82 State gj 
a map... They will pve fee that the whole 
Ruffian ar my was on the point of heing anni- 
_hilated in the courfe of a few days, and “that in 
confequence of a fingie overfight in the Ruf- 
fian General, 
We have lof 800 men killed, and 2000 
wounded. Matters of the greate‘t part of the 
Raifian artillery, of all its ‘pofitions, and hav- 
ing repulfed the enemy near 40 leagues, the 
emperor has ordered the army into winter 
quarters. fefore this expedition, the Ruffian 
ofticers fay they had 150,000 men, now they 
fay they had but halt that number. Which 
is to be believed, the Ruffian officers before, 
or the Rufian officers after the battle ? 
Perfia and the Porte have declared war 
againft Rufiia. Michelfon attacks the Porte. 
Thefe two great empires, neighbours to the 
Ruaffians, are kept in continual ancicty by the 
fallacious policy of the cabinet of St. Peters- 
burgh, which for ten years pat has atted by 
them in the fame manner as it conducted it- 
felf for fiity years, with refpect to Poland. 
M. Philip Segur, camp marfhal tp the em- 
peror, on his way to Nafielfk, fell into an am- 
bufcade of Coffacks placed in a wooden houte 
behind that place. He killed two of the 
with his own hands, but was mace wtifaner: 
‘The emperor cla‘med him immediately, but 
the Ruffian Gencral had already feat him off to 
St. Peterfburgh. 
BUENOS AYRES. 
Captain Edmonds, late of his Majefty’s 
fhip Diomede, arrived at the Admiralty Office, 
January 24, with difpatches from Commocore 
Sir Home Popham, dated inthe Rio de la 
Plata, the 1{ of November, from which it 
Sp peas, that Buenos Ayres was attacked on 
the 9th of Auguit, by a detachment of troops 
from Monte Video, afiifted by the town’s- 
people, and militt ia of the country, and obliged 
to furrender onthe 12th, undera capitulation, 
the teriss of which were’ not aiterwards ob- 
ferved. General Heresicrd, the officers, 
troops, marines of the fquadren, and a few 
§eamen, remained prifoners of war. 
Upon the arrival .of the re-inforcemeats 
from the Cape of Good Hope, an attack was 
made upon Monte Video, but without fuecefs. 
Pofieffion was then taken of Maldonado, at 
‘the mouth of the river, upon the 29th of 
October, awhere the troops were eae 
when Captain Edmonds jailed. His Majefty 
fhips*were at anchor in the road of that place, 
and their crewsin perfect health. 
- The following is a itatement of the 
killed and wounded :— 
Orricers—-Killed ph ae 
Wounded . . 
Total 3 
‘Pary wiles 36 led ee Ry 
whe Wounded ... 
Mitiag-) 3". 9, 
Fotal . 444 
f Public Afairs “in Jabmry. 
fFeb. ¥; 
s AMERICA. 
‘On 2d of December at 12 o'clock, 
the Fretfident of the United States com- 
municated, by Mr. Coles, his Secretary, 
the following Meflage to both Houfes of 
Congrefs. 
To the Senate aad Houfe of Reprefentatives of the 
United States of America, in Csugre{s Aj- 
fembled. 
It would have given me, Fellow citizens, 
great fatisfaGtion to announce, in the moment 
of yourfmeeting, that the difficulties in our 
foreign relations, exifting at the time of your 
laft feparation, had been amicably and juftly 
terminated. I lof no time in taking thofe 
meafures which were moft likely to bring 
them to fuch a termination, by fpecial mif- 
fiens, charged with fuch powers and inftruc- 
tions as, in the event of failure, could leave 
no imputation on either our moderation or 
forbearance. ‘The delays, which have fince 
taken place in the negotiations with the Bri- 
tith Government, appear to have proceeded 
from caufes which do not forbid the expetta- 
tion that, during the courfe of the feflion, ¥ 
may be enabled to iay before you their final 
iffue. What will be that of the negotiations 
for fettling our differences with Spain, no- 
thing which had taken place, at the date of 
the laft difpatches, enables us te pronounce. 
On the weftern fide of the Mifliffippi, the ad- 
vanced in confiderable force, and took poft 
at the fettlement of Bayon Pierre, on the 
Red river. This village was originally fet~ 
tled by France, was held by her as long as she 
held Louvifiana, and was delivered to Spain 
only as a part of Louifiana. Being fmall, in- 
fulated, and diftant, it was not ob{grved at’ the 
moment of re-delivery to France and the, 
United States, that fhe continued a guard of 
half adozen of men, which had been ftationed 
there. 
A propofition however, having been © 
lately made by our commander in Chief, ta” 
aflume the Sabine river as a temporary line of 
feparation between the troups of the two.na= — 
tions, until the iffue of our negotiations thal? 
be known, this hes been referred by the Spa- 
nifh commandant to his fuperior, and in the 
mean time he has withdrawn his force to the 
weftern fide of the Sabine river. 
fpondence on this fubject, now communicated, 
will exhibit more particularly the Eetied@ 
fate of things in that quarter. / 
The nature of that country requires indif- 
peniably that an unufual proportion of the 
force employed there thould be cavalry, or 
mounted infantry. 
the commanding officer might be enabled to 
act with effect, I had authorifed hig to call 
on the governors of Orleans and Miffitiippi, 
for a corps of five hundred volunteer cavalry. 
The temporary arrangement he has propofed, 
may perhaps render this unneceflary.. But I 
inform you with greatpleafure, of the promp- — 
titude with which the inhabitants of thofe — 
tetrituries have tendered their fervices in de= 
dence of their country. at has done honor to 
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