The Columbia Democrat. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1837-1850, 1846-04-18
EIlSDLaIhIhAN NLAUUSo
BLUCHER.
Translated for The Boston Ai'as from The
French Of s. Henry BerthOad.

No one in France can have forgotten the
hated name Of Bucher, that Prussian field.
marshal, so many times beaten by our Gen.
erals 10 the battles of Jena and Auerstadt
who escaped, during the captalion of Prem
zlau, from the hands of Gen. Klein, by a
miserable falsehood; who behaved in snch
cowardiy manner at Lubbock, where he
was taken prisoner al The head of thirty
thousand men, whose defeats were witness
ed by Ballzen, Lulzen, Vanchamp and
Saint Amand; and who was The cause of lht
English gaining the bloody battle of Water
loo, by his deception of Napoleon. All re-
member the brutal conduct of This barbarian
when he appeared as a conquerer, at Paris
Accordingly 10 him, il was necessary to d>
vide France into districts and sci fire 10 lis
capital. We also remember how he pl-
aged not only the museums, but also the
royal palaces. Saint Could can bear wit
ness TO his ignobIe rapacty. Thirty wag-
ons loaded with furniture, paintings and
objects of art Of which the Prussan had
stripped lhem, went to Germany,and il was
IN this manner that Blucher got possession
of the Passages of tbe Alps, painting OF
David's. 1t was his wish, farther, that the
property OF those, who, according to him,
were The promoters of the war, should be
cOnfscaled and it was only the emphatic
conquest Of The Emperor Alexander tha,
could preven! hls requiring the disarming
Of The National Paris guard lie even
wished Them to be surrendered to him as
prisoners of war. Not one Of the comman
ders of the allied troops approved of Blu,
caer's conduct, and his King himself tried,
but in vain, TO subdue the lerocly of his in
domtable disposition. Ohea compelled to
recall his too severe orders, This Prince was
Obliged to indemnify the barbarian by Few
benefits; he eYen honered him with an order
established expressly for him lis badge
was an iron cross, surrounded with golden
rays.
Blucher left France in autumn, discomfort.
ed with all, execraled by The people and e.
ven by the enemies Of France.
Chagrined al seeing himself reduced 10 ius
ACTIVITY and obscurily, he rlired to his es,
tales, aud soon Eel! into a deep melancholy,
a. at the same time was seized with symp-
toms Of dropsy in the breast and inaamma
lion, whose danger he greatly exaggerated.
From thai time great change was to be
noticed in his disposition. The rough SOL
der became umid, and even in constant a.
larm. II would not remain in the dark;
solitude affected him with singular distress,
and such were the fears which his condition
caused him, that the King Of Prussia START
ed Immediately for Krieblowiz as soon as
he learned that the old General had fre-
quenlly expressed desire 10 see his sover-
eign once more before he died.
Ii was evening when the Prince reached
the castle. He was Immediately conducted
10 Blucher, who was then seventy. four
Years old, The sick man was in a large
dark hall, and its furniture, of the style oI
the fifteenth century, singularJ enhanced
lis melancholy aspect, Goats Of mail and
trophies Of the chase covered lis walls
The room was lighted only by a small frc