Portland gazette and Maine advertiser. (Portland, Me.) 1805-1818, 1813-05-10

with "a overflow Of milk, frozen as IL
trickled from the mouth"
The following description of field
of battle, is in the words Of one who
passed over the field Of Jcmappe, after
Dumouries's victory. =.
Ii was on the third day alter the
victory obtained by General Dumourier
over the Austrians, that rode across
The field of battle. he scene lies in
waste common, rendered more dr-ary
- Z eese...9si OF ne rn,a .saliassva is
teiore occupied by the peasants. Ev.
cry thing that resembled human habi-
tatioh WAS 6esolaled, and for the most
part, had been burnt or pulled down,
TO prevent their aHording shelter to the
posts of the contending armies. The
ground was ploughed up by the wheels
oil the artillery and Wagons; every
thing like heritage was Il odden int the
mire Broken Carriages, arms, acccu.
iremenls, dead horses and men were
strewed over the heath. This gras fhe
| third day afier The battle: IL avas The Se.
ginning ofAoOember and for three days
a bleak wind and heavy ran, had eontinu.
ed ineessanay. There were still re.
| naming alive several hundreds OF hor.
ses, and of human victims Of THAI
dreadful sight. can speak with Ger.
tainty Of having seen more than four
hundred men still living unsheltered,
1 w, hr, nd k.,x
assistance most of them confined to
| the spot where they had fallen, by brok.
en- limbs.--Tbe two armies had pro.
ceeded, and abandoned these miserable
wretches to their fate. Some of the
dead persons appeared to have expired
in the act of embracing each other.
Two young French officers, who were
brothers had crawled under the side Of
a dead horse, where they had contriyed
kind ofshelter, by means Of cloak
They were both mortally wounded and
grooming for each other. One very
fine young man, had just strength e.
nough to drag himself out of a hollow
partly filed with water, and was laid
upon little hillock, grooming with
| agoDs; grzsnc shat ned cur yosess the
ntl.. t.err 81 ms selfy, and le ssas keen.
! ing IN his 5orvsis Nth a handkerchief and
a hat He begged Of me, for Gods
sake, to end his misery! he complains
ed OF dreadful thirst. filed hat Of
a dead soldier with water, which he
nearly drank off at once, and left him to
that end of his wre,chednes,, which
could not be far distant"
Who is there that reads the above,
and does no, shuddcr at the scenes that
must follow the march of our troops
into peaceab.e and unoffending prov.
ince WHO is there hardy enough to
make himself responsible for them in
the great day Of universal reu ibution pa
tAgsin-Think of toe late war in Russia.
, What hsvock and desolstion, wis, misery
and rum. must the great BUTCHER, of ne
srorld have spre I'd in Russia in Ru. STA, an
innocent unotiencing country, whose only
| crime Was, that she would not submit to
Bonspsfte's Continental System, as we have
done, to exclude British commerce. that
france might the sooner conquer England.
The Ellowing short article is from such
high sath"rity, ss the Russian General.
| WIszr ScERopK who drove the French
! fun Moscow, but was afterwards made
pris9ner, by imprudeutly recornoitering
them too closely. l-Wa'hirSiOuian.
Ertrae' Of letter from an English gen.
aenan ar Petersburg, dated Des. z.
",The campaign has been carried on
with unexampled resolution by the
Russiaas, which, together with the
desolalion that always marks the path
of relrea,ing army, has given the
war features of unusual ferocity. AS
an instance, need only relate what
Wirzingerode declares ;" From Mos
COW to Snolensk Itravelle prisoner
--snd firmly believe that not less than
sixty THOUSAND DEAD BOD.
IL ) art lying on the road"
lSuch is the immense price Of blood, des-.
ols.,on, misery and death, which our devo.
,ed country mus, pay for Canada. that we
mag be ruled by The Friends Of Ffanse T. bil
The Saratoga Patriot (Iste Albany
Republican, admits that The TAXES