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at day-break, and continued until nine o'clock. Under no circumstances has the Neapolitan marine so fully justified the reputation which it has ever held in the estimation of naval men. The results, which con cern the honour of the nation, are those of the cou rage with which it has fought ; according to this re port our glory could not be greater ; and English brig was burnt by the battery of Meliscola, which was directed by the brave Captain Orsini ; one of their gun boats was sunk. We have had only one man killed, and a few wounded ; but among our gun boats some have been sunk ahngside the enemy's ships, others have been driven on shcre, buz we hope to be able ui get them off. Several have returned to port. In spite of this imposing spectacle of war, of which all the town was a witness—in spite of the fright of some timid people—aild in spite of the secret hopes of some guilty men, who are known—the capital was never more tranquil than it is at this moment, in which the enemy displays to our view his menacing forces, in order to disturb the peace which reigns amongst us. This internal peace, xvhich we enjoy, is owing principally to the confidence which the peo ple have in .the person of their King. The corps of volunteers, which augmented but slowly when the enemy was distant from us, increased beyond mea sure upon his approach. Intelligence from the pro vinces is equally pleasant ; every where tranquillity reigns, and the incendiary Proclamations, which the Anglo-Sicilian army has thrown almost every where on our coasts, seem for the present to have no other effect than that of rallying round the throne all the people of the kingdom. Oa the 29th, the frigate and the corvette, which sustained, with so much glory, the attacks of the enemy, having retired, after the battle, under the protection of the batteries of Pozvouli and Baja, sur rounded on all sides by the English vessels, they would have had much difficulty in saving themselves in that position. His Majesty, therefore, gave orders to these two vessels to effect their retreat to Naples, the first wiled, at all risks. M. Baugan, Captain of the frigate, and M. Ca raffa, Captain of the corvette, had scarcely received this order, ere they toec measures for executing it ; they set sail, and by Algal and daring mancruvres, deceived the vigilance of the enemy, passed through the English squadron, and made on, directing their c;ntrse for Naples. The corvette which was the best sailer, preceded the frigate, wi.ich followed more Quietly these two ships were pursued and overtaken by an English frig:Le, a co: veLte, lti gun boats, carrying '2l-pounders, two galliots. and a very numerous fleet of small vessels. All this armament vas directed against two vessels only, which, da maged in the long combat they had sustained two days before, mantruvered with some difficulty. At four o'clock in the afternoon the action comm.nced off Point Posilipo, and in presence.of the whole tov.-n of Naples. The enemy's vessels vomited from all parts with horrible fury a volcano of flames. Our frigate and corvette slowly pursued their route towards Naples, figh:ing with skilfulues and cou rage. This fight, maintained in the sight of an im mense people, interested the national feeling. • Thus circumstanced, the wind all at once failed.— Tlle English approached nearer and nearer, and As. ss fling us with a lively fire, endeavoured to hoard them, and force them to surrender. Va'n efforts ! The Neapolitans fought precisely in the same place where, ten years before, English perfidy inhumanly sacrificed the brave Caraeciota. They fought under the orders of some of the best of his acres, and under the eyes of a peol:le, who, ga tllered together from ail parts, seemed by their wishes to redouble their force and their courage. They, above :ill, fought under the e) es of a beloved King, who, always the first in the middle of danger, was already upon the Vatteries of the Castle of o,sai, and prepared to protect their retreat, when th..'y should arrive within the file of the earwron of the fort. After an action cf four hours, the' frigate and cor vette were saved ; shouts of " Vivc l'Emperetr, rive le Roi Joachim," ;innounced their arrival : our frigate having eiltered the port, his Majesty immediately rent board ;it is difficult to e::press the enthusiasm alid joy which was spread thlougheut the crew by this unexpected The frigate is disabled ; the Captain who corn /mulch ;: lost his left arm by a shot, and his crew have lost Itbout fAty own. We have had on our side i l f!) killed and wountle,i ; nrm•ing the former is young Gressel, an Officer full of conrage mid talent. Tl.e Engli‘h may now . 'ridge, !.) . y the bravery nod ardoor ou t - little taxi ul the spirit xxhich animates. the 0 0.1111. If General Stuart ventures to land, he may be at NAphs, wee with a fiat. f ed that he waich '~4 •ked ich schooner. It was found to contain French papers and Bulletins announcing a most sanguinary, and to the Austrians, a most calamitous battle. They were immediately carried to the Admiral in the Downs, And by him transmitted to Government. The nature of their contents transpired yesterday aftcrncon, but the Bulletins themselves have not yet been given by the Ministers to the public. We have hcwever been enabled, by the meritorious and suc.. cesf ul exertions of a most respectable Morning Paper, TnE MIES, to lay the following translations of these important documents before our Readers:— TWENTY-FIFTH BULLETIN. Nirolkersdcrf, July 8. " The works raised by General Count Bertrand, and the corps he commands, had, since the beginning of the month, entirely subdued the Danube. His Majesty instantly resolved to collect his furces in the island of Lobau, open upon the Austrian army, and bring on a general engagement. It was not because the position of the French army was not a very fine one at Vienna. Master of the whole right bank of the Danube, having in his power Austria, and a con_ siderable portion of Hungary, he enjoyed the greatest plenty. If some difficulties had been experienced in p-oviding ,:nstenance for the people of Vienna, this arose from act ill-organized administration, from em barrassments witch.liere every day diminishing, and from difficulties which were naturally prodUced by the situation in which the country was placed, in a land in which the trade in corn is an exclusive privi lege of the Government. But how could the troops continue to be separated from the hostile army, by a canal of three or four hundredtoises in breadth, when the means of passing over had been prepared and se cured ? This would have given credibility to the im postures which the. enemy had scattered with so great profusion throughcitit his own and neighbouring coun tries ; this would have cast a doubt Over the occur ences at Essling, and would, finally, have authorized the surpositiota of there being, in fact, a substan tial equality betweetf - armies so different, of which one was animated and in some measure reinforced by multiplied successes and victories, while the other was dispirited by the most striking reverses. ,A I 1 the intelligence collected concerning the Aus trian army spewed that it was considerable ; thatit ,had been recruited by numerous bodies of reserve, by the levies from Moravia and Hungary, and by all the landwehrs (fencibles) of the provinces ; that its ca v had been remounted by requisitions in all the Circles, and its draughts of artillery tripled by im . mmse levies of horses and carriages in Moravia, Hungary, and Bohemia. To add new chances in their favour, the Austlian Generals had raised mili tary works, of which the right was protected by Gros- Aspern, and the left by Enzersdorf. The villages of Aspern, Essling, and Enzersdorf, and the intervals between them were Covered by redoubts, surrounded by pallisades and frizet, and defended by more than 130 rieces of battering cannon, taken front the for tresses of Bohemia and Moravia. " It was inconceivable how the Emperor, with his experience in war, could think of attacking works .4) powerfully &fended, backed by as army estimat ed at '200,000 men, as well troops of the line as mi litia and new raised levies, and who were supported by 800 or 900 pieces of field artillery. It appeared more simple to throw some fresh bridges over the Danube, a few leagues lower down, and thus render useless the field. of battle prepared by the enemy, But in this latter case it was not thought practicable to al.'ert the inconveniencies which had alreailYnearly proved fatal to the army, and succeeded in thecou!se of two or three days in protecting these new bridges from the machines of the enemy. • - " On the other side the Emperor was tranquil.— Works were raised upon w c:ks in the island of Lo bau ; and several bridges on piles, and several rpws of stocadoes, were Lied at the same place. " This situ at i on o f t h e F rencn army, placed be, these two gr eat difficulties,- lied not escaped the army, too was. aware Ile 4 thatlilS . fitlMeTOth and nnwleldy, would be efposed to certain destruc tion if he acted on tl e offensive : but, at the same time, he believed that it was impossible to dislodge him from the central position in which he covered Bohemia, Morapa, and a part of Hungary. It is true that this position did not cover Vienna, and that the French Were in possession of this capital. But this possession gas, in a certain degree, disputed, since the Austrians 'remained masters of one bank of the Danube, and prevented the arrival of the articles most indispensable to the subsistence of so great a city. These were the reasons of hope and fear, and the subject of conversation in the two armies. " On the Ist of July, at four o'clock of the morn ing, the Emperor removed his head quarters to the island Loban, which had been already named by the engineers, the island Napoleon. Pr small island to which had been given the name of the Duke of Mon tebello, and which bore upon Enzersdorf, had been, furnished with ten mortars and twenty 18-pounders. Another island, called island Espagne, had been sup plied with six pieces of battering cannon (12 -poun ders), and four mortars. Between these two islands, a battery had been raised, equal in force to that of the island Montebello, and in like manner bearing upon Enzersdorf. These 62 pieces of battering ar tillery had the same object, were In two hours to de stroy the little town of Enzersdorf, drive away the enemy, and demolish their works. On the right, the island Alexander, with four mortars, two ten-poun ders, and twelve six-pounders (battering cannon) were to bear upon the plain and protect the operations of the bridges. On the 2d. the • . . . . Aide-de-Camp cf the Duke de Rivoli passed over to the Mill Island with 500 voltigenrs, and took possession of it. This island was also furnished with cannon. It was join ed to the Continent on the left side by a small bridge. In the front a little /eche was raised, and this redoubt was called Petit. ig In the evening the redoubts of Essling appeared to be jealous of these works : not doubting that they were a first battery, formed to act against themselves. they fired upon them with great activity. This was precisely the intention in having wized this island. The attention of the enemy was to be drawn to this point, in order to conceal from him the operations really proposed. BATTLE OT V,NvEitsnoßr. a In the mean ve . hile, the enemy, confounded his projects, gradually recovered from his sastonis.. ment, and endeavoured to regain some advantage s this new field of battle. For this purpose he detack-.1 several cOlamns of infantry, a considerable numb:: of pieces of artillery, and all his cavalry, as well of the line as the new levies, in or:li.r to attempt to out flank the -right of . the French army. In consequence, he occupied the v'llage of Rutsendorf. The Emperor ordered General Oudinot to carry this village, to the right of which he sent the Duke of Auerstadt, in order to proceed to the head-quarters of Prince Charles, going always from the right to the left. From noon ell nine in the eutning, the French armies manteuvred on this immense plain. All the villages were occupied, and when the 'French had reached the heights of the entrenched camps of the enemy, they fell of •thair own accord, and as if by en.. chantment. The Duke de Rivoli caused them to be occupied without resistance. It was thus we seized the works of Essling and. Gros-Aspen), and the labour of 40 days was of no use to the enemy. He made some resistance in the village of Raschdorf, which the Prince de Pente Corvo caused to be attacked and carried by the Saxons. The enemy was every where overwhelmed by the superiority of our fire. This ill remise field of battle was covered with his remains. g.........-......••••-•-•......---.- FROM THE FRENCH PAPERS. Spain. / . . NAPLES, JUNE 30. ' ' The English, unfortunately, have not disembarked; NAPL ES, JUNE 28. after taking the islands of Ischia and Piocida, with On the Eqth of this month, the English made a de- the exception of the Castle, which still holds out, they scent on the island of Ischia ; this en.erprise gave rise l have, in part, gone off. They, probably, have the to two maritime battles, of which the following are intention of disturbing all Italy, and of endeavouring the details : to excite trouble, but they will disgracefully fail in On the 25th, in the morning, some of our gun- their design. boats, sustained by a fr:gate and a corvette, advan- ced against those of the enemy, superior to our's in '.FII 1., EVENING S'l'Ali. I ... the number and the force cf their' ships. TIY• action - - commenced at nine o'clock in the morning. The fire LONDON. was continual, and very lively, during many hours. \ We had against us four English frigates, two brigs, SATURDAY, JULY 22. and fourteen gun boats. An Eng)ish frigate has S been much d o amaged ; but as a cnsideralile rein- PF ICE OF STOCK:i TIP DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK: Corwilz, for money, a 71—for August, 68+.—Reduced 681. forcemeat arrived, ours returned, without having suf- Omnium i A, pre. . fered any great loss. At the same time, thirty of PRICE OF STOCKS YESITRDAY. Bank Zltotk 1:61 India Stock V our gun boats, which had been stationed for some 3 per Cent. Red. 68;4 1 1 India Bonds 19s. 17s. 18s. pre. time at Gaeta, had received orders to go to Naples, 3 per Cent. Cons. 64. Exch. Bills, 6s. 12s. prem. and navigate through the canal which separates the 4 per Cent. 84.11 Omnium , I preen.. two islands of Procida and Ischia. The dangers of 5 per Cent. Navy 981-} English Lottery Tick. 211. Ils. this voyage appeared extreme ; they triumphed over Long Ann. 18 1 `Cons, for Ace. 681 ' them with infinite skill. Our flotilla passed, on the I'c:sten:ay, in consequence of the disastrous intelligence con- cerning the defeat of the Archduke CHAR Lis, Omnium, which, 2Gth, through the whole of that of the enemy, and ill :it the opening of the market, was at 1+ per cent premium, was arrived at the place of rendezvous, at the break of at the close at t prem. Consols and the Reduced fell in pro- s' day. The dangers commenced at the moment : poriion. the island of Procida Iva already in the hands of the i enemy, which was seized upon by him without strik- DEFEAT OF THE AUSTRIANS. ing a blow. This accident deprived our flotilla of To of any remarks on the intelligence which it the protection of the land batteries of Procida, the is this day our painful duty to communicate, would fire of which crossed that of the batteries of Melis- 'be to trifle with the feelings of our Readers. cola, at Cape Misena ; when the enemy's forces, sure of not being attacked by land, all united against our On Thursday his Majesty's ship PEauviAx picked fleet, which was no longer pi otected, except by the up a cask off Boulogne, thrown from a French small battery of Meliscola. The 'action commenced . schooner. It was found to contain French ;avers t ailed in aStOrli. • r antages i e detack-.1 de numb:: as well of npt to out- nsequence, e Emperor village, t o acrstadt, in of Prince le left. the French t. All the T rench had nps of th.: as if by en- them to be s we seized 1 the labour He made lorf, which ttacked and !very where This ill. remains. 'tlie rrerch rained, with is troop;rz iccupied Blau to G. -gram, and l'he French re at Rasa- this position necessarily )ut this was ny to be in- wming any the vill tge early of an ind expose.: odies of his ir direction, and without rn /111.1••• PASSAGE ACROSS THE ARM OF THE DANUBE TO THE ISLAND LOBAL`. " On the 4th, at ten in the evening, General Oudinot caused 1500 voltigeurs to be embarked en the great arm of the Danube, commanded by General Conroux. Colonel Baste, with ten gun boats, convoyed them, and disembarked them beyond the little arm of the Island Lobau, in the Danube. The batteries of the enemy were stson silenced, and be was driven Aram the woods to the village of Muhlenten. " At eleven in the evening, the batteries raised against Enure clod received orders to begin their firing. The howitzers set this unfortunate little town on fire, and in lees than half an hour the enemy's batteries had ceased to operate. " The Chief of Battalion, Donates, Director of the Bridges, and . . . . N:pgineer of the Marine, had prepared in the i►land Alexander a bridge of SO toises, of a single piece, and five great ferry-boats. " ColOnel Sainte, Croix, Aide-le-Camp of the Duke de Ri yoli, embarked in barges with 2500 men, and larded on the left bark. '• The bridge of a single piece, the first of the kind which has hitherto been made, was fixed ir. less than five minutes, and the infantry passed over it with great rapidity. . . " Captain Bazclle fixed a bridge of bas in an hour and a half. " Captain Payerimoffe formed a bridge of rafts In two hours. g' Thus, at two o'clock of the morning, the army had four bridges, and had debouched on the left 1500 toises below Enzersdorf, protected by the batteries, and the right upon Vitt in. The corps of the Duke de Rivoli ibrmed the left ; that of Count Oudinot, the centre ; and that of the Duke of Auerstadt, the right ; the corps of the Prince de PonterCorvo, the Viceroy, and the Duke of Ragusa, the guard ; and' the cuirassiers formed the second line, and the bodies of reserve. Utter dal kness, a violent storm, and rain, which fell 'in torrents, rendered this night as frightful, as it was propitious to the French army, and was about to be glorious to it. gg On the sth, at day-break, every one perceived what had b?En the project of the Emperor, who was then, with his whole army, arranged in order of bat tle at the extremity of the enemy's left, having turn ed all his entrenched camps,having rendered his works useless, and thus obliging the Aust:ians to abandon their positions, and come and offer him battle on the spot . that was convenient to him. The great problem was thtis resolved, and without passing the Danube on other points—without receiving any protection from the works he had raised, he forced the enemy to fight three quarters of a league from his redoubts. From that moment the greatest and happiest results were presaged. " At eight in the morning, the batteries which had played upon Enzersdorf had produced such an effect .that the enemy was obliged to let that town be occu pied by no more than four battalions. The Duke of Rivoli dispatched his first Aide-de-Camp, Sainte Croix, against it, who did not meet with a great re sistance, and tOok prisoners all who remained in it. Count Oudinot surrounded the Castle of Sach sengang, which the enemy had fortified, forced 900 men who defended it, to capitulate, and took twelve pieces of cannon. • " The Emperor then, caused the whole army to spread itself along the immense plaitt of gnxersdorf. BATTLE 0: 7 WAGRAM. " Strongly alarmed by the progress of the Frerch army, and the great successes which it obtained, with scarcely any effort, the enemy put all his troop; rz motion, and at six in the evening he occupied ill: following position :—his right from Stadelau rasdorf, his centre from Gel asdorf to Wagram, and his left from Wagram to Neusiedel. The French :trey had its kit at Gros-Aspetn, its centre at Rasa dont; and its right at Glenzingdorf. In this position the day was nearly at a close, and we had necessarily to expect a great battle on the morrow ; but this was to be avoided, and the position of the enemy to be in tersected, so as to prevent him from forming any plan, by taking possession, in the night, of the vill age of Wagram. In this case his line, already of an immense length, being suddenly assailed and expose.: to the chances of combat, the different bodies of tag army would be dispersed without order or direction, and we should succeed at an easy rate, and willicut any serious e. - .gagement. The attack on Wagram took place, and our troops rook possession of the vii. lage ; but a column of Saxons and a column of French mistook each other in the dark for enemies, and this operation failed. " We then prepared for the battle of Wagram. It appears that the dispositions of the French General and the Austrian General were inverted. The Ern peror passed the night in accumulating his fora' towards his centre, where he was in person, withia cannon shot of Wagram. With this view, the Dulee de Rivoli moved upon the left of Aderklati, leaving at Aspern a single division with orders for it to fall back, in case of necessity, upon the Isle of Lain.— The Duke of Auerstadt received orders to loavc an. occupied the village . of Grossliciffen that night, to approach the centre. The Austrian General, on the contrary, weakened his centre to secure and augment his extremities, which he still fartber extended. gg On the oth, at day-break, the Prince de Ponte Corvo occti;?ied the left, having the Duke of Rivoli in a second line. The Viceroy connected him with the centre, where the corps of Count Oudinot, that of the Duke of Ragusa, those of the Imperial Guars', and the divisions of Cuirassiers, formed seven or eight lines. " The Duke of Auerstadt marched from the right to reach the centre. The enemy, on the contrary, put Bellegarde's corps in motion for Stadelau. The corps of Collosvrath, Lichtenstein, and Hiller,. connected their right with the position of sVagram, where Prince Hohenzollern was, and with the extremity of the left at Neusiedel, where the corps of Rosenberg delouthed in order also, to out-flank that of the Duke of Auer stadt. The corps of Rosenberg, and that of the Duke of Auerstadt moving •in opposite directions encountered each other, with the fit st rays of the sun, and gave the signal of battle. The Emperor instantly repaired to this point, ordered the Duke'of Auerstadt to be rein. forced by the division of the Duke of Padua's cuiras. siers, and the corps of Rosenberg to be attacked in flank by a battery of 12 guns, of the division of Count de Nansouty. In less than three quarters of an hour, the fine corps of the Duke of Auerstadt gave a good account of the corps of Rosenberg, defeating it, and driving it beyond Neusiedel with considerable loss. " In the mean time a cannonade commenced along the whole of the line, and the enemy's dispositions were every moment discovering themselves. The whole of his lett was secured with artillery. One might have said, that the Austrian General was not fighting for victory, but was looking only to the means of improving it. This disposition of the enemy seemed so absurd, that some snare was apprehended, and the Emperer delayed some time bet'ore he or. dered those easy (":spositions which he had to rair!;e to disconcert those of the enemy, and render them fatal to him. He ordered the Duke of Rivoli to make an attack on the village occupied by the enemy, and which somewhat straitened the extremity of the centre of the army. He ordered the Duke of Aneo stadt to turn the position of Neusiedel, and thence t' push on upon Wagram ; and he formed the Duke of Ragusa's troops, and those of Gen. Macdonald in co .