The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1809-09-19
FRoM THE AURORA
VIEWS OF VICTORY.

ouhellhS rom the 22d, the 23d, 24th and
18th, INITIATED, are now received and we
may be allowed to indulge little vanity in
recurring to our speculations in the Aurora
OF the 22d of August, as furnishing toera-
bly, correct anticipation of the battles of the
5I'i and 9th July. For it appears by the &C.
| counts now received, that the dispositions
ana display OF force on the Danube, abo, c
vienna, took place, and that similar demon
STATIONS we're Carving on at the same time
below, near Presburg that as we suggest
ed. movements wore made by Lefebvfe and
bernadotte, as high up as Lintz and that
every thing, on the part of the French, in
dica'ed design TO attack the Archduke on
that side. We are thus particular in recur-
rihg TO our own anticipa,ions, because we
nave tor several years been equally success
ful in anticipating similar events while adj
verse prints have been as eager 10 conceal
the truth when 1t arrives, and as back ward
as maEgnitv and envy usually are in admit
tiny any merit in a successful competitor for
public confidence
The fate OF Aust a, it was long forcseeh
would determine the fate Of continental Eu-
rope, The battles on the Danube. consc.
qnently have excited the curiosity and tn.
anxiety of all men, whatever sheir political
feelings my be. 1t is much 20 be regret
ted, that passions so little availing. which
can tend oniyto aggravate by after dscove-
| ry, the imperfect aud mortifying gra,i6ca
t,on or temporary conceaiment, should in
duce the mutilation of the official accounts
which are published of the great TRANSACT
ohS on the arena OF war. The publication of
the great rcSHit, is itself sufficient To fix
the polltIcai and moral effects of battles:
the suppression of details, betrays therefore
a pit'tul littleness. Besides, there is pub
lie utility in affording to the nation, at DE
rod when it beboves us to be prepared for
ccience, every species of military know
iedse !; the study of the perspicuous and in
teresting bulletins of the armies, forms the
MIND to general ideas on the subject, aud
prepares it for more particular thinking; it
stimulates TO useful enquiries and very often
leads to studies, which form the most invalu-
able characters and mes,bers of society,"
For besides the study of the mere art of war,
1t leads TO the study geography. one of the
most interesting and useful OF requirements
10 youth; an requirement very little attend.
ed to IN our seminaries Of education, a,tho'
from the commercial character of the coun
try, people ought to pay more regard TO
geography, IN all its incidents, than the peo-
pie OF America
he suppression of the topograp hical parts
OF the bulletins, is at once fragrant evi.
dence OF The want of judgment of the federal
d
| correct and faithful journalists, to futile and
little passions. Had we the accounts of the
military dispositions of the armies, we could,
with Judicious examination of correct
maps, discern the talents displayed on either
slde; we could appreciate the principles of
defence and OF attack; the degree and the
Character OF the assault and the resistance:
what man9uvres were performed, ard what
was their intention, their failure or success.
and the causes Oft. But without these facts.
we are left to form from the ground and the
events, the probable course OF the operations
winch are not always likely to answer 10 the
actual details; because single incident of
enterprise or galantry may overcome he
disadvantages of grouxd, and render that a
diSconcert OF movement, which might have
oeen' upon mere typographical rules, most
wise and judicious disposition
In our anticipatons some time ago, we fix.
cd upon the stream of the Russbach as po
sitlon highly favorable for defence.
The whole course of the little river or
stream OF Rusbach, from its source in the e.
evated grounds near Ehrensprunn, "a miles
north OF Vienna, to its junction with the Da-
nube, about so miles S. l.. of Vienna, is about
40 miles in all its meanderings, which are gt-
nerally In direction little east of south
Three other smaller rivers run from nearly
II st
miles. each fall into the Morave. east of the
Rusbach. The river of Pirawarth, at
fourteen, the Marchegg twenty, and Mis-
telpach thirty miles from the mouth of the
Rusbach. These streams naturally find
their course through valleys, amidst ground
which becomes more broken 81 more elevated
as you proceed east and north from Vienna.
Looking n. T.. from Vienna, the country
presents i'll that direction, plain, called by
the Germans Das Marshfelt, gently rising
from the Danube between 90 and so miles
but about miles north of Vienna, about
Langen Entersdortf, and Korn Newburg. a
ridge OF elevated ground, partly cultivated
and partly woody, stretches about 8 miles,
and turns boldly off to the northward, and at
the foot of these hills. flow the little streams
that give their waters to the RusbaCh, which
crosses the Champagne ut Walkersdorf,
leaving that place on its right bank, and pas.
sing by E9-erstorff, is turned abruptly by the
foot of group of hills Ut Pocksthyss and
SchCnkirChen to- the south west, and after
miles meandcrs by DeutCh Wagram, also ON
its right bank /; here it takes a bolder curve.
and approaching within y mile of Atterklaa.
bends It's circuit to Msrgraffn Ncisidel. which
is about miles east Of the celebrated town
of Eshng. The course Of the Rusbach thence,
IS generally south east drawing gradually
nearer to the Danube; and east Of Enters
dOrif opposite the Island Of Lobau. il is ON
ly 6 miles from the Danube. At Ia miles
little east OF south of Deutsch Wagram. an
other smaller town of the name of Wagram.
called X rdbitSCh WaErafu Stands ON the