give him a receipt for the past, and further credit to any amount, if he would only return to the house; "for," said she," if he never paid us, he was one of the best customers we ever had, contriving, by his stories and conversation, to keep a couple of boxes crowded the whole night, by which we made more punch, and morebrandy and water, than from any other single cause whatever." I, however, never saw Wilson again, and suppose he is dead or gone abroad.

JACOB, afterwards an alderman and M.P., was a frequent visitor, and then as remarkable for his heretical, as he was subsequently for his orthodox, opinions.

WAITHMAN, the active and eloquent Common Councilman, often mixed with us, and was always clear-headed and agreeable. One JAMES, who had made a large fortune by vending tea, contributed many good anecdotes of the age of Wilkes.

Several stock-brokers visited us, and among others of that description, was Mr. BLAKE, the banker, of Lombardstreet, a remarkably intelligent old gentleman; and there was a Mr. PATTERSON, a North Briton, a long-headed speculator, who had the reputation of being a skilful mathematician.

Some young men of talent came among us from time to time, as LOVETT, a militia-officer; HENNELL, a coal-merchant, and some others, whose names I forget, and these seemed likely to keep up the party; but all things have an end-Dr. Buchan died, some young sparks affronted our Nestor, Hammond, on which he absented himself, after nearly fifty years attendance, and the noisy box of the Wittinagemot has for some years been remarkable for its silence and dulness. The two or three last times I was at the Chapter, I heard no voice above a whisper, and I almost shed a tear on thinking of men, habits, and times gone by for ever.

FRENCH EMIGRANTS.

France was originally enslaved by the passive obedient doctrines of the clergy, aided by the ever obedient swords of a mercenary soldiery. No wonder, therefore, when virtue, under the pristine regimen, had been converted into crime, and right into force, that on a revolution taking place, popular violence should play the part of public justice, and that the priests and warriors should either perish with the monarchy, or be driven to mendicate for a subsistence, in foreign countries, in a crisis of general subversion.

A REPUBLICAN ANSWER.

In the virtuous and heroic period of the Helvetic republic, the ambassadors of Zurich and Berne, visiting the French plenipotentiary, who wished to deliver up the citizens of Geneva to the vengeance of a domineering senate, his Excellency, the Chevalier de Beateville, exclaimed with some warmth: Sçavez vous, Messieurs, que je suis le Representant du roi, mon maitre? Do you know, gentlemen, that I am the representative of the king, my master? With a vigour and energy worthy of a people in whom the flame of public spirit was not extinguished, one of the republicans made answer: Sçavez vous, Monsieur le Chevalier, que nous sommes les representans de nos egaux? Do you know, sir, that we are the representatives of our equals?

In this answer we see a noble and animating proof of a republican spirit. The views and interests of arbitrary power are partial and separate; a free state finds strength in united hearts and counsels.

REFORMERS.

It is an undertaking of some delicacy to examine into the cause of public disorders. If a man happens not to succeed in such an inquiry, he will be thought weak and visionary: if he detects the true grievance, there is danger that he may come near to persons of weight and consequence, who will rather be exasperated at the discovery of their errors, than thankful for the occasion of correcting them. LETTER wrote by COUNT O'ROURKE to LORD GEORGE Gordon, Nov. 24, 1784.

MY LORD.-I shall be glad to know what motives or what interest you can have in being so vehement against the antient catholic religion: has your lordship forgot that you are sprung from ancestors who looked on that way of thinking to be right, and that at this moment your aunt professes that religion with all its original forms? that which was your family religion should not be so reviled by you, especially when so late as in the time of your grandfather. Give me leave to ask what religion you profess which recommends persecution? Surely not the protestant. I acknowledge that I am, and all my forefathers were, Roman catholics; my family can boast of antiquity before that of the Gordons, well known to the British court, well known to all the courts in Europe. I am at

present

him with a writ, paying all fees. &c. so that Mr. Tooke observed," he had only two or three guineas to pay on his entering the House of Commons."

Lord C. at one period, lamented that his education had been greatly neglected: he added at the same time," he regretted exceedingly, that he had run away from the Charter House." On this, Sir Francis with a deep sigh, observed, "that he had also to lament that he had run away from Westminster." Mr. Horne Tooke, consoled them both, by observing, "that he had run away from Eton!"

(Told me by Mr. Tooke, while at dinner in my own house at Chelsea, with Sir James Innes, &c. June 10, 1807.)

SONG by J. H. TOOKE.

Oh, my Crowny's quite up side downy,
Oh, you've brought me to a fine pass;
Corsica's master's full of disasters;
You shall receive due returns by the mass.
Instead of a peerage, you shall have jeer-

age,

And for a ribbon, the ears of an ass;
What! the ears of an ass?
Yes-for Harry Dundass,
And the horns of an ox
On his forehead of brass.

Oh, all's Ruin, no peace is brewing;
Oh, you promised me I should be quit,

A

Malmesbury, Hawkesbury, all are well bit;
Negociations, cant, and vexations,
For this delusion, shame and confusion,
Hypocrite, nought but the gallows is fit.
What! the gallows for Pitt?
Yes there is nothing so fit,
For that insolent, false,
Hypocritical Pitt.

Oh, my Army, how you alarm me,
Keep them so close, they mayn't hear peo-
ple cough,

If they love freedom, we shall not need 'em, Eastward, and westward, and south pack them off;

Good Master Windham, rarely has thinn'd 'em :

This he facetiously terms killing off;
Will he say killing off?

Yes with jeering and scoff,
"Till the turn-about reptile,
Himself, is turn'd off.

Oh, my Treasure, gone beyond measure,
Oh, all's lost in this cursed fray;
Hanover, Brunswick, nay all are turn'd
sick,

Saxony, Prussia, Sardinia,

Hesse, Spain, and Holland, Germany, all
Land,

Loyalist, royalist, and Corsica;
What! all gone away?
Yes-for ever, and aye,
And they laugh at the dupe,
Whilst they pocket his pay.

THE EMPEROR NAPOLEON WORK has just been published in Paris, by Santini, Napoleon's faithful valet, under the title of " Chagrins Domestiques de Napoléon Bonaparte à l'Isle Sainte Hélène; précédé de Faits Historiques de la plus haute importance; le tout de la main de Napoleon, ou écrit sous sa dictée, &c."

The following is extracted from an advertisement prefixed to the work :

The

The pieces of which this work is composed, were brought from St. Helena to England, by the ship Heron. person who was in possession of them transmitted them to France in the month

of July. Powerful considerations make it imperative on us not to enter into any detail on the manner by which these pieces have become private property. As to their authenticity, it is more than sufficiently proved by the important secrets which the

work contains, and which are now brought

to light for the first time.

A double motive has determined us in the publication of this work.

1st. A report was prevalent in London, that the British government secured the inspection of all the manuscripts left

It

by Bonaparte, without regard even for those with whom they were deposited. was even said that Sir Hudson Lowe provisionally seized upon all the papers of his late prisoner. If this fact is certain, this work will only possess the greater merit.

2d. We have thought that every thing which relates to that extraordinary man ought to be handed down to posterity.

We now hasten to lay the most valuable extracts before our readers : HISTORICAL PARTICULARS, commencing with the SIEGE of TOULON, entirely from the hand-writing of NAPO

LEON.

At the siege of Toulon, I began to perceive that every thing which formed part of the revolution had not the secret of pleasing me. My reasoning was just, and I had on my side every officer who merited that title. What a pity at this epoch to call them so) what a to see statesmen, (for it was necessary pity, I say, to see members of a tribune coming to distribute manœuvres to men whose sole profession consisted in making them. The representatives sent to the armies cost France the loss of

200,000

200,000 men, and some heads of great merit.

I freed myself from the inspection of Barras aud Fréron in rather a summary manner. The reduction of the forts of Lamalgue and Malboquet proves that I did well to send the representatives to their places: nevertheless, acting thus, I risked my future prospects; there was good fortune, but not prudence attending this transaction.

I had an affection for Paoli, because in the effervescence of the love which I bore for my country, I believed him to be the hero of Corsica. I soon saw, however, that he wished to act in a sense contrary to the interests of the French revolution. I at first wished him no harm, in the hope that he meant to profit by the opportunity, and labour for the independence of our country.

I corresponded with Messrs. Bow and Cameron, whom I had known during their residence at Ajaccio. These two Englishmen were then in London, and in a situation to give me intelligence from good sources. I leave it to be imagined what was my astonishment on learning that Paoli had betrayed his compatriots. These gentlemen had joined to their letter authentic documents, which established under what pretence, and how it was agreed upon, to deliver up the Isle of Corsica to England. In the account which Paoli had rendered of the spirit of the inhabitants of the Isle, he had not spared me. We may well presume that in giving up the Isle to the English, he had not forgotten himself; in fact, he was to have been the governor and viceroy.

The Corsicans and the English, although equally passionate for liberty, would not have been long ere they had been at variance. The English, too absolute in their protections, would have treated Corsica less as an united country than as a conquered province. TheEnglish believe themselves superior to all other people, and the Corsicans are not backward in arrogating to themselves peculiar privileges. From the nature of these two characters would have resulted the slavery of my country, and this was what I wished to prevent. My sole means of resistance were in the elements of the revolution, and these I laid hold of. I speedily forwarded to the Convention the documents establishing the treason of Paoli ;

I caused myself to be named Lieut. Colonel of the National Guard; I surrounded myself with all those the most devoted to France and the revolution. All Corsica was informed that Paoli wished to deliver it up to England; he denied the fact, and lost me in the esteem of my compatriots; myself and family were exiled: but Corsica was warned; I had signalised its danger; and Paoli no longer dared to put his projects into execution.

There are a thousand good actions which men condemn for want of foreseeing the results; my conduct in Corsica is of the number; they blamed it; they even made it criminal; and yet it is one of my titles of glory; I preserved Corsica to France, and I have spared the Corsicans all the humiliations which England showered down upon Scotland and Ireland. History will lay hold of this trait, and will render me justice.

A great ambition is the mark of a great character. He who is endowed with it may either perform very good, or very bad actions; it is according as he is actuated by more or less honour. The revolution has presented thirty kinds of ambitious characters. Some were ignoble and blood-thirsty, others estimable and worthy of the high rank which they have taken in society. Talleyrand and Cambacérès, are to Lebon and Chaumette, what the eagles are to the owls.

Men of consummate stupidity and a very small number of sages, rich enough to have no occasion to expose themselves, were the sole individuals for whom it was possible not to be ambitious amidst the chances presented by the revolution. The rest of the French necessarily formed projects and anticipated great hopes. I was of this number, and it was impossible to be otherwise. However this might be, I knew not how to push myself forward in the career; all the avenues at that period appeared to me polluted. The chiefs of the army were then without influence; I thought of turning my views another way. I had connection with Robespierre, and some others of his stamp, but I made but little progress around them; I was not their man. This connection, which lasted only a moment, caused my dismissal on the 9th Thermidor. It was an injustice, but it was the epoch of injustice, and it was necessary to submit.

The government being changed, it became

became less murderous, but nearly as despicable, and equally as unjust: the revolt of the Sections was soon the proof of it. Danican commanded them; but he was not the man that was requisite for citizens, who were not to be feared, and never will be, so long as there are troops of the line to oppose them. In this truth consists the strength of kings.

Barras confided to me the defence of the Convention. In that defence I had either my head to lose, or my fortune to make. I made my fortune and preserved my head. Ignorance and bad faith have judged the 13th Brumaire; the following is the truth divested of artifice:

I had to defend the Convention; the spirit of the Sections armed against it was faltering and irresolute. The slightest success might render them courage and energy. To alarm them at first sight was to gain the day; I threw terror on the steps of St. Roch, and all was dispersed. This movement was dictated by humanity and a sense of duty. If I had left the Sections to hem themselves in the cul-de-sac Dauphin, I should have been constrained to pour in grape-shot among them, or leave them forcibly to carry away the members of the Convention. As General I performed my duty; as a Frenchman, I spared my fellow citizens.

Some days afterwards, I married Madame de Beauharnois. This marriage soon obtained for me the chief command of the army of Italy.

Antiquity has, perhaps, nothing to be compared with the warlike feats of that memorable campaign. The courage and intrepidity of the French soldiers were carried to the highest degree to which human courage and intrepidity can go. I knew the French to be brave, but I did not imagine they were so eminently intrepid. Their history, although full of high deeds, had shown nothing to me in comparison with the passing the bridges of Lodi and of Arcola. I confess even that similar passages ought very rarely to be attempted. There was more than boldness, there was rashness in the attempt. Had success not crowned the effort, it would have been inexcuseable.

From this eminent intrepidity, recognised in the French soldier, may be dated the inconceivable boldness of my other exploits. It was proved to me that I might undertake every thing with such men. This conviction, I

confess, enlarged my desires and my character.

The victories of Arcola and of Lodi, delivered to me 20,000 Polish prisoners who served in the Austrian army. I gave a proof of my knowledge of the human character, by suspecting them capable of serving me. I enrolled them under my banners, and it was one of the best calculations I ever made; the services which they have since rendered me are the immortal proof of it.

It was not precisely on the victories of Arcola and Lodi that must be dated the intimate conviction which I had, of being one day able to become the arbiter of the destinies of France.

I was yet no more than a soldier: and at this epoch a soldier who had only his sword for a weapon, weighed but very little in the balance of the Directors, veterans of the revolution, destroyed in their attempts to crush whoever gave the least umbrage to their ambition. I alone felt at that time that it was necessary above all, to create protectors and friends in my favour, whose united assistance might overawe the hatred and jealousy of the Directory. It was then that a part of the contributions levied on Italy, became of great assistance to me. With that I purchased creatures in all classes, and was soon in a state which enabled me no longer to crawl along step by step by the orders of the Directory. They began to perceive the little value I put upon the plans of campaigns which they traced out for me. It is true that this inclination of deviating from the orders emanating from the Directorial cabinet served marvellously the interests of France. In the number of those instructions given to carry on the campaign, there were many of them which were sure guarantees of a defeat; the cabinet of Vienna could not have done more for its interest. The Abbé Sieyes has since assured me that a part of those instructions were given me to ensure my defeat, and thereby put a term to my growing influence.

The Directors alarmed by the rapid flight which I took, thought it was high time to occupy themselves as soon as possible in preparing my downfall. Many circumstances of my conduct in Italy seemed to furnish the materials for this purpose.

I owe it to my own honour and to that of my Son, to enter here into some details; these details are besides essentially within the province of history.

They