The National Register.
London, England, 1809-06-11 00:00:00

fiUN D A 'V, JUNE 11, 180).

POLITICA', i)is;Q:

cv EN-I:Y-101;ft.

AUSTRIAN VICTORIES.

The public 1:' rd in animated by the Austrian victory in
ilh.:g.ree rip:portion:de Io •its importance. It is thc
se,; :!;{y felt, because, it wn so liiite exw..-cted.• It NV33, in
fact. a qing.zilar oleo-6 h.!!!!) of the adage, that the
I.;attle is not alwa‘s to the stro:lg, nor the race to the
swift, but that there are occasions, in which, for wise but
socret .pin-poscs, Providellft! innnediately interposes, 'lnd
diverts the naiut al courie of even!s. We cannot but think
that there is something. of this interposition in the late vic-
tory. Aceording to all !Inman probability, the Anstriaiss
had no right to expect it. Every thing was against them,
when the happy accident (for such we are convinckl that it
was) •intervened, a.;:d not only saved them from present
but has aiven a most material torn to the events of
the liar. _

There arc tw./.) acconntS before the, Public of this most
,••lorious change in the fortune of our allies • the ene an
•
tniplicd and ittdicect Mie from the Bulletin 'of the enemy ;
the other, founded on the direct information of the Anti-
trial) d:QpradlCS. In order to arrive at a correct know-
ledge, and to he enabled to form a suitable judgment of
the degree of this success, it is important to compare the
two accounts, and, by the collation and comparison, deter-
mine the respective truth, and respective exaggeration, of
both. In this comparison., it is necessary to be strictly
impartial, and_to divest ourselves of the natural bias to-

Avaids the inter;!st of ohr allies. It is equally natural for
the Austrians to exag-gerate, and even occasionally to fal-
sify as for the Frencii—a nd we feel ourselves compelled
t'; say, that the •trench Bulletins have usually been found

by experience tokrably correct ; they 'exaggerate indeed

at their pkasure, and without any restraint from modesty,
or regard to national and individual honour; but their
inlin Nets are usually true. Some credit, therefore, is
(1,:!! ei:en to tiw. rr..,izch Bulletins. The most intelligible
Intl hod of tnaking this comparicon is to distribute the
events under the two bea,...s --of those which happened on
thft Chose w!iic!i occurred mi the 220. •
,tecording to the French :recounts, the Austrians on the

21st atlacketi on all points, having previously sur-
fertql them to irvs the river uninolesta. The Emperor

Nntt;;(cot►, in order to terminate the affair, ordered an at-
tack on ti-,e Austrian centre. The centre, says the French
arronnt, was broken, and the enemy commenced their
retreat k disorder. Arcording to th►: Auctrian- accounts,

the Archduke C►iAiu EF decignedly suffered the enemy to

pas,; the river, ana the:i ordered a general attack, the re-
snit of wLich, say the Austrian aft...omits. wl.;. that the
euemy were corinlettly defeated—the Ansf Hans then re-
tired to their cutrenelirnents fur the nio.r) 9
-ht Mat Ihev rnitrht
renew the battle with inerenced spirit.on the day.
i'pon the compuison of these statements, there seeni!.:
nn material difference. 9he Austrians cluitn the -rictury,
11.—Av. L XX.r iI.