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KING OF ITALY,

N Taking into consideratii:n that the Grand
Army tuts. by its courage and zeal, obtained results
'which were not to he eapefted but from a complete
campaign; and being desirous cf giving it a proof
of our I nipeiial satistaaion, lave decreed, and bere-
bydecree as follows . . _

" An. I. The month of Vender*laire, 14th yttar, shall be
accounted as one campaign, in fatiriur•faa the so diers comps.
aloe the ;Land Amy. Thu month shall be so estimated in
all the wisou as relative toil.. valuation of pensions, and those
which respect .itilitety services.
" 2. two Ministry. at War, and of the PublL: Treasury,
are charitsl with them:cation of the present decree.
(Sword) " NAPOLEON
" Given at nil Imperial camp of Elchingen, (let. 2L.'

NAF:ThEONT, EMPEROR OF THE FRENCH,
AND KINCd; or ITALY.

We leave ckcr.:eJ, and do hereby decree .as fol-
lows :
Art 1. T.1.5.-stion than be forthwith taking( all the estates
hi sushi' Iss'ei.g.iti hi the flume uf Austria.
2. Tee insider, t.d .t.ibutiniii which ohell be levied thereon,
together est% the prelu.:e 44 the or4inarr contributions, shah
be en] irely spprupriated t.. the army. All the marazities taken
from the ene.isy, thre- of artillery
shall I.lrewise tn.-eons? its proi•etty Every indiriJual shall 11611111
in the mid corstribuunii, 1.1 ntopurtton to his rank.
3 All coutrietiL/011S levied by indiridisal., and all articles
nor of the enemy's •stivnl be restur24 to the
gener.ii man • it being iinprup:r that any persoulissistid even
biome fof its; labs a war, to the prejudies at abs emberail seem •
of the army.
. 4. Torero shell trithisith be appointed a Treasurer and Di.
reclue-“e-eral. who rh.ll account to a Military Coun•
cil of Ari.niiii,tration, fur the produce of t, e contributinars
levied, a statement of which, with lie rupsratiuti, Shall be
'rio r 4

5. lite ;ay of the army deal be regularl &dwelled trona
the I rod. re our Imperial True:wry.
Our bemalter at War ia elorged with the e,ree.:tirm 4,1
the lueseut decree. (Sived) NAPOLEWS.
TENTH RUI.I.FTIN.
Autiset.:KON. OCT. ‘22.

At the time of capitulation in General Werneck,
near Nordltngen, Prince Ferdinand, with is corps
of 1,000 cavalry and some artillery, placed himself
in the van. He advanced into the. Prussian terri-
tory, proceeding by tlie way of Gunzenhauser
towards Nuremberg, iiid Prince Murat followed in
the same track, an,l succeeded in overtaking him.
An maim took place an the road from Furth to Nu-
remberg, nn the evening asf the Myth. All that re-
mained of his park of artillery, and all the baggage
were, without exception, taken. Ile Chasseurs of
the !flirter jai guard drove back all the trnaps that
t .e,.i ; th 'y cilarged Mack's Cuiras,ias.

•
tee regintents of Crtea'Althers mailtainltJ tktlila
tiAtrOn• '.Tho march of :'rt.-30' Rupert horn a'AP
ck to Noietnlyerge is 04'1 oni-hing. Though
eon;totntly . engaged, he rained nn the enemy,, oho
were two days march balr,xe him. The result of
that proditi 'us anivitv tha—iii:ng of 1,500
wAggons. :50 pieces of cannon, 16,000 men, in-
cluding those capirdiated with General Werneck,
and a great num!mr of standards. Eighteen Ge-
nerals have laid down their awns; three were
killed. On the night of tile 2)th. Prince Murat slept
at Nuremberg. where he passed the 50th in reposing
him,elf. At the battle of Elchingen. the 69th regi-
ment of the sine particularly ditioguishei itself.
After having forced the bridge in close columo, it
deployed, within the Austrian fire, with an order and
coolness which filled the enemy with stupor and a•.-
visitation. This day a battalion of the Imperial Gnat d
entered Aogsburgh. Of eighty grenadiers, each car.
tied a standard. This spe9acle produced in the inha-
bitants of Augsburgh anastonishment, which is shared
hr all the peasants of these countries. The division of
Wurtemburg troops have arrived at Geissellingen.
The battalions of chasseues which had tollnwt d the
sully since its passage at Stutgard. have departed to
condulet to France a new column of 10,000 prisoners.
The troops of Baden, amounting to :1 or 4,000 men,
are on their march for Augsburgh. The Emperor
has presented 20,000 Austrian muskets, to the Bava.
I ians, for the army and the national gnards. lie has
also presented to the Elthor of Wuttemburg six
pieces of Austrian cannon. During the mantxtivrcs
before Ulm. the Ele&or of Wurtemburg was for a
moment alarmed for the safety of the Elearess and
his family, who repaired to Heidelberg. lie made
a disposition of his troops for defending the haart of
his dominions.

The Austrian: are detested throughout all Ger-
many, where tve c•mvialun prevalls. Chit were it
not for France, Austria would treat all those coun-
tries as she does her Hereditary States. No idea
can be fo-rned of the wretchedness of the Austrian
army. It is paid in bank-notes. on which a dis-
etiunt of 40 per cent. is lust. Our tr ops, there-
fore, humouroasly call the Austrians Paper Soldiers.
They are destitute of credit, and the Austrian Go-
vernment could not harrow 10,000 francs any
where. The Generals themselves have not seen a
piece of gold lot these several years. The moment
the English were informed of the invasion of RA.
varia, they made the Emperor of Austria a tilling
present, which, however, .did not render him much
richer. They have promised him a discharge of
48,000,000, which he borrowed during the last war.
If that be an advantage fur Austria, she has al-
ready paid dear for it.

PARIS. OCT. et.
BULLETIN OF THE ARMY OF ITALY, Ocr. 18, 1803.

At four o'clock in the morning, the General-in-
Chief ordered an attack to be made on the bridge
of the Old Castle of Veroms. The wall which
blocked up the bridge in the middlc, was battered
down with a petard; the two breaches which the
Austrians had made were rendered praaicaSle by
.means of beams and planks, and twenty-four com-
panies of Voltigeurs (failed to the other side of the
river, whither they were followed by the first di.
vision. The enemy obstinately defended the pas-
sage; they were routed and driven from all their
positions, after an engagement which lasted until
six in the evening. They lost seven pieces of can-
non and eighteen caissons. We have made from
14 to 1500 prisoners,. and killed or wounded as
many; on our side we have had very few killed,
and about 300 slightly wounded. Works were con-
stantly ended on the other side of the bridge of the
Old Castle. We shall communicate the results of
tbikfortunate affair.

ADDItt,SC 'ri-IF EMPEROR TI) HI; SOLDIER c.
The c%ening before the surrender of lilts, the EMI.
PEROR issued the follow ing Proclamation :
.• Soldiers, a month ago we were incamped on the
shores of the Ocean opposite to England ; but art impious
league compelled us to fly towards Rine.
'• It is but a fortnight, since we passed that River, and
the Alps of W Member* the Necker, the Danube, arid the
Lech ; those icr•lebrated- barriers of Germany have not re-
tarded our march a day, an hour, or an instant. In-
digiretion against a Prince whom we have twice re-seated
no his Throne, waen it depended entirely on our plea-
sure to hurl him front it, supplied us with wings. The
enemy's army deceived by our manceavres, and the ra-
;aril.) of our movements is completely turned. It now
fights only for its safety. It would gladly embrace an
opportunity of esrApeig and returnitc, home; but it is
now ton Lute. Tie fortifications which it erected, at a
great earoce, along the liler, expecting that we should
advance through the passes of the Black Forest are be-
come useless, lance we have approached by the Plains of
Bavaria.

" Soldiers, but for the army which is now in front of
you, we should this da!! have 'been its London we should
have avenged ourselei for sir centuries if iasults, and re-
stored the freedbas of 14e seas.
" But bear in • id, to-morrow, that you arc fighting
against the allies of England ; that you hare to avenge
yourselves on a perjured Prince, whose own letters breath-
ed nothing but peace, at the moment when he was
marching his army against our ally : who thought us
cowardly enough to suppose that we would tainely wit-
ness his passage of the Inn, his army into Munich, and
his aggession upon tote Elector of Atiaria. lle thought
we were occupied elsewher: ; let him, for the third and
last tirue, learn, that we know how to be present in every
pl.re where she country has enemies to combat.
" Soldiers, to-anurmw will be an hundred times more
celebrated than the day of Marengo. 1 hale placed the
enemy in the same position.
" Recollect, that the must remote posterity will remark
the conduct of each of you on this memorable day. Your
progeny, five hundred years hence, who tray place them-
selves under those eagles around which we rally, will
know in detail every thing that your respective corps shall
achieve to-morrow, and the manner in which your cou-
rage shall confer on them venial celebrity. This will
constitute the perpetual subject of their conversation ; and,
from age to age, you will be held up to the admiration sal
future geilerations.
" Soldiers, if I wished only to conquer the enemy, I
should not have thought it necessary to make any appeal
to your courage, and your attachmen t to your couture and
to my person ; but merely to conquer him is cluing
molting worthy either of you or your Emperor. It is ric-
ce,sary that not a mitt of the enemy's army shall escape
that Government which has violated all its
shall first leant its catastrophe by your arrival -***l4v the
walls of Vienna ; awl that, uu recvising this fasal intells-
cence, its ermseierwe, if it listen to die voice of conscience,
shall tell it, that it has betrayed both its solemn promises
of peace, and the firs%of theolutics llequeashed by its an-
cestors, with the power of torming,the rampart of Europe
a3sinst the eruptions of the
" Soldiers, who base been cowed in the affairs of

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gone army hare done their duly,' f4rfort„ v, I~ r~I /
al wall h oleo,
by
forcedn, nu.7.46tHea :41:e4utrillIE1"1"11-ninerer, and Kansa 4t4,:lo:t.enthi.nt
Ger.cr.l of the Grand airmy, it-ri!lEp...
MILAN. OOT. VI.
Another division of thet Brandt nicy p-4.b•d
Adige on the 19th, at Psi nen. has •the
a line on the other side of that river,
from Verona to St. Mafia. The • • LI
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their, from St. Michelle Montebello.
FROnt THE DUICII PAPFAS.
Haus, nets ^).
The whole of nor garrison, with the exception of
the teahnent of Field Marshal Mollender marched
from Perlin yesterday and the day before. On the
16th, a k:n:1 of
.military gala was given at the nap
house. One of our Journals, The human;
closet
its account of the gala with an aasutance. " that our
Sovereign will fight and corniner, not only foe hie
own States. but for the :tonna? and 'interest of all
Germany."
MAGUS, OCT. 27.
The Roman Imperial Minister, Baron Fc.L., left
this residence yesterday, on his leturia to VIC:I:14.
HANOVER, OCT. 111.
The fortress of I lameln, or rather Fort (li.inne,
has been inundated. and the inhabitants of fat_
melts must provide themselves with pinvisi.nis
a twelve-month. A Committee is appointed to it.
vestigate whether this order is to he obeyed. Some
more Frerch troops broke up a few days ago, re
join the Grand Army, and several places, even the
fortress of Nieubur,g, :we entirely stripped of gar.
risons.
FRANKFORT. ocr. 92.
For several days past various intelligence was rs-
ceived here, sometimes favourable to one, and vim:-
times to the other of the Belligerent Powers, and re
remained i; a continual uncertainty. At last, we
have learned for certain, that a terrible battle has
been feught on the 14th, in consequence of which,
the Ai's:tiara have not only lost Memmingen and
t/lm, but the whole campaign in Swabia. A letter
from good authority gives the following particulars;
" The Austrians, weakened by several :Ohms.
cot off from their own country, by the passage of
the Danube, effeeed by the French at Donanwerth,
in consequence of which their army is still divided
into two parts, without any ccinaeetion, and the
greatest part being unable to receive any reialorce-
ment ; being moreover pressed together in a narro*
spot of ground. adjoining either nentral or hostile
countries : a retreat being thus almost impossible,
opposed by a more numerous army ; the Rhine in
their rear ; on their left Baden and Wurte•Wairgh,
both the Allies of France; on their right, the ;lens
trial Cantons of Switzerland—had no other ciloice
left, than to maintain their position, if possihie„
until the arrival of the Russians ; hut the French,
non' to riflery in the last war, us well as its the
present, attacked the whole line. horn Mcmrningea
to Ulm, on the 14th, in great force ; the Aus-
trians foaght like deareradoes ; whole regiments
stood like a wall, impenetrable, till they were
completely destroyed, especially the. regiments of
the Archduke Ciiat ice and of Erhash ; at ha, atter
a very long and obstinate battle, viffary declared
in the evening for the French, and Memmingen
fell into their hands ; the garrison, consisting, of
(1000 risen, and `.'.00 ofFicers, surrendered themsenes
prisoners of war by capitulation. *1 he right wins
being thus totally defeated, the left retreased, and 2a
battalions threw themselves into Wm. The French
took by assault the redoth;s, which wee thrown up,
but not completed, on the Cow, Michaei and
Gallows Mountains : and the troops which d;feail-
ed them were, arter an obstinate and brave resist-
ance, either killed or taken prisoners, or fled into
Ulm, which place also offered to capitulate on the
1611) ; but the first proposals were rejected, and the
French were preparing for an 'assault. in oases the
Austrians would not surrender at discretion ; and
the cannonade actually recommenced at noon,
when the Austrians did surren.fer. here is not
any pissihility of stating the number of the killed,
the wounded, and prisoners.
The Archduke Ferdinand retreated wtila a corns
to Gieslingen ; another corps escaped through th •
woods of fleideallieim to Nordlingen ; but the
French Emperor has sent a division atter the it:-
gitives, which will probably overtake them about
Nuremberg, since they write from Farnbach, that
the Austrians passed first through that place, cal
the French after them.
NAOVR, OCT. 29.
It is certain that two armies are asaembient
on the Kleine, on the side of Mentz and Strasburg.
under the command of Senators Marshals Lefebvre
and Kellerman. Besides, there is a third collided
on the shores of the Ocean, in the environs of Bou-
logne, under the orders of Marshal Brune. •
arteroatla, OCT. 22.
We have received accounts from Bavaria, which
state, that the army of Marshal Bernadotte, com-
posed of his own corps of the army, and of those
of Marshal D'Avoua, of the Bavarian Oetteral2
Wrede and Deroy, has arrived in three columns
on the banks of the Inn. The Austrians had
not time to defend tile right bank of this riven
on which, in the preceding years, they hal
established very formidable entrenchments. The
French vanguard, consisting of a corp. of ca-
valry
tanner General Kellerman (this snit). advanced
against Brannan, where the first Russian coinmn
had joined the Austrian corps in Kienmeyer. It is
'a'd the Maitre-Russians are already falling back
epos Lintz. Another column of the French and
bavarian troops is on its march towards Salabana:
it will meet no übstrudlion in passing the Salsa. 1::e
head-quarters of Marshal Beenadone have been re-
moved hem %Vassechourg, on the lan, %%here i: hat
been established fur sonic days past.
OC r. 21.
A r• port is now in circulation, that the French
having passed the Ina in several places. had turred
the corn: of the enemy's army, which necuoied the
route of Lentz. It was composed of the Andean
division of General Kienmeyer, and of 18.000 Rus-
sian infantry. This cntps has been entirely Jefe
.1d and dispersed : the Russians in partiselat hare
been terribly cut up.

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THE BRITISH
_PRE S S.

meet
the
riot
tes•
rest-

LONDON,
• •
'TUESDAY, Nova?' eta 5.
The capitulation of Ulm, as ?elated in the Paris
Papas, is one of the most extraordinary evens of
the preser.t extraordinary times. Treachery, coward-
ice, imbecility, are all pressed forward to explain
the dreadful catastrophe. The Austrian Army
could not have amounted to less than between tiO
and 70,000, on the 14th. at Ulm. That such an
army. in the daily hope of receiving succours,
shonld suffer itself to be surrounded in an unte-
nable fortress, without making one great effort to re-
deem itself, is incompatible with courage or ability
in the Commander. The French Papers give
al: the disgrace of the business to General MACK.
They, state that Prince FElt AMU proposed to
march out of Ulm, and to cut his way through the
„amr, as MEL AS. in a similar ituation, attempted
at Marengo; but this proposition was refused by
3,lace, and a violent quarrel having taken place,
in consequence, between them, MACK produced an
order of the EMPEROR, conferring upon him the sole
command. Whoever was the adviser, it appears to
have been early determined, that the Austrian army
should endeavour to effed its escape. Prince Fast-
nisaoo accordingly set out with a large body,
so early as the 14th. The divisir.ns of HOHL!4••
7.01. LERN and W LitS ECK. m,r,:,ed of by Heiden-
sheirn; and PrinceFEßDlNa tomarchedwithalarge
Lody to join the former at Aalen. A small division
retreated south by Memmingen. Ulm is the centre,
in which many roads meet. and Mace probably
expeaed to dissipate his army, and tedss;..rntsle it in
Bohemia and the Tyrol. More than half the troops
bad left the place, when it became completely
invested, and all the dctourhts were secured. Thus
reduced to less than half his I irce, M act: signed
the capitulation of Ulm. The Paris Parrs to
the 30th last, and the Dutch Gazettes to the 2d
instant, furnish us with some farther details of the
circumstances attending this extraordinary event;
but we find little in them of importance. of

which we did not give the substance yea:erday.
The demand made upon MacK, to alter the terms
of the capitulation, wit a treachernas proceeding
upon the part of BON PAkTL. Best in what terms
shall we describe that passage of his address to his
soldiers, in which he says, of 100,000 men, who
composed the Austrian army, 60,000 are prisoners;
they will go to take the place of our eonscrip:s in
the labours of our fields." Here we are asmred,

that the Austrians are to be sent into France, to be
"hewers of wood and drawers of water ;" to drag
on a miserable life in the m ist st ste
of captivity. This treatincnt is contrary to the
usage of civilised r.alions. It is smithy of the
Hero of Jaffa, and shew•s w•'.at might

expeet, were fate to place thew in a similar
situation. It is farther state], in a letter from
Augsburgh, that the French army under lIERNA.•
TOT it had passed the Inn, and d.feated the COM.
bincd Austrian and Russian Arnw. This letter is,
however, dated the 22d tilt. which is the !Lime date

a; the fend) Bolan' from the s.rne place ; of course,
if any such success had been 'An:tined, it would
have been rynieci ict t!ic Bra Nanort c
p• cited forward with his division to cut off
ICI LS MEV CR% corp-, and we should hope
was ri,4 wtlicieatie strong to meet it, com-
bined with the first Russian division. He would,
therefore, wait at the Inn to be joined by the
grand army under Busar, Aar v, who would, pro-

bably, reach it about the 23th. The Rm:jail
mud Austrian force would be well prepated to meet
rri there, and should vi Rory crown its exertions,
she capitulation of Ulm will only have served to in-
crease the difficulties of Boa AP A s, and render
his return to France more uncertain. In this si-

tuation of affairs, deplorable as the fate of the Aus-
trian army, under General M ACK, has been, we must
consider ttie despondency that appears to pervade
the public mind. as unworthy of Britons. It is true,
Austria has .u.Tered a dreadful defeat ; but the
sword is scarcely drawn—the war is only just coin-
nienced—and we see no well-founded reason to
despair of the ultimate success of the Allied Powers.
It liosarsKre shall not be able to intimidate the
Empero. FtlAN,.is, into a hasty pacification, the Aus-
vim star may emerge from its present eclipse, with
undiminished lustre. The discomfiture of an army,

or the possession of a capital by an enemy, does not
atupessatily decide the fate of a war, much legs of a
' iliiglsty empire. After the dreadful battle of
, 'Fannie, Rome was reduced to the greatest et.
Vanity, and Ha reit II 41. was at her gates; yet, in
this situation. the Senate adhered to the maxim
of policy. wbi:h enjoined them never to ac-
cept peace from a viaorious enemy. They cur-
teeted the errors .1f their past system. Ti:t)
appointed Cenel.rls o; more capacirr chi ex-
perience, And HANNISAL was dric:a Lour Italy
Lot we need not seek for ezamr!es of the ►uc-