The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1809-07-12 00:00:00

Yesterday a telegraphic dispatch announced the
arrival, off Plymouth, of thy East India fleet, un-
der convoy of His MaJcsTY's ship Ca&dem.

The Austrian account of the battle of the r.l Ist
and ud, upon the Danube, was published last
night, in a Supploinent to The Loudon Gazeite.
It is of considerable length, and is copied faithfully
into nor paper of this day. We have repeatedly
uoticed the error of flotimPaara in advancing di-
rect to the capital of Austria, instead of pursuing
the Archduke CHARLES across the Duilube, at
Hatisbon. The Austrian acconut sets sot with an
indirect avowal of this imprucleot step, as it says,
BONAPARTE " pushed on in expectatiou of dic-
tatiug peace at Vienna," in which expectatiou
we find he wan greatly disappoiuted. It also sr
pears that the Archduke, when he crossed the'
bridge of Ratislxm, hoped by forced marches tit
get the start of the French, and, crossing that
Danuir again, to make a stead in front of Vienna;
hot the veheity of the 1.-rends, marching in a
rect, hue defeated this project. It adds, that bad.
Vienna h. Id out five days, it might have been re-
lieved, and in this opinion we fluid a tacit sanest-
ledgnient of the advantage, which, as we have more
than mice stated, tote Austrians did derive from
the delay of the few days .fitat the city astually
did hold out. No rer was ti.-re a more severe-
ly-contented battle than that of Aspens. both
armies seemed to tight a. if they were contending
for ti eir last stake, and the victory is the more pre-
cious, as it WHO decided by tirintiva., enorage,
dis-
eiphne, and talents, and owed uothing to accident.
—The Austrian force also, is rated at ooilly 75,000
men.—Ainotig the heroes who distinguishid them-
sel vca in it, are the names of BRADT 111611 AY Rut LLT •
inch Catholics, or desceudants of Irish Catholics;
'peal who, Mr. PeaceraL tells us, are not fit to be
trusted with the sword, in the British arm) ; and
whom a narrow, blind, and illiberal policy, ha.
driven from their uistive country, to seek that ho-
nour and glory, in a foreign land, chided them in
their own. We wish that these mimes of o'itEinor
and BRADT had been struck out of 77te Gazette.—
The mention of them, in such howittrable terms, to
'a bitter reproach to His Ma.mstv's Ministers.

We remain without any more 'went intelligence
front the neighholieural of Vienin.„ than that COW.
mimic-Wel in the 2::.d Bulletin, decal from that
capital. the 241 h last. This article is written in a
style it, inelleratmo not causally characteristic of
Niroti..in's official puldicatious. It announce*
the capitulatim *ail surrender of Raab 1 the best
proof that. in the action of Coe 14th, th.: Austrians
were worsted. But why Bussesara should think
it necessary to have recourse to a gran and obvious
wiolatiun of truth and fact, in order to augment
the inniortance of his capture, is scarcely to be ex-
plained, except by puppossug that lie relies on the
igiaiiranee of thaw who read his Bulletins being so
complete, as nor even to know when.: Raab is
'situated. " This eity," says he, " forms all excel-
4ent position iu ilk Centre of Ilinigary." Now it
hais listen very j'itst4robalervell•in some of the papers,
that every ',Orion alio ‘lgaly casts his eye over the
map of that country, most perceive that it is the
that, or frontier tnwti of Liunary, eu the south,
srPlasherg is to the north of the Danube. Raab.
qt- Javarim as it is called by the Hungarians, was,
in fact, always considered as one of the bulwarks
of Hungary against the Turks, while -the Moho-
metal' arms retained Buda under their yoke. To-
wards the cud of the sixteenth century. ,t was taken
by Sultan MAHOMIT the Third, and its fill spread
ronsternation to the gates of Vienna, horn which
place Raab is not above 63 English miles distant.
Within the last eighty years, as the Ottoman Power
has ceased to inspire apprehension, the fortifications
of Raab, though still preserved, have not consti-
tuted an object of notional attention. With a gar-
rison of only Wm men, when 1000 at least were ,
necessary to defend it, that the place alemid have
held out for Rix days, may rather. indeed, excite
surprise. But, what should we think of N ant)•
140 iell accuracy, if, having made himself master
of Canterbury, or of Colchester, he should say. in.
his aceomit of it, " This city form" an .XL, 11, tit
position in the centre of England ?" Its possession
can be of little or nisimportance. while Comoro.
which is only about sixteen miles from Raab, re-
mains art the power of the Austrians : but as it is
the first capture made by the French. since the girl
of Nifty, it etlinei opportunely to relieve the du11....5,
....s, or thtcnoipbritits, of his preceding Bulletins.
Neither the Danube, nor the Russians, appear in
I this.publicatinti; which ;admits, tooled* the coo-
elesioo, that 'Bayreuth mod Dresilco are both in
pr seatOtnt of the.,Alistriagssiw-a confession, probably
egloTteiltliy the nOtovietgiof the circumstance !
NA Ektiv. jim, Isgwcy%sr, omitted to ....forte us.
thitt gal/44ny, 47%415...um, Thurnagia, and a great
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port f swains, are likewise lost to him. He does
not.stsgumnt nos that the Tyrol is completely in this
Bands of the insurgents; that Dalmatia has been
ricanquered atom tutu 7 that Bavaria is overrun by
the Tyrolese; that the Austrians are masters of
Leipsic, Meissen, Freyberg, kalurt, Bud Eyse-
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