The National Register. — London, England, 1809-05-14 00:00:00

THE NATIONAL REGISTER. being superior to them, necessarily destroved them.— Such were the operations of the two areeles up to the period attic battle. The French crossed the Danube, and advanced from Ratishon towards Neustadt. The Austrians advanced direct upon Ratishon. The tw6 armies thereforeencoim tered betweeu Ratishon and Nieustadt, at Abersher;, a vil lage or hamlet, half way between these places.—The battle ss - as lost owing to two leading errors; in the first place, the ignorance of the Austrians that the French army had concentrated themselves on the point against which they were advancing ; and secondly from the iejudicious extent of the Austrian line.—The military moliori;atler the battle are very intelligibly related in the Bulletins; and by reference to our Map may be easily followed and compre hended. The French, by the necessary result of the h ttlc, became possessed of the hue of the Danube, and immediately took positions which secured rt. The line et' t!nu Danube, therelOre, as marked in our Mop, is the flee ei the French march. The head-quarters on the :wth of April, on which day as will be seen the Third Bulletin is di ted ; were at Mulhdorf on the Danube, in the direct road from Ratisbon to Vienna. From Athilidorf then still most. pro bably be transferred to Branum], thence to !Vella, thence to Passau, thence to Lintz, and thence after two or three intermediate stages to Vienna. The distance between Ratisbon and Vienna is 195 unites. The average daily march of an army is between 12 and 13 wiles. The French armies usually perform their marches by night, and by these means gain three or four miles ; as in a day-march they would necessarily be compelled to re pose during the heat. Allowing for all impediments, and occasional skirmishes, it may probably take the Freneh a mouth before they could reach Vienna, and it will be seen, that in the secondet;ulletia Bos A Pan rs; has made a similar calewlation. In the mealitime, whikt the French are marching for Vienna, on the hue of lie Dan u b e , th e Austrians are retreating into the mountains and fortresies of the Tyrol. BONAPART r, as he ad vances, daily detaches strong bodies to scour the country between the Danube and the Inn, the lser, and the Salza.—Such arc the present military positions of the two armies. The French are advancing on the line of the Danube, which we have marked out on our Map, and are orcupied as they advance in clearing the country on the right flank, by. daily skirmishes. Their lett thank is prolectel by the Danube. The Austrians in the meantime are retreating. into the Tyrol. The present object or the French is, by get ting possession of Vienna to cut off, all the ordinary cipplies of the Austrian Arinies,—to essume the Go vernment and Administration into their own hands and thereby to compel the ARCIIIPi KL: to support his army by irregular contributions and levies, or in pinie words, to live by his wits. The present Austrian object is to find present refuge in the fastnesses of the mountains,--to re c: nit broken force, and to act as opportunity 1112 V hereafter suggest and indicate. The Archduke CHARLES came into the field ith 110,000 men at the battle of &tumuli!, according to the French Bulletins.—lf be lost 20,000 in.'n in that bet:le, his force is still 110,000 strong, for he was joieed on the day after the battle by Beeeslnaa nt.'s corjbs. The A estrian army is in nine divisions, each about 1-2,000 strong. BELLEGARDE has the first ti vision ; the Archduke FERDINAND the second ; the Archdule C.:natter: has three; the Archduke Louis two ; the Archduke Jon two. There h besides a Militia, which forms an army of Reserve. It is not impossible that some assstauce may be derived from insurrections in Germany ; the Saxons are not well dis posed to France, and throughout Wei!phalia the people are almost to a man against her. 14 may be necessary to apprise Tito Public that the New Ma gazine, entitled LE BEAU 111o` DE and MONTHLY REGISTER, iS ;ill FROM New Work, conducted and edited by a Society of Gentlemen, whose principal object to disseminate Clasieal mad to direct the public htte by critical examina tions•of r.ouic‘-, Works of Art and _Music. MAY 14. TO OUR, SUBSCRIBERS AN?) THE PUBLIC. . . It igas our intention to have. exposed. the arrogance mid pre* sumption Of Comm tr, 10 l'he National Register of this nay w . e ar,o comilelletl 3 however, to defer our ohservatio s ns another week, in consequence of the length and importance of the Foreign I ruclligruce, atid from the same cause our Criticisms oar the liNkihitiou at Somersetlinuse int4t be.postpotied. THE NATIONAL REGISTER. Lonlyou, SUNDAY, MAY 14, ISO 9. POLIIICdr. EVENTS OF'THE IrEEK, Dutch Papers to the 12th, and French to the 20th, Grt rived yesterday, and have brought further accounts of the motions of the armies. The French Papers have brought the third Bulletin, hich, as being the only authentic nar l Naive, nieri!s alinost exclusively/ our attention. The Aus trians have not the same felicity of narrative, or perhaps the difference may be better imputed to the difference of their suhjut. The French have,, unfortunately, only to record their victories, whilst the Austrians have to disguise thcir failures. The third Bulletin is dated Burghausen, April the 30th, and pursues the motions of the French army. The rapidity of the Emperor NAPOLEON IS truly astonishing; he lett Paris on the 12th at night, was at Delligen, in tiabia, on the 16th, and defeated the Austri ans on the 19th. and successive days. Perhaps half the suc 6.ss in the world is imputable to this bold and daring tn.. gency. The lines of the poet have more than a poetical justice— Fortune, a woman, born to he controuled, Stoop!, to the forward and the hold. The third Bulletin contains no military accounts of any importance,—whilst the Freud,' Army is advancing on the line of the Danube, detachments are dailv sending to clear the country between that and the Isvr and Salza. This Bulletin, purporting to be a French official narra tive, is characterized by the same vulgar ahuse,—the peror of AuseralA is almost personally insulted in every line of it, and nothtig,, we think, evea in these Bulletins, can eqtri the extreme insolence of the following passage —" Austria has raised numerous armies, divided into corps like the French army ; her troops are moving b) forced marches, to imitate the French troops ; her Generals are publishing bulletins, proclamations, general orders— all in imitation of the French. But the ass is not ennobled to a lioa because he is covered with a lion's skin; the loag ears betray the ignohler beast." The Bulletin then pcnceeds to abuse M. Evrz, a man to whom Europe is indebted, as much as England is to Mr. BuitKE. It is coixeivable enough, that a man like this should he honoured with per sonal mention and abuse: in the French official accounts. The Austrian accounts of the late battles have been ref ceived. They amount in substance to nothing more than that the French narraiives ace much exaggerated, to the meantime the French Bulletins stare us io the face with ce;tain undeniable facts. 'The Austrians are in re treat, and the French are ad ancing to Vienna. This cer tainly looks souwwhat. like victory on one side, and defeat on the other. The capture of Warsaw must not be con sidered as a success. 11arsaw is not a fortified town. It was °pea to eery one, and in the immediate line of the Austrian mart - h. It is not. near be scene of action, and surely that is not to he called a capture, winch being wide feuded, Wzs at the mercy of the first occupant. The re port of ColiN;el TAXIS, however, is pleasing, inasmuch ast. i p!ovcs the bravery of tbt TyrulesC l who ire now the 1 11 .4 ti - hop:: Anstria. 314