| Show anc E or btttle it itis is rumored it in europe that in tho the event of a vi war ar between france and austria the e french emperor will take the field in p person c son the L ondon london tich times Is at tempts attempts to d dissuade i ssu ad I 1 hini him from this step and here is the nay inay it does it the F french pamphlet of itlay bilay tells us that king vic or Lm emmanuel manuel at the battle of novara received sixt sixteen cell bullets in ills his coat but though ill the C battle of novara is a very recent event the science of projectiles has been rev revolutionized 0 I 1 u tl i on since since it was fought and a part of such a risk would now low probably produce far wore more fatal result it seems hard to say how armies are ja 0 o future to be man As guns ard arc now manufactured and handled they must literally litte rally sweep the field of every thing living with avith such rifles and cannons as we now ilow use the great napoleon could have been picked off the observatory atory at t waterloo or the tobacco mill at leipsic as surely as nelson was vas shot d down own 0 on n the quarter deck of the viet victory ory there is a famous painting of louis XIV standing jr on oil the bank OF of the rhine with the marshal of the day imploring his majesty lo io remove his sacred person from the scene of such danger and eyen threatening in to terminate the die battle by a retreat unless tin lessl his prayer is attended to there is no longer loner room however for such affecting scenes to enter eater the field at all is to stand at the cannons cannons mouth I 1 and none will go the 6 elc except I 1 pt a at the stern com command mald of duty i W ia |
