Alexandria daily gazette, commercial & political. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1808-1812, 1809-08-10

repulsed at all points, and IN the evening he
recrossed to the Lobau, leaving on the field
of battle great number dead and wounded
cannon, an inhnity Of cuirrasses and mus
ours.
Since the night Of the ed our army has
encamped on the field OF battle, which ex-
tends along the Danube. The greater part
ofthe prisoners we have made are cavalry
and light infantry. Gen. Duresnol, first e.
query, and governor of the pages of the
emperor Napoleon, doing the duty of one
of his abide camps in the battle, was taken
on,the ed at in the morning, at the mo-
ment he had taken an order for the French
to advance; ne was Immediately surround
ed by the dragons OF the regiment of the
Rivsh. Gen. Fouler, first equerry of the
empress, was wounded and taken on the
21st.
Gen de Roder, in the service Of the king
of Wrtemberh, was taken on the 21st at
Husdorf, by the I'd battalion Of the Lands.
wher at Vienna. These three generals have
been sent to Brunn. Among the wounded
who are in our hands, and who were taken
on the second day, there area great num-
Der of officers of the cuirrassiers, several Of
whom are Of the etat major. They are Of
the regiments of the army who have most
suffered on the 21st and 22d, and from the
report of the prisoners, they are reduced
below third of their number.
All our attacks have been conducted and
executed with brilliant valor, and that
cool intrepidity which laughs at danger and
triumphs over every obstacle. From the
general to the private, every body done
more than his duty and there were as ma
ny brave men as there were combatants.-
Our loss is great bo:h in killed and wound
ed. Those Of the enemy, if we may judge
from the field Il! battle, must have been im-
mense.
AsTwERp, 1w,e2.
The Gazette Of this city contains the fol-
lowing article -
{" 1t may be considered as certain, in the
present state Of things, that the imperial de-
crceot the 10Th September, 1908, will not
only be executed with the utmost rigor, but
also that its influence will be extended to all
the allies OF France on the continent for if
ever there existed moment for successfully
giving death blow to the industry Of Great
Britain, 1t is the present. Almost all the
coasts of Europe belong TO France, or her
friends and allies, Trieste and Fiume, and
Sweden also, are los, TO England and the
shores OF the Baltic VIII speedily be furnish
ed with numerous army, which will most
efcctually prevent the overflow of prohibit
ed productions. But that, in the present.
state of,hines, no other system than that
hitherto pursued, can be admitted without
operating the ruin OF commerce, and part
cularly French msnufacturrs--,hat the per-
mission of entering our ports under the A.
,mericana1ag should entirely ccase,are pro-
positions. with the truth Of Which, all the
chambers OF commerce in France, and par
ticulary the eouaci! of commerce in Paris,
ar. fully and deeply impressed.
g Ofihe readiness with which our allies
will adopt this System, We NAV be enabled to
form an opinion from the consideration that
an American cargo, consisting chiefly of dye
stua:s, landed a, onningen, has been depos-
tied in the royal warehouses Of Denmark, 10
await the decision of the government & al
so, that Russia demands of Sweden, as one
of the conditions Of peace, thasshe shall shut
her ports against British vessels. From all
these considerations, it follows, that neither
colonial products, nor any other articles of
commerce AID manufacturer will fall in price,
bat on the contrary, that they will rise the
moment the dispositions which are expected
from the energy and wisdom of the emperor
are made known. Travellers who were 1,
Vienna little before the entrance of the
French into that capital, assert that the price
$50 to $50 aorins. 1t is said that all that re-