mained a short time, did nothing, and then departed like imbéciles. If Hoche had arrived, Ireland was lost to you.

"If the Irish," added the emperor, "had sent over honest men to me, I would have certainly made an attempt upon Ireland. But I had no confidence in either the integrity or the talents of the Irish leaders that were in France. They could offer no plan, were divided in opinion, and were continually quarrelling with each other."

EXTRACT FROM NAPOLEON'S LETTER TO GENERAL KLEBER.

THE letter, left by Buonaparte to be delivered to General Kleber on his quitting Egypt, wherein he enumerates the reasons for his conduct, was dated Alexandria, 23d of August, 1779, and concludes in the following manner.

"Accustomed to look for the recompense of the toils and the difficulties of life in the opinion of posterity, I abandon Egypt with the most poignant regret! The honour and interests of my country and the extraordinary events which have recently taken place there; these, and these alone have determined me to hazard a passage to Europe through the midst of the enemy's squadrons: in heart and in spirit I shall still remain in the midst of you. Your victories will be as dear to me as any in which I may be personally engaged; and I shall regard that day of my life as ill employed in which I shall not accomplish something for the army of which I leave you the command; and likewise for the consolida

tion of the magnificent establishment, the foundation of which is so recently laid.

"The army entrusted to your care is entirely composed of my own children. I have never ceased, even in the midst of their trying difficulties and dangers, to receive proofs of their attachment; endeavour to preserve them still in those sentiments for me. This is due to the particular esteem and friendship I entertain for you, and to the unfeigned affection I feel for them!"

(Signed)

"BUONAPARTE."

MOREAU'S REPLY TO NAPOLEON'S INVITATION.

MILITARY men were the only individuals permitted to take a liberty with Napoleon.

General Moreau had received an invitation to attend a procession to the cathedral for the consecration of some stands of colours, and to dine with Buonaparte. To this he returned for answer: " Of your three invitations, general! I shall accept but one; I will dine with you; but I will neither go to Notre Dame, nor to consecrate colours."

NAPOLEON'S SENTIMENTS ON TRIAL BY JURY.

In one of the emperor's addresses to the legislative body he thus expressed himself on the subject of trial by jury.

"Among the innumerable questions which the discussion of this problem has given rise to, I shall only speak to you of the jury introduced into the

code, which you will have to examine in the present session.

"The institution of a jury took its rise amidst the simple manners of our ancestors. Feudal despotism banished it from France, but it took refuge amongst a neighbouring people where it acquired a great celebrity.-This people, after a long use of it, have considered a jury as the exclusive guardian of individual liberty, and even of political freedom! They have experienced, that, by confiding, in criminal trials, the judgment of the fact to the conscience of a jury--to a body, sufficiently numerous, of enlightened citizens, rendered impartial by the right of finding an independent verdict, and interested in the purity of their functions by the perceived possibility of being in their turn placed at the bar; -they have experienced I say, that a jury was a mode of investigating the truth, preferable to that of fixed judges, who are often hardened by the exercise of their terrible functions, liable to inattention from fatigue, dependant on the authority which appoints them, and dependant still more upon certain professional maxims, and a kind of jurisprudence de corps, apt at times to darken the understanding."

GENERAL BUONAPARTE'S INSTALLATION

AS A

MEMBER OF THE NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF FRANCE.

THIS ceremony was intended to be kept entirely private, yet, as the day was publicly known, the room was crowded as soon as it was opened; for whenever the hero could be seen he was never withVOL. VI.

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out a concourse of people. At five o'clock the members all took their places, Buonaparte among the rest, in a plain gray frock, the dress he generally appeared in; there was nothing therefore to point out the man who had lately conquered so many armies, overturned so many states, and created so many new ones. Neither, his stature, his manners, nor his dress distinguished him from the crowd; and yet from the great eclat of his name, he attracted the notice of every one present: the moment he was discovered, the room rung with applauses, which were repeated whenever any allusion to him occurred in any of the speeches, or indeed any thing which could be applied to the hero of France. It is worthy of remark that Buonaparte was elected in the room of his friend Carnot who had been banished.

MERCIFUL POLICY OF BUONAPARTE.

WHEN the republican forms and revolutionary manners, which had so long prevailed over French society, yielded to modes of superior refinement, it was the wisdom of Napoleon to efface the recollection of the horrors which had marked those days of violence, and to adopt the same merciful policy, by which Henry IV. obliterated the dissensions of the league. Even his personal enemies were forgiven, although of course neglected, while not one of his personal friends were forgotten.

A remarkable instance of Napoleon's dislike to the revival of past events occurred, when Chateaubriand was received at the institute, in the place of the celebrated Chenier. Upon this occasion, Chateaubriand in the éloge of his predecessor, alluded to

the part that brilliant wit had taken in the revolution, and revived the recollection of times, which it was so necessary to bury in oblivion. The emperor would not hear of this firebrand being thrown; and the illustrious martyr was rejected from the number of the elect, although in the same discourse he had lavished the most boundless homage on the man whom he has since stigmatized with so many epithets of opprobrium, but whom in his Atila, he declares was sent to France from heaven, "en signe de reconciliation, quand il est las de punir.” "In token of reconciliation, when it became tired of punishing."

NAPOLEON NEVER ACCUSED OF INGRATITUDE.

Ir is a singular circumstance, that of the multitude of persons, devoted friends, and avowed enemies of Napoleon, not one has ever accused him of ingratitude. A republican, who had been the friend of his youth, but who had refused some distinctions he had offered him, said, that the emperor one day in conversation made the following remark to him:"Je ne suis pas bon, si vous voulez, mais je suis sur.” —“I am not a good man, if you will have it so, but I am sure."-And in fact, added this person, on pourroit toujours compter sur lui,” “he may always be depended on."

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NAPOLEON'S DEPARTURE FOR THE WAR WITH

PRUSSIA.

PREVIOUS to Buonaparte's quitting Paris upon this belligerent expedition, he assembled his ministers, and made to them the following solemn and emphatic appeal.