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

THE NATIONAL REGISTER. JULY e 3. • , 011LIG4Y INTELLIGENCE. FROX THE .FRENCH A ND DUTCH PIPERS. TWENTY-TIIIRD rKENCU DULLETIIV•*. VIENNA, JvNc 28.—t)u the 23tti of thi- month his Maks,. reviewed a great number of troops on the heights of Schise,- bruis ; there was observed a tine line of SOO9 - CavalrN, of st pica the gisord formed a pan, and in which there was only one regi messt 'olr Cuiras,iers; there was al s o a line of tioo pieces 'of car nal). The appearance and martial air of the troops excited the ad poi ration of-the spec tat .rs. On StsturtiftN, the 24tdt, at four in the 'afternoon, our troop entered Raab. On ttsn t'Si it, the garrison, p li , miers o f wet *set out ; aceorlin taig aa - estimate, thet, arc f,,uld to amount V f,400 men. His Majesty. has given to Cene . ral of Di% Ik , 'Prisorme, the etimniand eif this Once, aid of all the listogn• scan States„(tons!htsl, surrendered to the Frenett arms. The Doke of Aw•rstailt is before Preshorg I the enein , , work at the fortifirxions ; it wit: intimated to him to cease from ti .s works, unless be wished to draw upon the peaceable it halo. tants the greaten of misfoTtunes ; he took no notice of it; 40:1 bombs mad obustes pave compelled hien to renounce his (project : but she tire briikeinit its this unfortunate city, and several qm,r . trrs have been borat. ! ---Tive Duke of Raosa, with the ar t;) Dalmatia, passed site Dravian the 22d, and marched to grat:;. .Uo the 'lNth General Vandamme embarked 300 1V irtemburghet s. commanded by Major Kechler tit Molk, in order to Ciro.. theinf,elves upon the oppotite side and gaits intelligence; tin debar4.ati oil was effeCted• ; these troops routed two CiOl»puni.6 of the enemy, and teak two Officers and ei4lity men of the reg . ' meat. of Mims-sr-ski prisoners. The Prince of Pottle Cory() xn the Saxon army are at St. Patten. The Duke of Dautzic, nht is at Lititz, ordered General Wrede to recommi:re on the Le' Rant. All the enemy's posts were driven in, several (Meets and g 0 men were taken. The object of this reconnoitring wa alio to procure intelligence. The city of Vienna is plentifoll . \ furnished with neat; the supply o f b rea d i s more difficult, account of she impediment in grinding, In respect to the sub sisfroce of the army, it is served for six months; it has wine at:d vegetables in ahundance. The wines in the cella' s oft he convews have been placed in a magazine to furnish distrihutiuns to the army. Several millions of bottles have thus been collected. On the 10th of April, at the very time is hen the Austrian Se nor 11 pi astituted his character, and spread a snare for the Kin; of Bavaria, by writing the letter which has appeared in ail the pantie Papers, General Chasteller excited the Tyrol to insur rection, and Ur vrised '7OO French conscripts, who were going in Augsburgg, Where this regiment were, and who were search ing in the Vonfitience of Feaeo. Obliged to surrender and made prisoners, they were massacred. Anion them were .8:) Ref: glans, born in the same town as Chesteller. E;ghtet-n- ninniree .13,varians, ntade prisoners at" .01 same time, were also mas sacred. Chastener, who cornatande;, s ti::ess to this horror. lie not only made no opposition to the.n, but he is accesed of Leaving snsilect at the massacre . , hop::.:g that T:,rolians having to (trend the vengeance due to actitue Whieh they could-not hope xvould be pardoned, must be most Minty engag - ed in their rebel lion.' When hls Majesty was wide arquaiated with thtse atroci tick, he found in a difficult situation. 1f 14/141 ChOsrn _ . .to have recourse to reprisals . , '2O Generals, 1000 Otilers, ;uncle prisoners during the month or April, might have satisfied toe MAhappy French, so co warely butchered. But prisoners de not appertain to the power front whom they have fought; they are under the safeguard or the honour and henerosiiy of the nation Which has disarmed them. His Majesty considered .Chasteller as acting without being authorised; for, nut wlt listanding.the furious peorratazttions, and violeut language of the Princes of the /louse of Lorraine, it was impossiole to bdieve they could approve stoh eritoes )ti is Alujes).;" in cunsevence published the follow leg order oi the day. OIIDER. OF TUE D“. • linperial ileml-quarters, tns. May 5. .‘ 13vorderof the Emporor, toe person named ChaSteiier, stil in; liiinstlf a qpeoefol is the servir . e of Austria, the mover . of the iosurrectioo in the TN 1 . 91. Charged with hrin; the author of the lIIA acre coetntitted 11,1 t,to Uasartatt nal .Drench prisoner, by them-urgent=, shalt, upon being i:iisooer, be carried before t i Cumuli psitop, and if udged guilty, he shot it)). itu twent)-four hours. (SiZAICI) :'he Ptiuse o° Nearhatel, Vice-Constnhle. Alatiur-LICICria ALEXANDAE.I 467 At I;,e Willie or I.A (:en• Dorii,!;el earl.% lar ilfl orate to an advanced -qoa:lroti, %vas mode priloner try Emper.r of A Oqtria, vr.0.13 of sO easy a triumpie, to b, 1 lIhIi,IICJ au order of tar day, conceived in the fullim int 'orm• COPY OF A LETTER FROM Tits NI AJEsTY THE EM PEROR OF At's l'it N 10 N 1 Y nt. tr. Iln writ Eft-4 have it'itrieva 111.1 t the Vmpertie Napoleon has neetareet the Marquis of C'ia•t..ller ~ut tete pro !..ction of ore li.v nations. ettja.l conduct, ectitrary u•n;;t•s of nati,al.4,.and of tvhien ttoore is la) e‘ample in the ett,er It rio,ts atstor, , 04;ites me to nave reco o r y to yew'. stl tral i;) con.equtliet• I order that triieral4 I)etras•tel and t•liall 1)e kept as linsta:te,,, to istaiterKat the •auae fate and svne treatment as Ito, Emperor Napoleon shall make (ictieral Mt:Atelier •t free. It is repugnant to feelings to give such nu • ,ier ; hut I owe it to) 111 • hraye narriors and my brave peopte, 'A' no may be ext,o•ett to a siintl;tr fate, n hile tura". dd. ties ardent tHelity. I coarAr on t•e- make knonn this• letter to th • army, att,t to st•tit: it by dug of truce to the Slajoe irneral of the Emperor Napoleon: ( 4 4igneti) IVolkersdorf, Ma.) •45,.' ' Fn*mcis.' iootras this order of the day came to the knots ledge of Nii `i:iiest‘, he ordered the arrest of the Prioee Colloredo, Pt inct tietternich, Count rergen, and Contit fladdiek. ntid It:at they .:toulti he COW/e ed to France to atiswcr for the lives of Generals ,)urosnel and Footers. The Nlajoi.-(;eneria %%rote to the Chief :br the Staff of Cie Austrian artily the fallowing letter. TO THE MAJOIL CiENLEIA I. OF Till. AUSTRIAN' ALLY. ' .Ain, " Schneahrunn, Jame 6. His liijesty the Emperor has-been made acql:iinted ith an order, givou b . \ the P_lmperor Francis, which clecl.tres that the French (leiter:tin Durostiel and Finders, whom the circumstances rf the war have placed in his power, shall aJswer for 1110 w bleb for laws of justice ma \ ii.dict ( has, !Arr., who has put himself at the brad of the insurgents of the Tyrol, and 'atm has periai‘ted the murder of 200 Freoca )ii,,oners, and between IS and 1900 Bavarians, a crime twheard ;if in the history of nations, and which might have eau-eat terrible repri3d in 40 Field Nlarshal Lieu!en:tins, 2G ,Major-(;e_ morals, Wow than 300 Colonels or Majors, It 0f) 011icer-, and , 0,000 soldiers, if his Majesty did o u t cot;sider prisom.rs as plaeed under his faith and honour, and had not he-ides pr.iiirs that the Austrian °Ricers in the Tyrol have been as indigliuot at the action as ourselves. Ills Majesty, however. has ordered that Prnre Colloredo, Prim* Metternich, Count Frederick lininlick. and Count Per. shall be arrested, and conveyed to Fraoce, to answer for :111 - f safety of Generals Durosnel and Folders, threatened by the order of the day of your Sovereign. frilt•St oLieers way die, Sir, but they shall not die without being revenged ; this vengeance stall nut fall On ;my prisoners, but on the relatives of those who shall 'order their dcath. As to M. Cha,teller, he is uni yet in ti;e poi% er of :be :unto; but if 11..- shoald be taken you be ;,ssureki t:zat he will he delivered to a military co:L. 10:•,100, and the i his trial will take plat:. I request your Excellency to believe the sentiments of my high consideration. (Signed). At xINDR C, Major• General. The city of Vienna an! the States of Lower Austria solicited the - cletnency of his Nlajsty, and requested to send a depatw.,,,a i to the Emperor Francis, to convir.ce hite of the i .eopieriety of the proceeding with respect to the Ccncrrels Durosnel mid Fuultsrs; to represent that Clia . steiler was not condemner', that he wig not arte:ted, hot oaly aect , ed lierore the ttiiiotiats that the father;, wives, Otildren, and property of thr tienerals were in the hands of the French; and that the F; ench army wtoi determined, if aLinglc prisoner was put to tlea , h to ro:ike an example, of which potiet ity shoold lota prose r% e tl remembrance. The esteem w hich his !Majesty en:eft:tin-4 ft,r the go t )..ltithal•itaut; of Vienna and the States ectertnit....(l to accede to, this vegtot.t. He ;krantrki tJ oi. Cols tOredl), lietternich, Ilad.iirk, and rergen, to !vomit) at V ie.iort o kad to the deputation to Set out • far Ott Ilett4l-qttzirt , .•rii, of tae Emperor of Austria. TOP! deputation has r-t0r..1e.1. Tito Emperor Francis hits replied to these represertations, tit‘t ito was ie,nortiot of the intiss;itre or the French pvi,,o..trrs in the:' T% rol that lie pitied the+ rriFeries of the caps;:.! aad the pro vioces; that hi. Alitti•turs it:td tieco]vcci Str. 'Lite dr. ligtiG3 retain:led him that :Irk y ru..ent ;Ina W ith pain the