Portland gazette and Maine advertiser. (Portland, Me.) 1805-1818, 1809-07-03

the fatfare1 banks Of the Dlraie, in a severe
defeat OF The Austrians by the French and
Confederate troops directed by Nopsieoa IN
person and executed by Bsribiv Lsfe v,e, Dun
| not, &c
~ We have no, seen any real official ac-
counts of this event The particulars of which
| have been received IN German extracts of
letters, bulletins lhand hii,s) and paragraphs,
/ copied into the AwSe, ION Gaze'tes ard will be
| found the preceding column 'ho'thefe accounts
are vague and contradictory. they thew, that
battle must have been fought IN Bavaria abou,
the goth April; and iha, after conflict OF three
DAYS, the French Emperor again pfatticing his
accnltomed tactics, gained the rear of hi. enemy
and completely overwhelmed him. Ciscum-
dances, however, induce us 10 believe, thar IL
was nor the man army of Auitfis, which is
commanded by The Archduke Charles that has
been defeated bur the corps which croiled the
lon advanced TO the Ter, and had AIKEN pos
self of Munich and which was commanded
by Prince John of Lich,enflein This corps,
wa. in the vicinity of the reported scene OF
action, about the middle of April AT which
time The French and Bavarian columns were
concentrating on the borders of Swsbia
ana Bavaria. and the emperor IN perfon. was
a, Donawert the 18th or s'n April, and
proceeded ip,nediately to the lines 1t would
appear frsm one of the German articles, that
the Auftrians were the afIaiants as mention is
made that the French ebsJtd the attack of their
enemy. The killed and ptiioners, are fiated in
round numbers; and are probably eraggera.
ted, bur we have reafon TO think the Au'trisn .
lofs has nor been fmail and that the rejocings
2sth and 29ih April, as mentioned III our late
Englifh news, were on account of this iuccefs.
IL is mentioned, however, as rather an extra
ordinary fact, If a iplendia victory had been :
that no Grad dry BDi!sfia of it had
reached Amfteid dam the I'd nor Sd Of May
twelve or thirteen days after the date Of the
battle the diftance from the reported fcene ,
of which from Amterdam is not more than
$50 American mIles.
Bs-It is polIi5le, notwithstanding the cir
cumitances mentioned above, tina, general
battle has been fought, in which the fate of /,
Auitria was decided aud that the particulars
will reach US b. the next arrivals. The Bo.
nspartian mode of warfare is 70 eiiImiar
from that of any other warrior who ha. pre- |.
cedee him, that very little reliance can be
placed ON calcI atoms made from previous
petitions, date. aud diilances.-A kingdom is
now overrun in the time uied formerly in
changing poliion preparatory to an attack
or defence and the operations of an army
competed of its hundreds of thoufanis, are
now as rapidly performed, as formerly d.
WHOM could be dtpfoyed, or c.oie column ,
formed by two or three brgades
~ The lat news from Portugal, If then !,
&c, is more auipicous TO the patriotic caufe
han former advices Accounts from I.iibon,
via Madeira fla,e, thar the Britih and Portu-
yuele had advanced from Llihon towards
Oporto, under Generals Weeiley and Beref-
iosd; and that the French garrfon in that
city were III fuch d,itrels, from want of pro-
yidons, A, mut compel them TO fpeedy fur
render. The britifh force in Portugal 10
Rated at riGng $1,000. of which nine regi
men,s arc cavalry befides ieveral brigaies
IF lighi Artillery Renforcements for Por
ngal are continually ernb arkng in Engla nd.
Gen. Craldock commands in LIib1n in the !
sbieace of Gen. Wee1sy
~. The .idings from France, by the Vir.
GINA are NOT piealng. Bonsparte had 70,
ihewn any diipohtion TO ielax his DEGREES
and i, was conidered IN Holland as highly
that his new fuccefs in Germany
would induce him to take more arbitrary
ground and treat any overtures from our
gove-nme on the iubjea Ct repeal of ihofe
DEGREES, with augmented b~stss, and con
tempt. The expected return of Gen. Arm
firong in the Mentor, is conlradieted in the
New. York papers.