THE NATIONAL REGISTER. ALTO (21. made by the cooteoding parties. Superior abilities and va a our, have peva' ed over superiority of numbers; and, in cha•acter as in men, the enemy 'has suffered a lomi which he cannot retrieve. Ile has been disarmed of his most effective wea pon, his lime, which concluded armies before they en ; he possesses no more than proud confidence, that ;. I ,, dr es success. lle has tasted the cup of disgrace which he compelled other nations to di ink, and whilst threatened an d hated Ei itain rises in glory and power, the hour of his (1(-ep humiliation is come. Immortal honour to the hero who has planned, to the brave army that has effected, the wreck of his pride. Before such united genius and bravery, the. 'weak, though lofty structures of ambition, must crumble ' iwo dust. FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. TENTH BULLETIN 0 THE GRAND ARMY. Wirr et.x, Jur.v 31.--The Emperor of Russia and the Grand Dule Ciiiistaittitt have quitted the army. and repaired to the capital. On the filth, the litistilan aro y loft the to:trenched camp sit Orissa, and marched towar d s Polotsk n:.d Wuepsk. The Russian army which was at D. isstt consisted of five corps-d'aritiee, each .1 two divisions, and of bear divi siuns of amity. One corps-d'arme'e, that of Pi ince Wittgenstein, re mained fur the purpose of covering St Petersburgh ; the four other corps having arrived on the 04th at Witi'psk, crossed to the left batik of the Dwion. The corp. o (Memnon, with a part of the cavalry of the guards. put itself in caution at day-break of the tsth, and marched upon Oitruvno. BATTLE OF OSTROVNO. On the 23th of July, Gen Nansouty, with the divisions Bruyere and St. Germain, and the Bth regiment of light infantry, encountered the uneasy two leagues its advance f Ostronovo. The action commenced. tit caral charges of cavalry took place ; all of them were in favour of the French. The light c covered itselt with plory. The King of N Ties mentions the brigade Pire, composed of the Bth hussars, and 16th chasseurs as having distinguished itself. The Russian cavalry, of which a part bet-need to the guards. was overthrown. The batteries which the en-my opened upon 'our cavalry were carried. The Russian ilifaiitiy, wh , advanced to support their artillery, were broken and sabred by our lighi cavalry. Ott the "6th. the Viceroy marched with the division Delzon at the head of the columns, an obstinate action to the advanced guard, of from 15 to e 0 000 111./1, took place a league beyond Ostronovu. The Rus sians were driven from their positions one alter another. the woods Isere carried by the has onet. The King of Naples, and the Viceroy, mention with praise Generals B De arm, Huard, and Roussel. The Bth light infitntry, the 84th .and 9ad teginieuts of the line, and the Ist regiment of Croats, distin guished theitisulves. General Roussel, a brave soldier, after being the whole day at the he d of the battalions, was visiting the advanced posts at ten ut when a centint I took him for an enemy, fired up , n him-, and the ball shattered his skull. He ought to have died three hours sooner on the fie:d tif battle, by the hands of the enemy. 011 the 27th at day-break, the Viceroy made the division Breussier Egli ..lf in advance. The 18th regiment ut light infantry, and the brigade of light cavalry of the Baron de Pire, wheeled to the right. The division B (master marched by the great read, and repaired a small bridge which the enemy had destroyed. At day-break. the enemy's rear-guard, consisting of 10,000 cavalry, was pereei% ed drawn up en echelon on the plain ; their right resting on the Owiiiii„ and their left On a wood lined with infantry and artilery. General Count Broussier took post on an einieence with the 53d regiment, waitiug till the whole of his division had passed the defile. Two com panies of Voltigeurs had marched in adyance, alone; they skirted the batik of the river, advancing towards that enormous mass of ca valry, which made a forward movement, and surrounded those two hundred men, who wire thought to be lost, and who ought to have been so. It happened otherwise. They concentrated themselves with the greatest coolness, and remained during a whole hour hemmed in on all sides; having brought down inure than 390 horsemen of the enemy, - the: . , two companies gave the Fr enc h cava l ry time to debouche. lhe Delete) defiled on the right.. Ihe King of Naples di rected the wood and the enemy's batteries to be attacked. In less than it hour all the positions of the enemy were carried., and he was driven across the plain beyond a small river which enters the Dwina below Witepsk. The army took a position on the banks of this river s , at the distance of a leagne trout the towns • Y'_• •. , sl5 ' The enemy displayed in the plain 15,000 cavalry, add 6i,uu,► in fantry. A battle was expected next day. The Russians b ,a , ted that they wished to give battle. The Emperor spent the rematisd..r of the night in reconnoitering the field, and in making his diipositanis foe next day; but at day•breek the Russian army was retreating in all directions towards Smolensk. The Emperor was on an height very near the 200 Voltieeurs, Nltu alone on the plain had attacked the right of the enemy's cavalry. Struck by their tine conduct, he sent to inquire what corps they h'e. lunged to. They answered, "To the 9th ; and three fourths of us " are lads of Paris." " Tell them," said the Emperor, ' that they are brave fellows; they all deserve the cross I" The fruits of the three actions of Ostrom* are 10 pieces of cannon of Russian manufacture taken, the cannoneer, sabred ; 20 eaissou s of ammunition ; 1500 prisoners ; 5 or 6000 Russians killed or. wounded. Our loss amounts to •100 killed, 900 wounded, and about SO pii•niters. The King of Naples bestows particular praise on General .druyere, Pire, and Ornano, and on Colonel Radakill, commandant of the vth. Polish lancers, an officer of singular intreuidity. The red Hussnrs of the Russian guard have been cut up They lost 400 men, many of whom are prisoners. The Russians had three Geuerali killed or wounded. A considerable number of Camels and superior Officers of their army remained on the field ut . battle. On the 28th at day-break we entered Witepsk, a town of 30,000 inhabitants. It has go convents. We have found in it some maga x.nes, particularly one of salt, valued at 15,000,000. While the army was marching v Witepsk, the Prince of Eckamahl, was attacked at Aluldlow. Bagration passed the Beresina at Bobriinski, and marched upon Novei-bickow. At day-break on the ?3d, S,OOO Cossacks attack,d the 3d regiment of chasseurs, and took 100 of them, among whoa► were the Col..nel and four officers, all wounded. The generale was beat; an action commenced. The Russian 4etieral Sicverse, with two select divisions, began the attack. From eight in she morning tilt five in the afternoon, the firing was kept up on a strip of wood, and at a tirioge which the Russians wished to force. At fie, the Prince of k.ckintitil caused three chosen battalions to advance, put Isioesell at their bead ► , , overthrew the Russians, carried their positions, and pursued theta toe a league. The loss of the Russians is e,tinsated at 3,000 killed alid wounded, and 1,100 prisoners. We lost 700 killed and wounded. Bagration repulsed, retired upon Bickovr, when: he passed Is,. Botysthenes, to advance towards Smolensk. The battles of Rfohilow and O,trovtu► have been bri!liant and ho. pourable td our army. We never have had engaged more than the half of the force which the enemy presented, the ground nut being suitablc, for greater desclopeinents. PROVINCIALS. RIOT AT SHEFFIELD. Frrtrt.D. AVG. 18, EIGHT tti THE EVENING.--This day our town has been in a state of confusion and riot, which has not yet ceased.— Lord Milton, the Earl of Effingham, Messrs. Wortley, Parker, and Corbett, Justices of the Peace, are all now here. The horse huldiers are parading the streets, and the militia are under arras. The pupa. lace have drawn up a paper, which they have called open the . door. dealers to sign, engaging that they will sell flour at 3s. per stone ; and threatening them if they do not, to destroy their premises. 1 believe most of them have complied; and there have been some hundred sines sold at that price this afternoon, in all parts of the town. Some 9 1 1 , dealers have certainly lust this day hundreds of pounds, by their being obliged to sell at reduced prices. Lord Milton made a speech to the populace, and told them they must endeavour to wait until the harvest was got in, at which they were much infuriated. The mob threw several stones at his Lordship, but the military protected him. Some of ;hem Ihreareited to proceed to Wentworth house. What seems m-r .rin. ing is. that every night there are meetings of the mob in the via its of the town : I trot, however, all will be settled peaceably. It is now ten o'clock at night, and the town seems tolerably tranquil, nurse of have has sold fur seveu shillings per stone, nearly treble to what it is sold for on ordinary occasions. On the night of Thursday the 3oth ult. Samuel Crabtree, a cotton. spinner, of Newton Heath, near Stockport, was shot by some unknown villains, and afterwards burnt and (Imbrued so dreadfully, as to tauter it impossible for his friends to identify him by any other means than the watch which he had in hia pocket. The deceased was only in his 180 year, and is supposed to have been connected with the detutied Luddites, and to have fallen a sacrifice to their teats and suspicions. W hen discovered, he was lying on his face; and it is somewhat re markable, that at the distance of ten yards (stitlayugb lIIt relatives could