Alexandria daily gazette, commercial & political. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1808-1812, 1809-09-01

the French have naQ LILY kllies dhu
wounded. In the ninetee nth bulletin, at
the battle Of Raab, they have had but 900
killed or wounded; whichswould not make
a loss Of more than 5000 killed and about
1000 wounded in all; a loss infinitely lnie-
rior 10 that of the Austrians, and which
pyoves that it is nothing in comparison with
their enemy's. The S1st bulletin says IN
Fbositiye manner that the Austrian army was
100000 strong when it took the field that
the French have killed 900 and taken
100000 of them, and which reduces that
army to 200 900 men exactly lfor the French
will not prrmit the, Hungarians to make
their insurrectlon.
According TO Bonaparts s maneuvres, it
appears that he is concentrlng all his forces,
in order to resume the offensive. In sup.
posing that he has united but two thirds OF
his troops he musthave more than z, 100000
men to oppose 100000, who can hardly a
void sinking under mass SO heavy but
the more terrible the shock, the greater the
glory rehecte djupon the weaker party.
In fact then, there canr suit but little gio-
yy to Bonaparte, should he subdue the Aus
TRANS but On the contrary, there will result
great glery 10 the chief of the Austrian ar
my, who has stopped short SO formidable
an enemy.
Ii the French reports are correct, can we
be told the causes that prevented those SOL
distant conquerors from pursuing their sue
cess The twenty-frst bulletin assures that
at Esslng 10000 Frenchmen have beaten
and kept in check 10000 Austrians, who
would have been completely ronted and des.
troyed, had not the ammunition failed by
the destruction of the bridges but that
bulletin does not say why, month after
their victory" of Essing' they bad not yet
! routed and destroyed" the Austrian army,
since they had tzvice repaired their bridges,
and were able TO transport their ammuni-
ton. -
From thu observations we have just made
! it would seem that the Austrian army can.
not physically resist Bonaparte but since it
| has resisted once, why may it not resist a
! mother time, though SO much inferior in
! number? Then, what glory would reflect
on its arms and what shame on this auda-
cious and presumptuous conqueror !!
Ii canno: be said that these calculations
are exaggerated. since they are taken from
| 1rvncn 3S1rrzal papers. Dut may De per-
1nitted, to remark some errors made by the
compilcrs of those o0Fclal papers, either
from want OF memory or from intention.
Can it escape notice. that III the first SIX
teen bulletins, j. e. till the 18th Of June, they
aledge 1875 GOO prisoners taken and that
the ed of the same month, in the 2 st bull
letin, they mention but 100000 prisoners
although they ought to have added to the
number in the interval by..,heir slorioals bat
tie of Raab, or by their former ones, fought
and gained by Eugene Beuharnois, in cross
ing lower Hungary.
In the Cd bulletin, of the eth Of April,
it is said, eight days hence the whole bo-
dy guard will arrive."-In the 18th bulle-
tin, the ooh Of MAY, they say, !" the chas.
seurs of the guard arrived yesterday, the
dragons will arrive to day, and the horse
grenadiers, with sixty pieces of artillery of
the guard, are expected in few days.
In his order of the day the Oath of April,
inserted in the Cd bulletin, Bonaparte says
to his soldiers, 6 within few DAYS we have
TRUMP he'd in the three battles OF Tam, Au-
bcnsberg and Eckmulh and in the COM
bats at Peisline, Landshut and Ratisbonne:
hundred pieces Of cannon, forty colours,
and fifty THOUSAND Prisoners are taken" &c.
(,hough the bulletin says more than 10000
prisoners; but the difference of a fourth is
no great matter.)t
But since the writers of the official buAIe-
tin are obnoxious to mistake, let us suppose
that the French army has not always been
in state SO healthy as they have been pleas
ed to relate that it has had great many
more killed by the fire of their enemies than
they admit; yet it cannot be denied, that