Star.
London, England, 1809-08-26 00:00:00

BATTLE OF WAGRAM.

The following is the Austrian official account of '
the bittle of Wt gram, as published in the Austrian'
Gazettes, dated tram the head quarters of the Arch-
duke Charles, 29th July, Lt appears likewise in the
riam!uirgh Corresponcie t, cif I lth August, but gar-
bled, the pas.ages iirk ics having. been suppressed.
" Scarcely had the patting of the 6th begun to
break, when the enemy's•army, corinposed of a force
which since the earliest times has perhaps never been
collected in one point, appeared at the distance of a
lertg cannon shot.
" It was esimated at from 140 to 150,000 men. Ac-
cording to the latest statements of the .Fin,'zeror Napoleon
himself and his Generals, it cr:nsisted it 180,000 comba-
tants. On the part of the Imperial fluirians st;t q!eite.
100,000 men v'h-re in the
.frld on the da7 of I,lttle. Tie
atta4: h..oan with a brink c.ltur?:ade all along- the line,
ceiiei the mint/ answered ly a fin-. Alperin. number of
hea.ny ordnance, and kept it up till night without inter-
ruption. The right wing of the Austrians made the
most splendid progress. ifilluleor: war t:i..n, and the
enemy driven front Rumearunn, Brectente, and Hu•eh-
stelley. The enemy's eavalty en the left win; coat com-
pletely routed ; and Field Marshal Lieut. Klenau with
the six corps which he commanded in the room of
Field Marshal Lieut. Holler, who was taken ill, pe-
netrated in the enemy's left flank as far as Esslingen,
Aspern, and the town of Enzersdorf, made himself
master of our entrenchments which we had abandon-
ed the day before, took ten pieces of cannon, and soiree
thousands of. prisoner:, besides one eagle and several
stands of colours. In the mean time the French
centre, where the. Emperor Napoleon was, did not
move from the spot at Raschdorf ; it was stationed
there in several ranks, consisting of upwards of sixty
thousand men strong, and continually lengthened its
right wing opposite the left of the Austrians, till the
latter was quite overwhelmed, about noon, by a mass
of cavalry and a great quantity of artillery. The
corps which had been expected from Marcheck, did
not arrive, and it was easy for the enemy to outflank
our left wing : their violent cross-fire soon silenced
our batteries. 1

" Our 4th corps, which was placed nn our extreme
left, was repu;sed, and the heights in that quarter oc-
curiPd by the enemy.
4, By this the second corps in the centre was not
otlly prevented from undertaking the attack against
R.isclll,,rt, but was itselCoverwhelmed and forced to
retreat to the causeway of Brann, while the enemy
had a:read v ga;ned Poksteis and Enzersdorf, and was
thn.At.-ninK the m-id to Walkensdorf in the rear of
tiu In.pei i;tl Royal army. Night put an end to the
acticn. In battle eight pieces of cannon were
lost ; in the retre it. none ; ond the ten pieces of cannon
taken were carried otf. The Archduke John arrived
in dle afternoon near Siebenhrunn. after the battle
WAS&decided, and then went back again behind the

Tne army continued its retreat till the 9th, on the
Prag,k: roaq, as far as Gantersdorf. The rear had
obstinate engagements daily, during which, Kornen-
burg and H,,llenbrunn took fire, and the army was
alway ready for battle.
" On the 1 I di, shortly before sun-set, in the hottest
of the action, when both armies were for the most
part drawn tip facing one another, a formal conference
took place; after some mutual messages, and at last
a temporary arnktice,the want of which was equally
felt by both 'armies, after an uninterrupted conilict of
eight days,• and being overcome with fatigue. Ii
consequence an armistice was concluded on the 12th,
by which hostilities are suspended for four weeks, and
fourteen days' notice to he given before breaking it ;
and the Austrian army has taken a retrograde posi-
tion in Moravia and the adjoiniag districts of Bohe-
mia, to enjoy some repose after the unheard-of toils
of the last eight days."