required him to make fashionable, he was, in 1801, expelled the Tribunate, and remained in a kind of revolutionary disgrace until 1803; when the publication of some libels against England brought him again into favour, and procured him a place worth 40,000 livres a year, as the Director over the public and private Instruction in the French Republic. Yes, Britons should know, that should they be weak enough to send, after a future Peace, their children to be educated in France, this infamously famous character has power to direct their studies, and inspect their moral improvements, as well as to guide their religious opinions.

The protection of Buonaparte cannot, however, prevent Chenier from often hearing, both in public places and in private assemblies, “Cain, restore us thy brother Abel! thy brother's blood cries for vengeance !" and, "Cain, what is become of thy brother Abel?" He has received, besides, hundreds of letters addressed to "Cain Chenier," under which appellation he is generally known in France. It is a disgusting fact, undenied by himself, that before his brother had been guillotined, and while he was imprisoned, Chenier often exclaimed in the National Convention, "My brother is guilty; let him perish!""

This man is one of the members of Buonaparte's Legion of Honour* !!!

* The authorities not quoted, are Les Annales du Terrorisme, and L'Histoire des Crimes, par Prudhomme, with Le Diction naire Biographique.

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GENERAL

GENERAL FRERE.

THIS Revolutionary General was the chief of those banditti, who, in such a barbarous manner, violated lately the laws of nations and a neutral territory, and carried away by stealth, and in the darkness of night, a British Diplomatic Agent, Sir George Rumbold, possessing, and protected by, a public character, which former barbarians held sacred, and even the present savages respect*.

Since

* A private letter from Hamburgh contains the following par ticulars of Frere's revolutionary conduct, when he executed his master's orders, in violating the rights of neutrality and the laws of nations:

"I have heard from a respectable English merchant, that Sir George was more than once warned against the attempts of Buona❤ parte's banditti, and I am therefore in hopes that they have made no seizure of any papers very interesting; had they attacked him the night before, it is probable they would have been more success ful, as he then sent away voluminous dispatches by a messenger from Husum. That this unheard-of event has caused a great deal of bustle among the members of the Diplomatic Corps here is not surprising; but it was not expected that even the Prussian Minis ter would have joined with the others, as he did, in demanding an explanation, and desiring an assurance from Buonaparte's Minister,

that

Since the French Revolution has broken all the ties of religion, morality, and public order; since

that the laws of nations would be respected, in regard to the other diplomatic agents in this city. The Russian Ambassador here sent away two couriers to inform his Sovereign of this new outrage of France, one by way of Lubec, and the other by way of Prussia.— He, with all other foreign Ministers and Consuls, have given up their country-houses in this neighbourhood; and the Senate has ordered, for the future, the guards at our gates to be doubled. Among other suspicious pieces seized by the French marauders, were three thousand marks in cash, which he the day before had taken from the banking-house of Messrs. Thornton and Co. for some momentary expences. Of his wardrobe and linen, nothing remains, every thing being plundered; even his books were torn to pieces or carried away. His servant was not permitted, as he asked, to accompany his master, whose indifferent state of health stood much in need of a faithful attendant. The French General Frere put Sir George's watch, some printed English passes, and the seals of his office, into his own pocket; for what purpose you may easily suppose. Four persons of those with Frere spoke good English, and one of them was either a British subject or an American. The servant has been examined both before the Syndic, by the English Consul, and by the Russian Ambassador; and his deposition upon oath has been taken and sent to several Continental Courts, as well as to England, where he will probably arrive as soon as this letter. The Danish Government has ordered two more regiments to reinforce the troops at Altona; and the Duke of Brunswick, as the Duke of Mecklenburgh before him, has sent his most precious effects, money, pictures, arms, &c. to Magdeburgh, in Prussia, as a place of safety. It is said, that the deputa tion of our Senate, which last Friday set out for Berlin, was not only charged to complain of the late violation of our territory, but to demand, for future protection, a Prussian garrison as long as the French occupy Hanover. Nothing but terror, dismay, suspicion, and wretchedness, prevail here, and every where else in that unfor tunate Electorate."

since it has subjected all right to force, and all duty to the obligation of supporting its cause, crimes have followed crimes, and horrid events have trodden upon each other's heels. Compacts, customs, and public respect, having given place to a new system of general violence; of which the French Republic has erected itself both legislative and executive power, that parricide and regicide community has reduced Europe to the state of nature; and as long as it exists, nobody has a right to expect other justice, than such as Buonaparte exercised in March 1804, on the neutral Electorate of Baden, after crossing the Rhine; or in October following, upon the territory of neutral Hamburgh, after crossing the Elbe; and as the midnight assassination of the Duke of Enghien is only a murder more to the chain of murders which have overflowed the earth with blood from the day when the French set about to regenerate it, the midnight capture of the privileged English Chargé d'Affaires is nothing else but a crime more against the laws of nations and of civilized society. The Continent is treated as it deserves; and the imprisonment of Sir George Rumbold is as much an evidence of its degraded and abject state, as of the audacity and insolence of its infa

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