"Time" says the proverb, "rings Truth to light." But the process is
gradual and slow. The debt is paid, as it were, by instalments. It is
only bit by bit, and at considerable intervals, that Truth comes forth
as the morning twilight to dispel the mists of fiction.
It is above forty years that men have been debating the question:--Who
were the parties that burned the city of Moscow?--without ever
thinking of the preliminary question, whether it ever was burnt at
all. And now at length we learn that it never was.
The following extract from a New Orleans paper contains the
information obtained by an American traveller--one of that great
nation whose accuracy as to facts is so well known--who visited the
spot.