4-31- 



Invafion of Pniffia. 



[Dec. 1, 



much to thofe momentary pafTions which are 

 fi) eafily roufcd and appcafed among all ni- 

 t'.''ns. 



" Sire, my Brother, I pray God that he 

 may have yoa in his worthy and holy keep- 

 ing 



" Your Majcfiy's E,pd Brother, 



" Napoleon." 

 Sixteenth BuUetliu 

 «' From iry Imperial Camp, at Gera, 



Oa'jher \7, 1>;06." 



" The Duke of Brunfwick has feiit his 

 Mr.rfti?.! o!" the Palace to tlie Emperor. >The 

 offic';r was entrufted with a letter, in which 

 the Duke recornrfiended his States to the pro- 

 teaion of his IViajeay. The ErP|:eror faid to 

 him, ' If I were to demoliih the city of Brunf- 

 wick, and if I did not leave one ilone upon 

 another, what would your Prince fay .' Does 

 n:)t the law of retaliation authorize me to do 

 at Brunfwick what he would have d<inein 

 my capital ? To threaten to deftroy cities may 

 b* a-.crcly the ad of madiiefs j but to attempt 

 to deprive an whole army of brave men of 

 their honour— to propofc to them to quit 

 Germany at I'aited marches, is what pollenty 

 will lurdly credit. The Duke of Brunfwick 

 ought not to have committed fuch an outra.;e. 

 h'lcn wro li.-ve grown grey underarms, fhould 

 tefpcft the hoiiour of military men ; it vv.is 

 not in the plains of Chair.pii;ne that the Ge- 

 neral acquired the right to treat the French 

 colours with fuch contompt. Such a fum- 

 mor.s only difhonours the foldier who makes 

 k. Th.it ulftonour does not belong to the 

 King of Pruliii: it attaches to the Chief of 

 his military council — to tiic General to whom, 

 in diriicult circuniftances, he had confided his 

 alfairs. It is the Duke of Brunfwick alone 

 whom France and Pruifia can accufe of the 

 war. 1 he frenzy of which that old General 

 fet the example, encour.iged a fet of turbu- 

 lent young men, and hurried on the Kir^ 

 contrary to his own difpolition and conviction. 

 Sir, tell the inhabitants of the country of 

 Brunfwick, that ihcy will find the Fvcacli 

 generous enemies ; that I wirti to foften the 

 rigours of war with regard to them ; nnd that 

 the inconvenience which the pafla^e o. troops 

 m..v occafion, will be a^ainS my inclination. 

 Teh Gc.'-.eral Brunfwick that he ftall be 

 treated with all the attention due to a Pruffian 

 officer, but that I cannot recognife a Sove- 

 reign in a Fruffian General. If the Koufe of 

 Brunfwick lofi: the foveieignty pf its ancef- 

 %oti, it can only be afcribcd lo '..Ic -Iflthcr of 

 -two wars, — who, in one, would Have fapped 

 the Great Cajiital to its foundation ; and \viio, 

 in the other, attempted to dilhonour two hun- 

 dred thoufand brave men, who perhaps might 

 be conquered, but who would never be (ur- 

 prifed out of the path of hoaour and glory. 

 Much blood has been flied in a few days, 

 Gre.it difafters prefs upon the Prullian mo- 

 narchy. How blameable is the man, who, by 

 & liai,le wordf mijtit Jiave prevented them. 



if, like Neftor, rifing In the mldft of the 

 councils, he had faid, ' Be filent, ye inconfide- 

 rate youth .* Women, return to your fpiiidles, 

 and to the inanagenr.ent of your domestic con- 

 cerns '. And you, Sire, believe the companion 

 of the moft illuftrious of your predecefl'ors ; 

 fince the Emperor Napoleon does not willi for 

 war, do not place him in the alternative of 

 war or difh-nour. Uo not engage yourfelves 

 in a dangerous conteft with an army, that 

 boafts of fift'.tn yejrs fpent in glorious la- 

 bours, and that victory h.i.s accuftomed to 

 every facrifice." Inftead of holding this lan- 

 guage, which agreed fo well with the pru- 

 dence of his' years, and with the experience of 

 fo long a c.iieer, he has been the firft to raife 

 the cry of war ; he lias even been faithlefs to 

 the t'es of confanguinity, in arming a fon 

 againft a father: he has threatened to place 

 his colours on the Palace of Stutgard, and ac- 

 companying thole proceedings with univer- 

 fil invetlives againft France ; he was the de- 

 clared author'of that 'Vantic Manifeito, which 

 he has denied for thcfe fourteen year.;, al- 

 though li? could not deny that he had given 

 it the fanftion of his fignature." 



"It lias been rcm.'.rked, that during tl)ls 

 converfacion, the JCmperor, with that warmtli 

 with wb;ch he is ofien animated, often repeat- 

 ed, 'to overturn and deftroy tlie habitations 

 ui peaceable citizens, is a crime wliicii can be 

 repaired by tirrs and cxpence ; but to dif- 

 honour an arniy, to wilh that it ihould fly 

 from Germany be'bre the Pruffian Eagle, Is a 

 bafencfs'that none but the p:rfon who advifed 

 it, could oe capable of committing." 

 Eighteenth But/tiin, 



" Potzitam, Oel. '3S. 

 ♦• The Emperor has reviewed the Imperial 

 Foot-guards, conlifting of ten battalions, and 

 fixtv pieces of cannon, ferved by the riding 

 artillery. Thefe troops, which have under- 

 gone fo much fatigue, had the fame appear- 

 ance as when they were at Paris. 



"The General of Divifion, Vi£lor, re- 

 ceived a muiket-fiiot in the battle o." Jena, 

 and was obliged to keep his bed feme days. 

 The General of Brigade, Garda.nnes, Aid de- 

 Camp to the Emperor, had a horfe killed, and 

 is flighclv wounded. — Some Officers of rank 

 are wounded ; athtrs have hid horfes killed 

 under them j but all oi them were anxious to 

 diftinguiih thcmfelves by valour and courage. 

 " The Emperor has been to view the toml» 

 of Frederick the Great. The remains or" this 

 gr»at man are enclol&d in a wooden collin co- 

 vered with copper. It is placed in a vault, 

 without any ornaments, any trophies of vic- 

 tory; without any diitinftion to recal the me- 

 HiOry of his great and heroic aftions. 



"The Emperor has prefented to the Hotel 

 of the Invalids at Paris, the fvvord of tlie 

 Great Frederick, tire ribbon of his order, the 

 Black Eagle, and alfo the culours which he 

 took in the fevcn year's war. Ihe old inv«, 

 lids of the Hanoverian army will receive 



every 



