On his return from this colony last summer, he was captured by our cruizers, and is said to have lost, on this occasion, several thousand dol lars, which he claimed as his private property. This, no doubt, made him forget himself, and to speak and act in a manner, which did not procure him either the compassion or the esteem of those who heard him during the first months of his captivity in this country. Knowing that his insulting boasts and threats deserved at least to be reprimanded, Buonaparte, judging the proceedings of our Government after his own vile and revengeful character, with his usual precipitancy believed the rumour of General Boyer's imprisonment, and in consequence shut up in the castle of Lourdes, Lord Elgin, a traveller, arrested contrary to the law of nations, as repri sal for a General enjoying a large share of British generosity and hospitality, though a prisoner, both according to the laws of war and of nations*.

Of

* Of this business, General Boyer sent the following explana tion:

LETTER FROM GENERAL BOYER TO LORD EARDLEY. "" MY LORD,

"I received the letter you did me the honour to write me, and I lose not a moment in answering it, in order to bear testimony to truth.

"The

Of General Boyer's achievements in St. Domingo, little is mentioned in the official reports. But in some publications in an evening paper, concerning the cruelties of Buonaparte's white slaves at St. Domingo, is mentioned one General Boyer, who, for some pilfering, ordered his cook to be devoured by blood-hounds. It is to be supposed that this is not that General Boyer now prisoner in England, but some other republican General of the same name..

ADMIRAL

"The orders given by the French Government to use reprisals against the English prisoners of distinction in France, could only have been occasioned by my departure from Tiverton, and the order of the English Government which confined me to Castleton, in the mountains of Derbyshire. That order, however, having been revoked in seventeen days, and being now at Chesterfield, it is with pleasure that I take this opportunity to do the most merited justice to the inhabitants of that town, all of whom feel towards the French prisoners of war the sentiments due to misfortune.

"As soon as I was removed from Castleton, I immediately wrote to France; and I have no doubt that the French Government is, by this time, apprised that, far from being treated with rigour, I experience from the magistrates and inhabitants, the protection of the laws, and the feelings which distinguish generous minds.

"Accept, my Lord, the sentiments of high consideration with which I have the honour to be,

"My Lord,

"Your Lordship's most humble, and most obedient Servant,

(Signed) "The French General, BoYER,"

"Chesterfield, Jan. 7, 1804.

"The Right Hon, Lord Eardley,"

ADMIRAL LINOIS.

He who fights and runs away,

May live to fight another day.

THE impolitic and selfish conduct of most of the Continental Princes, has done as much to advance the power of revolutionary France, as the victories of its soldiers, and the intrigues of its negotiators. Instead of receiving with kindness, and rewarding with generosity, those loyal emigrants who, faithful to their God and to their King, and for the common cause of all lawful Sovereigns, renouncing rank, riches, and a home, became voluntary exiles, and distressed wanderers; the several governments in Germany, Italy, and Spain, treated them not only with contempt, but with injustice and cruelty. An asylum was refused them in most countries, and bread in all. Insulted by their equals in rank, but not in honour or loyalty, ministers gave them up as criminals; the half-learned sophist exposed their poverty upon the stage to common ridicule, the jacobin lawyers and merchants hated

hated them, and the common people hunted them as wild beasts. Neither age, sex, rank, talents, nor a noble firmness and resignation under misfortunes, procured them the esteem of the first classes of society, nor the compassion of the inferior orders. Several of the French officers who had emigrated, or intended to emigrate, returned therefore to their country, or changed their minds. Berthier, Andreossy, Truguet, Macdonald, Maringuy, and other men of capacity, were among the latter; and Linois, Lauriston, and Desaix, among the former.

Linois was made a Lieutenant in the royal navy during the American war, and, in 1789, emigrated with several of his comrades to Italy; which, the next year, he left for Spain. Observing, however, the incomprehensible behaviour and prejudice of foreign governments against all emigrants, he returned to France in 1791, after the unfortunate Louis XVI. had accepted the constitution forced upon him by the rebels of the Constituent Assembly. In the following year he was promoted to the rank of captain of a frigate, and, during the action of the 1st of June, he commanded one of the 74-gun ships which with difficulty escaped into Brest, after Lord Howe had obtained such a glorious victory.

victory. The national deputy, Jean Bon St. Andre, enraged at the defeat, which courage had caused, and not treachery sold, to revenge his disgrace, and, perhaps, to extenuate his own ignorance and cowardice at the Committee of Public Safety, ordered several officers to be arrested, accusing them of not having done their duty. Linois was one of the number; and he remained in confinement until the death of Robespierre opened the doors of the republican prisons for 200,000 suspected persons.

Under the Directory, he was employed first at Brest, and afterwards at Toulon; but it was Buonaparte who advanced him to the rank of an Admiral, in 1800. When, in the following spring, it was determined to send succours to General Menou, in Egypt, Linois was offered the command of the squadron intended for this expedition; but he declined it, and Gantheaume was appointed. It was only want of naval officers that prevented Linois' disgrace on this occasion, as, with the Corsican tyrant, only to hesitate to execute even the most absurd or impracticable schemes, is regarded as rebellion, and often punished as such.

About June, 1801, Sir James Saumarez, with seven ships of the line, a frigate, and two armed

vessels,