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1' le r• P 11 1 .. I. - 7 ~-. ----- 1"" 4. • ~ • ' . I. _- barn* stigmata by the peer Tyrolesus tad Verathemes% as the 'icing Gen is hailed by the shepherd. Scarcely had they received the news of the actual movements et the two'hostile nrqsies i bg. • fore they mire is a mass. Their' hitset w i larilfiaid beyond expectation. The treopc °lam mealy sent agaiast them consisted of a 7,000 men, WhOna they impolitely attacked on all pMnts. Their victory was complete ; those of the enemy who escaped with their lives, being either wounded or taken Fri genera. Among the latter were two Generals;. the sharp.shoutens took, besides, a quantity o. cannon, suumuuitioo, arms, and several stund of colours, t • This memorable battle was fought on the 10th and 11th of April last. The merit of it belongs solely to the valorous inhabitants of the ',nil and Voral berg ; for the eerily Austrian aiiy, hastening to their relief, did nut krill them fore the 13th of April; it was received by the conquerors with Airtime beating and colours flying, while shouts of and long live our beloved Emperor Francis, rent the air. " Those who know the mildness of Bonapartt's • temper. will be able to conceive an idea of the int pressian which this news made upon him. lie in stantiy directed Marshal Lefebvre, supported by the Bavarian Generals IVredeu, Sib brio, at the head of 04,000 men, tt, march against the Tyrolese, by the way of Salzburg. General Et uses s with tintio men, was ordered to advance from Italy, while General Ferron approached (ruin Ca rinthia, ctrl General Mumma from 'lnvert& and Suable, with from six to seven thousand troops • more. This was certainly a formidable farce. which would have conquered, and even aonilitlated any other two nations of equal munbers. The coother, indeed, was obstinate and terrible. But the enemies were defeated, all but Lefehvie, w hose force was too large, and whose devastatiims and truelties were such as to spread terror every wheie. He bUrnt loans and villages, and gave quarter to no one. The aged were suspended from trees, and then shot. The pregnant women lied their bellies ripped up. and 'their breasts cutoff, while their embryos wire crammed down their throats, to put un end to the shrieks and moan ing. of the wretched victims. If a Tyrolese or V.- valherger, bearing arms, had the misfortune to fall Ago their hands, the/ immediately tore out his tongue. The children were cut down without mercy, and most frequently carried about, trans. fixed with bayonets. A somber of these innocents happening to return from school, were tnetweith, and drives by these monsters intoKOMB basis, and burnt alive. " Lefebvre and his cantaiale imagined to be able to intimidate the Tyrolese sod Vorelbergets by such cruelties ; Lot they had the very opposite . effect. The Tyrolese stoup-shooters new teem- . bled blood-thirsty lions: they rushed upon Lefeb• ere, and totally defeated him ; tliousais4s of the nay were slain, and the Generals. aCcomponive i l s stay by a few remnants of his great force, suuXhbt safety in an ignominious flight, directed tower& 'Vienna. " The result of this complete victory was, that the Tyrol sod Voralberg, beintattiv freed from their,, invaders, served as an asylum to those Austrian ;mi. sailers, who had been taken by thoff conch at [tida l ': bon. Asperu. and Esslingen. and who fomid,little difficulty in snaking their escape. Abuut ten thou. stud of them profited by this opportunity : thry were nearly naked, and the expense of c;othing and arming them anew. proved me snail burden to their hospitable friends. • ' " Another advantage of this victory displayed itself in the superior courage with which it inspired the conquerors. They now salliid forth, beyond their frontiers, to seek the enemy. In Bavaria they aclvunced "tis far us :Munich, the capital city. In Suable they took Kempten, pushing on beyond Memming and fun. In Italy, they proceeded taw within a few miles of Verona ; and tonic corps overran Carinthia and Salzburg, then already its the power of the enemy. so as to become to a great degree, masters of those countrit3. " Notwitlistendiog these successes, the conquer ors were guilty of no cruelties, or acts of oppression.. Net a single bowie was pillaged by them, not a bare laid in ashes. No peasant was ever taken prisoner, or insulted. The wounded enemies were particu lady teken care of. it was the usual practice to carry them ow shonldcre into sonic house. The Tyrolese and Voralbergers acted throughout, from an honourable ambition, to shame their cruel ene mies, and convince them of the superior humanity of poor German mountaineers. Neither France nor any of her Allies, can adduce a single instance of their prisoners having been ill-treated, either in the Tyrol or Voralberg, though the primmer* from either country, were tortured. murdered, or ill used by the French. " All these glprious achievements, however, quid oat arrest the prog,;ets of the enemy is other quarters. In fine, au ermistice was again cot-1110.. ed. The corps of Austrian irony, left in the Tyrol,•aud coasistinv, for the most put, of the above-meritioaed refugees, was suddenly recalled, sad carried away all the ordnance and ammunition which the Tyrolese had taken. Thin the l a tter' found themselves compelled to abandon their coo quests, Nod satisfy themselves with guardiug . , tiiete own frontier*. " Leirto: - c, IZ list Fnron, and o' her t.:ertevist•, t. .„ • 0. 1. .•. '7. poootrated ones sore as far as Insprock, the capital of the Tyrol, repeating their former devastations and cruelties. But the indignation excited by the ro:appearance of those inhuman chiefs, was such, that the very women, ebose business had hitherto been contined to conveying the poisoners to places of safety, assembled in numbers, and put to death G4O enemies, near Landeck ; and though the whole force of the enemy amounted to about 30,000, they were attacked by the Tyrolese and Voralbergers, who had risen en passe, with such irresistible fury, that those who saved therustlvi;s by 'flight, were pursued to a great distance, so as to Ise unable, during the •uace of twenty-four hours, to allay their thirst with * draught of water. " It was in vain, that Bonaparte. on hearing this new disaster of his arms, detached Marshals Mac donald and Beasieres, with picked troops, against the Tyrolese. They were routed and obliged to return. • " Irma the concurring accounts in the Dutch, German, and'Frencli papers, which are copied into the daily prints of London, it is placed beyond all doubt, that the Tyrolese and Voralbergers persevere in their obstinate resistance to the French and their Allies. " They are, indeed, now free, bnt at the expense of very uncommon sacrifices. Numbers of them mourn their fathers, brothers, and eons, not slain in battle, hut, for the enost part, murdered in the most inhuman manner. Four towns and twenty-six flourishing villages are reduced to herpes of ashes..—not to mention the destruction' of a large number of detachwl cottages. These ca lamities are felt more sensibly in a climate which is very far from being mild. The mountains of the Tyrol and Voralberg have, ever since the be ginning of October, been covered with snow uod ice. The inhabitants, though aecustonied so animist upon the hardest fare, can, after so many devasta tions, pillages, conflagrations, and hardships of every kind, scarcely get wherewithal to satisfy the craviags of nature. Multitudes at this moment are happy in being allowed some liUle corner in a CietVded barn, stable, Ot.hut. • " In spite of alt these sufferings, they are fully determined never to listen to any accommodation vv h Vonaparte, or consent to be nail' governed be the iron sceptre of Bavaria. This determination, though it may appear rash, can be satisfactorily tic counted for, from the above stated cruelties, exac tions, and oppressions. All, to a man, trained to the most skdfill use of the rise; inured to the in clemencies of the seasons ; defended by huge moun tains, accessible to cone but themselves; surround ad'lslOery direction by, and allied to mountaineers thai are animated with the satne love of indepentl ener;; leered up and happy in poverty; religious, virtuous from habit; utter strangers to luxury ; preferring their barren mountains to the ino , t f uit ful soils—and, abort all, remembering the horrible outrages coniasitted by t*.ie order of Bonaparte, to how they have to oppose one hundred and fifty thrisintd slierpshooterA, in a country where no fig sr armies can act, cud where they, and tiseVitT4e, know the paths to procure supplies. J e4..ka re bat the means to purchase them.—. Such 'hardy, stubborn and athletic race of men are very formidable enemies. Such they hays certainly proved to France, and nu peace which their beloved Feiner in4y have been compelled to enter into, will induce them to besoint a party to it. "They are firmly resolved either to conquer or die. D. Sentient:cute. Plijur." " Lox(loot, November 11, .1909." FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. FRENCH PAPERS. !AIM, NOV. 1. Letters of the 40th October, from Vienna, con tain the following mews Yesterday, at the 'no- ment we were announcing that the Empress of Austria was dangerously ill at Peit, liar Majesty had already breathed her last. We have also been informed, that the Archduchess Carolina, the Empress's second daughter, is dead." We bear that the residence of the Court at Fou taiableau will be of some duration. By an account which has just been published, the cessions made by the treaty of Vienus amount to 3.100,000 souls. TRIFST6, OCT. 16. The presence of a feeble !Willa in the Adriatic Oulph does not inspire us with any fear.— Our town is well provisioned.—The Russian squa dron is still anchored in our roads. FONTAIMBLZAU, OCT. _ The.Emparor took an airing in an open chaise to.drif with the Empress. The Emperor was re- reivrd on hie return with loud seeloroanous. The weather is delightful. and as fine as in the midst of 'mariner. The Emneror k remarkably well, and an active, :that voiltn he viewed the entrenchments at Kehl, on his return, he mouuted the redoubts with an agility which tow could equal. "4,private !otter fr4fito Sivide f dated 20th Octo ber. sa**-- It.il " What with therein gram Cake. With ?Intl in this city, and with open rehrlion to lime installished Councils in VACS. CMS. HIV ( iliartalpeSS IS completely sraral)sed. Nothing is dose either is cossasasce or civil affairs. or even in military coact:tit, incepting' trending-recruits to the srpies, whirls iv attracted I. u Got saurespons cut be peuvided fur theta, and Natant tar Ott oboe ter ti.eir subsistence." _ •'• Lai lame lest page. THE )3RITISSI PRESS. LONDON, TUESDAY. Nov EMOZR 11. We have received some numbers of the stuni teur, hut none of . a later dale than those for some time in our mrssessitm. The Emperor of Av..•rata is uuc•c more a widower., The Empress died at Peg, on the tstli of October. His second daugh ter is also dangerously ill. It was reported, yesterday, that the French Ge• fiend, M.:LIAR:IIAR, had arrived in this city. He is the officer who negociated the Convention of Cintra, on - which occasion lie displayed AO much address. The inference drawn was, of course, that lie is come with a pacific proposition from BON PARTE. %V believe, flowerer, that the rumour of his arrival is destitute of foundation. • Some of the evening papers or yesterdny, stopped the press to state a report, that a ilkoriteur had been received by a Mr. HVGIII•M, in the city, which states, that six French line-of-battle ships have been destroyed in a late action, in the Mediterra nean, in which the English lost four. We are cot certain that any such Nomitesir has been received: One of the report. of Saturday announced a simi lar result.upon 'the alleged authority of accounts to that effect from Holland._ Vl'e have received a Copy of the Ofd rial State ment of the Tyrolese Deputies lately arrived is this country.—lt is y'...en in our preceding columns. Letters from Cadiz, to-the IPth, state, that Don SAAVEDRA has been substituted fu: GARAY. as Se. cretary to the Supreme Junta.. The nth was alga fixed at Seville for the nomination isf a new ('rest dent. The Archbishop of Tut.ene,:the intended Regret, was expected at Seville on the 30th.— Eoutu has been unpainted to the command of the army of La Mancha, !aiely wider Viisi:o4s. Mar quis WELLRELEY would probably defer his dep.ir tore until after the nomination of the new Presi dent. His Lordship was expected to embark in the first week of this month at Cadiz, where the Doaaegal had been some time waiting for him.— We understand he has agreed to join the ',resent Administration, as a Member in . the Cabinet. In every other shape and quulity, Mr. PERCEVAL already possessed the Nob!e Lord, his interest, 410 connections.. What wonderful change is to be produced by the inetatuorphovis of an Am bassador into a Secretary of State, we are at a loss to conjecture. We have received The Nora Scotia Royal Ca vote, to the elute of October lo ; from which we have extracted the following article, which exhibits en act of the greatest piracy, attended with the most horrid barbarities HINGHAM, SIP!. 'l2, 1809. " The schooner Elise, Simi:Kim Master, has just arrived at this port. I:e picked up, at sea, Capt. JOHN! STAIRS, who gives the following parti culars respecting himself: • "On the 13th September, 1809, the schooner . Vise Sitters, on her passage from the 13.iy of Cha leer Pa Halifax, was risen upon, by the mute, Julia Kelly, and a passenger, by the name of Edward Jordan, about three miles to the westward of Caps!. Canso, and about foilr miles to the southward of the laud ; they shot two of my crew, and I was forced to jump overboard, to save my life ; and, rery fortunately, picked up by Captain LEVI STODDVIA, of the schooner Vizir, of Hingham.— The schooner Three Sisters belongs to Messrs. Jo- NATI' Aal and Joao TREIRAI N, of Ila 'ilex. .. Jung Stamm." After reviewing end discussing the late treaty of penes between •Austat sod France, article by ar ticle, it is still deeessury to consider its aggregate malts, aot only ai they operate on the Emperor. FIANCIIII• himself, hut as they must affect Europe immediately or remotely. We cannot too often repeat. that BONAPAILTE has virtually inclosed his enemy within as iron poling, where hii situation forcibly reminds is of is story of AIDOVLIIAIIiAIf, one of the Moorish Kings of fair;maila. This Prince, it is said, presented to Ilia favourite a sheep of great beauty uiid iii high condition; enjoining him to prodnce the diurnal, at the end of forty days, reduced to a mere skeleton, ttssugh, doling the w h o l e time, he sh..tild be supplied with prorendei o f every hind, iu the greatest prolusion. In order to accomplish so ratr , itOldilltily • transformation, the ingenious Coni tisc ins lo.ed tl.r sheep 1!I a cage ser. den, where he wat plentifully prutidcd with food; but lie took care to divide the cage by a grating its the middle, and in the other ins.losore lie placed a fierce and ravenous wolf, whom per. petual, though fruitless, efforts t o tear th e sheep i n pieces, so terrified the unfortunate creature, as to cause him to refuse all sustenance, and to pine . away to skin and hone, in defiance of every endea vour to induce Lim to eat. hiarot.sois has realised the story of ABDOULRAUM•II, except that, indeed of one wolf, lie has stationed three route] mita N cts's cage. Saxony, Lavaria, and Russia must, IA fact, patiorni the office of gsolers on their Imperial captive, till the signal shall be given for Isis com plete extinction, by th-ic mutants arbiter and . T master. Whenever that hour arrives, as it 4!1 * (1 the Prince Regent of Porronat, to the I..audgr.tii. of Hullos, to the Kings okSrato. to the Queru .4 Kraus's, and to the Posititical Head of the CA' SHOIRIC CHURCH, FRANCIS will dirapeear, sad wi lt be replaced by some revolutionary ft:Am, Friel:it for the purpose. It is the evMancsin, - the rettinA and inevitable termination of the Auat,f.an tli tarty and dignity. . 1Y or, let us istept!se that, whether from weariness sod despair, he bhould have recourse, at ally future titne, to fai:!aste.g.; or that, - having is some met.. sore recruited 114 forces mia hit linen°. Foss! is • should attempt to burst the bars of his coofioe ment. as destruction is inevitable. By meaos of Saltaburgh, and 'the portion of Upper Aitstr:.., ceded to Buraria, the troops of that power w01i14. 1 in Rye days, he at the gates of ienaa; while Pol NAIPARTE, already master of the Illyrian provioci assembling an army of 70,000 awl), In twee 9 l.ry 4* Bach and Carlstadt, It the centre oi Carniula of Croatia, would pass the Sure into thaugury ut Sclavonia. Frern the bunks of that liver , at Abram or at Siust k, it is tint more than I FOCI nuke to Buda. The Seim', at the same time, mny march from Cracow, by the little Ducky of Tub dien, into Moravia, inul invest• Oltaittz; while another army would enter Bohemia. along the. course of Abe Dhe. and appear. - before Prngive. Lastly, the Russian., by 'mean* of their recent at-, quisitionuf territory in Eastern Gatlicia, are etas. bled to penetrate•through' the defiles mid gorge's of the Caipathian Mountains, either into Eusteut • Hungary, or into Transylvania; thustatinguisticg the lust hopes and resources of the Monarchy. This fact ii as clear, and as palpable, as any pro position in Euct.tp. .We would appeal 'to Prince STAHREMISEHO, or - to Cabal STantus, or.to may 'Minister of the House of AUSTRIA, whether ti e assertions on which it recs. are nut solid 4 'Ad im mutable. The tesiswee made' by Faancts to such' a. 'intuit:sosous attack. hoar five *Trims - n.l points, could not, probably, le *a long as he. hes ; held outiluring the lute war. In fact, the Corsi can could colt:rut:lto his fall with moral certain. ty ; and • miglit decide, in his scales, on the dts.... tiny of this ilLfatod Prince. as JUPIfEi weighs the Woof aiatflicrort, in The Mad. To tier awful nod inconceivable eminence have his Weals, aided lay event% and. shove till , piopelled by the imbecility of British Mitiistent, added to the temerity, or an the Incapacity, of British Generals, conducte•: as obscure individual. born and educated its a pre. eineml town of the Isle ofCorsica.. Yet will FRANCIS, if he still Main any senti ments of dignity, if he recall to his mind from whom he descends, or what he owes to the blood of so many Kings and EmPere.-- that circulate:. in his swigs; at least avoid, and abandon, the em polaritied sir of Vienne ! It is to lure% him to L. mit:, that BoSAPARTE, having first dismantled and plundereri t that capital, in which he has left behhal him the elements and means of future explatiou. has then returned it to its ancient muter. ‘Viits Junius we exclaim, " As well might Veenes re turn to Sicily," as FRANCIS to Vienna ! The -place; the people, are all denaturalized. No ! if be project resistance; or if he even hopes to escape, the fate of Frentnszei, and of Plus ; if lie does not mean to terminate his days in some mooted castle of the Limousin, or of Auvergne ; he will re move his residence. either to Buda, or to Prague.. .As Emperor of Gennawr, Vicente Constituted a central poinr; but as Emperor of Aurretas he is only the Archduke of an exposed and diminished province. He is still the King of Ho, I/AMY and of Lioiesti.. Better that he shut himself op in one edam fortresses of Trapsylrania, on the edge of Moldafria where, like CaAaLta -XII., after his defeat at Pultowa, he may seek a renege among the Ottomans ; or find an asylum in the donainimis of ALEXANDIR; than, by revisiting the polluted palaces of Sehoeubrunn, and of Laxembourgh, to repose on the sofas, and to inhabit the . chambers, where he mast see the image of NAPOLIoII reflect ed in every mirror! 'Bu., we are too much con cerned, that a Prince who could sign and ratify the : :-euty of Vienna, will ilot diszlain to inhabit the city of Vienna. When CUAILIS V., demanded 'of the Duke de L'l ?seem rsno, his palace, in u:- der to lodge therein the Constable of llaroilmr s on his arrival at Madrid, "I will obey sots Ma jesty's orders," answered thi puke, " a priu cilfle of obedience ; but I will raze to the grouri , f, or set fire to an edifice, which has been sullied by the presence of a traitor, as Soon as he quits the place !" This elevation of mind may ap pear romantic or exaggerated ; hut it can only so:- &nate a bosom capable or elevated and genv;oass artirms. We fear, that neither 'M Madrid laOCll. Vt enna are such men to be discovered in the preset age. When we look round oa Europe, prostrate et the feet of a flagitious adventurer; when we bte FREDERIC WILLIAM, and Fassucts, end ACERAsi , DCII, crouching before him ; rod when we attempt to speculate on the future, we may indeed exclaims:. " Damouss quid Dun immiumit Alas pareetans pcjur sets, tuLt Nun requiurcs !um datum Pa woke's ratiosieress." • vacant garter of the Doke of Potertallfrist demanded by the Duke or iteritmoNo ; but Mr. PuncnvAl. reserves it, sfabsoliiiely IiteCCIKNFV. 1 0 11111. Cure hue uppcort for %V [4141114Y. OA hit return.