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forts, which the Andrians, in the precipitation of their 
retreat, had neglected to deftroy. The French emperor 
fixed la is head quarters at Lambach on the 3d of Novem¬ 
ber. And on the 5th genera! Duroi, at the head of a body 
of Bavarians, fell in at the Lovers with the advanced 
guard of a column of five Auftrian regiments coming from 
Italy, completely defeated it, and took 400 prifoners, and 
fome cannon. At the Enns alfo the French were com¬ 
pletely viftorious. Thus did they advance, almoft with¬ 
out refiftance, till they arrived at St. Polten, within a few 
leagues of Vienna. A deputation of the three upper dates 
of that noble city, ten of the burgefles, and two council¬ 
lors from the magifiracy, now repaired, by permifiion from 
the emperor, to the French camp, to open to the com¬ 
mander the intentions of his majefty the emperor of Anf- 
tria, that, wifhing to preferve the inhabitants of the ca¬ 
pital from the terror of being ftormed, he would deliver 
up Vienna to the emperor of the French, fully relying on 
Iris juftice and generofity ; when, to the honour and ever- 
lafiing reputation of Napoleon, arrangements were made 
for the prefervation and tranquillity of that metropolis; 
its trade received no check ; private property of every 
kind was protected ; the magifiracy was maintained in 
all its functions; the victorious army was commanded to 
march through with the greatelt circumfpeftion, nor dif¬ 
fered to commit the fmalieft aCt of violence, under pain 
of inftant death. 
Some days previoufly to this event, viz. on the 7th of 
November, the emperor of Auftria had quitted his capi¬ 
tal, and repaired to Pretburgh, on his way to Olmutz ; 
he had declared he would put himfelf at the head of his 
troops, and he nominated general Schmidt as adjutant- 
general. He was to have fiept at Scholfliof, after leaving 
Prelburgh, where it was thought he would wait the re¬ 
turn of count Giulay, who was to bring him the deter¬ 
mination of the emperor of the French refpeCting Vienna. 
The emprels fet out for Olmutz in the night between the 
7th and 8th, with the elder princefs and her phylician ; 
all in the utmofl confufion and diftrefs. 
On the 29th of October, the Auftrian government de¬ 
termined to put all the veflels_ upon the Danube in a (fate 
of requilition, to tranfport the elfeCts belonging to the 
court and the different chanceries ; and the boatmen were 
ordered not to take any thing in charge from private in¬ 
dividuals ; but on the 7th of November, it was announced 
that his majefty had appropriated one veflel for the tranf¬ 
port of valuables belonging to private perfons; that pro¬ 
per officers were appointed to give receipts for what might 
be confided to their charge; that fuch depofits ftiould be 
franfmitted to a place of fafety, and faithfully returned 
to the owners, when the danger had fubfided ; and that 
his majefty would be anfwerable for every thing not de¬ 
pending upon the elements. On the joth, orders were 
ifi'ued tor difcharging all the boats, &c. upon the Danube, 
which took place accordingly. Much precaution was 
ufed in Caving all the carriages belonging to the court; 
as to the library, only the mod valuable books were 
packed up ; but from the gallery of paintings, the nioft 
valuable pieces were removed. 
Count Giulay had been difpatched on the 7th to the 
emperor Napoleon, to propofe an armiftice; when he re¬ 
ceived for anfwer, “ that his majefty, being at the head 
of two hundred thoufand men, was not in a fituation to 
treat with a flying army he, howevSr, gave count Giu¬ 
lay a letter for the emperor of Auftria. Returning from 
the head.quarters, near St. Hyppolite, where it was ex¬ 
pected the Auftrians w ould have made a ftand, count Giu¬ 
lay met the deputation of the ftates of Auftria, going from 
Vienna to the emperor Napoleon, to folicit for a capitu¬ 
lation. 
Prince Amfberg, commandant of the guards at the pa¬ 
lace, was appointed commandant of the city of Vienna 
ad interim ; and prince John of Leichtenftein, commandant 
of the referve in Auftria and Bohemia, then ftationed upon 
the left ftiore of the Danube ; count Corius, vice-prefi- 
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dent of the mines and mint, was appointed commiffary- 
general, having for adjutants the deputies of ftate, and 
the aulic counlellors count Korinfky, and baron Killman- 
fegg. The emperor authorifed the magiftrates of Vienna 
to circulate paper to the amount of a million of florins, 
in bills of twelve and twenty-four francs, to be called in 
after the war. 
When the emperor of Auftria fet out for Olmutz on 
the 7th, he caufed his departure to be announced to the 
diplomatic corps, and invited them to follow him, as 
horfes were provided for their journey, and lodgings, as 
commodious as poffible, were to be fitted for their recep¬ 
tion at Olmutz. When count Cobentzel notified the em¬ 
peror’s departure to the minifters of Baden and Wirtem- 
burg, he informed them that, all official communications 
having ceafed, they might receive their paflports when¬ 
ever they chofe to demand them. The minifter of Sar¬ 
dinia, impatient of his majefty’s delay in changing his re- 
fidence, had demanded paftports for Hungary on the 6th; 
but when he received the invitation of his majefty, by a 
note, to follow him to Olmutz, he availed himfelf of the 
opportunity. On the 8th, the emperor granted an extra¬ 
ordinary vacation of three months to the aulic council of 
the empire ; and the chancery of ftate was transferred to 
Olmutz. The Auftrian council of ftate was diflolved, 
and M. de Stahl was the only member that followed his 
majefty. He travelled with the cabinet minifters. 
After the deputation from Vienna had conferred with 
prince Murat, a confiderable corps of French troops ap¬ 
proached Vienna, and were quartered in places near the 
capital for its protection, as had been previoufly agreed 
upon; on the 14th prince Murat, on his arrival before 
Vienna, took up his head-quarters at the country palace 
of prince Leichtenftein, while the emperor Napoleon, in- 
Head of advancing into the city, remained at Bukerfdorf, 
about two miles diftant from Vienna. 
At Brunn, the emperor of Auftria learnt the refult of 
count Giulay’s million; which was, that the French em¬ 
peror was willing to grant an armiftice, on condition that 
the Tyrol, Venice, and the ftrong pofts of Germany, were 
put into his poflefiion. Upon thefe terms an armiftice 
was equal to a furrender of the Auftrian ftates and crown 
at difcretion ; the emperor, therefore, dropped his folici- 
tation, and publifhed a manifefto to his people, in which 
he declared his refolution not to make a feparate peace ; 
bur, relying upon the pledged afliftance of Ruffia and 
Prvjjia, to purfue his fortune to the utmofl:, and not to 
fubmit to France, but in an extremity in which it ftiould 
be impoflible to refift. This magnanimous declaration 
infufed new hopes into the confederates; and, notwith- 
ftanding Vienna was gone, they looked forward to Bohe¬ 
mia and Hungary, as furnifliing inexhauftible refources 
of loyal troops. The declaration concluded in the fol¬ 
lowing impreflive words: 
“ His majefty the emperor of Auftria conftantly wiflied 
for peace—he willies for it ftill, with fincerity and earneft- 
nefs. But he never could, and never will, place himfelf 
in a defencelefs ftate, where he and his people would be 
delivered over to the imperious and arbitrary decifions of 
a mighty foe. In fuch circumftances, nothing remains to 
his majefty, but to cleave to thofe great and unexhaufted 
refources which he finds in the hearts, in the profpeiity, 
in the loyalty, in the ftrength, of his people ; and in the 
as yet undiminiftied force of his high allies and friends, 
the emperor of Ruflia, and the king of Pruflia ; and to per- 
fift in this firm and intimate connection till the emperor of 
the French, with that moderation which is the brighteft 
gem in the crown of a great monarch, contents to condi¬ 
tions of peace which are not purchafed by a facrifice of the 
national honour and independence of a mighty ftate.” 
The French armies, in the mean while, unaccuftomed 
to reft long upon their arms, were purfuing the raoft vigo¬ 
rous and adtive meafures. Marefchals Soult and Lafnes, 
after the Auftro-Ruflian army had quitted the Enns, pur- 
fued it to Amftetten, where, on the 7th of November, a 
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