New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1859-06-09

Au.tiiaDs ct Mou'enott- (tte FIRST sctI,n where DC
held supreme coDmsnd) and opened that brilliant
series OF v,cioiiss which. sitter eighteen mouths,
resulted 10 the prscr # Campo frrmio, c'eaied
the C,s.lpue Republic, druse the Ad-to.os out OF
Pledmont and Lombcrdy, gave Frsnre the ms'-
ter, Of ~ pr lrsy earned her boundaries {" the
Rome. formed The uucl-u, Of that " Guard" which
sf erwaId became the dread If EuropeSn -rm'es,
aud gave The pet:onpo'ni name aad taais
through the word. Al tue ducal ptlac" OF Milan,
the r. publican General, aided By too rrg'n; AMI
fsscina ing Josephine, displayed much of The p"up
and mo g than Il e power # 81 He edi',ry Prince
From il. bali. hr i.surd address to the people OF
Ituiy, ia which he said: "Our s"ie quarrrl il a'h
the tyrani. who eusIove y"ur' How Tx" the
unslr is the nrpbew Forced TO tsk- up arms;
Figr,ing for oppressed peoples; HIS enem, always
tie sRsrcssor; No desire,o ek,-6d bis territ Try;
All bis acquisitions forced upon him; and So "a 10
the eud OF the ch,pter But Ne anticipate.
The next ncursinn of Bonsyarte into Ital,
was when the Frs, Consul, now supreme ruler of
F,snce, led his army III the Spring of 1870 over
the Great ST. Bernard, each Of bis 40 900 soldiers
receiving his bread and cheese and Gu, of wiae
FRI m tn hands Of the good monks as h- 6ed past
their lev abode ~ the summit Melas, the Austrian
ccueral, wss then besIegrng Msssena in Geuo,.
Napoleon, descending from tue ALPS upon the
plains OF Piedmont like mountain torrent, cut
the Austrian hhe of communication. or"ke up the
siege. lured Melas into the open plain, over
ytelmed him in the famous field Of Marengo,
gisnted the Austiaus an srmisticr as the basis al
d subsec ueut peace, and, SIX weeks from the day
he left fis capital, the 1.-THE form and tho"gnttul
brow Of the First Consul were again seen in the
sheets of Paris.
-Four years before the battle Of Marengo. as he
stood Oh MouIt Zeniolc, spur Of the lover Alps,
gazing Gown upon the green fields aud radiant
rivers Of Italy, Napoleon said: " Hannibal forced
"ihe Alps We have turned then" La this second
Italian war, he bad copied the renowned achieve
ment Of the African general--he had forced che
Alps The Mureugo campaign. which relieved by
its brilliant succ. sses the sOmbcr reveTses IN
Egypt and Syria aud firmly established the con-
sulsr chair Of Napoleon. was regarded BY him rs
hi. 6rst sure step toward that imperial hight upon
Which be bsd long before fixed his eye.
The third intursiop of Bouaparte into Italy
differed widely from the two preceding, in that it
Vas the visit of civic ruler entwined with the
earsnds of peace rather than Of ccnqncror
clothed in lie papoply Of war; in the Spuag OF
leC5 Napoleon l., accompanied by Josephine. ADD
the Pope, whom be had summoned from Rome to
N,;Ie Dame TO see him place the imperial crown
oil bis head with his Owl bsnds, crossed tbe Alps
ard, takipg leave Of the Holy Father at Turin, Wis.,
tied thu field Of MarrDgc, where 10000 troops BY
their mimic stnf. revived the recolectlons OF that
blt ody battle, Napoleon himself being dressed in
the .sme garments he wore on that decisive day.
Pu,bipg on to Milan, be- there, 10 the magnificent
cathedral tf that city, placed the crown Of Italy
on bis head, the hereditary Iron Grown OF Charlie
msgue, repestipg loud voice the historic ~ord',
" God bss gisrD it to mel woe to him that touches
"i,;" while the tsst copcourse sioux the cathedral
With their approving shouts. Having m,de the
tour Of No, them Italy, he visited Cocoa, where
the ovation rendered to him was quite as hearty
aud far more elaborate than that Re Gently given to
tie present Enperor; aUo from thence no returned
Ia Pals After a few months Of repose in tho
Tueres he went forth To overthrow the EmprroIs
Of Austria and Russia, on the first anniversary OF
his coronstiop at Austerlitz, firmly fixing on that
day bis inperlsl throne, rs he had established bis
consular chair st Marepgo.
After lapse of nifty nine years we have warllke
incur.lon # another B'naparte into ltsy. lie g"es
10 command French aTmy in Piedmont 10 war
with Austria. The period OF time which has
passed away since the advent OF the Chlei without
Al. h. Of h.ffl
hardly needed to convince the world that the Napo-
leon who dashed down from the Alps upoa the Aus
trims OF Mon,enette aud Mareogo sleeps quietly
under toe doue Of the Invsldes 10 the hr.t inter-
view that the fret Napoleon had with his Generals
after be took command Of the Italian army, vet
ersn of the old school volunteered to give the Pa
rl.isn stripping some advice. Waving HIM aside,
Napoleon sud, "Tbe time has passed III which
"enemies bic mutually to appoint the place Of con-
a." bat, advance, bat in hand, and say: Gentlemen,
".will you have the goddess to firel' No! We
"must burl ourselves on the foe Ike thnnGer-
bolt" There may be good Gauss for deay in
the present war in Piedmont. But 1t is certain
that the imretuous euersy that burst through the
mountain gorge. and swept the Austrans before it
in 1856, aud leaped from S. Bernard upon Melas
at Marenao, has not yet exhibited itself in the FIRST
csmpaigo II the third Napoleon.
Nor is there any reason to expect it. In the
war Tow pending, and in the other wars which
may lie beyond it, Freschwen will look in vain
TO Louis Napoleon for the impetuous valor that
seized the standard 1T Lodi, and the daring genius
that led an army over the Great st. Bernard
the intuitiye cspsciry for combining masses Of