The Sun.
London, England, 1808-11-15 00:00:00

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CAMPAI.GN Of: IIIIONA1).U217, IN I IALA"..
• IN THE YEA11.41,..'11i AND 1797.

OF- Tf E CONDUCT OF BiJOV.II4,IRTE TOWAfiri; F-116

ARMY, AND l'!.-113, ANVIN 'II4'`WILICLI LIR 110..1-
t-AiNEI),ITS biscipLikoll • - •

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It is now pqrfeOly easy tp,e4plain hoW all these
Generals wlyink I -have jusi nilrt)ed-(MAsscxA,
GERUAU, 41;ANADoTrp and LANNF.s),returne.i fir-
Italy so rich, After entering it so very poor; and
how BuytA.p,AATE himself Acquired his immense
property. 4:hey 114 the soldier to pin
detail, while' be and: the other Generals pillaged bir
wholesale; and their devouring rapacity exteruLd
to every thing that could be carried away, money,
plate, jewels; Pit'tores. fornitur;;,&:. &c. Timev
quitted a town until they had completely stripped
it; -and, if they
.seduced the people 'by the erupt"
charm' of liberty, they mide them purchase
phantom infinitely dear; by reducing. them to a
frightful state of poverty Which will press heavily t.Jo
many generations'
Should any one be tempted to accuse us of exar.+

geration, we could easily repel.the• charge, by speci-
fying one fa&, of approved and wille7spread zy,to-
riety, and which is highly 'deserving of being rt.:-
corded.
111 1799, that is to say, two or three year; afit-r
the spoliation of Italy by BUONAPARTZ, there pli•
geared an Italian pamphlet; printed at Brescia, in-
titled " The Romans in Greece.". This book
sented a faithful pie-lure of ails the atrocities Corn_
milted by the Romans on the Greeks, of all the
injustice, oppression, and robbery...which they w"11'
tonly exercised in that country, so illu,trious lac
being the cradle of taste, and of all the arts and or-
naments 51 life. The author appeared to,accusel he
Romans only, who, in their conquests, had slieWa
themselves rapacious, cruel, and destrudiVe ; but it
was soon discovered that, Under supposed names,
his real object was to pourtray the calamities of his
country, and the crimes of the French. Al 4ttte
,world saw, that the Romans in Greece were pre-
cisely the %French in Italy : the resemblance was so
striking that it was impossible not to recognise it.
FLAMINIUS, promising' liberty to the Greeks, :liar
announcing himself as their deliverer, appeared to
all BUONAPARTE entering Italy, with views which
he professed to,be pacific and friendly, and issuing
his crafty proclamations to inspire confidence: Fi..A-
miNtus is described as a man full of perfidy, ambi-
tious, rapacious, feroCious, formed for crimes,
tuateci •to guilt, &c. This similarity of characters
pointed out BUpNAPARTE yet more strongly.„ rs ;
it is BUONAPARTE,' said the Italians, of all ranks
openlyi- it is BUONAPARTE,' repeated the wives
and children of the people !

In the companions and satellites of FLAMINWS,
every one recognised the French Generals, the ac-
complices of the robberies, the murders, and the
atrocities of BUONAE,.IRTE. Here, said they, is MA$-
SENA painted to the life: here is a character perfectly
resembling AUGEREAU; this is assuredly &RNA.
,DOTTE; this MURAT ; and this again is LANNEs.
These different 'applications gratified their hatred :
but they did not stop here; and When the authentic
and circumstantial recital of the cruelties, of the in-
satiable rapacity, aid of the unbridledlust"dt 13tiON A-
PARTE'S Army recalled to the Italians the remem-
brance yet recent of the evils of every kind which
they had suffered from the French, the horrible ca-
lainitiesbrbught upon that delightful country by
pretended deliverer, and the atrocities committed
by those soldiers, to whom the Vandals were mild
and sparing, either by the permission, or the cw-u-
-mand of the General, then the minds. of all were
exasperated : the flames of hatred burst out 'anew
with tenfold violence, and one general oat h of ven-
geance was breathed in every part. Then, the
noox, which appeared at first to be only an in-
genioui satire, became a kind of terrible Pviapifesto
against the French, and the moment that the op-
portunity of taking vengeqnce presented itself,
it was seized, with avidity, and -rendered what it
should be, as dreadful as the injuries 'which drew it
down had been atrocious !'*
The first victories of SUWARROW in the State of

' We know, from other sources, that what our e.stimahle
author reports of the tremendous effeets of this !ulster' v
produelion; which will not speedily be forgotten by the
French, is by no means exaggerated. We have some reasons
for believing that it hai: been lately trnslated by order of
the Spanish runtas, and d.spersed among the people of
Spain. They, too, have unheard_of injuries to revenge ; and
we earnestly hope that this just and well-timed description
of the rapacity, barbarity; and savage tyranny of the new
Ft. Arvirr4i us may point their weapons, and hasten the ex-
termination of their ferocirius and krutal invaders, front
Germany we have no hopes, or we, should wish it .to
circulated there, among the victims of the tyrant.. lot the
Gerrrians are rapidly descending to their proper lAveL They
had arrogantly assumed a station among. the nations or the
world to which they had no pretensions ; now they have
Liked their rank, and we see cowardly and jabbing
stupid.and venal Minit:ters,. treacherous atid avaricious Gc.•-
nerals, atheistical and ignorant • Professors, 'malignant
disorganizing Scribblers of every kind, and a People hones/
indeed, as the skin between their • brows," but who s:te.
themsblves transferred from Kings to Dukes, and from
Dukes to Counts, with much the same lively emotion as a
flock of sheep experiences at being driven from the f,eld of
Farther Giles into that of Farmer Dobbins!

To return to the," Kornans in Greece."—We are fort,oue
enough to possess the only copy of this spirited work wilier)
has yet reached England; and we propose, if the pri:si of
temporary matter will admit, to lay a translation of it belari
out Xcadcrs, at the (lc= of tl.ypres,nt pertorimucc. •