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UK S i 4t. MURFREESBOnOtJCir. THUnlDAy; PECKHTBER 1,181S.-PRiNTF.D Ap PUBLISHED. YiplCKINSON AND HUNTINGTON.1 c : lu '. A.' ; '.Vi ' "W , Ta"libftXfcTS WT K lke ' bpttald, abandoned, with f'nrm .t .Tkr I1lt- S Went . t ' v ,v; -....:;.. Ii.!f pajablo on th "rwe'.pt bf E j :Th Russians acknowledge tha,(j h"firA number ih. ramus. ,he7 st .fifty thousand men in the, Uf at, the eod.ef she jeery- ' M"8 flo4kw. Prince Bagra 'Subieriberi who receire their !' Vs ,mortally wounded, A list pper or mail, will, subject- !$ ; Ji been, snade of (he Russian wo. b4 to the additional sxpe f ll ; erjuV .-jQunded or killed in the oat Papers to be contineed ,entil til srratragoart paid ip.JV A fi?ertitameot will ba insert- id at one dollar par sqa.ro for three weeksi and tnt fin cent fcw ech week eatine-anea-objact. kowarar, to a ra.iooaeie,dadactieo, irhaQ con tinued lor several month."; '. NurfrttfBtr', Seji.$, Hit. ,V'f ' '..,-'' V ' " , , '- . ttl FOREIGN.; .? - '".' : v V A It Tl. OCTnara Jt. " ihetecnthi. Bulletin jof ahe - r " - ' Orand ' Army - ' . ' . : " : MOKffWy deft. v French army, punued. the enemy ; upon Moscow, by the three routes, ,- , luojaisk, avenigorod ana Kaiouga, ri l: r t i a : M - J , ;Jii.UUlg Vi . 1. HJJICB Wll OD UI6 , $th at Koubiaakee, the Viceroy at , Roiiza;and prince Poniatowskif at Feminakoe i The head quarters f r were on tne 12m traosierrtrd from ; JVJojaisk to Pesefina; oh the !3tH , they yeje at the castle of Berwa ' , ka; on the 14th, at mid-day, we-cn- tereo Moscow. , a ne enemy had rwsed on the Sparrow Mountain IWO wersts irpm the eity, some re- (loubts, which he abandonedrs--1 ; The city of Moscow is as large as Paris; it u an extremely rich ci- , ,'ty ful1 of palaces of all the hoblet y 01 tne empire, ine Russian go ver- A . , tior, ttostapcnin, wished to ruin this fine citV. when he iaW it aban ' doned by the Russian" armyi? ; had armed soo malefactors, whom f . he had taken :from the dungeons; he also, summoned together 6000 satellites, and distribhted arms a t - mong tnem irom tn arsenal ' ' J ' a ; Our advanced guard arrived in the centre ot thexity, and was re ', r' ceived by a Ere of musketry which fBSUU AlWIlt MIC ' Allllllllf 4 , ling of Naples ordered a battery itT a "few" pieces of c,ahqoQto .bt- opened, dispersed this , rabble, and took possession of ? the Kremlin We have found , in, the arsenal. 60 tnousana new mutKeis, and izo nieces of cannon'. 6i their carria cesr The most complete anarch v ' j'? rvn di4 !m fvt aaMmaa 4asifrt Vav ; ILItlvu '! i-Jt SfVSSt. W MS SIS u madmen ran through', its different , quarters, every where set fire ' to V ' themi The -governor Kostapthin ', ' - had caused all the' merchants and ehopjeeeners to be carried otr, thro' ; t whose instrumentality order might. 1 have been: re-established. Alqre i' were arrested by his orders; in fine,- i,, he had taken the precaution of car lying off the" firemen viih the fire encinesj so that the most complete ! 'anarchy has desolated this great & f ne city, and the names are devour Jng iu We have found in it consi. : derable resources of every kind, ' ' The emnerort is lodged inj tjie i jtrefofin, 'which laf in the centre of . i i 5 , tie; it amouau to, between forty nae ausa tty, .- v Twentieth Uullctiri of the wana Army. . i ' ' MKni)hSept'. 17. ' "'The Russuhs have 'celebrated ft Daim for he battle of Polotzl. ffJDewnibtl4 been suns' for the bittles of Kig4,' for the .tattle of lensk, ; Arcordjpg to the Russian accounts xtoy wcre. everywhere conquerors, and they drove the French to a great di.tance from the -field of battle. It was then amidst the strains of .the Russian JV JDf umt that the army arrived f Mos cow. There they';ihought :them? 16.- selves conquerors; it Jeast the po -sWfy wV.. !"- iV g-!-- ca penona knewbat W. pMvg. ' Moscow. la the.fifrf'ffr of Asia and t of Europe. ; Its warehousea were immense; every house was provided for ' eight months with necessaries of every description.' It was only the evening; before, and A 'day of our entraoce, that the,' danger became known. - We found in the house of the miserable Ros. tanchin some Daoers. and a . letter half wriucn; he fled' without fuush- inir it .Moscow, one of the .finest and richest cities in the World, s no more On the 14th the Russians set fire to the Kxthange, the Bazar, and the Hospital. Un the 16th a vi olent 'wind' arose 'Three. or four hundred ruffians set fire to the city in 500 d ifferent ."places at t$H same moment,,by' order of the" governor hoqseS were buij qf. wood; and the fare spread with , prodigious .rapi dity; it : was : an ocean. of. flame Churches,' of which there were six teen hundred; above one thousand palaces, immense magazines', hear iy nil - have fallen a prey to the flames, ' The Kremlin has been pre served. .,.'' ' l s V'. -The losr is incalculable for Rus sia, for her commerce, and for her nobility, who. had left all .there. It is nqt over ratipg its .value, to state it at many milliards, r About 100 of tiMue 4nc-UMrie have - beef, apprehended and shot; all of them declared; that they act ed under the orders of Rostapchin, and the director ot the police. ' I nirty thousand sick and wound ed Russians have been burnt. The richest commercial houses in Kus sia are ruined. -The shock mutt be considerable, , Thec.!pjhjngkthe,miL. azlneoi a nd the -tquipimenta of the Russian army have been consumed. 'I hey have ' thus lost- every - thing; they! would remove , nothing, be cause they" always thought it impost sible for ii to reach Mosc&w, and' because they were wjlling to de ceive the people When they saw' all in the bands of the French, they: conceived the horrible "project of destroying by fire this first capital; end tbayhave rducdft,beggaryf Miat the .t.prior rtleawJer haJ 200,000 respectable inlubi-unta. i soiicitrd an armisuce fn n iS'apo; Thie is the crime of Rcetsrhuvj leotf, whhh wasigranted tipon tie executed by felons liberal L from the prison);, f .-'J,W--''"The resources which f ,ernv have found ore consequenjly jnxji diminished; however, we pave col lected; and 'are still collfiiug-.a number of hecessaries. A the ceJU lars are untouched by the f re; and the Jnhabiiants, during th art 24 noure have, saved tnapyfUcks. I tiey eodeavouredL to utoJ lU pro gress of the ' flames; but the gorvr-e-our had taken the horrid' tsecau- tion to ' caYry off or destroy tl the engines. ' ' " - - M. v . CThe army is recoverine frnhi its : fatigues; it has abundance bf Bread. potatoes, .cabbages and other yege Huici rncac, laiiea , proviaons, following xerms being conceded at prelimiuarica to a treat-, viz.Mos- W jo , remain in possesion ot the tess of the enemy, than thiit whih waa so Jbravely epcd ,o his pio grtsa jit ,A.skwJ.---Diapathi8 In tn Lord Cii(ji4t state, that gen, Kuasow thinking his x siiivn untraatue aittrhls vn tor1; hit lal rrtnxn cu inr the winter-.Huisii Iknbat k muanb of anmh.r W become a mebet of the e. faf. the could t.ot f t, in an r,IM.f ,!rti--t0..Py seventy, tailfiohs fxhiJee irj cwstqi nee of .which be vi nam lu Bum oertMirta nframat I nan rmrrrl 9fl anl.. hj.a r.nrl .ngland and finally. tHat Trinra I cow. allowluo- if Ki,n,hin,M.. (Constantine hail , be.aentf) the that: city ' wiibout onoosition. - Aa French head quarters as a hostaoo I the .battle of Ma.. V. innh. I for, the performance of those xon- tor the purppsfl of saving Mo&W, wui, , , . . . , I Iiom IOC SUbseanenr fihonrlnnmnr -J -..- . of .that car.ital. innrl tk- Trdw Cobk? fleshier - Jpetch from Prince Kutusow, dated DESTRUCTION- OF -MOS.' aboiit 40 miksi from ih. fi.M. U COWUIFFICUXTIES, OF hjch he does .ot evtn tl .n men. ion me numnerof pnscners tuken, that of killed or wounded, or even ' fbe capture bf ny cannos, we must reluctantly cof clwjlo that . although THE, FRENCH .Extraordinaay as it may Bp- 7fliTdy i,Ugar; offetaBd Pr. the content. '9f the SCXhaod -r K-""""'! v.-m a" s ; 2Ut reach Bulletins dated Sept. The advanced truard is tWnty irth.aiwi efh . 'a ... wersu onthe roa'J to wky UMt, ,ee-n to i calculated tore! vive, ramcr tnan to abate hi'pe which the enemy is retrettitfiAni outer rrench advanced ettard a on l Th the road to Sl eterabufL Uer. k. U.r:"".V:r . r the ent account ri- he may have inflicted nearlv an e- qual lost on the enemy, vet he mdse ' have been, worsted. .But as his ar. . my, though hnihi8hed. remained it ia trut- .ti'.i. nn'Mn ',:.i. lUndisrersed'and tinr)iiimairit.'anrl - the enemy.has not single eollier, exception ,the .Krttnlin, when , jon of , ,he'oldaviHn i ne temperature is still thtt of i ,k. u,,tu. t..i Itroonawiihfr. Amumn. TTie .oldrs1iaveoBnd, , blaxe en4 thousand, perish; I to threMer , in ton- . y-.'5y?a! XoaA ,lk the destrovin)i-!flP2el, Jtion wiih the . r eWorld Wit.. . JMoaooor area the denot of tioae r.l A.r.n.-. fiiUrf tttK ih- uu. I BUU e.ioi.u, .inut .trmoux minated by llie, diKat.t i:g capture. nd destruction oi JIo. ow4 ua; . ne concmatp -oy ;& .HcUrat ot; ic. treat of iu invaders. Twenty iir?t;Bulctin of the ed; and in the conflagratioti of a1 'Grand Army..' whole city lives without number - ' - ' ' " ' have been lost. But the main on es- RUSSIAN JMPERIAL MAl. ji, ivj v.. . - ... ' ... i . . : t;." ,.'1 ' It is with a heavy theart .we are i . . ... i . . . . i comnei en m iiniDna rrv mn ni I the country, that tr-e ncrnv -nut- .. Three hundred incendiariei have I ed. lie has been deprived of tho.e been arrrarrrl and ihnr- thv rr I u nn.rrnVi1 . tiint.' . mmi.r. w- T w -' - 7 .UUIIUI tUU.V . ' U 1 uum mm , firovided with fusees, ,sil inches; which he anticipated with so' much ong, which they. had. .between Iwo' delight, and ; oi obtain which he pieces, of . wopdj. j they had 5ftlso! foucbt the .anmiiuary .buttle of squibs, which-they threw upon the I Moskwa-Hi trsouice. he atkJed Moscow on the id t yh Sent. roofs .of, the Jiouses. , The, wretch I nokdw. aro considerably dimtn The dofy of the'Ruswan tmpi-e, V a a- a .... ....B . .. a 1 ' Ifostapcuui had these prepared on I ishedc end tt betemes "doubtful I however, is not therehr tarnished. the. pretence that he wished to send I whether he will be able to maintain' I On the contrary every individual ia .a ia -t "-.- I.i ... j . I. : . a I , ' a . . 1 . .. 7- . . a . " . . aoauoonjull ot corobusiiWt -Tiiat. I himself. 7 anwdst the nun. ol the! I inspired with tresh courJM-, firm- tcr amidst Tthe Frcach'artrt'.'Hel burnt capital, under" the asperity bf Inessand hope that all the evils ,me'. .t . .. . . i ... . . ....... . . - 1 1 . ' - . tnus got together tne quibs and o-1 a northern , winter, lad A oscow ! I a rtated against us by ,oir cnemica uicr injcria(, necessary luruic ex-1 rcinaineu entire, us. nauccs wouia i wiji e vcmuuny upp..int,r own ccuwon oi, ins project. , , , j live become , the nauivutmn ot :hisjneaus, ne enemy nas jiqt.occonie 7 1 he fires subsided on tKelCth tc I soldiers, its churches would ha veil master by overcoming or weaken 20ih; three quarters of the iity are been. turned Into hospitals, and its ring onr forces: the Commande in burned; among other palaces that remaining population into slaves! Chif,vby the advice of. a council of oeauium one oi watnarine. wnicn i servants , of ' the' invaders,- who-1 war, nas iouna ii expedient to re. had been newly, finished; not above I would have eniored cvtry Comfort,1 1 tire at a moment of nectssitr," in a quarter of the houses remiin.v-j whilst the Russian armies, Compel-j order by the best and. most effefiual . While Rostspchin was t'uline a-1 led to encamp id the field; or to re4 1 means to turn'the transcient . tn- way the fire enginesof the city, be I tire to 'distant towns, would havell umph of the.enemv to his Jnevita-- icu.ucinna nim musseii, i encountered , every uiiucuity, ana i me ruin, fiowever jTauuui ii may 150 pieces bf cannon,7 moie than I Buffered every privation, or by their! 1 1 to the Russians. 'to bear that iKc 600,000 balls )tnd hellsi:l,JOO,000 remoteness freed him from i anyj I original capHal qf the empire ia (tt caniidgcs,'4CX3,QOO pound of gun- J apprehension 'until the '.return of; I the hands ot the, epemy, of .their powder, 400,000 lbs.', pf saltpetre summer. As it,is,however,. with-tl cfiiniry,yet it is consolatory to re- and sulphur. Jt was ot till the out any other shelter for his troops,; j fleet that he is possessed . merely of IVth, that the powder, saltpetre and! the miserable. barracks built out of, I bare walls Ontflininjr .within thetr sulphur were .diuyert-il,aL.ji-nf the wrecks of the city with a re-! circuit neither inhabitants nor pro catablialianent,. half a ieagtev7rom I dneod stock of protiiriwiaj' aml- t-vtaiona. j 1 hi itisr Rhrv ormurroi',-- .1.. -!.... m.!. '4.: . . .... ... f s... I ... .- ..-:. .... ...J t d I . . t . . A ..-.,f. a., 1 . r 'r' .:' por'tnncet we are now.BUpplied with to be intercepted, he' may be ton- I Moscow, Tie would become the ar. , amrrkinition for two .campaigns.! sideredin k situation pregnant with!lbiterof the whole Russian Emnire'. We every day discover' cellars full I'dane-tr. brovided the resolution of I when he mieht prescribe to it such ' u unit miuuiauv). ; i Alexander ao ,no ,iau ,i ,uic i peace as ne enouia un. .proper; nianuiactures were netrinnin? to I mitrhtv ruin which has ovenvhtlm-'l nut he is deceived in his exDecta. flourish at Moscow;" they are dcs-l ed a Jarcc portion, of hkempire, Sc ticms; he will neither liave acquired rpyed. . i he conhncratipu ot . this I if the destruction of one of his ca-!l the power of dkutuic. jwv the cj!pital.wUlihxowRuiia a, hundred fpl aubsistence. T he assem- yem back.- xTTffz -r-r-rr-1 etf mtr'tantsV1manufoturers and 1 bled and, daily Increasing fprces of A he weather is becoming .rainy j I nobles, does not produce the intimi the .greatest part of thenrniy-is.inl dating effect' which-we, apprehend barraoks t Moscow; ') ; ' r t" 1 1 ed on the Rus'sian autocrat, hist in the district 6f Moscow, will not neglect tcf hloik; up every avenue,' and to destroy such hartvei aa matr Hrnendence mar vet be recovered. I be detached fiir- the' numn&e nf rof. t -J London. Otober$ land his territory freed 'fronf the Meeting prwiaions: until the enemy IhtTftSlA fc FRANCE::' 1 crash of its' invaders. . The wild.) shall nerceive that, bia hones of as - A .report was on JiiAay receiv- heroism jqf .his .subjects, 'although I toniabing.tbe .world by the capture' ed.from Mprlaix, of fthe. commen hitheto unaj-airing m J,he field, ,iaa ipf ,Alosc9w WW tain, and hp he -cement of a rtegoclation between raised by jtl voluntary sacrifices j compelled jtO ibpen , passage-.
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