A CONCISE AND COMPREHENSIVE

HISTORY

OF

SUWOROW's ITALIAN CAMPAIGN.

It was in the month of April, 1799, that the renowned Suworow opened the campaign which threw such brilliancy over the close of the eighteenth century, and which delivered Italy from the galling and disgraceful yoke, from the pillagings, the murders, and the sacrilege of the rapacious, bloody and impious republicans of France. This charming country had fallen, state after state, before the arms of the enemies of God and man. The Emperor's Italian possessions, those of the Dukes of Tuscany and Modena, had been over-run and revolutionized; Rome followed next, the aged Pope had been robbed, insulted, and led captive by a French Calvinist, acting under the orders of the infidels of Paris; lastly, the Kings of Naples and Sardinia had been driven from their dominions: so that, at the time Suworow entered Italy, the French were in possession of the whole country from Dauphiné to the gulph of Venice, and from Switzerland to the bay of Taranto.

To defend this territory, to keep the Italians chained at their feet, and to sally out on their enemies, their force was evidently inadequate. Moreau with about forty thousand men, was stationed in the Milanese; Championnet, with eighteen thousand, in the states of the church; Macdonald,

form those who may be inclined to purchase, that the above debts, though justly due to me, are liable to an attachment for the benefit of Rush; but, to secure the purchaser, I hereby engage, that, if the debts should be attached, to return the purchase

money.

N. B. The terms of sale may be known by applying at the subscriber's house, No. 141, Waterstreet, New-York, where the accounts will be furnished, duly authenticated, and where his accountbook, as far as relates to the above debts, will be chearfully submitted to the examination of any person of respectability.

New-York, Jan. 14, 1800.

WM. COBBETT,

Characters of Baltimore, Philadelphia, and NewYork.

"Baltimore. With a few exceptions, the inha"bitants of Baltimore are all engaged in trade, "which is closely attended to. They are mostly plain people, sociable however amongst themselves, "and very friendly and hospitable towards strangers.

"Philadelphia.-It is a remark, very generally "made, not only by foreigners, but also by persons "from other parts of the United States, that the Philadelphians are extremely deficient in hospitality "and politeness towards strangers. Amongst the uppermost circles in Philadelphia, pride, haugh"tiness, and ostentation, are conspicuous; and it seems as if nothing could make them happier than "that AN ORDER OF NOBILITY should be established, by which they might be exalted above their fellowcitizens, as much as they are in their own conceit. "In the manners of the people, in general, there

" is a coldness and reserve, as if they were suspi"cious of some designs against them, which chills to "the very heart those who come to visit them."

"New-York." From Long Island I returned, "to this city; which the hospitality and friendly ci"vilities I have experienced, in common with other "strangers, from its inhabitants, induce me to rank as the most agreeable place in the United States; "nor am I singular in this opinion, there being scarcely any traveller I have conversed with, but "what gives it the same preference."

These extracts are taken from WELD'S TRAVELS, published last summer in London. The first extract is to be found in Vol. 1. page 45; the second in Vol. 1, page 21; and the third in Vol. 2. page 375.-The remarks contained in these extracts are those of an impartial foreigner, and were suggested by what the writer saw and heard. I have inserted the character of the people of the two other great cities that Mr. Weld visited, that the reader might not be left to suppose that the author was an indiscriminating satirist of the American character. His description of Rush's "dear fellowcitizens" is truth itself. It is a picture drawn from the life. There are, doubtless, many exceptions; but the native Philadelphians, in general, are the most suspicious, envious, haughty, and yet mean characters that ever existed upon the face of the earth. They are lazy, insolent, and above their occupations, from which cause, foreigners and people from the eastward, supplant them in every branch of business, and grow rich while the natives are daily falling into embarrassments, poverty and insignificance. Hence they naturally become envious and spiteful with respect to foreigners; and yet, were it not for the industry and enterprise of foreigners and people from the eastward, their city

would