Star.
London, England, 1805-11-04 00:00:00

ADDRESS OF THE EMPERORTO HIS SOLDIERS.

The evening before the furrender of Ulm, the
,Emperor aired the following proclamation :
" Soldiers, a month ago we were encamped on the
(bores of the ocean oppoihe to England ; but an im-
pious league compelled us to fly towards the Rhine.
" It is lout a fortnight fince we paled that .river,
and the Alps of Wirtemberg, the Necker, the Da-
nube, and the .Lech ; thole celebrated barriers of Ger-
i •
many hive not retarded our march a day, an hour,
or an inflant, Indignation againa a Prince whom
we have twice re-feated on his Throne, when it de-
pended entirely on our pleafure to hurl him from it,
fupplied us with wings. The enemy's army deceiv-
ed by our manoeuvres, and the rapidity of our 'wive..
ment', is completely turned. It now fights only for
its fatety. It would gladly embrace an opportunity
of ;leaping and returning home ; but h is now too
litre. The itrti6cati.:ns which it ereeled, ar. a great
aapetirce, along the 111cr, exPetling that we fhould ad-
vance thiough the pailei orthe Black Fora, ate be-
come ufelefs,-fince we have approached by the plains
of Bavaria.
" Soldiers, but for the army which is now in front
of you, we fhould this day have been n London ; we
'load have avenvd ourfelves of fix centuries of wars, and
relored the freedom of the fear.
" But bear in mind, to-morrow, that you are
fighting againd the allies of England : that you have
to avenge xourfelves on a perjured Prince, whole
own letters breathed nothing but peace, at the mo-
ment when he was marching his army againd our
ally•-•-who thought us cowardly enough to ftippofe
tbat.we would tamely witnefs his pafface of the Inn,
his entry into Munich, and his aggiellion upon the
Eleetor of Bavaria. He thought we were occupied
elfewhere ; let him, fur the third and lad time learn,
that we.know how to be prefent in every place where
the country has enemies to combat.
4' Soldiers, to-morrow will be an hundred times
more celebrated than the day of Marengo.* I have
placed the enemy in the fame pofition.
" Recolleft, that the molt remote poderity will
remark the conduet of each of you on this memorable
day. Your progeny, five hundred years hence, who
may place themfelves under thole eagles around
which we rally, will know in detail every thing that
your relpeCtive corps Wall atchieve to-morrow, and
the manner in which your courage (hall confer on
them eternal celebrity. This will con:lime the per-
petual fuhjed of their converfadon ; and from age
to age you will be held up to the admiration of fu-
ture generations.
Soldiers,if I willed only to conquer the enemy.
Tlhould not have_ drought it rtecelfary to .make an
appeal to your courage, and yotir attachment to the
country and to my perfon ; but n.crely to conquer
him is doing nothing worthy either of you or your
Emparor.• It is neceffaty thin. not a man of the ene-
my's army (hall efcape ; thAt that Government,
which. 11/6 , violated all its CI;GaiVOICUtSI (hall bra

learn its cataftropbe by your arrival tinder the walls
of Vienna ; and that, on receiving this fatal intelli-
gence, its confcience, if it linens to the voice of con-
Icience, (hall tell it, ;hat it bas betrayed both its th-
lemn promifes of peace, and the firft of the duties
bequeathed by its ancestors, Kith the power of form-
ing the rampart of Europe againft the itruptiens of
the Cotracks.

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" Soldiers, who have been engaged in the affairs
of Wertingen and Guntzburg, I am fatibfied with
your cnndu&. Every corps in the army will emu-
late you, and 1 fhall be able to fly to my people,—
' Your Emperor and your army have done their
duty.' l'crfnrm yours, and the 200.000 Confcripts
whom I have fummoned will hallen, by forced
marches, tc reinforce nur fecend line.
(Signed) '6 NAFOLION."
" Ey order of the Emperor and Kin;,, the MA:. r-
Genera of the Grand Army, VERTHIEX."