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f . PUBLISHED (weekly) BY WILIilAW BOYtAN.' RALEIGH, (N.-C.) THURSDAY-, JULY27, 1 809. 5WflSn h$. - Philadelphia) July '12. ' t.:.. fi-it-n') in this ritv. Ha'pVI Mav. jj yOll IIIJI iwiv iivvii lji:.os" 'th vt,y iwconimah success, hi almost 1 ....-i- the overbearing tvvai'ti of aim'- w - - o ' .,.. t,ii of tile French at Qnortn be- ..SIU i ,-jpmpicicly routed, killed, wounded and nnsoners. Genera! Soult h wounded r.e prisoner by the Britisb at that place. . -.r the - line and 5 shins set on ji- j - ----- - - -c - L si the French and then retreated.; The men, have already taken the field ; ;jj.,cS commencea on ui? ; i uu pm. rvcice has just been received, that near the advanced guards, a division bf -JC men was twice repyieu oy ine r rencn, TrvKh.-haxrmrr rrr tn tVirM Vince hi the head .jof'a. forceof ?0,0CQ completely deteateti tne rrencn, wna t SO.W.'t) strong, uuaer command ot ru- t lkulP('- vice-roy 01 jUaiy, who was nbed. A1e lfs of ftle I'reucl) is aO 000 frfic Rreater pirt kilurd or Y'ouncted- r.iiiider )i'Uoncr3K l?6ilf the whole jar ar tillery ai.it baijage 1 rciumKe puriuit 01 the enemy. yf 18. News has just ai rived from Cie,' Announcing for certainty that the Rus- uul TiuSbian have joined the Austrian 1st Frante -All the bells in this place tf iitgiug also ''' tog of cannon and xisij on the occasion." Xtmtnt and situation of the Jutrianorce, Commanders in Mf.v. - Chief. 1$0,00G Archdulcc Chas. 40,000 Gen. Heller. 120,000 Archduke For'd. - 514,000 - Archduke John 36,000 Gen.' Valacovich. Gen. Coller. .; . Thjfc Jolhivint, very -iiii 'cresting accounts vtcrc communicated to the Juditortt of the Boston Ga zeite on the 1 2A, by a geniteman irpfd Mou- . trealf iviere fiafiers had been received, from JLoidon to the Sifi of Idy.: ' t ' FIRST AUSTRIAN BULLETIN. r Dated Head Quarters Saciie, rirU 17. w k " On the 10th and the' llth, hi" imperial highness the archduke John, with the army" under his command, entered the territory f Frioule by Ponteba, Cividale and Gortz, and, after some opposition, advanced on the 1 3th to the f aglianiento. The enemy retired a cross the river, in order to join with the troops in their rear. This junction, which probably took place at Sacile, made the hostile arrny five divisions strong. In the riight of the 14th,' his imperial-iiighness proceeded with the ad vanced guard towards Pordenone; the remain-" der of the army followed at day break. 'SThe enemy's advanced guard was at Poultnoiie, and his army was posted between that place and Sacile, near Fontaria. In this" Situation an action commenced, which, after a sapgpi nary contest of two davs,hterminuted entirely to our advantage. The vice kin cf Italy CommaTidcd the French army. The result Fa. W decisive that the enemy r.ould rot :mainvaiu uieinseivui ic;ii.i tiiciia, ui 'jvere obliged to retreat Vapidly to t(.e Piaye U-The prisoyers amount already to-GOGO, a mong whom are generals Taze and Ihessau More are constantly broUglirit. 'Jhe los in killed and wpunded grea'CPed's.tJiis num ber, and we have taken -'15'caonoh arid tluee tyofGtr- ijre, Bcafon, July U; !wterday arrived in this port the ship Com. Capt. Howtand, ii; C8 days-trum Us- C. Howfand informs us that certain in- ptnee had len received at Lisbon thaL It Spaniards, under Romana, as he thinks. MMalen Duboa, ?.nd made prisoners uX. 3 French troops; It wis : rumoretl that amahad fallen into the hands of the pa a, but this was not confirmed. time before capt. II. mailed, it was Mthat a French army was advancing trom ;oth-east froutier of Portugal, with na w!ii.jojti SimlthaLei.eresmm 30,000 9G,C0O Enjp'r in person. Total, 590,000 eaffles " London, May 15 There hnv arrived since our last some more French Journals and German Gazettes to the 5t!i ioct. They do not enable us to add a single .'important Let to tlie intelligence exclusively published by us on Saturday, relative to the successes of the Auitriansin the Tyrol, in Italy and in Poland ; and from the enemy's army in Germany the accounts by thin conveyance are not of so late a date-as thoic which we alio gave in our last from the Third Bulletin of the French army. The Paris and -Milan papers attempt to give irifferrcolornig to.the resuirdf Ihis afTairr but the Austrian -accounts bear 'so many fea tures of truth, that credence cannot be denied them in preference to the obviously uncandid statements of the emmy. The Austrians give geographical proofs of their having in the iirt instance consul tl ably advanced; whilst with all the pretensions of th . enemy the utmostj they can assert is tint they main tain a position on the Piavc In Italy there fore aflVirs wear a promising aspect on the part of the Austrians, -tlie more especially as the improved state of.the Tyrdi (as described in our last) i 3 so highly favovable to their caue. We have nothing to add to the ac count we gave on Saturday of jthe capture of Warsaw by the Austrian army of the Arch duke Ferdinand,. except that a Polish regiment laid down their arms at Tareyznj And tlwt the garrison of Warsaw, cn its retreat to Ka Ijsh, Jiad been pursued for two days and thatm any prisoners were taken. of discontent is not confinedto Hessia-it extends through Hanover and; Brunswjckf jV altera via, and Thuringia, and only wainta "a favorable occasion to burst into'actiou. Col. "Romberg, of the Westphalian Hangers, di rected the malcontents ; there are some re port of his arrest ; toother accduntsrepre sent hinx at' :ihewh'eadof a numerous-arid well organizecjlvrce. 1 - 3ed t the account of their numbers, wrote is Regency at Lisbon to furnish him with 4c i4 iher could comtnacd ; butTthat the - ' to . n "ack ricnxrji honrino' t ihft irrender ot 7 and the retreat of Soult, Was return- Spain. - 1 .-" "caccour.s of Soult and h army were rt., It had been reported that with abody ttTJiy, he lad endeavored to escape to ttina that he was pursued by a detach- of British cavalry &nd was taken ; but 5cccuiU was doubthil. At Lisbon, the alarrn occasioned by the wkm of the French into Portugal, had in ic';rable decree sabsided, but the fate k country was si.il) considered as uncer- r3'Kl pr?caricus. 4 emperor Alexander returned to re- i'iT; from Finland on the 1 2 th for rhe purr s of being -present st the marriage ot the rliluchess Catharine. ilv z7. It has been coiifirmetH'" 'MI notice, that the French avmv of "hal SouVt, beaten at Oporto, and at Ama- p aa ucu wiin.precipuauon, aoauuuuiujj itry, .bagsjagc,-- fcT"and losing .a, great Sf,,l!ier m .Wtted ahd nsoners. 'r provinces of the North are freed from Va-ulals. ivhTi committed crreat outrages Marquis of Astorgais appointed Pre- of the Supreme Junta in Spain. P-triots continue to resi&t the French 'ln ' V"-." Jhe Fi ench inBarceloha appeared to be M'ng to withdraw from that place. V : ycounts from Seville are to' May. 15.'; Tbe f.D' of the massacre of the citizens, of 'Ibv thx. F-.r-K nn ,V A Mavr-had . j . k vftiv.it, via iivi m m j r I T tnrnemoratetl. r ' - ' ' hxA heen drawn t 'w . L ----.TT -J 1- iiine5ny the French to 8trngtrien me ? of the.TVuntiL-;,. 'tKrfrfi' nn irtsur- 'of Calabrians ; and that Gen. Stewart, . mixed armv.' oF so.ooo. waa ready to In Gerriany, we learn by advices brought .ptTrtiattirday by an Austrian messenger who left Heligoland on the 7th mst. that. the' Arch duke Charles so late as the zStJvult. tcntinur ed on the Row en between Cham and Stoll- Twang, . where he. was joined by the divisions of Klenau and Iiellegratie, ai d a corps ot reserve under Gen.'vjttcrman. The division of Gen. Hiller St. Vmcenf encT Xienmayer had also joined him, aniL thus augmented .the anoy .under the Immediate command of the' Arch duke to one hundred and sixty thousand men. Wurtzburgis reported to have been occupied by a detacliment under count Klenau, and it was added that another corps had tak.en,pos- sessioiv of Dresden. - We kr.ow not what degree of credit to at tach to these statement but hope they jvill prove correct." -At all events, we trust that Bonaparte will shortly have to repent of his temerityin having advanced so far, -leaving in a manner the formidable -army-ofhc Arch duke Qharlg aJn-hiajrean and in this hope we are encouraged by all the advices receivedTy it,', latf ronvevance: The Emperor of Ger- J30STON, July 13, 1809, : ' ""' V.'rf -'-.... ' '' VIA H Alt r A. . Halifax, June 50 By an arrival at St. j John's, Newfoundland, we have been favored with the following summary extracts from a London papen of May 8, received at that place:-'' - v' - .-'-' :'' - .; J .: ABSTRACT OF IW8. " LondonfMay 15 The German papers contain the. 7th, 8th, 9th Austrian orTF.cial re ports. These admit, that the French had, in general the advantage, though not to the extent which 'their Bulletins' have held "out; and, if credit can be placed on theubsequcnt fntelJigtfhce, received by way of Hamburgh, the ' Archduke Charles has been eminently successful.; He, is statedTafttr three days hard fighting,, to have di iven the enemy 30 miles back, &t to have 'killed and taken upwards of" 40,000 of theij; troops. And, in Italy the Ai' hduke John is taid to have gained,. on the . 15th and HtJi ult. a decisive victory over the Frntch,'whoiost8,COOl.;ikd,& 10,000 wound ed ; 20 pieces of cannon & three eagles, were takfn'. The Ausniaris let 10,000 men, killed wounded and prisoners. Jeruinc Eutiaiarte has issued a proclama tion, ordering tht inhabitants of West Phalia, Hessiia and Saxony,, to be 'deprived of every uH'ensive wti-poi; -even of knives, fcrhs, soythes, &c.'&u This 'augurs well ! ' " IrfSpain, the cause of the patriots has aseimied a 'more favorable aspect than for some time pnbt. lhe rrencn are coristanuy nvrchiiig ojfa gt eat part of their army for Itaiy. ' ' - - - - " The French in Opotto, it khelieveti wish to surrender to the Brttiah ; and, from n in tercepted --letter- from General KellermapHt appears "that, owing to the Austrian war he considers -the situation of the French in the wholeHof the:Peninsuia, as extremely critical The French GeneralNLisbou, wai Jullcd in the "streets'-of Oporto, by ome Portuguese soldiers. r.. , ii. A messenger with dispatches to the Span ish Deputies arrived in town, this morning. On the 2 1st ult. it was publicly .nbti tied at Seville, -toat a division of .the Spanish army had taken possession of Alcantara, which had been. -previously 'evacuated by the 'enemy. " Bv an official disnatch from the Austrian L General Taxis, we luarn,' that the inhabitants ot the Tyrol nave, wan me uimosi eiuuusiasm, risen in favor Tf Austria, anvl ha vq defeated ihe .Bavarujn troops in several engagcmenls. f Two Qenerals and about 12,000 Bavarians, have been taken prisoners. ' The following were the positions of the French and Austrians at the date of the laut - acZoUTTtTTF V S -.''V "-'- V: V- - - ---"ti. 'J,'S ' v. v i days'. in the tired, the bodies o eotner were . permitted to t$ interred cliuiiV ai burial grounds bat the. gfe utr number t ' the dead bodies wcrccast ;nio . tha fer v RJajshal Soult, it is said,- gave strict orders U the 'soldier not to Ivurt any of the -British, .'as they, he was pleased to declaf spected thtslaws of af'-''.:'.I-' ' ,' On Saturday an Ausan Messenger arriv- ed, charged with dispatches jrpm Ivir.mart, the British Envoy at tht Court ; Uie ac ne brings are favorable j the Archduke has been reinforced by the corps of (let. GellRaidc and Llenaq, as well as by severaF:" others, which nas augnemeo. ra army-.i r ene hundred and sixty thcusandmen. .Wertt- j burgh and Dresden are aloo said tp be pceii- pied by the AusU'iansT.The capture of .WarX saw is confirmed, andjhe accquulSjfi-dm Italy are not less gratifying. :,Te spirit tf fftscen- , 1 tent begins to manifest itself throughout. He sia, Hanover, .Brunswick, Weterajar Thurengi3. 'Colonel Dpernberg of the Wtu phalian Rangers, is rep-orted todiredt the ope- rations of the malcontents, ancj is gaidtp be o? ; ,, the hjiad of a numerous and-well oiganited Toi Ce. , - , ' v ' . . ... v... . ;" .. ' Fourth French Bulletin '" The 3d Frencli, Bulletin is dated Burghou sen, April 20, and contains a great deal dJ low abuse. The 4th, Brannic, (a few mile distant from, JMuhldorst,) May i, is said, K be very shod, with no further account ol ba ties, defeats, or any act of importance V. ": .. JTo his E$- Don. Pedro Ccvalloa i A- letter from Don F.usebia, to Don Mar tin de Gerray, dated Trieste, April' 19, gives. - .information' that the Archduke johq had cer tainly obtained a victory over the French, aiil adds that the Governor of rriesle have inform ed him, thnt heVwas r¢ly inforrnedi thaf the Russian army was in motion, to unihi with the Austrians or to act separarely agyiris the French The Archduke Charlt had en-" tertd - Bavaria, tmd posted himself between' :General '"Bernadotte. and the main body ot ' the French army, thereby preventing a junc- Tl6h, and in which he had iaii.en 40Q0 piiaou trs. " ' '" -" ' " Trieste, Sirll 20. 'i" To his Excellency -His serene highness the Archduke John, continuing, to occupy 1'i iotil by his army, met between Sasille, Pur sia and Corhigliano, a body of about 50,opo French, commandsd by the vice-king of Italy, and completely routed it, as ycur excellency wiil see by. the enclosed. . , ' At the closimr of this letter, we have I) f v. Position of the,I ench .tow, Bonaparte civ ihe-Salza at Burgauten ; the Duke of Danzic's, AlyntebclldgjiutoJi's, and Istnu's divisions on the right bankefhe Inn ; the" Bavarians -tmiler Geiierai Wfede form the advanced guard, and are at Lcuiftn an.i SalzburyT-A Frenchjiivision is marching to the Tyrol ; the Dukewf AurstadtaH -Masse-xtw are on tbe'njfrth b?nk cf the Xfriuibc, pro ceeding to the Palatinute; BecnadotlewitJft' the Saxons, marching to ilie .tronlters ot Ho just received the agreeable news that P.usbig, S1 had united with Austria against France. ; , ' Philadelphia, July 5. A letter has been received in this city, vi Lagdira, dated Cadiz, May 30,' which conV firms tiie account q( the Spanish and Austrian successes -repeats the evacuation cf Catalo nia by tbe French -and says, tlTaTTrich-was the distress of the French troops in Andalusja' from -Jiie- plaguei-Jthat -tliey had '.solicited- Vfe lie! in medicines ifrom tbe Spanish govern ment. ' - JPoli'Meg ' The late accounts from Europe are highly flattering and auspicious :-lhey present, a summary ofvar operations which although., not planner thc destiny of Austria beyond ihe possibility of defeat, afTocd something sjub-staiiti-al for hope to feed on, and sdmethicg Jitxo,.le Tears of inglorious submission Bonaparte, in thrfcy battles fougfcf jvith tha Austrians, has discovered feomething bt the hemui. .In Italy the l itnch occupy tne rignu bafikofthe Piava. A dnision under General , . r . ,.., , , r - D -v- sl 5m . .u r,.i r. 1 tliuH of the f.ki!l and military talents of jiij St. HitatFes-inarchihg to the Italian post ol . 0. , ' . v pnncely -commaflds-r, whose gemus is direct. the 1 yrcl, ed against him. 'fids' important discovery ij PiK.itmn of the Austrian Armies. . - -i. K ' .-. - . the last conveyance: l hexnipi many, we' are happy to find, is not "the least dismayed by the result -ofthe first operations in Bavaria. Ilis imperial majesty has issued a proclamation from Lintz, in which he calls out the second pr "reserve ..niilitia of AtnW- intending to placp himself at tlieir head. The Hungarian insurrection, army had been as? sembled at Presbuig and every measure of his government evinces, a 'determination and energy corresponding with the danger which menaces his throne. . Privatclidvjces state, that the insurrections injlessia has become very fornvdable. One account ' say s : , At . Grumberg, Larobach, Mai burg,' and some other places, the people hnH inarmed the military, and hanged several execution of the obnoxious decree whis squadrons of horse which liad been sent to Uiecamp at Hanover, and a division of infan trv'which had 'been ordered to Elze,have been recalled uy torcea mrutic. nsspnn " General Hillcr's'army lies cn the left bonk of the Trar.P, and the. Emperor ot Austria is. at Lihtz The '-Marquui.de Ca'-U'lRris in the Tyrol with his division, and General Jelbcich is inSthe Southern part of. tire- Bishopric of Sajzburgh. The Archduke Charles is cri the itenrWCbainJTjie Wai at Warsaw. TeTArchduke John occu pies the left bank of the Piava: : - ' ' Anotier ExjudUiln. Orders from the Admiralty were received at -Plymouth, on Saturday, to fit ourall the small-vessels -of war in that port whicliVere deemed capable of being' rendered fit for ser vice, andto afford every facility ahd encourage, mtnt to the iittingnut of priyategts. So urgent was this order, that numbers of the ship wrights were ordered' to work on Sunday. TThe Captain of a vessel who left Oporto cn tbe 1 Sth ult. gives a recital afflicting.to human ity : vt the time of the advance of Marshal Soult to that unfortunate city, about forty French prisoners fell into the hands of the populace, who babarousiy put them to death. As soon as the Marshal was irdprined of this, IelerbIoo consequence, some thousands olAbe wretctien inhabitants were bayoneted without distinction ef age or sesr; After, the rage of the French was in sorne'mesirc satiated, and the .bodies cf tht slaughtered had een exposed tinee pretty renaming from the" 23d April (the day cn ' which hi entered Ratispcn, as a conquitiir) to the Ut May,, without B.itempUnga further pursuit of the enemy, although at the distanc of nly 15 or .10 miles. If this mystery were solved, we beTieVt it would' result m this, that preceded h4scaptu re of Ratisbon, would coon overthrow his power ; that although his heralds might proclaim him a ." fortunate soldier" the world wpuld confer on his illut? tnous opponent, Che rank cf a " ctnutttmc'ie General, "To recover from a defeat and to rally undismayed, in the sight almost of i coi.cpc:.;r)g ' aimy, is a trait in the. charactei of a military chief, which Bonaparte does not . pos vess. This pre-eminent and dr&lingoistied ' quality, the Archduke Charles inherits, , in a r higher degree, perhatps lhan any other geneni in Europe ; nd prep -fed to meet "temporary and. occasional, disasters, it is this characte?, . it v.ill finally triumph .over the skill of Bona parte, and securcjjo Austria, iu sovereign; fin itslrftiepeqdence. - .'" -' j f-' , ' Price end Srcihrr't MAP cf NO KTH , CARQL1NA, ---T WITH ROLLERS, f"r , . For sale atthi efficfi, '. . Price tdolun. '
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