The Statesman.
London, England, 1809-07-12 00:00:00

,TFSMAN:

' cannonade wa tot up Incessaatly on both sides,
and it was suite/dial by the troops with the great-
est fortitude.
Fatoueed by a fog, which soddenly came on,
the enemy's heavy cavalry ventured to attack on
all sides the corps formed by Sitarray's and Hit.
lee's regiments of infantry. These brave fellows
received him with fired bayonets, And at the last
moment poured in their fire with such eel-et, that
the enemy was compelled to betake himself to
[light with considerable loss. Five times were thine
attacks on Sztarrsy's and Miller's regiments re-
peated, and each time were they repelled with
equal courage and resolution. ihe cavalry con.
tributed all that lay in their power to the pursuit
of the enemy and the snpport of the infantry.

Coburg's, the Archduke Louis's, and Csarto-
risky's regiments belonging to the divnion of Lieu.
tenant-General Dedotich, stationed on the right,
renewed the exertions of the preceding day with
the same distinction and the same success. After
this severe conflict, the enemy seemed to have no
inclination to expose himself to any fresh disaster,
and confined himself merely to the operation of Lis
superior artillery.

About eleven A. M. Prince Rosenberg re.
ceived orders from the Archduke, Commander in
Chief, to make a new attack upon Esslingen, and
a message to the same effect was sent to Lieu.
tenaut.Gencral Dedovich, who commanded the
right ffivision of this corps.
Prince Rosenberg immediately formed two co-
limns of attack under the conduct of Liedtennnt •
Generals Princes linhenloe and Rohan, while'
Lieutenant-General Dedovich advanced against the
citadel of the place, and the magazine surrounded
with walls and ditches.

The attack was made with redoubled bravery,
and our troops rushed with irresistible impetuosity
into the village. Still, however, they found it
impossible to maintain this post, into which the
enemy kept continually throwing new reinforce.
ments, which was of the utmost importance for
covering his retreat, which he had already re.
solved upon, and which he defended with an im-
mense sacrifice of lives. Prince Rosenberg there-
fore resolved to confine himself to the obstinate
maintenance of his own position, to secure the left
flank of the aray, and to increase the embarrass-
ment of the enemy by an incessant fire from all the
batteries.

In the night between the 22d antlt3d the enemy
accomplished hie retrelt to the Lobau, andfrst
three in the motning rear-guard also had eva.
coated Esslingen, and all the points which he
had occupied uu the left !mnlc of the Danube.
Some divisions pursued him tio,t.!y, nid took
possession as near as possible of the necessary
posts of observation.

Thus terminated a conflict of two days, which
will be ever memorable in the annals of the world,
and in the history of war. It was the most ob-
stinate and bloody that has occurred since the
cumtnencement of the French Revolution.

It was decisive for the glory of the Austrian
arias, fur the preservation of the Monarchy, and
fox the correction of the public opinion.
The infantry has enteretrupon a new and bril-
liant career, and by the fin!) confidence it has ma-
nifested in its own energies, has paved the way to
new victories. The enemy's cavalry has seen Uri
acquired but hitherto untried glory dissipated by
the masses of our battalions, whose cool intrepi-
dity it was unable to endure.

Cavalry and artillery have surpassed omm:ekes
in valuer, and in the space of two days have per-
formed achievements sufficient fur a whule cam-
paign.

Three pieces of cannon, seven ammunition wag-
gons. 17,000 French muskets, and about 3000
cuirasses fell into the hands of the conqueror.
The loss on both sides was very great ; this, and
the circumstance that very few prisoners were
taken by either party, proves the determination
of the combatants either to conquer or die.
The Austrian army laments the death of 87 su-
perior Officers, and 4199 subalterns and privates.
Lieutenant-Generals Prince Robin, Dedovich,
Weber, and Frcnel, General Winzingerode, Grill,
Fcustadter, Siegeuthal, Collorcdo, May llohen-
feld; and Buresch, six hundred and sixty-three
Officers, and fifteen thousand six hundred and
fifty.ooe subalterns and privates were wounded.—
Of these Field Marshal Lieutenant Weber, eight
Officers and eight hundred and twenty-nine men
were taken prisoners by the enemy.
The loss of the enemy was prodigious, and ex.
ceeds all expectation. It can only be accounted
for by the effect of oar concentric fire on an ex.
ceedingly confined field of battle, where all the
batteries crossed one another, and calculated by
the following authentic data.
Generals Lames, D'Espagnc, St. Hilaire, and
Albuquerque, are dead ; Musette, Bessicres, Mo-
litor, Boudet, Legrand, .Lssalle, and the two
brothers Legrauge, wounded; Durusnel and Fouler
taken,

Upwards of seven thousand men, and an im.
mense number of horses were buried on the field
of battle ; five thousand and some hundred
wounded lie in our hospitals. In Vienna and
the suburbs there are at present twenty-nine thou-
sand seven hundred and seventy-three wounded ;
many were carried to St. Pollen, Enos, and as
Lintz ; two thousand throe hundred were taken.
Several hundred corpses floated down the Da-
nube, and arc still daily thrown upon its shores ;
many met their death in the island of Lobau, and
since the water has fallen in the smaller arms of
the river, innumerable bodies, thus consigned by
their comrades to everlasting oblivion, have be-
come visible. The burying of the sufferers is not''
yet over, and a pestilential air is wafted down the
theatre of death.

His Imperial Highness, the Generalifsimo, has
indeed undertaken the duty .so dear to his heart,
of acquainting the Monarch and the Country with
the names of those who took the most active share
in the achievements of these glorious days ; but he
acknowledges with profound emotion, that, amidst
the rivatship of the highest military virtues, it is