72] ANNUAL REGISTER, i315. 
declared common to all the allied 
armies, provided it were ratified 
by the powers on which those ar- 
mies depend. Thus (says an 
eloquent female writer) in the 
short space of fifteen months was 
the capital of France twice be- 
sieged, and twice compelled to 
open its gates, and receive the 
law of the conqueror.” Such was 
the retribution doomed to expiate 
the sufferings’ and disgraces in-~ 
flicted upon Vienna, Berlin, Ma- 
drid, Lisbon, Amsterdam, Rome, 
Naples, Venice, and Moscow ! 
