Star.
London, England, 1809-05-10 00:00:00

ACTION ♦ND CAPTURE OF RAtIEBON ON THE 23D.

On the 23d, at thy-break, we advanced against
Ratisbon. The enemy's cavalry pretended to cover
the city. All the charges were to our advantage.
Eight thousand of the enemy's cavalry passed the
Danube.

[The Bulletin next gives an account of an entrance
having been forced into Ratisbon. All who resisted
were put to the sword, and 8000 prisoners taken.—
The enemy had not time to destroy the bridge, and
the French passed to the left pell-mell with them.—
The city has suffered much, and part of the night
was on fire. Bellegarde's corps, which arrived next
day, could only be witne,s of the capture of Ratisbon,
and fled for safety to Bohemia.]
In all these battles our loss may be estimated at
1200 killed and 4000 wounded. General Cervone
And Hervo were killed ; Generals St. Sulpice and
Schramm wounded.

Of the 220,000 men who composed the Austrian
army, all have been engaged but Bellegarde's corps
of 20,000.

SECOND BULLETIN.
Head-quarters, Muhklorff, April 27.

When the Emperor left Landshut, he sent the
Duke of Istria to proceed to the Inn, and pursue the
two corps of the enemy beaten at Abensberg and
Landshut. He arrived successively at Wilsburg and
Neumark, and took 15 to 1800 prisoners.
The Austrians found on the other side of Neumark
a corps of reserve, which had arrived on the Inn.
There they rallied, and on the 25th gave battle at
Neumark, where the Bavarians, though inferior in
numbers, preserved their positions.
On the '24th the Emperor had sent Rivoli's corps
from Ratisbon to Strasburg, and from thence to
Passau, where it arrived on the 26th. He passed the
Inn and occupied Scharding.
On the 25th Montebello had orders to march upon
Muhldorff. On the 27th he passed the Inn, and pro-
ceeded to the Salza.

Today the Emperor's head-quarters are at Muhl.
dorfr Jellachick's corps, which occupied Munich, is
pursued by the Duke of Dantzic.

The Duke of Auerstadt is gone in pursuit or
Prince Charles, who is cut oft from the Inn and
Vienna, and has retired into the mountains of Bo-
hemia.

With respect to the Emperor of Austria, he ap-
pears to have been before Passau.
It was reported that the Emperor hid his leg
broken. The fact is, that a spent ball grated the
heel of his bap, but, did not touch the skin.
All tht Sovereigns and States of the Confederacy
evince the most patriotic spirit.
[To the Second
_Bulletin is annexed a Proclama-
tion of Bonaparte to his troops ; in which he says he
has taken 100 pieces of cannon and 50,000 prisoners;
and promises- before a month has elapsed to be at
Vienna.]

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juncture. If there were any man in Englamlikbam
as to regret, at the time, that the task of aiding Spa*
devolved on his Majesty's Ministers, he would now
have his complete revenge. The proceeding!' attend-
ing the expedition to Portugal 'gad become a subject
of ridicule, even to our enemies. Nothing could be
more ridiculous and disastrous than the successive ap-
pointment of Generals ; this was the circumstance
which gave rise to the Convention of Cintra. And
the effect of that Convention wsts, the delay of the
British troops in Portugal, so that they were unable
to join our allies till the month of December, when
our co-operation was too late. It must have occur-
red to any person that the best mode of commencing
the campaign would have been to enter the north of
the peninsula, and prevent the retreat of Joseph Bo-
naparte lrom Madrid : and if that was not practica-
ble, it would have been better to have gone to the
South, and made a stand near the Sierra Morena.
Bat, independent of these questions, what he meant
to contend was, that Minister; were incapable of car-
rying on their own plans. It was no secret that Bo-
naparte was making vast and rapid preparations in
the month of September, to conquer Spain. This
was known to Ministers long before they sent Lord
William Bentinck as Ambassador to Spain; and long
before they gave any orders for the march of the Bri-
tish troops into the country. Ministers were not deceiv-
ed wi.h respect to the affairs of :pain, Lord William
Bentinck wrote that the Spanish armies were far in-
ferior to those of the French. His Lordsi.ip was de-
sired to press the campaign in the north of Spain.—
He communicated his plan to the Spanish General
Morla, and this man, who afterwards became a traitor
to his country, and whose object was at that time to
give up Cadiz, and the fleet there, to Bonaparte, ap-
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