The National Register. — London, England, 1809-07-02 00:00:00

.TULY 2. The 16th and 17th Bulletins consist of frivo lons and unimportant details, which furnish nothing more than the mere presumption that BUONAPARTE is condemned to a dangerous inactivity in the very he•irt of his enemy's country. This state of things cannot long continue. The army of Italy is proceeding. A Russian courier has ar rived announcing the reinforcements expected .from that quarter. The whole corps of Bens d'armes arc said to have moved from tlamburgh on the 16th instant. In short, BUONAPARTE is making that dreadful amount of prepara tion which leaves nothing to Providence, but the surplus- If he should meet with such another defeat as that which has produced his present embarrassed situation, we think it impossible for him to recover it. The pains which he takes to enumerate the reinforcements that he expects, and . the :nanner in which he represents the state of the Arch duke FERDINAND'S army, abundantly prove that a neces sity exists to magnify his own and to lessen the force of his etunny. We sincerely hope and believe this arises out of the want of cordiality in the troops of the Federation. The Tyrolese are in a state of general insurrection and have not only purged their Own country of the Corsicans satellites, but have even threatened 'Munich. This will have the effect of occupying the attention of the rear of his army, and we find that General WREoe is ordered hack to Inspruck. We augur favourably too of the hopes en tertained by the Emperor of A USTO IA of ulterior success from the determined spirit of the Proclamation which he has issued, stating, that he holds Generals DU HUM EL, FOULER' and others as securities for CUASTELLA R and those other brave men WiIOnICUONA PA RTE has threatened to mur- der. We have long regretted that the Austrian Cabinet wanted the resolution to take a leaf out of BUONAPAHTE'S book ; the politics of the old school are not suffici ently direct and open to meet this man. There are but few can wear the armour of ACHILLES or throw his spear, and we feel the danger and difficulty of attempting it; hut the daring lines of military and political tactics which BUONAPARTE has introduced, arc not to be combated with scholastic riddles, or miserable expedients. Of the 18th Bulletin we scarcely know how to express our contempt in words adequate to our feelings. Alter live and twenty days disgraceful inactivity, we are told the Danube has riseu a foot. We gather as much from what BUONAPARTE does not say as by what lie does say. That EUGENE. BEAUHARNOIS in manceuvring in ta u centre of Hungary is mere vapouring—the details relating to the death of Seuvr.i., and the Archduke FEIIDINAND evacu ating Warsaw, betray the meagre diet will) which• he is obliged to amuse his army and the Trench nation. The 19th Bulletin of the French Army has reached this Country. It is dated Vienna, the 10th inst. BUONAPARTE seems to have put his friends upon a- short literary al lowance, in order to give something like the appearance of interest to , this official diet, and in order to force events.as it were out of the lasiguid current in which they have for some time been lazily rolling. It is ostenta tiously stated that the Anniversary of the Battle of Marengo has been celebrated by the Victory of the Raab, which the right wing of the army, under the command of the Prince Vlcchtov, has obtained over the united corps of the Arch duke JOHN and the Archduke PALATINE. Whatever im portance this allusion to the Battle of Marengo niay reflect upon the 19th Bulletin, we do nut feel much alarmed by the intelligence it eomtnunicates,' and we venture to autici- 'li 3 TILE NATIONAL REGISTER. pate that the Austrian accounts of this transaction w al give a very different iew of the busintvis.—ln the first !lace we do not think the VICEROY had 55,000 men %ilk ft gn ; and much less are we inclined to believe, that w it h this number he dared venture to attack the Aichiinke Jolly at the head of 50,000. But if even this were probable, we cannot reconcile the beaten army " at Ow poivt iy the &unmet loo," taking up "so fine a position." At length, however, the French, re collecting. with enthusiasm the great victory which sancti fied the day. '' shouted for joy," and falfin;f, upon the pi or Austrians there, 35,000 men upon the 50,000, this Elie posi tion was taken, with 5000 pr.soners, an six pieces of can non. There were 5000 left dead on the field, and the Frev.ch lost about 900 killed and wounded. We cannot help suspecting, that only the rear of the Austrian army was engaged in this business, as the road they are said to liaNe taken in their flight, is precisely the road they would ha% e taken if no engagement had happened, we mean to Co moro and Pest. Comorn is considered as a place so vccy strong, that at the commencement of the war, it was d,:- signed for the retreat of the Royal Family of Austria. We have already stated our opinion again and agair, that we expect more from the moral effect of the victory obtained by the Alters:mu CP Alt LE3 over BoONAVA!tTV, than viewing it in a military light only. We arc confirmed in this opinion by the news which has reached es from al most every part of the Coniinenf. The Tyrolese arc in a state of insurrectiou—Westphalia is hi a state of revolt— the Duke of lineNswtex has excited the subjects of 'Cs late father, and has been enals!cd to proceed as far as Italic, leaving only a garrison at Dresden ; add to this. the accounts from Holland jusify the utmost .confi dence in a belief that the Dutch are in a state of commotion, anti almost of insnrrection, aga:ust the gosernor..l:t of their present grind;ng oppressors. By a letter from ::otierdant, we are informed, that the King of %% 7 E3II'IIIIMA has taken refuge in Frankfort, and that his security CYCII illere is somewhat problematical.. It is evident the King of SA:ONY was unprepared ro the attack of the Duke of BRUNSWICK, as he effected his own e...zapc oolv by one day.—We think highly uf the propriety of the Doke appearing with efficient means to support the loyalty of his honoured ktio•r's alrectionate subjects, who were certainly never tin.ted to the French by any of those common ties which bind indi‘iduals or nations together—in short we see much to praise, in the conduct of the Continental Powers at this important crisis. A system of perpetual alarm and harrassing will indispose Gernian Allies, whom we cannot persuade °lust:hes art• very cordially disposed to fight the battles of BOON • p Accr. A rumour has been brought from the Mediterraoe.m, of the inhabitants of Genoa having risen against the French, and put them all to death. We know not from what cause the circumstance arises, but so •it is, that Sir A. WELLESLEY has been doing no thing with our army in Portugal.. This may in some mea sure account for the censure we observed in the Moni teur, which states, that Sir A. WELLESLEY had committed a military mistake by leaving Oporto in the way he did. We shall only observe, that the road a flying French army :ray take in rt. , iy given event is not always to be calculat ed upon ; nor is 0 wonderful that in running away with the start of two or three days they should outstrip their pursuers. The only point of any importuce we cam