The National Register. — London, England, 1809-07-23 00:00:00

THE NATIONAL REGISTEM existence of a handful of intr;;-.!ters, who, by the rocas .; - c• the) etivist, the proclamatioa, order, uf the 'lay, kc. which they caused to he adopted, est:etty our to fomont passions and .ba.rel, stud to exasperate an Poem , xt ho is the master of Croa tia, Carniola, Carinthia, St-..ria, Upper and Lower Anstfia, the capital of the emoire, aod a great port of tinngary ; that the sentiments of the Emperor for his subjects otteht to incline him to calm rather than irritate t!in conqueror, aud to give to !war the character natural to it a:r..ng civilized nations; since it is i i the power of the conqueror to render mere heavy the evils ▪ hifl: press on Ilse half of the monarchy. It is said, that the Emperor Francis answerzcl, that the greater part of the papers mentioned h. the Deputies were fictions, and that those, the exi , teeee of which was not denied, were more moderate; that the editors were, besides, French clerks, and that even when there papers did contain come unpleasant things, they were not per ceived till the misehief was done. If this answer, which is publicly reported, is authentic, we have one observation to snake. it is impossible not to peretive in this the influence of Englaed ; for this small number of men, traitors to their coun try. are certainly in the pay of that power. When the Deputieswent to Ruda, they saw the Empress.— She had been obliged to leave this city some days before. They found her •dispirited, and in consternation at the evil; which threatened her House. The opinion of the nation is extremely unfavourable to the family of this Princess. It was this family which excited the war. The Archduke Palatine anal the Archduke itegnier are the only Austrian Princc3 who urged the maintenance of the peace. The Empress was far from foreseeing the events that have taken place. She has shed many tears; she has shewn great alarm at the thick cloud hich -covers the future; she spoke of peace; she desired peace, she cojureJ the Deputies to speak to the Emperor in favour of pence, They reported that the conduct of the Archduke Maxi had been disowned, and that the Emperor had sent him into the interior of Hungary. JPIX 23. heavy cannon, and 20 mortars or how itzers. Opposite Ealing, In the left arm of the Danebe, is a bridge, whic;t the Duke of iileoli has flied there. It is covered by a tete-de pont, which had been raised there at tile time of the first passage of the river. Gerold LegrandoceUpies the woods in the front of the tete dc-pont. The hostile army is in order of battle, tovered with redoubts; the left is at }izene:orf, the. right at Great Aspern ; a few discharges of muvketry from the advanced posts have taken plate. Now, that the pass:ige of thr Danube is secured, and that our bridges are sheltered prom every attempt, the fate of the Austrian Monarchy will be decided in a S'incle battle. The waters of the Danube were oil the first of July four feet above the lowest, and thirteen feet below the highest paint. The rapidity of the river at this part is, when the waters are high, from seven to twelve feet ; when the water is moderate, four feet six inches each second, and mart: strtmg than at any other point. In Hungary, it diminishes a great deal, and ut the place where Trajan raised a bridge, it is almost insensible. The Danube is there 450 fathoms broad; here it is only at. The bridge of Trajan was a stone bridge, the work of several years. Caesar's bridge over the Rhine vas raised, it is true, in eight days, but no loaded carriage could pass over it. The works on the Danube are the most beautiful military works ever formed. Gazarin, Aide-de-Camp General of the Emperor of Russia, arrived at Schoenbruun, at four of the morninr, the day before yesterday, at the moment the Emperor was mounting on horseback. He set out froin Petersburg!) on the Bth of June He has brought intelligence of the march of the Russian army into Galicia. His Majesty has quitted Schoeahrunn; he has been two days encamped, llis tents are very beautiful, aui mad* in the style of the Egyptian tents. TWENTY-FIFTH FRENCH BIILLETI.Y. IV 0 LKER SDO rr , LT . The works raised by General Count Bertrand, and the corps Ise commands, bad, sinre tbe beginning of the month, entirely subdued the Danube- His Majesty instactly resolved to collect his forces in the Island of Loban, open upon the Austrian army, and b; in,; on a general ergagement. It was not because the po iition of the French army wa; not a very fine one at Vienna. Master of the whole right ban% of the Danube, having in lii power Austria, and a considerable portion of Hungary, he et:- Pr:yeti the greatest plenty. If some difficulties had been expe rienced in providing- sustenance for tlte people of Vienna, this arose from an ill-organized administration, front embarrass ments which were everyday diminishing, and from dißiculties wf ich were naturally produced by the situation in which the country was placed, in a laud in which the traale in corn is an exclusive privilege of the government. But evw could the troops cow inae to he separated from the hostii.:artey by a canal of three or four hundred toi3es in breadth, Wf, he means of passing over had been prepared and secured ? ould have given credibility to the impostures ;-..hich the enemy had scat tered with so great profusion throughout his own and neigh bouriug couatries ; this would have cast a doubt over the oc currences at Essling, atal would, finally, have authorised the supposition of there being, in fact, a substantial equality be tween armies so different, of which one was animated and In some rneaere reinforced by multiplied sacce!•ses and victories, while the other wai, dispirited by the most strikiag reverses. All the intelligence collected concerning the Austrian arms-, sheaved that it was . considerable ; that it had been recruited by numeroas bodies of reserve, by the levies from Moravia and Ilung,ary, and by all the landwchrs (rencibles), of the proviares ; that its cavalry bad e Leen rc-mcunted by requisitions in all the circles, and its draughts of artillery tripled by immense lev ice of horses ?.nd ie Moravia, Hungary, and Bohemia.— To add new chances in their favour, the Austrian generals had raised wor7s, of which the right was protected by Gros-Aspern, and the left by Enzersdorff.• The villages of Aspern, and Enzersdortl, and the intervals between them were t ,-red by redoubts, surrounded by paliisades and izes, and defended.by more t`- , Ti 150 pieces of battering caa not), taken from the fortresses of Bohemia and Moravia. It was inconceivable haw the Emperor, with his experience in war, could thiak of attacking works so powerfully defendet!, backed by au army estimated at c...'00,019 men, as ‘t ell troops of the line as militia and new raked levies, and who were sapport ed by 830 or 000 pieces of field artillery. It appeared more simple to throw ! , t one fresh bridges over the Datrabe, a f...w leagues lower tit and thus render useless the field of battle prepared by the cilem,y. But is this latter catie it was Lot thou,ht TWENTT-FOURTH FRENCH BULLETIN. V/EVNA, JULY 3.—General Rrotissier had left two batta lions of the 8-ith regiment of the line in the town of Gratz, and proceciTecl to Vildon topic' the army of Dalmatia. On the '26th of June, General Guilay appeared before Gratz, v,.ith 10,000 men, composed, it is true, of Croats rind frontier r...inrents. The Sith, which was cantoned in one of the suburbs eFi h tot' n. repelled all attacks of the enemy, routed him every where, took 50C) men prisoners and two standards, and maintained in his position 14 hours,giviog time to General Broussier to come to his assis.tanre. This coi;Cict of one with ten, cover• ed the ti t h,aivl its Colonel, Canihin, with honour. The stand ards were presented to his :11.0esty at the parade. We have to regret that 20 of these brave fellows were killed, and 92 ov °landed. On the SOth, the Duke of Auerstadt attacked one of the islands of the Danube, at a small distance from the Right Bank opposite Presburg, where the enemy had some troop. Cleo. Guilin directed this oprration with skill f it was execut ed by Col. Derouz, and the cast regiment of infnetry of the line, which this officer corm:rands. At two o'clock of the morning, this regiment, partly in hqats, and partly se..iintning, crossed a very narrow arm of the DanulY.., seized the island, routed the 1500 men who were upon it, and made 259 pr;soners, among whom were the Colonel and several officers of fhe regi ment St. Julian, and took three pieces of cannon, which the enemy hurl landed fur the defence of the island. At lenr,th there exists no longlong er any Danube, as far as con cerns the French army. General Count Bertrand hasri - ..ised works which excite astonishment, and inspire admiration. Over a breadth of 400 fathoms, and overa very rapid river, he has in a fortnight raised a bridge formed of sixty arches, on which three carriag es can pass abreinst ; he has built a secund bridge upon piles eigh t ; feet broad, but this is for infa::try Next to these two bridges is a bridge of boats ; cm, there fore, 1,1.4 the Danube in three columns. These three bridges are secured against all insults, even againat the drects of fire-ships and incendiary machines, by stoccadocs, pile; between the islands in different directions, the furthest or v. hich are at only 250 fathoms from the bridges. When these immense works are contemplated, they might be thought to be the labour of many years; they were, however, produced in 15 or 20 days. 'These works are defended by tt:es 7 de-pont, each of 1,600 fa thorns in extent, formed of redoubts, surrounded by palisades, (rises, and ditches tilled with water. The [Amu is a strong post; it coutaics pagazines of pluviions, 10G pieces o 465 5• 111