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my, with nearly a thousand pieces of cannon, the French themselves bringing about six hundred into the contest. The day was cool, bracing and beautifully clear, as the earlier part of yesterday was. As the first rays of the sun shot above the horizon, Napoleon said to those around him, "Behold the sun of Austerlitz, " ("voila lesoleil a Austerlitz. ") This was the only occasion on which he ever apostrophised that sun, so far as we have been able to discover after a diligent search, although Scott, and after him all the book-makers, will have it that he was continually alluding to it. The battle was desperate, the slaughter awful, the prise Moscow, with its gilded domes and noble palaces, its over-burthened warehouses, and its population of 300,000 souls. Military genius and thorough discipline prevailed at last over fierce fanaticism and patriotism more than Spartan. Moscow fell, but not until she had exacted from those who trod the path that led to her gates a toll of 50,000 men.