FRA 
“Senators, —In the prefentcircumfiances of Europe, 
I feel the neceffity of being in the midft of you, and of 
acquainting you with my intentions. I am going to leave 
the capital to head the army, to bring fpeedy afliftance to 
my allies, and to defend the deareft interefts of my people. 
“ The.willies of the eternal enemies of the continent 
are accomplilhed ; the war has commenced, in the midft 
of Germany. Auftria and Ruliia have joined England, 
and the prelent generation are again drawn into all the 
calamities of war. A few days ago, I dill hoped that the 
peace would not be difliirbed ; menaces and outrages had 
no effedt upon me; but the Andrian army has palled the 
Inn, Munich is invaded, the elector of Bavaria is driven 
from his capital ; all my hopes are vanidied. 
“ It is at this moment that the malignity of the enemies 
«f the continent has developed itfelf. They dill fear a 
difplay of my profound love of peace; they fear left Auf¬ 
tria, at the fight of the abyfs which they have dug under 
her feet, fhould return to fentiments of judice and mode¬ 
ration. They have plunged her into the war. I figh for 
the blood it will cod to Europe; but the French name 
will derive a new 1 lift re from it. 
“ Senators, when in conformity to your wilhes and to 
the voice of the whole of the French people, I placed on 
my head the imperial crown, I received of you, of all the 
citizens, the engagement to preferve it pure, and without 
blemilh. My people have given me, on all occafions, 
proofs of their confidence and love: they will fly to the 
colours of their emperor, aod of his army, which in a few 
days will have paffed the frontiers. 
“ Magiftrates, foldiers, citizens, all will keep their 
country free from the influence of England, who, if die 
were to prevail, would grant us only a peace fnrrounded 
with (hame and difgrace, and of which the principal con¬ 
ditions would be, the burning of our fleets, the filling up 
of our ports, and the annihilation of our indudry. 
“ All the promiles which I have made to the French 
people I have kept. The French people, on their parts, 
have made no engagements to me but what they have ex¬ 
ceeded. In thefe circnmdances, fo important to their 
glory and to my own, they (hall continue to deferve that 
name of The Great People, with which I hailed them in the 
midd of the field of battle. 
“ Frenchmen, your emperor will do bis duty, my fol¬ 
diers will do their’s, you will do your’s.” 
The activity and vigilance of Napoleon in preparing for 
immediate afition, were conlpicuous in all his meaf'ures 
and appointments ; and thefe were carried into effedt with 
equal promptitude and facility. The arrangement and 
organization of the feveral departments of the army were 
dated to be as follows: 
112 Regiments of the line ... 404,828 men. 
30 Battalions of light infantry - 107,540 
85 Cavalry ------- 64,226 
16 Artillery ------- 21,43° 
598,024 
This number, with the addition of the different corps 
from Corfica and the iflands, of 21 regiments of Batavian 
or Dutch foldiers, 11 Swils regiments, 18 regiments of 
Italian troops, and the imperial guard, confiding of 15,000 
men, made a total of 651,964 eft'edtive troops, at once 
ready to commence the war. 
From the aggregate of this vad armament Napoleon 
drew out the different divilions for immediate movement ; 
afligned the proper officers to each apportionment of the 
army; chalked out their refped'tive routes with geogra¬ 
phical precifion, and laid down to each general in chief his 
particular line of fervice. The grand army, of which the 
emperor himfelf was to take the abfolute command, and 
next to him marefchal Bevthier, was to confid of 150,000 
-men ; the command of the centre to be given to marefchal 
Bernadotte, the right wing to Oudenot, and the left to 
Marmont ; attached to whom were marefchal Lafnes; 
the generals Sueher, Gazan, Boudet, and Grouchy. The 
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department of cavalry was under prince Murat, and 
generals Sebadiani, Belliard,‘ Beaumont, Wattier, and 
Klein. The chaffeurs, carabineers, and cuiradiers, were 
under generals d’Efpagne, Nanfouty, Fauconnet, Haut- 
poult, and Baraguay d’Hilliers. The imperial guard was 
under the command of general Bedieres. An auxiliary 
army, confiding of 100,000 men, was placed under maref- 
chals Soult and Davoud ; attached to whom were generals 
Vandamme, Lagrande, and St. Hilaire. Another auxi¬ 
liary divifion, confiding of 50,000 men, was under the 
orders of marfhal Ney,'with generals Dupont, Loifon, and 
Malher. A third auxiliary army, confiding of 50,000 
men, was commanded by marefchal Augereau, with gene¬ 
rals Bonhomme, Duroc, and Verden. Befides thefe, the 
Batavian divifion of troops were under general Dumon. 
ceau ; and the Bavarian corps were led by generals Deroi 
and Nogarella. The whole of this armament was dedined 
to aft in Swilferland and Germany; and the grand point 
of concentrationand co-operation was to be at Vienna, the 
capital of Audria. 
The army of Italy was to confid of 150,000 men, under- 
Maffena, as commander in chief; with Gotivion St. Cyr 
at the head of the right wing, and Mortier on the left ; 
to whom were attached generals Seffa, Verdier, Gardanne, 
Duhefme, Partouneaux, Charpentier, Solignac, and Reg- 
nier ; the cavalry was under general Monnet. All thefe 
formidable armies were at once put in motion ; were alike 
impelled by the fame fentiment of emulation ; all pm Cued 
equally and precifely their different routes, and took each 
their podtions with that promptnefs and precifion, which 
almod to a certainty enlured their fuccefs. 
The emperor Napoleon, with his etnprefs, his minider 
Talleyrand, and his council of date, quitted Paris on the 
24:h of September,i805,andarrivedat Strafburgh twodays 
after. Marefchal Bernadotte, who, at the moment that the 
army fet out from Boulogne, advanced from Hanover to¬ 
wards Gottingen, marched by Frankfort for Wurtzburgh, 
where he arrived on the 23d of September. Genera! Mar¬ 
mont, who had arrived at Mentz, palled the Rhine by the 
bridge of Caffel, and advanced to Wurtzburgh, where he 
formed a junction witli the Bavarian army and the corps 
under marefchal Bernadotte. The corps under marefch, 1 
Davoud paffed the Rhine on the 26th at Manheim, and 
marched by Heidelburgh and Necker Eltz, on the Necker. 
The corps under marefchal Soult palled the Rhine on the 
lame day, on the bridge that was thrown over it at Spires, 
and advanced towards Heilbronn. Marefchal Ney -s divifion 
palled the Rhine the fame day by the flying bridge oppo- 
fite Durlach, and marched towards Stutgard. The corps 
under marefchal Lafnes paffed the Rhine, on the 251I1, at 
Kehl, and advanced towards Louifburgh. Prince Murat, 
with the cavalry, palled the Rhine at the fame place, and 
remained for feveral days in a ftrong pofition before the 
defiles of the Black Foreft. The great park of artillery 
paffed the Rhine at Kehl, on the 3o:h of September, and 
advanced towards Heilbronn. The emperor paffed the 
Rhine on the ill of October, at Kehl, llept at Ettlingen 
the lame evening, and received there the elector and prin- 
cefs of Baden, and went to Louifburgh, to tiie elector of 
Wurtemburgh, in whofe palace he accepted accommo¬ 
dations. 
The arrangement and organization of the Auftrian and 
Ruffian armies, though they had long contemplated and 
determined on the war, appear by no means to have been 
in equal forwardnefs with the French ; nor had they the 
mean's, on the approach of the invading armies, to form 
any kind of junction or co-operation with each other, to 
oppofe them. The aggregate number and appointments 
of the Auftrian and Rullian forces, were fa id to be as fol¬ 
low : the Auftrian army conlifted of 300,000 men, fplit 
into four principal divilions. The chief command of the 
troops adting in the duchy of Venice, Laly, and the 
fouthern Tyrol, was conferred on the archduke Charles; 
to whom was given as an aftiftant, and as general of ca¬ 
valry, the archduke John. The troops deltined to ad! in 
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