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knee of Moreau, and, pnffing - through his Iiorfe, carried 
away the calf of his other leg. Alexander burft into 
tears, and haftened to fuccour and confole him; and Mo¬ 
reau exclaimed to his aid-de-camp, “ 1 am lolt, my dear 
Rapatel! but it is delightful to die in fo good a caufe, 
and in the prefence of fo great a prince.” He was con¬ 
veyed from the fpot on a litter, toahoufe in the vicinity, 
where the emperor’s furgeon amputated both his legs, an 
operation to which he l'ubmitted with heroic fortitude. 
On the retreat of the army, he was removed to Paflendorf, 
thence to Dippoldfwalden, and afterwards to Duks, near 
Toplitz. Here every afliftance that wealth, power, and 
friendlhip, could command, was afforded him, but in vain ; 
for, on the morning of the 2d of September, lie quietly 
breathed his laft, being only the day month after he had 
landed fo triumphantly, and with fuch flattering hopes, 
at Stralfund. The emperor directed his body to be em¬ 
balmed, and conveyed for interment to Peterfburgh ; and 
then, with generous feeling, caufed the following letter to 
be addrefled to madame Moreau, at London. —“Madam, 
When the dreadful misfortune, which befel general Mo¬ 
reau, clofe at my fide, deprived me of the talents and ex¬ 
perience of that great man, I indulged the hope that, by 
care, we might ftill be able to preferve him to his family 
and my friendlhip. Providence has ordered it otherwife. 
He died as he lived, in the full vigour of a flrong and 
Heady mind. There is but one remedy for the great mi- 
feries of life, that of feeing them participated. In Ruffia, 
inadam, you will find thefe fentiments every where; and, 
if it fuit you to fix your refidence there, I will do all in 
my power to embellifh the exiftence of a perfonage of 
whom I make it nty facred duty to be the confoler and 
the fupport. I intreat you, madam, to rely upon it irre¬ 
vocably, never to let me be in ignorance of any circum- 
ftance in which I can be of any ufe to you, and to write 
direXly to me always. To prevent your wifhes will be 
a pleafure to me. The friendfhip I vowed to your lull- 
band exifts beyond the grave; and I have no other means 
of fhowing it, at lead in part, towards him, than by doing 
every thing in my power to enfure the welfare of his fa¬ 
mily. In thefe fad and cruel circumftances, accept, ma¬ 
dam, thefe marks of friendfhip, and the aflurance of all 
my fentiments. Alexander.” —Madame Moreau con¬ 
tinues to refide in London, where (lie is greatly rel’peXed, 
and received into the bed company.—Rapatel, Moreau’s 
favourite aide-de-camp, was killed at Fere Champenoife, 
on the 25th of March, 1814. 
We cannot avoid adding the following reflexions from 
an extremely-well-written work, juft publidied, called 
Hiftorical Sketches of Politics and Public Men for the 
Year 1813.—“ The prefence of Moreau in the allied army 
had excited an univerfal enthufiafm throughout Europe; 
and a fate fo tragic and untimely produced equal lympathy 
and regret. We were not certainly exempted from the 
influence of thefe feelings. Yet, on weighing the con- 
duX of this great man in the balance of moral reXitude, 
we have not been able to form a very decided opinion. 
Unjuft expulfion from political community, may feem to 
break the ties by which an individual was united to it, 
and to abfolve him from further allegiance. When this 
injuftice is exercifed by a ftate againft one to whom it has 
be.en indebted for much of its glory and greatnefs, the 
trial becomes the more fevere. Yet the general fenfe of 
mankind feems to pronounce, that there is fomething in¬ 
delible in the relations which fubfift between man and 
the country which gave him birth ; that no wrong, no 
fuffering, can ever efface them. Moreau profeffed indeed, 
and was fanXioned by the declarations of the allies, to 
make war, not againft France, but againft the ufurper who 
ruled it. Had the objeX been to change the government, 
to reftore either a free conftitution or the ancient mo¬ 
narchy, Moreau would have had a fair ground to proceed 
upon. But the allies [at this time] dilclaimed any fuch 
intention; they profeffed no other objeX, but to rg-efta- 
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blifh againft France the ancient balance of power, and to 
level her then overwhelming preponderance in the fyftem 
of Europe. The conduX of Moreau, therefore, could 
fcarcely find a patriotic bafe to reft upon; it could be de¬ 
fended only upon the broadeft principles of univerfal phi¬ 
lanthropy. Thefe, however, from their vague and flexi¬ 
ble nature, ought to be viewed with extreme fufpicioii ; 
above all, when they point to fome objeX which would 
afford gratification to private ambition or refentinent. 
There is one circumftance which, if not explained, ap¬ 
pears to involve a (hade of fufpicion. He came only to 
bafk in the funfhineof the allies’ fortune. So long as the 
caufe of Europe languifhed, he had taken no part in it. 
We find him not in Spain, where the molt juft of caufes 
was to be defended ; nor even in Ruffia, when that country 
was invaded, and in danger of being overrun. He came 
not, till a fucceffion of viXories, and the formation of a 
grand confederacy, had rendered,the triumph of the al¬ 
lied caufe almoft fecure. All this may admit of explana¬ 
tion ; but fome fuch explanation feems neceflary in order 
to (how, why his philanthropy did not operate till the mo¬ 
ment when its exertion was lead neceflary and leaft meri¬ 
torious. Whatever opinion we may form upon this fub- 
jeX, there cannot be the flighted: doubt, that the allied 
fovereigns were juftified, by all law and all praXibe, in 
ufing the acknowledged talents of this great commander, 
for the promotion of their own juft caufe. We mult only 
exprefs our diffent from the opinion almoft univerfal at 
the time, which fuppofed, that the fuccefs of that caufe 
refted mainly upon Moreau; and that Bonaparte could 
only be oppofed by commanders trained in the fame 
fchool. Such an idea is totally inconfiftent, not only 
with fubfequent events which could not be then taken 
into the account, but alfo with the occurrences of the 
preceding campaign. Bonaparte had been humbled, and 
the fineft army he ever poflefl'ed had been annihilated, 
without the fmalleft aid of this defcription. There was 
no reafon to fuppofe, that fimilar fucceffes, with fimilar 
means, might not continue to crown their arms. The 
only operation at which Moreau affifted, and which, if it 
was not planned by him, received at leaft his fanXion, 
was the attack upon Drefden ; which does not appear to 
throw any particular luftre on thofe with whom it origi¬ 
nated”—and which indeed entirely failed. 
During Bonaparte’s ftay at Drefden, the allies handed 
his foldiers by inceflantadvances and retreats from all fides. 
At length, on the 7th of OXober, he quitted that city, 
and proceeded, not, as heretofore, to the right bank of the 
Elbe, but to the fide of Leipfic, where the theatre of war 
was now to be transferred. That city had fuddenly become 
the centre of very important military movements. The 
number of troops there was fo confiderable, that part of 
them were obliged to be lodged in churches. The crown- 
prince of Sweden crofted the Elbe, to be in uninterrupted 
communication with general Blucher. The head-quarters 
of the former were on the 7th at Zebitz, and on the 9th at 
Zorbig: thofe of the latter were at the fame time at Eti- 
lenberg. Their movements, it will be obferved, were 
fimultaneous; and they were marching by different roads 
upon Leipfic, with 130,000 men and 600 pieces of cannon. 
About the fame time the Bohemian army made a flank- 
movement by its left; and it was calculated that it would 
be advanced as far as Chemnitz on the 3d. Bonaparte 
feems to have hefitated for fome days in determining againft 
which of the two menacing forces he fhould direX his 
perfonal efforts; but he at laft proceeded for Leipfic. 
A report from marfhal Ney, dated Torgau, Sept. 7, 
acknowledges a defeat by the crown-prince at Dennewitz. 
He attributes the defeat partly to the 4th corps, which, 
inftead of turning Juterboch, attacked it—and to the fe= 
venth corps, which was fome time in coming up, and two 
divifions of which behaved badly when the battle was 
nearly won. The 7th corps was compofed of Saxons, and 
was under the orders of general Regnier, whom Mr. 
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