trian or Russian army before midnight of the 25th of Oct., on whatever side, or at whatever gate it shall happen to be, the garrison shall freely depart with their arms, artillery, and cavalry, to join the troops which may have raised the blockade. Agreed to.VI. One of the gates of Ulm (that of Stutgard) shail be given up to the French army at 7 o'clock to-morrow, as also quarters sufficient for the accommodation of one brigade. Answer: Yes.-VII. That the French army shall be put in possession of the grand bridge over the Danube, and also have a free communication between both banks. Answer: The bridge is burat down, but all possible means shall be taken to rebuild it. VIII. The service shall be regulated so as to prevent any disturbance, and to maintain the best understanding. Answer: The French and Austrian discipline afford the firmest guarantee in this respect.-IX. All the cavalry, artillery, and waggon horses, belonging to the Emperor of Austria and King of Hungary, shall be given up to the French army.-X. The 1st, 2d, 3d, 4th, and 9th articles shall not be carried into execution until it please the commander in chief of the Austrian troops; provided nevertheless, that the period of execution shall not be later than twelve at noon of the 25th the effusion of blood. The Emperor presents the colours he has taken to the senate; they amount to 80, instead of 40 stand.“ Additional Articles of the Capitulation of Ulm, proposed on the 19th. Marshal Berthier, Major-General of the French army, being empowered by the Emperor's command, gives his word of honour, 1st, That the Austrian army is this day on the other side of the Inn, and that Marshal Bernadotte, with his army, has taken a posi24, tion between Munich and the Inn. Marshal Lannes, with his corps, is pursuing Prince Ferdinand, and was yesterday at Aalen. 3d, That Prince Murat, with his corps, was yesterday at Nordlingen; that the Lient.-Generals Werneck, Baillet, Hohenzollern, and 7 other generals, have yesterday capitulated at the village of Trotzelfingen. 4th, That Marshal Soult is posted between Ulm and Brégentz, observing the way to the Tyrol; that there is, consequently, no possibility of succour arriving before Ülm. 'That Lieut.-Gen, and Quarter-Master Gen. Mack, giving credit to the above declaration, is ready to evacuate Ulm to-morrow, on the following conditions:-That the whole corps of Marshal Ney, consisting of twelve regiments of infantry, and four regiments of horse, shall not quit the City of Ulm and its environs, at the distance of ten leagues, before the 25th October at midnight, the period when the capitulation is to of Oct., 1905: and, if by that time an army should make its appearance, in sufficient force to raise the blockade, the garrison shall, conformably to Art. V. be at liberty to act as they may think proper.-Done in Dupli-expire.-The Marshal Berthier and Baron cate at Ulm, 17th Oct. 1805. (Signed) MARSHAL BERTHIER. MACK. Abstract of the Seventh Bulletin. Elchingen, Oct. 19.-On the 18th Prince Murat arrived at Nordlingen, and surrounded the division of Gen. Werneck, who capitulated, and is a prisoner on parole, with 7 other generals. The soldiers will be sent to France as prisoners. It is asserted, that the reserve artillery of the Austrian army, consisting of 500 carriages, is taken. Prince Ferdinand has now but few men leftAfter an audience which the Emperor granted to Gen. Mack this afternoon, Marshal Berthier and that general signed an addition to the capitulation, purporting that Ulm must be evacuated by the Austrian garrison on the 20th. There are at Ulm 27,000′ men, 3000 horses, 18 generals, and from 60 to 80 pieces of cannon, with their horses. We become more certain every day that there are not 20,000 men escaped of that army of 100,000 men, and this extraor dinary advantage has been obtained without Von Mack agrée on the above inserted articles. Consequently the whole Austrian army shall defile to-morrow, at 3 in the afternoon, before the Emperor of the French, with all the honours of war; they shall lay down their arms, and the officers, who shall keep their arms, shall receive passports to go by the two roads of Kempten to Austria, and of Bregentz to the Tyrol. Done in Duplicate at Elchingen, the 19th October, 1805. (Signed) THE MARSHAL BERTHIER. THE LIEUT.-GEN. MACK. Eighth Bulletin of the Grand Army. Elchingen, Oct. 20.-The Emperor" took his station, from 2 in the afternoon to 7 in the evening, on the heights near Ulm, where the Austrian army marched past him. The French army were posted on the heights. The Emperor, surrounded by his life-guards, sent for the Austrian generals, and kept them with him vtil their troops had filed off. He treated them with the utmost distinction. There were present, besides the General in Chief, Mack, eight generals, and seven lieutenant-generals. The number of 723), POLITICAL REGISTER.-Capitulation of Ulm. prisoners since the commencement of hos- Ninth Bulletin. [724 of war, who will speedily pass through France; they will observe with their own eyes the spirit which animates my people, and with what eagerness they flock to my standards. This is the prerogative of my nation, and my condition. At a single word 200,000 volunteers crowd to my standard, and in six weeks become good soldiers; whereas your recruits only march from compulsion, and do not become good soldiers but after several years. I would give my brother the Emperor of Germany one further piece of advice: let him hasten to make peace. This is the crisis when he must recollect all states must have an end. The idea of the approaching extinction of the dynasty of Lorraine must impress him with terror. I desire nothing upon the Continent. I want ships, colonies, and commerce; and it is as much your interest as mine that I should have them." M. Mack replied, that the Emperor of Germany had by Russia. not wished for war, but was compelled to it If that be the case,' said the Emperor, then you are no longer a power.". disagreeable this war was to them, and how -Most of the generals have confessed how much they were affected to see a Russian army in their country. They rejected a blind system of politics, which would bring into. the centre of Europe a people accustomed to live in an uncultivated country, and in the field, and who, as well as their forefathers, 6 Elchingen, Oct. 21.-The Emperor has just issued the annexed proclamation with decrees. He set off for Augsburgh at noon this day. We are now in possession of an accurate list of the army which was shut up in Ulm. It consisted of 33,000 men, to which number the 3000 wounded being 'added, the total amounts to 30,000. There were also found in the place 60 pieces of artillery, and 50 stand of colours. There cannot be a more striking contrast than the spirit of the French and the Austrian armies. In the French army heroism is carried to its extreme point. In the Austrian army d'sconragement is at its height. The soldier is paid with notes; he can send nothing home; and is very ill treated. The French think of nothing but glory. A thousand traits like the following might be cited: Brard, a soldier of the 70th, was going to have his thigh amputated; death had laid hold of him. As the surgeon was preparing to perform the operation, he stopped him:- I know that I shall not survive, what does it signify? A man the less will not prevent the 70th from marching against the enemy, with the bay-might once take a fancy to settle in a milder onet in front, and in three ranks.'-The Emperor has had occasion to complain of nothing except the excessive ardour of the soldiers. The 17th light infantry, for example, which arrived before Ulm during the capitulation, rushed into the place in such a manner, and the whole army were anxious to storm it, that the Emperor was obliged to declare it as his positive intention that the place should not be stormed.-The first column of the prisoners at Elm has just begun its march for France. The following is a statement of the total of the prisoners, with their present situation : 10,000 at Augsburgh, 33,000 at Ulm, 12,000 at Donauwerth, and 12,000 already on their march for France.-The Emperor addressed the Austrian generals, whom he sent for, as their army were filing past him, in the following terms: Gentlemen, your master carries on an unjust war. I know not for what I am fighting; I know I tell you plainly, not what can be required of me. It is not in this army alone that my resources consist, though were that the case I should still be able to make head with it; but I shall appeal to the testimony of your own prisoners 66 SO climate. The Emperor has treated Lieut.. Gen. Klenau (whom he knew as commander of the regiment of Wurmser) with much civility, as also the Lieut. Generals Ginlay, Gottersheim, Ries, and the Prince of Lich-tenstein, &c. comforting them in their urtschances, and that they who had frequently fortunes, and telling them that war has its been conquerors might be conquered once. Proclamation of the Emperor Napoleon to the Soldiers of the Grand Army; duted Elchingen. From the Imperial Head-quar-. ters, Oct. 21, 1805. days we have made a campaign. What wo Soldiers of the grand army,-la 15 proposed is accomplished. We have chaced the troops of the House of Austria from Bavaria, and re-established our ally in the sovereignty of his states. That army, which, with equal ostentation and impudence, came to place itself upon our frontiers, is zoninilated. What signifies it to England? Her object is accomplished. We are no longer at Boulogne, and her subsidy will be neither posed that army, 60,000 are prisoners: they more nor less. Of 100,000 men which com will go to replace our conscripts in the labours of our fields; 200 pieces of cannon, all the park, 90 colours, all the generals, are in our power. Not 15,000 men of that army have escaped. Soldiers, I had announced to you a great battle; but thanks to the bad combinations of the enemy, I have been able to obtain the same success without running any risk; and, what is unexampled in the history of nations, so great a result has not weakened us above 1500 men hors de combat. -Soldiers, this success is due to your boundless confidence in your Emperor, to your patience in enduring fatigues and privations of every kind, and to your rare intrepidity.But we shall not stop here: you are inipatient to commence a second campaign. We shall make that Russian army, which the gold of England has transported from the extremities of the universe, undergo the same fate. To this combat is more especially attached the honour of the infantry; it is here that is to be decided, for the second time, that question which has already been decided in Switzerland and in Holland? Whether the French infantry be the first or the second in Europe? There are among them no generals against whom I can have any glory to acquire: all my care shall be to obtain victory with the least effusion of blood: my soldiers are my children. Elchingen. From my Imperial Camp, 21st of Oct. 1805. Napoleon, Emperor of the French, and King of Italy. Considering that the grand army has obtained, by its courage and its devotion, results which could not be hoped for but after a campaign; and wishing to give it a proof of our imperial satisfaction, we have decreed and decree as follows: Art. I. The month Vendemaire, year 14, shall be reckoned as a campaign to all the individuals composing the grand army. This month shall be so charged to the state in the valuation of subsistence and military services. II. Our ministers of war, and of the public treasury, are charged with the execution of this decree. (Signed) NAPOLEON. Elchingen. From my Imperial Camp, 21st Oct. 1805. Napoleon Emperor of the French, and King of Italy. We have decreed, and decree as follows: Art. I. Possession shall be taken of all the states of the House of Austria in Suabia. II. The war contributions which shall be there levied, as well as the ordinary contributions, shall go to the army. All the magazines which shall be taken from the enemy, excepting the magazines of artillery and provi sions, shall also go to their account. Each shall have a share in these contributions proportionate to his pay. III. The private contributions which shall be levied, or the objects which shall be taken from the maga zines of the enemy, shall be restored to the general mass; no one being to profit by the right of war to the injury of the general mass of the army. IV. A treasurer and directorgeneral shall be immediately appointed, who shall render a monthly account to a council of administration of the army, of the contributions that shall be raised. The state of it shall be published with its division. V. The subsistence shall be punctually paid from the funds of our imperial treasury.. VI. Our minister of war is charged with the execution of this decree. (Signed) NAPOLLON. Tenth Bulletin. Augsburgh, Oct: 22.-On the capitulation of Gen. Werneck, near Nordlingen, Prince Ferdinand, with a body of 1000 horse, and a portion of artillery, had taken to flight: he threw himself into the Prussian territory, and took the route by Gunvenhausen for Nuremberg, Prince Marat followed on his heels, and succeeded in overtaking him; which gave rise to a battle on the road between Furth and Nuremberg, in the night of the 21st. All the rest of the park of artillery and all the baggage, without exception, were taken. The Chasseurs à Cheval of the imperial guard covered themselves with glory; they overthrew every thing which opposed them; they charged Mack's regiment of cuirassiers. The two regiments of carabiniers have sustained their reputation.-We are full of astonishment when we consider the march of Prince Murat from Albeck to Nuremberg. Although always fighting, he excelled in speed the enemy, who were two days march before him. The result of this prodigious activity was the taking of 1500 waggons, 50 pieces of cannon, 16,000 men, including the capitulations of Cen, Werneck, and a great number of colours. 18 generals have laid down their arms. 3 were killed. [Here follows an entumeration of officers who distinguished themselves.] On the 21st, at night, Prince Murat slept at Nuremberg, where he rested the 224. The division of Wirtemberg is arrived at Geislingen. The battalions of chassenrs, which had followed the army since its passage through Stutgard, have gone to conduct to France, a new column of 10.000 prisoners. The troops of Baden, 3 or 4000 strong, are on their march to Angsburgh. The Emperor has made a pre-ent to the Bavarians of 20,000 Austrian - fusils for the army and the national guards. He has also made a present to the Elector of Wirtemberg of six pieces of Austrian cannon-During the manoeuvre of Ulm, the Elector of Wirtemberg was for a moment apprehensive, for his Electress and family, who then went to Heidelberg, and he disposed his troops to defend the heart of his states. The Austrians are detested by all Germany, well convinced that, without France, Austria would treat them like its hereditary states. No idea can be formed of the misery of the Austrian army; they are paid in notes, by which they lose 40 per cent. Our soldiers pleasantly call the Austrians paper soldiers. They are without any credit. The House of Austria could not any where borrow ten thousand francs. The generals themselves have not scen a piece of gold for several years. The English, when they heard of the invasion of Bavaria, made a little present to the Emperor of Austria, which has not rendered him more rich; they have engaged to remit him the 48 millions which they had lent him during the last year. If this be an advantage to the House of Austria, it has already paid pretty dear for it. Address of the Emperor Napoleon to his Soldiers, the Evening before the Surrender of Ulm. Soldiers, a month ago we were encamped on the shores of the ocean opposite to England; but an impious league compelled us to fly towards the Rhine.It is but a fortnight since we passed that river, and the Alps of Wirtemberg, the Necker, the Danube, and the Loch; those celebrated barriers of Germany have not retarded our march a day, an hour, or an instant. Indignation against a Prince whom we have twice resented on his throne, when it depended entirely on our pleasure to hurl him from it, supplied us with wings. The Enemy's army, deceived by our manœuvres, and the rapidity of our movements, is completely turned. It now fights only for its safety. It would gladly embrace an opportunity of escaping and returning home; but it is now too late. The fortifications which it erected at a great expence along the Iller, expecting that we should advance through the passes of the Black Forest, are become useless, since we have approached by the Plains of Bavaria.-Soldiers, but for the army which is now in front of you, we should this day have been in London; we should have avenged ourselves for six centuries of insults, and restored the freedom of the seas. But bear in mind, to-morrow, that you are fighting against the allies of England; that you have to avenge yourselves on a perjured Prince, whose own letters breathed nothing but peace, at the moment when he was marching his army against our ally; who thought us cowardly enough to suppose that we should tamely witness his passage of the Inn, his entrance into Munich, and his aggression upon the Elector of Bavaria. He thought we were orc pied elsewhere; let him, for the third and last time learn, that we know how to be present in every place where the Country has enemies to combat.—Soldiers, to-morrow will be an hundred times more celebrated than the day of Marengo. I have placed the enemy in the same position.-Recollect, that the most remote posterity will remark the conduct of each of you on this memorable day. Your progeny 500 years hence, who may place themselves under those eagles around which we rally, will know in detail every thing that your respective corps shall achieve to-morrow, and the manner in which your courage shall confer on them eternal celebrity. This will constitute the perpetual subject of their conversation; and, from age to age, you will be held up to the admiration of future generations.-Soldiers, if I wished only to conquer the enemy, I should not have thought it necessary to make an appeal to your courage, and your attachment to the country and to my person; but merely to conquer him is doing nothing worthy either of you or your Emperor. It is necessary that not a man of the enemy's army shall escape; that that Government, which has violated all its engagements, shall first learn its catastrophe by your arrival under the walls of Vienna; and that, on receiving this fatal, intelligence, its conscience, if it. listens to the voice of conscience, shall tell it, that it has betrayed both its solemn promises of peace, and the first of the duties bequeathed by its ancestors, with the power of forming the rampart of Europe against the eruptions of the Cossacks.-Soldiers, who have been engaged in the affairs of Wertingen and Guntzburgh, I am satisfied with your conduct. Every corps in the army will emulate you, and I shall be able to say to my people, Your Emperor and your army have done their 'duty. Perform your's. and the 200,000 conscripts whom I have summoned will has-. ten, by forced marches, to reinforce our second line. (Signed) NAPOLEON. Bulletin of the Italian Army. 18th Oct. 1805. At four o'clock in the morning, the general in chief caused the bridge of the old castle of Verona to be attacked: the wall which barricadoed its middle was thrown by means of a potard the two coupeures which the Austrians had made were rendered practica ble by the aid of planks and boards; and twenty-four companies of Voltigeurs sprung from the other side of the river, from whence they were followed by the first division. The enemy warmly defended the passage; they were driven back, and chased from all their positions, after a battle which lasted till six o'clock in the evening. They lost seven pieces of cannon, and eighteen covered waggons. We took 14 or 1500 prisoners, and killed or wounded nearly an equal number; but a few combatants fell on our side. had about 300 slightly wounded. A bridgehead was immediately constructed at the bridge of the old castle. We shall make known the results of this happy day. DISPUTE WITH AMERICA. While the United States take no measures to abridge the rights of Great Britain, as a belligerent, they are bound to resist, with firmness, every attempt to extend them, at the expense of the equally incontestible rights of nations, which find their interest and duty in living in peace with the rest of the world. So long as the ancient law of nations is observed, which protects the innocent merchandize of neutrals, while it abandons to the belligerent the goods of his enemy, a plain rule exists, and may be appealed to, to decide the rights of peace and war: the belligerent has no better authority to curtail the rights of the neutral, than the neutral has to do the like in regard to the rights of the belligerent; and it is only by an adherence to the ancient code, and the rejection of modern glosses, that fixed and precise rules can be found, defining the rights, and regulating the duties of indeCorrespond-pendent states.-This subject is of such im We ence of Mr. King, the American Minister, with Lord Hawkesbury. Great Cumberland Place, March 13, 1801. MY LORD-The decree of the Vice-Admiralty Court of Nassau, a copy of which is annexed *, concerning the cargo of an American vessel, going from the United States to a port in the Spanish Colonies, upon the ground that the articles of innocent merchandize composing the same, though bona fde neutral property, were of the growth of Spain, having been sanctioned, and the principles extended, by the Prize Courts of the British Islands, and particularly by the Court of Jamaica, has been deemed sufficient authority to the Commanders of the ships of war and privateers cruizing in those seas, to fall upon and capture all American vessels bound to an enemy's colony, and having on board any article of the growth or manufacture of a nation at war with Great Britain.— These captures, which are vindicated by what is termed the Belligerent right to disuess his eneray by interrupting the supplies which his habits or convenience may require, have produced the strongest and most serious complaints among the American merchants, who have seen, with indignation, a reason assigned for the capture and confiscation of their property, which is totally disregarded in the open trade carried on between the British and Spanish colonies, by British and Spanish subjects, in the very articles, the supply of which, by neutral merchants, is unjustly interrupted-The law of nations, acknowledged in the Treaty of Amity, Commerce, and Navigation, between the United States and Great Britain, allows the goods of a enemy to be lawful prize, and pronounces those of a friend to be free. portance, and the essential interests of the |