The Polish Patriots have suffered a check, thougl strong hopes,
neither a permanent nor a fatal one. troops had pushed forwatd after the retreating Russians,—
pally for the purpose, by holding out encouragement and assist- ance to their brethren in Volhynia, to confirm and strengthen the revolt in that province. The gallant Poles appear, in all the ren- contres that took place between them and their tyrants, to have been eminently successful up to the 26th of last month. On that day, DIEBITSCH having formed a junction with his Guards, passed the Narew, and attacked the Polish Commander-in- chief, with a power of numbers that he was unable to resist. The Poles lost, it is said, more than 4.000 men in the ac- tion; the Russians suffered in an equal if not greater degree. After the action SKRZYNECKI withdrew towards Praga, without Imolestation, and in the most perfect order ; having suffered no slight injury, but having, at the same time, perfectly succeeded in the grand object of his first advance—the stirring up of an effec- tual resistance among his countrymen in the Russian rear. The bulletin of the battle concludes with expressing the most perfect confidence, that the check sustained had in no degree affected the military position of the Patriots, and that those who perished on the Narew would find numerous avengers on the banks of the Niemen and of the Dwina.
