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in boats, ahd partly swimming, crossed avery 
narrow arm of the Danube, seized the island. 
routed the 1500 men who were upon it, and 
made 250 prisoners, among whom were the 
Colonel, and several otficers of the regiment 
of St. Fatiau, and.took three pieces of cannon, 
which the Suen | had landed for ave defence 
of the island. 
At length there exists no longer any Da- 
.Bube, as far as concerns the French army. 
General Count Bertrand:has raised works 
whith excite astonishment and inspire admi- 
ration. Over a breadth of 400 fathoms, and 
over a very rapid river, he has ta a fortnight 
raised a bridge formed of-60 arches, on which 
three carriages can pass abreast; he has built 
a second bridge upon piles eight feet: broad; 
but this is for infantry only. Next to these 
two bridges is a bridge of boats; we can, 
therefore, pass the Danube in three columns. 
These three bridges qre secured against all 
insults, even against the effects of fire ships 
and incendiary machines, by stuccadoes, raised 
on piles between the islands in different di- 
rections, the furthest of which are at 250 fa- 
thoms fromthe bridges. When these im- 
mense works are contemplated, they might 
be thought to be the labour of many. years; 
they were, however, produced in 15 or 20 
days. These works are defended by tétes-de- 
pont, each of 1600 fathoms in extent, formed 
of sedoubts, surrounded by pallisades, frizes, 
and ditches filled with water. The island of 
Lobau is a strong Post ; it contains magazines 
of provisions, 109 pieces of heavy cannon, 
and 20 mortass or howitzers. Opposite Es- 
Jing, on the left arm of the Danube, iis a 
bridge, which the Duke of Rivoli has fixed 
there. 
had-been raised there at the time of the first 
passage of the river. ~ 
General Legrand occupies the woods in the 
front of the téte-de-pone. 
is in order of battle, covered with redoubts; 
the left is at Enzersdorf, the right at Great 
Aspctata few dischargesof musquetry from 
the advanced posts have taken place. 
Now that the passage of the Danube is se- 
cured, and that our bridges are sheltered from 
every attempt, the fate of the Austrian mo- 
narchy will be decided in a single battle. 
The waters of the Danube were onthe first 
of July four feet above the Jewest, and 13 
f.et below the highest point 
of the river at this part is, when the waters 
are high, from7 to 12 feet; when the water 
is moderate, 4 feet 6 inches, each second, 
and more strong than at any other point. In 
Hungary it diminishes a great-deal; and at 
the place where Trajan. raised a bridge, it is 
almost insensibie. 
fathoms broad, here it is only 400. The 
bridge of Trajan was.a stone bridge, the work 
of several years. Czsar’s bridge over the 
Rhine was raised, it is true, in eight days, 
but no loaded carriage could pass over it. The 
State of Public Afairs in July. 
“Petersburgh on the 8th of June. 
It is covered by a téte-de-pont, which 
The hostile army ~ 
‘ pounders), and four mortars. 
The rapidity 
_ the works. 
The Danube is there 450 ~ 
fAug. 1, 
works on the Danube are the most beautiful 
military works ever formed. 
Prince Gazarin, Aid-de-Camp Genes of 
the Emperor of Russia, arrived at Schoen- 
brunn, at four in the morning of the day be- 
fore yesterday, at the moment the Emperor 
was mounting on horseback. He set out from ° 
He has 
brought intelligence of the march of the Rus- 
sian army into Gallicia. 
His Majesty. has quitted Schoenbrunn ; 3 he 
has been two days encamped. His tents are 
very beautiful, and made in the style of the _ | 
Egyptian tents. 
Twenty fifth Bulletin. 
Wolker sdorf, Fuh 8. 8. 
The works raised by General Count Ber- 
trand, and his corps of engineers, had, sifice 
the beginning of the month, entirely subdued - 
the Danube. His Majesty, in consequence, re- 
solved to collect his forces inthe island of 
Lobau, face the Austrian ar my» and bring on 
a general engagement. 
-All the intelligence collected concerning 
the Austrian army. shewed that it was consi- 
derable; that ic had been recruited by nu- 
merous bodies of reserve, by the levies from 
Moravia and Hungary, and all the landwehrs 
(fencibles) of the provinces 3 that its cavalry 
had been re-mounted, and its draughts of ar- - 
tillery tripled byimmense levies of horses and 
carriages in Moravia, Hungary, and Bohemia. 
-'To add new chances in their favour, the Aus- 
trian generals had raised military works, of ~ 
which the right. was protected by. Gros- 
Aspern, and the left by Enzersdorf. The 
villages of Aspern, Essling, and Enzersdorf, 
and the intervals between them,were covered 
with redoubts, surrounded by pailisades and 
frizes, and defended by more than 1530 pieces 
_of battering cannon, taken from the wie 
of Bohemia and Moravia... > 7 
On the ist of July, at four o "clock in the 
morning, the Emperor removed his head=~ 
quarters to the Island Lobau. A small 
island which bore upon Enzérsdorf, had been 
furnished with ten, mortars and twenty 18-— 
pounders. 
with six pieces of battering cannon (12- 
two islands, a battery had been raised, equal 
in forée, and in like manner bearing upon~ 
Enzersdorf. . These 62 pieces of battering 
artillery had the same. object, .they were in | 
two hours to destroy the little tewn of En- ~ 
zersdorf, drive away the enemy, and demolish 
On the right, four mortars, two - 
ten pounders, and twelve six- -pounders (bat- 
tering cannon ) were to bear upon the plain- 
and protect the operations of the bridges. 
In the evening, the redoubts of Essling aps 
peared to be jealous of these works: ‘not 
doubting but they were a first battery, formed 
to act against themselves, they fired upon 
them with great activity. This was precisely 
the intention in having seized this island. 
The 
Another island had been: applied . 
Between these | 
