Horrors Of War

In the I103 pilóla of Wilna, there were above 17,000 eiead and dying, frozen and freezing. The bodies of the former, broken tip, served tostop the ccvilies in windows,floors ,& walls;but in oneoftbe passages of the great Conveut,above 1,500 bodies were piled upon transversely, like pig-i of lead or iron. When these were finally removed on sledgesto be bui-ied, he most exlraordin.iry figures were presenled, in the variety of their atiitudes, Or nono seerned lo have been froz en in a composed state; eaoli vu fixed in the asl action of his lifo - in the last direction 'ven to his limbs; even tlie cyes retnined the lnst expression either of anger,pain ov enlreaty. In the roads,men ware gathered around the burning ruins of cottages, vhich a mad spirit of destruction had firei, picking and enting the burnt bodes oí their fellow men; while thousa nds f horses were moaning in ngony, with lieir flesh mangled and hncked, to satisfy ie cravings of a Iiunger ÜMt knew no )ity. In many of the sheds men scarcey alive had heaped upon their frozen bodies human carcassps, which festering by the communication of animal heart, and mingled the dying and the dead in ne mass of putrefaction. Such were oma of the cahunities which followrd he retreat of the French artny from Mos:ow; and tlu's is but a faint picture