The National Register. — 1809-11-19 (London, England)

THE NATIONAL REGISTER.  NOV. 19  pealing their former devastations and cruelties. But the indignwion excited by the reappearance of those inhuman chiefs was such, that the very women, whose business had hitherto hten confined to conveying the prisoners to places of safety, as. 6embled in numbers and put to death 640 of the enemy near Landeck.; and though the %, hole force of the enemy amounted to about thirty thousand, they were attacked by the Tyrolese and Voralbergers, who had risen en masse, with such irresistible fury, that those who saved themselves by flight, were pursued tf) a great distance, so as to he unable, during the space of twenty-four hours, to allay their thirst with a draught of water.  It was in vain, that Buonaparte, on hearing this new disaster of his arms, detaehed Marshals Macdonald and Bessiers, with picked troops, against the Tyrolese. They were routed, and obliged to return. From the concurring accounts in the Patch, German, and French papers, which are copied into the daily prints of LonArra, it is placed beyond all doubt, that the Tyrolese and Vorilhergers persevere in their obstinate resistance to the French and their Allies. • They are indeed now free, but at the'expence of very uncommon sacrifices.. Numbers of them mourn their fathers, brothers, a:A sons, not slain in battle, but for the most part murdered in •ho nrost inhuman manner. Four towns and 26 flourishing are reduced to heaps of ashes—not to mention the destruction of a large number of detached cottages. These calamities Are felt more sensibly in a climate which is far from being The mount:dos of the -Tyrol and Voralherg have ever since the beginaing of October, been covered with snow and ice, The inhabitants, though. accustomed to subsist upon the hardest fare, ran, after so many devastations, pillages, conflagrations, and In; rd:hi pg of every kind., scarcely get wherewithal to satisfy the cravin4s of nature. Multitudes at this moment are happy in being allowed some little corner in a crowded barn, stable, or hut  In spite of all .these sufferings, they are fully determined never to listen 'to any accomodation with Buomtparte, or con, ,cut to be again governed by the iron sceptre of Bavaria. This •fetermiLat ion, though it may appear rash, can be satisfactorily a counted for, from the above stated cruelties, exactions and oppressions. AU, to a man, trained to the most skilful use of tile rifle : inured to the inclemencies of the seasons; defended by ~itge mountains acce,sible to none but themselves; surrounded in ever). direction by, and allied to mountaineers that are animated with the same loVe of independence; reared up and happy in poverty ; religious; virtuous from habit ; utter strangers to luxury ; preferring their barren mountains to the most fruitful soils—and, above all, remembering the horrible outrages committed hy the order of Buonaparte, to whom they have to op, pose one hundred and fifty thousand sharpshooters, in a country where no regular 'armies can act, and where they and they alone know the paths to procure such supplies, if they have hut the means to purchase them. Such a hardy, stubborn, and .athletic race of men are eery formidable enemies. Such they have certainly proved to France, and no peace which their beloved Prince may have been compelled to enter into, will induce them to become a party to it.  They are firmly resolved either to conquer or die.