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MONDIY, JU,LI 24, 1809.

We have not received any fresh intelligence from
the Continent cispeaitig the battles which took
place on the left bank of the,llanube, on the sth,
and 6th inst.; all our obServatiOns and reason-
ings, therefore; are founded solely upon the French
We remarked; some days ago, that al-
though, on former occasions, the French Bulletins
were by r-o -means distinguished for a -stritA adhe-
rcee to truth; yet that, clu'rlng.the present campaign,
thy had ;not only-set truth at defiance, but almost
every Bulletin was conn•adided, it some;.material

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.poitit, by the one which succeeded it. Oar-Read-
ers cannot have forgotten that in the Bulletin . con-
tamping the account of the Battle of Aspern, BLYoNA-
pattTE the vi&ory, and attributed the escape
of the Austrian Army from utter destru&ion, to the
" shocking accident" of the Bridges over the Da-
nube being- destroyed by the unexpeded rising of
that river ; and so- anxious was be to gain credit for
his assertions that several of ,the ensuing Bulletins
contained little more than a narrative of the risings
and fallings of the Danube. I.n the 25th
be acknowledges that the whole of this story was a
cimplete fidion ; he confesses that the bridges,
upon the former occasion, had been destroyed, not
by the rising of the Danube, but by the " Enemy's
machines," and be now admits that their
strudion had nearly proved " fatal to his Army."
With such a striking specimen of BUONAPART/CS
disregard of truth before us, we cannot be ex-
peCted to give implicit credit to the assertions
of the last Bulletins. That the Austrians have sus-
tained a defeat to a certain extent we think there'
can be no. doubt, but there appears no reason what-
ever; from th.p narrative part of the Bulletin, to
suppose that they were routed, or that the Austrian
Monarchy is " withoul hope." BL:ONAfART. states,
that his plan was to break the Austrian centre, and
if he had succeeded in that objed, the Austrian
Army would nearly have been destroyed, and the
right wing in all probability have been forced to lay
dawn its arms. To accomplish this great objeol,
BLION4PAaTE, passed the night previous to the battle
in accumulating his foroes towards his centre. Ma.s-
SENA and.DAVOUST were ordered from the wings
to reinforce it, and the Austrian General; as if
to f4vOIIr.BUOAPAR.Tp'S plan, weakened his centre
to secure and augment' his extremities. Such is
BUONAPARTE'S OWI.I account. Now what was. the
result ? Did this itninense. accumulation of force, ac-
complish its object ? Was the Austrian centrebroken ?
Was it interseded ?—No, "it lost a league ot•
ground," and "the right wing was in consequence
obliged to fall back." It requires no military skill to
discover that all the efforts that BuoNArAkept was
able to Make, could only force the Austrian centre
to retreat. But upon this point, "BuoNapAara has
,
himself afforded us the means of forming a very ac-
curate opinion ; for in a preceding part of the Bulle-
tin, in speaking of the advantage that would result
from interseding their line, he says, if that were
effeded, the different bodies of the Austrian Army
cc would be dispersed without order
.or direElion."
—Was that the case ?—NU; they retreated " in ,
disorder, we are tdld, but the French did not
follow them. With resped to the loss which
the Austrians suitaine(l,.the 4ulletin set; all observa-
ti,-,n at defiance. The Austrian Army is represented a,

consisting of 2,00,000 men ; 20,000 are sa;d to be taken
prisoners I 2,090 were found wounded in different
Villages; making together 32,000 men, ,which, de-
ducted from 200,000, would leave 188,000 men ;

but by one 411-,l;e of his pen, B6ONAPARTE reduces
the Au;trian Army to 60,000 men. The Austrian
Artillery is represented as consisting of from iooo
to 1100 pieces, and yet only 40 pieces are taken, al-
though the, Austrian Army is represented to us
having lost 2.10,000 men. There are many parts ,
of tlhiy account from which we are to draw tavoura-

Ole conclusions. Of the operation of the wings'
BUONAPARTZ is nearly, silent, and we are not with-
out hopes that it will appc,:r, when we see the Aus-
trian accotinta, that the tra;?quilliy with which the
Archduke .permitted the enemy to advance, was the
result of some well-digested plan. BUONAPARTS
birmielf, from the facility' of his progresss, was afraid
of some stratagem, and we can hardly believe that
ArPhdolr.e would have suffered his immense en-
trenchments to have been carried " as, if by en-
chantment," if he had not had some purpose in
view.

Since writing the above, we have received some
in,formation which tends, strongly to confirm our