The Wilmingtonian, and Delaware register., 1825-10-13

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,,'ha', he was proceeding with few oi1lcers
in thr midst of number Of artillery car
WAGES and baggage wagons,--thc four squau-
rons of his usual escort not having CONE up'
I--larpe bodies of Cossacss, part oil rlaeoh
"horde." unexpectedly appeared
"They approached rapidly, General happ
had onlv time to say to the Emperor-it
is thev. return The emperor whceaer !
from ;ndistinct vision, or repugnance 70 ny
,,srs;sted IN remaining, and was about TO pc
Surrounded: when Rapp seized the pflaic
IS lie horse and turnea the animal around
crv,nc- out.-.You must do it--and real,y
i was time. The pride of Napoleon wouiu
not allow him to obey. He drew MS swoiu,
Berth;er and Cauaincourt did the SANE anu
placipg themselves on the ieit siac VI ~: ,:.S
/ road. tbev awaited the hofde. nc u'
tance between them and the latter was ~
more than forty STEPS. kaPp nHu o,,5
time to turn and face these Daroa'la"s' ~
first of whom dealt so violent Diow ~
horse as to beat him down. The other alu-
A., ,o' .co-nrs and some mounted men OF the
r,uorl d,sencaged that general. lhis pro
cerdinr the courage of Lecoulteux, the el-
fnrts Of some twenty officers and chasseurs'
and above all the cagerness OF the assailahts
for booty. saved the Emperor. they had
!, ;pdeed Immediately afterwards only I"
etretch forth their hands to seize INN; i"f
! the main horde, in crossing the great road,
. overturned horsemen, carriages, ana took
: nossession of part of the cannon. But the
cavalry of the guard came up, and at the
seht of them, the Cossacks He'd.
THE nature Of this enemy may be under
etood from the consideration that this irrup-
ton was made into the very heart OF tue
French army while it was yet numerous
, and strong. At Starai Borozot, Napoleon
!. and all about him might have been Captured
by admiral 7chHchokcf. They had REIN
: ouished all hope of escape. when the k"S
Sian commander suddenly broke up his I'M
nend,ng camp and marched oil in false tl"
rcct;ona ScGur relates that Sir Robert Will
/ son in vain urged Kutusgf, the Russian gen"
). eralissimo. to improve the various oppor-
- tunities which occurred, OF extermnatins
i the invaders or forcing them to surrender
> the English paltiAan went 50 far as to call
! him publicly, at his head quarters, an oid
If traitor and threatened to denouncc him as
y such to the Emperor Alexander. Segur OBJ
: serves Of one of their principal engage
ments.-"It was an emulation Of laundering;
of but our blunders being the grossest, were
!. near DESTROYING MS utterly" So severe was
" the agitation of Napoleon's mind under
J. his reycrses, and in moments when his opin-
ion was only between desperate cXpedient'
,r 10 prevent instantaneous and universal iuu
at that he tainted on two occasions; and on the
re last, when returning to himself, exclaimed
o. $50 much from hcapng mistake upon ms
co take" About the middle period OF his re-
IS, treat, 18th Nov. he grasped his sword, oh
10 served in SO doing, 81 have played the par,
Id of the Emperor sufficiently, it is time fol
4. me to act the general" and began to marcl
,1 on foot at the head of his old guard. No
long after (p. 207, vol. 2l.) he was seer
II walking with stick in his hand, AMI Stop
C. ping at short intervals, as it to find relic
lv from bodily and mental distress What
contrast this situation with that in Which HI
M, was held on his march to Russia; at Dres
Of den, amid crowd Of courticr moaarchs
in and with the best appointed, most numerou
e. army, which had ever been assembled un
h der an absolute leader in modern times
At Orcha, in the retreat, he burnt all TIL
papers which he had collected for tht pul
pose of writing memoirs of his life; los
which Segur regards as irreparablc and la
mentabc.
When the grand army evacuated Mosco'
he it was followed by forty thousand unarme
to- persons, and an immense train Of vehicle
'ar of all kinds laden with booty amassed I
'ur Moscow. Among these persons were ma
as nv Frenchmcn and women, with their CHI
as dren, who had long resided happily in Mos
en- COW, but burst not remain after the invasion
to The booty, the baggage, the cannon, wer
ultimately all lost, and fell chiefly into til
ms hands OF the Cnssacks But very few
led the females and children survived. I'll
as number of unarucd and stragglcrs gradual
TO increased, at the expense Of the ~ my.
'en In their latter stages Of the retreat, oil
OF GERS alone, remained, il large proportc
ted OF these corps. They were embodied
m companies and most Of them persisted
The turn The imperial guard was fnally II
To duced from twenty thousand to five hnndre
md n,en.of the whole original force of rnoI
lar than four hundred thousand Of all descriT
TONS the survivors did not exceed a fe
an Thousand effective soldiers. Among 7
of Russians the havoc of lives was also III
ost mense. Kntosol's main army dwindled Fro
e. one hundred thousand to thirty thousal
ere men. We are lothe to cite any more cas-
'us Of portentous evil; but the lesson is sal
the tary, and the illustration would be impcrfe
rd, without such a specimen A. the following.
ar cat Joupranoui, in the Same town whc
o. the Emperor escaped only by an hour, t
:; 1t Russian partizan ScsiQ7pin, some solids
der burnt houses standing and entire, in ord
a to warm themselves a few moments. I
at light of these conflagrations attracted othe
i of whom the intensity OF cold and grief h
con thrown into delirium-they ran towar
them in the wilderness of insanity, and wi
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