Jenks's Portland gazette. [volume] (Portland [Me.]) 1799-1802, 1799-09-23
Field Martial SvWARRoW.

: OUR readers muR Judge of the following
portrait, drawn by an officer of diltine1ion, who
fereed under Martial Souvorof. In fucb a
piece no one will expea, we think, to find aca-
demic perfection or elegance. And, we need
not fay, that we have preierved fcrupulou1y
the likeneis as it has beea prelented to US.
We can only perform our duty to mankind
by making public every portrait of this great
mans character. Providence has fet him, as
an example before heroes, in order to animate
and revive in generous bofoms, thoie virtues,
which alone render them worthy of immortali-
ty. Who more than Field Marfhal Count SoQ
vayoF RimnikGi, is entitled to that religious ho-
mage, which we yield to thofe extraordinary
men, who feem born only TO govern the world
Extenfive in projea, prompt in deciiion, indie
1atigable in execution, ignorant to retrogade,
except through the battalions of his enemies !;
fuch is this wonderful man, who never made
Rep backward, who was car sn the mould of
Cejar and of -Alkxander, which for 70 long
time has been thought TO have been broken.
Continually occupied with glory, which is hi.
element, he devotes 10 labour the time men EN-,
ploy in repote. The only tribute he pays to
nature is few hours 1eep upon a little firaw,
under Gmple tent, in almoa every fcafon of
the year. ModsR and unaffected in private
life, linen drefs is fufieient for him. His pc.
MUS continually adive allows him no repofe !;
10 that he never walks--but he flies. He con
templates military icience from an elevation roo
high to notice its minutig. He beholds only
things IN great leaving to others the talk of
enumerating the buttons on folders coat
by lolI h. N,
days of parade in the midli of them, like IA
Their, and converies with them Familiarity, con.
corning the cau!es which have enabled them to
conquer, and of the faults, which they have
been capable Of committing. Good, generous,
his affed lons extend even to children and this
man, who in the day of battle, appears like a
thunderbolt of an enraged deity, dilcovers, by
The iide Of the weak and unfortunate, all the
fenfibility "a the moft tender heart. Fulfilling
all the duties oil his religion, with zeal and
piety, which ought to confound our modern
atheias when he fpeaks of his victories, he
attributes them, always to the author of all
things detecting that impious philofophy,
which produces nothing but crime and revolt
againff all efabliihed fyfems.
AT Warfaw, he detroyed this philofophic
phantom, at the moment when the Norb was
near being c'uhed by it. In 6ue, we cannot
better characterize this great man, than by the
letter, which he wrote to her majelty, after the
furrender OF L6maei. which coli the Turks
3o,ooo men. "Glory TO God - Glory 10 71ou
--JGnatl is taken--and ! am here"-We fecm
to read the difpateh of Spartan General.--In
letter fubjoined to the portrait juii given, it is
faid, This Martial Souvoroff is one of the
great men Of this age. He has never been van
quilhed. A little white watcoat is his only
protection againt the fevereft cold. He keeps
no equipage ; and for his war horle, mounts
the firlf Hudar's horfe he meets. He rites eve
ry day an hour after midnight; dimes at eight
in the morning fares like a common folder !;
and has gained twenty pitched battles. He
deteh the revolution
There is certainly fsmcwhat Of the character
of antiquity in this General, who would not be
milplaced among the heroes Of Plutareh.