peace. These expences are increased by those against me. I had possession of his capital; I of your military organization. Your men are occupied the greater part of his provinces. He paid with mir ney-you have clothed a part of had all back again. I did n't keep Venier for thein, and found them with arms. This can- myself, merely that I might not leave any not be done but at great expence ; and yet you ground of dispute, any occasion for war. Do confess yourselves the sad state of your you think that the vanquishers of the French, finances. Your exchange, which has been in case they had been in possession of Paris, for a long time low, has fallen still lower; would have acted with the same moderation ? your commerce has decayed. Is it then with. No: your Emperor does not wish for war, out an object that you have bid defiance to all

your government does not desire it. The such difficulties? Do nut say that you were principal men of your country do not seek for forced 'o think of your own security. Con- it; and yet the movements which you have fess that all our relations have been friendly. occasioned are such, that war will take place You know that I ask for nothing and want in spite of you and myself. You have caused it nothing, and that I even consider the main- to be believed that I have demanded provinces . tenance of your power under present circum- of you ; and you have roused in the breasts of stances, as very necessary to tlie European your people a national and generous sentiment, system and the prosperity of France. I have which I am far from depreciating; they have put my troops in camp, in order to keep them sun into extravagancies and flown to arms. in good discipline and activity. They do not' You have issued a proclamation with a com. encamp in France, because it costs too much. mand not to talk about war; but the procla. They encamp in foreign countries, where it is mation was equivocal, and people said it was not so dear. My camps, are scattered about. merely political, and while your measures Not one of them threatens you. I should were opposed to your proclamation, they behave had no camps, if I had had projects tieved your measures, and not at all your proagainst you. And I was so very pacific, that clamation. Hence the insults uttered by a I dismantled the fortresses of Silesia. ) should troop of your new militia to my consul at certainly not have had those camps, if I had Trieste. Hence the murder of three or my thought they would have given you any un- couriers, who were on their way to Dalmatia. casiness. A single word from you would have If there are any more of such insults, war is been enough for me ; and I am ready to break inevitable; for you may kill us, but cannot up all of them, if it is necessary for your insult us with impunity. It is so that the quiet.'

authors of the troubles of all Europe inces" M. Von Metternich having observed that santiy excite war. It is so they provoked ihe there had been no movements of troops in war by the insult offered to General Berna. Austria, the Emperor replied,! You deceive dotte. yourselves; you remove your troops from “ You are drawn by various artifices into a places, where they could be without the least situation contrary to your wishes. The En. expence: you send them to Cracau, that if glish and their partisans induce you to take necessary you may be able to menace Silesia. to these false measures. Already they rejoice Your who e army is collected together, and in the expectation of once nzure lighting up bas taken a military position. In the mein the flame of war in Europe. Their junds have while what do you want? Do you mean to visen 50 per cent. in consequence of the imalarm, me? You won't succeed in that. Dompulse which they have communicated to Euyou think the circumstances are favourable to sope. It is they whom I blame for all this ; you? You deceive yourselves. My policy they are the cau e that no Frenchman can go was open before you because it is honest, and to the baths of Buhemia without subjecting because I feel my own strength. I shall take himsi li to insult. 100,000 of my troops from Germany, in order · H.,w can you permit such licentiousness? to send them into Spain, and I still have Do you meet with any examples of such conenough remaining to oppose you.

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ance of peace, neither Furope nor I shall owe turally are, in discussing matters of such imthat obligation to you, and we can by no means -purtance! He, however, exhibited only that consider you as friends; and I strall consider degree of animation, which such a mutive was myself as completely at liberty to call upon : calculated to produce; he spoke of the Empeyou to make those arrangedirats which the for of Austria and his government with the state of Europe dėmandş..

greatest reserve, and paid many personal coin• What may in the me in time happen. You pliments-to M. Von dietternich. This Aino' have lev'ed a force of 400,000 men; I will: bassador, who, it should be observed, tras al. levy a lody 200,000 men. Th: Contereration ways given us assurance of the pacific sentiof the Rhine, which had disbanded its roopi, ments of his court, was not, for a moment, will re'assemble them, and arm the mass of placed in a situation of embarrassnient; I hart their popula jun. Germany, which had be. a conversation with him in the evening, and gun to breathe after si mang'lestructive wars, he felicitated himseli-on-being employed at a will find her wounds bleeding afresh. Instead court where communications of this description of evacuating, as was my intention, the pro- could be personally made by a suvereign to a vince of Silesia, - and the Prussian states; foreign minister. M. Von Tolstoy concurred I shall again put the fortresses of Silesia with him.in this sentiment. The Emperor, in a state. Oro de ence. 'All Europe will to those who are capable of comprehensing be in arms; the amies. will be drawn him, appears noble; magnanimous, frank, up in the presence of e-ch omet, and the attentive to all che duties of etiquitte, and slightest crcurrence will occasion the 'com- 'performing the in with a peculiar degree of remencement.of hostilities.

finement, and that periect sensibility, which "You say that you have an army of 400,000 is awakened by the great interests of humanity. men, a force niore considerable than you pos- ' It might be clearly discovered that, equally sessed at any period of your nionarchys you in- prepared for war or peace, he wished for the tend to double it ; if your example were to be latter without dreading the former ; and it was followed, even ihe very women would soon the general opinion that to so frank and mag. be made to take up arms. · In such a state of nanimous'a discourse, no other answer could things, when every spring is on the stretch, be given than by declaring either that war is · war will become desirable, for the mere pur- . actually intended, or by proving the existence pose of unbenuing them. Thus it is, that in' of a pacific disposicion by deeds rather than by Ebe physical world, the state of suffering which words. You niaymake this dispatch,Sir,the subAature experiences at the approach of a tema ject of your conferences with M. Von Stadion.' pest, excites a wish that the thunder should The Austrian government can entertain no burst forth, in order to unbend and give telief doubts with respect to the sincerity of the Emto the contracted sinews, and to restore the peror's pacife inclinations. But the Emperor. sweets of a pieasing caim so heaven and earth; will have tranquillity as well as peace. If a violent,.but short illness, is better than a

Austria attaches an equal degree of value to long period of suffering,

this peace, she will neglect no means of com• Mean while all hope of a maritime peace pletely tranquilizing the Emperor, with reso disappears ; the efficient means of attaining it pect to her dispositions, and she will most et: are rendered of no avail. The Eriglish smile fettually contribute to this object by giving with satisfaction at the prospect of discord be." another direction to public opinion ;. but this ing revived on the continent, and to her it is direction can only result from a change of makes they conside their interests.

sure." Such are the evils which you have pro

BULLETINS OF THE FRENCH ARMY. duced, and that tuo, were I to credit your professions, altogether anintentionally. But if

First Bulletin. your intentions are as pacific as you preterid, Head quarters at Ratisbon, April 24, 1899. you must give proofs that they are so; you' The Austrian army passed ibe. Inn on the must recal the nieasures that liave prodited :9th April, that was the signal for hostilicies, so dangerous a ferment; and this impulse; isom and Austria declared an implacable war agaiest. voluntarily impressed, must be opposed by'à France and her allies, and the Confederation direct contrary impulse;. and whereas from of the Rhine. Petersburgh to Naples nothing has been talked The following were the positions of the of but the war that Austria was on the point : French army and her allies : of coninencing, and whishall your merchants The corps of the Duke D'Auerstadt at Ra.' represented as inevitable; all Euripe must, I tisbon. say, he completely convinced that peace re- The corps of the Duke of Riveli at Ulm. quires that your pacific intentions should be The corps of General Oudinot at Augsa. universally talked af and continued by your 'burgh. actions as well as your professions. On my The Head quarters at Strasburgh. side you shall receive every assurance that you

The three divisions of Bavarians, under the tan desire.

Duke of Dantzic were placed as foliows:-“ Such, Sirg-as far as I have been able to The first division, commanded by the Psince describe it, is an authentic statement of what Royal, at Munich; the second, by. Gen. Dehis Majesty addressed to M. Von Metternich. roy, at Landshut; and che third by Gen. Wiede His Majesty seemed to be moved, as men na. at Straubing,

The

to our arms.

The Wirtembergh division at Heyden- The Duke De Rivoli arrived the next day at keim.

Pfaffenhotten. The same day the Duke of The Saxon troops encamped under the walls Auerstadt lett Ratisbon to advance to Neuof Dresden.

stadt, and to draw near to Ingolstadt. It was The corps of the Duchy of Warsaw, com

then evident that the planof the F.mperor was manded by Prince Poniatowsky, in the envi. to outmanoeuvre the enemy, who had formed rons of Warsaw.

near Landshut, and co attack them at the very
On che 10th the Austrian troops invested moment, when, thinking they were commen-
Passau, where they surrounded a battalion of cing the attack, they were marching to Ratis.
Bavarians, and at the same time invested bon.
Kuffstein, where there was another battalion

Battle of Tann, on the 19th.
of Bavarians. These movements took place
without even a shot being fired.

On the 19th, by break of day, the Duke of The Bavarian Court quitted Munich for Dil- Auerstadt began his march in two columns lingen.

The divisions of Moraud and Gudin formed his The Bavarian division which had been at right, the divisions of St. Hilaire and Friant Landshut went to Altorff, on the left bank of formed his left. The division of St. Hilaire the Iser.

arrived at the village or Pressing, and there The division under the command of General met the enery, superior in number, but inteWrede marched upon Neustadt.

rior in bravery, and there the campaign was The Duke of Rivoli left Ulm for the envi. opened by a battle, which was most glorious

General St. Hilaire, supported sons of Ang burg. From the 10th to the 16th the enemy's that was opposed to him, and took all the po

by General Friant, overturned every thing army advanced from the lon to the Iser ; sitions of the enemy, killed a great number of there were several skirmishes between para cies of the cavalry, in which the Bavarians them, and made between 6 or 700 prisoners.

The 72d Regiment distinguished itself on were successful.

On the 10.h, at Pfaffenhoffen, the 2d and that day; the 57th maintained its ancient re3d regjinents of Bavarian light horse cuns,

putation. Sixteen years ago, this regiment pletely routed the Hussars of Stipschitz and obtained in Italy the name of the Terrible. In the Rosenberg dragoons

this action they maintained their pretensions

At the same time the evemy appeared in large bodies, for the tothat title; they attacked singly six Austrian purpose of forming at Landshut, the bridge regiments in succession, and routed them. was broken down, and the Bavarian division, Gen. Moraud also fell in with an Austrian divi

On the left, at two o'clock in the afternoon, commanded by General Deroy, vigorously oppused this movement of the enemy, but sion, which he attacked in front, while the being threatened by the columns which had Duke of Dantzic, with a corps of Bavarians,

which had marched from Abensberg, attacked passed the Iser at Moorbergand Freysing, this

This division was soon dridivision retired in good order upon that of Ge. them in the rear. neral Wrede, and the Bavarian army cook a

ven from all its positions, and left several central position upon Neustadt.

hundreds in killed and prisoners. The whole

regiment of the Dragoons of Levenher was de: Departure of tbe Emperor from Paris on the 13tb. stroyed, and its Colonel killed, by the Bavarian

*The Emperor learnt by the telegraph, in light-horse. At sun-set, the division of the the evening of the 12th, that the Austrians Duke of Dantzic formed a junction with that had passed the Inn, and he set out from Paris of the Duke of Auerstadt. In all these affairs almost immediately. He arrived at three Generals St. Hilaire and Friant particularly o'clock on the morning of the 16th at Louis- distinguished themselves. Those unfortua burg, and in the evening of the same day at

nate Austrian troops, who had been led from Dillingen, where he saw the King of Bavaria, Vienna with music and songs, and under a and passed half an hour with that Prince, and persuasion that there was no longer any French promised in fifteen days to restore him to his

army in Germany, and that they would only capital, to revenge the insults which had been have to deal with Wirtemberghers and Bavari. offered to his house, and to make him greater ans, displayed in the strongest manner the than any of his ancestors had ever been.

resentment they felt against their chiefs, fur On the 17th, at two o'clock in the morn- the error into which they had been led; and ing, his Majesty arrived at Donau werth, their terror was the greater when they saw where he impiediately established his head- those old bands which they had been accus. quarters, and gave the necessary orders. tomed to consider as their masters.

Onthe 18th the head-quarters were removed To all these battles our loss was inconsider. to Ingolstadt.

able, compared with that of the enemy, who Battle of Pfaffemboffen, on the 19th. lost a number of General () llicers and others, On the 19th Gen. Oudinot quitted Augs- who were obliged to put themselves forward burg and arrived by break of day at Pfarten. to give courage to their troops. The Prince' hoffen, where he met 3 or 4000 Austrians, of Lichtenstein, General Lusignan, and whish he attacked, and took 300 prisoners, others, were wounded, The loss of the Aus

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trians in Colonels and officers of lower rank, ards, 12 pieces of cannon, and 18,000 prison. was considerable,

ers, were the result of this affair, which cost

us but a few men. Bettle of Abensberg, on the 2016. The Emperor resolved to beat and destroyibe Bartie of Landshut, and taking of the the corps of the Archduke Louis and General

place. Keller, which amounted to 60,000 inen. On the flank of the Austrian army, and all their

The battle of Abensberg having laid open the 6th, his Majesty took post at Abensber; magazines, the Emperor by break of day or he gave orders to ihe Duke of Auerstadt to

the 21st marched upon Landshut. The Duke keep the corps of Hohenzolern, of Rosenberg,

of Istria defeates the enemy's cavalry in the and Lichtenstein, in check, while with the two divisions of Moraud and Gudin, the Bac plain berore that cicy. The General of Divis varians and the Wirtemberghers, he attacked sion Mouton made the grenadiers of the 7th

advance to the charge on the bridge, forming the army of the Archduke Louis and General Keller in front, and caused the communicati. . the head of a column. This bridge which ons of the enemy to be cut off by the Duke of was of wood, was set on fire, but that was not Rivoli, who passing by Freyberg, from i bence

an obstacle 10 our infantry, who torcedit, and proceeded to the rear of the Austrian army.

penetrated into the city.

The enemy, driver The divisions of Moraud and Gudip formed from their position, were then a tack ed by the the left, and maneuvred under the orders of Duke of Rivoli, who had advanced by the the Duke of Montebello. The Emperor derer right bank. Landshut fell into our power,

and with Landshut we took 30 pieces of canmined to fight thac day at the head of the Ba

non, 9000 prisoners, 600 ammunicio wazwarians and Wirtemberghers. He ordered the officers of chese two armies to form a cir- gons, and the hospitals and magazines which

the Austrians had begun to turm. Sune cle, and addressed them in a long speech. The Prince Royal of Bavaria translated into Ger- Couriers and Aides-de-Camp of the Cominans man what he said in French. The Emperor der in Chief, Prince Canaries; and so he conmade them sensible of the confidence which voys of wounded men, coming froin Landshut, he reposed in them. He told the Bavarian also fell into our hands. officers that the Austrians hall always been Battle of Eckmull, on the 2?d. their enemies; that they now wished to de- While the battle of Abensberg and that of stroy their independence; that for more than Landshut produced such important consequena 200 years, the Bavarian standard had been ces, the Archduke Charies had formed a displayed against the Austrians. But at this junction with the Bohemian army under Kuda time he would render them so powerful that lowrath, and obtained some partial success at they alone should be able to contend with the Ratisbon. One thousand of the 65 h, who House of Austria. He spoke to the Wirtem. were lefi to guard the bridge of Ratisbon, and berghers of the victories they had obtained who had not received orders to retreat, having over the House of Austria, when they served expended their cartridges, and being sure in the Prussian army, and of the advantages rounded by the Austrians, were obliged to which they had recently obtained from the surrender. This event made an impression campaign in Silesia. He told them all, that upon the Emperor, and he swor- that in 2-4 the moment was come for carrying the war hours Austrian blood should flow in Ratisboa into the Austrian territory. This speech was to resent the insult which had been otteier to repeated to the different companies by the Cap- his arms. During this time the Dukes of tains, which produced an effece which may Auerstadt and Dantzic held in check the corps easily be conceived. The Emperor then gare of Rosenberg, Huhenzollern, and Lichten. the signal for battle, and planned his manau. stein. There was no time to be lot. The pres according to the particular character of Emperor began his march irom Landshut, with the troops. General Wrede, a Bavarian Oficer the two divisions of the Duke of Mositebello, of great inerit, was stationed at Siegenburg, the corps of the Duke of Rivoli, the cuirassiand attacked an Austrian division, which was ers of Nausoutz and St. Sulpice, and the Wiropposed to him. General Vandamme, who tembergh division. Altwow'clock in the afe cominanded the Wirtemberghers, attacked the ternoon they arrived oppos.te Eckmuhl, enemy on their right flank. The Duke of where the iour corps of the Austrian army, Dantzic, with the division or the Prince Roy. consisting of 110,000 men, had taken a posial, and that of Gen. Deroy, marched towards tion under the command of the Arinduke the village or Rouhausen, in order to reach Charles. The Duke of Montebello a tachert the grand road from Abensberg to Landshut.' the enemy on the le:t, with the division of The Duke of Montebello, with his two French Gudin. On the first siynai the divisions of divisions, forced the extremity of the enemy's the Dukes of a perstadt and Danczic, and the left, and overthrew every thing that was op division o: light cavalry of General Montbrun, persid to him, and advanced to Rohr and Ro). took their position. One of the most heautia semburg. Our carnonade was successtul on ful sights which war can present then pre. ail points. The enemy, disconcerted by our sentes itseli; 110,000 men attacked on all niovements, did not fight for more than an points, turned on their lett, and succe:sively bour, and then bgat a retreat. Eight stand. driven from all their positions; the detail of

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ALPHABETICAL LIST of BANKRUPTCIES and DIVIDENDS, announced between the 20th of April and the 20th of May, extracted from the London Gazettes.