conducted by superior military science. The deserted army marched at night, and bivouched in the day in hollow squares, for their protection against attack. The track of their retreat was covered with the dead bodies of men and horses, with cannon, waggons, and every thing that evinced the extreme distress of the army. The frightful picture is still heightened by the official accounts of the Russian commanders, which states, that the French were not only reduced to the necessity of subsisting or horse-flesh, but that they actually lived upon the dead bodies of their fallen comrades. At Wilna great magazines of stores and provisions had been collected, and the harassed, distressed, and woe be-gone army reached it on the 10th of December. But here they experienced only fresh disasters and disappointments. Admiral Tchitchagoff's advanced guard drove them through the town almost without halting; and the indefatigable Platoff, with his Cossacs, occupied the road to Kouno: but the skeleton of the French grand army, although thus reduced to perhaps little more than 20,000 men, rallied, and animated by desperation, cut its way through a cloud of irregular cavalry, after sustaining some loss. At Kouna it passed the Nieman, and effected its escape into the Prussian territory; having lost in the retreat from the Beresina, and at Wilna, above 20,000 men in prisoners, near 200 pieces of cannon, 7 general officers, a great number of staff officers, all their magazines, and a great part of Bonaparte's personal baggage.-Murat, Berthier, and the other principal officers of the grand army, fled to Koningsberg, 200 miles beyond Wilna; whence a division was sent to collect the wreck of the army, and assist Macdonald, who had raised the siege of Riga and retreated to Tilsit. The Russians eagerly pressed forward, and 30,000 Prussians, under General D'York, capitulated to their arms; which circumstance seems to have struck deeper into the soul of Bonaparte, than any other disaster that has occurred during this calamitous campaign, The cost of Bonaparte's last campaign in men and money, to try the question, whether England shall be shut out from the continent, may be estimated as follows: To France and her Allies in killed, frozen to death,}. wounded, &c.... 85,000 disabled..... 115,000 prisoners of all descriptions 200,000 400,000 L. 12,000,000 2,450,000 Their equipment, at 301. each ..... Inartillery, ammunition, military stores, provisions, &c.. 15,550,000 L. 30,000,000 To Russia in soldiers killed, frozen to death, drown-} ed, &c.. 50,000 disabled 50,000 prisoners 30,000 Soldiers, total 130,000 Inhabitants burnt, starved, frozen to death, and destroyed in different ways Russian people Equipments of soldiers lost Artillery, waggons, horses, &c. taken or destroyed Four thousand five hundred stone houses, at 5001 each Russian property lost .. L. 50,000,000 The question may now be considered as decided, and Bonaparte's dreams of universal empire dissipated. By his shameful flight, he has forfeited the confidence and es-teem of his troops, diminished the gratitude of his subjects, shaken the allegiance of his allies, and tarnished his glory in the eyes of the whole world. While traversing the wilds of Russia, a 'report of his death was propagated in Paris, and formed the pretext for a daring conspiracy, which threatened the overthrow of that splendid scheme of aggrandizement which Bonaparte had organized at the expence of so much blood. This movement occasioned the greatest consternation; but the principles in the conspiracy were soon arrested and executed. This circumstance seems to have planted the most painful alarms in the breast of the emperor. Immediately after his arrival in Paris, he received the congratulations of his servile senate; and in his answer, he dwells with expressive minuteness on this partial insurrection, and obliquely censures the magistrates for not evincing more promptness and courage on the occasion. But his apprehensions were not suffered to subside; for the audience in the opera-house rose in an irresistible fervour of indignation, tore down his bust, and trampled it under their feet. The manager was severely fined, and the managers of the other theatres received such cautions as were judged necessary. Bonaparte now appeared in public, reviewed his troops, and attended the theatre, surrounded by his guards and accompanied by an host of police officers, who, as appointed, hailed the great conqueror, that during the recent retreat had eclipsed the glory of Xenophon. A studied silence was observed respecting the fate of the grand army, and the afflicted people of France were left to infer its annihilation. But when intelli gence of the defection of the Prussians arrived, Bonaparte testified his fears by requiring the immediate embodyment of $50,000 conscripts. He will now be compelled to act on the defensive, while his operations must be much limited by the want of money to equip his immense levies, at a time too when the public mind is little disposed to bear any additional burthens for the purpose of prosecuting his destructive wars. What the issue of this change of fortune may be it is perhaps impossible to predict, but a sincere attempt on the part of England and Russia to obtain a peace, on such honourable terms to all parties as might ensure its continuance, would certainly be highly politic and expedient; and it is probable that Bonaparte would willingly negociate. Before we close this account of the eventful life of the most wonderful man that ever appeared on earth, we shall give a brief sketch of his character from the pen of M. Faber, a German, who served in the French armies during the revolution, but retired from the service shortly after the elevation of Bonaparte to the supreme power. I have seen this man whose name is Bonaparte; I have seen him an officer of the artillery, general in the army, consul, emperor. When yet the Italian u in his name gave him no concern, all then was Italian about him, his physiognomy, his complexion; he had neither the habits, the manners, nor the agreeable figure of a Frenchman; the rough motions and the sharp form of the foreigner displeased. A cold reserved air gave his exterior an appearance of indifference for all about him. He always walked concentrated in himself. [Careless of the events which awaited him, but always occupied with his glory, he appeared determined to perform whatever could conduct him towards it. Attached to no being but himself, he never joined any party but to serve his glory; he has been republican, conventional, directorial, moderate. The proofs exist in the public documents; he is accused of having been a terrorist: this is not proved, but it is proved that he is sworn to all principles, and that he has abjured them all. "I have seen this man; in the midst of the greatest crowd and bustle, in all places and at all times, he appears to be alone and insulated. Men are nothing to him; they are the means, himself is the end. His mouth is hideous when he smiles on them-it is a smile of contempt, a smile of pity, which cheers cowards in the terrible immovability of the rest of his features. This solitary smile has been given him by heaven. "I have seen this man-he is simple in his private. manners, in his tastes, and in his wants. An uniform the least shewy; a black hat, without any other ornament than the cockade this is his dress. His ostentatious splendour is not for himself but for others. He is a slave to it, in order to reign over others; he is a borrowed character in the imperial mantle, as in the hat a la Henri IV. as he is in all costumes; but it is better to be a borrowed character, than not to have consequence. He has neither a taste for the table, nor for women, nor for the fine arts; these tastes would level him with other men: he has only one, that of being above them. "He speaks little he speaks without selection, and with a kind of incorrectness. He gives little coherence to his ideas; he is satisfied to sketch them by strong outlines. His words, pronounced with a sharp voice, are oracles; he does not occupy his attention by the form in which he gives them, provided the thought is weighty, strikes and overturns, Thus frequently something common appears in the turn of phrase he employs. He writes as he speaks. Flatterers have discovered in it the stile of Montesquieu. This is comparing two men who have no points of resemblance. The public speeches of Bonaparte have been dry and cold. I have seen this man, when he was the hope of humanity. I have seen him, when he had preferred to be its scourge. It is terror personified, which accomplishes the prediction of heads criminally exalted, that the revolution would make a circuit through the universe, and overturn all the thrones of kings. 'I have seen this man. I have seen him near. His head is a rare re-union of the most marked characteristics. Every portrait of Bonaparte will be known, even if it should not resemble him. In this they are like the portrait of Frederic the Great; he admits of an evercharged likeness. It requires only lips, where the contempt of men eternally resides, to be placed between the protuberance of such a chin and the concavity of such a transition from the nose to the upper lip. The full length, by Isabey, representing Bonaparte in the |