440 ANNUAL REGISTER, 1813. 



still resolved, as she had no point 

 of law to support, to let 30,000 of 

 her troops join the French army. 

 The unexampled misfortunes which 

 distinguished that campaign are 

 too well known to repeat the dis- 

 tressing portrait of it here. The 

 whole Bavarian army, including a 

 reinforcement of 8000 men, which 

 joined it in the month of October, 

 was destroyed. 



" There are but few families 

 that were not thrown into mourn- 

 ing b)' that dreadful catastrophe ; 

 and what was still more painful 

 to his majesty's paternal heart 

 was, that so much blood had been 

 shed in a cause which was not the 

 cause of the nation. INIeanwhile 

 preparations were made for a new 

 campaign; and Bavaria, who was 

 only the more stedfast to her ally 

 in proportion to his being unfor- 

 tunate, made no hesitation in re- 

 placing the weak remains of 38,000 

 Bavarians, who had fought under 

 the French standards, by a new 

 division. 



" At the commencement of the 

 campaign, glorious prospects 

 crowned the so often victorious 

 arms of the emperor Napoleon. 

 Germany, and all Europe, believed 

 that, as the emperor now found 

 himself in a condition wherein he 

 might shew his moderation, with- 

 out exposing himself to any sus- 

 picion of weakness, he would have 

 accepted the mediation which Au- 

 stria, from the most wise and ge- 

 nerous motives, offered, for the 

 purpose of procuring peace to the 

 world, or at least to the continent. 

 This hope was destroyed. On the 

 contrary, she saw the number of 

 his enemies increase, by the power- 

 ful addition of Austria to the coali- 

 tion already formed against the 



emperor Napoleon. From this 

 moment the situation of Bavaria 

 became very critical. The energy 

 of the Bavarian government, arid 

 the attachment of a nation which 

 considers no sacrifice heavy, when 

 it is necessary to prove their love 

 to an adored sovereign, had al- 

 ready, as by a magic stroke, created 

 a new army, which marched to- 

 wards the borders on the side of 

 Austria. But the French army, to 

 which the emperor had given the 

 name of ' The Army of Observa- 

 tion of Bavaria,' and which was 

 assembUng in the vicinity of VVurtz- 

 burg, and in the surrounding terri- 

 tory, instead of supporting the 

 Bavarian army, suddenly received 

 another destination. 



" In this critical situation, the 

 emperor did not even deign to 

 bestow on his most faithful ally 

 the least consideration of means 

 for his protection. Nay more, tlie 

 second army of observation, which 

 was to assemble under the com- 

 mand of marshal Augereau, was 

 not formed, and its weak stem, 

 which was still at Wurtzburg, to- 

 tally disappeared. 



" Being in this manner totally 

 deserted, iiis majesty would have 

 infringed on the most sacred of his 

 duties, had he not yielded to the 

 wishes of his faithful subjects, 

 which were daily more loudly ex- 

 pressed. The sovereigns allied 

 against France did not neglect to 

 inform the Bavarian government 

 of the principles of moderation 

 which animated them, and to as- 

 sure it of their formal guarantee of 

 the integrity of the kingdom of 

 Bavaria in its full borders, as at 

 that time, on condition of the 

 king's joining his military force to 

 theirs, not to carry on a war of ara- 



