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eager treops; and they:rushed on. Su- 
woroit appeared | like the god of war him- 
self, animating his soldiers, and leading 
them over heaps of slain. Two great 
generals. were contending for honaurs 
dearer to them than their:lives. But 
victory declared for Suworoff, -and the 
Freneh abandoning the ground, made 
a hasty retreat. 
This gteat object being attaimed, the 
Marshal turned bis steps. tewards-Glarus, 
hoping, by his junction with Lincken, to 
finish what he had so happily begun. 
Full of these designs, he wrote to Korsa- 
kof, and the generals under his com- 
mand:— 
“ You will answer with your lives Si 
every farther step that you retreat. I 
am, coming te repair your faults,” 
Whatever surprize Suworoff had felt on 
learning the disasters of the allies, no 
less was experienced by Moreau, when 
he was informed of the rapid and victori- 
eusmarch of the Russian general. Prince 
Bagration, as usual, commanded the ad- 
vaneed guard. General Autiemberg led 
a@small eolumn, which was the first to 
reach Clonthalersee, where the French. 
had obtained a strong pesition. Aufiem- 
herg having been misinformed on this 
head, was surrounded, and summoned 
to. surrencda’. So far from acceding to 
their demaiid, he defended hunself with 
admirable resolution; and gave time to 
Bagration to come up to his assistance. 
The French were then attacked in their 
turn with fixed bayonets, their ranks 
broken, and put to the rout. A strong 
line of the enemy yet retained some ad- 
vantageous beights; and though our-gal-. 
lant pringe was again wounded, he saw 
that it would he difficult forthe remain- 
der of the allied army, which had now 
artived, to. march in safety under their 
hire; ane therefore during ‘the night, ke 
made a sudden and desperate “attack 
upor them, drove them from their posi- 
,eons, seized. their cannon, and pursued 
them. to the environs of Naefels. This 
exploit gave the Russians entire posses- 
sion of the road from Schweitz to Glarus. 
Suwereff was prosecutiig his victorious 
march, when he was. confounded by the 
arwal of orders from St. Petersburg, 
that he and the army. under his command 
should immediately return home. It is 
nob necessary to. enter here into the de- 
tail of the foliies which impelled the Em- 
peror Pagl to this absurd measure. The 
retrent of the Russians alarmed Furope; 
and exposed to view dissensions which 
har long been anticipated by the best in- 
farmed politicais. 
Rfemoirs of Prince Peter Ivonttch Bagration. 
[July 2, 
Bagration and- his veteran friend. now, 
bade a long, and perhaps an. eternal 
adieu to Switzerland, . Vhe. prince . ba; 
held the glorious issue of their Alpine ca- 
reer, thus prematurely cut off, with the 
deepest regret, and, the most painful re. 
flections.. He ‘looked at Suworeff,. aud 
a strange foreboding seemed to announce 
a melane holy. termination ef so, bright. a 
track. 
sixty-pine years of age when he raised 
his invincible standard on the summit of - 
St. Gothard. He had fought the, Prus- 
sians,the Poles, the Turks, and the Tatars; 
he had carried. conquest from the shores 
of the Baltic, to the Black and the Cas- 
pian seas; nothing was wanting to com- 
plete his -resplendent career but to. be- 
come_a scourge to the monsters of regi- 
cide; and this had happened! Theman 
who had in the north of Asia conquered 
barbarians, came to the sowth of Europe | . 
to vanquish still more savage men, who 
boasted of having arrived. at the highest 
pitch of civil perfection. . He who had 
earried his battalions to the remote coun= 
tries which the Romans could net pene- 
trate, also conducted them into the very 
seat of that august empire. | He who had 
surveyed the har rors of Caucasus, came 
to climb the precipitous St. Gothard, 
and Jay all its horrors at his feet. The 
same man who had acquired TenOWwn It 
triumphing over nations which opposed 
to him courage without scienge, spport- 
ed. a prouder name in fighting against 
enemies, who added to bravery science, 
aud to scicnee genius. The saine man 
who had-reduced Schains Ghiroy, Khan 
of Tatary, to the rank of a private indi- . 
vidual, nay, imore, who had dethroned 
Stanislaus, King of Poland; went te ftaly 
to restore its dominiens fe its lawful so- 
vereigns! -So extraordinary a destiny, so 
wide in its ¢ aims, SO inconsistent its pur- 
suits, though all meeting in the point of 
military olory, absorbed | ‘the meditations, 
of Bagration, and possessed his thoughts. 
till het re-entered St. Petersburgh, a ee 
‘ 
The reception of Marshal Suwore Ewas 
unworthy. of its merits, Paul had lost. 
his sense of real worth, and, with a wad 
ingratitude, he frowned upon the. COnGUE= 
the great Rymanikiskie’: Be 
Suworoff bare ‘bis ‘undeservesk. disgname) ” 
ror for, Russia, - 
like a hero. His father (alye? gods 
Peter the First) had bequeathed him a ‘ 
large property, which the munificence of 
the Einpress Catherine had augmented ta. — 
immense riches: to this estate he retired, 
Ile had survived his good fortune, the fa- 
¥OUR 
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He. beheld this redoubted wate 
rior, even in the midst ot victory, bend- | 
ing aden the weight of years: he was 
nT an iad as oD. = 
