The King of Sweden, meditating on the stir he should make in Hanover, took with him a camp printing-press to publish the bulletins of the grand Swedish army.—­The first of these bulletins announced to Europe that his Swedish Majesty was about to leave Stralsund; and that his army would take up its position partly between Nelsen and Haarburg, and partly between Domitz and the frontiers of Hamburg.

Among the anecdotes of Napoleon connected with this campaign I find in my notes the following, which was related to me by Rapp.  Some days before his entrance into Vienna Napoleon, who was riding on horseback along the road, dressed in his usual uniform of the chasseurs of the Guard, met an open carriage, in which were seated a lady and a priest.  The lady was in tears, and Napoleon could not refrain from stopping to ask her what was the cause of her distress.  “Sir,” she replied, for she did not know the Emperor, “I have been pillaged at my estate, two leagues from hence, by a party of soldiers, who have murdered my gardener.  I am going to seek your Emperor, who knows my family, to whom he was once under great obligations.”—­“What is your name?” inquired Napoleon.—­“De Bunny,” replied the lady.  “I am the daughter of M de Marbeuf, formerly Governor of Corsica.”—­“Madame,” exclaimed Napoleon, “I am the Emperor.  I am delighted to have the opportunity of serving you.”—­“You cannot conceive,” continued Rapp, “the attention which the Emperor showed Madame de Bunny.  He consoled her, pitied her, almost apologised for the misfortune she had sustained.  ‘Will you have the goodness, Madame,’ said he, ’to go and wait for me at my head-quarters?  I will join you speedily; every member of M. de Marbeuf’s family has a claim on my respect.’  The Emperor immediately gave her a picquet of chasseurs of his guard to escort her.  He saw her again during the day, when he loaded her with attentions, and liberally indemnified her for the losses she had sustained.”

For some time previous to the battle of Austerlitz the different corps of the army intersected every part of Germany and Italy, all tending towards Vienna as a central point.  At the beginning of November the corps commanded by Marshal Bernadotte arrived at Saltzburg at the moment when the Emperor had advanced his headquarters to Braunau, where there were numerous magazines of artillery and a vast quantity of provisions of every kind.  The junction of the corps commanded by Bernadotte in Hanover with the Grand Army was a point of such high importance that Bonaparte had directed the Marshal to come up with him as speedily as possible, and to take the shortest road.  This order obliged Bernadotte to pass through the territory of the two Margravates.