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

BATTLE OF WAGRAM.

" Strongly alarmed by the progress of the French
arrny, and the great successes which it obtained,
with scarcely any effort, the enemy put all his troops
in motion, and at six in the evening he occupied the
following position :—his right from Stadelau to Ge-
rasdorf, his centre from Gerasdorf to Wagram, aad
his left from Wagram to Neusiedel. The French
army had its left at Gros-Aspern, its centre at
Raschdorf, and its right at Glenziudorf. In this
position, the day was nearly at a close, and we had
necessarily to expel a great battle on the morrow ;
but this was to be avoided, and the position of the
enemy to be intersected, so as to prevent him from
forming any plan, by taking possession, in the night,
of the village of Wagrani. Fa this case his line, al_
ready of an immense length, being suddenly assail-.
ed, and exposed to the chances of combat, the dif-
ferent bodies of his army would be dispersed with-
out order or direction, and we should succeed at an
easy rate, and without any serious engagement.--a-
The attack on Wagraw took place, and our. troop
took possession of the village; but . a column of
Saxons altd a column of French mistook each other
in the dark for enemies, and this operation failed.
" We then prepared fOr the battle of Wagram.
It appears that the dispositions of the French Gene-
ral and the Austrian General were inverted. The
Emperor passed the night in accumulating his forces
towards his centre, where he was in person, within
cannon shot of Wagram. With this view, the-Duke
de Rivoli moved upon the left of Anclerklau. leat:.;;;;
at Aspern a single division, with orders for it. to tall
back, in case of necessity, upon the Island of Lobau.
The Duke of Auerstadt received orders to leave un-
occupied the village of Grosshoffen that night, to
approach the centre. The Austrian General, on the
contrary, weakened his centre, to secure and aug-
ment his extremities, which he still farther 'ex-
tended.

" On the 6th, at day-break, the Prince de Ponte
Corvo occupied the left, having the Duke of Rivoli
in a second line. The Viceroy conneeled him with
the centre, wbere the corps of Count o.2dinot, that ,
of the Duke of Ragusa, those of the Imperial
Guards, and the divisions of cuirassiers formed se-
ven or eight lines.

" The Duke of Auerstadt marched rrotn the right
to reach the centre. The enemy. on the contrary,
put Bellegarde'3 corps motion for Sladelau. The
corps of Collowrath, Lichtenstein, and Hiller, con-
fleeted their right with the position of Wagram,
where Prince Hohenzollern 'was, and with the ex-
tremity of the left at Neusiedel, where the corps of
Rosenberg debouched in order alsm, to out-flank that
of the Duke of Auerstadt. The corpQ of R,osenberg,,,•
end that of the Duke of Anerstadt, moving in oppo-

shedireaions, encountered each other, with the

first rays of the sun, and gave the signal of battle.—
The-Emperor instantly repaired to this point, or2er-
ed the Duke 'of Auerstadt to be reinforced by Out di-
'vision of the Duke of Padua's Cuirassiers, and the
corps of Rosenberg to be attacked in flank by a bat-
tery of guns; of the division of Coutr de Nan-
gouty. In less than three quaKters of an hour, the
fine corps of the Duke Of Auerstadt gave a, good ac-
count of the corps of Rosenberg, defeating it, and
driving it beyond Neusiedel with considerable loss.
" In the mean time, a cannonade commenced
along the whole of the line, and the enemy's ciis-.
'positions were every moment discovering thems4ves.

The whole of his left was secured with artillery.—
One might have said, that the Austrian General
was•not fighting for viciory, but Was locking only
‘•
to the means of improving" it. This disposition of
the enemy seemed so abstaxl, that settle snare was
apprehended, and the Emperor delayed some time
before he orderel those easy di.spsitsitions which he
bad to make to disconcert' those of the enemy, and,
render them fatal to him. He ordered the Dui;e of
Rivoli to make an attack on the-village occupied by
the enemy, _and ..which somewhat Istra4.led the
extremity of the Ventre of the z:my. lie ordered

the ruke of Anerstult to turn the position of Neu-
siedel, and thence to push on upon Wagram ; and he
formed the Duke of Ragusa's troops, and those of
General Macdonald in column; to carry Wagram at
the moment the Duke of Auerstatit should debauch.
" While these proceedings were taking place, in-
formation was received that the enemy was making
a furious attack upon the village carried by the Duke
of Rivo ; that our left was out flanked by 3000
toises, that a brisk cannonade was already heard at
Gros.Aspern, and that the space between Gros-As-
pern and Wagram seemed to be covered with an
immense line of artillery. There was no longer
any room for doubt. The enemy had committed
an enormous fault, and we had only to profit by it.
The Emperor instantly ordered General Macdonald
to form the divisions of Broussier and Lamarque in
columns of attack. lie ordered the division of
Nansouty to be supported by the horse-guards, and
a battery of Go guns belonging to the guards, and 40
of different other corps. General Count Lauriston,
at the head of his battery of 100 pieces of artillery,
marched at a trot against the enemy, advanced with-
out firing to within half gun-shot distance, and there
opened a prodigious fire, which silenced that of the
enemy, and spread death among his rankS. Gene-
ral Macdonald then advanced at the pas de charge.
The General of Division Reille, with the brigade
of fusiliers and sharp-shooters of the guards; sup-
ported General Macdonald. The guards made a
change of front, in. order to render this attack in
fallible. In an instant the enemy's centre lost a
league of ground ; his right became alarmed, and
perceiving the dangerous position in which it was
placed, rapidly fell back. The Duke of Rivoli,
at this moment, attacked it in &Ont. Whilst the rout
of the centre struck consternation into the right of
.the enemy, and precipitated its movements, the, left
was attacked and out-flanked by the Duke of Auers
tadt, who had carried Neusiedel, and who having
gained the elevated plain, was marching upon
Wagram. The' divisions of Broussier and Gudin
covered themselves with glary. .
" it was only then ten (;:clock in the morning ;
and those who .had the least penetration saw that
the fate of the -day. was decided, and that the•vietory
was ours.

" At noon, Count Oudinot marched upon Wa.
gram, taassist the attack of the Doke of Aberstadt.
He•was successful, and carried that important posi-
tion. After ten o'clock, the enemy fought only. to
effect his retreat ; at twelve this was manifest ; it
was conducted in disorder ; long before dark, the
'en9tny was out of sight. Our left was posted at
Jetelsee and Ebersdorf; our centre upon Obersdorf,
arid the cavalry of our right extended their posts as
far as Shonkirchen.
" On the 7th, at day-Lreak, the army was in mo-
tion, and marching upon Kornenbourg and Walters-
dorf, and had
.some posts near Nicolsbourg. The
enemy, cut off from Hungary and Moravia, had been
forced to fall bal( upon Bohemia.
" Such is the narrative of the battle of Wagram,
a battle decisive and ever memorable, in which. from.
three to tour hundred thousand men, and 'from,
twelve 'to fifteen hundred pieces of cannon, con-
tended for great interests, upon a field of battle,,
sullied, planned, and fortified by the enemy for
several months. • Ten pair of colours, 40 pieces of
cannon, 20,000 prisoners, including between 3 and
400 Officers, and a considerable number of Ge-
nerals, Colonels, and Majors, are the trophies of
this victory. The fields of battle are covered with
the slain ; among whom are the bodies of several
Generals, and among others, one called Norman,
'a Frenchmau, a traitor to his country, w'ho prosti-
tuted his talents against her.

" All the enemy's wounded have fallen into our
hands. Thoe whom he abandoned at the com-
mencement of the action, were found in the adja-
cent villages. It may be calculated that the result
of this battle, will be that of reducing the Austrian
army to less than 60,00 n men.
" Our loss has been considerable it is estimated
at 1500 in killed, and from 3 to 4000, wounded.

The" Duke of Istria, at the moment when he
was preparing for an attack with the cavalry, had, his
horse shot dead by a cannon ball, which 'fell upon
his saddle, and slightly grazed his thigh.
The General of Division, Lasalle, was killed
by a musket-ball. He was an Of of the greatest
merit, and one of our best light cavalry Generals.
" The Bavarian, General Wrede, and Generals
Seras, Grenier, VignoliF, sahuc, Frere, and De-,
(ranee, were wounded. •

Colonel Prince Aldobt;ndini was wounded in
the arm by a musket ball; the Majors of the Guard,
Dausmenil and. carbeneau, wete also wounded;
the Adjutant Commandant, Duprat, was killed;
the Colonel of the gth Infantry of the 'line fell on
the field of battle. That regiment has covered it-
self.
with glory.

cc The Officers of the Staff are, preparing a return.
of our losses,

"" A particular circumstance incident to this grand

battle i,s, that the columns nearest to Vienna were
only about int) toises from it. The numerous po-
pulation of that capital covered the turrets, the stee-
ples, the roofs of houses, and every elevated situa-
tion.o
.witness this pedncle.

" The Emperor of Austria left Wolkersdorf or.
the 6tb,' at five in the morning, and ascended a
tower, from which he had a view of the field cf bat-
tle, and where he remained until midnight. He theme

set off in all haste.
c' The French head-quarters were transferred to
Wolkersdorf, on the morning of the 7th."

TWENTY-SIXTH BULLETIN.

WOLKERSDORE, JULY g.—The enemy's retreat
is a defeat. We have collected a part of his baggage.
His wounded have fallen into our hands ; we have
already daunted more than 19,000 ; all the villages
are filled with them. In five or six hospitals alone
we have found more than 6000.

" The Duke de Rivoli, pursuing the enemy by
Stokerau, is already arrived at Hollabrunn.
" The Duke de Ragusa had at first followed on
the road to Brunn, which he quitted at Wulfersdurf,
in order to take that of Znaim. At nine o'clock this
morning he met at Laa a rear-guard, which he rout-
ed : he took I 00, of them prisoners. He will be
to-morrow at Znailn.

" The Duke of Auerstadt is arrived to-day at Ni-

colsbourg.
" The Emperor of Austria, Prince Anthony, with
a suite of about 200 chariots, coaches, and other

carriages, slept on the- 6th at Erensbrunn, the 7th
at Hollabrunn, the Bth at Znaim, whence they set
out at nine of the morning. According to the re-
lation of the country people who. concluded them,
their dejthion was extreme.

" One of the Pi inces de Mohan was found wound,
ed on the field of battle. Lieut. Field-Marshal Wusi

sakowic; is among the risoners.
" The artillery of the guard covered. itself with
glory. Major Aboville who commanded was, wound!
ed. - The Emperor has. made him General of Brigade.
The Chief of a squadron of artillery, Grinner, has
font an arm. These intrepid artillerymen diiplayed.
all the power of this terrible weapon.
" The horse chasseurs of the guard charged, and
drove back on the day of the battle of Wagram,
three squares of infantry. They took four pieces of:
cannon. The light-horse Poles of the guard charg.
ed a regiment of pikemen. They. took the Pi ince
of AuerspeTz pri.s.otier, and capturtd two pieces cf.
cannon.

" The Saxon Hussar.s. d'Allwt charged the-
kassiors d'Albert, and took their colours. It was a
eery singular thing to see two regiments belonging
to the same Colonel fighting one against the other.
"It 43.1)cars that the enemy is abandoning Moravia
and Hungary,, and is retiring into Bohemia.
" The roads are covered with the men belonging
to the Landwehr and the leve en passe, who arc
returning to their houses.

" The losses whiCh desertion is adding, to, those
the eherny has sustained in. 'killed, wounded, 20
prisoners, are concurring to annihilate his army.
The numerous le'ters which have been inter-.
cepted are a, stril4ing picture of the discontent of the.
hostile army, and the disorder which, reigns in. it.
" Now that the,. Austrian Monarchy is without
hop; it would evince being ill acquainted with the
character of those who govern it, not to. expea that
they will humiliate themselves as they did after th 9
battle of Austerlit4. At that epoch, they were, as
now, without hope, and they exhausted all their
protestations and oaths.
During the day of the Qth, tlic enemy sent a
few hundred men to the right bank of the Danube

to make observations. They re,embarked, after hay-
ing lost a' few men killed or taken prisoneri.

't The beat was excessive on these days. The
thermometer was almost constantly at 26 degrees.

" There are great quantities of wine. In one
village 3,000,000 pints were found. It has happily
no bad quality.
" Twelve of the most, considerable villages in the

beautiful plain of Vienna, such as are 'een in the
neighbourhood of a great capital, have been burnt
during the battle. The just hatred of the nation is
loud against the guilty men who have drawn upon
it all these calamities.

The General of Brigade, Laroche, entered Nu.,
remberg on the 28th of June, with a 'corps of ca-
valry, and proceeded %to Bayreuth. He met the
enemy at Besentheim,• 'charged him with ,the first -‘
provisional regiment of dragoons, and cut in pieces '
all who opposed him, and took two piece, of

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SATURDAY, JULY 22) Hog.

We have this day to lay before our Readers the
'2 t h and 26th Bulletins of, the French Army, and

though the intelligence they contain is undoubtedly
Of a most disastrous nature, yet it does not appear to
us, from the most minute consideration which pie
itaire been able to give to these details, that the'a;:r
feat of the Austrians was so complete as we were at.

first led to believe. It appears that BOONAPARTE'
Upon this occasion had recourse to his old and fa-
vourite manceuvre, of forcing the centre of 'the
Enemy's line, and if we may believe his own account,
the Archduke CHARL,E3 facilitated BUON APAnTE'S
Obj ea by strengthening his wings, and weakening
his centre. But though the French are stated to
have forced the Austrian centre to retreat, we do
not find that it was broken, and_ we are strongly
in-
clined to think that the Austrians were completely
suctessful in the flanks ; but the retreat of the centre
rendered the retreat of the whole army necessary.
The Bulletin does not state that the Austrians " fled
like dust," but that they retreated ; and it is ob-
servable, that though the Austrians were said to
retreat " in disorder," yet the French did not at-
temptito follow them; for we are told that the Aus=
trians began their retreat ih the afterdoon, and before
dark they were out of sight. Indeed, when BUONA-
PARTE wrote the 25th Bulletin, he does not appear
to have known that be had obtained a viaorv, for
be commences the 25th Bulletin
,by stating, as a
Piece of important information), that the ," Enemy's
retreat is a defeat." With, respea to the loss of the
Austrians, it is stated to be enormous, but we are
tolerably well acquainted with BUONAPARTE'S mode
of computation, and may therefore safely make very
considerable 'deduaions from his. statement. The
loss of the French is said to be 1500 killed, and 4000
Wounded. • In the Battle of Aspern, BUONAPARTE
Stated his loss at 1i Oo killed, and 3000 wounded,
but we know that he lost above 40,000 men,

and ttiere can be no doubt that he has, upon this oc-
tasions very Much under-rated his lots. But though
BiJoivApiwiE may have exaggerated the loss of the
enemy, and diminished his own, therecan be no doubt
iliat the _Atlgtrikins have sustained a serious defeat;
upon that point their retreat leaves no room for
doubt. We fear that some dapi will elapSe before
We can receive the Austrian account of *thit unfor-
tunate battle.

YesterBay morning his Royal tlighness the Duke
of Yoak left town for Windsor. Alter passing se-
veral hours with his MA3ESTYi his .lioyal Highness
returned to town in the afternoon, and entertained a
seied party to dinner, at his Louse, Stable-yard, St.
James's.

'Yesterday their Royal Highnesses the Dukes of
CUMBERLAND left town on a visit
to their MAJESTIES at Windsor.

Prom a Captain of a VesSel who has been a pri-
sOrier for two years at Valenciennes, and who landed
Wednesday at Deal, we have, received the fol-
lowing important information. He came down the
Scheldt from Antwerp, , where he saw seven sail of
the line upon the stocks. Below Lillo there are, in
one part of the river, seven sail of the line, in ano..
Cher three. These shipS have their guns and corn-
Plernent of men on bOard. Their chief deferie6 is a-
battery of twelve heavy pieces of cannon, manned
by the marines belonging to the fleet, a flambe? of
g-In-brigs, and some lugger-rigged gun•_boats. At
Hushing there is one frigate, fifteen gun-boats, and
a 'lne-of-battle ship, upon the stocks. The garrison
at
Flushing consists of two regiments composed
m
(*it of Prussians, and an Irish brigade.. At
Antwerp there are a good many conscripts, the
conscription of i 8 10 having been already called out.
Our informant, however, states, that in Flanders
there is no particular stir or bustle, nor did they
seem to entertain any apprehensions of invasion ; he
describes the people, however, as holding Bnot4A-
I'AIITE in the utmost detestation. ,
Yesterday evening, Guy and BASSEt, King's Mes-
sengers, left tots n for Portsmouth, to attend the
Marquis of WELLESLEY to Spain.
We are favoured with some information from the
Azores, by a Gentietnan who was a passenger on
board the American ship Sara 4, which- was wrecked
he the Isle of
.!Inglesea. Atter the modification of
• Eldbargo Laws- in the United States, by w
it was atlow-ed to the Merchants to ship goods to:
every other country' excepting Great Britain, France,
aryl their dependencies, a great portion of the sur;•-•
PAII3 produce- of the Republic was sent .to-,44tr.
Azores. It was expeEted that British shipping
7.0u1d visit these Islands, and purchase the commo-.
tits there &posited st advantageous prices; but
the nogociation with Mr. ERSKINE gave a different
tura to such speculations, and almost all-the ship-
ping in the Fayal Roads proceeded -to Europe to
dispose of their cargoes. The consequence has been,
that the Azores have been emptied of aII the pro-
duce that was poured into the storehouses during tlje
short interval that the qualification of the Embargo
1,3N4 'Continued.
• His MAJESTY has been most graciously pleased;"
by his Order in Ceuncil, td allow a pension of tool:,
per annunt, during life, to Mrs. TamPLK, widdw
of the late Captain TEMPLE, N ho was unfortunately
drowned, with upwards of 200 of the crew, when
the Cresco/if frigate was wrecked. Ott the coast of
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