The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1806-07-08


mouths of the Cataro are feparated from Dali
malta by the rate of Ragufa, to the extent of
about thirty miles, 70 that the poflefIion of Ca
taro is quite unconnetted with that of Dalma-
tia. The French are matters of the whole of
Oalmatia and IRria, where thew have upwards
of thirty thoufand men; the Ruffians at this
moment have no more than three battalions at
Cataro, making in the whole, about 500 men.
and not one folder beyond that number. When
General Brady furrendered the forts tn the Ruff.
fans by an ACT Of bafe treafon, he found the re-
giment Of Thurn in the place fix hundred trong,
and this general delivered the forts up to the
three hundred Rut1ians, who were landed from
two frigates. The indignation of fome of the
officers of that regiment was then at the higheft
pitch, and Mr.. Ghi(ilieri was 70 bafe as to write
to thefe officers, for the purpofe of allaying
their recruitment, and reconciing them to the
furrendcr of the forts. Thefe officers, reckoning
upon the efeem of the French folders, after
wards. publifhed the Msrquis's letter, adding
the affertion, that the potts above mentioned
were fold by the Marquis and General Brady.
On the fame day that the Marquis wrote
the aforefaid letter to the Auftrian officers, he
wrote another to General Molitor. MIR. Chi
flieri, and thofe who had given him orders,
fold their matter and their country in the fame
manner as when the fecond coalition was form.
ed. One would think it was time to adopt that
hhu Vi COI0uCt t'dt WOulQ lNlure peace, ana
not continue to feek for motives of eternal dif.
cord, in contemplate fubterfuges. We by no
means doubt, but when thefe letters come To
the knowledge Of the War department at Vien-
M, proper punifhment will be inflicted upon
thofe who have been capable of fuch perhdious
conduit.
The following ohfervations appear in a Note
upon the following articIe:-
NOTE.
An 0ff he No. I, =
tended the fnrrender ofthe mouths of the Cata-
ro to the Ruffians, adds, to feveral particulars
already, that neither the Marquis Ghfilieri,
northe Auftrian commandaDt, protected againft
the entrance of Ruf1ian fduadron into the
port, though at the frme time, they were wait.
ing in expectation of the French; and though,
in conf qnence of this conduct, they ALTO ex-
pofed the French, who were on their way hi
ther, to the danger of falling into the hands of
their enemies, when they might have fuppofed
they were entering friendly port The faid
Gentlemen alto had taken no meafures for re-
peng the attacks of the Montenegrins. 1t is
Hkewife repeated, that the Auitrian officers had
protected againft the conduct of their command
ant that fome of them were put under an ar
reft on this cunt, but were liberated, in con-
fequence of the remonfrances Of their brother
officers that the Marquis Ghiilier, feeling the
officers were determined to refit any attack on
from his fuperiors for furrendering the forts
of Cataro to the RuiIians and, that the Ruff
fans were even invited by the Autrian COM
mandant TO take po1et1ion of Cataro, for which
they had no orders from their own Court, and
which could only be approached by the RufIian
fquadron, under command of Henry Bayle, an
Engliihman and, laaly, that the Ruflian Com
mandant at Corfu being applied TO for his afif-
lance in this affair, refufed it, being unwilling to
act without orders from his Court.
&c In the letter written by the Marquis TO the
Aufrian officers, he fays, the place is not con-
fdered as being fummoned by hottie power,
and much efs by the Moutenegrins, but by the
repeated claims Of a Rufian commandant that
he had choien for himfe!f the part Of cauling
his majefty's troops TO Withdraw from Cattaro
and this, in confequence of its being defre Of
a court in friendfhip and alliance with the houfe
of Auftria, relative TO which he had exprefs
ders, from high authority, which enjoined him
to take no other fteps than thofe of protects and
declarations: that he had entered into no terms
of equalization with the RufIian Commandant,
having bound hi,nfelf to nothing more than the
necefiary protects and declarations, for the pur-
pofe of jutifying the Court of Auftria againft
any complaint on the part of the French, that
the affair could not politely be attended with
any difagreeable confequence to himfelf, nor by
any means tend to impeach the bravery of the
officers, &c.
The letter of the Marquis Gh6lieri to gen.
Mollitor, in which he magniiies the forces of the
RufIians and MontenegriBs, aferts, that they
were approaching the Auftrian garrifons on all
fides, threatening the whole province with death
and defruetion if any retifance fhould be made
he then adds, that, finding all his protefations
fruitlefsin convincing them Of the improperly
of their conduit, he was compelled to yield to
imperous circumstances, though with his maj
ter's brave troops he hoped to have been able
tn preferve the province of Cattaro IN its prof
porous condition for the E operor ofthe French.
&C A note was prefented, on the 25th of
March by General Lauriiton, Commifliontr in
Dalmatia, to the marquis Ghililieri, who was
charged with the cel1ion of Venetian Dalmata.
In this note General Laurifton aferts that the
regiment Of Thurn would willingly have defen-
ded the place, and had ihewn much reluctance
in qnittirgit. The general alto puts the quef-
fion to the Marquis whether he had Gurrender-
ed Cataro from his own motives, or whether he
had acted acc ording to superior orders, as it
was Of much importance to the General to in
form his Government of the fact. He further
aiked, why Catlro was surrendered to the Ruff
fans; and remarks upon the ahfurdity Of pre-
tending to preGerve Cataro in a holrifhing rate,
as the Montenegrins had fcarceiy been two
daysin the place, before they began 70 murder
and plumber the inhabitants, who bad armed
themfe!ves aud come to blows with thefe tran