The National Register.
London, England, 1809-07-09 00:00:00

THE NATIONAL REGISTER.:

TO OUR SUBSCRIBERS AND THE PUBLIC►

Wr have been obliged to omit a part of the London itarktts,
la .a.cr t an interesting Article relative to Cnlon©l Wardle and
the Upholsterer, to which we beg leave to dkreet the attention
of our readers..

A valuable Portrait is preparing to be delivere4 greps, on
Sunday next ; we hope no unforsecu circumstance will prevent its
Publication on that Day.— We again caution the Public to be-
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persons may attempt to charge for.tho Ptints, which will be de-
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THE NATIONAL REGISTER.

LOIIDOII,
SUNDAY, JULY 9, 1809.

POLITICAL& EVENTS OP THE WEEK.

The 20th Bulletin of the French army is given in the
Moniteur of the 27th utt.—

Its contents are wholly unimportant ; BUONAPAATZ is still
grappled to the same inactivity that like a Remora has
attended him for the last month. Inc is waiting the arrival
of the Conscripts and his Russian allies. It is the lowring
calm which portends the bursting elements. The acknow-
ledged indisposition of the lower classes,excited, as he says,
4, by reports with which theAnstrians inundate the country,"
forms a curious contrast to the 19th Bulfotin, which tells
us that they take no part in the conflict that is to deter-
mine who are to be their masters. This is a spirit with
which 13VONAPARTE has never yet had to contend.
The Bulletin states, that when the news of the victor%
of Raab arrived at Buda, the Empress immediately la
it—that the enemy's army was pursued during the lath
and 16th. The town of Raab has been invested, and the
French hope to be masters of it in a few days. They have
taken the entrenched Camp of Raab, which is said to be
Capable of containing 100,090 men.
/The Officers of the French Legation are to be exchanged
for AI. DAMETTEKNICif.

The most important pact of it is that which anounces the
arrival of Prince GALLIIpN on the :id in Gallicia. It di:-
covers the polarity of BUONAPARTC'S hopes.
The Twenty-first Bulletin of the French army, dated
Vienna, June 22d, arrived yesterday.
This Bulletin is the petulant effusion of BWONAPARTE'S
critical acumen, displayed in an examination of the Aus-
triau Bulletins. It states the force of the Austrians at the
commencement of the war at 00,000 men. ft states with
equal truth and cousi;teney, that in the first six weeks of the
campaign he destroyed 100,000, and took 100,000 pri-
soners! These Military Statements, a /a Bulletin, are
voinething like the Fiaancial Statements a la WARDLE, and
we have no donbt are equally correct. The same necessity
existed in both pa$CS of 'snaking the sum total, and to a
certain amount. Falsehood is a veapon with two edges,
a 3,1 somctimrs wounds the hand by .which it is wielded.
If the Austrians have oni.r/ a force remaining of about
QOO,OOO men, and that force in such a state of infinite dura-
pilitr, how came Bur.' tr4R rr to 1),.. defeated on the. 93d.

JULY 9.

May, and, how has it happened that he cannot get out of
the situation he is in, ever since that time, to the great sa-
tisfaction of Europe ? And how does it happen that he
has not dared to cross the Danube?
This, Bulletin furnishes us with another instance of the
polarity of his hopes. We thinl.s he will wait longer than.
he has calculated upon for his Russian Allies. •
MunAT it is said, has, left Naples to take possession 01
the Papal.l terri.tetries;

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When the 19th Bulletin made its appearance, we believe
that scarcely two opinions. existed with regard to its con-.
tents. The anniversary of the hattle of Marengo was to,
be distinguished by some event worthy of that sacred dab'.
BUONAPAIIjE, with the main army teal in complete check.
The Archduke JOHN, with 20,000 regular!, and 15,000. of
the Kuirgarian Insurrection, was hastening to join his bro-
ther. The rear of this reinforcement was attacked by the
French army, which is represented as 50,000 strong, and
if BUONAPA 'IVO • Awn accounts of the Army of Italy be
correct, this statement is not exaggerated. In* this conflict
the Austrians acknowledge a loss of 1300, but state that
of the Freuch at 2,000, besides which. the Austrians took
400 prisoners. This is a very unusual circumstance for an
army pursued at the point of the bayonet. But what is the
final result l-7 he French army, after the engagement,
retreat behind Reek, and the Archduke Joax, without
terrnptioa, passes. the Danube at the bridge of Comorn,
(the very point he was aiming at) and joins his brother;
It is evident, therefore, as we stated whe.n o,lg !WPC!" ac
count arrived, Mat it was ala Bulletin.

The Austrian force with the Duke of Bau!swics, grab
have entered Saxony and Franco-Oa, are marching toward
the Rhine ; they expect to receive a considerable addition
to their numbers as they pass through the Hessian territory,
where the people arc said to be very favourably disposed.
We think it not anliltely that these movelnents of the
Austrians, and peritar the ulterior movements of Prussia,
may be connected with the grand expedition from this
ountry. _ _

From Dalmatia the French have retreated with so muck
precipitation as to leave one of their Generals (Launay)
ainoug the wounded.
Rumours are again afloat that a revolution has taken
place at Petersburgh, but they do not rest upon any au•
thority ; we think such a circumstance very. probable, and
these reports only prepare us for an event that wilt not at
all surprise us when it happens.

The same sort of industry is employed in circulating ac-
counts of another battle which terminated favourably to
the Austrians. The authority for these accounts are said
to be letters received from the north of Germany : some-of
them state, that the French have been drawn out of *Ve:
nice, others that BtIONAr.II/ s had crossed the D.annbe
with his whole army, and that the engagement took place
on the Left Bank. Another report, eqUalli improbable, is
in circulation, viz.—That the Archduke Cti.4.4ces his is:
sucd a proclamation, in which he declares, that the Rus-
sians and Prusiians are on their march to join him against
• 1, . •
BuosApsnvt. If the fact were true, we think tiler time
and mode ofannounping it, injudicious; we are, therefore,
inclined to doubt the information altogether. But we
have given our reasons for believing that filch a circum-
stance is improbable, in our former Review of Russian Po,
Mies, But of the distHrition of the rrussitia4 to make