4 HISTORY OF. EUROPE. 
and other substantial encourage- 
_ ments. 
The principal officers to whom 
the directory saddressed letters of 
_ such atenour at this time, were ge- 
nerals Joubert, Berthier, Bernar- 
 dotte, Massena, Giieux, and Kel- 
Terman. They were all men of tried’ 
_ valour and abilities, and had proved 
of essential utility to Buonaparte, 
_ inhis expedition to Italy and Aus- 
tria. There were others also no 
“less deserving, such as» Augereau, 
ho was styled his right hand. 
py ih these the like honours were 
paid verbally by the directory, and 
similar tokens of regard conferred 
‘upon them, on their being sent to 
Paris, by Buonaparte, with the 
_ standards and military trophies taken 
- from the enemy. 
_ It was with great reason that the 
_ French government testifiedsomuch 
“respect for the army of Italy. It 
had, in the preceding and present 
campaign, been the principal agent 
a support of the republic. While 
its armies in Germany were com- 
pelled to retreat, this one continued 
_ to advance, and to strike terror into 
‘the councils of Vienna. Had not 
Buonaparte balanced, by his suc- 
“cesses, the expulsion of the French 
from thetempire, they would proba- 
bly have been followed by the vic- 
torious Imperialists into the heart 
of France. It was the necessity of 
aking head against him, that with- 
eld five armies successively, for the 
reservation of Austria. Had not 
: ‘this immense force been necessary 
, | to prevent its total destruction, and 
) | could it have been employed ia car- 
. | Fyn the war into France, it was 
>| the ips of Europe, that an ef- 
ectual impression must have been 
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British ambassador at Paris, must 
have been acceptedsby the di- 
rectory. 
Yo the extraordinary talents of 
Bnonaparte; ad to'the valour of 
his troops, was owing therefore the 
superiority that France still retained 
over its enemies. Never had the 
exploits of this celebrated warrior, 
and of his companions in arms, 
been exceeded. In the course of — 
lessthan a twelvemonth they had 
been victorious in no less than 
eighty-four engagements, fourteen 
of which were pitched battles, Ex- 
clusive'of the slain, they, had taken 
one hundred thousand prisoners, 
and between two and three thou- 
sand pieces of artillery. They had 
compelled’ five sovereign princes, 
two of them kings, to submit toy 
their own terms, and had chased 
five Imperial armies out of Italy. 
They had given a new aspect to 
this part of Europe. They had 
changed the forms of its ancient re- 
publics, and had founded two new 
ones on the plat of theirown. All 
this they had effected at the ex- 
pence of their enemies.. Instead of 
draining the treasures of France, by 
these conquests and acquisitions, — 
they had enriched them with the ’ 
surplus of what they had levied 
and expended for their own sups | 
port. 
But what the philosophical world 
will probably deem the most ma- 
terial circumstance, they carried 
with them the principles of that | 
revolutionizing disposition, which 
had effected such changes in their 
own country, They propagated 
them widely in Italy. Whatever 
may be its future destiny, the seeds 
of that freedom of thinking, which 
the French planted among the peo- 
ple, will fructify in spite of all en- 
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