The inhabitants are totally ruined, the hospitals overflow with sick, and famine is everywhere.

Twice the marauders even attack our headquarters, and the commander in chief has to ask for a battalion to disperse them.

During one of these attacks they carried off my empty portmanteau and my dressing gown.

The Emperor proposes to give all commanders of divisions the right to shoot marauders, but I much fear this will oblige one half the army to shoot the other.