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as amply sufficient to remove any impression which the French Ambassador's note might otherwise have made, did I not think it a duty to press some observations on that part of the paragraph which alludes to the direct accusation against General Bonaparte, that the pubmay know I was fully aware of the important responsibility which I had voluntarily undertaken, and in which much national honour was involved. I would wish the world seriously to examine, whether the accuser or accused have shrunk from the investigation, and then hold him as guilty who has withdrawn from the tribunal of enquiry.

“I avowed that I was his public accuser; I stood prepared to support the charge. The courts of my country were open to that mode of trial, which, as an innocent man, he could alone have required, but of which he did not dare to avail himself. It was no anonymous libeller against whom he was to have filed his answer, but against one (and without any indecent vanity I may say it) whose rank and character would have justified his

most serious attention.

"The charges were too awful to be treated with neglect, and we know that they have not been read with indifference. Nor is it possible that the First Consul can imagine the fame of General Bonaparte is less sullied, because a few snuffboxes bearing his portrait were received by some abject or avaricious individuals with expressions of esteem. Or can he hope, that the contemptible, but not less unworthy insinuation, directed against the gallant and estimable British General, will divert mankind from a reflection of the crimes with which he stands arraigned?

"Fortunately for Europe, she is daily becoming more intimately acquainted with the character of this hitherto miscon

ceived man; and I confess that I feel considerable gratification when I indulge the thought that I have contributed to its developement.

"Success may, for inscrutable purposes, continue to attend him; abject senates may decree him a Throne, or the Pantheon; but history shall render injured humanity justice, and an indignant posterity inscribe on his cenotaph

"Ille venena Colchia

Et quidquid usquam concipitur nefas, Tractavit.

"I am, Sir, yours, ROBERT WILSON, K. M. T. Lieutenant-Colonel."

Confirmation of the Tender Mercies of

BONAPARTE in Egypt.

AS a proof of the veracity of Sir Robert Wilson's account of the tremendously inhuman murders perpetrated at Jaffa by order of that most sanguinary monster, and detestable tyrant, Bonaparte, Dr. Wittman, who was physician to the British Military Mission which accompanied the army of the Grand Vizir in its route through Turkey, Syria, and Egypt, during the late campaign in that country, in his Narrative of his Tra vels, page 128, thus speaks: "Four

"thousand of the wretched inhabitants who had surrendered, and who had in vain implored the mercy of their con querors, were, together with a part of the late Turkish garrison of El-Arish, (amounting, it has been said, to five or six hundred,) dragged out in cold blood, four days after the French had obtained possession of Jaffa, to the sand hills, about a league distant, in the way to Gaza, and there most inhumanly put to death. I have seen the skeletons of those unfortunate victims, which lie scattered over the hills, a modera

a modern Golgotha, which remains a lasting disgrace to a nation calling itself civilized. Indeed, I am sorry to add, that the charge of cruelty against the French General does not rest here. It having been reported that, previously to the retreat of the French army from Syria, their commander in chief (BONAPARTE) had ordered all the Freuch sick at Jaffa to be poisoned, I was led to make the, enquiry, to which every one who had visited the spot would naturally be directed, respecting an act of such singular, and, it should seem, wanton inhumanity. It concerns me to have to state, not only that such a circumstance was positively asserted to have happened, but that while in Egypt, an individual was pointed out to us as having been the executioner of these diabolical Commands." !!!

ENGLISHMEN, can you possibly read this account without horror? Can you read it, and not wish for the most consummate vengeance on the head of the wretch who caused it? Not only in cold blood to murder Four Thousand Five Hundred of his captives, but to destroy, by poison, his unfortunate comrades→→→→ his own sick soldiers !-Never was there an action committed in the world-so barbarous, so horribly cruel. And it is this execrable fiend who menaces your shores with invasion, who has presumptuously ordered a general massacre of Britons, and the unlimited pillage and plunder of your Metropolis, as a reward to his recreant army! That he will attempt to invade you, ought not for one moment to be doubted-That he will fail in his attempt, cannot for one moment be disputed. You have only with heart and hand to rally round the throne of your King, and the Constitution of your country, and, with the blessing of God, which you may most confidently expect on so excellent a cause, the proud, the insulting foe, should he come, will, to his

eternal dismay, prove that the descendants of the heroes of Cressy, Agincourt, &c. (some of whom are the Heroes of Aboukir, of Acre, and of Alexandria,) are animated with the same soul, possess the same courage and unshaken zeal for their country, which glowed in the breasts of their Forefathers.

INSCRIPTION.

Partly Historical, partly Prophetic al, which, for the sake of the moral order of the world, and of the tranquillity of manmind, it is hoped may not, ere long, be wholly consigned to a marble Monu ment to be erected at Jaffa,

To hand down for ages to come to the just execration of posterity, the Name and Memory of NN B-P—E ; this Charnel House, filled with the bones of our Fathers and Brethren in Arms,

was erected by us,
the Survivors, at JAFFA,
in this very field,
where that atrocious Tyrant
triumphed

in the cold-blooded massacre

of near four thousand of our race. Reader!

take good heed, and know, that it was reserved for Jacobin France. to prove

that there could exist,
upon the face of the earth,
a human being

so completely bereft
of all the sympathies our nature,
as to be capable,

first to conceive,
next to command,
and, at last,

after the basest simulation till the fatal moment,

to witness, as he did,

with hellish exultation,

so horrible a work

of perfidy and murder. The relentless butchery of that day almost glutted

the ruthless satellites of his power. The Jacobin soldiery of the French Republic,

a set of wretches truly abandoned, and alone worthy of such a commander; who,

in point of talents and genius,

and in spite of

the false glare of his name,

as a minion of fortune, proved fortune to be blind." Estimated

by the pretensions of his person, he was a pigmy; by the propensities of his soul, and the magnitude of his crimes, a Giant

of wrath and destruction,
who over-ran the earth;

entirely upon the event of this battle, and as it will decide who is to be the future master of Silesia, I have ordered you to attend me, in order to tell you, that I expect every one of you to do his duty in the strictest manner, and to exert himself to the utmost of his power.

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"I desire that every one of you in his particular post, attend to the word of command, and lead on his troops with undaunted courage and bravery; in short, that every one approach the enemy with FIXED RESOLUTION TO CONQUER OR DIE If all of you, WITHOUT EXCEPȚION, are of my mind-I AM SURE OF VICTORY!

"I am perfectly well informed where the strength and where the weakness of the enemy lies; and I shall therefore place every corps in a situation in which it will fight with advantage to itself. It will then only depend on you to fight with manly courage and old Prussian bravery.

"If any one of you is a coward-if any one is not DETERMINED TO SACRIFICE HIS LIFE FOR HIS COUNTRY;-let him step forward, before he makes others AS COWARDLY AS HIMSELF!!!-Let him step for. ward, and he shall immediately receive his discharge, without ceremony or reproach.

"After a short pause, one of the staffofficers said, with enthusiasm, in the name of all the rest, "WE ARE ALL READY TO SACRIFICE OUR

LIVES FOR YOUR MAJESTY”!!

"On this reply the King proceeded as follows, with apparent composure and satisfaction:

"I see there is none amongst you who does not possess TRUE HEROISM!-But though I am convinced of this, I shall take particular notice whether each of you fulfills his promise and does his duty faithfully. I shall be in the front, and in the rear. I shall fly from one wing to the

other