The National Register. — London, England, 1809-11-19 00:00:00

ifst ammunition, arms, and several stand of colours. This memo rable battle was fought on the 10th and 11th of April last. The e•it of it belonged solely to the valorous inhabitants of the Tvrot and Voralher,..-; for the regular Austrian army, hasten- . ing to their relief, did not join them before the 13th of April: it was received by the torquerors with drums beating and colours fl N hile shouts of joy, and " long live our beloved Emperor Fraeci;," rent the air. Those who know the mildness of Bannaparte's temper will be able to conceive an idea al the impression which this news anite upon him. He instantly ordered Marshal Lefebvre, sup ported by the Bavnrian Generals Wreden, beroy, and Sibbein, at the head of 24,000 men, to march against the Tyl•olese by way of Salzbur,l. Gt.:lent! Rusca, with 8000 men was ordered to advance from Italy, while General Ferron approached from Carinthia, and General h!armont from Bavaria and Suabin with from-six to seven thousand troops more. This was cer tainly a formidable force,• which would have conquered . , and even annihilated any other two nations of equal numbers. The conflict, indeed, was obstinate and ierrible. But the enemies were defeated, nll but Lefebvre, whose force was too large, and whose devastations and cruelties were stich as to spread ler ror every where. He burnt towns and villagtos, and gave quarter to no one. The aged were suspended from trees and th -n shot. The pregnant women were even riptap and their tmeasts cut WV, while their embryos were crammed down their throats to put an end to the shrieks and moanings of the wretched ri t;rns. If a Tyrolese or Voralberger, bearing arms, had the m-fortune to fall into their hands, they immediately tore out h - t mzue. The children were eat don n without mercy, mo-t frequently carried about, transfixed with batonets. A number a these innocents happening to return from school, were met with and driven by these monsters into some barns, aim burnt alive. Lefebvre and his cannibals imagined to he able to intirnidnte the Tyrolese and , Voralbergers by such cruelties; hut they had tie very opposite effect, The T 3 rolese sharp-shooters now re ►embled bloodtliiisty lions ; they rushed upon Lefebvre, and totally defeated him ; thousands of the enemy were slain ; and the General, accompanied only by a few remnants of Wup great f‘irce, sought safety in au ignominious flight, directed towards Vi. aria. The re ull of this complete • victory was, that the Tyrol and Voral t berg, tieing now free from their invaderF, served as au asylum to litOsP Austrian prisoners who had been taken 14 . ‘ the French quitutisbon, Aspern, and Esslingen, and who found ) the diffieulty in making their escape. About ten thousand pi o tited by this opportunity : they were nearly naked, and th oxpence of eloathing and arming theta anew proved no small burden to their hospitable friends. Another advantage of this %ictory, displayed itself in the sup-riot courage with which it inTired the cm•querors. They pow sallied forth beyond ti:eir frontiers to seek the enemy. Iu Bavaria they advanced as far a Munich, the capital city. In Suaba they took the Kenaptno, pushing on beyond Meniming and Ulm. In Italy they proceeded too within, a few miles of Ve rona.; and some corps over-ran Carintha and Salzburg, then al ready in the power of the enemy, so as to become 'to a .great . degree masters of those countries. Notwithstanding these successes, the conquerors were guilty of no cruelties or acts of oppression. Not a single house vvas pillaged by them, not a barn hid in ashes. No peasant was ever taken prisoner or insulted. The wounded enemies were particularly taken care of. It was the usual practice to carry. them on shoulders into some house. The Tyrolese and Voral tergers acted throughout from an honourable ambi!i , tn, to shame their cruel enemies, and convince them of the superior humanity Of poor German mountaineers Neither France nor any of her fillies can adduce a single iestanre of their prisbners having b' 'n ill-treated either in the Tyrol or Voralberg, though the Fri soners from either country were tortured, murdered, or ill-used by the French. • All these glorious achievements, however, could not arrest the progrw of the enemy in other quarters. In line, an armis :lice was again enneledr.d. The corps of Austrian troop s lef t i n Isle T - I. id consi 1 , • •the most ',art of the above men rixalled, and carried away with ion which the Tyrolese had taken. ;elves compelled to abandon their :mseives w ith guarding their own , and other Cenefal:, penetrated 4, the carital ur the Tyrol, re- Vte T)rol, and consisting- for tinned refit. , esi-;-,was tuddmily • g nigifilasidowe mil umrnuniti • -r' ,', P 1 tliemsi * , .. t 7rfb • 41--- ,, ../.gt - • • ,•. • 4 . therms ~i( f . l P- g p ... r: q),.i ; ,;, ~e, '•••• le, . -i _ a.,. .. ~,.„_..,„ Arrrnn, „A! . •e" .-- - , 7 • - * l mo It a : : ...,4 = :-.-: , , • e .... .... of ....p.,.li . .ifiraimr - ie THE NATIONAL REGISTER. NOV. 19 pealing their former devastations and cruelties. But the indig nwion excited by the reappearance of those inhuman chiefs was such, that the very women, whose business had hitherto hten confined to conveying the prisoners to places of safety, as. 6embled in numbers and put to death 640 of the enemy near Landeck.; and though the %, hole force of the enemy amounted to about thirty thousand, they were attacked by the Tyrolese and Voralbergers, who had risen en masse, w ith such irresisti ble fury, that those who saved themselves by flight, were pursued tf) a great distance, so as to he unable, during the space of twenty-four hours, to allay their thirst with a draught of water. It was in vain, that Buonaparte, on hearing this new disaster of his arms, detaehed Marshals Macdonald and Bessiers, with picked troops, against the Tyrolese. They were routed, and obliged to return. From the concurring accounts in the Patch, German, and French papers, which are copied into the daily prints of Lon- Arra, it is placed beyond all doubt, that the Tyrolese and Vo rilhergers persevere in their obstinate resistance to the French and their Allies. • They are indeed now free, but at the'expence of very uncom mon sacrifices.. Numbers of them mourn their fathers, brothers, a:A sons, not slain in battle, but for the most part murdered in •ho nrost inhuman manner. Four towns and 26 flourishing are reduced to heaps of ashes—not to mention the destruc tion of a large number of detached cottages. These calamities Are felt more sensibly in a climate which is far from being The mount:dos of the - Tyrol and Voralherg have ever since the beginaing of October, been covered with snow and ice, The inhabitants, though . accustomed to subsist upon the hardest fare, ran, after so many devastations, pillages, conflagrations, and In; rd:hi pg of every kind., scarcely get wherewithal to satisfy the cravin4s of nature. Multitudes at this moment are happy in being allowed some little corner in a crowded barn, stable, or hut In spite of all .these sufferings, they are fully determined never to listen 'to any accomodation with Buomtparte, or con, ,cut to be again governed by the iron sceptre of Bavaria. This •fetermiLat ion, though it may appear rash, can be satisfactorily a counted for, from the above stated cruelties, exactions and oppressions. AU, to a man, trained to the most skilful use of tile rifle : inured to the inclemencies of the seasons; defended by ~itge mountains acce , sible to none but themselves ; surrounded in ever). direction by, and allied to mountaineers that are anima ted with the same loVe of independence; reared up and happy in poverty ; religious; virtuous from habit ; utter strangers to luxury ; preferring their barren mountains to the most fruitful soils—and, above all, remembering the horrible outrages com mitted hy the order of Buonaparte, to whom they have to op, pose one hundred and fifty thousand sharpshooters, in a country where no regular 'armies can act, and where they and they alone know the paths to procure such supplies, if they have hut the means to purchase them. Such a hardy, stubborn, and .athletic race of men are eery formidable enemies. Such they have certainly proved to France, and no peace which their be loved Prince may have been compelled to enter into, will induce them to become a party to it. They are firmly resolved either to conquer or die. SCHOENECHER. MULLER, Major. London, Nov. 13, 1809. PROVINCIALS. On Thursday se'nnight the old Berkshire hounds had a most capital and extraordinary run. They unkeenelled their fox in Iletulington Furze, soon after ten, and after presAng him at a very sharp pace, he swam the Cherwell in the neighbourhood of Woodtbaton, came tip the meadows on the Oxford side to Holy wtull where he %vas so dead boaten. that his only refuge remained in climbing on the roofs of houses like a cut, from which, however. be was soon dislodged, and that ran up Holy well-street in full view, with three couple of hounds elOse at his brush. He then turned short in the right, went into the back part of Wadh:tm College, and .was finally taken in the parlour of Attrs. Wall, in /I ollwell, and there bagged. So singular a fox ithace was, perhaps, never wituessed by the oldest inhabitant, and is large concourse of people assembled to see lOW given to the hounds in the fields near Itiley. About a fortnight since a young woman, named Mary Thomp. sylio resides in W indmill-hill-street, in the town of Dock, Plymouth, went to the house of Mr. Enni s tt burgeon, in rCati%