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eerpe might have taken the road of ~,'el CornonicA, 1 rattorp especially the simele and virtnons inhabitants
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and, 44.a_rch,lul by tye 1.1... W.-1.,.. Iseoi-Mcupied a position:
,of the rnoutttainF. - ,Our troops will maintain 3 st&icl
in the Gdige-of del Sole,....iwhile,,the rest of the arniy ~ iliscipl- ine, .and nothing
hing shall betaken in the coun-.
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atteroted to force thepiises ofq\lwatebaidoand La - yylnless it be.:,. Liad for in ready money.. You will
Chiusa. . . receive us with hospitality, and we will treat you
Already the Tyrolese, who looked forward to this with friendship and freternity. Do not suffer your-
plan-of. operatiott, Were in. a state of the-greateat selvg to be led into error by the agents of Austria.
alarm, and removing, with all possible diligence, the- In &little time, The Court of Vienna, compelled to
magazines of the army from the Italian into the make peace, will restore to the people the privileges
German part of the Tyrol, \yell aware that BEAU- which she has: usurped, and to Europe the tranquil-
, LIEU, with such a handful of men, could not defend liry which she has broken." ,
so many points at once. But BUONAPARTE, for- This Proclamation, artful and insidious as it is,
getting the measures which prudence diCtated, clear- produced no effect on the frank and sit-nple minds of
ly evinced that something more than impetuosity the Tyrolians. They knew what were the respect
is necessary to constitute a good General : he was and love of the French for the people. They knew
positively determined to force the passes of Monte- what had been the particular tenderness of the
baldo and Chiusa. French army for the simple and virtuous inhabitants
On these posts he made vigorous and daily at-
of the mountains of Swisserland. They knew what
tacks, which were constantly repelled with such an
was the severe discipline of Republican soldiers,
insurmountable perseverance, that, from the middle
commanded by BUONAPARTE ; and they appreciated
of June to the end of July, the Austrians yielded
with justice the fraternity and frie,ndship which were
not an inch of ground. 'BUONAPARTE lost an amaz-
offered to them. They remained, then, faithful to
ing number of men ; and it is a feel known to thou- i their legitimate Sovereign, and preferred continuing
sands, that the Adige for a long time was covered the subjeals of the Emperor of Austria to tasting the
with the carcases of
,the French, and that, during fruits of that precious liberty which the Corsican
many months, the inhabitants of the Veronese would presented to them with.so much sincerity ! i
not touch the fish of that river. BUONAPOTE might BUONAPARTE never forgave them for it ; and he
console himself for this loss ; he, who from the
has enjoyed the brutal satisfaCtion of
.transferring
moment of his entrance into the military career, ac- them
from a domination to which they were accus-
customed himself to reckon the lives of those whom .
totned, and with which they were pleased, to the
he commanded as nothing, but he also lost time, and
odious yoke of one of those new-fangled Kings, to
this was very fatal to him. The Tyrolese, who had whom his Gaulish Majesty has given a disgraceful
been struck with consternation at first, and who crown, and who, under the name of Monarchs, are
fancied they saw the enemy at their doors, had time in effe& the despicable slaves of an Upstart and
to rise in a body, and to organise themselves after 1 an Usurper !

the manner of their country; and the army of
WURMSER had also time to match to the reinforce-

To 6e continued.

ment of BEAULIEU.
To obviate the etfeEls of this unpardonable fault,
BUOSAPARTE had recourse to what the Historian'of
the Italian Campaign calls the arms of Proc.lama-

lions. It will not be amiss to cite his words:
" With a view of penetrating into the Tyrol, he
wished. to have his march preceded by a Manifesto,
which might procure him partizans in that difficult
country. This is one of his modes of beating his
enemies; and few Generals have managed the arms
of Proclamations with more dexterity than himself ;
we cannot have a better proof'of it than is furnished
by that which he addressed to• the warlike
tants of those mountains."
In truth, few Generals have issued more Procla-
mations than BUONAPARTE ; ;1)(1 we readily admit

that no General, in our recolleetion, ta.,s ueri%cd
more advantage 'from them. His panegyrist gi%es

him great credit for them ; ‘Ae beg leave to airier
from him in this point, as we discover in his use of
this weapon much less dexterity than peifidy and

villainy : for what, after all, is the -basis of those
Proclamations with which he has inundated Europe
and Egypt ? He constantly begins by announcing
liberty to the People. It is this cry•Of liberty which
is his principal talisman; acry which the factious
have.always employed to deceive and stir up the
people; a cry, which was the first _signal of the
French Revolution; a cry, which provoked andex-
)cited the fury and the unbounded outrage by which
it was accompanied ! A rare proof of, talents, to
avail himself of a cry which has served all the mis-
creants who have laboured to produce revolutions.
since the existence 01. civil societies Accursed be
he who first uttered this cry in an organized society!
He was, beyond all question, a seditious- and a pro-
fligate villain !
In 'hat, we repeat, consist the Proclamations of
BUONAPARTE ? In promising every where to respect
property, and respe&ing it no where ! In promising
i to pay for every thing in specie, when he resolVes
• -
to pay for nothing, and to carry off all the money
. of the country !. In promising to maintain the striCt-
est discipline, while his troops are authorised by
himself to commit every kind of violence and out-
rage !
t'No; Proclamations of this kind do no credit to a
General,; they are rather a shame and a reproach to
him, at least in those countries where honour and
integrity are yet counted for something.
put how, You will say, could these Proclamations
baye such an effect, if they were aliays false and
deceitful ? The question has been long since an-
swered by Mr. Burtxp. " The credulity of the
people," says he, " is as inexhaustible as the villainy
of the wicked
However it be, BUONAPARTE dispersed his Pro-
' clamation in the Tyrol, and we will admit, with
the historian, that it was-drawn up with more than
his nsnal address. It ran thus
" The French army respects and loves all people,
':'his cry of liberty will n,ie day be raised against Boo-
rt APA ; nor is day, ' perhaps, fat distant,
since he has now reached the summit of power. Then he
who has so often
.availed himself of this cry to stir up the
people against their Kings; Will see with what •L:ility and
what success this weapon is turned acaimit him. The seeds
of a goner ;l' insurrectior are, in every heart ; am! 7-11 where,
so deeply rooted as 'in 'Fiance itself, the 'pritiLipal seat of
oppression ant! despotism. The ex plosich will sudden ;
a low aAd ih2redible patzeace will bi'ronvert;%l into the
most long,
fury. The Eye huirated tho*and baNi:
nets which enaircle ttils jealous liespot,:"will not secure bun
frcim the fatal 'bloW ; apd it is more, than probahle that me
7 Of them will tcfrpinatelli:: (lesth'iiiips and Ohout:l4lcareti.;.