674 
Vienna, we find the following 
estimate of the military force of 
France :— 
¢¢ France, upon the new organiza- 
tion of her army, has on foot 
112 Regiments of the 
LCS eae See 
$0 Regiments of 
light infantry, ... 107,540 
404,528 men. 
$6 Gavatry, 2. 222 645226 
16 Artillery, --..- 21,43 
598,024 
This number, with the addition.of 
the different corps in Corsica and 
the islands, of 21 regiments of 
Dutch soldiers, 11 Swiss regiments, 
1§ auxiliary ‘corps from Italy, and 
‘the imperial guards, which consists 
of 15,000 men, makes-a total of 
631,964, the whole military force 
now on foot in France. — These 
troops are for the greater part al- 
ready on the war establishment.” 
The ensuing extract from a me- 
moir of count Starhemberg cannot 
be overlooked, whenever the con- 
duct of our late ministry, with re- 
spect to the continental campaign, 
shall come into discussion. 
(Translation. )—Extract from a Me- 
moir on the Situation of Affairs, 
> communicated by Count Starhem- 
berg. 
Never were hopes, founded on 
the most salutary views and plans, 
destroyed by a more fatal blow, than 
the disastrous reverse which our 
army in Germany has experienced 
by a concourse of unfortunate cir- 
cumstances, the consequence of a 
single fault. The simultaneous co- 
operation of the two impcrial courts 
of England and Prussia should have 
offered, at the commencement of the 
war, a rehath of armed forces from 
north to south, and should have ob- | 
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. interior in the- course 
‘of October, have but little exeeeded 
‘Iiler, where, in the strong 
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TE R, 1806. 
liged France, by mutual diversions, — 
to separate hers. [t ,was our first 
misfortune, that none of the hopes 
we had placed in diversions on the — 
north of the continent, which might | 
have obliged the emperor of the 
l’rench to divide the troops that he 
had withdrawn from his coasts, 
were realised ; and not only all these 
troops were able to be employed © 
against our army, in Germany, but 
even the Gallo-Batayian army, and 
that of Berhadotte, could quit Hol- — 
land and Hanover also, without im- 
pediment, to join in the attack. It 
is to this circumstance, that the 
French troops, which were opposed 
to ours, owe {he superiority of their 
numbers; for deducting these two 
armies, the troops arrived from the 
f the month 
the number of Austrian troops on the 
position 
which they occupied; they would 
have been able to await the junction 
of the first army of his majesty the © 
emperor of Russia. There was even 
a moment when they had the hope 
of preventing the junction of the 
French troops from the north with 
those arrived from the interior of 
France, by falling on 4 party of.the 
latter, when, as a second misfor- 
tune, the violation of the Prussian 
neutrality suddenly changed the face 
of affairs, and reduced our German 
army to the ‘alternative, either to 
fall back immediately on the Inn, 
or to see itself surrounded and de- 
stroyed. 
Extract from the Answer of the- 
French Government to the Declara- 
tion of Austria, dated Paris, Aug. 
16, 1805. 
England well knows, and has” 
more than once declared, that Russia 
alene 
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