and of the great exertions they have made, and in which the greater part are still engaged.

His Imperial Majesty has invested the Field Marshal with the Grand Cross of St. George, and was present at a ball given by the Field Marshal, in celebration of His Imperial Majesty's birth day.

The prisoners of war that have been forwarded into the different Governments, since the battle of Borodino, are stated to exceed one hundred and fifty thousand men; many of those may have become the victims of climate and fatigue; but His Imperial Majesty has directed every possible care and attention to be shewn to them.

I have the honour to be, &c.
(Signed) CATHCART.

Dec. 13.-General Tormazoff reports on the 11th, that the different parties detached by the Aide de Camp General Wasiltschikoff had discovered at Bielieza an Austrian corps of 3000 men, whose advanced posts of cavalry occupied Novogrodeck and Gavioo, but that a detachment of the enemy, who were retreating with rapidity, had been defeated by the Cossacks under the Aide-de-Camp General Count Oscharoffsky.

Dec. 14. - Major-General Toutschkoff arrived on the 10th with his eorps at Minsk, and immediately sent two regiments of Cossacks, under the command of Colonel, Grekoff, towards Novoswerschena, in search of the enemy, and in order to form a communication with the detachment under Count Oscharoffsky.

Dec. 15.-Count Oschuroffsky reports, on the 14th, that he entered on the 13th instant, with his detachment into the town of Lida, having pushed his advanced posts even as far as under the walls of Bielieza; but, having been informed that the Austrian troops had quitted that place, and had moved towards Grodno, he imme diately ordered two regiments of Cossacks, under the command of Colonel Andrianoff, to occupy it, and to send parties on the roads to Grodno and to Slonim.

Dec- 16. He also reports, on the 15th, that the Austrian General Moore was, on the 14th, with his detachment, at Rouschany, and that, being watched by the Cossacks, he was continuing his march towards Grodno.

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pursue the enemy closely, he arrived on the 14th of this month, at ten o'clock in the morning, at Kowno. and that the enemy, uniting with the troops in the town, which was surrounded with entrenchments, having redoubts upon its heights, maintained and defended himself with obstinacy, opening at the same time a very considerable fire. The cannonade continued on both sides till dark. In the mean time, Count Platoff ordered his regiments of Don Cossacks to pass the Niemen upon the left bank of the river, and to force him, by that means, either to abandon the town as quick as possible or to surrender. Towards night, two columns, one after the other, made a sortie from the town, but they had hardly passed the river, when the Cossacks vigorously attacked them with their pikes and dispersed them, leaving a considerable number of killed on the spot. One party of them fled along the river towards Tilsit, another took the road to Wilkowisk, being pursued by the elite of the Cossacks. Amongst the killed was found a General of rank, as was proved by his being decorated with the chief order of the Legion of Honour. Many say, that it was Marshal Ney, as Commander of these troops. In this attack, Major Karatschkowitsch took hausse col, two standards were also taken. At the capture of Kowno were made prisoners eighty staff and other officers, and above five hundred privates, without reckoning the invalids that were found in the hospitals. During the pursuit of the enemy for three days, and upon his defeat on the Niemen, five thousand were made prisoners, amongst whom were two colonels, and above one hundred and sixty staff and other officers, and twenty-one pieces of cannon, were taken. Even in this town were found seven hundred and seventy-nine artillery tumbrils complete, and with all their ammunition, and in the magazines three thousand tschetwert of rye and corn.

Major General Toutschkoff reports, that, having united his corps with the de tachmant of Col. Knorring, he will quit Minsk on the 13th of this month, to go to Novoswerschenne.

General Tormasoff reports on the 13th, that the fourth, sixth and eighth corps, and the van-guard of the Aide-de-Camp General Wasiltschikoff, take up their cantonments in the districts of Wilna, Lida, Ostroniani, and Wilkomirsk, having stationed the advanced posts of cavalry of the latter place, at the village of Bocksti,. upon the Berezena, and at Doudi, as well as strong picquets of Cossacks at Nikolaeff, upon the Niemen.-To-day the regiments

of horse guards, and the chevalier gardes, as well as the regiments of infantry, have entered Wilna under the command of His Imperial Highness the Grand Duke Constantine. In defiling before the Field-Marshal General Prince de Smolensko, each man expressed his joy by three hurrahs.

All the troops of the Guards have taken up their quarters in the town and in the suburbs, as well as their contonments in the neighbourhood.

Dec. 18. The head-quarters of the Field-Marshal at Wilna.

the 19th to the 25th of December, 1812.

Dec. 19.-The Aide-de-Camp General Wasiltschikoff arrived to day with his detachment at Mosty.

Dec. 20. The Lieutenant General Schepeleff reports, that, on the 10th of December, be detached 1000 men of the militia of Kulouga to Bobrouisk.

The Aide-de-Camp General Count Oscharoffsky reports, on the 19th of December, that Major Schomscheff, whom he had sent with a regiment of Cossacks to Lounna, having learnt that a party of Russian prisoners, under an Austrian escort, were on the Grodno road, immediately detached l'Esaoul Markow, with a party of Cossacks, who, having overtaken the enemy at ten wersts from Grodno, attacked him, and delivered the prisoners, viz. four officers, five sub-officers, and forty-two soldier, and also took from him one officer of gens d'armes and one hundred soldiers. He further states, that he had ordered his detachment, consisting of the 19th regiment of Chasseurs, the Hussars of Marienpot, and a company of Fly. ing Artillery, to advance to Grodno, in order to repose after its long and fatiguing marches, and that he was himself going with the Cossacks to Bialystock.

Dec. 21. Major-General Toutschkoff arrived with his corps, the detachment of Colonel Knorring having been added to it at Kaidanow on the 2d. Colonel Grekoff being with two regiments of Cossacks at Holbzach, made prisoners, by a party which he had detached, four men of an enemy's patrole of the Hussars of Kienmayer.

Dec. 22. Lieutenant-General Sacken reports, on the 12th of December, that he should march on the 13th of December with his corps to Pinsk, thence to Slonim and that, after the battles which took place on the 13th, 14th, 15th, and 16th, at Gornostaltz and Wilkowisk, his right flank occupied Kowle and Kolka, and his left flank Loubomte.

schick. In the mean time, Major Gen, Landskoy opened the road to Wilkovich, in order to establish a communication with the troops of General Platoff at Kalwary, and entirely cleared the country of the enemy between the frontier and the line marked. In these operations, he made fourteen officers and six hundred soldiers prisoners.

The Partisan, Colonel Davidoff, reports, on the 21st of December, that, on the 20th, he occupied the city of Grodno, and found there there the enemy's maga zines and hospitals of which he will send a detailed report; that he likewise found a magazine at Meretech, and that he lett it under the protection of the Moscow regiment of dragoons, which had just arrived there.

The Austrian General Froelich, who occupied Grodno, retired,

General Couat. Wittgenstein reports on the 21st, that the Aide-de-Camp General Golenistscheff Kutusoff, in pursuing the enemy from Wilna to several miles below Kowno, made prisoners one hundred and sixty nine staff and other officers, and one thousand nine hundred and seventy soldiers, and took one colour; and that, on the 17th, a party of his detachment going to Furburg, overtook a small column of the enemy, completely defeated it, and took one staff officer, seven superior officers, and two hundred men prisoners. This detachment afterwards occupied the town of Furburg.

The Colonel of the Guards, Sonchosaneff, having been detached from the advanced guard of Maj.-Gen. Diebitsch, found some small magazines at Kaidaow and Datkoff, took several prisoners, and one hospital, with eighty sick. Another party, under the orders of the Lieutenant-Colonel of Artillery, Kostomaroff, discovered the enemy, on the 23d, at Grinkischki, and, having attacked him in the evening, made prisoners two officers and thirty soldiers, and also took two hundred new muskets.

His Imperial Majesty arrived this day in good health at his army at Wilna.

Dec. 23.-General Platoff reports, on the 21st, that since his report of the capture of Kowno, several magazines have been discovered, and ne hundred and se venty tonnelets of brandy; that thirty thousand new muskets with bayonets were found in one of the churches; and that a like number had been burnt at the arsenal, of which nothing remained but the iron.

Dec. 24.-General Platoff also reports, on the 23d, that two hundred barrels of flour, one hundred and fifty of rye, five hundred of oats, and fifty quintals of hay, were found at Kalwary; and five hundred muids of flour and two hundred of corn at Wilkovich. The inhabitants of the neighbourhood had also engaged to furnish rations every three days, of bread and grain, for fifty thousand men, and also eats and hay for fifteen thousand horses. They were ordered to provide this quantity for the use of the enemy, and they now voluntarily offer to supply our troops with it.

During the pursuit from the passage of the Niemen to Wilkovich, the enemy has lost, independent of the privates, of which one thousand are daily brought in, more than two hundred officers and four pieces of cannon.

General Count Wittgenstein reports, on the 23d, that the detachment of Lieutenant-Colonel Testenborn, sent by the Aide de Camp General Golenistscheff Kutusoff, fell in with two squadrons of Prussian hussars before Tilsit, immediately repulsed them, and pursued them through that town, and a mile beyond. The enemy lost forty men in prisoners, and one cannon was taken at the village of Dobrowski.

Considerable magazines were found at Tilsit and Raguit.

Lieutenant-General Sacken reports, on the 21st, that he is passing with his corps by Chomsk and Pesky, and hopes to arrice at Rouschany on the 24th. Head-quarters at Wilna.

and these exertions brought on the fatal effects of that disease with great rapidity.

He first stated himself to be ill on the 11th of December, the day of his arrival at Wilna, where he expired on the morning of the 20th of December.

His Lordship had the best medical attendance, with every care and attention, that could be procured.

Field Marshal Prince Kutusoff Smolensko ordered all military honours to be paid to his remains, and has directed a monument to be erected in the church of the Reformed Religion.

It is but justice to the memory of Lord Tyrconnel to say, that, in every situation in which he has been placed since he has been employed under this embassy, he has conducted himself with the utmost zeal and propriety, and had gained the esteem of every body to whom he was knows in Sweden and in Russia.

I have the honour to be, &c.
CATHCART.

FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE, Saturday, Feb. 20.

PROCLAMATION,

Published by the Lieutenant-Governor of the Island of Java, daved Djocjocarta, June 18, 1812.

The Sultan Hamangkubuana the Second, has by his crimes and violation of treaty, shewn himself unworthy of the confidence of the British Government, and unfit to be farther entrusted with the administration delegated to him. But a few months have elapsed since the Sultan experienced the utmost measure of forbearance, clemency, and generosity of the British Government. He had violently seized upon the Government from which his want of faith towards his late Sovereign had removed him, and in the execution of his purpose, put to death the First Minister of his Government, an officer, whose office and person were solemnly protected in all the existing engagements, and, until his time, had been held inviolate. The British Government, with a tender respect for his advanced age, his high rank, and supposed misfortunes, were willing to make a new trial of his conduct, and on his expressing a contrition for his past offences, even confirmed him in the throne he had presumed to usurp.

Scarcely, however, was he restored to power, when he caused to be assassinated the father of that Minister with whose blood he had recently stained his handsa blameless and inoffensive old man. He

shortly thereafter ordered to be strangled, seven of the highest and most respectable chiefs of the country, without even alleged offence; men, whose persons were

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by the existing engagements under the immediate protection of the British Government. He degraded and affronted the Hereditary Prince, lost to all sense of the dutiful respect with which he himself during his prior degradation had been treate ed by him; nay, he even publicly threatened the life of the Prince, and was hindered from putting his threats into execution, only by the direct interference of the British Government. He has refused to deliver over the lands and districts ceded to the Jate government, and confirmed to the British by the last treaty. He has entirely neglected and overlooked every minor stipulation of that treaty; and, lastly, he has been detected in intriguing with the Court of the Soosoonan, in violation of the most solemn and most important engagement of all the treaties, with the avowed object of undermining and subverting the British supremacy in Java.

By such conduct, inimical to the peace, good government, and general tranquillity of the country at large, the Sultan has displayed to the world, how unworthy he is of the high and important trust which the British Government reposed in him. He has forfeited all claim to the future confidence of that Government, and entirely lost the love and affection of his people, reducing the country to a state bordering upon anarchy. The Princes, the Chiefs, and the people of Djocjocarta at large, ate therefore hereby informed, that the Hon. the Lieutenant-Governor of the whole Island of Java and its dependencies, is hereby pleased, in the name and on the behalf of the British Government, to depose the present Sultan, and in re-assuming the

administration of the one half of the high lands of Java, known by the name of the kingdom of Mataram, again to delegate the same to the present Pangeran Adipati, who is hereby proclaimed Sultan of Mataram, under the title of Hamangkubuana the Third.

All persons are therefore required to obey him as their lawful Sovereign; and it is hereby declared, that all who presume to abet the dethroned Prince in his preten sions to the government, will be considered as traitors to their country, and dealt with accordingly. That no person may plead ignorance of this Proclamation, the same is directed to be translated into the Javanese language, and affixed at the gates of the Craton, at the British fort and Residentiary-house, and in such other public places as proclamations and publications. are usually affixed.

Dated at Djocjocarta, this 18th day of June, 1812, by me, the Lieut. Governor of the Island of Java, and its dependencies. (Signed) T. S. RAFFLES By order of the Hon, the Lieut.-Governor, J. CRAUFURD, Resident at Mataram.

(A true copy.)

J. ECKFORD, Assist. Sec. to Govt.

In pursuance of the above Proclamation, the angerang Adipati has been raised to the throne, under the title of Hamangkubuana the Third, and publicly installed in that station by the Hon, the LieutenantGovernor, on the evening of the 22d instant; the whole of the Princes and Chieftains having submitted, and the country, being in a perfect state of tranquillity,

J. ECKFORD, Assist. Sec. to Govt. Samarang, June 28, 1812,

The Balance held between the Catholics and Dissenters; or, Considerations on the Evils to which the Established Church of this Kingdom is exposed from its various Opponents, By John Rep. penham.Gale and Curtis.

In the present agitated condition of the public mind on the grand question of the Catholic Claims, any thing which might tend to the elucidation of the subject is certainly desirable. In the work before us, the Author has unquestionably kept close to the profession with which he sat out,

namely, to display the balance be«. tween the pretensions of the Catholic and the Dissenter, and to deduce the conclusion, that, however equal those pretensions may appear in regard to each other, neither possess the claim to a parti. tion of political power, and that the preservation of the existing system is the truest and surest po-, licy. The strain of argument throughout is spirited and wellpreserved, although his conclusions may not be esteemed convincing, notwithstanding the depth of learning, with which he hus,..

somewhat ostentatiously, overwhelmed the Reader. In an argument professedly intended to discourage innovation and dissension, and to preserve the harmony and good understanding of the community, we confess we think invidious comparisons of the different pretensions of sects and sectaries to be somewhat contradictory, if not mischievous: -nor would we wish to see the cause of our Established Church attempted to be supported by setting the Dissenter and the Catholic at bitter enmity with each other. Mr. Rippingham's observations on the apathy of our Protestant Divines are too just not to be recommended to the serious consideration of all who wish well to the dignity and consistency of the Protestant Church. He says,

"It is mentioned with solemn regret that the apathy of the ministers of our holy church, have greatly accelerated the progress of the Dissenters. Wild enthusiasm is not wanting; that indeed may fascinate the multitude, but it is far distant from true devotion.The genius of religion is temperate and benignant. In palaces and

mansions it controls the ebullitions of prosperity, in the dungeon it dissipates the captive's gloom. The same orb which gilds the summer's day, shines on winter's snowy scenes, and makes each dreary plain seem cheerful.

"But tempered zeal and purity of life our clergy should preserve. Their moral conduct is indeed generally exemplary; and, notwithstanding the few unhappy exceptions which the invidious jealousy of their enemies has selected, there is as much ability, erudition, piety, and virtue, amongst the ministers of the church of England, as ever belonged to any body of men on earth. But all this is not enough. The liturgy should be delivered

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with more energy than is usually employed. If the appointed ser vice for public worship were to be performed in the impressive manner of which it is susceptible; the ignorant and the learned, the fervor of youth and the solemnity of age, would be devoutly affected. ›

"The eloquence of the pulpit has so often obtained the illustra tion of great abilities, that it may seem almost presumptuous to revive the consideration of it in these pages.

"Much, very much, depends on it. It is of all species of oratory that one, in which the union of ar gument and pathos is most indispensable. Both the reason and the feelings of mankind, are neces sary to be engaged, in creating due regard toward religion.

"To accomplish this purpose, not only the style of composition, but the delivery, must be regarded. The errors of turgid expres sion and false pathos, which many favorite preachers possess, should be carefully avoided. The language of a sermon should be sim◄ ple: its embellishments few and chaste: in every feature perfectly natural. This is the style, which interests and convinces; which persuades men," not to be weary in well doing," and "reclaims the hearts of the disobedient to the wisdom of the just."

"Equal care is necessary in the delivery. Too much warmth, characterizes, not the dictates of reason or of faith, but the enunciations of passion. Coldness of manner indicates indifference; and contradicts that the understanding and the heart are engaged. Be tween these extremes, the minister of the Gospel should pronounce his instructions. Nor let it be, in vain, expected, that the Clergy of the Church of England, observing the solemn condition and awful re

sponsibility which they have now

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