of Ponte Corvo were at Riez, between Bohemia and Ratisbon. One Schill, a sort of robber, who was covered with crimes during the last campaign with Prussia, and who had obtained the rank of Colonel, has deserted from Berlin, with his whole regiment, and repaired to Wirtemberg, on the Saxon frontier. He has environed that town. General Lestocq has issued a proclamation against him as a deserter. This ridiculous movement was concerted with the party which wished to send fire and blood through Germany. His Majesty has ordered the formation of a corps of observation of the Elbe, which will be commanded by the Duke of Valmy, and composed of 60,000 men. The advanced guard is ordered to proceed to Hanau. The Duke of Montebello crossed the Enns at Steyer, on the 4th, and arrived on the 5th at Amstetten, where he met the enemy's advanced guard. Colbert, General of "Brigade, caused the 20th regiment of horse chasseurs to charge a regiment of Ulans, of whom 500 were taken. The young Lauriston, eighteen years of age, and who but six months ago was a page, after a singular combat, vanquished the commander of the Clans, and took him prisoner. His Majesty has granted him the decoration of the Legion of Honour. On the 6th, the Duke of Montebello arrived at Molck, the Duke of Rivoli at Amstetten, and the Duke of Auerstadt at Lintz. The remains of the corps of the Archduke Lewis and General Hiller, quitted St. Polten on the 7th. Two-thirds passed the Danube at Crems; they were pursued to Mautern, where the bridge was found broken; the other third took the direction of Vienna. On the 5th, the head-quarters of the Emperor were at St. Polten. The head quarters of the Duke of Montebello are to-day at Sigartskirchen. The Duke of Dantzic is marching from Saltzburg to Inspruck, in order to attack in the rear the detachments which the enemy has still in the Tyrol, and which troubled the frontiers of Bavaria. In the cellars of the Abbey of Molck were found several thousand bottles of wine, which are very useful for the army. It is not till beyond Molck that the wine country begins. It follows from the accounts given in, that the army has found, since the passage of the Inn, in the different magazines of the enemy, 40,000 quintals of flour, 400,000 rations of biscuit and some hundred thousands of rations of bread. Austria had formed these magazines in order to march forward. They have been of great use to us. At the Imperial Head-quarters at Enns, May 6. By virtue of a command of his Majesty the Emperor and King, Chastelar, soi-disant General of the Austrian service, ringleader of the insurrection in the Tyrol, and causer of the murders committed on Bavarian and French prisoners, contrary to the laws of nations, shall be brought before a military commission, and executed within twenty-four hours after he shall be taken, and this as the leader of highway robbers. ALEXANDER, Prince of Neufchatel, &c. Seventh Bulletin. Vienna, May 13. On the 10th, about nine in the morning, the Emperor appeared with the corps of the Marshal Duke of Montebello, at the gates of Vienna. It was just one month, on the same day and hour that the Austrian army had crossed the Inn, and the Emperor Fran cis had rendered himself guilty of a breach of faith, which was the prognostic of his overthrow. The Emperor experienced a secret satisiaction, when, approaching the immense suburb of Vienna, a numerous populace, women, children, and old men, hastened to meet the French army, and received our soldiers as friends. General Couroux entered the suburbs, and General Thurean repaired to the platform which separates them from the town. At the moment when he was posting his troops, he was saluted with a fire of musketry and cannon, and received a slight wound. Of the three hundred thousand which form the whole population of Vienna, the town properly so called, which is defended by bastions and a counterscarp, contains nearly 80,000 inhabitants. The four quarters of the town, which are called suburbs, and which are separated from it by a plain, on the land side, covered by entrenchments, include more than 5000 houses, inhabited by more than 220,000 persons. The Archduke Maximilian had ordered re gisters to be opened to collect the names of the inhabitants who wished to defend themselves. Thirty individuals alone inscribed their names; all the others refused with indignation. The Duke of Montebello sent him an aid. de-camp with a summons; but butchers, and some hundreds of fellows, who were the satellites of the Archduke Maximilian, flew upon the aid-de-camp, and one of them wounded him. After this unheard-of violation of the rights of nations, we saw the frightful spectacle of a part of the city firing upon the other part, and of a city whose arms were turned against her own citizens. General Andreossy, appointed Governor of the city, organised in each suburb municipalities, a central committee of subsistence, and a national guard. The Governor-General caused a deputation from the eight suburbs to proceed to Schoenbrunn. The Emperor ordered this deputation to go into the city with a letter from the Prince of Neufchatel, representing to the Archduke, that, if he continued to fire upon the suburbs, such an attack would for ever break the ties that attach subjects to their severcigns. The The reply to this demand was a redoubled Are from the ramparts. The patience of the Emperor was worn out -he ordered a bridge to be built on the arm of the Danube, which separates the Prater from the suburbs. At 8 p. n. the materials of the bridge were united-1800 howitzers were fired in less than four hours, and soon the whole city appeared in flames. One must have previously seen Vienna, her houses eight or nine stories high, her narrow streets, that population so numerous in so small a space, to form an idea of the disorder and disasters occasioned by such an operation. The Archduke lost his judgment in the midst of the bombardments, and at the moment particularly in which he was informed that we had passed an arm of the Danube, and were marching against him to cut off his retreat, as weak and pusillanimous as he had been arrogant and inconsiderate, he was the first to cross the bridges. At day-break on the 12th, the General informed the outposts that a fire would be opened on the town, and that a deputation should be sent to the Emperor. A deputation was accordingly presented to the Emperor, in the park of Schoenbrunn. His Majesty assured the deputation that the town should obtain his protection. He testified the regret which he felt at the inhuman conduct of their government, which had not shuddered at giving up the capital to all the horrors of war. His Majesty intimated that Vienna should be treated with the same tenderness and regard as it had been in 1805. This assurance was received by the deputies with testimonies of the most sincere gratitude. At nine in the morning, the duke of Rivoli, with the divisions of St. Cyr and Boudet, got possession of Leopolstadt. In the mean time, Lieutenant-General O'Reiley sent Lieutenant-General De Vaux and Colonel Belloutte to treat for the capitulation of the place. The capitulations was signed in the evening, and on the 13th, at six in the morning, the grenadiers of Oudinot took possession of the city. Eighth Bulletin. Vienna, May 16. The inhabitants of Vienna greatly praise the conduct of the Archduke Rainier, who refused to support the Government in the revolutionary measures ordered by the Emperor Francis, and that the Archduke Maximilian was therefore appointed in his stead. This young prince, who swore to bury himself under the the ruins of Vienna, no sooner learnt that the French had crossed the Danube to cut off his retreat, than he quitted the town, without even transferring the command to any other person.-The misfortunes which ave befallen the House of Lorraine, were foreseen by all intelligent men, of whatever pinciples. Manfridini represented to the Emperor that this war would bring about the downfall of his house, and that the French would soon be at Vienna, "Poh! Poh!" replied the Emperor," they are all in Spain." -Thugut made repeated representations. The Prince de Ligne said aloud, “I thought I was old enough not to have outlived the Austrian Monarchy !" And when the old Count Wallis saw the Emperor set out to join the army, he said, "There is Darius running to meet an Alexander; he will experience the same fate."-Count Cobentzel, the promoter of the war of 1805, on his deathbed, and but twenty-four hours before he expired, addressed an animated letter to the Emperor." Your Majesty," he wrote, "ought to consider as fortunate the situation in which the peace of Presburgh has placed you. You are in the second rank among the powers of Europe, which is the same your ancestors occupied. Avoid a war for which no provocation is given. Napoleon will conquer, and will then have the right to be inexorable," &c. &c.—The Prince of Zinzendorf, Minister for Foreign Affairs, several other statesmen and persons of distinction, and all the respectable burghers,.spoke in the same manner.-But the wounded pride of the Emperor, the hatred of the Archduke Charles against Russia, the gold of England, which had purchased the minister Stadion, the levity of some dozen of women, or effeminate men, the false reports of Count Metternich, the intrigues of the Rozumowakys, the Dalpozzos, the Schlegels, the Gentzes, and other adventurers, maintained by England for sowing discord on the continent, nave promoted this foolish and impious war. Weak Princes! corrupt cabinets! ignorant, fickle, besotted men! such are the snares which England has for these fifteen years constantly laid for you, and into which you will readily fall. But the catastrophe you prepared is at length developed, and the peace of the continent is for ever secured. The Emperor has reviewed the heavy cavalry of General Nansouty, 5000 strong, and has given to the bravest officer of each regiment the title of Baron, and to the bravest Cuirassier, a decoration of the Legion of Honour, with 1200 francs. We found at Vienna five hundred pieces of cannon, a great number of carriages, and immense quantities of balls, &c The Austrian Monarchy issued more than 300 millions of paper to support the preparations for this war, and the number of bills in circulation amounts to more than 1500 millions. During the bombardment of Vienna, only about ten houses were destroyed, and the people remark, that this misfortune fell upon the most zealous promoters of the war. The few days rest which the army has had, has been of great advantage. The weather is fine, and we have scarcely any sick. The wine distributed to the troops is in abundance, and of excellent quality. Ninth Bulletin. Vienna, May 19. After the army had a few days rest at Vienna, the necessary preparations were made for the important passage of the Danube. Prince Charles, driven to the other side of the Danube, had no other refuge than the hills of Bohernia. The Emperor did not adopt any plan to delay his entrance into Vienna a day, well knowing that in the state of exasperation in which people's minds were, it might be resolved to defend the town, and to multiply obstacles. The Duke of Auerstadt remained before Ratisbon, whilst Prince Charles retreated to Bohemia. Immediately after he proceeded to Passau and Lintz, on the right bank of the Danube, and gained four marches on the Prince. The corps of the Prince of Ponte Corvo acted on the same system, and first moved towards Egra, which forced Prince Charles to direct General Bellegarde's corps towards that point, but by a counter-march he turned rowards Lintz, where he arrived before General Bellegarde, who, foreseeing this countermarch, had also directed his march towards the Danube. These manœuvres performed daily, have freed Italy, the borders of the Inn, the Selza, and the Traun; conquered Vienna, annihilated the militia and the Landwher, completed the ruin of the corps of the Archduke Lewis and General Hiller, and diminished the fame of the enemy's generals. The emperor has thrown a bridge over the Danube at Ebersdorf, two leagues below Vienna. The division of Moliter was conveyed to the left bank, and quickly defeated the weak detachments which disputed the ground with them. The Emperor of Austria is at Znaim. There is as yet no rising in Hungary. The Duke of Dantzic is at Inspruck. On the 14th he defeated General Chastellar, and took 700 men. The position of the army is as follows:-The corps of Rivoli, Montebello, and Oudinot, are at Vienna, as also the imperial Guards; the corps of Auerstadt, is between St. Polten and Vienna; Ponte Corvo is at Lintz, with the Saxon and Wirtemberghers; a corps de reserve is at Passau, Dantzic is with the Bavarians at Saltzburgh and Inspruck. Tenth Bulletin.. Ebersdoff, May 23. Opposite to Ebersdorff the Danube is divided into three branches, separated by two islands. The distance from the right bank to the island on that side, which is 140 toises in circumference, is about 1000 toises. The distance from this island to the greater is 120 toises; and here the stream runs with the greatest force. The larger of the two islands is called Inder-Lobau, and the water which separates it from the main land is 70 toises broad. The first villages which appear after crossing, are Gross-Aspern, Esling, and Enzendort. The passage of such a river as the Danube, in the presence of an enemy welf acquainted with all the local circumstances, and who has the inhabitants on his side, is one of the greatest military enterprises that can be imagined. The bridge over the arm of the river, which separates the right bank from the first island, and the bridge from this island to that of Inder-Lobau, were erected on the 19th. Molitor's division had been conveyed to the great island, on the 18th, by tow-boats. Ou the 20th, the Emperor arrived on Inder-Lobau, and caused a bridge to be thrown over the last arm of the Danube, from that island to the left bank, between Gross Aspern and Esling. This arm being not quite 70 toises broad, only 15 pontoons were required for the operation, which were fixed within three hours. Colonel St. Croix arrived first on the left bank, in an open boat; and General Lasalle's division of light cavalry, with Molitor and Boudet's divisions, passed during the night. Afterwards, the Emperor, accompanied by the Prince of Neufchatel, the Dukes of Rivoli and Montebello, examined the position of the left bank, and determined the field of battle, posting the right on the village of Esling, and the left on the village of Gross-Aspern. Both villages were garrisoned at the same time. On the 21st, at four in the afternoon, the enemy's army shewed itself, and appeared to have for its object to defeat our vanguard, and to drive it into the river. Vain enterprise! The Duke of Rivoli was the first attacked, at Gross Aspern, by General Bellegarde. He manoeuvred with the divisions of Molitor and Le Grand, and rendered completely abortive all the attacks which the enemy made that evening. The Duke of Montebello defended the village of Esling; and the Duke of Istria covered the plain with the light cavalry and Espagne's cuirassiers, protecting at the same time Enzendorf. The contest was severe, the enemy having 200 pieces of cannon, and 90,000 men, collected from the remains of all the Austrian corps. D'Espagne's division of cuirassiers, which made several fine charges, advanced in two squares, and took 14 pieces of cannon; but a ball killed General D'Espagne, while fighting, gloriously, at the head of his troops. He was a brave man. The General of Brigade, Foulers, was likewise killed. General Nansouty arrived in the evening on the field of battle, with the sin gle brigade commanded by General St. Germain, and distinguished himself by several brilliant charges. At eight o'clock the action terminated, and we remained masters of the field. During the night, General Oudinot's corps, St. Hillaire's division, two brigades of light cavalry, and the train of artillery, passed over the three bridges. On the 22d, the Duke of Rivoli was the first engaged, at four in the morning. The enemy made several successive attacks in order to retake the village. At last, the Duke of Rivoli, tired of acting on the defensive, attacked the enemy in his turn, and threw him into confusion. General Gen. Le Grand distinguished himself; Geneneral Boudet was stationed at Esling, and had orders to defend that important position. Ob serving that the enemy had a very wide space, between his right and left wing, it was resolved to penetrate his centre. The Duke of Montebello led the atrack-General Qudinot was on the left, St. Hillaire's division was in the centre, and Boudet's division was on the right wing. The enemy's centre could not withstand the sight of our troops. In a moment, every thing was borne down before them. The Duke of Istria made several successful attacks. Three columns of infantry were charged and cut down by the cuirassiers. The Austrian army was on the point of being destroyed, when, at seven in the morning, an aide-de-camp of the Emperor came to inform him, that a sudden rise of the Danube had set afloat a great number of trees, which were cut down during the late events at Vienna, and rafts, which had been left on the bank; and that the bridges, which formed the communication between the right bank and the little island, and between the little island and that of Inder-Lobau, had thereby been carried away. This rapid swell, which usually does not take place until the middle of June, on the melting of the snow, has been accelerated by the great heat which has for some days prevailed. All the reserve parks of artillery which were advancing, were, by the loss of the bridges, detained on the right bank, as was also a part of our heavy cavalry, and the whole of the Duke of Auerstadt's corps. This dreadful accident induced the Emperor to put a stop to the movement in advance. He ordered the Duke of Montebello to keep the field of battle, and to take his position with his left wing resting on a curtain-work, which the Duke of Rivoli covered, and his right wing at Esling. The artillery and infantry cartridges, which were in our reserve park, could not now be brought across the river. The enemy was in a most frightful state of disorder, at the moment when he learned that our bridges were broken down. The slackening of our fire, and the concentrating movement of our army, soon left him no doubt respecting this unforeseen accident. All his cannon and artillery equipage, which were before on the retreat, were again drawn out in line; and, from nine in the morning to seven in the evening, he made the most astonishing exertions, supported by the fire of 200 pieces of cannon, to throw the French army into disorder; but all his efforts tended to his own disgrace. Thrice he attacked the villages of Esling and GrosAspern, and thrice he filled them with his dead. The fusileers of the guard acquired great glory; they defeated the reserve, formed of all the grenadiers of the Austrian army, and the only fresh troops which remained to the enemy. General Gros put to the sword 700 Hungarians, who had succeeded in enMONTHLY MAG. No. 186. trenching themselves in the church-yard of Esling. The tiralleurs, under the command of General Curial, performed their first service this day, and proved that they possessed courage. General Dorsenne, colonel, commanding the Old Guard, posted his troops in the third line, forming a brazen wall, which was alone capable of withstanding all the efforts of the Austrian army. The enemy discharged 40,000 cannot-shot against us, while we, deprived of our reserve parks. were under the necessity of sparing our ammunition, lęst some unforeseen events should occur. In the evening, the enemy returned to his old position, which he had left previous to the commencement of the attack, and we remained masters of the field. His loss is very great: it being estimated that he left more than 12,000 dead on the field? According to the reports of the prisoners, the enemy have had 23 generals, and 60 superior officers, killed or wounded. Lieutenant Field Marshal Wẹber, 1500 men, and four standards, have fallen into our hands. Our loss has also been considerable. We have 1100 killed, and $000 wounded. The Duke of Montebello was wounded by a cannon ball, in the thigh, in the evening of the 22d; but an amputation has taken place, and his life is out of danger. At first it was thought that he was killed; and, being carried, on a hand-barrow, to where the Emperor was, his adieu was most affecting. In the midst of all the anxieties of the day, the Emperor gave himself up to the expres sion of that tender friendship which, during so many years, he has cherished for his brave companions in arms. Some tears rolled from his eyes; and, turning to those who surrounded him, he said- My heart required a painful stroke, like this, to make me have any other concern to-day than for my army." The Duke of Montebello was senseless; but recovered himself, in the presence of the Emperor: he embraced him, and said "Within an hour, you will have lost him, who dies with the glory and consolation of being your best friend." The General of Division, St. Hilaire, is also wounded: he is one of the first generals of France. General Durosnel, aide-de-camp to the Emperor, was also killed by a cannon. ball, while he was carrying an order. The soldiers displayed all that coolness and intrepidity which is peculiar to the French alone. The waters of the Danube still increasing, the bridges could not be restored during the night; the Emperor, therefore, ordered the army, on the 23d, to pass the left bank, across the little aim, and take a position in the island of Inder-Lobau, protecting the têtes-de pont. The works for replacing the bridges are continued with assiduity; and nothing will be undertaken until they are secure, not only against the accidents of the water, but against any thing that may be at4. L tempted tempted against them. The rise of the river, of the sympathy which even barbarians have and the rapidity of the stream, render much for their countrymen. The Tyrolese abhot labour and great caution necessary. those who have excited them to rebellion, and On the morning of the 22d, when the brought upon them all the consequent calaarmy was informed, that the Emperor had mities. Their rage against Chasteller is so ordered it to retreat to the great island, no. great, that, after his flight to Vuergel, they thing could exceed the astonishment of the detained him at Hall, beat him with sticks, brave troops. Victorious on both days, they and treated him so ill, that he was forced to had supposed that the remainder of the army keep his bed for two days, and could only had joined them ; but when they were told, make his appearance to propose a capitulathat the high water had carried away the tion: but he was answered, that this would bridges, and that its continued increase ren- not be made with a robber; on which he dered a supply of their ammunition and provi. precipitately fled into the mountains of Casions impracticable, and that any movement rinthia. The valley of Zillerthal was the in advance would be absurd, it was with diffi- first to submit, and the rest of the country culty they could be persuaded of the truth of followed the example. All the chiefs comthe statemert. manded the peasants to return to their dwellThat bridges, constructed of the largest ings; and they were seen to leave the mounboats of the Danube, secured by double an. tains, and return to the villages. The dis. chors and cables, should be carried away, tricis have sent deputations to the King of was a great and entirely anforeseen disaster; Bavaria, to intreat his clemency. The Vobut it was extremely fortunate, that the Em- rarlberg, which had been misled by the arts peror was not two hours later in being in. of the enemy, will follow the Tyrol, and that formed of it. The army, in pursuing the part of Germany will then be delivered from enemy, would have exhausted its ammunt. the evils of popular insurrection. tion, which it would have been impossible to Twelfth Bulletin. replace. Ebersdorf, May 26. On the 23d, a great quantity of ammuni. On the 23d and 24th, the army was emtion was sent to the camp at Inder-Lobau. ployed to restore the bridges, which were The battle of Esling, of which a circumstan- ready the 25th, early in the morning ; and tial report shall be made, pointing out the the wounded, caissons, &c. were removed to -brave men who distinguished themselves the right bank of the Danube. The Danube therein, will, in the eyes of posterity, be a being likely to rise till the 15th June, it is new memorial of the glory and in flexible intended to mark the height of the river, by firmness of the French army. The Dukes means of two poles driven into the ground, to of Montebello and ivoli, on that day, dis- which the large iron chain is to be astened, played all the powers of their military cha- which the Turks had destined for the same racter. Tlie Emperor has given the com- purpose; but the Austrians took it, and it mand of the 2d corps to Count Oudinot, a was found in the arse al of Vienna. This general tried in a hundred battles, in which measure, and the works which are constructhe has always evinced the possession of equal ed on the left banks of the Danube, 'will ena ble us to manæuvre on both sides of the Eleventh Bulletin. river. Our light troops have taken post near Ebersdorf, May 24. Presburg, on the lake of Neusiedel.' General The Marshal Duke of Dantzic is masier of Lauriston is in Styria, at Simeringsberg, and the Tyrol, and on the 19th entered Inspruck; Bruck. The Duke of Dantzic.is hastening, the whole country has submitted. On the by forced marches, at the head of the Bava11th, the Duke of Dantzic took the strong rian troops, to join the army at Vienna. The position of Steub-Pas, with seven cannon and horse' chasseurs of the Imperial Guard ar6000 men. On the 13th, after having de- rived here yesterday; the dragoons are exfeated and put to flight Chasteller, in the pected in the course of to day; and, within a position of Vuergel, and taken all his artil- few days, the horse grenadiers and sixey iery, he pursued him to beyond Rattenberg, pieces of ordnance will reach this place. By the fugitive being indebted for his safety only the capitulation of Vienna, 7 marshal-lieu. to the feetness of his horse. General Deroi tenants, 9 major-generals, 10 colonels, 20 having raised the blockade of the fortress of majors and lieutenant-colonels, 100 captains, Kufstein, joined the troops commanded by 350 lieutenaots, 200 second lieutenan's, and the Duke of Dantzic. Chasteller came into 3000 non-commissioned officers and soldiers, the Tyrol, with a handful of wretched rab- were prisoners of war; exclusively of those ble, promoting insurrection, plunder, and who were in the hospital, and whose number murder. He saw massacred, before his eyes, amounts to some thousands. several thousands of Bavarians, and some Battle of Urfar. hundreds of French soldiers. The wretch, On the 17th of May, Tluee Austrian coeverwhelmed with benefits by the Emperor, lumns, under the command of Generals Gran. to whom he was indebeed for the recovery of ville, Bucalowitz, and Somuia Riva, .supe his property, amounting to several millions, ported by a reserve, under General Jela was incapable of the icelings of gratitude, and lachich, attacked General Vandamme, at the viliage . courage and skill. |