her allies, during the war, or till MERCEZ, Adj. Com. TWENTY-THIRD BULLETIN, Vienna, June 28.-On the 25th of this month his Majesty reviewed a great number of troops on the heights of Schoenbrunn. There was observed a fine line of 8,000 cavalry, of which the guard formed a part, and in which there was only one regiment of cuirassiers. There was also a line of 200 pieces of cannon. The appearance and martial air of the troops excited the admiration of the spectators..-On Saturday the 24th, at four o'clock in the afternoon, our troops entered Raab; on the 25th, the garrison, prisoners of war, set out. According to an estimate made, they are found to amount to 2,500 men. His Majesty has given to the general of division, Narlonne, the command of this place, and of all the Hungarian states surrendered to the French arms.-The Duke of Auerstadt is before. Presburg. The enemy works at the fortifications: it was intimated to him to cease from his works, unless he wished to draw upon the peaceable inhabitants the greatest misfortunes; - he took no notice of it; 4,000 bombs and obuses have compelled him to renounce his project, but the fire broke out in this unfortunate city, and several quarters have been burnt.-The Duke of Ragusa, with the army of Dalmatia, passed the Drave on the 22d. and marched to Gratz. On the 24th Gen. Vandamme embarked 300 Wurtemburghers, commanded by Maj. Kichler, at Molli, in order to throw themselves upon the opposite shore and gain intelligence. The debarkation has been effected. These troops rout ed two companies of the enemy, and took two officers and eighty men of the regiment of Mitrowsk prisoners. -The Prince of Ponte Corvo and the Saxon army are at St. Polten. The Duke of Dantzic, who is at Lintz, ordered Gen. Walle to reconnoitre on the left bank. All the enemy's posts were driven in; several officers and twenty men were taken. The object of this reconnoitering was also to procure intelligence. The city of Vienna is plentifully furnished with meat; the supply of bread is more difficult, on account of the impediments in grinding. In respect of the subsistence of the army, it is secured for six months; it has wine and vegetables in abundance. The wines of the cellars of the convents have been placed in a magazine, to furnish distributions to the army. Several millions of bottles have there been collected. · On the 10th of April, at the very time when the Austrian general prostituted his character, and spread a snare for the King of Bavaria, by writing a letter which has appeared in all the public papers, Gen. Chastelar excited the Tyrol to insurrection, and surprised 700 French conscripts who were go ing to Augsburgh, where their regiments were, and who were marching in the confidence of peace-obliged to surrender and made prisoners; they were massacred. Among them were 80 Belgians, born in the same town as Chastelar. Eighteen hundred Bavarians, made prisoners at the same time, were also massacred. Chastelar, who commanded, was witness to these horrors. He not only made no opposition to them, but he is accused of having smiled at the massacre, hoping that the Tyrolians, having to dread the vengeance due to a crime which they could not hope would be pardoned, must be more firmly engaged in their rebellion.-When his Majesty was made acquainted with these atroci ties, he found himself in a difficult situation. If he had chosen to have recourse to reprisals, 20 generals, 1000 officers, and 80,000 men, made prisoners during the month of April, might have satisfied the manes of the unhappy French, so cowardly butchered. But prisoners do not appertain to the power for whom they have fought; they are under the safeguard of the honour and generosity of the nation which has disarmed them. His Majesty considered Chastellar as acting without being authorized; for, notwithstanding the furious proclamations and violent language of the Princes of the house of Loraine, it was impos sible to believe they could. approve such crimes; his Majesty, in consequence, published the following Order of the Day. Imperial Head-quarters, Ens, May 5. "By orders of the Emperor, the person named Chastellar, stiling himself a general in the service of Austria, the mover of the insurrection in the Tyrol, charged with being the author of the massacres committed on the Bavarian and French prisoners hy the insurgents, shall upon being made prisoner, be carried immediately before the military commission', and if judged guilty, be shot within 24 hours. The Prince of NEUFCHATEL,' Vice Constable. Major-General ALEXANDER," At the battle of Essling, General Durosnel carrying an order to an advanced squadron, was made prisoner by 25 hulans. The Emperor of Austria, proud of so easy a triumph, caused to be published an order of the day, conceived in the following terms:— Copy of a Letter from his Majesty the Emperor of Austria, to Prince Charles: "Wilkersdorf, May 25. My dear brother; I have learned that the Emperor Napoleon has declared the Marquis of Chastellar out of the protection of the law of nations. This unjust conduct, contrary to the usages of nations, and of which there is no example in the latter periods of history, obliges me to have recourse to reprisals, and in consequence I order, that Generals Durosnel and Foulers shall be kept VOL. VI. as hostages, to undergo the same fate and same treatment as the Emperor Napoleon shall make Gen. Chastellar suffer. It is repugnant to my feelings to give such an order; but I owe it to my brave warriors, and to my brave people, who may be exposed to a similar fate, while fulfilling their duties with ardent fidelity. I charge you to make known this letter to the army, and to general of the Emperor Napoleon. send it by a flag of truce to the major(Signed) FRANCIS." As soon as this order of the day came to the knowledge of his Majesty, he ordered the arrest of the Prince Colloredo, Prince Metternich and that they should be conveyed Count Pergett, and Count Hardick, to France, to answer for the lives of Generals Durosnel and Foulers. The major-general wrote to the chief of the staff of the Austrian army, the following letter: To the Major-General of the Austrian army. "Schoenbrunn, June 6. "Sir-His Majesty the Emperor has been made acquainted with an order given by the Emperor Francis, which declares that the French Generals Durosnel and Foulers, whom the circumstances of war have placed in his power, shall answer for the punishment which the laws of justice may inflict on Monsieur Chastellar, who has put himself at the head of the insurgents of the Tyrol, and who has permitted the murder of 700 French prisoners, and between 18 and 1900 Bavarians, a crime unheard of in the history of nations, and which might have caused a terrible reprisal on 40 field-marshal lieutenants, 36 major-generals, more than 300 colonels or majors, 1200 officers, and 80,000 soldiers, if his Majesty did not consider prisoners as placed under his faith and honour, and had not besides proofs that the Austrian officers in the Tyrol have been as indignant at the action as ourselves. -His Majesty, however, has ordered that Prince Colloredo, Prince Metternich, Count Frederick Harddick and Count Pergett, shall be arrested and conveyed to France, to answer for the safety of Generals Durosnel and Foulers, threatened by the order of the day of your Sovereign: these officers may die, Sir-but they shall not die I The city of Vienna and the states of Lower Austria solicited the clemency of his Majesty, and requested to send a deputation to the Emperor Francis, to convince him of the impropriety of the proceeding with respect to the Generals Durosnel and Foulers, to represent that Chastellar was not condemned, that he was not arrested, but only accused before the tribunals; that the fathers, wives, children and property of the Austrian generals were in the hands of the French, and that the French army was determined, if a single prisoner was put to death, to make an example, of which posterity should long preserve the remembrance. The esteem which his Majesty entertains for the good inhabitants of Vienna and the states, determined him to accede to this request. He granted permission to M. M. Colloredo, Metternich, Harddick and Pergett to remain at Vienna, and to the deputation to set out for the head-quarters of the Emperor of Austria. This deputation has returned. The Emperor Francis has replied to these representations, that he was ignorant of the massacre of the French prisoners in the Tyrol, that he pitied the miseries of the capital and the provinces, that his ministers had deceived him, &c. &c. &c. The deputies reminded him, that all prudent men saw with pain the existence of a handful of intriguers, who by the measures they advised, the proclamations, orders of the day, &c. which they caused to be adopted, endeavoured only to foment passions and hatred, and to exasperate an enemy who is master of Croatia, Carniola, Carinthia, Styria, Upper and Lower Austria, the capital of the empire, and a great part of Hungary-that the sentiments of the Emperor for his subjects ought to incline him to calm rather than irritate the conqueror, and to give to war the character natural to it among civilized nations, since it is in the power of the conqueror, to render more heavy the evils which press on the half of the monarchy. It is said that the Emperor Francis conceived that the greater part of the papers mentioned by the deputies were fictitious, and that those, the existence of which was not denied, were more moderate; that the editors were besides French clerks, and that even when these papers did contain some inconve nient things, they were not perceived till the mischief was done. If this answer, which is publicly reported, be authentic, we have one observation to make:-It is impossible not to perceive the influence of England; for this small number of men, trai: tors to their country, are certainly in the pay of that power.- -When the deputies went to Buda, they saw the Empress. She had been obliged to leave this city some days before. They found her dispirited, altered, and in consternation at the evils which threatened her house. The opinion of the monarchy is extremely unfavourable to the family of this princess. It was that family which excited the war. The Archduke Palatine, and the Archduke Regnier, are the only Austrian princes who defended the maintenance of the peace. The Empress was far from foresecing the events that have taken place. She has shed many tears; she has shewn great alarm at the thick cloud which covers the future. She spoke of peace; she requested peace; she conjured the deputies to speak to the Emperor in favour of peace. They reported that the con duct of the Archduke Maximilian had been disowned, and that the Emperor had sent him into the interior of Hungary. Vienna, June 26.-A sadler of Vienna was shot on the glacis, convicted of having buried in his house three pieces of cannon before the French entered the town. To prevent fresh examples of severity, the governor-general has just renewed the orders already published, relative to the declaration respecting arms and ammunition, by the following proclamation:"INHABITANTS OF VIENNA !-It is some time since the spirit of disorder has misled the multitude. This seditious spirit had manifested itself in popular groups and meetings; Austrian prisoners of war have been taken away in some measure by force; fire-arms, weapons, ammunition, and articles belonging to the artillery, were still hid; insults, provocations, acts of violence, the inevitable consequence of perfidious instigations, and illusory or criminal hopes, threatened the tranquillity of the city, and safety of peaceful citizens, which safety they owe to the special protection of his Majesty the Emperor and King. The clemency of his Majesty has not been exhausted; but a longer impunity would be fatal; and he has ordered that these acts of temerity should be checked by examples of rigour. Two guilty persons have been condemned, and have undergone their sentence. Severe, but just measures, will further repress the audacity of the seditious, if they should dare to shew themselves. These will also strike those, who, not obeying the laws which have been promulgated, would have to reproach themselves with crimes against the public safety. Every inhabitant, who has in his house Austrian prisoners of war, shall instantly make a declaration of it, as well as concerning all arms, powder, ammunition, and articles belonging to the artillery, which were formerly in the -Three days are granted for the execution of the last article; after this period, the offenders shall be seized, and punished according to the rigour of the law.-Inhabitants of Vienna Your own interests calls upon you to repel the perfidious insinuations of instigators: it is that class of persons who, having nothing to lose, excite sedi Austrian arsenals. tion in the hope of gaining by pillage, 1 As the Austrians do not permit, at present, any provisions to be conveyed to Vienna, either from Hungary or Bohemia, they every day become more scarce in that capital; and the prices of all necessaries of life are so exorbitant, that the city sent a deputation to the Emperor Napoleon, praying, that of the supplies which the French army draws from Bavaria and Suabia, as much might be sold, for ready money, to the inhabitants of Vienna, as was requisite to supply their more urgent wants. 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