An Example

Just beforc tlie great battle of Wa gram, wliile the anny was cnenmped on tlie land of Loban, Dar Vieuua, Napoleon, walking one day with one of liis marshals on the hhore, pnssed a couipany of grenadiers seated at thcir diuner. - "Well, my friendo," said he, "I hope you fiu4 the wine good !" "It will not make us drunk," replied one, " there is our cellar," poiuting to the rivcr Danube. - The eniperor who had ordered a bottle of wine to cauh man, was surprisod, and made au innnediate inquirey. II c found tha.t foj'ty thousand bottles, sent by htm a few Jays before iur t-he anny, had boen purloined and were not aoeounted for b-y the commissioners, Thoy were innuediately brought to trial and eondemncd to bc shot, wtich fenienco was speedily oarried into execiitioa. lïere Yfüs & venu! offence, iusignifieant iudeed ïlaea comparcd with the frauds upon the ijrgeat wants and necessitios of our soldiere re cently brought tolight, but it received a gavere and merited punishment. A few such cxaniples in our army would do a wurlil of good.