• What

posed the artillery to the risk of being taken : then?' said the philanthropic warrior, the cannon are but so much brass; the blood of the soldier is much more precious." "

This is altogether false. The Saxons gave way, both on the morning of the battle of Wagram, and on the evening before; they were the worst troops in the whole army. Notwithstanding this, the Prince of Ponte-Corvo, contrary to all order and discipline, issued a proclamation the following day, calling them a column of granite. Weary of his idle vapouring and boasting, the Emperor deprived him of his command, and sent him back to Paris.

PAGE 156.

"In the mean time the order of the Emperor had been executed throughout the army to such a degree of severity, that a Marshal of France, seeing some grenadiers carrying their Colonel, whose thigh had been carried away by a ball, ordered them to set him down by the road-side, and sent them back to their ranks with a reprimand. • Sir,' said he to the dying Colonel, a soldier should know how to die on the spot where he receives his wound.' A young officer, Colonel Lebrun, the son of the Duke of Placenza, was at this time near the Marshal, he shuddered with horror: Our profession does not allow of much delicacy,' said the unfeeling warrior; It is no time to talk of philanthropy during a day of battle.""

A calumny.

PAGE 156.

"On his arrival at Antwerp, his (Bernadotte's) presence dispelled all their fears. Endowed with unwearied activity he combined and arranged, as by magic, all the means of defence. He did more; he excited an universal enthusiasm. Thousands of soldiers arose at his call, and defeated the rash projects of the enemy. The English abandoned the enterprise, and the Prince prepared to rejoin the army of Germany. He was about to resume a command in it, when peace was signed; upon this he returned to Paris, and was invested with the Grand Cross of St. Henry of Saxony."

On his arrival at Paris, the Minister of war supposing that he had returned on account of ill health, sent him to Antwerp, where he talked much, wrote much, and did nothing to the purpose. When he arrived at Antwerp, the English expedition had already failed; Antwerp was safe, for the Scheldt squadron, carrying 12,000 seamen, had returned to the city, and reinforced the garrison, which now consisted of 30,000 men. The object of all Lord Chatham's arrangements must have been the intercepting of this squadron, which was in the roads of Flushing; for, without that, Antwerp could never have been taken.

PAGE 158.

"Some political writers have supposed that Napoleon exerted a great influence in securing the elevation of Ber

nadotte to the throne of Sweden. In this respect they have been mistaken. Not only was the Emperor a stranger to this astonishing nomination, it is also certain that it was far from agreeable to him,"

If this election had been disagreeable to the Emperor, it would not have taken place; for it was to obtain his protection and the good will of France that the Swedes made it.

The Emperor was allured by the glory of seeing a Marshal of France become a King; a woman for whom he was interested, a Queen; and his godson, a Prince Royal. He gave Bernadotte, on his departure from Paris, several millions of francs, to enable him to appear in Sweden with suitable splendour.

PAGE 163.

"Provided that the aforesaid Prince, in case he be elected by the States to the succession to the throne, shall, before his arrival in the Swedish territory, have declared his profession of the Lutheran Evangelical Doctrine," &c.

Bernadotte was born in the Apostolic Roman Catholic faith; this he abjured for the Reformed Religion. Many would have done as much; but it was this circumstance that prevented Prince Eugene from being sent to reign over Sweden. His wife, a Princess of Bavaria, would have been inconsolable. Desirée, the reigning Queen of Sweden, refused

to change her religion, but still professes the Apostolic Roman Catholic Faith, in which she was born.

PAGE 255.

"Letter from the Prince Royal of Sweden, to H. M. the Emperor of France. Stockholm, 11 May, 1812."

This letter is a falsehood; it is an after-invention; it was never received: in fact, M. de Signeul, the Swedish Consul, was even so late as June, at Dresden, negotiating on the part of Sweden. Surely, after a letter of this description, negotiations would no longer have been kept up with Sweden.

PAGE 273.

"Note from Baron Engestrom to M. de Cabre."

The truth was well known respecting the dispositions of the Cabinet of Stockholm, and its connexions with that of London; these matters were no longer doubtful.

PAGE 323.

"Letter from the Prince Royal of Sweden, to His Majesty the Emperor of France. Stockholm, 23 March, 1813."

The style of this letter plainly indicates that it is a libel; no such letter was received. A month before the battle of Lutzen, the Emperor of France was was not to be thus addressed! It is a pity that persons of such

elevated rank should lend their signatures to such gross fabrications.

PAGE 338.

"General Lauriston was sent to Prince Kutusow, to propose an armistice. The Prince received Lauriston in the midst of his Generals."

This is all false; it was not the object of Lauriston's mission to demand either peace or armistice.

PAGE 340.

"On the 11th of October Murat was charged by Bonaparte to make a second attempt upon Miloradowich, who commanded the van-guard of the Russian army."

This dialogue of the King of Naples with General Miloradowich, is also false.