Alexandria daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1803-1808, 1806-04-01

army OF bOnapaItE NUuto - -, IS
Fed towards S11asbarg, than y srona. u
Massena cannot have more than -9o'o ~
men nnder his command. The armies
under the immediate >command OF bona
natte connot be estimated at less than i4o,.
soee; merchandising which, the cam
paign has been opened IN Gefmony, Oy a.
a bout $4,000 Austrians,; whereas, toassaeN
or oppose Massena, nsr.her OF when nc
has hitherto done, the archduke Charles
has rot less than from 100 20 l3o,ooo
men. !.
lcapnot explain this strange distribution
and misapplicasion OF the ioices' bat IN the
two following ways:
First, its probsbie that general laaek'
aware ofthe jealousy, or, perhaps '''s ae-
c,dsd hatred horne him by the archdeke,
was unwilling to lDaams that amnesty py
proposal 10 withdraw from Italy, any We
ry considerable number OF the troops
which, In the commencement OF the pre-
paralons, il was Judged expedlent TO place
under the command of his royal h'ghoess
in that country. To this false and mrs
placed delicacy, therefare, are ~ great
measure owing the present mlstofsaaes'.
And do.not see any thing Improbable IN
this surmise, fcrit. was not unt1it the last
extremity thar ,hirty batsaiions OF infantry.
were in fact ordered from ftaly, TO rem
force the archduke Ferdinand . army, and
we know that this very measure gave
great deal of ua,brage to the arcnduke
s Charles.
Secondly, In settling the plan CT the
campaign. it must have bsen calculated
5that pre- vIous 10 The opening otls, sheshus'
SLAMS would hare Joined. Ih's, IN tFutn
however. false and extraordinary, was the
Icaieulation which was made; upon wAasit
twas founded, | cannot exactly say. Y
/ Considering the immense preparations
which were carrying on here, the return Of
I NJ. NovoxiizoF, announced in the middle
off, July, the notions, which, by that ttme,
Bonaparte must. mere CT less, have &C.
fquired of the negotiations carrying op be-
tween lis majesty and the two imperial
courts, il was hardly to be expected that
the. deception could be carried on, beyond
! the mouth Of August, and this was IL fact,
the epocha at which II ceased. On the o.
'her hand, it mighs have been, and was as.
certsieed that the French troops would
quit the coas, in the first DAYS of SeptsG-
Der; it might also have been calculated,
that according to the prodigious rapidity of
their N movements, and the IT'D mense activity
of their chiefs, they would reach their des.
: ~ |, ~
Equally well might it have been known,
that the first Russian army could not have
arrived upon the iur before he middle Of
October; from whence it became evident,
that in opening the campaign in the vlcinI-
ty of the Rhine, the Austrlans voluntarily,
and with their eyes open, chose TO conl
/ mence aosslli,ies, single banded, against
the French. This statement, if il b. a
true one, and think it canaot be fefuted,
places II should seem general Mack IL the
following dilemma; either the Austriaas
were in safficIen, force to contend alone a.
gsinst the Preach or they were noeo In The
first hypothesis, why should the position of
the Her have been chosen never to be a.
bandoned? In the latter why1isk SO for
ward movement? IF however general
Mack, in taking up his position on th4 lller
under the aforementioned circumstances,
could haveftelt himself con6dent Of being
able to maintain 1t till the arrivals of the.
Russians, it is natural, that with view of
opposing a barrier to the progress Of the.
enemy.into the empire, he should have
chosen itia preference to more bark
ward position. One cannot suppose that
he could have been directed by asy other
motive. but we have had the modification
to discover the fai,acy Off.
There was, uuquestionablv, something
fascinating in the IDEA of opening the CAM
paign 40 Swabia or Wir,emberg, rather
than IN Bavaria bot it is 10 be presumed,
that had the latter electorate been fixed IN.