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rals, five of whom were wounded, fell into the hands of the French. The Princes Repnin, Gallitzin, and Sibirsky, made prisoners, had none of them attained the rank of General. The first had only the rank of Captain; the second commanded a squadron of the Im. perial guard; and the latter was at the head of a battalion of infantry. The French, after the battle of Austerlitz, did not attempt to pursue the retreating army; but on the following day they attacked the Russian rear-guard in the neighbourhood of Ukeschutz; but after a partial action, which lasted till the close of the day, they were obliged to relinquish their object. It is also positively stated, that the Russian Imperial Guards did not lose their colours, but on the contrary, took the standard of one of the French regiments of infantry. When the Russians withdrew from the Austrian provinces, they carried with them, according to this official report,, two hundred pieces of cannon. The loss of only six stand of colours is admitted.

The following curious particulars respecting this battle, are published both in the French and German papers; and though they may appear frivolous, and are certainly much exaggerated, yet as they strikingly illustrate the character, and mode of warfare, adopted by the artful hero of Marengo and Austerlitz, we cannot withhold their insertion.

On the 27th of Nov. Bonaparte, on receiving the communication of the full powers of the Austrian negociators, proposed an armistice. We are not told whether it was accepted or rejected by the allies, but we are told in the same breath, that Bonaparte considered the negociations as a ruse de guerre, and took his measures accordingly. He sent his aid-de-camp, General Savary, professedly to compliment the Emperor of Russia, on his arrival in the army, but in reality as a spy. Savary, on his return, reported that he had experienced a distinguished reception from Alexander and his brother, but that they were surrounded by an host of coxcombs, and that rashness and presump. tion were the distinguished features of their military councils.

Upon this report, Bonaparte, to fortify them in their ill-judged confidence, ordered his army to retreat in the night,

as if he had been defeated, took a good position three leagues in the rear, and laboured with much ostentation in fortifying it. To secure his object, he proposed an interview to the Emperor of Russia. The latter sent him his aid-de-camp, Prince Dolgorucki, who is described as one of Alexander's young Counsellors, equally distinguished by his ignorance and impertinence. This young man, we are told, readily fell into the snare. Every thing, to him, breathed reserve and fear in the appearance of the French army. In all the affaits of posts previous to the 2d, the allies were successful, and the apparent timidity and dismay of their enemy converted the natural valour and im petuosity of the Russians into absolute indiscretion and temerity. Their only object was to prevent the escape of the French army; it was no longer a question with them whether they could defeat it. Hence their anxiety to turn the right wing of the French; a fatal manoeuvre, of which their skilful adversary quickly took advantage.

On the 3d. Dec. at day-break, Prince John of Lichtenstein, commanding the Austrian army, repaired to Bonaparte's head-quarters, and had a long audience, which seems to have been preparatory to a visit which Bonaparte received from the Emperor the same day. The conference of the two Monarchs, we are told, was long and amicable." Francis looking at the wretched hut (a mill) in which Napoleon received him, could not avoid expressing some surprise ;You see, said Napoleon, laughing, these are the palaces which you have made me inhabit for two months. "You employ your time too well in them, replied the Austrian Monarch, to have cause to reproach me." The conversation then turned upon England, and the Emperor Francis is made to inveigh in the bitter. est terms against the infamous policy of those vile shop-keepers, who set fire to the Continent for the sake of their trade, and whose alliance he renounces for

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he had no guarantee for the pacific intentions of Alexander. Francis assured him that Alexander shared in his hatred and contempt of the British Government, and that he wished to with draw. Bonaparte, upon the faith of this assurance, consented to open a retreat for the Russian army, and an armistice was concluded between Francis and Napoleon, upon conditions in sub. stance as follows:

"The armistice shall exist until the conclusion of a definitive peace, or until the rupture of the negociations. In the latter case, hostilities shall not comnence until 14 days after. France shall retain all the territory in her possession until a separate peace is concluded. The Russians shall evacuate the Austrian States within 15 days, and Gallicia within a mouth, and to march home by a route prescribed by Bonaparte. There shall be no levy in mass in Hungary, no ext: aordinary recruiting in Bohemia, nor shall any foreign army be permitted to enter the Austrian territory. Negociations for peace shall immediately commence at Nicolsburg."

General Savary was now again sent to the Emperor Alexander, to announce the armistice, and to intimate the conditions upon which the retreat of his army would be guaranteed. He was graciously received, and Alexander is said to have expressed the highest admiration of Napoleon. Upon being informed of the terms of the armistice, he is said to have used the following expressions" I shall return to my capital; I came here to assist the Empe. For of Germany-he sends me word he is satisfied-so am I." Upon asking Savary what guaranteee Napoleon required of him, Savary replied-" Only your avord, Sire.”—I give it," returned the Emperor.

Such are the French accounts of these important events. We learn, however, that several of the facts stated are entirely factitious. The Emperor of Russia never had a second interview with Gen. Savary, and peremptorily declined it after he heard of the armistice, which, we are told, struck his Imperial Majesty with astonishment.

On the 6th of December, at ten in the morning, the Emperor Alexander had his last interview with the Emperor Francis, when a very affecting conversa

tion took place.-The former declined having any thing to do with the armistice, and took his leave. Having consulted with his General Officers, upon the proper routes to be taken for the march of the Russian army homewards, he set out on the evening of the 6th for Petersburgh, where he arrived at five o'clock in the morning of the 21st Dec. in good health, and amidst the acclamations of all classes of his people. From an article published in the Petersburgh Gazette, on the same day, it is clear that his Majesty was no party to the armistice, and that the conversation between him and General Savary was fabricated. His Majesty says

"The exhausted powers of the Court of Vienna, the misfortunes it has sus. tained, together with a want of provi sions, have compelled the Roman Empetor, notwithstanding the strong and vigorous support he has experienced from the Russian troops, to conclude a convention with France, to which also a peace must soon succeed. His Imperial Majesty having come to his assistance as an Ally, had no other object in view than his defence, and the averting of those dangers which threatened his Empire; and since his Majesty the Emperor, under the present circumstances, has deemed the presence of the Russian troops no longer necessary in Austria, his Majesty has been pleased to order them to leave Austria and to return to Russia."

The Austrian official Gazette gives a short account of the battle of the 2d Dec. but it is vague and unsatisfactory. It merely states that the battle was fought with great obstinacy, and with great loss on both sides; that late in the evening the Austrian left wing was compelled to yield to a superior force; that the army resumed its position before Austerlitz; that the combined army was 85,000 strong on the 3d,, and that it was joined on the 4th by 12,000 Russians under General Essen. If all this be corect, it must indeed seem extraordinary that the Emperor of Austria should have judged it necessary to solicit an armistice, and to subscribe to terms so humiliating. It is the more extraordinary, and the more to be regretted, as, nearly about the time that Francis was ratifying the melancholy act of his disgrace and subju-,

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gation, his gallant brothers were dis tinguishing themselves at the two extremities of his dominions.

The Archduke Ferdinand, on the 5th Dec. attacked, with nine batalions of infantry and eight squadrons of cavalry, the Bavarian forces under General Wrede, consisting of 14 battalions of infantry, and sixteen squadrons of cavalry, advantageously posted upon the heights of Stecken, with such impetu esity, that they were defeated, and compelled to abandon Iglau with precipitation. The Archduke entered it at the head of twenty thousand men. Iglau is about fifty miles in the rear of the left wing of the French army. The Archduke Charles, who continued his retreat in the most masterly manner, defeated General Marmont at Fustenfeld, seven leagues from Gratz, taking 4000 prisoners, and killing or wounding 2000. He afterwards advanced to Vienna, which he summoned to surrender, but was answered, that an armistice had been concluded.

After the conclusion of the armistice, the Grand Duke Constantine repaired to Berlin, and is stated to have made an offer of the whole Russian army, to be at the disposal of Prussia.-The of fer, report says, was declined. But the Grand Duke was well received at the Court of Berlin, where he continued for several weeks, and where the birthday of his brother the Emperor was celebrated on the 25th December, by a grand entertainment, at which the whole Court were present, together with his Imperial Highness, the Duke of Brunswick, Lord Harrowby, the Earl of Harrington, and all the nobility and many general officers. The Russian army set out on the 8th of December, by different routes on its return home, but on account of a scarcity of provi sions, a considerable body has been allowe to remain some time in Prussian Silesia.

In the mean time, according to the agreement in the armistice, negotiations for peace were opened at Nicolsburgh, by M. Talleyrand on the part of France, and by Prince John of Lichtenstein and Count Giuay on the part of the Emperor of Austria. The Emperor Napoleon returned to the palace of Schoenbrunn near Vienna, and the Archduke Charles had his head quarters Feb. 1806.

at Presburg, about 32 miles east of that capital. At the request of the Aichduke, the negociators removed to Presburg about tee 18th Dec. where a finishing hand was put to a treaty, which completely annihilates the ancient and famous Germanic constitution, and reduces the once great Emperor of Germany to the humiliating situation of a second-rate power on the continent of Europe. We learn that the Auchduke could obtain no other modification of the hard terms of this treaty, but a reduction of the contribution (stipulated by some secret articles to be paid by Austria) of 100,000,000 of francs to one half of that sum, (about 2,000,000l. sterling.)-The treaty was signed at Presburg, on the 26th of Dec. and ratified by the Emperor of the French at four o'clock in the morning of the 27th. We consider it of impor tance to give this treaty at length. TREATY OF PEACE BETWEEN AUSTRIA AND FRANCE.

His Majesty the Emperor of Germany and Austria and his Majesty the Emperor of the French, King of Italy, equaily animated with a desire to put an end to the calamities of war, have resolved to proceed without delay to the conclusion of a definitive treaty of peace, and have in consequence named as Plenipotentiaries, to wit:

His Majesty the Emperor of Germany and of Austria, the Prince John of Lichtenstein, and Count Ignaz de Giulay, Commander of the Military Order of Maria Teres; aand his Majesty the Emperor of France, King of Italy, Charles Maurice Talleyrand Perigord, Grand Chamberlain, Minister of Foreign Relations, &e. who having exchanged their full powers, have agreed as follows:

ART I. here shall be from this day peace and friendship between his Majesty the Emperor of Germany and Austria, and his Majesty the Emperor of the French, King of Italy, their heirs and successors, their states and subjects respectively, for ever.

II. France shall continue to possess in property and sovereignty the duchies, principalities, lordships, and territories beyond the Alps, which were before united with the French Empire, or governed by the laws of France.

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III. The Emperor of Austria recognizes the dispositions made by the Emperor of France, relative to the Princi palities of Lucca and Piombino.

IV. The Emperor of Germany renounces that part of the states of the republic of Venice, ced. d to him by the treaties of Campo Formio and Lunevide, which shall be united in perpetuity to the kingdom of Italy.

V. The Emperor of Germany acknowledges the Emperor of the French as king of Italy; but it is agreed, that in conformity with the declaration made by the Emperor of the French, when he took the crown of Italy, that as soon as the parties named in the de claration shall have fulfilled the conditions therein expressed, the crowns of France and Italy shall be separated for ever, and cannot in any case be united on the same head. The Emperor of Germany binds himself to acknowledge, on the separation, the successor whom the Emperor of the French shall appoint as King of Italy.

VI. The present treaty is declared to comprehend the Electors of Bavaria, Wirtemberg and Baden, and the Batavian Republic, allies of the French.

VII. The Electors of Bavaria and Wirtemberg having taken the title of King, without ceasing to belong to the Germanic confederation, the Emperor of Germany acknowledges them in that eharacter.

VIII. The Emperor of Germany, as well for himself, &c. renounces the principalities, lordships, &c. after speci. fied:

Cedes to the King of Bavaria the margraviate of Burgau and its dependencies, the principality of Eichstadt, that part of the territory of Passau be. longing to the Elector of Saltzburgh, and situated between Bohemia, Austria, the Danube, and the Inn; the country of Tyrol, comprehending the principalities of Brixen and Betzen, the seven lordships of the Voralberg, with their dependencies; the county of Ho henems, the counties of Konigsegg and Rottenfels, the lordships of Tetuany and Argen, and the town and territory of Lindau.

To the King of Wirtemberg, the five cities of the Danube, viz.-Etlingen, Munderkengen, Rudlingen, Mengen,

and Sulgaw, with their dependencies, the city of Constance excepted, that of Brisgaw which extends to the possessions of Wirtemberg, and situated to the east of a line drawn from Schlegelberg to Molbach, and the towns and territories of Willengen and Brentingen.

To the Elector of Baden, the Brisgaw (with the exceptions of the branch and separate portions above described;) the Ortenau, and their dependencies, the city of Constance, and the commandery of Meinau.

The principalities, &c. above-mentioned, shall be possessed respectively by the Kings of Bavaria and Wirtemberg, and the Elector of Baden, in paramount property and sovereignty, in the same manner, by the same titles, and with the same rights and prerogatives, as they were possessed by the Emperor of Germany, &e.

IX. The Emperor of Austria acknowledges the debts contracted by the House of Austria, for the benefit of private persons and public establishments of the country, making at present an integrant part of the French empire.

X. The county of Salzburg, and of Berchtolsgaden, belonging to his Royal and Electoral Highness Prince Ferdi nand, shall be incorporated with the Empire of Austria; and the Emperor of Germany shall possess them in full property and sovereignty, but by the title of a Duchy only.

XI. The Emperor of the French engages to obtain, in favour of the Archduke Ferdinand, Elector of Salzburgh, the cession, by the King of Bavaria, of the principality of Wurtzburgh, such as it was given to his Majesty by the Deputation of the Germanic Empire in Feb. 1803. The Electoral title of R. H. shall be transferred to this principality, which his R. H. shall possess in full property and sovereignty, in the same manner and on the same conditions that he possessed the Electorate of Salzburgh. And it is agreed that the new possessor shall stand charged only with those debts resulting from loans formally agreed to by the States of the country, for its effective administration.

XII. The dignity of Grand Master of the Teutonic Order, its rights, domains, and revenues, which were dependen

cies of Mergentheim, the chief place of the Order, shall become hereditary in the person and descendants in the direct male line, according to the order of primoge. niture, in whichever of the Princes of the Imperial House shall be appointed by the Emperor of Germany. The Emperor Napoleon promises his good offices to obtain, as soon as possible, for the Archduke Ferdinand, a full and entire indemnity in Germany.

XIII. The King of Bavaria shall occupy the city of Augsburgh and its territory, and unite them to his states, in full property and sovereignty. In the same manner the King of Wirtemberg may occupy and unite to his states, the county of Borndorff; and the Emperor of Germany engages to give no opposition.

XIV. The Kings of Bavaria and Wirtemberg, and the Elector of Baden, shall enjoy over the territories ceded, as well as over their ancient estates, the plenitude of sovereignty, and all the rights resulting from it, which have been guaranteed to them by the Emperor of the French, in the same manner as the Emperor of Germany and the King of Prussia, over their German states. The Emperor of Germany, both as Chief of the Empire, and as co-estate, engages not to oppose any obstacle to the execution of the acts which they may have made, or will make, in consequence.

XV. The Emperor of Germany, as well for himself, &c. renounces all right of sovereignty, without exception, over the states of the Kings of Bavaria and Wirtemberg, and ofthe Elector of Baden, and generally on all the states, domains, and territories comprised in the Circles of Bavaria, Franconia, and Suabia.

XVI. The titles of the domains and archives, the plans and maps of the dif ferent countries, towns, and fortresses, eeded by the present treaty, shall be given up in the space of three months from the date of the exchange of the ratifications.

XVII. The Emperor Napoleon guarantees the integrity of the Empire of Austria in the state in which it shall be, in consequence of the present treaty of peace.

XVIII. The high contracting parties acknowledge the independence of the Helvetic Republic, as established by the

act of mediation, as well as the independence of the Batavian Republic.

XIX. The prisoners of war made on both sides shall be restored within 40 days from the date of the ratification.

XX. All commercial communications and relations are re-established in the two countries, on the same footing as before the war.

XXI. The Emperor of Germany and the Emperor of the French, shall maintain between them the same ceremonial as to rank and etiquette as was observed before the present war.

XXII. Within five days from the exchange of the ratifications of the present treaty, the town of Presburg, and its environs, to the extent of six leagues, shall be evacuated. Ten days after the said exchange, the French, and the troops of the allies of France, shall evacuate Moravia, Bohemia, the Viertal Unter Vienner Wald, the Viertal Unter, Manhartsberg, Hungary, and the whole of Styria. In the ten following days they shall evacuate the Viertal Vienner Wald, and the Viertal Ober Manhartsberg; and finally, in the space of two months from the exchange of the ratifications, the French troops, and the troops of the allies of France, shall evacuate the whole of the hereditary states of the Emperor of Germany, with the exception of the place of Brannau, which shall remain for one month at the disposal of the Emperor of the French, as a depot for the sick and for the artillery.

No requisition, of whatever nature, shall be made of the inhabitants during that month. But it is agreed, that the magazines left by the French army, in the places which they shall evacuate, shall remain at its disposal; and that the high contracting parties shall make an arrangement relative to all contributions of war whatsoever, imposed on the different hereditary states by the French army, in virtue of which the raising of the said contributions shall entirely cease from the day of the ratifications. The French army shall draw its provisions and its sustenance from its own magazines.

XXIII. Immediately after the exchange of the ratification of the present treaty, Commissaries shall be named on both sides, to give up and to receive in the names of their respective

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