The National Register.
London, England, 1809-07-02 00:00:00

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THE NATIONAL REGISTER.

JULY.!.

Then, for a moment, that HUONAPARTZ has rocei..ed these
reinforcements, let us look at his situation. He must either
retreat, which would be destruction, or he must at all lia-
zards proceed with an encitiyin his front, with an Austrian
army on each of his flanks, and with Bavaria and Swabia
harrassed by the brave Tyrolese iu his rear. In this situa-
tion there will be no way open for supplies but what de-
pends upon convoys—for theattack of which, the Ansi ria ns
can every where assemble forces and every where find pro-
tectors in case of defeat. An army which is obliged to
!ouble the strength of its detachments, when it either occu-
Ines a post or sends out parties for convoy or to forage on
account of the known or possible hostility of a military.
-ountry, will soon be harrassed by duty and lessened by sle-
' iertion ; and the havoc which will be made in -pursuit
of every party that is defeated, must be terrible indeed
in a country where every townsman, every peasant, and
ahnost• every woman, is an armed enemy. XENOPHON
himself would find it difficnit to retreat from such a
country at the head of 150,000 men, although every
step brought him nearer home—but how he would ad-
vance in such a country against a superior force, when
every step lengthened his line of communication, en-
.-reased his obstacles, augmented at the same time his
enemies, and the employment of his troops, is reserved for
the genius of BUONAPARTE to discover. But he represents
even Hungary to be favourably disposed. He does cer-
tainly represent. that the majority of the Hungarians, as
well as the Germans, arc disgusted with the old Governme-iit
and hail him as their deliverer. But in a military view ho
willand must. think differently. No prudent General will
act upon this persuasion without having some proofs of it,
and he has pretty good data to go upon when (if his Bul.
letins were credited by himself) the Archduke CHARLES was
driien, irrecoverably driven, before him ; his brothers, the
pne scattered- like the dust, and the other all but an.
aihilated.; and yet he has been defeated with his whole
force by this same Archduke Cnsitrxs, and is now kept
..in check, disgracefully and ruinously, his flanks me-
naced, his rear harrassed, the capital of one of his
allies in the possession of his enemy, (that of another
threatened,) and its Sovereign and his families flying, not to
him, but to the alinost obscure town of Frankfort for safety
;
nd protection. This iaat least a new scene in the politics of
he Continent ; and when we consider that the Duke of
RUMSWI cic has, almost unthought of, issued from Bohemia,
with a force sufficient to effect this ; when we are told
,hat KOLLOWRATH has crossed the Danube at Lintz with
;40,000 men to turn the left flank of his army, and that the
!Prussian troops are in motion, meditating a co-operation

(with the Austrians upon the Elbe, we cannot but persuade
iturseives, that the fate of Austria and of Europe is about
to be, if not already decided.
If Prussia, forgetting in her present humiliation, that
jealousy of Austria which led her to weigh in the balance
of her Machivelian politics, how far she might connive at
the wings of the Imperial Eagle being clipped without
losing a feather of her owns wijl heartily and sincerely join
with Austria, its evening sun may reflect a retiring splen-
ditur, which was dented to its meridian of glory. This is
her last struggle for in dependence. The Tyrant, if
successful, will trust the monarch of Prussia no more.
We must be content with this security for his cordial co-
operation, and lament that from a bankrupt in honour
and honesty we can havono better.

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