Virginia Argus. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1796-1816, 1806-03-11

rcru,atirr. That, iedecd.i IS great deal.
10 have fought at last: barely to have
fought at The cad of Z retreat, or rather
running away of five hundred NILES. 81
cross rivers and ,hto' fortified places
rnore numerous than are The battalion, m
the army al their enemy, IS 4 good dc |.
They have fought, aud renewed the fight
with stiff wounds they have, at last,
drawn tie blood of their antagonists.
This locks we'll. II is rational ground
Tor hoping that we shalt hear of som=-
thing more. But, here seems to be the
utmost extent OF the advantage; for, as
to having beaten the French, there is, all
the intelligence fairly considered, no, the.
least appearance of 1t; the French army,
according To this last bulletin OF our po.
vernment, being posted precisely where
1t WAS previous to the battle of The Cd.
Not an inch have they re,reaied; and
must hear OF something much more re.
ssmblng victory owe, them, before
shall expeetto hear, that they have made
enc step towsTds Vienna. Suppose,
however, that Napoleon was 10 be com.
PEELED to retreail Must we, therefore,
coaclude THAI he is ruinedi How would
this reasoning suit, if applied 10 his ene-
mics They, God knows, have retreat
ed far enough in all conscience and yet,
we are told, that their affairs are in a We.
~ promising way.-Aye, but they have
been rstreating in their own territory.
So then, Napoleon has only TO get them
TO follow him into. France and throueh
Paris, in order completely to annihilaie
them! Away with all the nonsense a.
bout his being hemmed in ard Cur off!
Who are TO hem them in? The three
great armes," we are told 10 wit; the
Austro-Russian, the Prussian army, aud
the army of the archduke Charles. AS
TO the Prussian army, Jii las really march
ed, there is Augereau ready 10 meet il i'm
SUasia OF BaUa ia, or to follow him into
Bohemia,, if il marched towards Napole-
on's position. Augereau has 60 ,ooc men,
and his army, from its nearness TO France,
is'easily augmented. The Archduke :.
Where is he The last we heard of him
was IN Croatia, more than 200 miles from
the scene of action between Napoleon s.
his antagonists. He was then flyipp
from Massena; and, ii The Archdr Ike has,
as is reported, 90 600 men, hex, MANI
mgst ms hRrsuer haze! "The Archduko
wiil come upon The back of Bonapar,e
through Tienna 20 Through Yienna !
they are mad. These writer's are mad
-GSassena, the pursuer of the Archduke.
was when we last heard OF him, setgyee1r me
.ErchdRte e H;enna !! There TOO was Mar
mont with his division, " Cut oH," Wby
Bonaparte had, in the army Of Massena
and in the divisions Of Marmont and New.
q hundred thousand men within seven
days march OF the spot where the last bat
tie was fought, and he was the complete,
nay, the civil ruler, of all the country be-
tween him and them. By what or by
whom is he TO DC cut off? He is only 50
miles 10 the north of The Danube, and, to
the south OF the Danube, westward from
Hungary, there is not enc inch Of terrific
ny upon the continent of Europe, of which
he is not master. III were 10 hear that
he had recoiled as.far as Vienna,I should
be vary much, and, indeed, very agree.
ably surprised but, should not thence
derive much hope of his final failure.
lie must sfsh <ome7uherc. Ii is rid,cu-
lousy unreasonable to allow him 10 be
victorious until he has hunted the enemy
quite out OF the world; aud, ii would be
a disgrace for him to fall back upon Wen
ma; what, at this time, must be the res
puIation of his enemies! They fell back
upon Vienna; and they quilted it much
more readily than, fear, he will. At
Vienna he would, indeed, see 500 miles
distance between him and France; but,
he would, in the whole 500 miles, see not
a single fortress or battalion in his way.
The ferscious gentleman of the Courier
must excuse me; for, this is really The
light in which ] see the situation OF Be-
naparte. see him with 500 900 soldiers,
real soldiers; not upon paper like my
lord Cast!ercagh's army, but in the field;
actually lighting or marching; and l do
not sec that all his enemies, all put togc-
Their, have so macy. We hear tax of
them before the battles, indeed, but we
do not see them in The battles.