The National Register.
London, England, 1809-07-16 00:00:00

JULY

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Vienna; that pi: o4.ll.lo.•rsencreased tnere.every -boor, awl- that
he seemed. to he. entplit Ved ia..throu.ing a bridge across the
great arm of the banuhe behind the Island. from the top
of the ilivanitr..K.7, • the s hole. of the • opptisite country
appeared to he eal..loped in a el,„‘a(;t• dust. taad the glitter of
arm- evia:e'l a V' ti Aral moveair:3 of troops beyond Summering,
toivards eKakor Ehervdort,, whither, aceordi,og to later ise-
cou'uts., the Finperor N:.Poletin had removed his head-quarters,
and uas ti v hi*preigenee na4enlog and. promoting the prepara-
tions for plioiag the r ver. •
On thefnlto.:-ig suoroing, at day-break. the
.Archduke re-
solved to reConOtiitre the island, and employ for this purpose
part of she advnoe-d gunrd, under the command of Field-
Marshal Lieutoant Coutkt Klenautsupported by some regiments
Of cavalry,.

The lilte-of Lobais forms a convenient place of arms; which is
about sir r.oglr,ll miles.long,and four and a half broad, and
bein4 separate 1 ley the Large aria ofthe Datitthe from the right
brink, nothia.; prevents the.. buildin„; of a bridge, which is con
cealed 6y iroand covered with. bw.hes ; and the great extent of
the i.laad afirds the advantage ..f sending troops and ordnance
frr,m so Mil* points lif it, that the passage across the smaller
arm to the large plain'of Marchfield, may be made good by
force of arms.

It was soon perceived by the strength of the enemy's Co.lumns Which advanced upon the island, and placed their can-
non so as to sit pptirt the second passage, that he meditated a
serious attack. l'he advanced guard sustained a tolerably warm
lengagerten., and the cavalry routed the first division of the cue-
which deboriched from the low .grounds on the edge of the
riser, late in the evening; Ilium which the Archduke, whose
joiSitution was not to prevent the passage a the enetn, but to
sttritck him 4he following day, retreated with his cavalry to
Andeiiklaa, and ordered the advanced troops to fall bark to
111.ias, according as the enemy should extend himself, On the
214 at .11y-break the Archduke ordered his army under
'arms, and formed it in two lines on the rising ground behind
Gerasrlorf, and between the Ilisarn-hill and the rivulet Russ.
The corps of Lieut.-0m Hiller formed the right wing near
Stammersdia; on its left was the corps of the General of Ca-
valry Count Bellegarde, and neat to that the corps of Lieut.-
Gen. Prince Hohenzollern? in the alignemsit of Deutsch, Wit-
gram. The corps of Prince Rosenberg was-posted by battalions
in columns on the Russbach on the rivulet Ross, kept Deutsch-
Wagram strongly occupied, having,. for the security of the left
wing, placed on the heights beyond that placef a division iu re,
serve, The whole cavalry, which the day before had advanced
under the command of Prince Lichtenstein by Anderklaa, was
called back into the line, tiling, in two lines, the space inter-
vening between the left wing of Prince linhenzollern and the
right of Princt• Rosenberg.
• The vast plain of the- Marchfield spreAd like a carpet before
the front of the line, and appeared, by the absenceof every ob-
struction, to be destined to form the theatre. of some great event.
The grenadiers remained in reserve year Seiering, and the corps
of the General of Artillery Prince of Reuss kept the Bisam-hill
and the low baldly ground along the Danube strongly occupied.
Part of it wogs still left nearKreuis, the corps being almost-,
broke up by having so many of itsdlvisions detached to so con?
siderableii distance.
At nine' o'clock, the Archduke ordered. the arms to be piled,
and the troops to dine. The piquet of observation on the lli am-
hill reported that the bridge across the Danube behind•the Isle
Lobay, being now quite finished, was plainly perceivAble, and
that tinaps were without. intermission seen filing off oyer• it, .as.
well•as passing in boats, to the Isle. The, outposts,:likevyise-
'gave information of the
.grashial angasFritatinuef the4nemy in
the town of Eniersdorf and iu the v illages-qf Essling nrol:A•spero..
and of, his advancing toivardi Iltrsehstetteti. The Arehdelke.
Charles_now.thouplit the moment for.obiving battle lied lard ved,
and hastened. to Oerasdorf, where.. the Chief of his Quarter-'
waster-General's Stall; general Macon Wlmpfen, sketched out
the followin plan. . • • -1•:
PLAN GDP' ATTACK UPON' .THE HOSTTI.E ARMY
ON ITS MARCH 13.ETWEF,N ESSLING' A.ND
PERN, AND .TOVVAADS II IRSCIPITETT2::N.
The'attack to be made in five columns, The first telumn or
the column of the tight wing, ii foriied by .the corps of •Lieute-
tint- General Hiller. •It wil; advance from its present,position
in the direction between th,e " Point"•and Lcopoldau along the
nearest arms of the Danube, pasi along the left bank tow ants
Stadelau and Aspern, keep constantly near the Danube and the
aiendows bordering upon it, and vigorously to repulse the enemy,