Iowa territorial gazette and advertiser. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa Territory [Iowa]) 1840-1846, 1842-10-15
BURLINGTON, IOWA, SATURDAY OCTOBER IS 1884,.

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batting solitude; and silence 10 him was
more awful than the presence and tracus
Of an army. The Duke Dc. Treviec
(Mor,ier) was appointed Governor Of the
Province, the Due dc Dantzic (Letcvre)
was ordered TO occupy tn, krcmln. and
take charge Of the Police Q: that quarter
the King of Naples was 10 pursue the
enemy. not to lose sigh, Of them. 70 pick
up straggIers and send them to Napoleon
Night came on, and as it came Napo-
leon grew gloomy Some carbin reports
had been he; I'd in The direction OF kolo-
md gate 1t was Murat. who. after
searching nine hundred leagues, and Le-
ing present in sixty actions, had crossed
the capital Of the Cars as he would have
done village, and overtaken the Cos.
sacks on the Vladimir road. Some
Frenchmen were announced, who had
come to sollcittheir Emperor's cIemcncy
Napoleon ordered them to be b ought in.
anxlously questioning them. thanking
them in some measure for having come to
him with news; but. at the first words
they uttered lie frowned, flew into pas
sion, and gave them denial. They re-
lated indeed strange things. According
to them, Moscow was doomed to destruc-
ton: Moscow wes condemned bv the
Russians themselves, bv its own sons. to
fire. 1t was impossible though, he.
Attwo in the morning the news arrived
Of fire having broken out in the Com
merclal Palace, or the finest quarter Of
the city. Rostopchin's threat was being
realized. yet Napoleon still doubted il;
It mus, be the imprudencs Of some soldier
that had caused the confagration. With
this belle, he issued order after order.
and despatched messengers after mcssen-
ger. Daylight came wi.hou, the flames
being extingu'shed, for a strange circum-
stance, no where had any engines been
found Napolean then FASTENED i'll psr-
son to the scene Of his disaster. 1t was
the fault Of Mortier--the fault Of the
Young Guard; all arose from the impru-
dence Of the soldiers. Ii was then that
Mortier turned the attention Of Napo-
lean to closed house which was kindling
by itself ss il by magic. sNapolean
sighed and slowly assembled with iroop-
ing head, the steps lcaping 10 the Kre.n-
lin.
lsc had at length reached that desired
object Of his enterprise; In front OF hun
stood the ancient residences Of the Cars;
to the right the church enclosing their
tombs; to his left The Senate's Palace;
and in the background The lofty stseple ot'
Ivan Weikola whose gilt or IS. before
hand destined'by him 10 Be subll,u;ed for
that OF the lnvaidcs. comma .ded all the
domesofs N!oscow.
lie entered the palace. and neither lis
architecture, the vast and splerd did apart
ments which he went through, nor the
magnificent view OF the Moskowa, with a
world OF houses. golden domes. silver
cupolas and bronze roofs, cou i wiest him
from his rerern. |, was not Moscow
thai. he had in his grasp, bu, its shadow,
spectre and phantom. Who's was.itst tina:
had kndled it2
On a sudden he was told thai fire was
ex,ingulshad, and he raised his head a.
gain. IL was another toe vanqulshed,
h > fortune was still ,ha, Of Caesar. Re
ports succecdedune an Their ccnrding
to them the kremun arsenal con,a,led
forty thousand Engtish.s Austrian and
Russian muske,s.s hundred pieces Of
cannon. quantity OF Alanccs. saDres ar
mors and trophies captured from the
IuM1Es and PersIans. ~ the Gate 4UU,-
600 tbs OF vuppowder, and Il larger
quantity still OF sai,petre, had been con-
cealed in isofased buildings. The nobl
palaces, busa hose palaces we're open and
FURNISHED. . nd would be occupied by Tie
superior officevs OF the army. Some
houses, which hadsbeen deemed empty,
would be openedi they belonged TO tie
middle classics O Society, ana they would
tame or attract othersx Lastly, we had
lshind Us 100000 men, and might await
winter. With spring, war would revive,
and sis6 war victory would retufh
Napolean fell thus asleep be,wixt con
tending apprehensions aud hopes
AT midnight the cry Of 'Firep' was a
gain heard. The wind was from the
north, and the fire had broken ~. TO
wards the NORTH. Thus chance seconded
the flames. The wind drove themto the
direction Of the Krel1fn, which. hey ap.
preached like6 burning stream. Already
did the sparks fly tdths palaces root, and
fall amidst patk Of artillery stationed
under its. walls, when the wind shtiieit TO
east. The flames changed their direc-
tion-thcy extended, but removed q q
distance.
Suddenly second FIRE kindld8s,n the
east, and advanced like thesfirst, pushed
by the wind. No further doub, could be
entertained; il was new scheme otsd
s.ruc,ion adopted by the enemy, and the
evidence NdPolean had 50 long shrunk
from began to knaw his heart.
Fresh columns Of smoke and flames
soon arose from various parts. The
wind being still uncertain, aud constantly
shifting from north 10 east; the confagra
tiun envcloped, the Kremlin from ali
sides. A. every moment torrents flowed
from those streams Of FIRE, which spread
in their turn. Il was no longer u fire,
but sea OF flames I'm immense tide,
even ascending towards the foot OF the
Krcmlin walls.
All nigh. Napoleon beheld with terror
the fiery tempest; there his might ex-
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