ders were every day received at the mayoralty, to provide quarters for those who were to arrive on the following. He had in like manner an opportunity of ascertaining the amount of Bernadotte's corps, having spent a considerable time in Cassel, after it had passed through that city. From every intelligence he received during his stay there, he is led to believe that it did not amount to more than 14,000, though the newspaper published in that city made it consist of 17,500. The amount of Ney's corps he received from one of his aid-de-camps, with whom he lodged in the same inn, at Frankfort on the Mayne, a short time after the peace of Presburgh. If his statement may be relied on, it consisted of somewhat more than 20,000. We have thus the amount of three corps, making altogether about 61,000 men. If we take the same proportion for the other five corps, we shall find that the army commanded by Bonaparte in person, consisted of about 160,000.When we reflect that it was joined by the troops of Bavaria, Wurtemburgh, and Baden, and had to contend with only 70,000 Austrians, conducted by a Mack, we shall find it more than adequate for overrunning Austria. However, very far from thinking we underrate its number, we are rather inclined to believe we estimate it too high. It surpassed any force the Allies could oppose to it, as much in number as it did in celerity of operation and superiority of skill on the part of the generals. Bonaparte may be a very great general, and those who look on success as the criterion of ability, may consider him as distinguished a statesman; but when the vast advantages he possessed over the allies, are taken into consideration, his victories at Ulm, Austerlitz, and Jena, must cease to excite admiration. The army commanded by Massena was never computed at more than 60,000. This distinguished officer was ordered to act on the defensive; and it is natural to suppose that Bonaparte was too jealous of his reputation to entrust him with a more numerous force. To oppose the attack which the Russians and Swedes in conjunction with lord Cathcart, threatened to make on Holland, orders were given to collect an army of 100,000 men.We know it however, to be a positive fact, that 35,000, notwithstanding every exertion, were never assembled for that purpose; and we are happy to hear that our statement on this particular point coincides, with very immaterial difference, with that of lord Cathcart. In summing up, therefore, the different armies which were employed against Austria, and for the defence of Holland, we shall find they amount to about 250,000,

'Before we proceed further, it will be necessary to revert to the conduct observed by Bonaparte in all the wars he has been engaged in.— If any thing is to be particularly admired in his military operations, it is the audacity with which he leaves a number of points exposed, in order to bear down with his whole mass where the danger is most imminent; calculating very justly that any partial defeat he may sustain

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in any of those places will be easily remedied, after he has disabled the principal antagonist. Persons who have travelled much in France, can. not have failed to observe, that in time of war, scarce a soldier is to be seen in the interiour; and after the peace of Presburgh, our readers will not have forgotten the reproaches Bonaparte made our government, that it made no attempt against Boulogne, as every soldier had been withdrawn from the coasts. His reproach was well grounded, for there were not 8,000 men left for its defence. We had been frequently informed and we have our information from the best authority, that 20,000 were not left for the defence of the coasts, during the whole course of the Austrian war. This account we the more easily credit, as it was conformable to sound policy, and perfectly coinciding with the uniform conduct and character of Bonaparte. He knew that Europe estimated his armies much higher than they really were; and he calculated as a sound politician, when he supposed this country would make no attempt against Brabant, as long as he was successful against Austria. His audacity, therefore, so far from deserving to be considered as rashness, was the most consummate wisdom; and the result justified his combinations. He did not overlook, in like manner, the demonstrations which Prussia began to make about that time. Is there any reason then to suppose that a man whose great abilities are universally acknowledged, would have left useless soldiers in the interiour, when their presence was so necessary in Germany? We are therefore justified in drawing the conclusion, that all his armies at that time, in which we have included his Dutch and Italian auxiliaries, with the gens d'armerie, did not amount to 300,000 men. This opinion is irrefragably proved by the difficulty which Mortier had, during the Prussian war, of collecting a sufficient force to resist a small army of about 14,000 Swedes in Pomerania, and his inability to keep Colberg in constant blockade, whose garrison was in the habit of making excursions for several leagues from the fortress, in one of which they made general Victor prisoner. It is necessary once more to observe that the French had only 100,000 Russians to oppose in Poland. However, notwithstanding their Rhenish confederates, their Dutch, Italian and Spanish auxiliaries, it is astonishing how very few men they left for the defence of the country between the Rhine and Vistula, a circumstance which will strongly prove the incapacity and criminal indifference of the late administration. They looked with as much apathy on the last struggle of European independence, as if it had been a predatory war between the deys of Algiers and Tunis; though every letter from Mr. Thornton must have convinced them that a diversion of about 30,000. between the Ems and Weser, particularly after the battle of Eylau, would have raised Hanover, Hessia, and perhaps Holland. But let us abandon that disgraceful subject: and hasten to our conclusion. From the facts we have alledged, supported by the late events in Spain, and

the unaccountable indifference of Bonaparte relative to the Austrian armaments, we are convinced we risk nothing in maintaining that the French army, Dutch and Italians included, does not consist of more than TWO HUNDRED AND FIFTY THOUSAND MEN.

REVIEW.

TEARS and SMILES, a Comedy, by J. N. Barker.-New-York, published by David Longworth.

The INDIAN PRINCESS or LA BELLE SAUVAGE, an Operatick MeloDrame, in three ads, by J. N. Barker.-New-York, published by David Longworth.

THE two productions which we have undertaken to notice are entitled to higher praise than most of the later dramas of Reynolds and Morton, and may claim as distinguished a rank in dramatick literature as that to which the compositions of Kenny and Allingham can reasonably aspire. There exists in this country such a want of judgment, or rather of determination, such an unconquerable prejudice against American plays, and even such a loathing to every allusion which is American in its nature, that an author is obliged to struggle in his flight to renown against an intolerable weight of prejudices and passions, which every moment threaten to sink him to the earth. Nor is this all; he is obliged to endure a comparison with men of genius in Europe, who are greatly encouraged, and whose productions reach this country without difficulty, and the charms even of local allusion which gratify in England, are with little variation equally attractive in this country. Mr. Colman was offered fourteen hundred pounds sterling, for his last play, of the Africans, by Mr. Harris, manager of the Covent Garden Theatre, and is said to have refused it. Such being the state of publick encouragement in Great Britain, the American genius would be obliged to pine in poverty, oppressed by discouragement and neglect, and like Massinger and Otway, die unnoticed and unknown, should he attempt to gain his subsistence by labours in the dramatick field. The two pieces before us are written by one author, and although by no means equal in execution, or correspondent in design, may fairly be reviewed under the same

head. The play of Tears and Smiles was first acted at the Philadelphia Theatre in the year 1807.

The plot is rather complex and not very judiciously unfolded. Mr. Campdon, during the American revolution was a merchant in Hamburgh, where he amassed an ample fortune; and returns to America, his native country, with two children, Sydney, and Clara, whom accident threw in his way in Europe, but of whose origin he is utterly ignorant. A letter which he received with them, whilst it conjures him to be their father, has the name of the writer totally effaced. Campdon however, protects them and passes them upon the world as the children of a friend.Three years before the play commences, Clara had eloped, as is supposed, no one knows with whom or whither; and Sidney gains the affections of Louisa Campdon, the daughter of his protector, so much against the inclination of her father, that he obtains for him a commission in the American navy, in order to remove him from her presence. In the mean time, old Campdon determines to marry his daughter to Fluttermore, an American coxcomb, who like the monkey in Gay's fables, had travelled to reform the times, and had just returned to Philadelphia, as the play opens, with a head filled with all the foreign absurdities which he could remember. Sidney who had inspired Louisa Campdon with a mutual passion, arrives from the Mediterranean, where he had distinguished himself at the siege of Tripoli, just as the marriage with Fluttermore is about to be consummated. Old Campdón determines to have Louisa married on that very night in order to elude the dangers which Sidney's arrival had excited, and Louisa resolves to escape from a tyranny which refused her the respite of a day. Sidney, on the other hand, equally distressed, consults with Osbert, a friend who had returned with him from Gibraltar, upon the propriety of an elopement; he dissuades him, and at length, finding every other argument fruitless, commands him on the authority of a father, not to disgrace his parents and his own honour, by ingratitude to his benefactor. The elopement is thus prevented. Fluttermore it seems, had been the seducer of Clara, three years before, and she had retired into obscurity, near the seat of General Campdon, and hearing of the marriage which was about to take place, she comes forward to require Fluttermore to protect his offspring ; but he in the mean time, hearing of her distress, agrees to make

her all the amends in his power by marriage: and as he has never been anxious for a connection with Miss Campdon, the way is thus regularly opened for her marriage with Sidney, Old Campdon consents, and then finds that Osbert, in whom Sidney had discovered his father, was the correspondent whose name was effaced from the letter entrusting Sidney and Clara to his

care.

Madam Clermont, the wife of Albert, had married him clandestinely in Europe, against the will of her family, which was of exalted rank; she was torn from his arms and hurried to a convent, and he was compelled to fly, with his two children, from the exasperated vengeance of her family.

Albert left his children, with a letter to Campdon, in the care of a servant, who faithfully discharged his trust; but was himself hurried to Toulon and conveyed on board a vessel, which was soon afterwards taken by a Barbary corsair, and he remained a prisoner thirteen years. He sought his children in Germany, but his friend had long before disappeared; for his wife in France, but the convent was demolished and her family had become extinct; meeting with Sidney in Gibraltar, he discovered in America all the happiness he had so long been seeking in vain.

There is an underplot, which ultimately unites the Widow Freegrace with Rangely, presumptively borrowed in many respects from Hoadley's character of Ranger in the Suspicious Husband. The dialogue is often lively and animated; the characters natural, and generally well preserved. We are, however, fearful that the story is not developed with such clearness, as to leave the mind of a spectator free from perplexity at the conclusion.

The story of the Indian Princess, is extracted according to our author's account, from the General History of Virginia, written by Capt. Smith, and printed in 1624; and its principal interest is derived from the loves of Rolfe and Pochahontas, which must be familiar to most of our readers. The radical objection to this production, is the melo-dramatick cast which is given to it; but it contains occasional touches of nature, which bestow a charm upon it, in spite of the intrinsick defect in its formation. The Indian character is generally well preserved, and there is a tenderness in Pochahontas, which whilst it accords with the his.