The Sun.
London, England, 1808-11-02 00:00:00

It is very possible. that they may have exagge-
rated; but what proves that they are not far from ,
the truth, is the condua of IluoNAPAam-towards
BEAULIEU. The first had all his army united* ;
the second had only a detachment of ten thousand
,
"men, a detachment which had• sustained. a fight
during the whole of the day, and which, not with-
standing, BUONAPARTE permitted BEAULIEU to con-
duet unmolested from the field, while he might,
and should, have pursued them, if lie had known
flow to profit by a vinery so brilliant and decisiV,e as
that which he announced to the Directory, and
which, in his own words, had cost hiin but a -very
few men ! It is in 'rain that the historian of Bt.-ONA-
PARTE declares " that he was derous of giving-the
troops a few days of _repose, whom a month of
marches and of triumphs had excessively fatigued!"
A reason of this ridiculous nature cannot .possibly
excuse a General, who tells.. his Government that ,
" :BEAULIEu was in a complete rout -with.the wretch-
ed remains of his army !" We shall soon see that
those wretched remains, were still capable of opposinghiM, .for wore than a month, in the Tyrol, where
it was so easy to prevent their arrival.
I freely 'Colifess, that I cannot- read- without the
profoUndest indignation, those words, " We lost but
few_Men." It is a
_falsehood so notorious, so dis-
. ,
gusting, and so Shocking, that it may, and, indeed,
must be classed among lies of the most shameful and
dishonourable kind. By a mockery too, no less de-
servingOf contempt than of castigation, BuoicAPARTE
only mentions three subaltern officeri,of whom due,

Aid-de-Camp to MISSENAi received several strokes
from a.sabre; and the two others, his own Aids-de-
Camp, had, the first, his horse shot under him, and
the second several billets through his uniform ! !!

And he expresses himself, miserable wretch ! in this
Manner, at the very moment when thousands of
spe6tators were gazing with horror at the Adda run-
ning crimson with French blood, and at its banks,
covered, for a vast distance, with the mangled car-
cases of his soldiers. .

We lost but• few men !" Does then BUONA7
PAATE regard as a mere trifle rhoUsands . of human
beings expiring on the field of battle- ? For the word
few is relative to the charaaer of those who corn-
masid • armies : there are b4barous and ferocious
monsters, in: whose breast every sentiment of !lonia-
nity is destroyed, and who see, with savage delight,
blood poured Our like water: -unhappilyfor BOONA-
PART E, public opinion placeS him in the foremost list ,
of this execrableclass. All the world, unites in accusing
him of regarding his soldiers as sheep destined to be
slaughtered, and who, were created for no other pur-
pose than to glut the sanguinary.tage of conquerors
and usurpers. The General voice reproaches him
with having been, in. all, his campaigns, wantonly
prodigal of French blood. - Perish eternally all those
who merit so heavy a charge I they draw upon their
heads the execration of human race;, they invoke,
in a voice of thunder, all vengeance, human and
-divine !

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* It cannot be doubted but that all the French army took
part in the battle of Lodi, since We see all'tlie Generals at.
the head of their r4spedive corps ;,BEILTkiI ER, Al ASSENA,'
CERVONI, AUGiREAU, ALLENTAGNE, R.USCA, BAYRAND,
t.ASNss, &c. And all this army, which we have greatly
' under-rated in' stating at eighty:thousand, had only to con-
tend with the ten thousand men under ItsAnLixu 1