Star.
London, England, 1804-11-08 00:00:00

A fubaltern has often told me, that nothing could
ever efface from his mind die impreflon made upon
him in the lad expedition to Holland t and partictf. •
!arty at the battle of Bergen. Till then he had never
dreamed of proceeding otherwife than by the regular
manoeuvres ; for till then he had carried arms way
' upon round. To his alloniihment, at that
engagement, in advancing with a part of our inlay,
a condant and le vere fire was poured upon them hom
behind innumerable little landhills in fronts while •
they never faw more of the enemy than two ur three
men occafionally ruining to change their fituathSti
along the range.
During the whole time too that this continued,
which was to the end of the engagement in that
quarter, be never faw the French praiitice any of the
manoeuvres which lie had been taught, or give the
brigade to which he belohged an opportunity of doing
to, with any other effect, than to refrain their own
ardour, and inhibit their own exertions: Tile abhi- •
vations of that day,. he :ikewife aferted, were coca•
firmed by all that fucceeded during the eipcditk*.
The mof .dectfive victory of Modern vines, it tits
battle of Marengo, had always appeared to me corn.
pled), unaccounted for according to the publified '
accounts. It is commonly referred to the impreffion
made by a (mall body under General DISSAIX, aftet
the Aultrians had been fuccefsful through the whole
attacks of the day. How Nth a circumstance might
alone produce a change fo total in the lace of affair's,
I never could comprehend, and I have been the tows
confufed the more I have read of the culogittical and
bernbaltie French narratives.

• A Scotfman, lately returned from the Contirtento
brought with him, the only intelligible Ciatement of
that battle which I have met with. When abroad,
after the peace of Amiens, he had been fame time at
Paris, where (as he phrafes it) he affirciated with an
emigrant Nobleman, who had been permitted to re-
turn to France, in the various offices of groom of the
bedchamber, miller of the honk, and gentleman in
waiting—which I prelltme meant that he was foie
dome.: i:. Or:e day attending this nobleman at din-
ner,. there happened to be prefent f 1 officers of
the army of Boa•raara, Who from ftiendlh:p before
the revolution Tithed his wafter. Both they and
he had been at Marengo; and they agreed, though
they had fought OR oppofite fides, in thus liati!sg •
the tootle of that ever mcmorable battle. At its
comnieacement, a more brave and well appointed
army never advanced to the attack than that of MU
LAS. It covered apparently the whole ground which
1 it was neceary to occupy, either for fecurity again'-
. any attempt to turn its Ranks, and give the full er-
ica to its weight and itrength, which much exceed-
ed thnl of the French. Upon the other hand, they
only prefented a folid front, comparatively of (mall
extent. Thi, the Aufirians loon forced, but in doing
fo, it became evident that a great part of the French
army were ailing 311 ght troops, and fpreading along
the whole extent of she Aufirian, whowcre employQ
in every (holier merely to bleed and weaken their bat-
talions. At the first attack this produced no very pew
ceptible confequenee : It was carried quietly, nail
with invincible prow/eft. But the fame game was re-,
pealed during the whole day. Yet even at the ap-
proach of the evening, fo Rgnally Tupelor was the
prowsfs of the Maroons, that their fuperannuatird
General regarded the battle as won, and font his ca.
valry to the tear for reptile, inflead of making them
drive away a fmall corps de Merv, of *boot too°
of the French army, commanded by Derain, which
alone remained unbroken, at fonts dillance from the
fcene of anion. Theta ferved as a rallying point to
the featured troops and tirailkarr of their army,
which psefently advanced, and found the Aulirians
aurn out and diminithed greatly in number, boa care-
lcGly confident of their hard won victory. and unpre-
pared for further comet. All afterward. was mag
acre, darknefs, and apprehention, un:il the neat moe.
oing (hewed that Met as had fußained fear Loh as to
be no longer able to make head againfl B .
If this acconnt be true (and lilt be nor, the contra-

Ji.ftion of it mutt be as eafy matter), there needs to
no farther derounflration of the neceffity of mak-

,og ourfclves RI 1 dere of the fy nem of light tzoopt and
,f difengaged Lighting, if we art to combat the

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