish ments which remain, and that he will approach within an hundred leagues of Poland, to establish his winter-quarters in a friendly country, and near to receive every thing which exists in the magazines of Dantzic, Kowno, Wilna, and Minsk, and recover from the fatigues of war; the latter observe, that Moscow is distant from St. Petersburgh 160 leagues of bad road, whilst Wit-psic is only 130 from Petersburgh; that from Moscow to Kiow is 218 leagues, whilst from Smolensk to Kiow is but 112 leagues; from whence they conclude, that Moscow is not a military position, or that Moscow possesses no longer political importance, since that town is burned and ruined for 100 years. The enemy shewed many Cossacks, who annoyed our cavalry; the advanced guard of cavalry placed in advance of Veukovo, were surprised by a horde of Cossacks, they were in the camp before they could mount on horse back. They took of General Sebastiani's park of artillery 100 baggage waggons, and made about 100 prisoners.* The King of Naples, mounted on horse back with the cuirassiers and carabineers, and perceiving a column of light-infantry, of four battalions, which the enemy sent to support the Cossacks, he charged it, broke it, and cat it in pieces. General Dezi, aid-de-camp to the King, a brave officer, was killed in this charge, which honours the carabineers. The Vice-Roy has arrived at Fomenskoe. AN the army is in march. Marshal the Duke of Treviso has remained at Moscow, with a garrison. The weather is very fine, like that in France during October, perhaps a little warmer; but on the first days of November we may expect colds. Every thing indicates we must think of winter-quarters, our cavalry particularly require it. The infantry refreshed themselves at Moscow, and are very well. SPAIN. The castle of Burgos having fatally de tained the Marquess Wellington from the middle of September to the 22d of Oc tober, the French armies of the North and South had abundant time to combine their operations. The consequence has been, the re-occupation of Madrid, Val ladolid, &c. by the French, and the res treat of the English forces towards the Frontiers of Portugal. The English Generar's report is contained in the following dispatches: Downing-street, Nov. 17, 1812. Dispatches, of which the following The veritable Russians have sung Te Deums about this skirmish with the French advanced guard. They say, the French fled eleven miles, losing 2000 killed, 1100 prisoners, 38 pieces of cannon, &c. &c. Such exagge rations are perhaps justifiable within an ine vaded empire, in which it is necessary to sti mulate Tartars. Samoieds, and other barba rous nations, by reports of victories. The venal London papers, however, mock the En glish people, and treat them as mere Siberians when they serve up such Munchausons, week after week, in a dozen different garbs. These agents of the war-faction, would indeed lead us to suppose that the French armies had been annihilated, by these paper victories; if the evidence of MAPS did not shew that the Rus sian capital, in the very centre of the empire, has been destroyed, and that their frontier towns and finest provinces, are now quietly occupied as winter quarters by the French armies. Yet the venal papers insult our patriotism, by calling a campaign, attended by such results, brilliant and glorious! These misrepresentations more expressly call for reprehension, because they are the means used by the war-faction of deluding the people into acquiescence in their pernicious projects. are are extracts, have been this day received at Earl Bathurst's office, addressed to his Lordship by General the Marquess of Wellington, dated Cabeçon, 26th and 28th October, Rueda, 31st October and 3d November, 1812. Cabeçon, Oct. 26, 1812. I have been so much occupied by the movements and operations of the army since the 18th instant, that I have not been able to write to your Lordship. The operations of the Castle of Burgos continued nearly in the state in which they were when I addressed your lordship on the 11th instant till the 18th. Having at that time received a supply of musket ammunition from Santander, and having, while waiting for that necessary article, completed a mine under the church of St. Roman, which stood in an outwork of the second line, I determined that the breach which we had effected in the second line should be stormed on that evening, at the moment this mine should explode; and that at the same time the line should be attacked by escalade. The mine succeeded, and Lieutenant-colonel Browne lodged a party of the 9th Caçadores, and a detachment of Spanish troops of the regiment of Asturias in the outwork. A detachment of the King's German Legion, under Major Wurmb, carried the breach, and a detachment of the Guards succeeded in escalading the line; but the enemy brought such a fire upon these two last detachments, from the third line, and the body of the castle itself, and they were attacked by numbers so superior, before they could receive the support allotted to them, that they were obliged to retire, suffering considerable loss. Major Wurmb was unfortunately killed. It is impossible to represent in adequate terms my sense of the conduct of the Guards and German Legion upon this occasion; and I am quite satisfied, that, if it had been possible to maintain the posts which they had gained with so much gallantry, these troops would have maintained them. Some of the men stormed even the third line, and one was killed in one of the embrasures of that line; and I had the satisfaction of seeing, that, if I could breach the wall of the castle, we should carry the place. Another mine was commenced under the second line from the church of St. Roman, of which we remained in possession. The enemy had on the 13th moved for ward a considerable body of infantry, and six squadrons of cavalry from Briviesca, to reconnoitre our outposts at Monasterio. They attacked the piquet at the bridge in front of that town, but were repulsed by the fire of a detachment of the infantry of the Brunswick Legion. In this affair Lieute nant-Colonel the Honourable Frederick Pon sonby, who commanded at Monasterio, was wounded, but not severely, and I hope I shall soon again have the benefit of his as sistance. I had long had reports of the enemy's intention to advance for the relief of the castle of Burgos, with the army of Portugal, reinforced by troops recently arrived from France, and with that part of the army of the north which was disposable; and they did advance in considerable force against the post at Monasterio on the evening of the 18th. The subaltern of the Brunswick Legion, who commanded a piquet in St. Olalla, disobeyed his orders in remaining in that village upon the approach of the enemy, and he was taken with his piquet. The enemy consequently obtained possession of the heights which command the town of Monasterio, and our out-post was obliged to retire on the morning of the 19th to the Burgos side of the town. I assembled the troops, excepting those necessary for carrying on the operations of the siege, as soon as it appeared, by the enemy's movement of the 18th, that they entertained serious intentions of endeavour. ing to raise it, and placed the allied army on the heights, having their right at Ibeas, on the Arlanzon, the centre at Rio Vena and Magaradas, and the left at Soto Pallacio. The enemy's army likewise assembled in the neighbourhood of Monasterio. They moved forward on the evening of the 20th with about ten thousand men, to drive in our outpost at Quintana Palla and Olmos. The former withdrew by order, but the fatter was maintained with great spirit by the Chasseurs Britanniques. Seeing a fair op. portunity of striking a blow upon the enemy, I requested Lieutenant-General Sir Edward Paget to move with the 1st and 5th divisions upon the enemy's right flank, which movement, having been well executed, drove them back upon Monasterio, and our posts were replaced in Quintana Palla. On the morning of the 21st, I received a letter from Sir Rowland Hill, of the 17th, in which he acquainted me of the enemy's intention to move towards the Tagus, which was already fordable by individuals in many places, and was likely to become so by an army. The castle of Chinchill had surrendered on the 9th instant. The enemy's force in Valencia was supposed to amount to not less than seventy thousand men, a very large proportion of which, it was expected, would be disposable for service out of that kingdom. I had desired Lieutenant-general Sir Rowland Hill to retire from his position on the Tagus, if he should find that he could not maintain himself in it with advantage; and It was necessary that I should be near him, in order that the corps under my command might not be insulated, in consequence of the movements which he should find himself under the necessity of making; 1 therefore raised the siege of Burgos on the night of the 20th, and moved the whole army back towards the Douro. I felt severely the sacrifice I was thereby obliged to make. Your Lordship is aware that I was never very sanguine in my expectations of success in the siege of Burgos, notwithstanding that I considered success was attainable, even with the means in my power, within a reasonably limited period. If the attack made on the first line on the 224 or the 29th had succeeded, I believe we should have taken the place, notwithstanding the ability with which the governor conducted the defence, and the gallantry with which it was executed by the garrison. Our means were limited; but it appeared to me, that if we should succeed, the advantage to the cause would be great, and the final success of the campaign would have been certain. I had every reason to be satisfied with the conduct of the officers and troops during the siege of Burgos, particularly with the brigade of Guards. During the latter part of the siege the weather was very unfavourable, and the troops suffered much from the rain. The officers at the head of the artillery and engineer departments-Lieutenant-colonel Robe, and Lieutenant-colonel Burgoyne, and Lieutenantcolonel Dickson, who commands the reserve artillery, rendered me every assistance: and the failure of success is not to be attributed to them. By their activity we carried off every thing in the course of one night,excepting three eighteen-counders destroyed by the enemy's fire, and the eight pieces of cannon which we had taken from the enemy on the night of the 19th ultimo, in the storm of the hornwork. Having sent our cattle to meet the equipment expected from Santander, we had not the means of moving the latter. The enemy was not aware of our movement, and did not follow us till late on the 22d, when ten thousand men encamped on this side of Burgos. The British army encamped at Celada del Camino and Hornillos, with the light cavalry at Estepan and Baniel. We continued our march on the following day, the right of the army to Torquemada, the left to Cordevilla, at which places we crossed the Pisuerga. The enemy followed our movement with their whole army. Our rear-guard consisted of two light battalions of the King's German Legion, under Colonel Halkett, and of Major Gen. Anson's brigade of cavalry; and Major-Gen. Bock's brigade was halted at the Venta del Pozo to give them support; the whole under the command of LieutenantMONTHLY MAg. No. 243. Don Julian Gen. Sir Stapleton Cotton. Major-Gen. Anson's brigade charged twice with great success, in front of Celada del Comino, and the enemy was detained above three hours by the troops under LieutenantGen. Sir S. Cotton in the passage of the Hormaza, in front of that village. The rear-guard continued to fall back in the best order, till the guerillas on the left having been driven in, they rode towards the flank of the rear-guard of Major-Gen. Anson's brigade, and four or five squadrons of the enemy mixed with them. These were mistaken for Spaniards, and they fell upon the flank and rear of our troops. We sustained some loss, and Lieut-Colonel Pelly, of the 16th dragoons, having had his horse shot, was taken prisoner. The delay occasioned by this misfortune enabled the enemy to bring up a very superior body of cavalry, which was charged by Major-Gen. Bock's and Major Gen. Anson's brigades, near the Venta del Pozo, but unsuccessfully, and our rear-guard was hardly pressed. The enemy made their charges on the two light battalions of the King's German Legion, formed in squares, but were always repulsed with considerable loss by the steadiness of these two battalions. They suffered no luss, and I cannot sufficiently applaud their conduct, and that of Col, Halkett, who commanded them. The exertions and conduct of LieutenantGen. Sir S. Cotton, and of the officers and staff attached to him throughout this day, were highly meritorious; and, although the charge made by the cavalry was not successful, I had the satisfaction of observing great steadiness in their movements. Major Bull's troop of horse artillery, under Major Downman and Capt. Ramsay, distinguished themselves. The army continued its march on the 24th, and took up its ground on the Carrion, with its right at Duenas, and its left at Villa Muries, and the 1st battalion 1st Guard joined us from Corunna. I halted here on the 25 h, and the enemy attacked our left at Villa Muriel. They were repulsed, however, by the 5th division of infantry, under the command of MajorGen. Oswald, in the absence of Lieutenant Leith, on account of indisposition. I had directed the 3d battalion of the Royals to march to Palencia, to protect the destruction of the bridges over the Carrion at that place; but it appears that the enemy assembled in such force at that point, that Lieut-Colonel Campbell thought it necessary to retire upon Villa Muriel, and the enemy passed the Carrion at Palencia. This rendered it necessary to change our front, and I directed Major-Gen. Oswald to throw back SN ous our left, and the Spanish troops upon the heights, and to maintain the Carrion with the right of the 5th division. The bridge of Villa Muriel was destroye, but the enemy discovered a ford, and passed over a considerable body of infantry and cavalry. I made Major-Gen. Pringle and Major-Gen. Barnes attack these troops under the orders of Major-Gen. Oswald; in which attack the Spanish troops co-operated, and they were driven across the river with considerable loss. The fire upon the left had been very severe throughout the day, from which we suffered a great deal; and Major-Gen. Don Miguel Alava was unfortunately wounded whilst urging on the Spanish infantry in the pursuit of the enemy. I broke up this morning from the Carrion, and marched upon Cabeçon del Campo, where I have crossed the Pisuerga. The enemy appear to be moving in this direction from Duenas, I propose to halt here to-morrow. PS I have the honour to enclose returns of the killed and wounded. Return of Killed and Wounded of the Army under the command of his Excellency Ge neral the Marquess of Wellington, K. B. in the siege of the Castle of Burgos, from the 11th to the 17th of October, 1812. Royal British Artillery-5 rank and file killed; 7 rank and file wounded. Royal Military Artificers-1 rank and file wounded. and file, killed; 1 lieutenant, 2 ensigns, 3 serjeants, 39 rank and file, wounded. Total Portuguese loss rank and file General Total-1 serjeant, 27 rank and S. A. GOODMAN, D.A.A.G, 16th October, 1812.-1st Foot-Lieutenant Rae, acting Engineer, slightly. 58th Foot-Ensign Baylie, slightly. PORTUGUESE. 15th October, 1812.-12th Regiment of the Line-Captain White, severely. (Signed) S. A. GOODMAN, D. A.A.G. Return of Killed, Wounded, and Missing, of the Army under the Command of his Excellency-General the Marquis of Wellington, K.B. in the Siege of the Castle of Burgos, from the 18th to the 21st October, 1812, inclusive. Royal Engineers-1 rank and file killed; 1 rank and file wounded. Royal British Artillery-1 rank and file killed; 2 rank and file wounded. Coldstream Guards, 1st Batt.-1 captain, 1 ensign, 1 serjeant, 22 rank and file, killed; 2 captains, 1 serjeant, 32 rank and file, Coldstream Guards, 1st Batt.-3 rank and wounded. file killed; 1 rank and file wounded. 3d Foot Guards, 1st Batt.-8 rank and file 3d Foot Guards, 1st Batt.-3 rank and file killed; 2 lieutenants, 15 rank and file, killed; 3 rank and file wounded. 1st Foot, 3d Batt.-1 lieutenant wounded. 24 Foot, or Queen's-10 rank and file wounded. S2d Foot, 1st Batt.-1 rank, and file killed; 1 ensign, 2 serjeants, 1 rank and file wounded. 36th Foot, 1st Batt.-1 rank and file killed; 2 rank and file wounded. 42d Foot, 1st. Batt.-3 rank and file wounded. 534 Foot, 2d Batt.-1 serjeant, 1 rank and file wounded. 58th Foot, 24 Batt.-1 rank and file killed; 1 ensign wounded. wounded. 11th Foot, 1st Batt.-1 rank and file killed; 1 serjeant, 4 rank and file, wounded, 24th Foot, 2d Batt.-4 rank and file killed; 3 rank and file wounded. 424 Foot, 1st Batt.-8 rank and file wounded. 53d Foot, 2d Batt.-1 rank and file wounded. 58th Foot, 2d Batt.-1 serjeant, 6 rank and file, killed; 12 rank and file wounded; 2 rank and file missing. 60th Foot, 5th Batt.-2 rank and file wounded. 61st Foot, 1st Batt.-2 rank and file 60th Foot, 5th Batt.-2 rank and file killed; wounded. 1 rank and file wounded. 79th Foot, 1st Batt.-1 rank and file 61st Foot, 1st Batt.-1 rank and file wounded. wounded. 1st Line Batt. King's German Legion 79th Foot, 1st Batt-1 rank and file 1 lieutenant, 1 serjeant, 24 rank and file, killed; 1 rank and file wounded. 1st Line Batt. King's German Legion2 rank and file killed; 2 rank and file wounded. 2d Ditto, Ditto-3 rank and file killed; 2 rank and file wounded. 5th Ditto, Ditto-1 serjeant, 1 rank and file, killed; 3 rank and file wounded. Total British loss-1 serjeant, 23 rank killed; 1 captain, 22 rank and file, wounded. 2d Ditto, Ditto-1 major, 2 rank and file, killed; 2 lieutenants, 7 rank and file, |