Portland Gazette, And Maine Advertiser

FOREIGN ARTICLE.
Brunn, Nov. 14.
Extract of a Letter.

“What the Turks attempted in vain in the end of the 17th century, fortune has permitted the barbarians of the 18th century to perpetrate. Our capital, ere you receive this letter, is in the power of the slaves of Bonaparte, and will endure the most merciless, as well as the most disgraceful bondage.

“You remember no doubt, an insurrection of the populace at Vienna last summer, under pretence of dearness of provisions. By the confession of the insurgents it was discovered, that Bonaparte, so early as that period, meditated upon passing his Christmas in that city, though at the time we were in profound peace with France; if an epocha can be called peace, where one state dares and attempts every thing, and others endure in impotent indignation the most provoking outrages. Since the emissaries of Bonaparte and Talleyrand have disseminated the most absurd reports, and held out the most seducing promises, among my fellow subjects. On one part, they have libelled our present beloved sovereign and his house, and held out a change of dynasty a blessing which would finish all our suffering: on the other part, a destruction of the privileged classes, and a confiscation of their property, have been preached as an allurement to the ambitious, as well as to the avaricious; to entice him who envied rank, as well as him who speculated upon plunder.

“The horrors committed by Bonaparte's soldiers every where on their march from Bavaria, will be retaliated upon them, should our forces, or those of our allies, obtain a signal victory; a defeat will not only disband, but annihilate the usurper's satellites, because every where the people are secretly armed, and avowedly exasperated, and a routed French army must inevitably be a destroyed one.

“Notwithstanding what the French papers have stated to the contrary, the Russian troops have every where preserved the greatest discipline and order, and the greatest cordiality subsists both between the armies of the two nations and between the two sovereigns and their ministers. In all the battles a kind of loyal emulation had subsisted. Where in the last glorious action at Krems, the Russian gen. Kutuzow had a horse killed under him, our gen. Schmidt rode up, took his place and was killed. This is a great loss; he had risen from the ranks only from his talents. An aide-de-camp of Kutuzow on seeing our gen. fall, headed for some minutes our united forces, until his chief had recovered from his surprise and confusion; but he too was severely wounded. The French fought desperately, because Bonaparte has tried to persuade them, that those who surrendered will afterwards be murdered; and that they are too far from their country to be avenged if injured, or exchanged if vanquished.”