Co-operate with his beneficent designs and come to us without apprehension. Citizens! Return with confidence to your habitations; you will soon find the means of satisfying your needs! Artisans and industrious handi- :raftsmen! Return to your employment; houses, shops, and guards to protect them are awaiting you, and you will receive the payment due to you for your toil! And you, too, peasants, come out of the forests where you have been hiding in terror, return without fear to your huts in secure reliance on finding protection. Markets have been established in the city, ,vhere peasants can bring their spare stores and country produce. The government has taken the following measures to secure freedom of sale : or them: (i) From this day forward, peasants, husbandmen, and in- mbitants of the environs of Moscow can, without any danger, bring their *oods of any kind to two appointed markets—namely, the Mohovaya ind the Ohotny Ryad. (2) Goods shall be bought from them at such a >rice as seller and buyer shall agree upon together; but if the seller can- lot get what he asks for as a fair price, he will be at liberty to take his ;oods back to his village, and no one can hinder his doing so on any >retext whatever. (3) Every Sunday and Wednesday are fixed for weekly narket days: to that end a sufficient number of troops will be stationed in Tuesdays and Saturdays along all the high roads at such a distance rom the town as to protect the carts coming in. (4) Similar measures vill be taken that the peasants with their carts and horses may meet vith no hindrance on their homeward way. (5) Steps will be imme- liately taken to re-establish the ordinary shops.
‘Inhabitants of the city and of the country, and you workmen and landicraftsmen of whatever nationality you may be! You are called upon 0 carry out the paternal designs of his Majesty the Emperor and King, ind to co-operate with him for the public welfare. Lay your respect and onfidence at his feet, and do not delay to unite with us! ’
With a view to keeping up the spirits of the troops and the people, eviews were continually being held, and rewards were distributed.
The Emperor rode about the streets and entertained the inhabitants; nd in spite of his preoccupation with affairs of state, visited in person he theatre set up by his orders.
! As regards philanthropy, too—the fairest jewel in the conqueror’s rown—Napoleon did everything that lay within him. On the benevolent nstitutions he ordered the inscription to be put up, ‘Maison de via mere / hereby combining a touching filial sentiment with a monarch’s grandeur >f virtue. He visited the Foundling Home; and as he gave the orphans he lad saved his white hands to kiss, he conversed graciously with Tutolmin. [Then, as Thiers eloquently recounts, he ordered his soldiers’ pay to be | listributed among them in the false Russian notes he had counter- eited:—
! ‘Reinforcing the use of these methods by an act worthy of him and of he French army, he had assistance distributed to those who had suf- J ered loss from the fire. But as provisions were too precious to be given
to strangers, mostly enemies, Napoleon preferred to furnish them f money for them to provide themselves from without, and ordered p e roubles to be distributed among them.’
With a view to maintaining discipline in the army, orders were r tinually being issued for severely punishing nonfulfilment of mill r duty and for putting an end to pillaging.
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But, strange to say, all these arrangements, these efforts and pin which were no whit inferior to those that had been made on sir a occasions before, never touched the root of the matter; like the hand) the face of a clock, when detached from the mechanism, they tu? aimlessly and arbitrarily, without catching the wheels.
The plan of campaign, that work of genius, of which Thiers says, a his genius never imagined anything more profound, more skilful, 1 more admirable, and entering into a polemical discussion with M. Fi proves that the composition of this work of genius is to be referred.) to the 4th, but to the 15th of October—that plan never was and nj'< could be put into execution, because it had nothing in common with! actual facts of the position. The fortification of the Kremlin, for m it was necessary to pull down la Mosquee (as Napoleon called the ch c of Vassily the Blessed) turned out to be perfectly useless. The min of the Kremlin was only of use for carrying out the desire the Empt expressed on leaving Moscow, to blow up the Kremlin, like a child ; beats the floor against which it has hurt itself. The pursuit of the Ruea army, on which Napoleon laid so much stress, led to an unheart result. The French generals lost sight of the sixty thousand men oil Russian army, and it was only, in the words of Thiers, thanks to the ; I and apparently also the genius, of Murat that they succeeded at lad finding, like a lost pin, this army of sixty thousand men.
