Jenks's Portland gazette. [volume] (Portland [Me.]) 1799-1802, 1799-11-04
A MUSEUM,
FIELD MARSHAL sUWARR0JV.

THE real character of this great man is not
i yet properly known and appreciated Ig
norance and malice, have rep-eiented him as
ferosious and fan9uinary. without a TAFT OF
humanity to foften The picture, and make it
agreeable to philanthropic tate. Far diff-r
ent, We are happy in being able to fay. is he
man to whom all Civilized Europe now owes
fu- fignal obligations. His character as the
t,restea Soldier Of the age he has eltablilhed in
The Field By following him into the receiies OF
private lie, we are happy in being able 10 fay,
we ihall find him not lsls amiahle as man.
In the year ,7os, when he commanded a
Corps of 10000 men in the Ukraine, gentle
man of this country lived the whole year with
the Field. Martial in the terms of the greatea
intimacy. That gentleman is nov in Scotland.
Field Marihal Suwarrow, even in the mida of
the active ierviee in which he has been engaged
is not unmndful of the claims of private friend
hp, but carries on a correspondence with ma
ny individuals to whom he is perfonaly at.
tached.
AT the time when he was conducting two
fuch important lieges as thofe of Mantua and
Aleaandria, boths Of which places have fncs
happily fnrrendered to his arms he wrote
letter to the gentleman alluded TO, with copy
of which a correspondent at Edinburgh has ia
vored US and which we are happy tc lay before
the public, as proof that The amiabe feelings
Of private and peaceful life are not obliterated in
the mind Of this great General amidf the du-
ties of the mott important, and happily the moi
fucceEfnl Campaign, that it ever was the for
tune of any General to conduit
THE LETTER
aThefe lines, Cir, are fufficient proof how
enlible have been of your kind recollection,
and Of the wiGes which you form for my pref
perity and for the fuccefs of our arms.
"Although militar operations occupy at this
moment all my time, am however unwilling
to neglect my old acquaintance, Our afairs,
flsnk heaven, arc going on in the beti polliblc
Manner; and The happy m nner in which our
n campaign has been opened appears to be
= good omen FOR the future. You will propa
BY have already heard Of the oaptue of he
citadel of Turin, as we'll as Of feveral other pla-
ces which have had the good tortane to take
poHefion of at the head of the Auaro. Ruff.
army. There is hardly any thing left but to
take Mantua and AleAindra, where now am ,
and both of wh.ch places are beheged, to make
my fatisfaetion complete. The conquei Of them
will nereafc the number of my feltival days"
.sMay your brave countrym-n, long fourth,
who, by fecuring in part the Mediterranean from
all no aile attempts, furnihed US with the means
of aeing here in Italy with more cfea aganlt
the revolutionilts.'
4. aMay your prediction be accomplished to
become pac6cator, after having fubjugated an
ar, ogant and preiumptuous enemy, is indeed the
part ansagain ambitious of playing at the end
Of my career, as well as the peafnre of again fee.
ing YOU, to repeat with my own mouth the ienti-
nents of eReem and affection with which am,
Sir, ssYour very humble,
"and very obedt Servt:
ALEx. SuwARsow RyMisiczxi.
x4k6andria, goth June, 1888.