Alexandria daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1803-1808, 1806-04-05

and Iuefday iaNs ne ConitiitlSs wes So'"Po'ep
OF .hr the two afehdukes Charles and jshn, the
prelidcn: and vice, pfeGiens OF the council, ana
quarter mater general Mack. The que!sion
luumHted 20 their deliberst:on turned on the pro.
die;ous increae OF tie French forces IN Italy; on
rms insslncns danger which thcncs reluited 10 the
frontiers Of tic Hereditary tates; on the rapidi.
~ With which, f.om the fr!t hottie determine.
lion Of Bonaparte, r1cy would be attacked; and
on the abfoIute impoGoiIity of rcfaanc-. This
fituaticn was deliberately confidered, and 1t was
unsnlraooly decided, even with To: content OF
the archdck. Charles that il was necefary tore
inforce the troops in that quarter. This point be-
ine settled, the neceGuy details will bcarrangcd
in conlequence and / loie no time IN for~ ard
log TO you the msa important OF their reto.a-
tiohs.
Exeaa fem a Mtmoiroa abe Situation Of Affairs
esmmanieata BY eoaat StS'9rtHt6erg:
Never were hopes, founded on the mott falu-
,ary views and plans, dstroyed BY more fatal
my in Germany hos experienced by concourse OF
unfortunate ~eifcumRances, the consequence of
fnsle 4aalt
The simultaneous evaporation OF the two i'm.
per,s courts OF England snd Rulhs ihou.d haye
offered, at the commencement Of the war,
chain of armed forces from the north to the fouh,
and houId have obiigee France by mutual diver.
Gons to separate. hers. 1t was our fri misfor-
tuRe, that none Of the hopes we had placed IN
divcrfi,ns on the north Of che Continent, which
mig have obliged the emperor OF France 70 d.
Il. sbar H. III L &,
COATS were realized; and not only all he troops
were ab,e to be employed agaiaf cur army in
Germany, but even the Gallo Bstavian army,
and that OF B;rnadotte, could cult Hanover and
Holland alto, without iRpedimrnr to 1in in the
attack. 1t is to this ciicemaaDce that the Fsench
fuperiority of their Numbers; for deducing :helc
two armies, the troops arrived from the interior
In the eeuf Re OF the month OF Oet0b:r, have but
little exceeded the number ct Auaridn troops,
placed on the Her, where, in the frong petition
which they occuEsd, thsy woald have been able
maieGy the emperor OF Rnaia. There was even
moment when they had the hope of preventing
the jun0on OF the Preach troops from the North
with tbofe Arrived from the inferior CT France ,;by
falling on aparty OF the latter when, as le-
cond misfortune, the violation of the Prulian
neutrality fuddenly changed the lace of affairs,
and reduced our German army to the alternative,
eli -her to fall back immediately on the Inn, or
fee irclt furrounded ard deRroyed
The retreat on the Inn should have pre-
yented every disagreeable consequence.
Joined to the body OF the army under the
general in chief, DesKutusow, these troops
would have been suGcien, TO resist the Ii.
rnited French forces; the subsequent ARR.
val of the second Russian army, aud final.
ly the developement of other measures of
the coalition, might have procured to the
allied troops that superiority of force which
had been absolutely depended on in the mu.
tuai engagements.
Through the Uncomfortable fault of ge-
neral chosen tor a reputation gained by
former successes, the armv of Germany
renamed on the lller and in the course
of few days, without having been beaten,
after some slight actions in which it had ra.
ther the advantage than the disadvantage,
the greater part OF the army was taken, and
the remainder dispersed All the follow
ing misfortunes were the Inevitable cense-
,qaences of this disaster.
The united French forces in Germany
alone exceeding, Without the allied troops,
10000 men, advanced against the Austro.
Russian troops posted on the Inn, which
amounted to little more than half OF that
number. TO expose these troops 10 re.
guar combat against force double their
number, would have been to risk the ruin
of them, before the arrival Of the second
army of his majesty the emperor of Rus.
STA it would have bsen 10 commit the same
faul, ha, had just lost our army Of Ger.
many. On the contrary to preserve the
first Russian army entire, until the arrival
of the second, became ihe principal object
Of the dispositions, which were concerted
by his m 5iesty~ia person with the general