The native American., 1838-04-07

TON CITY, SATURDAY, APRI
brilliancy Of the description, if in the battles
themselves nothing had been visible but the blaze
of the cannon and the glitter Of the steel, as il
the whole were magnificent fre-work, and the
Isplendors of the vision were unpurchased by the
hdeous agonies of dying men, and the terrors
OF fallen nations.
Napoleon, on renewing hostilities, had attempt
led to force the intrenched camp Of Heilsberg;
and after days fighting. had been repulsed at
seven in the evening with heavy loss. 81 had
on this OCCASION says Sayary, san exceedingly
warm alteration with the Grand Duke de Berg
(Murat,) who sent to me in the very thckest Of
the action orders to move forward and attack; I
bade the officer who brought the order 60 to the
devil, asking at the same time if he did not see
how we were engaged. That Prince, who would
have commanded every where, wished that 1
should cease firing, at the hottest period of the
fight, to march forward; he would not see that if
had done so should infallibly have been DESTROY
ed before reaching the enemy. For quarter
of an hour exchanged grape with the enemy
nothing enabled me to keep my ground but the
rapidity of my fire. The coming on Of night
was most fortunate-whle every one slumbered,
the Emperor sent for me. He was content with
my charge, but scolded me for having failed in
the support of Murat. When defending myself,
had the boldness to say he was fool, who
would some day cause us to lose great battle
and that it would be better for us if he was less
brave and had more common-sense. The Empe-
ror bade me be silent, saying was in a passion,
but did not think the less of what | had said
Next day he was in very bad humor; our wound
ed were as numerous as in pitched battle
We find ourselves unable to resist the pleasure
of quoting the mastery description of the field Of
battle.
"The vehement cannonade which had SO long
Illuminated the heavens now ceased, and the cries
of the wounded, in the plain at the foot Of the
intrenchments, began to be heard above the de-
clining roar of the musketry. Ateleven at night,
however, deserter came into the Russian lines,
and announced that fresh attack was preparing.
Suitable arrangements were accordingly made;
and hardly were they completed, when dark mass
es Of the enemy were seen, by the uncertain twi-
light of a midsummer night, to issue from the
woods, and advance with swift pace across the
bloody plain which separated them from the re-
doubts. Instantly the batteries opened on the
moving masses; they staggered under the dis
charge, but still pressed on, without returning a
shot; but when they arrived within reach Of the
musketry, the fire became SO vehement that the
heads of the columns were entirely swept away,
and the remainder driven back in great disorder,
after sustaining frightful loss. AT length, at
midnight, after twelve hours incessant fighting,
the firing entirely ceased, and nothing was heard
in the narrow space which separated the two ar
mics, but the groans Of the wounded, who, anti
cipating a renewal Of the combat in the morning,
and tortured by pain, implored removal, relief, or
even death itself, to PIT period to their suffer
ings.
9 Heavy rain fell in the early part of the night,
which, though it severely distressed the soldiers
who were unhnrt in their bivouacs, assuaged the
thirst and diminished the suerings Of the host Of
wounded of both armies who lay mingled togeth-
er on the plain. With the first dawn of day the
Russians again stood to their arms, expecting eve
ry moment to be attacked; but the morning pass
ed over without any movement on the part of the
enemy. As the light broke, the French were de-
scried on the skirts of the wood in order Of battle,
but, more even than by their well-appointed bat
alions and squadrons, the eyes of all were riveted
on a spectacle inconceivably frightful between
quarter Of mile broad and above mile in
length, presented sheet Of naked human bodies,
the greater part Dead but some showing by their
motions that they preserved consciousness or i'm
plored relief. Six thousand corpses were here ly-
ing together as close as they had stood in their
ranks, stript during the night of every rag of gar
ment by the cupidity Of the camp-followers of
either army, ,ghastly pale, purple with the blood
which was still oozing from their wounds. How
inuredsoever to the horrors of campaign, the
soldiers of both armies, even while they loathed
it, felt their eyes fascinated by this narrowing
spectacle, which exhibited war, stript of all its
pomp, in its native barbarity; and, by common
consent the interval of hostilites was employed
in burying the dead, and removing the shivering
wounded to the rear of the armies.'
FRANKLIN's ToAsT.-Long after Washington's
victories over the French and English had made
his name familiar over Europe, Dr. Franklin
chanced to dine with the English and French
Ambassadors, when, as nearly as can recollect
the words, the following toasts were drank:
BY the British Ambassador" England-The
sun whose beams enlghten and fructify the re-
motest corners of the earth.
The French Ambassador, glowing with nation