Virginia Argus. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1796-1816, 1809-08-15
[f2 i-e Gents Sbwts,J

s2d, he was master of the GeIa cfd5ss
lie. He has even caused PRINT oS
Sthat battle TO be engraved end s1Si..ns
| about he is exhlbitrd In Il sarjdiec
! from one bank 20 the ocher, aud his
batteries crossing the isl ads nd she
field Of battle in ever% direction, Ne
also imagines battle which ne calls
the battle Of Kitsee a. in which az
immease number OF Ereuchmea ar.
supposed to have{heen taken or killed..
These puetilities, hawkeA about f,y
small colunns of landwehrs ike ihas
of Schill, are tactics employed fer tho
purpose Of disturbing ana raising ti,s
country.
General Marzisni, wiso vas made
prisoner at the hdtde of Raab, IS ar
rived at the head quarters. He Saw
that from the battle of the Pave, the
Archduke John had lost two thirds
of his men (; thar he afterwards re-
ceived recruits who nearly filed M
the rolls, but who do rot know how
to make use of their puskets. lie
rates at $4,000 meu the loss OF she
Archduke Jehn and cs the Palatine
at the battle of Raab. According IN
the report of the Hungarian prisoa-
ers, the Archduke Palatne was the
first in that battle to take q pht.
Some persons have attempted TO
put in opposition the strength of The
Austrian army at Esslins, estimated
at 10000 men, with the 10000 men
who have been made prisoners since
the opening of the campaign; they
have shewn little reflection. The Aus
trian army took the field with nine
corps OF 10000 men each, and there
were IN the interior of the corps both
recruits and laEdwehrs,; so that Aus
tria had really upwards of 100000
men under arms. From the battle of
Abensburg until after the taking of
Vienna, comprising Italy and Poland,
we may have taken 100000 prison
ers from the enemy, and he lose one
hundred thousand men IN killed, de.
serted or missing. There mus men
have remained to him two hundred
thousand men more distributed az fol-.
lows.--The Archduke John had ay
the battle of Raab 5000 men. The
principal Austrian army had. be-
fore the battle of Essling 10000 men.
There remained twenty-five thousapa
men to- the Archduke Ferdinand az
Warsaw, and twenty-five thousand
men were disseminated in the Tyrol.
in Croatia, and spread as psrtizans o.
yer the confines of Bohemia.
The Austrian army at Essling con-
sisted of the first corps comm andea
bv General Belegarde, the ONLY one
which had NOT fought, and which was
still entire, and Of the wrecks Of he I'd.
the Sd, the l;h, the 9Th, and the 6th
corps, which mad been crushed in the
preceding battles. If these corps had
lost nothing and had been united such
AS they were at the commencement OF
the campaign, they would have form
ed 100000 men. The enemy had no
more than $4,000 men, thus we see
how enormous are the losses which he
had experienced.
When the Archduke John took che
field, his army consisted OF the sth
and eth corps, forming 1000 men.
AT Raab it consisted OF $4,000 men.
It's loss would then have been 10000
men. But in these $1,000 men were
comprised $4,000 Hungari5ns of the
Instruction Its loss, therefore, was
really of forty-hve thousand men.
The Archduke Ferdinand had en-
tered Warsaw with the 9TH CORPS for
ming 10000 men. II is reduced 10
twenty-five thousand. Its loss is, there
fore, Of 25 900 men.
We see how these different calcula-
tons support and verify each other.
The Viceroy beat at Raab so 1000
men with $4,000 Frsnchmen.
At Essling, 10000 men were beat
en- and kept in cheek by 1000 French
men, who would have completely rou-
ted and destroyed them, had it not
been for the event Of the bridges, whioh
produced the want Of ammunition.
The great efforts Of Austria have
been the result OF the paper currency,
| and of the resolution which the hus-