trait was of any avail. The laurel still grew and still flourished on the brow of Suworow, who now became a Prince in addition to his other titles; while disappointment, defeat and death were the lot of the presumptuous Joubert, whose vile carcase went to fatten the land of that very king of Sardinia, whom, only seven months before, he had betrayed and driven from his palace and his dominions, and whose misfortunes he had aggravated by every species of contumely, insult, and degradation.*

With the battle of Novi terminated Suworow's campaign in Italy, whence he soon after marched, with his Russians, to co-operate with the brave Archduke Charles, in Switzerland and on the Rhine, leaving the Austrians, under Generals Kray and Melas, to act against the French army, which was now stationed in the states of Genoa, under the command of the ferocious Championnet, the plunderer of Naples and of Rome. This army was considerably augmented, and gave that of the Austrians no small embarrassment; but, though Genoa, when the last advices came away, still writhed under the horrible tyranny of the republicans, and though some few passes, posts, and trifling districts, on the skirts of Savoy and Piedmont, still remained in their possession, their forces were acting rather as defenders of France than invaders of Italy. Civita Vecchia and Rome, the only places of the south remaining in their hands, surrendered; the former, to the brave and enterprising Captain Trowbridge of the British navy; and the latter, to the no less gallant General Boucard, a Swiss, in the service of the king of Naples, having under his command a body of Neapolitans and Russians, and a few British soldiers and marines, who also had the honour to assist in wresting the city of the Cæsars

* See the note in pages 194, 195.

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from the hands of the Gauls, while their countrymen, at Acre, were defending the tombs of antiquity against the wrath of these modern barbarians.

But, all these subsequent events were no more than the natural consequences of the victories of Suworow. It was to his wisdom, his valour, his promptitude and perseverance, and to the animating confidence which his great_name inspired, that Italy owed its deliverance. In the space of four months from the latter end of April to that of August, he tore up by the roots four republican and infidel despotisms, watered by the blood of the loyal and the faithful, and, in their stead, replanted royalty and christianity. The Cisalpine, the Ligurian, the Roman and the Vesuvian republics are no longer known but as monuments of his fame, while eighteen millions of people, delivered from the degrading curse, are daily calling to heaven for blessings on his head.

End of the Italian Campaign.

THE

THE

AMERICAN RUSH-LIGHT;

BY THE HELP OF WHICH,

WAYWARD AND DISAFFECTED BRITONS

MAY SEE

A COMPLETE SPECIMEN

OF THE

BASENESS, DISHONESTY, INGRATITUDE, AND PERFIDY

OF

REPUBLICANS,

AND OF THE

PROFLIGACY, INJUSTICE, AND TYRANNY

OF

REPUBLICAN GOVERNMENTS.

"I make it my sincere and humble prayer to Almighty God, that the People of America may never experience those evils which have "heretofore taught the Mother Country how necessary Monarchy is to "the enjoyment of real Liberty."

SPEECH OF K. GEO. III.-1782.

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