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II The Malta French Forme in anyetAy alotca e.
*ening, without the allied troops," • feci,oooonen, ad-1
',Weed againft the A unto Ruffian troops polled on
the Inn, which amounted to little mote than half of
that number. To expofe thefe troops to a regular
combat againiPa force double their number, would
have been-to rifle the ruin of them. before the arrival
of the Second army of his Welly the Emperor of
Ruffle ; it would have been to commit the fame fault
that had jolt suit our army of Germany. On the con-
trary, to preferve the firSt Ruffian army entire, until
the arrival of the fecund, became the principal object
of the difpofitions, which were concerted by his
Maje Sty in perfon with the General in Chief Ku-
tufnw.
' To complete our ditappointments, the arrival of
the fecund Ruffian army was delayed snore than a
month, by the firll armaments which the Court of
Berlin threatened to uppole to thofe of the Court of
Peter (burgh. The troops, therefore, under Generals
de Merfeldt and Kutofow. unable to maintain a po
',fition on the Inn, or in any other part of Auftria,
'ware obliged to fall back upon Moravia. The ine-
adtable confequence of this movement was the pro.
weffive advance of the enemy in Upper and Lower
Auftria. Having reached the IA bridge on the DA.
noise above Vienna, near Krems, the Ruffian army
'had no other alternative then to pars it, in order to
avoid being cut off from the left bank and from their
route Into Moravia. From that moment, the fate
of the capital of Austria was decided. confidering the
impoffibility of defending it within the walls, unlefa
the time needier, for the arrival of reinforcements
could be gained by means of an arnsiflice for a very
Short period. Many reafons concurred to render his
Moiety defirous of Caving his capital by Such an ar-
millice ; he therefore determined to fend,Lieutenast,
General Count de Gulley to the Emperor Napoleons
to propofe it. The negotiation was without effeB.
Vienna was occupied by the French i and his
Majeity thought, by the Sacrifice of his capitals at
kali, to have colored to the firSt Ruffian army the.
facility of forming a jundion with the Second. To
this effed, he gave the molt pofitive orders, that the
great bridge in front of Vienna Should be dettroyed,
whereby, four or five days march would have been
pined to the General in Chief Kutofow. Prince Mu-
rat, however, deceived the perfon to whom this
charge was intrutted, by the unworthy falfehood that
peace wan jug concluded between Aultria and France,
and he thus prevented the demolition of that bridge.,
'nth cruel incident expoled the firs Ruffian army to
the moll imminent danger of being furrounded and
dedroyed, before it could join the army of General
Buxhovden, as well as a corps of tosooo Auftriiths
that bad retreated from Vienna.
Had this misfortune happened, the continuation
of the war would have been evidently iropoffible.—
The defiration of the firSt army of his Majetty the
Emperor of Ruffia would have infallibly led to that
of the Second, and of every fubfequent retafoecesnent,
fucccfiively and feparately attacked by the
.great
forces which Napoleon had *trembled in Marta ;
while the army, commanded by his Highnefs the
Archduke Charles is Italy, mull alfrrhave been ruin-
ed by there forces united to thole of Maffena. In a
word, the danger was fo critical, that had there been
member means of preventing it, his Majelty would
, have been obliged to Sign a precipitate peace, unfa-
vourable indeed to hinsfelf, but inevitable from mo-
tives which would have been but too juftifiable in the
eyes of his allies. The impoffibility of prolonging
the war ; the neceffity of Caving the exifience of the
Monarchy r the genet* lamas of Europe, and even
of England, required him to infore the exiftence of
the Auftrian Monarchy, rather than to continue a war
from which nothing could be expeeed but an Me
Rill more unfortunate. In Short, the fatted duties by
which his Majefty was bound to his noble and faith-
ful friend the Emperor Alexander ; dptict which he
Shared with every well difpnfed Sawa*, and
which impofed upon him the obligation of preferring
every faerifice to the dellrudion (as certain as it was
tifelefs) of the brave and well appointed armies which
Raffia was pouring forth to his affillance.
In this extremity, his Majefiy did not hefitate to
enter into new explanations with the Emperor Na-
poleon, and to propofe to open negotiations with him
for peace, as Soon as meauces to this died might be
concerted with the Emperor Alexander, whom his
Majefiy eepeeted immediately to fee in perfon.
But happily 'bete dangers and neceffities are no
more. Generals Kutufisw and Bo:hoyden have fur-
mounted the difficulties which threatened to prevent
the feafonable jonelion of the forces under their com-
mand. The miffion of the Aufirian Envoys-has been
accompanied with the reformation of alive holitli.
ties. On the xyth of November, the day after they
quitted the camp. the Combined Armies concentrat-
ed in the environs of Olmuti, confuting of the firSt
and fecond Ruffian armies, with a body of 20,000
Auftrians, comprehending sulks for their rear-guard
the Imperial Life Guards, ro,ooo flrong, and mak-
ing in all an effeftive Strength of 80,000 fighting men,
advanced towards the enemy. On the 28th they had
reached Wifchaw, and had taken, in that City and
its environs, more than 600 prifoners. On the 29th
and 3oth, they con,inued their march to Auflerlitz,
on the way to Nikolipurg.
Etat de la Force de l'Armee Imperiale et Royale
qua fera en Campagne, le ter Odobre, 5805.
IitIiMARQIJES PRELIMINAIR ES.
Les compagnies d'imanteric font deji point's i do bommes, ct
comme elks out chacune ao charges, it taut compter too bummer
par compagnic, et too hommes par battalllun, claque battaillun
COniiitalit en 4 comPlitnits•
Les grinadiers ea net wont que 543 11..mmes, y cumpris les
charges, par compagnie, et par confoquont la battaillon 560 ; mats
e come on in met pas apartment cn ligne dc eumpte, l'Etat Ma-
jor
grand et petit, on peat, pour fake une Somme ronde, compter
boo hommcs pour cheque battaillon dc grenadiers.
Dans is eavallerie ligire les efeatirons, y compel les charges,
foot de aso, mats dins la cavallerie luurde de 130 hoaltact. On
pat par conkiquenr, l'un portant l'aut re, les tompter a 140 cba-
cun, d'autant plus que its efeadruns de la cavalkric Mitre rout en
plus grand nombre.
'D'aprescet molt it afulte l'Etat (Meant.
La I rattle. fluntrnes. Chrvaug
140 &amino°, de Eubleers 1 Se° it 2r.7.00
12 OM° OiCaJd2Cll 2 6uo 17400 I
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96 klcadruni de Cevallerle a 140 13,440
Somme Total( 142,840
TilltiL rT V
Sc }Litt aulions de Futiliere I too 44PD0
11 Inao Grenadier 12 600 7,200
116 Licadrons Cavallet Le 1..1140 2,240

Tuialt 53:4,13

'3,44,
13,440

2440
2,240

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EN ALCZMAGIIt. .
71 Bouillons de Fulllieu I lbo 57.603
15 Pion Gransdiers i boo sw, o
16i Lfcsdruns Cavallerie i 140 2 z 6110 146 :o
Mists 59,i1l a 3 OA,