The Sun.
London, England, 1808-09-26 00:00:00

NAPAItTi IN ITALY, IN THE YEARS 1796 Ai1D,1797.

The Campaign-of Italy, coodu6ted'
PARTE, is an important event, conne&ed with the
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history of the French Revolution. It was this which
introduced on the great theatre of the world the
man, who, at this instant, is playing the most pro-
minent part in it. Till that event his first essays to-
wards notoriety were loSt, and confounded in tbe

multitude of revolutionary crimes ; but the rank of
Com:pander in Chief held him up to the view of
Europe; and from this trust his military existence
must be regarded as deriving its origin. This first
appearance of a man who will not speedily be for-
gotten will assuredly create some interest and awaken
some curiosity. • This 'has determined us w lay be-
fore the public the recital of- the pt.* anions of
that campaign. 'We say the recital, Oud'ilitof the
hist ory,
,for we do not aspire to rank ourAelVesamOng
historians. We leave the name and the glory of
that high department to those whoie pens are more
praCtised and more able than ours, and shall content
ourselves with faithfully recounting v' bat we have
.seen, and what yet !villains impressed on our recol-
leetion. In dding this, we are persuaded that we
shall render, we w ill not pr6utne-to say an im,
ant; but a real service, by furnishing; ralom OCULAR
TEsTistolvy, materials for ruture histAry, which
shall have all the merit of inflexible truth.

'This idea has long engaged our at ten t ion ; and The
present work would have appeared Some years since,
it we bad nut been withheld by a consideration of
the last- importance. What is it ? the reader will
sap—Briefly this.:

There are people who suppose that BLIONAPARTE
has the great soul of a hero : what is much more
certain, however, is, that he has a most vindittiv&
soul. To speak of him without praising him, is, in
his eyes, a sensitise injury.; 'bin to speak ill of him is
an unpardonable crimp, even in those who do not
live under his laws ; a crime that can only be ex-
piated by the death .of the offender. The unhappy
PALM had but too cruel a proof of this assertion.

We found it expedient, therefore; to wait for the
opportunity of speaking our thoughts till Providence
had placed Ili in' an,asylurn where liberty is secure,
where truth preserves all her rights,- and where the

prompt and murderous arm of the -irascible tyrant
cannot roach : neeJ we.add, in this happy Island.

We were close speelators .during that famous
campaign, of the evils and sufferings of our coun-
trymen. We witnessed the Most incredible eXac-
tions, the most unprovoked cruelties. Our duty is
to unfold them, since we anxiously wish to inform
mu.' contemporaries : all that can be reqUired on/ our
part is, that neither compassion ;nor 1-atr,.'l.l. should
IIIdUCCAIS to transgress the bounds of truth ;• and we

are in no instance sensible of having done it in the
slightest degree., We challenge for witnesses, in
this point, thousand; of men who, like us, t,ier

spectators of what we describe ; and we have no
fear tha: a single individual of• those thousands wig
dare to contradia us, unlo,s .he be a.iynophant or a

Aare of BUONAPARTE.

Many people have persuaded themselves that this
campaign was alone sufficient to give BUONAPARTS
the reputation of a great General, in whom talents
and courage supplied the place of experience. But
close examination of his condu& will abundantly
prove that all his coups d'essai were not master
strokes, and that there were alway sinfinitely more
of cunning and good fortune in his success, than of
wisdom or real knowledge. And this, perhaps, will
lead to the only just conclusion—that any other
General placed in the same circumstances, and dis-
posing of the-Same means of succeeding, would have
dote as ITILICIIRS BUONAPARTE, and perhaps more.

However this may be, the world ill not , tail to
make an observation not a little curious—it iS, that

BUUNAPIRTE has shewn himself precisely the same
in his first campaign and in his last—in the first,
where he was quite a novice, and in the last, where
he bad already acquired -a long experience—in ;hp
first, where he was the agent of a Republican Direc-
tory, and in the last, where he was the absolute and
all powerftil master of a vast Empire—you constantly
see the same man, full of vulgar vapouring, intoNi"
cated with his success, exaggerating it without
shame, speaking of his enemies with the utmost con-
tempt, dispersing lying Proclamations to allure the
people, and never, on any occasion, keeping a single
promise which he ever made.

You see hitnusing the same perfidy to deceive the
Cabinets of Europe, to parallize the Po%verS, to coil" ,
ceal his destruative projects uuder the appearance of •
a moderation which is only to be found in his words.
—You see, the same soul; hard,
_unfeeling, and ,sa•
vage, counting the whole of the human race for
nothing, ready to sacrifice to his persohal aggrandise'
meat the French nation, and those which be 104
subdued, and 'those which he yet aspires to subdue;
prodigal of blood as if it were ,water ; in a word, 3
soul which greatness has inflated, but not ennobled;
a soul in which the extreme of gdod fortune has
nourished and strengthened every vice which ofigua'
ally possessed it, and given birth to an infinite awl'
titude of new ones.

Before we proceed, it is necessary to inform the
reader that the obje& we have more particularly in
view is to refine a Work called, " The Campaign of
Buonaparte in ltaly, during the 4th and sth Years
of the French Republic ; by a General Officer. This
book, printed at Paris, contains an immense nurobd
of falsehoPds ; it alters and perverts faas; it 1$
monument of adulation and meanness. We•Shal''
oppose to it the modest and simple language of truth"
and we flatter ourselves that, by so doing, we shall
render a useful service to mankind. If it be tnerite-
riot's to snatch from obseudiy .names worthy °
praise, it is assuredly not less so, to chase hack 161

oblivion those•reputations which illusion alone 1129
created-, or magnified into notice.

(To be continsted.)

Dispatches from Lord COLLINGWOOD were re-
ceived this morning at the Admiralty, and 0°53:
Rear-Admiral GARDNER, of His Itildji4sty's
13e//erophqn, off Ensiling.

Yesterday morning his MAJESTY, Princesses SQi
PHiA, AUGUSTA, MAHN-, and AMELIA, ECCOlllpal3ie
by Ladies liowi and.TuYNNE., General Fri",°,
and Cofonel DEstittow; rode to St. George.' Lin;
pel, and. heard a Sermon preached by
t" ilt'e .6th
Mr. GUODH ALL, from John vii. part of 4D.3
vers'e. hey afterwards returned to windsur 4
lace.

The Portugn,se Officers who arrived on SattArdal
sailed from Oporto, and arrived at Bristol Pi] 141.ia14d
last. The intelligence they brought was iuunediatev
seat ofFto the KING at Windsor.

Don IMIRANDAs, and six other Spanish Officers;
chiefly of the itegitnent of Villa Viciosa, reach,.'"
Funen after the departure of the Marquis RomAO'
and seized a boat, with a view of following to Ling,e
Lind the French, who were apprized of their inL°l';
tion, suffered.tbeni to embark, but fired on theio,s
soon as they left the shore, and sunk the boat, whey
they were all drowned.

The Danish Government pays monthly 670,00
a
rix dollars for the maintenance of the French at'
Spanish troops-on its territory. This sum aino,l!o
to more than the annual revenue of his D.1„11;10
Atijesty in times of peace and prospeiity.
French remit large sums of money to_ France, 'ff
-thus drain the country of it. The French soldied
make a common praitice of laying
,hold of eveot
•pieceofplate, or other valuable -article, which ti)
observe in 'the possession of their Danish friends:,,
to
The Danes often remark, that it is Preferable lo
have Great B: itain for an enemy than France for
ally. Provilions and fire-wood hava risen above I°o`
per, cent. in Zealand.
We are happy to 'learn, that the Gentleman
-:-succeeded in reaching the' Marquis Da LA itogitt4ol
at Ny burg, has lately returnel to this country, a
been rewarded for his important service.
The latest advices from Spain, which make 113e11.,
Lion of the prisoners belonging to DUPONT. 6 arat,o-
discover no intention of their being speedily sent
A,
France. On the contrary,. the arrangements to.
tog for their- • accommodation and support indiito
their continuance in that country for wine tttn
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Letters from Malaga of the 29th .nit," receive' tb-3
Saturday, state, that every distri& is to havebeg..;
care and maintenance .61 a certain number of t
prisoners, eighteen hundred of %;liona had a.rry°
that town as its proportion.