ted this prince at Anspach. He was the bearer of all the details of the unhappy affair which had annihilated an Austrian army; and as reports were soon circulated in Vienna, in spite of all the endeavours of government to conceal them, the consternation became general, and was only interrupted by the indignation expressed by the public against the ministers, who had commenced a war without adequate means for its support; and against General Mack, who had delivered up his brave troops to shame and dishonour, as a sacrifice to his own vanity and presumption.-Though there was scarcely an individual who did not sympathize in this event, none appeared to suffer more acutely than his Majesty the Emperor. His concern was too great to be long concealed. He gave a vent to his feelings, and complained, that the more his efforts were directed to secure the tranquillity of his reign, the further he found himself from his object. And when those about him endeavoured to soothe him with the hopes of a long repose, which must naturally follow a period of such cruel agitation, he answered, in a plaintive accent,

That he should never repose, till his dead body should be carried to the capuchins! General Mack having demanded a council of war to try him, His Majesty at first returned for answer, that it would be unnecessary; but the general insisting, he said he would grant his demand; but, in the interim, it would be necessary the general should retire to a place, where he would not be exposed to the questions of the cursous. He consequently chose the fortress of Brunn, where he resides with his adjutant, captainThe Generals Span and Werneck were afterwards arrested, and confined in fortresses. General Werneck, it seems, was the person upon whom Mack wished to fix all the blame of the battle of Ulm.-Those partizans of Mack, who say he presented a memorial to His Majesty, with a view to exculpate htmself, assure us, that he had completely justified his conduct; and that the loss of the battle was occasioned by treason. -His enemies, on the other hand, reproach him with endeavouring, by secret means, to prevent the Archduke Charles from having the command of the army of Germany, for the purpose of having it conferred upon himself and his partisans: that he descended so low as to calumniate the Archduke in the presence of His Majesty, thus forgetting both his patriotism and his fidelity.-However, though it may be true that General Mack had intrigued for the command of the army, merely to figure under the eye of his master; and that his partisans also made use

of unjustifiable means to assist him; it is not less certain, that his nomination was as much owing to England and the Emperor of Russia, to whom the Emperor had left the choice of his generals.-That the army of Germany was not entrusted to the Archduke Charles must be imputed to Russia, which protested against his nomination in consequence of the grudge she harboured against him, ever since the Russians under Gen. Kor: saroff, lost a battle in Switzerland, which loss was attributed to the Archduke Charles. The person least terrified by the catastrophe of General Mack's army, was the Cabinet Minister, he being persuaded that the Austrians never could be ultimately defeated, because they defended a good cause-having God and Religion on their side. Since this epoch, they say this Minister bas' doubled his pious exercises, and that he still recommends a vigorous, resistance, being of opinion that every thing should be hazarded in the cause. A general rising en masse was proposed for the German provinces of Austria, with a rising of the cavalry, after the example of the Hungarians; but the doubt, as to the possibility of organizing them, the magazines being empty, and the rapid successes of the French, and their allies, would not admit of the opportunity.-It is said, that Kutuzow had declared, that he dared not give battle, excepting in the environs of the mountain of Reid, some miles from this city. In the mean while, draught horses of every description were called for by Government, not excepting even coach horses. The public was also stunned with proclamations. I take the liberty of subjoining such as have come to my knowledge; some of them are perfectly ridiculous: that, for example, which enjoins a month's provisions to be collected for the troops that were to pass through to the environs of Vienna; at a time when it was necessary to use main force to get through a hungry crowd to obtain a pound of flour on the market days. Similar to this is the Proclamation against the monopolizers of the small currency, while there were very few persons who had a sufficient quantity of it for the purpose of giving change in their daily traffic.It was hoped, when his Majesty the Emperor went to Brannau, on the 27th of October. that he would there have had a meeting with the Archduke Charles, and that an armistice was in agitation. This measure might have been facilitated by the respect which his Majesty the Emperor of the French entertained for that Prince. To have granted it, it is true, the Emperor did not require any small sacrifices, nor slender

sureties for its due observance. But the Terra Firma of Venice, the object of the French politics, being abandoned, in consequence of the retreat of the Austrian army (a report prevalent here these two days past), the French have now only to seize upon the Venetian territory, in order to enable them to dispose of Hungary and its appurtenances at pleasure. But if the Emperor of Austria would add to the Venetian territory, the eva.. cuation of the Tyrol, which will very shortly be invested on all sides; and if he obliges the Russians to halt, there is no reason why the Emperor of the French should not concede to his Majesty of Austria sufficient time to consult with his allies; and, with their consent, to withdraw himself from that connection.-If it be true, that Prince Murat has entered Bohemia, where he will find more partizans than elsewhere (that country being the focus of every sect, religious and political), the allies of Austria will themselves feel the necessity of listening, as soon as possible, to a final accommodation. The public do not relish the continuation of the war; and as they augur nothing from it but calamities, they neither conceal their dissatisfaction with government, nor their indifference as to any change.-This spirit of disaffection, and a wish for a new government, appears to pervade all classes, and particularly the most enlightened; and there is no doubt, that if the Archduke Charles, or his brother the Archduke Palatine of Hungary, aspired to the throne, they would find a number of partisans, but no opponents. The Emperor's brothers having constantly augured ill of the war, their predictions being verified, and events evidently proclaiming the incapacity of ministers, there is every degree of probability, that the Emperor must yield to their solicitations for peace, in spite of the insinuations of England, the promises of Russia, and the astonishing amity of the Prussian Monarch. The cabinet minister, for the moment at least, has lost all his influence in political affairs. This his Majesty made him sensible of, upon the occasion of his departure for the head-quarters at Brannau; and when this minister advised him against taking the step he was upon the point of pursuing, without mature consideration, his Majesty -replied, He was weary of being governed by others; and that the minister should not interfere with affairs with which he was unacquainted. The inaction of the Archduke Charles was for some time the subject of censure; now, on the contrary, they do him justice, and admire his prudence, in conducting his forces in such a manner as to

support the army of the Danube, the adverse fortune of which he had foreseen.→→ In fact, to have made a progress in Italy, two armies were required; one to invest the fortresses, and the other to maintain the advantages which should have been obtained. -The defeat of the Austrians, near Ulm, was not altogether unforeseen here. Several generals predicted this disaster; ameng others, General Troon, who hearing of the passage of Bernadotte, said, publicly, and very frequently repeated it, that they would see the French at Vienna-They have a strange mode of consoling themselves here; they pretend, that the victory of the 15th was not to be ascribed to the genius of the French general, but to chance, and the unskilfulness of the Austrians, who, having lost their senses, added one blunder to ano ther. The Archduke Charles has sent a courier, to express his apprehensions that he shall not be able to cover the Tyrol. and to demand reinforcements. Consequently the reserve of the troops upon the frontier are ordered to march, as reinforcements for the Archduke: similar orders have been given to the levy en masse, the nearest in point of situation. The Archduke Palatine proposed, that if his Imperial Majesty had chosen to have taken refuge in Hungary, to demand of him full powers to bind him to the dismission of all his Austrian ministers, and to substitute Hungarians; to abandon the German provinces to their fate; to con centrate his forces in Hungary: to put 300,000 men under arms, and with these to advance to the frontiers and demand peace of the Emperor Napoleon. In case of his Majesty's acceptance of reasonable condi tions, the Archduke Palatine would have undertaken to obtain the consent of his bro ther. If, on the contrary, the terms were rejected by Napoleon, the Archduke had resolved to sacrifice the whole of his army, and his own person, in defence of the ho nour of his nation. This promising project was entirely set aside, by the Emperor determination to take refuge at Olmutz, with the Empress, and the foreign ministers of all the courts in amity with him; and to send his children only to Hungary This change has contributed very much to the diminution of the enthusiasm, with which the presence of his Majesty had inspired the Hungarians, in the sitting of the late Diet. The zeal which has been remark ed among the Hungarians, is not so much the offspring of their devotedness to their Sovereign, as of their apprehension on ac count of any change in their constitution. Their ideas of the political importance of

this constitution are so extraordinary, and of the obstacles the Emperor Napolcon would meet with in any attempt to overturn it, that they imagine it is the principal object at which he is now aiming, merely to obtain the end he has proposed to himself.-They are also intimately persuaded, that, so long as their constitution shall remain inviolate, Europe, encouraged by their example and their principles, will struggle successfully against French principles; but that, from the moment their constitution shall be shaken, its subjugation must necessarily follow. The Emperor having rejected the of fer of a general rising en masse, and having preferred an army of sixty thousand men, and a reserve of thirty thousand, paid and equipped by the Hungarians, the Palatine seemed to be no longer animated with the same energy, and the levies went on so slowly, that it is probable six weeks would have elapsed before they would have been completed; and that the Palatine would have broke with his Majesty, being disgusted with the new measures, which, as they did not promise better than the former, might compel him to make a dishonourable peace. It seems, however, that he is determined to continue the war, with the aid of the Russians; and that he will still collect recruits, neither willing nor able to fight. One single check may destroy these resolutions.-After the battle of Ulm, the Emperor offered the command of the army of the Danube to the Archduke Charles, adding, it was the desire of Russia and England that he should accept it, that, at the same time, he might have an opportunity of negociating for a peace with the Emperor Napoleon; and either to obtain good conditions, or time for the arrival of the Russian columns. The Archduke answered, that he thought nothing of any sacrifices he might make for the preservation of his Majesty's provinces; but that the idea of a negociation, for their cession to the enemy, was intolerable.-It seems the Archduke, will, in future, enjoy the full confidence of his Majesty; the Cabinet Minister also frequently invites the Privy Counsellor Fasbender, to his private conferences. This enrages his antagonists, the obscure partisans of the Jesuits, such as Flot and others, and makes them tremble.-This junto, it is said, persuaded the Emperor to cause the Archduke Charles to set out for the army of Italy, long before his presence was necessary, that they night avail themselves of his asence, to hasten the commencement of hostilities; a measure the Emperor had constantly resisted, while the Archduke was

with him.-The dearth is excessive, the ma gazines are empty; nothing is in circulation but paper, which decreases in value every day. If the reverses continue, and the French armies should happen to demand contributions in specie, it will be impossible to pay them. It will then be necessary for the Emperor to open his private treasury, which contains ducats, at least, to the value of 50 millions of florins.-The Canon of Collambach has declared, upon several occasions, that if his brother, the Privy Coun cillor, should only succeed in effecting the promotion of General Mack to the head of the army, the merit of this act alone would be so considerable, that the country could never sufficiently testify its gratitude. But the battle of Ulm has produced such an alteration in the Canon, that the severity of his censure is now as extravagant as his former adulation.-The Emperor of Russia was expected here on the 5th, and every preparation was made at Court for his reception, when a courier brought intelligence to the Palace of Lichtenstein, that his Majesty was suddenly indisposed, and had passed the night in his chateau, at Felsberg, in Moravia. This indisposition was thought a mere pretext to avoid the spectacle of misery, which he must otherwise have seen imprinted upon every countenance, notwithstanding the affected cheerfulness, which it was the wish of Government to exhibit. This change of the Emperor's intention of visiting Vienna did not appear to have been foreseen at court, as none of the preparations for his reception had been countermanded.-The Emperor of Austria set out on the 7t for Presbourg, on his way to Clmutz; he had declared he would put himself at the head of his troops, and he nominated Gene ral Schmidt as Adjutant-General. They say the Emperor took that route to avoid a meeting with the Russian army, which, no longer concealing its disgust, accuse even the Austrians of selling and betraying them. -The Emperor was expected to have slept at Scholshof, after leaving Presbourg, where it was thought he would wait the return of Count Giulay, who was to bring him the determination of the Emperor of the French. -The Empress set out for Olmutz in the night between the 7th and 8th, with the elder princess, and her physician.On the 29th of October, government determined to put all the vessels upon the Danube in a state of requisition, to transport the effects belonging to the court and the different chanceries; and the boatmen were ordered not to take any thing in charge from private

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the left bank of the Danube. General Marmont must have passed Leoben. The Abbey of Moelk, in which the Emperor is lodged, is one of the finest in Europe.There is not, either in France or in Italy, any convent or abbey which can compare with it. It is in a strong position, and commands the Danube. It was one of the principal posts of the Romans, which was called the Iron House, built by the Emperor Commodus. The vaults and cellars of the Abbey were found full of excellent Hungarian wine, which was of great service to the army, a long time in want of this article. But we are now in the wine country! there is a great deal of it in the vicinity of Vienna. The Emperor ordered that a particular safe guard should be at the Chateau of Lusichoss, a little country residence of the Emperor of Austria, on the left hank of the Danube. The approaches to Vienna on this side bear ro resemblance to the ordinary avenues of great capitals. From Lintz to Vienna there is but one made road, a great number of rivers, such as the Inn, the Eslaph, the Molk, the Tragen, &c.; which have, but bad bridges of wood. The country is covered with forests of fir. At every step there are impregnable positions, in which the enemy endeavoured in vain to make a stand. They Bad always to dread that they would be uncovered, and turned by the columns which tnan nyred beyond their flanks. From the Inn fo this place, the Danube is superb, its points of view are picturesque, its navigation down the current is rapid and easy. All the letters intercepted speak only of the frightful chaos which Vienna presents. The war has been undertaken by the Austrian cabinet contrary to the opinion of all the Princes of the Imperial Family. But Colloredo, led by his wife, who though a Frenchwoman has a mortal hatred to her country; Colloredo accustomed to tremble at the very name of a Russian, in the persuasion that every thing ought to give way before them; and to whom it is, besides, possible, that the agents of England, may have found means to introduce themselves; and in fine, that wretch Mack, who had already played so great a part for the renewal of the second coalition. These are the influences which have been stronger than those of all prudent men, and of all the members of the Imperial Family. There is not a man down to the meanest citizen, or the lowest subaltern officer, who does not feel that this war is advantageous only to the English; that they have fought only for them; that they are the authors of

the misfortunes of Europe, in the same manner as by their monopoly they are the authors of the excessive high price of goods.

The following is a translation of the several Letters, inserted in the Moniteur, together with the above Bulletin, and the originals of which are there said to have been intercepted by Persons in the French Army.

Ried, Oct. 25. All our army is dis persed. The enemy is arriving in our neighbourhood. It is thought that the Russians will stop them, but I no longer rely upon them; I am packing up my goods: I wish to God I had done so before these savage men arrived, whom we have called to our assistance for the purpose of devouring us. They have plundered every thing, as if they were never to repass this way. They have, however, been driven from Branau, and they are now coming to the number of 30,000, to occupy the position of Lambach. They can now do no more harm to this unhappy country, except to burn the houses, for no inhabitants remain. (Signed) PR,

Enns, Oct. 28. I write this to make you acquainted with our critical situation. Se veral families fled when they saw that the Russians and the Imperialists, pursued by the French, returned this way. We shall soon be all reduced to beggary. The Emperor arrived here this morning early. The president of Lintz arrived here yesterday; the Emperor walked with him half the day in the garden of the Castle of Auersperg, The Russians have 3000 waggons with them, and this immense number of carriages impedes the march of the troops. They have caused the greatest confusion in the Impérial army. (Signed) C

Weinzell, Oct. 29. I never shall forget the month of October of this year. Figure to yourself my situation; alone in a farm, endeavouring to save some of the wrecks of my property. In eight days 8000 more Cossacks will pass this way, yet notwithstanding all this, we shall have the worst of it in this war, since it has begun so unfortu nately, and we have not one skilful general. The Russians, though our allies, commit more ravages than the French would if they had taken a city by storm, so that the country people wish the French to come and drive them away. God alone can withdraw us from this labyrinth. It is said that the Court of Vienna is packing up its most váluable property: it is melancholy to see women and children arrive every day with the few valuables they possess. (Signed) W