The Sun.
London, England, 1809-07-22 00:00:00

[PriiCE SIXPENCE ifAVFPEICIN:

FRE.ATCiI AND DUTCH" PAPE-11S.

TWENTY-FIFTH BULLETIN. A
" WOLItERSDORF-, JULY B.=—The vi'Orks
by General Count Bertrand, and the corps lie
meads, had, since the beginning of the trionth, en-
tirely subdued the Danube. His Majesty inst.ii ly
resolved.to coiled his forces 'in the Island of
open upon the Austrian army, and bring on a gene 7
ral engagement. It was not because the position of
the French army was not a very fine one at Vienti:.
• Master of the whole right' bank of the Dandbe, !mt.-
ing in his power Austria, and a considerable portion
of Hungary, he' njo34d tire greatest plenty.
" If some difficulties had been experienced in
providing- sustenance for the people of Vienna, this
arose from an ill-organized administration, frOm em-
barrassments which were every day diminishing, and
from difficulties which were naturally produced by
the situation in which the country was placed, in a
land in which the trade in corn_ is an exclusive, privi-
lege of the,Government. But ,how could the troops
continue to be separated from the hostile army, by a
canal of three or four hundred toises in breadth, when
the means of passing over had been prepared amid
secured ?

"This wouldhave given credibility the imno-
tures which the enemy had scattered with so great .
profusion throughout his own and neighbOuting
countries: this would have cast a doubt over -the.
occurrences at Essling, and would, finally, have-
authorized the supposition of,lhere being, in tael, a
substantial equality between armies so different, of
which one was animated and in some measure re-
inforced by -the multiplicity of: its successes and
vi&ories, while the other w•as dispirited by the most
striking reverses.

" All the intelligence collected concerning the
Austrian army spewed that it
,was considerable ; t at
it had been recruited by numerous bodies of reserve,
by the levies from Moravia and Hungary, and by all
the landwhers (lencibles) of the provinces; that its
Cavalry had been re-mounted by requisitions in all
the Circles, and its draughts of artillery tripled by
immense levies of horses and carriages in Moravia,
Hungary, and Bohemia.

" To add new chances in their favour, the Austricn
Generals bad raised military works, of which the
right was proteaed by Gros-Aspern, and the left by.
Enzersdorf. The ;villages of Aspern, Essling, and
Enze,rsdorf, and the intervals between them were
covered by redoubts, surrounded by palisades and
frizes, and defended by more than 150 pieces of
battering cannon, taken from the fortresses of 8,1-
hernia and Moravia.

" It was inconceivable how the Emperor, will
his experience in war, could think of attacking works
so powerfully defended, hacked by an army estimat-
ed at 200,000 men,- as well troops of the line as
militia and new raised levies, and,who were support-
ed by 800 or goo pieces of field artillery. It appear-
ed more simple to throw some fresh. bridges over
the Danube, a, few'leagues lower down, and thus
render useless the field of battle prepared by the
enemy. But id this latter case it was not thought
practicable to avert the inconveniences which had
-already nearly proved fatal to the army, and succeed,
in the course of two or three days, in Protecting
these new bridges from the_ machines of the enelpy..
" On
.the other side the Emperor was. tranquil.
Works were raised upon works in the Island.of
ban; and several bridges on piles, and several rows
of stoccadoes, were fixed at the same place.
" situation or the French army, ;placed be-
tween these two great difficulties, 'had tiot.escaped the
enemy. He was aware that his army, too numerous
and unwieldy,would be exposed to certain destruction
if he aatei.on the offensive; but, at 'the same time, ite
believed that it was
,impossible tc dislodge him tr.) u
the central position in which he covered Bohemia,
Moravia, and a part of Hungary. It is true that this
position did not cover Vienna., and that the French-
were in possession of this Capital. But this posses-
sion
was, in a certain degree, disputed, since the
Austrians remained masters of one.bank of the Da-
nube, and 'prevented the arrival of the articles most
indispensable to the subsistence of so great a city.
These were the reasons of hope and- fear, and the
subjea of conversation in the two armies,-

‘‘ On the Ist ofJuly, at four o'clock in ilte morn.
ing, the Emperor removed his headNuarters-to the
Wand Lobau; which had been already mined by
the . engineers the Island Napoleon. A sin,lll
Island to which had been given the name of the
Duke of Montebello, and which bore upon Ea-
zetsdorf, had been furnished with ten mortars and