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being superior to them, necessarily destroved them.—
Such were the operations of the two areeles up to the period
attic battle. The French crossed the Danube, and advanced
from Ratishon towards Neustadt. The Austrians advanced
direct upon Ratishon. The tw6 armies thereforeencoim-
tered betweeu Ratishon and Nieustadt, at Abersher;, a vil-
lage or hamlet, half way between these places.—The
battle ss-as lost owing to two leading errors; in the first
place, the ignorance of the Austrians that the French army
had concentrated themselves on the point against which
they were advancing ; and secondly from the iejudicious
extent of the Austrian line.—The military moliori;atler the
battle are very intelligibly related in the Bulletins; and by
reference to our Map may be easily followed and compre-
hended. The French, by the necessary result of the h ttlc,
became possessed of the hue of the Danube, and immediately
took positions which secured rt. The line et' t!nu Danube,
therelOre, as marked in our Mop, is the flee ei the
French march. The head-quarters on the :wth of April,
on which day as will be seen the Third Bulletin is di ted;
were at Mulhdorf on the Danube, in the direct road from
Ratisbon to Vienna. From Athilidorf then still most. pro-
bably be transferred to Branum], thence to !Vella, thence
to Passau, thence to Lintz, and thence after two or three
intermediate stages to Vienna.
The distance between Ratisbon and Vienna is 195 unites.
The average daily march of an army is between 12 and 13
wiles. The French armies usually perform their marches
by night, and by these means gain three or four miles ; as
in a day-march they would necessarily be compelled to re-
pose during the heat. Allowing for all impediments, and
occasional skirmishes, it may probably take the Freneh
a mouth before they could reach Vienna, and it will be
seen, that in the secondet;ulletia Bos A Pan rs; has made a
similar calewlation. In the mealitime, whikt the French
are marching for Vienna, on the hue of lie Danube, the
Austrians are retreating into the mountains and fortresies
of the Tyrol. BONAPART r, as he ad vances, daily detaches
strong bodies to scour the country between the Danube
and the Inn, the lser, and the Salza.—Such arc the present
military positions of the two armies. The French
are advancing on the line of the Danube, which we
have marked out on our Map, and are orcupied as they
advance in clearing the country on the right flank, by.
daily skirmishes. Their lett thank is prolectel by the
Danube. The Austrians in the meantime are retreating.
into the Tyrol. The present object or the French is, by get-
ting possession of Vienna to cut off, all the ordinary
cipplies of the Austrian Arinies,—to essume the Go-
vernment and Administration into their own hands
and thereby to compel the ARCIIIPi KL: to support his army
by irregular contributions and levies, or in pinie words, to
live by his wits. The present Austrian object is to find
present refuge in the fastnesses of the mountains,--to re-
c: nit broken force, and to act as opportunity 1112 V
hereafter suggest and indicate.
The Archduke CHARLES came into the field ith
110,000 men at the battle of &tumuli!, according to
the French Bulletins.—lf be lost 20,000 in.'n in that
bet:le, his force is still 110,000 strong, for he was
joieed on the day after the battle by Beeeslnaa nt.'s corjbs.
The A estrian army is in nine divisions, each about 1-2,000
strong. BELLEGARDE has the first ti vision ; the Archduke
FERDINAND the second ; the Archdule C.:natter: has three;
the Archduke Louis two ; the Archduke Jon two. There
h besides a Militia, which forms an army of Reserve. It
is not impossible that some assstauce may be derived from
insurrections in Germany ; the Saxons are not well dis-
posed to France, and throughout Wei!phalia the people
are almost to a man against her.

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Lonlyou,

SUNDAY, MAY 14, ISO 9.

POLIIICdr. EVENTS OF'THE IrEEK,

Dutch Papers to the 12th, and French to the 20th, Grt
rived yesterday, and have brought further accounts of the
motions of the armies. The French Papers have brought
the third Bulletin, hich, as being the only authentic narl
Naive, nieri!s alinost exclusively/ our attention. The Aus-
trians have not the same felicity of narrative, or perhaps
the difference may be better imputed to the difference of
their suhjut. The French have,, unfortunately, only to
record their victories, whilst the Austrians have to disguise
thcir failures. The third Bulletin is dated Burghausen,
April the 30th, and pursues the motions of the French
army. The rapidity of the Emperor NAPOLEON IS truly
astonishing; he lett Paris on the 12th at night, was at
Delligen, in tiabia, on the 16th, and defeated the Austri-
ans on the 19th. and successive days. Perhaps half the suc-
6.ss in the world is imputable to this bold and daring tn..
gency. The lines of the poet have more than a poetical
justice—

Fortune, a woman, born to he controuled,
Stoop!, to the forward and the hold.

The third Bulletin contains no military accounts of any
importance,—whilst the Freud,' Army is advancing on the
line of the Danube, detachments are dailv sending to clear
the country between that and the Isvr and Salza.
This Bulletin, purporting to be a French official narra-
tive, is characterized by the same vulgar ahuse,—the
peror of AuseralA is almost personally insulted in every
line of it, and nothtig,, we think, evea in these Bulletins,
can eqtri the extreme insolence of the following passage
—" Austria has raised numerous armies, divided into corps
like the French army ; her troops are moving b) forced
marches, to imitate the French troops ; her Generals are
publishing bulletins, proclamations, general orders— all in
imitation of the French. But the ass is not ennobled to a
lioa because he is covered with a lion's skin; the loag ears
betray the ignohler beast." The Bulletin then pcnceeds to
abuse M. Evrz, a man to whom Europe is indebted, as
much as England is to Mr. BuitKE. It is coixeivable
enough, that a man like this should he honoured with per-
sonal mention and abuse: in the French official accounts.

The Austrian accounts of the late battles have been ref
ceived. They amount in substance to nothing more
than that the French narraiives ace much exaggerated,
to the meantime the French Bulletins stare us io the face
with ce;tain undeniable facts. 'The Austrians are in re-
treat, and the French are ad ancing to Vienna. This cer-
tainly looks souwwhat. like victory on one side, and defeat
on the other. The capture of Warsaw must not be con-
sidered as a success. 11arsaw is not a fortified town. It
was °pea to eery one, and in the immediate line of the
Austrian mart-h. It is not. near be scene of action, and
surely that is not to he called a capture, winch being wide-
feuded, Wzs at the mercy of the first occupant. The re-
port of ColiN;el TAXIS, however, is pleasing, inasmuch ast. i
p!ovcs the bravery of tbt TyrulesCl who ire now the 111.4 ti-
hop:: Anstria.