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i'ue, and that the allies retreated at leifure and in good or¬ 
der.—On the 22d an affair took place at Reitzenbach, in 
which the allies were defeated. 
There was a fort of theatrical difplay of Bonaparte's fen- 
fibility on the occafion of this tremendous wafte of human 
blood, perhaps intended to divert the attention of the 
French public from his fanguinary ambition. Among 
thofe who were mortally wounded, was Duroc, the fon of 
a fcrivener, and for many years a fervile attendant on Bo¬ 
naparte, who, in return, had created him duke of Friuli. 
To this perfon, in his lalt moments, Bonaparte paid a con- 
folatory vifit; and the poor dying wretch is defcribed as 
carring his adulation and fervility to the very borders of 
the grave. The fcer.e, however, was too much for the 
tender nerves of Bonaparte; and he, who could behold 
unmoved the wanton deftruftion of fo many thoufands of 
his fellow-creatures, for no other object but to gratify 
liis luff of power, is overcome by his feelings, and re¬ 
tires to his tent to indulge the luxury of grief alone.— 
Our readers (hall have it in the language of the Moniteur. 
“ As foon as the ports were placed, and the army had taken 
its bivouaques, the emperor went to fee the duke of Friuli. 
Fie found him perfectly mailer of himfelf, and fliowing 
the greateft fang-fraid. The duke offered his hand to the 
emperor, who prelied it to his lips.—‘My whole life,’faid 
he to him, * has been confecrated to your fervice; nor do 
I regret its lofs, but for the ufe it (till might have been of 
to you ‘ Duroc !’ replied the emperor, ‘ there is a life to 
come; it is there you are going to wait for me, and where 
we (hall one day meet again !’—‘ Yes, fire! but that will 
not be yet thefe thirty years, when you will have tri¬ 
umphed over your enemies, and realized all the hopes of 
our country.—I have lived an honed man—I have no¬ 
thing to reproach myfelf with—I leave a daughter behind 
me—Yourmajefty will fill the place of a father to her!’— 
The emperor, grafping the right hand of the great mar- 
fhal, remained for a quarter of an hour with his head re¬ 
clined on his right hand in deep filence. The marfhal 
was the firft who broke this filence: ‘Ah! lire,’ cried 
lie, ‘go away ; this fight gives you pain !’ The emperor, 
iupporting himfelf on the duke of Dalmatia and the grand 
mafter of the liorfe, quitted the duke of Friuli, without 
being able to fay any more than thefe words: ‘Farewell 
then, my friend!’ His majefty returned to his tent, nor 
would he receive any perfon the whole of that night.” 
Bonaparte, in a decree dated from the field of battle, 
-at Wurtfchen, the zzd of May, directed a monument to 
be erected upon mount Cenis. On the front of the mo¬ 
nument, looking towards Paris, are to be infcribed the 
names of all the cantons of departments on this fide the 
Alps. Upon the front, looking towards Milan, to be en¬ 
graved the names of all the cantons of departments beyond 
the Alps, and of the kingdom of Italy. On the molt con- 
Ipicuous part of the monument the following infcription 
is to be engraved : “ The emperor Napoleon, upon the field 
of battle of'Wurtfchen, ordered the erection of this mo¬ 
nument, as a proof of his gratitude to his people of France 
and Italy ; and to tranfmit to the molt diftant porterity the 
remembrance of that celebrated epoch, when, in three 
months, 1,200,000 men ran to arms, to infure the inte¬ 
grity of the empire and of his allies.” 
The battles of Bautzen and Wurtfchen, immediately 
followed by the abandonment of the capital and one half 
of Silefia, led to an ariniftice between the belligerents. It 
was moil favourable to the French, whom it left in pof- 
lertion of all the country they had occupied ; compelled 
the detached Prufiian and Ruffian corps that acted in 
their rear and intercepted their convoys to recrofs the 
Elbe; and ftipulated, that ail the fortrefles which they (fill 
held on the Lower Oder, the Viflula, and in the duchy of 
Warfaw, and which had been long blockaded, (hould be 
re-victualled every five days by the allies, and a league of 
territory evacuated round each of them. In molt cam¬ 
paigns, an armiftice extends only to the two armies be¬ 
tween which it was concluded; while diftant and inde- 
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pendent corps are left free to aft as their refpective fitua« 
tions allowed: the prefent fufpenfion of holtilities, on tha 
contrary, was general; and the Swedes had no fooner 
reached the feene of aftion, than all their force was pa- 
ralized without a blow, at a time, too, when, uniting with 
the Pruffian divifion, which under Bulow had had a fe« 
vere engagement with Oudinot at Hoyefwerda, and with 
the troops under Tettenborn and Woronzow on the Elbe, 
they might have formed an accumulation of force in the 
rear of the enemy fufficient to ferioudy impede his further 
advance, if not to compel him to retreat. Befides, two 
new fortrefles were ordered to be immediately erefted on 
the banks of the Elbe between Magdeburg and Hamburg, 
the latter city to be turned into a place d’armes, and the 
communication with Harburg fecured by fortifications on 
the iflands. The armiftice, which was figned on the 4th 
of June, was to laft to the 20th of July, fix days notice 
being given of the renewal of holtilities; ami Brefiau, with 
a tongue of territory extending from Bohemia to the Oder, 
was to remain neutral between the two armies. 
Napoleon removed his head-quarters to Drefden, from 
whence he might equally attend to the negotiations for 
peace and his preparations for renewed holtilities. He 
encamped his different corps at a diort diftance from each 
other along the line of demarcation, and fully provifioned 
Glogau. The emperor of Auftria had quitted his capital 
for Prague, it was fuppofed to prelide over the congrefs, 
which it was agreed lhould be held there for concluding 
a general peace. 
This (hort campaign had been fought with peculiar mi¬ 
litary addrefs. Pruilia lay to the right of the allies, and 
the left of the French. Napoleon therefore conftantly 
prefented great ftrength on his left, and made a point of 
turning the right of the allies. He turned their right 
at Lutzen upon Altenburgh and Drefden. His main 
force eroded the Elbe on his left, at Torgau, bearing on 
the right of the allies. Again, at Bautzen, half his army, 
by that circuit, was enabled to attack the right dank of 
the allies, and to bear irrefiftibly on that wing. Hence the 
allies, in retreating acrofs Silefia, were continually turn¬ 
ed on their right, fo that they were compelled finally to 
direft their courle into the fouthern corner of Silefia, 
a mere cal de fac, leaving the road to Brdlau, See. open 
to the French, who, on the ift: of June, occupied that 
city. Thus was the emperor of Rudia cut off from all di¬ 
reft communication with Rudia, and the king of Pruffia 
from all direft conneftion with Pruffia, from the 26th of 
May till the 4th of June, when the armiftice was fettled. 
The north of Germany had been diftinguilhed by occur¬ 
rences of no incondderabie intereft, which we can now re¬ 
late, without breaking the thread of the narration. To un¬ 
derhand them, however, reference mult be made to a tranfi- 
aftion which took place ata period.long anterior. In the 
month of Auguft, 1812, the emperor Alexander and the 
crown-prince of Sweden met at Abo in Finland 5 and, af¬ 
ter considerable difculfion, concluded a treaty of alliance 
and co-operation. The leading articles, beddes promifes 
of mutual affiltance, were thole by which Sweden con¬ 
firmed to Rudia the pofftdion of Finland, (which (he had 
violently feized upon in 1808, the year alter her proteft 
againft our 1'eizing upon the Danifti deet,) on condition 
of procuring for her an acceffion of territory in another 
quarter. This was to be effefted by requiring from Den¬ 
mark the ceffion of Norway, for w hich that power was to 
be indemnified by countries hereafter to be conquered for 
her in the north of Germany. Should Denmark, as might 
be expefted, refufe, Bernadotte was to be aided in ac- 
complidiing the conqueft of Norway by 35,000 Ruffian 
troops; and this operation W'as to be effefted prior to any 
co operation from him in the continental war. 
No condderation of the dgnal Cervices lately rendered by 
the emperor Alexander to the common caule of Europe, 
can make us refrain from exprtding our decided difappro- 
bation of this treaty. There was no principle of the law of 
nations by which it could be juftified. Both powers might 
perhaps 
