Star.
London, England, 1809-07-22 00:00:00

BATTLE 0:7 WAGRAM.

" Strongly alarmed by the progress of the Frerch
army, and the great successes which it obtained, with
scarcely any effort, the enemy put all his troop; rz
motion, and at six in the evening he occupied ill:
following position :—his right from Stadelau
rasdorf, his centre from Gel asdorf to Wagram, and
his left from Wagram to Neusiedel. The French
:trey had its kit at Gros-Aspetn, its centre at Rasa-
dont; and its right at Glenzingdorf. In this position
the day was nearly at a close, and we had necessarily
to expect a great battle on the morrow ; but this was
to be avoided, and the position of the enemy to be in-
tersected, so as to prevent him from forming any
plan, by taking possession, in the night, of the vill age
of Wagram. In this case his line, already of an
immense length, being suddenly assailed and expose.:
to the chances of combat, the different bodies of tag
army would be dispersed without order or direction,
and we should succeed at an easy rate, and willicut
any serious e.-.gagement. The attack on Wagram
took place, and our troops rook possession of the vii.
lage ; but a column of Saxons and a column of
French mistook each other in the dark for enemies,
and this operation failed.
" We then prepared for the battle of Wagram. It
appears that the dispositions of the French General
and the Austrian General were inverted. The Ern-
peror passed the night in accumulating his fora'
towards his centre, where he was in person, withia
cannon shot of Wagram. With this view, the Dulee
de Rivoli moved upon the left of Aderklati, leaving
at Aspern a single division with orders for it to fall
back, in case of necessity, upon the Isle of Lain.—
The Duke of Auerstadt received orders to loavc an.
occupied the village. of Grossliciffen that night, to
approach the centre. The Austrian General, on the
contrary, weakened his centre to secure and augment
his extremities, which he still fartber extended.
gg On the oth, at day-break, the Prince de Ponte
Corvo occti;?ied the left, having the Duke of Rivoli
in a second line. The Viceroy connected him with
the centre, where the corps of Count Oudinot, that of
the Duke of Ragusa, those of the Imperial Guars',
and the divisions of Cuirassiers, formed seven or eight
lines.

" The Duke of Auerstadt marched from the right
to reach the centre. The enemy, on the contrary, put
Bellegarde's corps in motion for Stadelau. The corps
of Collosvrath, Lichtenstein, and Hiller,. connected
their right with the position of sVagram, where Prince
Hohenzollern was, and with the extremity of the left
at Neusiedel, where the corps of Rosenberg delouthed
in order also, to out-flank that of the Duke of Auer-
stadt. The corps of Rosenberg, and that of the Duke of
Auerstadt moving •in opposite directions encountered
each other, with the fit st rays of the sun, and gave the
signal of battle. The Emperor instantly repaired to
this point, ordered the Duke'of Auerstadt to be rein.
forced by the division of the Duke of Padua's cuiras.
siers, and the corps of Rosenberg to be attacked in
flank by a battery of 12 guns, of the division of Count
de Nansouty. In less than three quarters of an hour,
the fine corps of the Duke of Auerstadt gave a good
account of the corps of Rosenberg, defeating it, and
driving it beyond Neusiedel with considerable loss.
" In the mean time a cannonade commenced along
the whole of the line, and the enemy's dispositions
were every moment discovering themselves. The
whole of his lett was secured with artillery. One
might have said, that the Austrian General was not
fighting for victory, but was looking only to the
means of improving it. This disposition of the enemy
seemed so absurd, that some snare was apprehended,
and the Emperer delayed some time bet'ore he or.
dered those easy (":spositions which he had to rair!;e
to disconcert those of the enemy, and render them
fatal to him. He ordered the Duke of Rivoli to
make an attack on the village occupied by the enemy,
and which somewhat straitened the extremity of the
centre of the army. He ordered the Duke of Aneo
stadt to turn the position of Neusiedel, and thence t'
push on upon Wagram ; and he formed the Duke of
Ragusa's troops, and those of Gen. Macdonald in co-
.