The National Register.
London, England, 1809-07-23 00:00:00

THE NATIONAL REGISTEM

existence of a handful of intr;;-.!ters, who, by the rocas .;-c• the)
etivist, the proclamatioa, order, uf the 'lay, kc. which they
caused to he adopted, est:etty our to fomont passions and
.ba.rel, stud to exasperate an Poem, xt ho is the master of Croa-
tia, Carniola, Carinthia, St-..ria, Upper and Lower Anstfia,
the capital of the emoire, aod a great port of tinngary ; that
the sentiments of the Emperor for his subjects otteht to incline
him to calm rather than irritate t!in conqueror, aud to give to
!war the character natural to it a:r..ng civilized nations; since it
is i i the power of the conqueror to render mere heavy the evils
▪ hifl: press on Ilse half of the monarchy. It is said, that the
Emperor Francis answerzcl, that the greater part of the papers
mentioned h. the Deputies were fictions, and that those, the
exi,teeee of which was not denied, were more moderate; that
the editors were, besides, French clerks, and that even when there
papers did contain come unpleasant things, they were not per-
ceived till the misehief was done. If this answer, which is
publicly reported, is authentic, we have one observation to
snake. it is impossible not to peretive in this the influence of
Englaed ; for this small number of men, traitors to their coun-
try. are certainly in the pay of that power.
When the Deputieswent to Ruda, they saw the Empress.—
She had been obliged to leave this city some days before. They
found her •dispirited, and in consternation at the evil; which
threatened her House. The opinion of the nation is extremely
unfavourable to the family of this Princess.

It was this family which excited the war. The Archduke
Palatine anal the Archduke itegnier are the only Austrian
Princc3 who urged the maintenance of the peace. The Empress
was far from foreseeing the events that have taken place. She has
shed many tears; she has shewn great alarm at the thick cloud
hich -covers the future; she spoke of peace; she desired peace,
she cojureJ the Deputies to speak to the Emperor in favour of
pence, They reported that the conduct of the Archduke Maxi-
had been disowned, and that the Emperor had sent him
into the interior of Hungary.

JPIX 23.

heavy cannon, and 20 mortars or how itzers. Opposite Ealing,
In the left arm of the Danebe, is a bridge, whic;t the Duke of
iileoli has flied there. It is covered by a tete-de pont, which
had been raised there at tile time of the first passage of the river.
Gerold LegrandoceUpies the woods in the front of the tete-
dc-pont. The hostile army is in order of battle, tovered with
redoubts; the left is at }izene:orf, the. right at Great Aspern ;
a few discharges of muvketry from the advanced posts have
taken plate. Now, that the pass:ige of thr Danube is secured,
and that our bridges are sheltered prom every attempt, the fate
of the Austrian Monarchy will be decided in a S'incle battle.
The waters of the Danube were oil the first of July four feet
above the lowest, and thirteen feet below the highest paint.
The rapidity of the river at this part is, when the waters are
high, from seven to twelve feet ; when the water is moderate,
four feet six inches each second, and mart: strtmg than at any
other point. In Hungary, it diminishes a great deal, and ut the
place where Trajan raised a bridge, it is almost insensible. The
Danube is there 450 fathoms broad; here it is only at. The
bridge of Trajan was a stone bridge, the work of several years.
Caesar's bridge over the Rhine vas raised, it is true, in eight
days, but no loaded carriage could pass over it.
The works on the Danube are the most beautiful military
works ever formed.
Gazarin, Aide-de-Camp General of the Emperor of
Russia, arrived at Schoenbruun, at four of the morninr, the
day before yesterday, at the moment the Emperor was mounting
on horseback. He set out froin Petersburg!) on the Bth of June
He has brought intelligence of the march of the Russian army
into Galicia. His Majesty has quitted Schoeahrunn; he has
been two days encamped, llis tents are very beautiful, aui
mad* in the style of the Egyptian tents.

TWENTY-FIFTH FRENCH BIILLETI.Y.

IV 0
LKER SDO rr, LT .

The works raised by General Count Bertrand, and the corps
Ise commands, bad, sinre tbe beginning of the month, entirely
subdued the Danube- His Majesty instactly resolved to collect
his forces in the Island of Loban, open upon the Austrian army,
and b; in,; on a general ergagement. It was not because the po-
iition of the French army wa; not a very fine one at Vienna.
Master of the whole right ban% of the Danube, having in lii
power Austria, and a considerable portion of Hungary, he et:-
Pr:yeti the greatest plenty. If some difficulties had been expe-
rienced in providing- sustenance for tlte people of Vienna, this
arose from an ill-organized administration, front embarrass-
ments which were everyday diminishing, and from dißiculties
wf ich were naturally produced by the situation in which the
country was placed, in a laud in which the traale in corn is an
exclusive privilege of the government. But evw could the
troops cow inae to he separated from the hostii.:artey by a canal
of three or four hundred toi3es in breadth, Wf, he means of
passing over had been prepared and secured ? ould have
given credibility to the impostures ;-..hich the enemy had scat-
tered with so great profusion throughout his own and neigh-
bouriug couatries ; this would have cast a doubt over the oc-
currences at Essling, atal would, finally, have authorised the
supposition of there being, in fact, a substantial equality be-
tween armies so different, of which one was animated and In
some rneaere reinforced by multiplied sacce!•ses and victories,
while the other wai, dispirited by the most strikiag reverses.
All the intelligence collected concerning the Austrian arms-,
sheaved that it was.considerable ; that it had been recruited by
numeroas bodies of reserve, by the levies from Moravia and
Ilung,ary, and by all the landwchrs (rencibles), of the proviares ;
that its cavalry bade Leen rc-mcunted by requisitions in all the
circles, and its draughts of artillery tripled by immense lev ice
of horses ?.nd ie Moravia, Hungary, and Bohemia.—
To add new chances in their favour, the Austrian generals had
raised wor7s, of which the right was protected by
Gros-Aspern, and the left by Enzersdorff.• The villages of
Aspern, and Enzersdortl, and the intervals between
them were t ,-red by redoubts, surrounded by paliisades and
izes, and defended.by more t`-,Ti 150 pieces of battering caa-
not), taken from the fortresses of Bohemia and Moravia.
It was inconceivable haw the Emperor, with his experience
in war, could thiak of attacking works so powerfully defendet!,
backed by au army estimated at c...'00,019 men, as ‘t ell troops of
the line as militia and new raked levies, and who were sapport-
ed by 830 or 000 pieces of field artillery. It appeared more
simple to throw !,t one fresh bridges over the Datrabe, a f...w
leagues lower tit and thus render useless the field of battle
prepared by the cilem,y. But is this latter catie it was Lot thou,ht