Letters from Paris, on the Causes and Consequences of the French Revolution

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1822 edition. Excerpt: ...that the private property of the French suffered less from the passage of his army, than it had done from the movements of their own forces. The march of Blucher, on the contrary, who rushed into France by the route of Laon and Soissons, was contrasted in every particular with that of the English general. He moved like a blast of vengeance over the land--horror preceded, and desolation followed him. The cries of the French were music to his ears; and wherever he halted, misery fixed herself, like the nightmare, on the breasts of the peaceful and unoffending peasantry. At the same time that these armies were hurrying on from the north to Paris to avail themselves of the trepidation which their victory had occasioned, the British fleets blockaded the western coasts of France; the Spanish forces were breaking over the Pyrenees into the lukewarm provinces of the south; and the whole eastern frontier was covered by the German and Russian armies. A Bavarian and Austrian army under Wrede scattered the forces which opposed them, and overran the whole country from Nancy to the capital of Champagne. Another German army, after storming the position of Rapp at Vandenheim, invested him in Strasburg. An Austrian army, under Ferdinand, entered Alsace from Basle, and after defeating Lecourbe, overran the whole of Franche Comte. Another under Frimont drove Suchet from Geneva, and then rushed on into Burgundy. The powerful army under Bubna, which had defeated Murat, crossed the Alps, and after chasing the French out of Savoy, advanced through Dauphiny on Lyons, where it halted to indulge a most vindictive spirit. The grand Russian army also, to make "assurance doubly sure," crossed the Rhine at Spires, and marched on the capital through Lorraine. Such was...