The Sun.
London, England, 1809-10-11 00:00:00

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FRENCH PAPERS.

THE WAR BE' WEEN'AtIsTRi 1 .AND I R kNOE

AND THE

EXPEDITION TO SCIIEI DT.

OBSERVATIONS.

(Note froth the Monileur on Articles published iII
the London Paperson the above. sulrieCt.)

" We cannot consider the Austrian Mon :rchy,. its Sove=
reign, and its armi s, so entirely. nu miha,cd as they vt ere
atter the battle ot Austerlitz; -there pilaw teak of an .nterview
in a - London Papers. .

NOTE BY THE Most-t•rua.—lf there•has been no
interview, it is because the Emperor Napoleon would
have none. The first interview in .which the Enipe.
ror Napoleon gave iymce to his eceiny ha ing left
DO remembrance of gratitude in the breast tit tht
latter, it becatrie evident that a !resit int tritiew would •
be to no purpose. . •
With rogard to the difference, between the situa•
tions of Au,tria, atter the battles of Austerlitz and
Wagraro, it is this:--After the bale ut Austerlitz,
Russia was still allied with Austria ; she had upon
the Vistula a second army, which shi• Attiglit tear, h ; -
Prussia, who hail signet the Convention ot,!he 2tl

of November, might. take a pair in the war; in
short, the army of Prince Charles W;
s ill un-
touched, and the whole of it might march. On the

.they hand,_ tin; important fortress of Raab anti the

Circles'of Hungary had not been occupied; Saxony
did not yet form,part of the Confederation ; ands.
however, the position of Dresden must be consi7
dered as of some importance : in fine, the Doehy of •
Warsag belonged to Prussia, and the army of G-. 1.
which now men:ices Moravia, did not exist.
At present, on the contrary, all the Austrian
inies, all the Austrian forces, hate b:;eo attacked

and vLing,islted. There are hardly any vestiges re-
maining of the army which the Aiehduke. John
brought from Italy ; and it it can still mustor ten
thousand men under arms, most of these men are
only recruits. The grand army of. Prince Charles
being beaten at kginulh, at. Ra isi)on,at li.lit g,
and at Wagram, has lost his best soldiers., and he
himself frightened at the spirit.of intrigue and_ divi-
sion which reigns in the Cibinct, has thrown np the
command and retired. The difference is not less
great in the internal' situation of the Al-narchy
after the Peace of Presburg, the French, lead, ot,ly
passed through the, ,Herditary States; u!ion the
present occasion; they have already made a stay in
them of upwards of four months., At that time.
Austria had not 'made thenlast efF,tts ; her popula+
Lien was still entire; at present many provi, ices have
been so lunch depopulated by the lei i.. ea
that no othtirinhauitants are to be found in the %Ho
loges than women ,and children. At. that time alk
the revolutionary nseatis which had been taken exo4
isted, and_might. be employed ; at present they•havg
keen taken, an,i have been taken in vain ; the couno:
try is exhausted of men,
,as wcll as of things.:

, -
" Ap army formidable from, the number, of the soldierg:
(we wish we could say fonnilable twin the talents of its.
Chit:6), has been sent by England and landed in Zealand." 4—*
Lond ,n Paper.

The expedition against Zealand could not hare any'
result for England. It might occdsion sw-ne etnA`
barrassments,- some fresh burde!ta. to tile people of
France ; but these they do not calculate; when ant
proofs of Zeal or, oevotedness are to be given to !net
country ; it could, give the English. iiothin4 but
shame ; it could be attenkle ! with no otder result
than to make them lose an army, whilst ii would'
procure anew at my to the Erriperor. Liebe 'prog.
nostics have been pet-teilly verified, •
We say .ibat the expedition could not be attended
with any resuli,.• because it was lece-sary, td. bt 4;n
by making the siege of Flushing. Fiusting; prir:r tfd
the island of Walcitet en be inutidated,.ruust e0n...!
sidered, by ever -sensiole ()Meer, as a plae,Hinpreg-,
nabk by a regu.ar siege, .4. at least as •pre,enti,ag
dtt-
fic:ulties which the labour of four t,,ouriti ‘, ber.
unable to vanquish. In this.instarke the v:isest cal- •
vulanons were baffled. Fiustung, nen the be-
siegers' trenches were still Curer bun <ted paces from
the body of the fortress, when ti"tere was no breach,.
when-the body.of the •fortress was unrouched, Stir—
rendered by the sole effect of the terror of a bombard-
ment. is this cowardice_ ? Is it treason ? The se-
quel of the inquiry will lir,,ve whit h.
Thus, theito be
.sole Opposition or Flushittg,.whiel
detained the English Expedition only £0 days, .tight
to have cletaihetl it three mouths, • •

Of all the chances of succeeding, certainly the one
'least expeaed by the English, Mu,t have been sui:n
success obtained by a bombardment; they rrqui! ed 20
days for that. Nbw,, 20 days spent in the Idand of
Walcheren, in the month of August, must have oc•
cassioned a number of sick,w Inch cainOt.be Lo t.f.)utrd
at less than one in tour soldiers ; and to e.il.uktte'
otherwise would betray a total ignorance of the eifeds
of that climate. When we sty that 20 days -spent
in the Island of Walcheren must co-.t the quilt ter of
the troops which land in it, .v% e may add, that the
health of the other. three qtprters must be e,geni tally
impaire 1, and that all the weakened men a'-e on the
point of falling sick. It iloherefore a most senseless
attempt to land brave soldiers in th it fatal country,
and we must consider the English army as destroyed]
or at least .what.remains of it, as unable: to du much
duty for several months to ..come.

But in fine, atter the siege. of Flurshing, we had
to expect the siege of fort Batz, which, communi
eating by watLr
.with Bergen-op-Zoorn, and with
tort Si. Martin,which theFrenclt have built opposite to
it, could, in like manner, not be taken, but afterwork4
.and trenches carried on in a country, the climate of
which iy as fatal ast
orhaftottu NiaVtaelcl
Dutchthat this English en
.l
Getie
It istrrtiael:
were
called Bruce, the shame of th'e raj:nary naMe, and
whose head the N.-ition must have to fall upon the'
scaffold, evacuated this tort through an unexemplified
panic, six hours betore the English Arrived, Here
then we again behold the Eoghsh enjoying, a pa' t
o MINI:, upon which limy boi tely.: but tlidg,*