The National Register.
London, England, 1809-11-19 00:00:00

THE NATIONAL REGISTER.

NOV. 19

pealing their former devastations and cruelties. But the indig-
nwion excited by the reappearance of those inhuman chiefs
was such, that the very women, whose business had hitherto
hten confined to conveying the prisoners to places of safety, as.
6embled in numbers and put to death 640 of the enemy near
Landeck.; and though the %, hole force of the enemy amounted
to about thirty thousand, they were attacked by the Tyrolese
and Voralbergers, who had risen en masse, with such irresisti-
ble fury, that those who saved themselves by flight, were pursued
tf) a great distance, so as to he unable, during the space of
twenty-four hours, to allay their thirst with a draught of
water.

It was in vain, that Buonaparte, on hearing this new disaster
of his arms, detaehed Marshals Macdonald and Bessiers, with
picked troops, against the Tyrolese. They were routed, and
obliged to return.
From the concurring accounts in the Patch, German, and
French papers, which are copied into the daily prints of Lon-
Arra, it is placed beyond all doubt, that the Tyrolese and Vo-
rilhergers persevere in their obstinate resistance to the French
and their Allies. •
They are indeed now free, but at the'expence of very uncom-
mon sacrifices.. Numbers of them mourn their fathers, brothers,
a:A sons, not slain in battle, but for the most part murdered in
•ho nrost inhuman manner. Four towns and 26 flourishing
are reduced to heaps of ashes—not to mention the destruc-
tion of a large number of detached cottages. These calamities
Are felt more sensibly in a climate which is far from being
The mount:dos of the -Tyrol and Voralherg have ever
since the beginaing of October, been covered with snow and ice,
The inhabitants, though. accustomed to subsist upon the hardest
fare, ran, after so many devastations, pillages, conflagrations,
and In; rd:hi pg of every kind., scarcely get wherewithal to satisfy
the cravin4s of nature. Multitudes at this moment are happy
in being allowed some little corner in a crowded barn, stable,
or hut

In spite of all .these sufferings, they are fully determined
never to listen 'to any accomodation with Buomtparte, or con,
,cut to be again governed by the iron sceptre of Bavaria. This
•fetermiLat ion, though it may appear rash, can be satisfactorily
a counted for, from the above stated cruelties, exactions and
oppressions. AU, to a man, trained to the most skilful use of
tile rifle : inured to the inclemencies of the seasons; defended by
~itge mountains acce,sible to none but themselves; surrounded in
ever). direction by, and allied to mountaineers that are anima-
ted with the same loVe of independence; reared up and happy
in poverty ; religious; virtuous from habit ; utter strangers to
luxury ; preferring their barren mountains to the most fruitful
soils—and, above all, remembering the horrible outrages com-
mitted hy the order of Buonaparte, to whom they have to op,
pose one hundred and fifty thousand sharpshooters, in a country
where no regular 'armies can act, and where they and they
alone know the paths to procure such supplies, if they have hut
the means to purchase them. Such a hardy, stubborn, and
.athletic race of men are eery formidable enemies. Such they
have certainly proved to France, and no peace which their be-
loved Prince may have been compelled to enter into, will induce
them to become a party to it.

They are firmly resolved either to conquer or die.
SCHOENECHER.
MULLER, Major.

London, Nov. 13, 1809.

PROVINCIALS.

On Thursday se'nnight the old Berkshire hounds had a most
capital and extraordinary run. They unkeenelled their fox in
Iletulington Furze, soon after ten, and after presAng him at a
very sharp pace, he swam the Cherwell in the neighbourhood of
Woodtbaton, came tip the meadows on the Oxford side to Holy-
wtull where he %vas so dead boaten. that his only refuge
remained in climbing on the roofs of houses like a cut, from
which, however. be was soon dislodged, and that ran up Holy-
well-street in full view, with three couple of hounds elOse at his
brush. He then turned short in the right, went into the back
part of Wadh:tm College, and .was finally taken in the parlour of
Attrs. Wall, in /I ollwell, and there bagged. So singular a fox
ithace was, perhaps, never wituessed by the oldest inhabitant,
and is large concourse of people assembled to see lOW given to
the hounds in the fields near Itiley.
About a fortnight since a young woman, named Mary Thomp.
sylio resides in W indmill-hill-street, in the town of Dock,
Plymouth, went to the house of Mr. Ennis tt burgeon, in rCati%