Virginia Argus. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1796-1816, 1809-07-11

In fhe Venetian Territory.
l. Daimatia. 7. 1revizo.
>. Istria. 8. Feltri.
3. Friu,i. Q. Bassano.
4. Cadori. 10. Y,cenxa.
S. Briluno. Ii. Padua.
s Coneglians. II. Rovigo.
In the Parmesan Ssates.
>. With the name of these we are not
correctly furnished,
In the Kingdom Of Na,,les.
8. Nor have We the precise names of
these.
In Massa Carrara.
i. Of which we are not well informed.
hese duchies are grand 6efs of the French
empire, and are destined to reward the
services OF the thief military and civil Of
hcers OF Bonaparte's army ami government.
We have seen that the greater part, if not
the whole, OF >hese titles, have been hes.
towed upon particular favorites already.
| Ihese changes took place before the o.
| vertnrow OF the Prussiau monarchy. The
humiliation OF the house Of Brahdenbury.
gave rise to wonderful alterations in the
SYSTEM OF European politics Previous 10
the discontinue of Frederick William, in
June 1906, Holland was erected into
k'ngdoD, with GUS Bonaparte at its head.
the grand pensionary acknowledgement
retiring upon handso ue provision being
made for him by Napoleon.
| The war with Prussia commenced on
che 9th OF October 1905 the results brief
iy, were these
ne Frussian monarchy was confined
within narrower bounds Dantzic was
made tree city; the erection of the duchy
OF warsaw out OF the Polish territory be-.
longing to Prussia, which was given to the
king of Saxony, with the privilege of a mi.
litary road from Saxony to WARSAW thro'
the Prussian Territ.ry., WestphaIia was
erected into kingdom, ana gwen 20 Je.
rome Bonaparte : the league o. the Rhenish
confederacy was extended from the Rhine
to the Niemen. These arrangements were
guaranteed by the treaty of r.is,t, wnich
united the emperors of France and Russia
in the closest amity.
! The revolutions of Spain and Portugal,
and the transfer Of king Joseph to the Spa.
nish throne from that OF Naples, and the
! placing Murat at the head OF the Neapo-
Titan Kingdom, are events of too recent a
date TO require particular specification.
We all know that before the emperor OF
france had fianted his Eagles on the For,s
| ~ Lisbon, he was hurried home by the an.
proach of new Austrian war.
1 This war commenced On the 9th of April
! 1909, by the Austrian army, with The arch
| duke Charles at It's head, passing the Inn
| aud investing Passau, which is situated at
the confluence Of the Inn ard the Iltz, 1SS
miles to the westward of Vienna. In sno.
ther direction kufstein, in the Tyrol, on
the Inn, was also invested, and gen. leila.
chich by proclamation invited the ryrol,-
ans to unite with Austria. 1t will be re-
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vSria by the treaty of Presburg in 1905.
| It appears by the first bulletin that the
| French and their allies had in the neigh
borhood of the Austrian movements, tho
at some distance from them, the following
corps:
AT Ratisbon, on the Danube, the corps of
| the duke of Auersradt.
| At Ulm, likewise on the Danube, but
lower down, the corps Of the duke of Rivo-
Ii.
At Augsbourgh, between the Wesdach
x L-ch, the hue corps of gen. Oudinot.
These were all corps of French troops.
| The Bavarian contingents, in three dfvi-
sions, were posted, 1. At Munich, the Ca
| pital OF Bavaria, commanded by the prince
royal. 2. At Lsndshut, on the Iser, under
gen. Deroi. ;. At Straubing, 90 the Da-
nube, under Gen. de Vrede.
| lhese three divisions were under the
direction Of the duke of pantzic, a very a.
BILE commander.
The Polish contngents were at Warsaw,
those OF Nuremberg at Heydeuheim, and
those ofSaxony at Dresden.
The Austrians, for the frst ten days Of
the campaign, presented themselves in force
all the country between the Inn and the
iser, from Kufstein TO Psssas and Land :
shut. The king oil Bavaria was obliged to
ay from his capital (Munich) to. Dill gen,
which is near the Danube, and II miles
N. E. OF Augsburg. II was there that the
Emperor Napoleon found him and prom
ised to rcconduct him TO his capital in L.
days.
The Austrians pressing forward, Gen.
Deroi fell back from Landshut to Altorff, or
the left side of the lser. Gen. Vrede a.
bsndoned Straubing for Neustadt. The
Austrians presenting themselves at Land.
shut were slightly opposed by Gen. Deroi
who, however, was forced TO retire to Neu-
stadt these movements had tendency &c
concentrate the Bavarian visions. The
duke of Rivoli advanced from Ulm to Augs-
bourg, and the duke of Auerstsdt from RAJ
lisbon 10 Neustadt
| Bonaparts Get out from Paris on the 13th
/ IF fNur d.e, So, "a. do.