Gazette Of The United States And Daily Evening Advertiser

Royal Prussian Head Quarters,

near Wolna, August 12.

General Suwarrow commands the corps
of 20000 men which belong to the
Russian grand army commanded by
Prince Repnin, which has taken Vilna.

According to the official news, the
Russians have most dreadfully avenged
themselves in that city. Their rage was
still more heightened by the resistance
they met with. They not only refused
quarters to those Polish soldiers, but even
put to the sword all the inhabitants,
without respect to sex or age; a bloody
offering to the manes of their brethren
killed at Warsaw in the counter-revolution
of April 17th.

From the smoking ruins of Vilna,
Gen. Suwarrow marches against Grodno:
another corps of 10000 Russians hastens
by forced marches against Warsaw,
and has already passed Dubienka. The
approach of the Russians is said to have
produced a great change in the minds
of the inhabitants of Warsaw; and some
deserters, say, that they wanted bread
for four whole days. The desertions in
the Polish army would also be very frequent,
were the soldiers not closely
guarded by the cavalry and the peasants.

The works of the redoubts are still
continued, and some of them are even
fortified with walls.

We want for no provision, though
they are somewhat dear. On the 19th
we shall receive the first division of the
heavy ordnance from Breslaw. It will
consist of upwards of 60 pieces of the
heaviest size; by the 25th or 26th, every
preparation will have been made for
a formal siege.