ENTRANCE OF THE ALLIES INTO PARIS,
Including circumstantial Details of the Battle of Leipsic, &c.

ALSO, AN ACCOUNT OF THE

DETHRONEMENT OF THE TYRANT,

THE ARRIVAL OF LOUIS XVIII. IN THE FRENCH CAPITAL,
And the Departure of Buonaparte for Elba;

WITH A DESCRIPTION OF THAT ISLAND,
AND SOME ANECDOTES CONCERNING BUONAPARTE'S JOURNEY;

CONCLUDING WITH

A Historical Character of that Extraordinary Man.

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W 7HEN Bonaparte invaded Russia in 1812, he entered that country with an army which, in point of numbers, exceeded any ever brought into the fields of modern Europe. From the Returns of this army, which were left behind at Moscow, in the hurry of the retreat, and which afterwards fell into the hands of Mr. Rowan, British Banker in that city, whose house the French had occupied while there, as the Chancellerie de l'Etat Major, it appears that, at the com mencement of the campaign, its total of Infantry amounted 561,000

to

Cavalry, including Artillery, Engineers, Com missariat, persons in the suite of Bonaparte, Medical Staff, &c.

55,000

General Total of the French Grand Army,... 616,500

Every corps of the grand army had with it a park of light artillery of reserve, amounting to 166 pieces, and 528 ammunition waggons. Each division of infantry had 16 pieces of artillery, each regiment having eight. The total of the artillery, with the regiments of the line, was 789 pieces, and of the ammunition waggons 1568. The Imperial Guard alone had 100 pieces of cannon. The whole artillery of the army amounted to 1194 pieces, with 2768 ammunition waggons or caissons. The army consisted of eleven corps, commanded by Marshals Berthier, Davoust, Ney, Augereau, Victor, Bessieres, Oudinot, Macdonald, Moncey, Mortier, and Lefebvre. There were 49 divisions, and 98 regiments of the line," exclusive of the Guards.

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It is painful to the feelings of humanity to know, that nearly the whole of the unfortunate men that composed this vast army, either perished from the effects of the dreadful Russian winter, famine, and the sword, or were made captives, and sent off to the cheerless regions of Siberia. So great was the number that perished during the retreat from Moscow, that it was found impossible to bury them; for the ground was frozen so firmly, and to such a depth, that it would have been a work of immense labour, and would have occupied more time than the pursuing army could possibly devote to such an object. The bodies of these unhappy victims to tyrannical ambition were therefore left upon the roads and in the fields where they had fallen, food for the savage animals of the forest, until the rigours of the winter had somewhat abated, and the wretched remnant of the once vaunting and powerful French army, by finding a momentary shelter on the Prussian territory, gave a short respite to the horrors of this unparalleled campaign.

As the spring was fast advancing, and the warmth of returning summer had already began to penetrate the bosom of the frozen soil, it became necessary to cause an immediate removal of the numberless dead bodies which every where presented themselves to the eye, and called forth the strongest emotions of pity and of horror from the mind. The Russian Government, therefore, dreading the effects which were likely to arise from the vast mass of putrefaction that overspread the country, issued orders that the bodies should be collected and burned. Kilns were accordingly erected, and the whole road from Smolensk to Moscow smoked with the burning remains of human nature!

The occurrences which took place on the re-opening of the campaign are well known to the world. The French people, still obedient to the insatiable Tyrant who governed them, permitted him once more to exact from them an enormous blood tribute, which enabled him again to take the field with an army superior in numbers to that of the now united Russians and Prussians. After a few partial rencounters, a general and most sanguinary battle took place betwixt the contending armies. It was fought on the 2d of May, 1813, at Lutzen, a town of Upper Saxony, and each side claimed the victory. The Allies remained masters of the field, but were subsequently obliged to retire to the Elbe. Bonaparte, being much weakened by his loss in this and three other battles, which took place on the 19th, 20th, and 21st of the same month, in the neighbourhood of Bautzen, contrived to bring about an armistice, which was concluded on the 4th

of June, and was to continue in force for six weeks. During this interval, the Emperor of Germany, anxious to prevent the further effusion of human blood, and desirous, if possible, to bring this long and desolating contest to an issue, by a pacific arrangement, sufficiently compatible with the interests of Europe, offered himself as a mediator on the occasion, and the basis of the terms of peace was submitted to Bonaparte.

The Tyrant was not yet sufficiently humbled to listen to reason. Still in possession of a powerful army, he seemed to hold his adversaries at defiance, and treated them with his accustomed haughtiness. Obstacles were thrown in the way of a negociation. Bonaparte would suffer no diminution of his gigantic power; and nothing short of absolute ascendancy could satisfy the ambitious Corsican. The term of the armi stice expired, and hostilities commenced on the 17th of August, Austria joining the Allies in the grand cause.

It has long been a settled maxim in political morality, that integrity is the surest strength of nations; and the experience of the world has established a truth of equal importance, that the chains which are fabricated by tyranny seldom endure longer than while the force which imposed them itself exists. But so many cross accidents and unlooked for contingencies occur in human affairs, so many tributes are paid to successful guilt, so many triumphs take place of might over right, of cunning over honesty, that the heart at times is apt to give way to despondency, at least in so far as to doubt, whether the true wisdom of virtue is generally proved except in a purer sphere than this, or the folly and misery of vice demonstrated, until the curtain has finally dropt upon its work of evil. The events of the last twenty years are a frightful commentary upon these positions. A system of iniquity, founded on the prostration of every just and honourable principle, nurtured and matured by falshood, fraud, and cruelty, and weaving its baneful meshes around the bodies and souls of men, has triumphed in the heart of Europe during the greater part of the existence of the present generation; so that the ways of Providence have been shrouded by a thick cloud of pestilential darkness, and the very ideas of peace, liberty, and happiness, have been attained only through the history of nations which once possessed them. The effects of this portentous moral phenomemon have been deeply pernicious. The heart and the intellect received an involuntary taint from the pollution that enveloped them; and, in the mental twilight which arose from the eclipse of both, the forms of every surrounding object were obscured and distorted. That salutary indignation