The National Register. — London, England, 1809-03-05 00:00:00

MARcii 5. THE NATION.' arrogance even in our age of brutal violence, be not im mediately complied with.—lf this unexampled act of out age, and lawless unblushing tyranny has ti..;;n offered, there is not a,membcr of the Austrian Cabinet, not au individual altachetl to the army, not one inhabitant of the numerous provinces, if they have ever felt the force of the words, — Country and Independence * who would not risk fortune, life, freedom, every thing dear to men and binding on citizens, sooner than consent to their Sovereign's submitting to a condition, which would reduce him to a state of as com- plete bondage and degradation, as the most despicable member, or roitelet, of the Rhenish Confederacy, The most prominent articles in ,these papers, relative to military movements, are the following. A courier brought to General OuntivoT, on the 9thfolt, an order to break up, with the corps under his commanid, and which was station ed along the .Maine, and to march by regiments to Augs burg. The ultimate destination of those troops, according to a Franckfort Journal, is the frontiers of The same paper mentions, that the reports of a rupture have had a very disadvantageous effect on the Vienna paper Money ; and though it attempts to disprove the probability of a war, acknowledges that the greatest activity prevails in the war departments of the States of the Rhinish League; and that orders have been issued, and executed, in Bava ria, Wirtemberg, Baden, and Darmstadt, that their contin gents may be ready to march on the first notice. The contingent of Westphalia has marched towards Saxony. On the Left Banks of the Rhine there were some move, meats of troops coining from Brabant; but their number is stated as inconsiderable, A namburgh Paper of the 14th ult. says, that the latest letters from Vienna are p►pre warlike than the former. They spesk of the formation of armies, and give the corn, ;nand of the army in Germany to the ARCHDUKE CHARLES, The ARCHDUKE FERD►NAND, the same gallant officer, who effected his retreat with part of the Austrian army from Ulni, is to command an army in Bohemia ; and General Count 13ELLEGARDE, one of the most di•tiuguished officers in tl►e Austrian service, was to have the command of an army destined to act on the side of Italy. M. Von FAIW RENDER, the intimate friend of the ARCHDUKE CHARLES, and the constant associate in his military labours, is ap- pointed principal Commissary of the Army. He is univer sally considered to have been one of the most enlightened, zealous and active co-operators in the late re -organization of the army. He rpse from obscurity, and owes his pro motion solely to his merit. Magazines are likewise forming in Austria and Bohemia. All the Generals, who commanded on the Turkish frontiers, have been recalled to Vienna. In an article from Lintz taken from a Paris paper, and probably fabricated in the French Capital, it is stated that doubts are entertained whether the ARCHDUKE CHARLES approves the measures of the Court, and is willing to en ter into a new War. We have through the same channel the assertion that the Austrian regular troops amount only to 144,000 men; but that it is not practicable to find a train of artillery for au army of 60,00 Q. We have noticed this statement from no other motives than to efface false impressions which some of our Readers may have received from this article and to expose the ignorance and levity of soul° editors of our daily prints. AL REGISTER. 133 The Day of this morning contains these words: "We 46 learn with considerable anxiety, that the ARCHDUKE 66 CHARLES is not cordially reconciled to the views of the " Austrian Cabinet. On his genius, &c. we should rely " more for success than on the combined talents of the " Austrian Cabinet, and all the Generals in its service." In the same column this paper has the following remark : " BONAPARTE is arrived at Augsburg. lle is said to hay. " sent formal proposals to the Court of Vienna, which de- " manded immediate compliance, and, in case of refusal. •• threatened the instant renewal of hostilities. Among " these proposals, &c. and insisted that the new levies 46 should be reduced to 45,000 men." Let any man of common sense compare these two arti cles. In the first the writer expresses his regret that the A RCH DU K E CUARLES, on whose distinguished talents he be stows a deserving encomium, disapproves of the resolution of his Court, in not acceding to IiON.iPARTE'S demands ; which, he acknowledges in the second, threaten hostili ties unless the Austrian Army be reduced to forty-five thousand men. Can any thing be mote drivelling. He ex tols the genius of the AltfliDUKE beyond the combined talents of the Court and the Itrmy, and guilty, at the same time, of the • imbecility as to suppose that this very Hero is dissatisfied that his country has not submitted to the most degrading, the most ;outrageous insult .ever offered to an independent state Phis is a good specimen of the discernment and sagacity of the Editor of the Day ! The Morning Chronicle has been betrayed likewise into error by this very article from Lintz ; and appears to credit its statements. It is usual with the French Government, whenever it wishes to delude the public opinion in France, or the neigh bouring states, to fabricate articles, which are ushered to the world as pretended extracts from foreign journals, These generally appear in some one of the minor Paris papers, and are afterwards copied, in all the journals in Germany, llollaud, and France, and other countries under the con trout of the tyrant. The remarks on Turkey generally appeared under the title of Notices from Presburg. Those relative to Spain, and which were calculated to prove the facility and advantage of subjugating that country, made, perhaps, their first appearance in the Hamburgh Correspon denten, or the Franckfort Journal ; and from thence found their way into the Paris and other papers. The ar ticle relative to Austria, tending to convey an idea of her inadequate resources, and alluding to the disap probation of her most distinguished General has a greater weight, when it appears to be written from Lintz, an Austrian city, not far frcm the Bavarian frontiers, This forgery of dates and places is one of the most conspi, cuous artifices which the wily despot employs to impose upon the French army. After having formed the project of subverting the Austrian Monarchy, it is his interest to circulate the report that its military resources are extremely incomplete, and, consequently, the execution is by no means difficult. Upon the same principle, if such a man, as the ARCHDUKE CHARLES, who, by the bye, enjoys, among the French officers, the highest repu, tation for military talents, is supposed to disapprove the measures of his Court, the inference is naturally made, that the situation of Austria must be desperate, anil her.subju ' gation inevitable, T 1 I