Alexandria daily gazette, commercial & political. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1808-1812, 1809-09-20
From the Freeman's Journal.
THE XXNTH BULLETIN:
.e 9 OR,
The Greet Battle Of WagYam.

eXp6CttU, auu liioiC eldli viz 'NNAS'>Ns
has been overpowered By numbers, & COM
PEELED 20 retire from the borders OF the Da
nube. 1t does rot follow, however, that
the conquest Of Austria is completed, still
less that Of Turkey, Persia, and even In
ola, as some of the Napoleonites conc lnde.
The idea is fallacious in the extreme. The
armistice, which 3onapaIte appears TO have
been as anxious for as the emperor OF Aus
tyia, leaves the latter IN the possession OF
Bohemia, MoraHia, Hungary, and other
provinces, with population OF from twelve
TO fifteen millions OF people, an army OF
near two hundred thousand men, besides
m Immense. militia, the most Numerous ar
tiilery in the world, if the French tell truth
upon that subject, land almost nexhaustibie
magazines of ammunition and provisions.
How ensiable is the situation OF the Aus
trian monarch, compared with that OF FIRE.
derrick the Great, before the battle OF Ros-
bach di.si pated that magnificent dream OF
Prince Kaun;tZ, the realization OF which
was to divide Europe between France and
Austria, as Europe and Asia are now, &c
cording TO some new political dfeamerss TO
be divided between France and Russia.
The twenty=6fh bulletin is extremely
obscure and unsatisfactory. which is never
the case when the French achieve a real
victory. The division of the army into
right, left, and centre, is marked with sui
fcient clserness, but we have none OF those
"details which alone can enable US to judge
Of s>artieu'ar operations. In the dawn of
the morning Of the 5,h of July, we are ted
that the emperor had already TUNED the en-
trenchmen;s on the eneiny's left wiLg, and
at nine in the evening he had dcne4no more.
The works Of Gross Aspern were taken,
and yet the next day there was violent
cannonade Can Austrian canncnade, If w {
can understand the bulletin) at Gross As
FER Itisn evident that the French gained
hut E,le ground the first day, for they say
that from noon till nine O'clock in lhe even.
ing they n.anGavred in the vast plain OF
-Enzersdorf That they were forced to-
lnareuvre there SO long proves the Aus
trian dispositions to have been most admira.
bic. When night cameaon the enemy was
every where put to flight and ann1hilated
(this is not the ninth but certainly the fourth
or fifth time that the French say they have
anniliiatl d lhe Austrlans this campaign but
notwithstanding no enemy remained, the
mex day, and the>disbositions Of French ana,
Austrian generals acre opposed to each o.
ther.' Wagtam was taken in the night, but,
the French and the Saxons got at logger
heads IN the dark, and the annhila,ed Aus
..I,{ ~, RI L.
triumphantly repossesssd at,viilage. The
French WereRl and resisted at every point,
from darbreak till noon On the second day
of the. battle, which, at the beginning of IN E
~, must have been seven or eight hours,
and al last the French only regained their
famous old position of Ebefsdolf. ,Afte,F'
one battle of seventeen Ehours had been.
fought, Without any material advance one
the part Of the;French, the great Napoleon
discovered that the archduke's dispositions,
were SO unskil!ul that it would beno triumph.
to defeat him, and actually waited some
time to see If he would no, become ashamed
OF them himself, and run away without.
fighting second time. Charles however,
concluded to fight some eight or ten hours
longer, and now Napols on's movements.
were rapid beyond the conception ofus poor
mortals, who can form no adequate idea of
the operations of an I" O mnipotent.C enius."
In a mament the centre ofhe eneny lost "a
league Of ground. What an awful 'smoment''
was this !! Omnipotence alone could remove
hundred thousand men league in one
moment. Blrnam wood did not move so IA
pidly 10 Dunsinane. But in the mean time
g our left wing was surrounded at 5000 tot
ses." Yes-Bonaparte tells us that his left
wing was not only cut off, but surrounded
by his annihiiated' and I" unskilfull" ene-
my, and there is every reason to believe that
this most mastery mancuyre of the Aus.