 aslothful repose fatigues you. 
HISTORY OF EUROPE. 
s¢ You have precipitated your- 
selves, like a torrent, from the 
heights of the Apennines. You 
have routed and dispersed all who 
have opposed your progress. Pied- 
mont, delivered from Austrian ty- 
anny, displays its natural sentiments 
of peace and friendship for France. 
Milan is ours, and the republican 
flag flies over ail Lombardy. The 
dukes of Parma and Modena owe 
their political existence to your ge- 
nerosity. The army, which with 
so mvch pride threatened you, has 
no barrier of proteétion against your 
courage; the Po, the Tessin, and 
the Adda, have been unable to 
stop you asingle day ; those boasted 
bulwarks of Tialy have been in- 
sufficient to delay your progress; 
you shave surmounted them as ra- 
_pidly as you passed the Appennines. 
So much success has carried you to 
the b som of your country: your re- 
presentatives have ordained a f€te, 
dedicated to your viétories, which 
will be celebrated in all the com- 
tunes of the republic. Your fathers, 
your mothers, your wives, your 
sisters, your lovers, will enjoy your 
success, and boast with pride that 
they belong to you. Yes, soldiers, 
you have done much; but does there 
remain nothing more to be done? 
Though we have known how to 
vanquish, we have not known how 
to profit of our viétories. Posterity 
will reproach us with having ter- 
‘Minated our course in Lombardy : 
but already I see you run to arms ; 
Let 
us depart! we have yet forced 
Marches to make, enemies to sub- 
due, laurels to gather, injuries to 
revenge. Let those tremble who 
have whetted the poignards of civil 
war in France, who have basely 
assassinatedour ministers,and burned 
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our ships at Toulon: the hour of 
vengeance and retribution is now 
at hand. But let the people remain 
tranquil; we are friends to all the 
people, and more particularly the 
descendants of Brutus, of Scipio, 
and the great men whom we have 
taken for our models. Re-establish 
the capitol, and place there with 
honour the statues of the heroes that 
rendered it celebrated ; awaken the 
Roman people, debased by many 
centuries of slavery. Such will be 
the fruit of your viétories; they 
will form an epoch for posterity; 
you will have the immortal glory 
of changing the face of the first 
country.in Europe. The free French 
people, respeéted by the whole 
world, will give to Europe a glo- 
rious peace, which will indemnify 
them for the sacrifices they have 
made during six years; you will 
then return to your homes, and your 
fellow citizens will say, shewing youy 
this man was of the army of Ita- 
ly.” 
Such were the ideas which the 
French general exerted himself to 
impress upon the public, as well 
as on his own people. His private 
conversations were of the same tene 
dency, and he omitted no oppor 
tunity of representing the expedi- 
tion of the French into Italy as in- 
tended to lay the foundation of a 
total deliverance of the inbabitants 
from the government of strangers, 
and the tyranny of domestic rulers. 
Sentiments of this deseription 
were not unacceptable to multitudes 
in every part of Italy. The ma- 
jority of the natives could not but 
perceive the humiliation of being 
subjeét to princes born and bred in 
foreign countries ; they could not, 
from that circumstance alone, feel 
that attachment for them which 
they 
