The Sun.
London, England, 1809-05-10 00:00:00

1' - -. r, Head-Quarters at Ratisbon, April itt, Ittop.
71,fettntillian army passed the Inn on the gth
April, hat was the signal for hostilities, and Austria
declared an implacable war against France and her,.
', allies, and the Confederation of the Rhine.
'• . the following were the positions of the French
army and her allies :
. . The corps of the Duke D'AUEBSTADT at Ratisbon.
The corps of the Duke of %Vora at Ulm,
The corps of Gen. OUDINOT at Augsburgh.
'The Headquarters at Strasburgh:
The three divisions of Bavarians, under the Duke
01 DiatTerb,were placed as follows: ' '
T 4 first division, commanded by the. Prince
'‘ 14°Yet at Munich i the second,' by Gen. Donor, at
I ' 'edahut ; and the third, by Gen. Di WREDB at
. • Billsburgb. • '
The Wurtemburgh division at .Heydenheim.
.il The Saxon troops encamped under the walls of
I. Dresden, .
' • . The fps of the Duchy of Warsaw, commanded
.bYPthicePONIATOWSKY, in the environs of Warsaw.
. On the loth the Austrian troops invested Passau,
. *here they .surrounded a battalion of Bavarians,
, and et the same time invested Kufftein, where there
f was another battalion .of Bavarians ; these move-
tuents took, place without eoen a shot being fired.
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""o.Austrians published the subjoined Proclarna-
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1!1 the Tyrol.
; The navel-lan Court quitted Munich for Dillingen.
The R.
.-Avairan division which had been at Land-
Ih4t Went to Altorfi, on the left bank of the Iser.
Ytke division under the command of General De
wtede marched upon Neustadt.
'' 'she Duke of Itivoli,• left Ulm for the environs of
Aupburgh.
)rout the 10th to the 16th the enemy's army ad-
vaneed from the Inn to the Iser; there were several
; ekirmislies between .parties of the cavalry, in which
the Batt/aliens were successful. .
On the 0111,44 Pfaffenhotien, the 2d and 3d re-
' giceents of Bavarian light horse completely touted
the hussars of Stipscliitz and the Rosenberg dra-
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wet% At the same time the enemy appeared in
...'" lattle.bod. iea for the purpose of forming at Landstiut,
'MI' bilhe Was broken down, and this Bavarian cli-
'''' visian' cattinandrd by Gen. Duroy, vigorously op-
' P°Bled this •thovernent of the enemy, but being
reatefled by
•.: th ,
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~ the columns which had passed the
,?..ser at Aloorberg and Freysiug, this division retired
i a
irl geed order upon that of Gen. Wrede, and the
Bavarian army took a central position upon Neu-
,,,.. stadt.
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bIPARTURR OP THE EMPEROR FROM PARIS ON THE
.13TH.
The Emperor learnt by the telegraph, in the even-
' ing of the )2th, that the Austrians had passed the In
tc and he set out from Paris almost immediately. He
1: arrived at three o'clock on the morning of the IGtli
V.
.at Louisburg, and in the evening of the same day
1 ) at billungen, where he saw the King of Bavaria, and
Passed half an hour with that Prince, and promised
fifteen days to restore him to his. capital, to re-
venge the insults which had been 'offered to his
'7 1-I°llle, -and. to make him greater than any of his
ancestors had ever been.
On the 17th, at two o'clock in the morning, his
-Majesty arrived:at ,Donanworth, where he itmuc-
diately established his head-quarters, and gave the
necessary orders,
• 00 the teth the head-quarters were removed to
Lsgolstadt,

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BATTLI OF PITAFT2I,I}IOFFEN 01,7 THE I Trrr.
On the igih Gen. Oudittot quitted Augsburgh
and arrived by break of day at Phaffenhuffen, where
he met 3 or 4000 Austrians which be attacked, and
tnek.3oo prisoners. The Duke De. Rivoli arrived
the next day at Phaffenhoffen. The same day the
'bake of Auerstadt left" Ratisbon to advance to Neu-
Itadr, and to draw near to Ingolstadt. It was then
evident that the plan of the Emperor was to ont-
1114ktuvre the enemy, who, bad formed near Land-
shut, and to attack them at the very moment when
they, thinking they were commencing the attack,
were marching to Ratisbon.

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• RATTLE OY TANN, ON TO 19TH.
(34 the igth, by break of day, the Duke D'Auer.
stack began, his march in two columns. The divi-
Mani of Maraud and Gudin formed his right, the
divisions of St. Hillaire • and Frlant formed his-left.
The division of St. Hillaire arrived at the village of
Pressing, and there met the enemy, superior in
ilturlber, but inferior in brAyury, and there the CM`