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 13 THE RUSSIAN CAMPAIGN. A few extracts from a Circumstantial narrative of the Campaign in Russia, by EUGENE LABAUNE, captain of the Royal Geographical Engineers, and attached to the fourth corps, of the French army, commanded by Eugene BEAUHARNOIS, in that ill. fated and destructive enterprise.

A Picture of Smolensko after being Stormed. " In every direction we marched over scattered ruins and dead bodies. Palaces, still burning, offered to our sight only walls half destroyed by the flames, and, thick among the fragments, were the blackened carcases of the wretched inhabitants whom the fire had consumed. The few houses that remained were completely filled by the soldiery, while at the door stood the miseraole proprietor without an asylum, deploring the death of his children, and the loss of his fortune. The churches alone afforded some consolation to the unhappy victims who had no other shelter. The cathedral, celebrated through Europe, and held in great veneration by the Russians, became the refuge of the unfortunate beings who had escaped the flames. In this church, and round its altar, were seen whole families extended on the ground. On one side was an old man just expiring, and casting a last look on the image of the