enemies, was, upon the first tidings of war, on the march to Italy to retrace the steps of Bonaparte. Like a demon of destruction, he lighted on the rivers, and stopped not till he reached the fountains of waters. Suwarrow, who shrunk not from blood, at the head of a Russian army, that showed no mercy and knew no fear, combined with Austrians bent on revenging their country's wrongs, reversed and redeemed the conquests which Bonaparte had won; and with activity and desperate resolution scarcely second to his own, and acting on his system of concentrating his forces on a single point, as if pouring out a vial of wrath on one spot after another, repelled the French, with immense slaughter, from river to river, till they lost every inch of ground which they had formerly gained, and not one republican corps was to be found in Lombardy or Piedmont. The career of Suwarrow along the rivers, and till he reached the fountains of waters, was not less bloody, along them all, from the lake of Garda, and the banks of the Mincio, to the sources, or fountains, of the Po, than that of Bonaparte. And the evidence that his course also was marked by a vial of wrath, is too abundant to be effectually condensed in a brief narrative. The fifteenth chapter of the Annual Register for 1799, contains an interesting account of the Italian campaign of Suwarrow, the locality of which was precisely that of Bonaparte's campaigns. The whole chapter is one continued illustration; and even the contents of it may convey to the reader some faint impression of the severity of the judgment, as well as of its perfect appositeness, in place, as well as in character and time, to the third vial. "Situation and force of the French and Austrian armies in Italy, at the beginning of 1799. The French driven with great loss from the left bank of the Adige. Operations of the Austrians on the flanks of the French army. The |