The Sun.
London, England, 1809-04-25 00:00:00

.41V 'HISTORICAL RE
,OV ?Hit
CAMPAIGN OF 411,40 N A e-ART E IN ITALY,
Val, MUM 170,,hba1. 1797:

;;-77 ;,7

rt.
INTRANCEt OP ,q-Siti INTO TH6 TYROL, AND
,!rl-11 tit CIPITA:VIiAtETREAT (F' weßmsEtt,
sARANDONI, RABS,ANV) Tlc'T/IROW wHitiSSLF iNTO
34 A,NII-7R (OZiTINUfft:/).

then,.. kliatjhere was corruption, and say
• it Confidently. -it was gold tluq.pollited the, arms of

the AustriSitt. They were at first, so brave and so
NreddObnible ! They heorne, at list,--so teeble and so
cowardly ! No; this Will not natural ; and gold
prods ced the strange nietatnorphose`:
A tialat per medics ire satellites
Et potrumpere Anat castra, paentras
l ciu tulattneo.

•
I sly it after the rrench °Meets themselves. All
-Italy recollects the language which was daily held

by them. " The Louis of Fratice in the hands of
BoONAPARTZ, are far more terrible than all his
`1 have'nlyself, more than once, 'heard these
words from their mouths, and have shuddered at
them ; more than once, too, I have ventured to re-
ply do; it is not the Louis of Franca
which have done all the mischief; it is rather the
Ninety-six-livre Pieces 'of Genoa, the Doppie of
Savoy, theSequine of Venice, and all the Coins of
And, in laa, it was from the country itself where
BUONAPARTE made war, that he derived all the gold
which he subsequently poured into the hands of the
traitors. He possessed, in such perfeetiOre,the
lent of pillaging ; hewas such an adept in the art of
draining public and private coffers; "end of drying
up .all the channels of wealth that he had always
at hand immense supplies, sufficient not only to
enrich himself and his Generahe but to pay a great
number of traitors in the enemy's army, and a still
greater number of inhabitants of the country, pm-
fligate and desperate wretches, who became spies
in their owredistrias, disturbers'of the public tran-
quility; and always ready to stir up insurrthions
against the established Government.
For the rest, if there' be yet.any one who doubts
of the corruption which contributed so much to the
disorganization of the Austrian 'Army, I have it in
my power to produce an unquestionable WI, which
cannot be read without horror. I took some pains
myself to procure the proof of it; and this proof is
the solemn testimony of one of the Chaplains of our
• Army, who had given all the assistance and all the
consolations of religion to an Austrian Soldier, on
his death-bed, in our hospital.
This seldier had been wounded in the Village of
lidarostica, ,betwaeo Ilassauo and Vicenza ; and
amortgatt,eraaU emus lions, had lost hiS right arm
by the stroke of a Sable.: He was brought to the
Hospital of Vicetiza,'. where, he died,: but some
hours before his death, he was asked by the Chap,
lain, whorwas• administering the lest Sacrament to
him, how' he lose arm, "My fiither," replied.
the poor youth, bUrstiedinto tears," if the
,bloW had
come from an enemy, I should 'have' been 6n-itoiled,
do chance of 'war,—but it was my own. a 1
. cer that cot it elf, aims the thought of it is horrible to

me. I waive soldier in the artillery, ond to protrad
the retreat of our troops, we had planted six field;
pieces itt arr adVantigeous' situation. •The euerhy
calm). ,on at a quick pace. When he Wil a within
cannon-shot, I informed the officer of it; that he
might give .the word ito fire. He ordered mu to
wait ; 1 did watt but the enemy alMost touching,
our battery; and' now being on the very point of
seizing it, I tired one of the guns; and that mo-
tilettt_a blow of a.sabre separated my arm from my
1)64! Lturned roinid to see who had given it ; 'and
I found that it was my own officer, whose sabre was
yviVt b 141: this officer: was a Ma-
jor of tio :must have. been captured,.
•With all mycomrailes; eice,pt the two wlto'brought

. .
trie here
Why 'is' it not in my poWer to perpetuate the,
name of this'assassin of an officer, more culpable
than the wretch who bought hino. ,•
I have dwelt the longer cm this fa& to prove how
pure, ho%,i, unsullied. 'is the glorlor this great man,
who 'repeats fromhour to hour—i, It is by the
might of my' power that I have done these things,
gmd by the sublimity of my talents r
No 7, it Is net '' by the might of his rower" that
he has gained so many battles; it is by dark and
disgraceintrmef,m4 and all' his matness is founded'
upon, the haseuess of others. •
This is admitted, even by his historian, since he
attributes thegreatest part of his success to what he
„ ,
caw tbe,,drtn,s ofrocamaiions; arms," says he,
0 which BUONAPARTE wields with'o•dt:Sterity pis
culiar to himself."
We hava leen that litioNAPattais bad already is,
sued one proclamation to the TyroleJe; this, how-
ever had- totaor fatted: Hu ,thought it, necessary,
thei-efo*„ tO-tratrie another, and tiiii.4Vis very ditie-
,.,
rent from the former. The first Was modest, 'and