The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1809-08-15
TWENTY-FIRST BULLETIN.
VIENNA, 22d June 1909.

An aid de camp to Prince Joseph Ponita
| towski is arrived from the head quarters of
the army of the Grand Duchy. On the 10th
of this month, Prince Serge Galitzin was
to be at Lubln and his van guard at Sando-
mir.
The enemy is pleased to spread cpheme
raj bulletins, in which he every day relates
a victory. According to his assertion. he
took 10000 mus!:ets and 1000 Curasses at
the battle of Essling. He says that on the
2lst and 22d he was master of the field Of
battle. He has even caused print of that
battle to be engraved and spread about /; he
is exhibited ia ssridinS from one bank to the
other, and mis- batteries crossing the islands
and the field of battle in every condition.
He also imagines battle which he calls the
battle of Ktsee q } in which All immense
number OF Frenchmen are supposed to have
been taken or killed. These puerilities,
hawked about by small columns OF landwehrs
like that of Schill, are tactics employed for
the purpose OF disturbing and raising the
country.
General MarzisDi, who was made prison
CT at the battle OF Raab, is arrived at the
head quarters. He saws that from the bat
tie of the Piave, the Archduke John had lost
two thirds of his men /; that he afterwards
received recruits who nearly filled up the
rolls, but who donot know how TO make use
| of their muskets. He rates at IL, GOO men
the loss OF the Archduke John and of the Pa
latino at the battle of Raab. According to
the report of the Hungarian prisoners, the
Archduke Palatine was the first in that bat
tie to take flight.
Some persons have attempted to put in
opposition the strength of the Austrian army
at EsSling, estimated at 10000 men, with
the $4,000 men who have been made prisoners
since the opening of the campaign ; they
have shewn little reflection. The Austrian
army took the field with nine corps of DO, 600
men each, and there were in the interior of
the corps both recruits and landwehrs so
that Austria had really upwards Of 400, 900
men under arms. From the battle of Aliens
berg until after the taking of Vienna, com
prising Italy and Poland, we may have tax
en- one hundred thousand prisoners from the
enemy, and he lost one huadred thousand
men in killed, deserted or missing. There
must then have remained to him two han
dred thousand men more distributed as fol-
lows The archdukc John had at the battle
OF Raab 50 900 men. The principal Aus
trian Army had, before the battle of Essling,
10000 men. There remained 25 600 men
to the ArChduke Ferdinand at Warsaw, &
twenty five thousand men were disseminated
III the TYrol, in Croatia, and spread as par
tizans over the confines of Bohemia
The Austrian army 1T Essling consisted
of the first corps commanded by General
Bellegarde, the only one which had not fought
and which was still entire, and Of the wrecks
OF the I'd, the Sd, the 4th, the 5th and the
9th corps, which had 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 formed 24O,OOO men The
| enemy bad no more than 10000 men, thus
! we see how numerous are the losses which
he had experienced.
| When the Arcbduke John took the field,
his army consisted of the 9Th and 9th corps
| forming $4,000 men. At Raab it consisted
of SO, geo meR. Its loss would then have been
$4,000 men. But in these $4,000 men were
comprised $1,000 Hungarans of the insur-
rection. Its loss, therefore, was really OF
! IS 900 men.
The ArShduke Ferdinand had entered
Warsaw with the 9TH corps forming forty
thousand men. 1t is reduced to twenty FIVE
! thousand. Its loss is, therefore, of twenty
five thousand men.
We see how these different calculations
support and verify each other
/ The Niceroy beat at Raab fifty thousand
men with thirty Thousand Frenchmen.
| At Essiug ninety thousand men were beat
en- aud kept in check by thirty thousand
lFrenchmeu, who would have completely
routed and destroyed them, had it not beer
for the want OF the bridges, which produced
the want Of amnunitioB.
/ The great efforts of Austria have been the
result OF the paper currency, and Of the re
-
| O) kitsee is upon the right bank of the
Danube, league in the interior Of the coun
try.