The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1809-10-03

ted. -
BY the arrival at Gloucester, the Spanish Con
.,;, in this town, has received Seville C;asYttes to
the goth of July, and, we understand, letters to
the 2S,h {: but they do not and could not contain
any news ofthe battle.--Repefory.
oT CONTRIBUTION.
Yesterday the brig Covernour Summer, Cant
flilliard from Alicant, last from Gibraltar which
she left on the 9th OF August, arrived i'm this port
Capt Hiliard brings Gibraltar papers containing
confirmation ofthe news of a victory over the di-
VISION of the French, commanded by marshal Vic
tor, consisting 100000 men, The first &C count
received from Seville, BY Cadiz, at Gibraltar, ON
the 4tb, was transmitted by an officer on the field
OF battle, and stated that Victor was defeated af
ter bloody engagement, in which the English
lost from ! to 5000 killed, and two general Off
GERS The battle was near Talavera de la Reyna,
So miles S. w. of Madrid. The same day (the
4th) am express arrived, confirming the above,
and adding that Victor had surrendered with Is,
900 men.
1t is true that there firing along the coast
OF Spain and at Gibraltar, in consequence OF the
victory, and capt. billiard says that no person
doubted the fact. The ether divisions of the
French had not joined Victor The report was,
that Cuesta's army did not engage until the victo-
ry was certain. No account of Madrid's being
retakcn..-Io.
@ The 25th Bulletin. from the German papers,
was niuaiated.-'The interesting Introduction
10 was omittcd-Having since seen extracts
from London Prints, we hasten to subbiy this
otnission.-After this introduction, the Bulle-
TIN runs on where the German prints made it
begin p" Passage across the arm of the Dam
u6e to the Island Lo6au.".. Eng.
WoLKERsDoRT, July 8.
The works raised by Gen. Count Bertrand,
and the corps he commands, had. since the be-
ginning ut the month, entirely subdued the Dan
ube. His Majesty instantly resolved to collect
his forces in the island of Lobau, open upon the
Austrian army, and bring on general engage
ment 1t was not because the position of the
French army was not veryfn one at Vienna
Master OF the whole right bank of the Danube,
having IN his power Austria, and a considerable
portion of Hungary, he enjoyed the greatest
plenty. If some difficulties had been experien-
ced III providing sustenancc for the people of
Vienna, this arose from an i'll organized admins.
tration, from embarrassments which were every
day diminishing, and from difficulties which
| were naturally produced by the situation in
which the country was placed, in a land iii which
the trade IN corn is an exclusive privilege of the
government But how could the troops continue
To be separated from the hostile army by canal
OF three or four hundred toises in breadth, when
the means of passing over had been prepared &
secured This would have given credibility to
| q,
with so great profuson, throughout his own and
neighboring countries this would have cast a
doubt over the occurrences at Essling and would
finally, have authorised the supposition of there
being, III fact, substantial equality between ar.
mes so different of which one was animated
and m some measure reinforced by multiplied
successes and victories, while the other was dis
Pirited by the most striking reverses
All the intelligence collected concerning the
| Austrian army shewet. that it was considerable
that 1t had been recruited by numerous bodies OF
reserve, by the levies from Morava and Hunga
~, und by all the Landwehr of the provinces
that Its cavalry had been remounted by reuuisiti
cns IN all the Circles, and its draughts of arer,
tripled by immense leves of horses and Carriages
IN Moravla, Hungary, and Bohemia-To ado
new chances in their favor, the Austrian generaL
had raised military works, OF which the right wa.
protected by eros. Aspern, and the left by En-
zersdorf The villages of Aspern Essling, auc
Enzersdorf, and the intervals between them were
covered by redoubts, surrounded by palisades 8
friZes, and defended by more than ! so pieces O
battering Cannon taken from the fortressex q
Bohemia and Moravia.
1t was uncomfortable how the Emperor, with
his experience in war, could think of attacking
works so powerfully defended, backed by an ar.
my estimated at 900, 900 men, as we'll troop,
OF line as militia and new raised levies and
who were supported by 500 or 900 pieces offielt
artillery. 1t appeared more simple to throw
some iresh bridges over the Danube. few
leagues lower down, and thus render useless The
field OF battle prepared by the enemy But i,
tins latter case 1t was not thought practicable tc
| avert the Inconvenience which had ,lread,
nearly proved fatal to the army and to succeed
I'm the course oftwo or three DAYS in pro
tecting these new bridges from the machines O
the enemy.
On the other side the Emperor was tran
qull. Works were raised upon works i'm the IL
land OF Lobdu (; and several bridges on piles anc
several rows OF stoccadoes, were fixed at tb,
same place.
This situation of the French army, placed be
| tween these two great difficulties, had not es
| capped the enemy. He was aware that his army
too numerous and Hnwieldy, would be exposed
to certain destruction ifbe acted on the offensive
out at the same time, he believed that il was i'm
| possible to dlslodge him, from the central posi-
| ton III which he covered Bohemia Moray;a an,
| part OF Hungary It's true that this .positio,
did not cover Vienna, and that the French wer.
m possession OF this capital But this possession
was III certain degree, disputed, since In,
AuStrlans renamed masters of one bank of th,
danube, and prevented the arrival of the art
cies most indispensable to the subsistence of &C
great a city.-These were the reasons of hope
md fear, and the subject of conversation in thu
| two armies
On the LIST of July, at 4 o'clock of the morn
inS' the emperor removed his head quarters 10
the island Lobau; which had been already nam
ed by the engineers, the island Napoleon A
small island to which had been given the name
ofthe Duke OF Montebel o, and wlich+ore ,son