Alexandria daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1803-1808, 1805-12-12

my, The right Of which oced pies Nl en- lia-s
gen. and the left i'm.
Marshal N ley iisOn the Danube opposite
Tim. *
Marshal Lannes is at eissenhorf,
T General Marmont, ii endcayoring, by
fereed marches, 10 take q position on the
heights of lllershcin; and Marshal Soult
EAanks from MemmiDgen, the right Of the
enemy. I. !.
4 he Imperial guard has ieft Augsburg
! for Burgau, where the Emperor viii pro.
|bably arrive tonight.
a decisive action is about TO take place.
The Austrian army has aImost all hts COM
munica.Ions cut off. Il is how nearly In
the same situation in watch the Amy Of
IlsIelas was at Marengo.
The emperor was on the bridge 81 Lech
when the army of gsneral Marmeat passed
|it. He directed cash regiment 70 form 10
circle, and addressed them on-ths siIuasa
ton Of the enemy, the near approach of
! great engagement, and OF the confidence
he had ia their bravery. This harangue
took place in the midst Of an immense tall
of snow, the troops were IN the mud up
TO their knees and the weather extremely
cold: bat the words of the emperor warm.
e1 them: and in listeningte him, the sol
der forgot his fatigues and, privatlons, and
became Impatient Tor the hour Of combat.
Marshal Bernadotte arrived at Munich,
on the Goth, at 6 O'Clock IN the nlorRing:
he had taken 500 prisoners and in pursuit
of the enemy. Prince Ferdinand was at
Munich; 1t appears that he has abandoned
his army of the Her.
On no occasion have such great events
been decided in less time. Before the cx-
pirstion of two weeks, the fate of the
campaign of the Austrian and Russian ar
mics will be decided.
One of our journals has the following
ar;isie, under the date of s BERLIN,sOc-
tobcr d. A report is ia circulation, that a
revolution has taken place at Petersburg;
1.-THE details of which are of SO important a
nature, thatit would be lmprudenr to say
any more on the subject. until we shall
have received more particular and positive
accounts of the transaction"
Positive accounts from Ssrasburg, which
we have Just received, announce the TAX
| Ing of Ulm. This is merely report, but
we ought to be surprised atnothing, if we
take into view the rapidly with which Ma
poleon /. executes his vast and complicated
isplans.
We have seen arrive at the1same point
and nearly at the same moment, the ar
mics from the coast of Brest, of La Man.
che, of the bank of the Zayder Sea, and
lfrom,hose ofthe Baltic. Wefeel, We've
nv where witness, the extraordinary genius
which, conceiyes ard direcrs everything.
Behold the effect Of that diversion which
England has wished to produce upon the
continent. How terrible a scourgeto Eu-
rope, is the English Government!
VIENNA, Oct. General Kolusow,.
COMMANDMENTS Chief of the Russian army,
which is now marching through Low. Aus
tria, is momen,ly expectedhere. Between
the Sd and 9th of this month, all the dlvi-
sions of this army will have passed the ia.
nuke at two points, near Polten and near
Kens. To accelerate the march CT this
army, sixteen hundred Wagons have been
put in requisitien in tie different circles;
a partof which has alreasy been forwarded
to meet the Russians.
The War has scarcely commenced, and
we already experience all its calamlsics:
the Court Gazette Of the 28sh, contains
the following Official article, which has
thrown the whole capital into CONSERVATION.
g The urgent ascessities of the STATE rem
ders the establishment Of additional taxes
necessary. They WILDE divided into three
classes: to wit: 1st. An extraordinary tax
upon funded property: a tax, aceordiqgto
rank, as already laid in the present year:
and sd. An extraordinary espitasion tax.
These heavy Propositions, the weigh. Is a.
lone sufficient TO ruin us, are, independents
of enormous contributions in Grain and