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A Review Of The Conduct Of The French
their livelihood ; but were , on a sudden , left to repent of their credulity , and the fallacious -representations of unknown and unexperienced prosperity . The leaders of the French troops , improved by experience , and taught by the fate of former conquerors of Italy , did not , like those , remain at Romeblinded with victorybut directed by Buonaparte
, , , chief in command , pushed away to the North , arid , in rapid marches , set forward to meet such Austrian reinforcements as hastened to face them . B y his superior force , the French General drove back the Emperor ' s columns , and with undaunted intrepidity boldly advanced into the interior of his dominions .
Ihe whole of Lombarciy , which comprehends almost the whole of ancient Cis-al p ine . Gaul , and even the republics of Venice , Genoa , and Lucca , allied with France , were surrounded , and beset by French troops , at the very moment when Austria was unable to afford these states any assistance . Buonaparte , , with shameless impudence , then came forward with his grand scheme of depredation and dismemberment of his native country , by the command , or rather by the
permission of his Parisian supreme Directory . He endeavoured , upon his entrance into these countries , to obtain the support of the discontented , and to gain the affection of the indigent , which he accomplished by means of numerous emissaries sent to irritate the people against the established order of things . By such characters a vi irit of dissatisfaction was set afloat , and
gorous sp more widely extended here than elsewhere , and , of course , rooted more deeply than could have been done in monarchical governments , But the greater part of the inhabitants of these republics were , however , convinced of the comforts which they enjoyed ; and being satisfied with them , were ready to oppose a party , allured by the plausible offers of the French to come over to their interest , and bent
upon seconding their designs . The commander of the Frepch troops had , by such malicious intrigues , sown the seed of disunion , and , by so doing , strengthened himself with a pretext to become , with arms in his hands , the mediator of , and peace-maker in these republics , who were amicable to France , and to whose friendship Buonaparte , and the' country he served , was principally indebted for all the successes which he had
heretofore obtained in the war . : Invited by the feeblest party , consisting of the vulgar and poorerclass of the people , who flattered themselves with the prospect of a share in rapine and plunder , he invaded the republics of Italy , and covered his designs under the cloak of manifestos , in which he asserted friendshiand protectionbut secretlheld truth and honour
p , y at defiance , and , with all his forces , fell upon the victims of his dishonest rapacity . . He crushed the whole of their constitutions , and at once robbed them of the security , the comfort , the happiness ,, which they once enjoyed ; he seized upon their most considerable and most fertij ?
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A Review Of The Conduct Of The French
their livelihood ; but were , on a sudden , left to repent of their credulity , and the fallacious -representations of unknown and unexperienced prosperity . The leaders of the French troops , improved by experience , and taught by the fate of former conquerors of Italy , did not , like those , remain at Romeblinded with victorybut directed by Buonaparte
, , , chief in command , pushed away to the North , arid , in rapid marches , set forward to meet such Austrian reinforcements as hastened to face them . B y his superior force , the French General drove back the Emperor ' s columns , and with undaunted intrepidity boldly advanced into the interior of his dominions .
Ihe whole of Lombarciy , which comprehends almost the whole of ancient Cis-al p ine . Gaul , and even the republics of Venice , Genoa , and Lucca , allied with France , were surrounded , and beset by French troops , at the very moment when Austria was unable to afford these states any assistance . Buonaparte , , with shameless impudence , then came forward with his grand scheme of depredation and dismemberment of his native country , by the command , or rather by the
permission of his Parisian supreme Directory . He endeavoured , upon his entrance into these countries , to obtain the support of the discontented , and to gain the affection of the indigent , which he accomplished by means of numerous emissaries sent to irritate the people against the established order of things . By such characters a vi irit of dissatisfaction was set afloat , and
gorous sp more widely extended here than elsewhere , and , of course , rooted more deeply than could have been done in monarchical governments , But the greater part of the inhabitants of these republics were , however , convinced of the comforts which they enjoyed ; and being satisfied with them , were ready to oppose a party , allured by the plausible offers of the French to come over to their interest , and bent
upon seconding their designs . The commander of the Frepch troops had , by such malicious intrigues , sown the seed of disunion , and , by so doing , strengthened himself with a pretext to become , with arms in his hands , the mediator of , and peace-maker in these republics , who were amicable to France , and to whose friendship Buonaparte , and the' country he served , was principally indebted for all the successes which he had
heretofore obtained in the war . : Invited by the feeblest party , consisting of the vulgar and poorerclass of the people , who flattered themselves with the prospect of a share in rapine and plunder , he invaded the republics of Italy , and covered his designs under the cloak of manifestos , in which he asserted friendshiand protectionbut secretlheld truth and honour
p , y at defiance , and , with all his forces , fell upon the victims of his dishonest rapacity . . He crushed the whole of their constitutions , and at once robbed them of the security , the comfort , the happiness ,, which they once enjoyed ; he seized upon their most considerable and most fertij ?