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<. \ ant' the EnTfierov ma;!e them sensible of of confidence, tie said to the Bavarian officers, that the Aus trians had always been their enemies, that it was their independance they had in view, that for more than two hundred years the Bavarian colours had been displayed against the house of Austria, but that for this time he would render them so strong, that henceforth they should alone be enough to oppose her. He spoke to the Wurtembergers of the victories they had obtained against the house of Austria when they served in the Prussian army, and of the last advantages they obtained in the cam paign of Silesia. To all he said that the moment of victory was arrived to carry on the war in the Austrian terri tory. These discourses, which were repeated to the companies,by the cap tains, and the dispositions of the Em peror, wrought the effect which might be expected. The Emperor then gave the signal ofbuttle, and measured the manceuvres, after the particular character of the troops. General Vrede, a Bavarian of ficer of great merit, placed before the bridge of Siegenbmirg, attacked an Au strian divison opposed to him. Gener al Van 1) unme, who commanded the Wurtembergers fell upon their right wing. The Duke of Dantzic, with the division of the Prince Royal and of General De Rov, matched upon the village of Renhausen, to arrive on the great road of Abensburg and Land stadt. 'l'lie Duke of Montebello, with iiis two French divisions, forced the ex tremities on the left overthrew what was before him, and* advanced upon Rlior and Rotbemluirg. On all the points the cannonade was kept up with success. Tiie enemy, disconcerted by these measures, fought only for one hour, and then beat the retreat. Eight colors, twelve pieces of cannon, and 18,000 prisoners, were the result of this .affair, which cost but few men to us. Battle and Cafiture of J.andshut on the 2 1 .v/ April. The battle of Abensburg having un covered the 11 ink of the Austrian army, and the Magazines of the enemy, the Emperor proceeded on the 21st on the point of Slay to Landshut, and the Duke of I stria overthrew the enemie’s cavalry in the plains before this town. Mouton general of divison, marched with a quick charge the granadiers of the 17th, to the bridge, being at the head of the column ; that bridge, which was of wood, was on fire, but this was no obstacle to our infantry, which pas sed it and penetrated into the town, The enemy driven, from his position, when then attacked by the Duke of Ki voli, who filed out by the right side. Landshut was in our possession, and with it we took 30 pieces of cannon,. 9000 prisoners, 600 artillary chests, with horses put to them, and full of arn unition, 3000 waggons with baggag, three superb equipagas of the bridge, and the hospitals and the magazines which the Austrians had began to form. Couriers and Aids-de-Camp of the General in chief. Prince Charles ; convoys of sick coming to Landshut, were astonished to find the enemy there met the snme fate. Battle of Eckmuhl , the 22 d April. While the battle of Abensbergh Landshut, bad such important conse quences, P'ince Charles united him selt to the crops of Bohemia comman ded by Gen. Kollowrath, and obtained a feeble success at Ratisbon, one thou sand men of the 65th reg. left to guard the bridge of Ratisbon had received no orders to withdraw. Surrounded by the Austrians and having exhausted their ammunition, these brave soldiers were obliged to surrender. This was sensibly felt by the Emperor. lie swore that in 24 hours the Austrian blood should flow in Ratisbon to avenge this affront done to his arms. At the same time, the Dukes Auer stadt, and of Dantzic, kept the corps of Rojemberg, of Hohenzollen, and of Li chenstein in restraint.—No time was to be lost, on the morning of the 22d the emperor began his inarch from Landshut with the two Divisions of the Duke of Montebello, the corps of the Duke of Kivoli,the divisions of the Cur rassiers, Nansoutey, and St. Sulpice, and the Wirtemburg divisions. At 2 o’clock, p. m. he arrived at Eckmuhl, where the four corps of the Austrian army, forming 110,000 men, pushed under the command of the Archduke Charles. The duke of Montebello at tacked the enemy on the lett with the division of Guilin. On the first sig nal, the dukes of Auerstadt and of Dantzic, and the division of the light horse of Gen. Montbruns charged.— j Thjere seen then one of the finest shews which war could produce. One hundred and ten thousand enemies charged on every point, turned on the left, and were successively driven from all their positions. The details of the military events would be too long, it will be enough to say, that completely routed, the enemy lost the greatest part of his cannon, and a great number of prisoners, that the 10th reg. of light infantry of the division Saint Hillaire ~ covered itself with glory by attacking the enemy, and that the Austrians driv en from the woods that cover Ratis bon, were thrown into the plains and cut off by the cavalry. The Se»ator Demands, General of Division, had a horse killed under him- The Austrian cavalry, strong and numerous, present ed itself to protect the retreat of their infantry , the division Saint Sulpice on the right, the division Nansanty on the left, charged them ; the line of hussars and cuirassiers of the enemy were put to tiie route. More than 300 cuiras siers of the Austrians were made pri soners. Night approached. Our cui rassiers continued their marcb|to Ra tisbon. The division Nansanty fell in with a column of th'* enemy that fled, they charged it and made them prison ers, it was composed of three Hunga rian battalions of 1,500 men. The division Saint Sulpice charged another squad, in which the Prince Charles was nearly taken ; he owed his safety only to the quickness of his horse —this column was either broken or taken. In this battle of Eckmuhl, only one half of the French ttfiops were en gaged, The enemy driven before us, with the sword in hand, continued all night to file off by parcels and in the most shocking disorder. All the wound ed, the greatest part ot the artillery, 15 colours, and 2000 prisoners have fallen into our power. The Cuirassiers have crowned themselves with glory as they are accustomed to do. Battle and Capture of Ratisbon, the 23 d April. The 23d on the point of day we ad vanced on Ratisbon, the advance guard formed by the division Gudin and by the Cuirassi :rs of the divisions Noan santy and St. Sulpice, were not long perceiving the cavalry of the enemy pretending to cover the town. Three successive charges were made,all to oar advantage, hacked and cut to pieces, 8000 of the cavalry precipitately re passed the Danube ; during these ac tions our shooters tried the town. By an inconceivable disposition, the Aus trian general had placed therein six reg iments, sacrificed without reason. The town is surrounded by bad walls, by a bad ditch, k by ajbad counterscarp ; the artillery arrived, a battery of 12-poun ders was opened, an issue was discov ered by which with a ladder they could descend into the ditch, and remount af terwards by a breach in the walls. The Duke of Montebello caused a battalion to passthrough this opening, who gain ed a gate which they opened, and so entered the town. F.very one who made resistance, was cut down ; the number of prisoners surpassed 8000. In conse quence of these bad dispositions the en emy had not time to break up the bridge, and the French passed among them on the left side of the border.— This unhappy town, which the enemy had the barbarity to defend, has suffer ed a great deal; it was on file part of the night, but by the assistance of gen. Morand and his division, it was bro’t underand extinguished. So at the battle ofolensberg,the Em peror sent seperafely two corps of the Arch-Duke Lewis and of Gen. Hiller ; at the battle of Landshut he seized upon the centre of the communications of the enemy, and upon the general depot of his magazines and artillery—And lastly at the battle of Eckmuhl, the four bo dies of Motenzalern, of Rosenbe v g, of Kollotvrath, and of Zrehtenstein, were defeated and put to rout. The corps of ■ Gen. Bellegrade, which arrived one day : alter the battle, could only witness the capture of Ratisbon, and saved itself by . by a retreat into Bohemia. This first notice of these military op perations by which the campaign has been opened in so brilliant a manner, will be followed by a more detailed re lation of facts, which have illustrated , the French armies and their allies. In all these battles our losses cannot i amount to 1200 killed and 4000 woun ded. Strvoni general of division, chief of theetat major of the Duke of Mon tebello, was struck by a cannon ball, and fell dead on the field of battle at Eckmuhl. He was a deserving officer, who had distinguished himself in our former campaigns. At the battle of Peissing, General Hervo, chief of the etat major of the Duke of Amurstadt , has likewise been killedy Phc Duke o>! Auerstadt sensibly reg"- 3 this cffic ? r ’ whom he esteemed fortfiis bravery, in telligence and activity. The general of brigade Clement, coirmanding a bri gade of currassiers, of the division St. Sulpice has lost an atm. This is an officer of courage and of distinguished merit. Gen. Shram has been wounded The Colonel of the 12th regiment of chasseurs was killed in a charge. In general, our loss in officers is little consi derable. The 1000 men of the 65th, that were taken jii4 **'’*'“ rS * h ave mostly been retaken. It is impossible to shew more bravery, and good will, than was displayed by the troops. At the battle of Eckmuhl, the corps of the Duke of Rivoli not being able to re join, that Marshal staid constantly with the Emperor; he carried orders, and caused different movements to be exe cuted. At the assault of Ratsbon, the Duke of Montebello, who had discovered the place of passage caused the ladders to be carried by his Aid-de-Camp. The prince of Neufchatel, to encour age the tooops, and to give to the allies a proof of confidence, has marched sev eral times in the avaunt guard, with the Bavarian regiments. The Duke of Auerstadt has, m these different affairs, given new proofs of the intrepidity which characterises him. The Duke of Ruvigo, with as much bravery as intrepidity, did several times traverse the legions of the enemy, to make known the intentions of the Em peror to different columns. The whole of 220,000 men of which was composed the Austrian has been engaged, except 20,000 comman ded by General Bcllegarde which did not fight; on the contrary, of the French army near half of it did not fire a mus ket. The enemy, astonished by such rapid movements, which were above his calculations, found himself in a mo ment deprived of his foolish hopes, and transported from the delirium of his presumption to a situation bordering on despair. SECOND BULLETIN. [The Second Bulletin is dated Muhl dorf, the 27th ot April. It describes some small affairs which had taken place between the armies, in which the French were successful. Napoleon was at Muhldrof. The Duke of Auerstadt had gone in pursuit of the Achduke Charles whose communication with the Inn and Vienna being cut off, he had no resource but to retire into the mountains of Bohemia] PARIS, May 5. Messieurs the vicar generals of Paris went to the palace of his serene high ness the prince arch-chancellor of the empire, for the purpose of concerting with him to put in execution the or ders of his majesty the emperor relative to the prayers to be celebrated for the victories ofTanna, Eckmuhl,and Ratis bon. It has been determined that the Te Detim shall be sung, at the metrop olitan church in two days. AUGSBURG, April 26. We are informed that the French troops have entered Passau, and that Fort Obernhaus has fallen after a vigo rous defence into the hands of the Ba varian. .ULM, April 29. Weriemburgh, aid-de-camp, has brought to his sovereign the news, that the French advunced guard was yester day morning at Voglabruch upon the Austrian territory. For the Centincl. To the Editor of the Columbian Centincl. Sir, I HAVE not lead with indif ference the altercation between the ed itor of the Centinel and the Mirror of the Times. Born and educated under the present government of the United States, I feel a lively interest in what ever contributes to their strength and prosperity ; but view with painful sen sations the machinations by which their strength is weakened and their pros perity paralysed. No one can reflect with more pleasure than myself on the asylum which America has so often af forded to distressed foreigners, nor re gret more sincerely at the consequent introduction of customs, habits, and principles so opposed to revealed reli gion, and destructive to the manly vir tues, which support the basis of a repub lican government. I consider the Junta in this place an exotic plant , a branch of that society called the Illuminati; founded to oppose religion and laws, and by whose influence Europe has been j deluged in blood. Voltair, the father of infidelity, whose talents did less ho nor to human nature than his princi ples debased it, was one of the iirst founders of this society, fie drew to his standard men of his own stamp. Their plans were engendered in secret con clave, and their satire leveled at the Christian religion, order, and constitut ed authorities. They made their ad dresses to the weakness of humanity, and by the acumen of their wit, and the unbound**; licentiousness of their prin ciples,seduced the gay and the thought less, and corrupted society. The bet ter to conceal their designs, they assum ed the sacred name of JMasons , and in terrupted, for a time, the harmony of that ancient and honorable fraternity. Frederick of Prussia caught the alarm. He dreaded hat the unfortunate Louis afterwards experienced, and endeavor ed to banish them from his dominions. By their disorganizing Atheistical doc trines, they debased the minds of the French people Sc paved the way for the most bloody revolution ever recorded in the annals of history. After their doc trines had enabled them to commit ev ery excess, had caused the destruction of a million of lives, and the first of mon archs to ascend a scaffold smoking with the best blood of the nation, they then threw themselves into the arms of a ty rant. to find protection against the dia bolical effect of their own principles. Destruction in different parts of Eu rope is still emerging from the filth of this society. England was threatened with an inundation of corruption, and nothing but the strong arm of govern ment preserved it from the bloody scenes exhibited in the French Drama- Had the pestilential influence of this volcanic society been confimd to the old world, there would have been n\ors harmony, and fewer debilitating divi sions in the councils of America. But alas! the United States were doomed to feel the effects of the new philosophy, Restless spirits emanating from Xheillu* minuti have encompassed sea and land, to make proselytes and debase human nature. They have united in juntas and disseminated their disorganizing principles from Ntw-Hampshire to Georgia. Witness the growth of infi delity and the increasing numbers of the avowed disciple > of Voltair, Voluey and Paine. If they can once succeed in poisoning the public sentiment by their deistical philosophy, farewd to conjugal felicity ! the dearest, tenderest ties in society will be burst asunder, and the “fair fabric of our republican gov ernment become enveloped in chaotic darkness. Every good man must repro bate a society whose principlesare conta minating to virtue and subversive of or der. “ Sweet water cannot flow from a bitter fountain.” If the junta in Au gusta is composed of men venerable for their age, wisdom, Christian piety and patriotism , eminently distinguished in the field, and in the councils of the r country, I have, Mr. Editor, by consi dering them a branch of a society, the most damning to the human race, done them no less injustice than yourself, by calling them “mirror boys.” But if they are in reality, “ JS/ovi Homines ” boys indeed, inveterate enemies to the onlv standard by which right and wrong can be distinguished, the Christian Re • ligion ; if they are constantly endeavor ing to corrupt our youth by their deist ical harangues ; if they are standing be hind a curtain directing the politicks of I a news-paper, the better to promote ; their own designs, and denounce those • who dare to rejoice at the returning : prosperity of our country, I have done them no wrong. They are pupils of the “ leveling school.” Let them be watched ; follow them through all the windings of their dark recesses, and like the first offender, let them be marked, • that whomsoever meets may know them, and you shall never want the aid . of your humble servant, ■ CAVEBO. I Notice. THOSE gentlemen in arrears at this Office for News-paper post age, are requested to call and discharge 1 the same, and also anticipate one quar ; ter’s postage in advance, in teims of the law regulating Post-Offices—see - act, sec.. 20, and instruction XVII. act t G, or the papers will he retained in the ' Office.—lt is hoped that this notice will - not be disregarded, as the Post-Master • 's not allowed to give credit for postage, • only at his own risk. , John R. Browne, ; Post-Master. , Post-Office , Carnesville, i 12th Juiv, 1809. 105—
