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obstinacy , df their peculiar habits afrd prejudices , and jealous and vindictive towards theTcdnqueriiig and master power . With the allowances due to these considerations , the author ' s
statement may we ate convinced be read with confidence * Btmnapterte * * anitnosity to the English is extreme ; the manner in Which it displayed itself at the breaking out of the present war was often contemptibly mean . ** On his visits to some of the towns , he asked , with an evident att&iety , "* how inany Englishmen were iti the place ?• and when infbiiii £ d of thteiir number , replied * there were so many too inany . ' He
refused to enter on& town till the En-dish that were in it were sent a ^ frayy dnd immediately displaced this Mayor of another who could not inform hirii ho # many of our countrymen it contained . ' * The consequence of these known sentiments of the Emperor was , as might be expected , the persecution of the English by his officers and servants ; i \\ 6 < c Grand Judge" ( lord chief
justice ) , seems , however , to have interposed effectually in their behalf . The number of English detained as hostages in France were , " in the summer of last year , 1805 , about seven hundred
at Verdun , nearly as many at Valenciennes ^ a thousand at Givet , and about that number at another place / ' The government allowance is a pound and a half of ammunition bread per day , and three pounds of beef per week . Lord Harrington has most honourably distinguished himself by his humanity to his distressed countrymen : " he has been lavish even to
profusion / ' says our author , ** in his charities to the poor . " Mr . W . describes the department of Jemappes ( the ancient Hainault ) , and also the spot where the battle of that name wasf fought at the beginning of the revolution . We quote the description for the sake chiefly of the valuable observations ( to which we request the reader ' s attention ) that suceeed it .
rr readers will no doubt have imagined that the celebrated battle of Jemappes was fought upon a distinguished eminence - , and if they recollect tne description given of that battle , will suppose that the French troops had to ascend a lofty mountain , on whose acclivity were placed the Austrian redoubts , strongly entrenched one above another , so as to have been almost impregnable . Such certainly was the idea conveyed by the French accounts of that engagement $ the fact is , the Austrians were encamped on a gentle rise , up which the plough passes with the greatest case , and where there is now scarcely any appearance of
fortifications having ever been raised . The redoubts of the Austrians were breast-works , thrown up at themomept , and defended by their cannon . And certainly those who will seek c reputation at the catnnon ' s mouth , must do it at an immense risk . To do all justice to the French republican soldiers , it miist be confessed that the attack was well conducted , and
gained them an immortal reputation 3 but when their account of a attle is to be translated into English , or is read b y our countrymen in their own language , a dufc consideration ought to be paid to the genius
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Worsley s State of France . 103
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1806, page 103, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1721/page/47/
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