Alexandria gazette, commercial and political. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1812-1817, 1816-07-11

successful attack on the Prussians, an
der the command of Tauenzein, upon the
|Dyle, as for his mastery retreat with his
division to Paris, after the defeat and
destruction of Bsnaparte's army.
:. The bridge Of Wayrc," says this au
thor, 6 particularly, was repeatedly lost
and gained before the French colonel
snatched the eagle Of his regiment, and
rushing forward, crossed the bridge and
struck it into the ground on the other
side. His gallant corps followed with
the unanimous shout.of Viye l'Empereur,
and although the gallant officer who thus
lied them on was himself slain on the
|spot. his followers succeeded in carrying
the village. That of the Beige at the
same time fell into their hands, and
Grouchy anxiously expected from his en-
| peror orders to improve his success. But
! no such orders arrived; the sound OF the
cannon in that direction slackencd, and
at length died away; and it was next
morning before Grouchy heard the por-
ltentous news that awaited him, arnounc-
ling the fate of Napoleon and his army )"
r.. 176. And afterwards, 8, The only d.
vision of the French army remaining en-
tire after the rout Of Waterloo, was that
of Grouchy and Vandamme, which. by a
retreat that did those generals the high
lest honor, was not only conducted un.
broken under the walls Of Paris, but
lsained some accession of strength FROM
Ithe wrecks of the main army"
Abiding to some attempts in France to
lrestore the superstitious obseryances OF
tine dark and degraded ages, he makes
1.-THE following judicious relnorks: We
|must learn to lock with better hope upon
1.-THE more conscious efforts for re-esta-
Iblishing the altar, which have been made
10y the king. Yet we cannot but fear,
THAT the order Of the necessary reforma-
stion has been, to certain extent at least,
1.-THE everse Of what would really have at
ltained the important purposes designed
Iby the sovereign. The rites, forms. and
ceremonies of a church, all its external
jobservances, derive, fromthe public sense
lof religion itself, the respect which is
ipaid to them. 1t is true, that as the shell
LOT nut will subsist long after the kernel
lis decayed, so regard tor ceremonies and
forms may often remain when true deyo-
| zion is no more, and when ignorant zeal
|. has transferred herblibd attachment from
the essence of religion to her mere forms.
Blu if that yea! is quenched. and that at
Itachment is irradicated, and the whole
system destroyed both in show and sub
lstance, it is not by agaia enforcing tie
formal observance which men have learn
| ed to contemn and make jest of that the
Ivivifyins principle of religion will be re
Ikindled. Indeed far fem surprising that
the foundation of the atar should be laid
upon the ritual of the RGmish Church,
with all the revived supers,itions Of the
Twelfth century, it would be more pru-
dent to abandon 10 oblivi n. part at least
/! of what is shocking to common seEse and
{ltdSVH WniCu, dilhooSH hioSe III: lotldii
king might have found himself under
some difficulty of abrogating, when it was
iyet in formal observance, he certainly
cannot be called upon to renew, when it
has fallen into desuetude. The catbo-
| lies of this age are rot excluded from the
flights which II la, afforded and the at
tempt to re-establish professions, in
(which the officiating persons hardly Know
| their places, tales of miraculous images,
masses or the souls of state criminals,
and all the mummery OF the barbarous
ages, is far f ON meeting the enlarged l.
/! IDEAS which the best and most learned OF
f, them have expressed."-p. s9s.
These letters are announced in the Bri-
fish journals as the production of Walter
iScott. The writer of them, though yea
I'ous and loyal Briton of the tory sect,
does not utter those infamous calumnies,
nor indulge in the unn1anly exuItation,
with which so many of the late English
Tourists to France have disgraced them.
selves and their works.