Turn the bright historic page! Have taught proud Gallia's bands to yield. Are not WE the sons of those Whose steel-clad sires pursued the insulting foes Kings in modest triumph led, Graced the SABLE VICTOR's arms; † The lion heart soft pity knows, To raise with soothing cares his prostrate foes; Spirit of great ELIZABETH! inspire High thoughts, high deeds, worthy our ancient fame Baffled and scorn'd, the Iberian tyrant found, Arm'd with her people's love, the " Invincible” array.}} The BOLD USURPERS firmly held The sword, by splendid treasons gain'd; And Gallia's fiery genius quell'd, And Spain's presumptuous claims restrain'd: When lust of sway by flattery fed, To vent'rous deeds the youthful Monarch** led, Britain check'd his power and pride. To the great Batavian's name *** Live in songs of grateful praise. Thy turrets, Blenheim, glittering to the sun, And ye fam'd Heroes, late retir'd to heaven, Avert your long-defended country's doom. Names embalm'd in honour's shrine, In breathing arts or pictur'd lays: O! tread with awe the sacred gloom ** Joys their merit to repeat; There CHATHAM lies, whose master-hand Guided, through seven bright years, the mighty band Each in his hallow'd marble sleeps. Her brand accurs'd when civil discord hurl'd, *+* Rodney his fortune-favour'd sails unfurl'd, And led three nation's chiefs to Thames's flood. Smiling in scorn he sees the glittering bands Heirs or partners of their toils, From the leagued nations won. On their high prows they proudly stand Wealth and victory at their side. Loyal, bold, and generous bands,† Their altars, liberties, and laws. On his firm deep-founded throne Great BRUNSWICK sits, a name to fear unknown; Sons of fair Freedom's long-descended line, Of this fair isle to make one dreary waste, Her greatness in her ruins only traced: Arts, commerce, arms, sunk in one common grave→→→ + Volunteers. Anti-Jacobin BONAPARTE's WILL. IN the name of my TRINITY the Goddess of Reason, MAHOMET the Prophet, and Pius the Pope, we the most great, most magnanimous, and most puissant, BRUTUS ALI NAPOLEONE BONA PARTE, son to a Spy, grandson to a Butcher, and great grandson to a Galley Slave, Emperor of the Gauls, First Consul of France, President of Italy, Landamman of Switzerland, Director of Holland, King of Etruria, Protecter of Emperors, Dictator and Creator of Kings, Electors, Princes, Cardinals, Senators, Generals, Bishops, Prefects, Actors, Schoolmasters, &c. &c. &c. do declare, that notwithstanding the adulation of our Slaves, and their assurances of our immortality, the pangs of our conscience, the decay of our body, the fear of recoiling daggers, the dreadful anticipation of infernal machines emitting fire and smoke invented at Jaffa, and the hissing breath of the poisonous serpents generated at El Arish, remind us that we soon must die, and that our power must die with us. We therefore, according to the Senatus Consultum of our free senate, to declare this to be our last Will and Testament, as follows: IMPRIMIS IMPRIMIS, To our most beloved and dearest IBRAHIM ROSTAN, Mameluke, we give and bequeath after our decease, the crown of Henry IV. the sceptre of St. Louis, and the throne of France and Navarre, the sovereignty and sovereign disposal of the lives and fortunes of thirty millions of Frenchmen, of six millions of Italians, of seven millions of Spaniards, of two millions of Helvetians, and of three millions of Batavians (except as is hereafter excepted); and we enjoin and charge all the world to acknowledge, adore and respect this Mameluke, IBRAHIM ROS TAN, the African, as the natural and legal successor of us BRUTUS ALI NAPOLEONE BONAPARTE, the Corsican. We give and bequeath in reversion, to Citizen BARRAS, our dear Consort, much improved and more enriched, but reserving to ourselves the disposal of her virtuous Maids of Honour, whom we give and bequeath to our LEGION of HONOUR, as a reward due as well to the virtues of the one, as to the valour of the other. f We give and bequeath to our dearly beloved brother JOSEPH, the Presidency of the Italian Republic, together with our dearly bought Minister Talleyrand, to be disposed of as his own property in all future negociations. To our dearly beloved brother LuCIEN, we give and bequeath our Batavian Republic, and our Minister Chaptal, who hereafter shall write his speeches, dictate his letters, and correct his spelling. To our dearly beloved brother LOUIS, we bequeath our Helvetian Republic, and our Minister Berthier, accompanied with the sense of his Secretary Achambau, whose instructions in some time may enable him to become a good corporal of grenadiers. To our dearly beloved brother JEROME, we bequeath, in petto, the sovereignty of the seas, with our ministers of marine, and all the admirals of our navy, doubting, however, if their united efforts will make him a good midship man. To our dearly beloved MOTHER, we give and bequeath his Holiness the Pope, and our uncle our Cardinal Frere; with a Pope and a Cardinal in her pos session, her stay in purgatory must be short, and in Heaven long. To our dearly beloved sisters, Mistresses BACCHIOCHI, MURAT, SANTA, CRUCE, and LE CLERC, we give and bequeath our family honours, chastity, modesty, and moderation. To our dear son-in-law EUGENIUS BEAUHARNOIS, we give and bequeath Parma and Placenza, with our dear countryman Sebastiani, who will instruct him to drive like a coachman, and to ride like a postillion. To our much beloved daughter-inlaw, Madame FANNY BEAUHARNOIS, as a reward for her loyalty, we bequeath a representation in wax of the scaffold of her father and the throne of her mother, both designed by the revolutionary modellers, Barras and Co. To our dear uncle, our Cardinal FRERE, we give and bequeath the triple crown and keys of St. Peter, in petto. and to all our nameless known and unknown relatives, we give and bequeath ! the kingdom of Etruria, to be disposed, of to the highest bidder, and its value laid out in mourning rings, to be equally distributed amongst them and certain Continental Princes hereafter mentioned. We give and bequeath to our dear friend the King of SPAIN, an Etrurian mourning ring, and four family pictures, representing the Bourbons dethroned, the Bourbons degraded, the Bour. Bourbons repenting, and the Bourbons forgiving. We give and bequeath to the King of NAPLES, three marble statues after a model by his Queen, representing Faith, Loyalty, and Constancy; and to the Kings of SARDINIA, we be queath our promises of honour, to be equally divided amongst them. We give and bequeath to his Holiness the POPE, the doctrine of the Goddess of Reason, the Alcoran of Mahomet, and the Atheism of our Institute; all true relics; besides to himself, to his successors, and college of Cardinals, we bequeath concordant mourning rings, from the manufactory of our Counsellor of State PORTALIS. We give and bequeath to his Imperial Majesty the Emperor of GERMANY, two drawings representing Hope amongst the ruins of Turkey, and Desire contemplating Bavaria, designed by Citizen DUPE, and sold by Citizen PLOT. We give and bequeath to his Imperial Majesty the Emperor of RUSSIA, three pictures, representing Louis XVI. upon the throne, Louis XVI. in the Temple, and Louis XVI. upon the Scaffold; by Citizens LOYALTY, MoNARCHY, and WARNING. We give and bequeath to our dearest friend the King of PRUSSIA, the landscape of Hanover, with an Imperial Crown in perspective; by Citizens RoxALTY, JACOBIN, and REBEL. We give and bequeath to our natural Ally the Emperor of the TURKISH EMPIRE, the description of our conquests of Egypt, our flight from Egypt, and our future return to Egypt, by Citizen TREACHERY, COWARDICE, and DESIGN. We give and bequeath to his Majesty the King of the United Kingdom of GREAT BRITAIN and IRELAND, the United Navy of Holland and France, commanded by Citizen ENVY, manned by Citizen COALITION, and lost by Citizen INVASION. We give and bequeath to his Majesty the King of SWEDEN, the French original representation of the assassination of Gustavus III. to remind him of vengeance, honour, and duty. We give to our dear friend the King of DENMARK, an original painting of the insults, torments, and death of his Queen Carolina Matilda; designed and executed by two celebrated French artists, Citizens INTRIGUE and CRIME. We give and bequeath to the Regent of PORTUGAL, a code of our Revolutionary Laws of Nations, and a chapter of the Rebel Etiquette of Grenadier Ambassadors, explained and illustrated by Citizens SANS CULOTTE, RUDENESS, and IMPUDENCE. We give and bequeath to our friend the Elector of BAVARIA, the Bible of the Theophilanthropes, and the Concordat of Portalis, as an assistance to his patriotic illuminated ministers, in their political reformations and religious innovations. We give and bequeath to our chosen Grand Master of MALTA, the Musical Opera of the capture of Malta, performed in 1798, with a Concerto by Citizen TREASON, and in 1800 with a Bravura, by Citizen VALOUR, with the farcical after-piece of the Recapture, performed at Amiens, by Citizens FRAUD and TREATY. To all other CONTINENTAL SOVEREIGNS, who have accepted more or less of our bountiful indemnities, we give and bequeath our mourning rings of honour, and to all other ambassadors, ministers, agents and deputies, who have negociated, intrigued, bribed or begged indemnities; we give and bequeath with our consciences of honour,. the |