So rapid and fo fuccefsful were the marches of Suwarrow, that ten weeks only had paffed from the beginning of hostilities on the Adige, until that General encamped

Our readers may, perhaps, with to know fomething concerning this redoubtable hero. The following account has been given as a sketch of his character:

Marthal Suwarrow, or, as his name is pronounced by the Ruf fians, Suffroff, is faid to be an early rifer. In the field, he dines ufually at feven in the morning, and is contented with coarse food, very little differing from that of the common foldiers, with whom he drinks frequently, and on that account is very much beloved by them. His drefs is of the plaineft ftuff; and he made his pub. lic entry into Warfaw, after that capital of Poland furrendered, not in a triumphant manner, like the conquerors of old, but riding on an ordinary Coffack horfe; and on his journey to Cracow, he did not alight from his carriage, but called for a glafs of brandy and a bafon of water. He drank off the brandy, and washed his face with the cold water, being then dreffed only in his thirt, with a cloak thrown over it. At Hazof, where there was an Hungarian regiment, he affembled their officers, faluted them by killing one cheek of each, and their Major on both cheeks and the forehead. Then calling for wine, he drank the health of Frederick II. on his knees, making all the company do the fame, while he continued ftill kneeling, and concluded with a fhort prayer, when he rofe up, and drank the health of the Ruffian Emperor his mafter. Then he went and bathed in an ice-bath, which was generally prepared for him when he arrived at any place. His wardrobe confits of a very fhort white waistcoat, white breeches, fhort boots, and a cloak. Some time after the reduction of Poland, being in company with a party of Pruffian officers, one of them, who had been extolling their exploits for a long time, at last addreffed Suwarrow thus: "Does your excellency remember the grand manœuvie which we made on fuch an occafion, how we diftributed our troops

"He was then proceeding to explain the whole operations in detail. Suwarrow, who is by no means partial to the Pruilians, being tired out with hearing this pompous recital, replied hattily, "Yes, yes, I remember very well, it was that affair of the windmills." Then rifing from his feat, he drank the King of Pruflia's health, and left the company. His antipathy to looking-glaffes is faid to be fo great, that whenever he enters an apartment where there is such an article of furniture, he turns from it, and hides his face; neither would he ever fuffer, with his knowledge, a picture of him to be taken.

The following laughable anecdote is related of this extraordinary character, which we infert merely for the merriment of our readers,

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encamped within fight of the frontiers of France. But though Suwarrow had made this progrefs in front, he had fill an army behind him, against which it was ne ceflary to affemble a powerful force.

General Macdonald, on the news of the retreat before Mantua, had quite evacuated the kingdom of Naples. He had ordered a camp to be formed at Caferta, and created at Naples a ftrong national guard. Fort St. Elms, Capua, and Gaeta were provifioned as if destined to undergo a fiege; the government was organized, and the Neapolitans were well difpofed to defend themfelves. Several English veffels were cruifing at the entrance of the road, and interceped all communication by fea. As foon as Macdonald had received pofitive orders from Scherrer to join the army of Italy, he recalled the divifion which was in Pouille, and that alfo on the frontiers of Calabria, and leaving the camp of Caferta,

not vouching for its authenticity.-Having occafion for a barber, he fent fo: one, who made his appearance, aud was preparing to perform the operation, when Suwarrow (his olfactory nerves might probably be more acute than ordinary, from his plain diet and frequent ufe of the ice-bath,) drew up his nofe, and complained of a bad fmell, which he attributed to the barber's coat, and ordered him to put it off. The barber obeyed, and then began to lather him. Suwarrow ftill complaining, he was forced to put off his waiftcoat; the Marfhal ftill complaining, his fhirt followed, to all which uncafing the barber patiently fubmitted. But now came his turn of the jeft. "Methinks," faid he, drawing up his nofe like Suwarrow," the fmell your excellency was complaining of is not yet removed. I fancy, that as I have no clothes on me, it mufl be your excellency's coat." "Very likely," faid Suwarrow, and immediately pulled it off; the barber, determined to have his revenge, ftill complained of the fmell, till the Marthal was as bare as himself. Then having well lathered, and partly blinded him, he began to flourish with his razor, inftead of making plain work; cutting him feveral times, till Suwarrow, quite exhaufted, rofe in haite, and forgetting the fituation he was in, purfued the barber, and prefented himself to the army thus naked and lathered.-The laugh it exacted, caufed him to retreat as precipitately as he had rufhed out, while the barber made his efcape, better than the fans culottes, or bare-breeched French, which Marfhal Suwarrow had how to deal with.

Caferta, marched by Rome upon Florence, leaving a ftrong garrison at fort St. Elmo, Capua, and Gaeta, The first divifion commanded by General Oliver, which tranfverfed St. Germano and Ifola, found the country in infurrection; two villages were taken by ftorm, and almoft the whole of the inhabitants perifhed in the attack. The patriots of Naples had beheld the retreat of the French troops with confternation, as did alfo those of Rome; in this laft city a garrifon was left, which in cafe of attack by fuperior forces, was to retire into the fort of St. Angelo.

Generals Gauthier and Miolis, who commanded the French troops in Tufcany, had made preparations to receive the army of Naples; and had formed a camp of observation between Florence and Bologna, clofing up all the paffes of the Appenines. Suwarrow had not a moment to lose, to hinder a junction which might difconcert his defigns, and change the whole face of affairs. The celerity of Macdonald's march with fo confiderable a force, the manoeuvres of General Moreau, and the firmness of the corps of observation in Tuscany and in the Bolognefe, had now rendered poffible the most difficult retreat that had ever been attempt. ed.

For these important reafons, Suwarrow pushed on his fieges, with vigour; a kind of warfare which hindered him from difpofing of all his forces in the field, and which had retarded his operations against Tuscany, and against the intermediary pofitions occupied by the French. The fiege of the caftle of Milan, where he had fent General Hohenzollern, with a reinforcement of five or fix battalions, was interrupted, from the neceffity he was under of fending fuccours to the Prince of Rohan who had to contend against fuperior forces, between the lakes of Como and Lugano, at the entrance of the Italian Bailiwicks, where, notwithstanding the infurrection of the inhabitants in his favour, he had not been able to maintain himself against Lecourbe.

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The French, however, were obliged to retreat from Lugano across mount Cenere, and regain Switzerland by the Levantine valley; after which the Imperial troops were recalled, and, on the 25th of May, the trenches opened against the citadel of Milan, the commander of which capitulated, and obtained for his garrifon, confiding of 2,000 men, a free paffige, and the honours of war, with the condition only of not ferving for one year against the Imperial armies The citadel of Ferrara, having a garrifon of 1.500 men. furrendered at the fame time to General Klenau, on the fame conditions.

Ravenna was taken a few days after, the peafants aiding the attack; other pofts of inferior confequence, in the Roman republic furrendered fucceffively; and Ancona was bombarded by a combined fquadron of feven Ruffian and Turkifh fhips, and fix frigates under the command of Vice-admiral Paftokin. General Kray ftill carried on the fiege of Mantua, who, having repulfed a brisk falley of the garrifon, received orders to draw off his troops, leaving a number fufficient to keep up the blockade, which were afterwards reinforced by other divifions, and to form with thofe troops, and with the divifions of Ott on his left, a new army of which he afterwards took the command. His fft object was to force the French to evacuate Bologna, and which they vigorously defended, aided by the brave Bolognefe, because it was in fact the place which was of mott importance to them beyond the Appenines, the fituation of which place, cuting the roads and retarding the marches of the allies towards Tufcany, yielded the most favourable protection to the retreat of the army of Naples. It was only by diflodging the French from this intermediate point, that Kray could rally his forces, and march to meet General Macdonald, who had already reached the Tufcan territory; his vanguard was at Florence; Leghorn and Lucca had been put in a state of defence, in order to provide a last retreat towards the fea, if it should be found impoffible

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