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Through the thicJcest smoke, and a flc- 

 stiuctive fire, this column of grena- 

 diers is seen on tlie march, with 

 arms in hand, General Porvet de 

 Morvan at their hea<l, General Harlay 

 follows in (he rear. At the first 

 discharge, Friant receives a ball ; 

 Michel, who had braved deatli in a 

 thousand enconnters, falls, covered 

 with wounds. In vain the intrepid 

 General Porvetwould raise up his best 

 friend ; Michel dies, but will not sur- 

 render, with a hundred of the enemy 

 greedy of carnage about liim. Colonel 

 Malet, commander of the fourth chas- 

 seurs, meets his death. At the same 

 instant, Harlay is disabled; Major 

 Giiillemin, of the third grenadiers, is 

 grievously wounded by the explosion 

 of a howitzer, but nmains at his post. 

 Ney falls under his horse, which had 

 been struck by a bullet in the left 

 flank. The grenadiers deploy, as their 

 chief orders; the bayonet is fixed 

 ■within fifteen paces of the enemy. 

 The chasseurs, under the orders of 

 General l!enrion, execute the same 

 moven;e!it. The charge is beat; in 

 these transactions, carnage has a very 

 unusual share ; liie English line, driven 

 back, makes a demi-iuur ; but being 

 speedily sustained by a second line, 

 by its cavalry, which makes a move- 

 ment on our lelt, and its artillery, 

 ■which takes us in Hank, we are forced 

 to retreat, but iu order. 



The four squares of the old grena- 

 diers, and three of the chasseurs, 

 were still entire, commanded in chief 

 by Generals Roguet and Morand. 

 Near tlicm were the Generals Petit, 

 Pelet, and Christ iani. They secure 

 our retreat, and that of the whole 

 army. Many attempts were made to 

 peueti ate them; but, notwithstanding 

 their inferiority, none met with 

 success. 



We continued our retreat, with im- 

 pressions strongly characteristic of 

 our situation and circumstances, but 

 ever facing about when the enemy 

 came near, and soon driving him to a 

 respectful distance. We overtook 

 Napoleon, halting on this side of a 

 large foss6, while attempts were 

 making to discover a passage over it. 

 We found him absorbed in deep afflic- 

 tion, viewing his hapless fate, crushed 

 by these rude misfortunes, and feeling 

 the keen blast of the pitiless storm, 

 with sympathies as poignant and 

 lasting as the human breast is sus- 



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ceptible of. Tlris was the last oppor* 

 tuuity I had of seeing him, and testify- 

 ing my esteem lor his character. Wo 

 have since learned, from those who 

 watched his thoughts, that, though 

 anguish appeared on his brow, his 

 heart could boast of what his lips pro- 

 fessed, a pure remembrance of a sin- 

 cere, disinterested, generous, gratitude 

 for the ser\ ices of his friends, whose 

 amity he was ever anxious to requite ; 

 even when, in the stillness of despair, 

 the majesty of woe, his superior mind, 

 retired within itself, could trace its 

 only hope in fortitude and resignation. 

 (Tu he continued.) 



To the Editor of the Month It/ Magazine. 



SIR, 



IN a late Number of your Magazine 

 I read the solicitous enquiry of 

 Septuagenarian, who is desirous of fur- 

 ther information on the real improve- 

 ments that have been made in the 

 various modes of bathing, and which 

 have of late occupied so much of the 

 public attention. I am more what you 

 may call a reading man than a writer ; 

 but, as 1 conceive it may perhaps be 

 the means of directing your corres- 

 pondent to the efficacious remedy he 

 solicits, I yield to the gratification we 

 must all feel, in the idea of doing good 

 to others, as " we would have others 

 do to us." 1 am not of opinion that 

 the information I shall be able to give 

 will be so satisfactory as to supersede 

 that of other correspondents ; but I 

 reply from the desire of contributing 

 or aiding the views of your anxious 

 enquirer. Perhaps, from his retired 

 situation, he has not been in the habit 

 of reading some of the periodical 

 works, and is conseciuenlly unac- 

 quainted with the intelligence therein 

 conveyed, of the full attention that has 

 of late years been given to this subject 

 on the Continent, and which now occu- 

 pies the attention of the Faculty of 

 Physic at Paris, by order of the Minis- 

 ter of the Interior, The good that has 

 been effected by the various kinds of 

 gazeous baths, has led that body to the 

 conclusion, that many of those diseases 

 which are very obstinate, called chro- 

 nic, and perhaps more particularly 

 those of the skin, which have hitherto 

 been considered almost incurable, are 

 so much influenced by this new mode 

 of treatment, as now to be successfully 

 managed by this method of adminis- 

 tering medicine ; and, moreover, tliat 



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