courage, united with a magical influence. It those manuscripts: they were, perhaps, dewas necessary to brave the name of aristo-stroyed in the burning of our house by the crat: and let us not fear to say it: if we go troops of Paoli.

us.

"The course of events had decided it otherwise; and we could but felicitate ourselves. Napoléon had arrived at the theatre of that great war for which he felt himself born; and from his field of victory, it sufficed for him to send some officers and arms to tear Corsica from the English and from Paoli, who disputed it with them. Already the young renown of Napoléon had effaced the former renown of the ancient chief. Among the officers sent into Corsica, was the brave Costa, of Bastelica, the defender of our family in the days of adversity.

to a battle as we would go to a fête, civil "These literary communications had courage is, in general, loss common amongst strengthened the admiration of Napoléon for We would sooner brave death than the these two great men of genius. The death of hisses of an assembly, or of the multitude. Mirabeau afflicted him very sensibly. The We sacrifice too much for the pleasure of address of Raynal to the constituent assembly being applauded; and, when we are contra- was not without influence upon us; and if dicted in our opinion, instead of appreciating Paoli had confined himself to the party in the courage of our opponents, we excommu- France favorable to the ideas of political nicate them without toleration. Thus, twen- equilibrium, we should have seconded him ty days after the death of Mirabeau, we be- with all our efforts. held one of those great geniuses, the honor of the eighteenth century, the famous Abbé Raynal, treated with the most profound disdain, when he went himself to read at the bar of the assembly a prophetic address, in which were the following passages. Called to regenerate France, you ought to consider what you can usefully preserve of the ancient order, and, above all, that which you cannot abandon; France being a monarchy Purify the principles, by seating the throne upon its true basis, the sovereignty of the true nation; fix the limits, by fixing them in the national representation, was what you "I had just arrived at Genoa in time to see had to do. And you think you have done the departure of our islanders, and to emit!... But, in organizing the powers, the brace Costa, for whom I had always had from force and success of the constitution depend- my childhood a particular friendship. Had ed upon the equilibrium; and you had to de- it not been for the impatience which I felt to fend yourselves against the bent of prevail- behold, in the midst of his triumphs, my ing ideas; you ought to have seen that the brother, already master of Lombardy, I power of kings was declining in opinion, and should have set out for Ajaccio. In the that the rights of the people were increasing. course of a few days, we learnt that the Thus, in weakening without measure that whole island had revolted, and that Paoli, in which tends naturally to increase, you ar- despair, had taken refuge in London, where rive forcibly at the sad result, of a king with- he received, till his last hour, that respect out authority a people without restraint.' which was his due. They even wished to And that illustrious old man who, upon perpetuate that respect by erecting to his methe brink of the grave, performed so admira- mory a tomb in Westminster Abbey. It is ble an act of patriotism, was scoffed at: they also in an English tomb that Napoléon rewere provoked at his audacity. If Jean poses!!! But what a tomb! What a venJaques, Voltaire, and Montesquieu, had accompanied him, they would not have met with better success What would have -been the science of those men compared with the science of the day? That intolerance of opinion has too often overwhelmed in our assemblies the voice of our best citizens; and perhaps our giant of the tribune, our Mirabeau himself, died in time for his glory!

geance! O eternal shame to freemen, who become the instruments of despotic kings! I fear not, noble British nation, although amidst ye, to let this fraternal cry escape me. I have travelled in your provinces; and in your palaces,in your houses, and in your cottages,—I have often been affected with the sight of the image of Napoléon . . . and I have exclaimed a hundred times, on beholding it,' Here is what attests the sentiment of reparation in a nation that knows how to appreciate a hero! Those who confined, and suffered the victim to die, upon the rock of St. Helena,-did they show themselves worthy of the great people whom they governed?

"The names of Raynal and Mirabeau bring me back to Napoléon. Napoléon, in one of those congés which he went to pass at Ajaccio, (it was, I believe, in 1790,) had composed a history of the revolutions of Corsica, of which I wrote two copies, and of which I much regret the loss. One of those manu- "I had obtained permission to quit the north, scripts was addressed by him to the Abbé to go to Milan, where our army had made its Raynal, whom my brother had known on his entry. Napoléon was no longer at Milan. passage to Marseilles. Raynal found the The revolt of Pavia had just broken out: and work so extremely remarkable, that he decid- it was said that the general was gone to the ed upon communicating it to Mirabeau, who, banks of the Adige, to chastise the guilty returning the manuscript, wrote to Raynal, city. I hastened to Pavia: upon the road, that this little history appeared to announce my eyes were struck with the distant refleca genius of the first order. The reply of tion of a vast fire. . . It was the village of Raynal accorded with the opinion of the great Binasco, delivered up to the flames to expiate orator, and Napoléon was enchanted. I have the assassination of several of our straggling made a great many researches in vain to find soldiers. I traversed the burning ruins, Pa

via presented me in a few moments after with a spectacle even more deplorable. That great city had been delivered up to pillage in the morning: the traces of blood had not been effaced: the bodies of the peasants, who had refused to surrender, were not carried away: people were occupied by funeral rites within the gate by which I entered. The streets and places were transformed into a perfect fair, where the conquerors were selling to hideous speculators the spoils of the vanquished! What miseries, even in the most just of wars, in the most necessary of victories!

:

"I could only remain with my brother half a day he was to return in the evening, upon his favorite line of the Adige: he gave me his instructions, and I departed for Corsica. After some days of a stormy voyage, I found myself in my beloved native town, where I thought only of obtaining the suffrages of my fellow-citizens for the epoch when I should become eligible.

"The last six months of that year and the following (1796 and 1797) were filled with the exploits of Napoléon and the army of Italy. From Montenotto to Campo-Formio, it was a continuation of prodigies."

"Upon his return_to_Paris, Napoléon, brought into contact with the executive power of five persons, tossed amidst the factions, and swung from one side to the other, became disgusted. I never knew of the project which several writers have attributed to my brother, of entering the Directory and having a dispensation on account of age granted to him. It might have been mentioned, but he never attached any importance to it: far from wishing to become a part of the Directory, he thought it his duty to withdraw from it. The East, that country of great renowns, charmed his imagination; he projected, obtained, and prepared the expedition to Egypt. He wished me to accompany him; but the elections of the year 1796 approached, and I preferred being a candidate for the deputation. The expedition to Egypt sailed from Toulon.

...

ment, far more than to the general, that those
reproaches ought to have been addressed. I
will not deny that an immense ambition of
glory, the most noble of all egotisms, had not
greatly influenced the determination of Na-
poléon. A victorious career upon the traces
of Alexander and Cæsar, must have inspired
his soul; that brilliant personal future might
even have dazzled him, and overcome the
present interest of his country. But he did
not leave France without renowned generals;
and he took with him only thirty thousand
men. It would have been, on his part, too
great an excess of vanity, to have supposed
that his presence was indispensable for the
public security. The political horizon pre-
sented at that moment but very feeble presa-
ges of a new tempest. England alone was
in arms against us . . . And Egypt was the
point where England was the most vulnera-
ble; Egypt, the advanced post of war and
commerce towards India, post of watchful-
ness towards the Bosphorus
A con-
queror was very justifiable in shutting his
eyes upon every other consideration to spring
towards that Egypt, the possession of which,
assured to France, promised the abasement,
more distant but certain, of London and St.
not, in fact, place in the political balance, if
Petersburgh. And what weight should we
Egypt could have remained ours; if one of
our old marshals were now in the place of
the great viceroy; if the valiant Clauzel, in-
stead of triumphing over the Arabs of Atlas,
were encamped with his army upon the banks
of the Nile, become one of our rivers!
So great a result could not have been too
dearly bought by all our sacrifices, and per-
haps even by the disasters of Aboukir.

"But that dazzling perspective, so natural, so noble, so heroic for Napoléon, to whom repose was a burthen, completely changed its aspect when taken in a point of view with respect to the government. The duty of the Directory was to devote itself to the certain and coolly calculated present interest of the republic. It was a part of its responsibility to moderate the ardor of our heroes, and to direct, instead of following, them with the enthusiasm of the battle-field, or with the weakness of an uneasy and subdued magis"That mysterious expedition revealed it- tracy. For the chiefs of a republic weakness self by the taking of Malta, while I traversed or enthusiasm are equally criminal: the France to take my seat in the council of five slumber or intoxication of a pilot places the hundred, to which I had been unanimously ship equally in danger. The Directory had named. I was struck, during my journey, at studied that great question under every the diversity of opinions among public men, aspect. Several of its members had at first upon the departure of Napoléon. Some, al- opposed it; they had felt that after the peace ready seduced by the news from Malta, were of Campo-Formio, the events at Rome and in in extacies at his departure, and presaged such Switzerland had offered pretexts sufficiently successes, that should even efface the prodi- plausible for the ill-humor of Austria. They gies of Italy. Others accused the Directory thought and said with reason, that the proof perfidy. The lawyers,' said they, 'wanted jected expedition would draw upon us a war to get rid of a hero, who had suffered himself with Turkey, and that, in giving us a new to be duped by them.' But the greatest num-enemy, we should awaken the former; that ber appeared to me to disapprove of the ab- it secured the English ascendancy at Consence of the general, and of so fine an army. stantinople. And thus, in raising these perils, I strongly partook of that last opinion, which it threw far distant from the land of France the change in our military affairs soon ren- the first of our generals, and thirty thousand dered universal. But it was to the govern- chosen men, and delivered over our marine

and as

to perilous chances. All these considerations
were developed, and patriotically sustained
by the Director la Reveillère .
they did not produce any effects, the govern-
ment was left without excuse. But the asser-
tions of M. de Montgaillard, and of those who
followed him, are contrary to the truth, when
they attribute the project of the expedition to
Egypt to the desire of removing, at any price,
the victorious general. Far different is the
jealousy and inquietude, which one, subordi-
nate to them, yet so powerful, could excite,
from the criminal resolution of depriving the
country of thirty thousand warriors, to rid
themselves of a rival. On the contrary, they
only yielded to Napoléon. The fault of the
government was weakness; and that fault
was sufficiently weighty for the chiefs of a
republic, without attributing to them an ima-
ginary plot. Since the coup d'état of the 18th
Fructidor, the Directory had gained strength
at the expense of that of the legislative body;
but soon that strength began to decay. The
expedition to Egypt appeared to have mark-
ed the end of its bright days. Scarcely ar-
rived in the chamber of representatives, I as-
sisted only at the fall of the Directory. Here
begins my legislative functions; and I must
pass less lightly over acts in which I concur-
red. I fear that my opinions, my votes, and
my discourses, may not always be worthy to
fix the attention of my readers; but I must
give them, such as they were: I cannot pass
them over in silence, since I write the me-
moirs of my public life."

But here we must close our extracts, reserving till our next number our remarks on this most valuable and interesting addition to our historical documents.

WEAVE US a thousand dahlias into one,

Bold the device, and rare its radiance be! Serve us a banquet, long before the sun

Go down, in molten rainbows, to the sea :-
Velvet the lawn of fountains where 'tis spread;
Sweet with Clematis every near alcove;
And let September's cornucopia shed

Her choicest stores, to music from the grove!
Pine-apples bring, and plums of various hue,
Peaches, th' elixir of the solar beams,
The fruit that melts in nectar, and the dew
With which the grape, gold, green, or pur-
ple, teems:

While tints autumnal soothe us, and the
breeze,

Unwooed on stubble lands, goes dancing through the trees.

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Again the clear voices the chorus repeat, Say, mother, was harmony ever so sweet?" "I listen, my child, but I hear not a tone, That music is breathed to no ear but thy own. O think not of passion, of pomp, or of mirth, Thy heart must be weaned from the trifles of earth:

Those voices proceed from a region of light,
My daughter, I feel thou must leave me to-
night."

"O mother! a knowledge prophetic is thine,
I am passing from life, yet I do not repine;
Thanks, thanks, for thy patience and tender-
ness past,

But most for this faithful rebuke at the last;
Though the world has its injuries heaped on
my head,

I mourn not-my mother hangs over my bed, And the God whom she taught me to serve and to love,

Has sent his kind angels to call me above."

SNARLEYYOW; OR, THE DOG FIEND.* of a ghost in a jolly-boat," said Coble, spit

ting under the gun..gelivsh sow
Specially when there were hardly room
for the corporal," added Spurey. bin
"Yes," observed Short. iw to see
"Well, we shall know something about it
to-night, for the corporal and I am to have a

"Mind he don't circumwent you, Jimmy,"

"It's my opinion," said Smallbones, "that not ha' come for to go for to give me a glass he must be in real arnest, otherwise he would of grog-there's no gammon in that—and such a real stiff 'un too," continued Smallbones, who licked his lips at the bare remembrance of the unusual luxury.

of nothing," observed Spurey." There's "It beats my comprehension altogether out something very queer in the wind. I wonder where the corporal has been all the while."

THAT the corporal mystified his lieutenant, may easily be supposed; but the corporal had other work to do, and he did it immediately. He went up to Jemmy Ducks, who looked daggers at him, and said to him quietly, "That he had something to say to him as soon as it was dusk, and they would not be seen together." Vanslyperken ordered the corporal to resume his office, and serve out the provisions that afternoon; and, to the astonishment of the men, he gave them not only full, but overweight; and instead of Ducks; and as this was very excellent ad"Wait till this evening," observed Jemmy abusing them, and being cross, he was good-vice, it was taken, and the parties separated. humored, and joked with them; and all the crew stared at each other, and wondered what important negotiations were going on, that In the despatches it had been requested, as could be the matter with Corporal Van Spit- the cutter might return immediately, as there ter. But what was their amazement, upon were other communications to make to the Snarleyyow's coming up to him as he was States General on the part of the King of serving out provisions, instead of receiving England; and a messenger now informed something from the hand of the corporal as Vansly perken that he might sail as soon as usual, he, on the contrary, received a sound kick on the ribs from his foot, which sent him he pleased, as there was no reply to the desyelping back into the cabin. Their astonish- patches he had conveyed. This was very ment could only be equalled by that of Snar- agreeable to Vansly perken, who was anxious leyyow himself. But that was not all; it ap- and also to avoid the Frau Vandersloosh. At to return to the fair widow at Portsmouth, peared as if wonders would never cease, for when Smallbones came up to receive his dusk, he manned his boat and went on shore master's provisions, after the others had been that the cutter was ordered to return, and had to the French agent, who to ratus found but served and gone away, the corporal not only his despatches nearly ready. Vanslyperken kindly received him, but actually presented waited about an hour; when all was comhim with a stiff glass of grog mixed with the plete, he received them, and then returned on corporal's own hand. When he offered it, the lad could not believe his eyes, and even

consequence he had determined upon revenge, and in future would be heart and hand with the ship's company; but that to secure should appear devoted to Vanslyperken as their mutual object, it would be better that he before, and at variance with the ship's company.

Now Jemmy, who was with all his wits at work, knew that it was Smallbones who cut the corporal adrift; but that did not alter the therefore advisable to leave him in that error. case, as the corporal did not know it. It was But he required proofs of the corporal's sincerity, and he told him so. "Mein Gott! what proof will you ou have? De proof of de pudding is in de eating." "Well, then," replied Jemmy, "will you shy the dog overboard ?"

"Te tog!-in one minute-and de master reason, for he would skin a flint if he could," after him." observed Coble, "but that can't last for ever."

Whereupon Corporal Van Spitter went down into the cabin, which Vanslyperken, trusting to his surveillance, had left unlocked, and seizing the cur by the neck, carried him on deck and hurled him several yards over the cutter's quarter.

"Mein Gott! but dat is well done," observed Jansen.

"And he'll not come back wid de tide. I know de tide, Mein Gott!" observed the corporal, panting with the exertion.

"That depends how often he may count it over," observed Jemmy Ducks-" but there's his bell;" and soon after Corporal Van Spitter's name was passed along the decks, to summon him into the presence of his com manding officer.

"Now for a breeze," said Coble, hitching up his trowsers.

"Yes," replied Short.

"For a regular shindy," observed Spurey. But here the corporal was mistaken. Snar- "Hell to pay, and no pitch hot,” added leyyow did not make for the vessel, but for Jemmy, laughing; and they all remained in the shore, and they could not in the dark as- anxious expectation of the corporal's return. certain what became of him, neither was the Corporal Van Spitter had entered the cabin tide strong, for the flood was nearly over; with the air of the profoundest devotion and the consequence was, that the dog gained the respect-had raised his hand up as usual, but shore, and landed at the same stairs where before the hand had arrived to its destination, the boats land. The men were not in the he beheld Vansly perken seated on the locker, boat, but waiting at a beer shop a little above, patting the head of Snarleyyow, as if nothing which Vanslyperken must pass when he came had happened. At this unexpected resuscidown again. Recognizing the boat, the curtation, the corporal uttered a tremendous leapt into it, and after a good shaking under "Mein Gott!" and burst like a mad bull out of the thwarts, crept forward to where the men had thrown their pea jackets under the bowsheets, curled himself up, and went to sleep. Shortly afterwards the lieutenant came down with the men, and rowed on board; but the dog, which, exhausted with his exertion, was very comfortable where he was, did not come out, but remained in his snug berth.

the cabin, sweeping down all who obstructed his passage on the lower deck, till he arrived to the fore-ladder, which he climbed up with tottering knees, and then sank down on the forecastle at the feet of Jemmy Ducks.

"Mein Gott, mein Gott, mein Gott!" exclaimed the corporal, putting his hands to his eyes as if to shut out the horrid vision. "What the devil is the matter?" exclaimed Coble.

"Ah! mein Gott, mein Gott!"

"As it was evident that something uncommon had happened, they all now crowded round the corporal, who, by degrees, recoverhimself,

"What is it, corporal ?" inquired Jemmy Ducks.

The lieutenant and men left the boat when they arrived on board, without discovering that the dog was a passenger. About ten minutes after the lieutenant had come on board, Snarley yow jumped on deck, but as all the men were forward in close consulta-ed tion, and in anticipation of Mr. Vanslyperken's discovery of his loss, the dog gained the cabin, unperceived not only by the ship's company, but by Vanslyperken, who was busy locking up the letters entrusted to him by the French agent. Snarley yow took his station under the table, and lay down to finish his nap, where we must leave him for the present in a sound sleep, and his snoring very soon reminded Vanslyperken of what he had, for a short time unheeded, that his favorite was present.

"Well, it's very odd," observed Spurey, "that he has been on board nearly half an hour, and not discovered that his dog is absent without leave."

"Yes," said Short.

"I know for why, mein Gott!" exclaimed the corporal, who shook his head very knowingly.

"The corporal knows why," observed Jemmy Ducks.

"Then why don't he say why?" retorted Bill Spurey, who was still a little suspicious of the corporal's fidelity.

"Because Mynheer Vanslyperken count his money-de guineas," replied the corporal, writhing at the idea of what he had lost by his superior's interference.

"Ho, ho! his money; well, that's a good

Before the corporal could reply, Smallbones, who had been summoned to the cabin on account of the corporal's unaccountable exit, sprung up the ladder with one bound, his hair flying in every direction, his eyes goggling, and his mouth wide open: lifting his hands over his head, and pausing as if for breath, the lad exclaimed with a solemn sepulchral voice, “By all the devils in hell he's come again!"

"Who?" exclaimed several voices at once. "Snarleyyow," replied Smallbones, mourn.

fully.

"Yes-mein Gott!" exclaimed Corporal Van Spitter, attempting to rise on his legs.

"Whew!" whistled Jemmy Ducks-but no body else uttered a sound; they all looked at one another, some with compressed lips, others with mouths open. At last one shook his head-then another. The corporal rose on his feet, and shook himself like an elephant.

"Dat tog is de tyfel's imp, and dat's de end on it," said he, with alarm still painted on his countenance.

"And is he really on board again?" inquired Coble, doubtingly.

"As sartain as I stands on this here fore