"That's ay what ye say," replied the "I can see no point o' comparison between lady,-"a's for the family, and nothing for the case o' your twa sons and that o' Jacob the dividual bairns-noo that's what I can and Esau; and what's mair, the very jeanever understand, for is na our family, Char-lousing that there may be sin in what ye lie, Watty, Geordie and Meg?"— wish to do, is a clear demonstration that is "My family," said Claud emphatically, "was the Walkinshaws of Kittlestonheugh, and, let me tell you, Girzy Hypel, if it had na been on their account, there would ne'er hac been a Charlie nor a Watty either between you and me to plea about." "I'm no denying your parentage-I ne'er said a light word about it, but I canna comprehend how it is, that ye would mak step-bairns o' your ain blithsome childer on account o' a wheen auld dead patriarchs that hae been rotten, for aught I ken to the contrary, since before Abraham begat Isaac." "Haud thy tongue, woman, haud thy tongue. It's a thrashing o' the water, and a raising o' bells, to speak to ane o' thy capacity on things so far aboon thy understanding. Gae but the house, and see gin the supper's ready." tionless beauty, of the name of Isabella Fatherlans, and Claud makes this an excuse to himself for doing what he had long before contemplated; he cuts him off from his birth-right, and makes a new entail of Grippy, in favour of the idiot Walter and his heirs male, with various other substitutions of heirs male, to the exclusion of Charles and his descendants, till all others of the race of Walkinshaw are extinct. Advantage is taken of Walter's idiotcy, to make him execute an entail of the estate of Plealands on the same line of heirs; and thus, at length, we see Claud triumphing in the accomplishment of the longcherished object of his ambition, the re-establishment of the house of Kittlestonheugh in all its pristine grandeur and importance. vera sinful; for, O man! it's a bad intent indeed that we canna excuse to oursels. But, to set you right in ae point, and that ye may hae nae apology drawn from scriptural acts, for the unnatural inclination to disinherit your first-born, out o' the prideful phantasy of having a large estate, I should tell you that there was a mystery of our holy religion hidden in Jacob's mess o' porridge, and it's a profane thing to meddle with that which appertaineth to the Lord, for what He does, and what He permits, is past the understanding o' man, and woe awaits on all those that would bring anght to pass contrary to the manifest course of his ordained method. For example, he taketh the breath of life away at his pleasure, but has he not commanded that no man shall commit murder?-Mr Walkinshaw, Mr. Walkinshaw, ye maun strive against this sin of the flesh, ye maun warsle wi' the devil, and hit him weel on the hip till ye gar him loosen the grip that he has ta'en to draw you on to sic an awful sin. Ileh, man! an ye're deluded on to do this thing! What a bonny sight it will be to see your latter end, when Belzebub, wi' his horns, will be sitting upon your bosom, Shortly after this conversation, the boring through the very joints and marrow Laird of Plealands dies; but, on exayour poor soul wi' the red-hot gimblets o'ed with male issue. The manner in which the news of this second disapmining his settlement, it is discovered guilty conscience." Claud shuddered at the picture, and, pointment is conveyed to the old Laird, that, though of sufficient avail as a tes-taking the reproving minister by the hand, is described with much humour:tamentary conveyance, it is imperfect said, "We canna help the wicked thoughts as a deed of entail. Walter is admitted that sometimes rise, we dinna ken whar heir to his estate, but without being frac, within us." obliged to assume his grandfather's "In this manier, the conversations be'tween Grippy and his leddy were usually conducted to their natural issue, a quarrel, which ended in a rupture that was only healed by a peremptory command, which sent her on some household mission, during the performance of which the bickering was forgotten.' name. Claud designs now to take a new farm, and it is thus warmly he unfolds his plans to his friend, the Rev. Mr. Kilfuddy: "Ye dinna ken whar frae?-I'll tell you whar frae-frae hell; sic thoughts are the cormorants that sit on the apple-trees in the devil's kail-yard, and the souls o' the damned are the carcases they mak their meat o'." "For Heaven's sake, Mr. Kilfuddy," "Mr. Kilfuddy, it would be no satisfac-exclaimed Claud, trembling in every limb; tion to me to leave a divided inheritance;" be patient, and no speak that gait, ye gar and the warst o't is, that Watty, haverel my hair stand on end,' though it's like to be, is no sae ill as to be "Hair! O man, it would be weel for cognos't; and what maks the case the inair you, if your precious soul would stand on kittle, even though he were sae, his young-end, and no only on end, but humlet to the er brother, Geordic, by course o' law and nature, would still come in for the Plealands afore Charlie. In short, I see no thing for't, Mr. Kilfaddy, but to join the Grippy in ae settlement wi' the Plealands, ' and I would do sae outright, only I dinna like on poor Charlie's account.-Do ye think there is ony sin in a man setting aside his first-born? Ye ken Jacob was alloot to get the blessing and the birth-right o' his elder brother Esau." Mr. Kilfuddy, notwithstanding a spice of worldly-mindedness in his constitution, was, nevertheless, an honest and pious Presby terian pastor; and the quickness of his temper at the moment stirred him to rebuke the cold-hearted speculations of this sordid father. "Mr. Walkinshaw," said he severely, dust, and that ye would retire into a cor- ་ Now, however, comes the ehb of his fortunes. His next care is to get a wife for his chosen heir, Walter; and, albe it he is a fool, a very worthy heiress, Miss Betty Bodle, consents to be his bride. The lady, however, dies in child-bed, after giving birth to a daughter. The third son, George, who inherits much of his father's spirit, also marries, but, unfortunately, is not bless The messenger, Jenny Purdie, had soveral years before been in the servitude of the Laird's house, from which she translated herself to that of George. Being something forward, at the same time sly and adroit, and having heard how much ber old master had been disappointed that Walter's daughter was not a son, she made no scruple of employing a little address in communicating her news. Accordingly, when the Laird, disturbed in his slumber by her entrance, roused himself, and turned round to see who it was that had come into the room, she presented herself, as she had walked from the royal city, muffled up in a dingy red cloak, her dark blue and white striped petticoat, sorely scanty, and her glowing purple legs, and well spread shoeless feet, bearing liberal proof of the speed with which she had spattered and splashed along the road. sic "Tou canna think I would ware less on "I wis you meikle joy, Laird! I hae The Laird, though staggered at the brought you blithesmeat," was her salutation. "What i'st, Jenny ?" said the old man. moment by the energy of this manly appeal, and though, before parting "I'll let you guess that, unless ye prowith the worthy divine, he even ex-mise to gi'e me half-a-crown," was her reply. pressed great contrition for having, as he said, yielded to the temptation of thinking that he was at liberty to settle his estate on whom he pleased; yet 666 "Is't twins ?" exclaimed the Laird, symthe design was, in truth, only deferred,pathizing with her exultation. not relinquished. "A half-crown, a half-crown, Laird," Charles, who becomes his partner, was, however, all the satisfaction he received. marries, against his father's will, a por-"Down wi' the dust." errand as t'on's come on. Is't a laddie?” "It's far better, Laird," said Jenny triumphantly. “An t'ou's sae on thy peremptors, I fan- the picture of the agonized, repentant, cy I maun comply. There, take it and wel-and sorrowing father:come," said he, pulling the money from under the Bap of his waistcoat pocket: while Jenny, stretching her arm, as she hoisted it from under the cloak, eagerly bent forward and took the silver out of his hand, instantaneously affecting the greatest gravity of face. "Laird," said she, "ye manna be angry w?' me, but I did na like just to dumb-foun'èr you a'at ance wi' the news; my mistress, it's very true, has been brought to bed, bat it's no as ye expekit." "Then it's but a dochter!" replied the Laird discontentedly. "I had a fear o't, but I was na prepar't, Mr. Keelevin, for this," said the miserable father; "and poo I'll kick against the pricks nac langer. Wonderful God! I bend my aged grey head at thy footstool. O lay not thy hand heavier upon me than I am able to hear. Mr. Keelevin, ye ance said the entail cou'd be broken if I were to die insolvent-mak, me sae in the name of the God I have dared so long to fight against. An Charlie's dead-murdered by my devices! Weel do I mind, when he was a playing bairn, that I first kent the blessing of what it is to hae something to be kind to; “No, sir, it's no a dochter.-It's twa aften and aften did his glad and bright dochters, sir !" exclaimed Jenny, scarcely young face thaw the frost that had bound able to repress her risibility, while she endeavoured to assume an accent of condol-up my heart, but ay something new o' the world's pride and trash cam in between, ence.' and hardent it mair and mair.-But a's done noo, Mr. Keelevin-the fight's done and the battle won, and the avenging God of righteousness and judgment is victorious." We must add here another extract, which describes forcibly the effect of this disappointment on the mind of Claud: Mr. Keelevin sat in silent astonishment For some time after she had left the at this violence of sorrow. He had no preroom, Claud continued sitting in the same vious conception of that vast abyss of sensiposture with which he had uttered the com- bility which lay hidden and unknown within mand, leaning slightly forward, and holding the impenetrable granite of the old man's the arms of the easy-chair graspingly by pride and avarice; and he was amazed and both his hands, as if in the act of raising overawed when he beheld it burst forth, as himself. Gradually, however, he relaxed when the fountains of the great deep were his hold, and subsided slowly and heavily broken up, and the deluge swept away the into the position in which he usually fell earliest and the oldest iniquities of man. asleep. Shutting his eyes, he remained in The immediate effect, when he began to that state for a considerable time, exhibit-recover from his wonder, was a sentiment ing no external indication of the rush of of profound reverence. mortified feelings, which, like a subterranean stream of some acrid mineral, struggled through all the abysses of his hosom. "Mr. Walkinshaw," said he, "I have long done you great injustice;" and he was proceeding to say something more as an apology, but Claud interrupted him. "This last stroke-the birth of twin daughters seemed to perfect the signs and "You hae ne'er done me any manner of eraens of that displeasure with which he wrong, Mr. Keelevin; but I hae sinned had for some time thought the disinherit- greatly and lang against my ain nature, and ance of his first-born was regarded; and it's time I sou'd repent. In a few sorrowful there was undoubtedly something sublime days I maun follow the lamb I hae sacrificed in the fortitude with which he endured lie on the altars o' pride; speed a' ye dow to gnawings of remorse.-It may be impossible mak the little way I hae to gang to the to consider the course of his sordid ambition grave easy to one that travels wi' a broken without indignation; but the strength of heart. I gie you nae further instructions character which enabled him to contend at your skill and honest conscience will tell once with his paternal partiality, and stand you what is needful to be done; and when firm in his injustice before what he awfully the paper's made out, come to me. For the deemed the frowns and the menaces of Hea-present leave me, and in your way hame bid vea, forms a spectacle of moral bravery that Dr. Denholm come hither in the afternoon." cannot be contemplated without emotions "I think, Mr. Walkinshaw," replied of wonder mingled with dread.' Mr. Keelevin, falling into his professional manner on receiving these orders," that it would be as weel for me to come back the morn, when ye're more composed, to get the particulars of what ye wish done."" that ger part interest nor portion in the concerus, at pre "I hope, in mercy, Mr. Walkinshaw, that ye'll be comforted," said the worthy lawyer, deeply affected by his vehemence., I hope so too, but I see na whar sent it's to come frae," replied Claud, bursting into tears, and weeping bitterly, "But," he added, "I would fain, Mr. Keelevin, be left to myself-alack! alack! I hae been owre lang left to mysel. Howsaver, gang away the day, and remember Dr. Denholm as ye pass;-but I'll ne'er hae peace o' mind till the paper's made and signed; so, as a Christian, I beg you to make haste, for it will be a Samaritan's act of charity." 'Mr. Keelevin perceived that it was of no use at that time to offer any farther consola-, tion, and he accordingly withdrew.' (To be concluded in our next.) Mémorial de Sainte Hélène, Journal of the Private Life and Conversations of the Emperor Napoleon at St. Helena. By the COUNT De Las Cases. (Continued from p. 4.) COUNT Las Cases describes the first: residence of Napoleon at St. Helena as miserable in the extreme, and unfit for any person of respectability, much more for one who had had so many palaces at his command. We shall not, however, dwell on this subject, marked as it is by the general regret and reprobation of the public, but proceed to glean a few more anecdotes from this valuable work, So rapid was the march of Napoleon to Paris, when he landed from Elba, that Louis XVIII. had not time to pack up the contents of his bureau in his study, which Napoleon found in the state in which it had been used. The Bourbon Princes made many overtures to Napoleon. The King wrote him a letter, offering him places for himself and his friends if he would restore him to his throne : 'The overtures made by the Count d'Artois possessed still more elegance and address. He commissioned as the bearer of A yet severer stroke of affliction them the Duchess de Guiche, a lady whose awaited the old man. Charles, for whom fascinating manners and personal graces his beart had never ceased to beat were calculated to assist her in the important negociation. She easily got access to Mawarmly, though he had chosen to sa"O man!" exclaimed the hoary penitent, dame Bonaparte, with whom all the indivicrifice him on the altar of family pride, ye ken little o' me. Frae the very dawn duals of the old Court came easily in condies broken hearted, leaving a son anf o' life I hae done nothing but big and build tact. She breakfasted with her at Malmaidaughter. The tidings of this event an idolatrous image; and when it was fi-son; and the conversation turned on London, are communicated to him by Mr. Kee-nished, ye saw how I laid my first-born on levin, an honest and worthy lawyer, who had been a reluctant agent in the work of disinheritance. Ďreadful is the impression which they make; but it is in the author's own powerful language that we must lay before our readers its burning and brazen altar. But ye never darkened a' the world like tire shadow of death to me; and ye canna feel what I feel the emigrants, and the French princes; Madame de Guiche mentioned that as she happened a few days before to be at the house of the Count d'Artois, she had heard seme person ask the Prince what he intended to do for the First Consul, in the event of his restoring the Bourbons; and that the Prince had replied: "I would immediately make him Constable of the kingdom, and every thing else he might chose. But even that would not be enough: we would raise on the Carousel a lofty and magnificent column, surmounted with a statue of BonaJarte crowning the Bourbons." As soon as the First Consul entered, which he did very shortly after breakfast, Josephine eagerly repeated to hira the circumstance which the Duchess had related. | "And did not you reply," said her husband, "that the corps of the First Consul would have been made the pedestal of the column?" -The charming Duchess was still present; the beauties of her countenance, her eyes, and her words, were directed to the success of her commission. She said she was so delighted, she did not know how she should ever be able sufficiently to acknowledge the favour which Madame Bonaparte had procured her, of seeing and hearing so distinguished a man-so great a hero. It was all in vain: the Duchess de Guiche received orders that very night to quit Paris. The charms of the emissary were too well calculated to alarm Josephine, to induce her to say any thing very urgent in her favour, and next day the Duchess was on her way to the frontier.' When the Legislative Council, in 1813, did not second the efforts of Napoleon to carry on the war, he promptly dissolved it. The Legislative body,' said he, instead of assisting me in saving France, wishes to accelerate her ruin. The Legislative body has betrayed its duty-I fulfil mine-I disAfter the decree for dissolving the Council, the Emperor continued: solve it.' Such is the decree which I issue; and were I assured that it would bring the people of Paris in a crowd to the Tuileries to murder me this very day, I would still issue it; for such is my duty. When the people of France placed their destinies in my hands, I took into consideration the laws by which I was to govern them: had I thought those laws insufficient I should not have accepted them. I am not a Louis XVI. Daily vacillations must not be expected from me. Though I have become Emperor, I have not ceased to be a citizen If anarchy were to resume her sway, I would abdicate and mingle with the crowd, to enjoy my share of the sovereignty, rather than remain at the bead of a system in which should only compromise all, without being able to protect any one. Besides,' concluded he, my determination is conformable to the law; and if every one here will do his duty this day, I shall be invincible behind the shelter of the law as well as before the enemy? I Count Las Cases vindicates the Senate of Napoleon, and says it was neither guilty of servility nor baseness. Speaking of his generals, Napoleon said: Massena was endowed with extraordinary courage and firmness, which seemed to increase in excess of danger. When con quered, he was always as ready to fight the went to meet her, and in disguise got into battle again as though he had been the con- her carriage. She was agreeably surprised queror. Augereau was a cross-grained when she discovered him. She had always, character: he seemed to be tired and dis- been given to understand that Berthier, who heartened by victory, of which he always had married her by proxy at Vienna, in perhad enough. His person, his manners, and son and age exactly resembled the Emhis language, gave him the air of a bragga-peror: she, however, signified that she obdocio, which, however, he was far from served a very pleasing difference between being. He was satiated with honours and them. riches, which he had received at all hands, and in all ways. Serrurier, who retained the manners and severity of an old major of infantry, was an honest and trust-worthy man; but a bad general,' &c. Ancient Armies. Among the various subjects of the day's conversation, I note down what the Emperor said respecting the armies of the ancients. He asked whether the accounts of the great armies mentioned in history were to be credited. He was of opinion that those statements were false and absurd. He placed no faith in the description of the innumerable armies of the Carthaginians in Sicily. 'Such a multitude of troops,' he observed, would have been useless in so inconsiderable an enterprise; and if Carthage could have assembled such a force, a still greater one would have been raised in Hannibal's expedition, which was of much greater importance, but in which not more than forty or fifty thousand men were employed.' He did not believe the the forces of Darius and Xerxes, which accounts of the millions of men composing might have covered all Greece, and which would doubtless have been subdivided into a multitude of partial armies. He even doubted the whole of that brilliant period of Greek history; and he regarded the famous Persian war only as a series of undecided actions, in which each party laid claim to the victory. Xerxes returned triumphant, after taking, burning, and destroying Athens; and the Greeks exulted in their victory, because they had not surrendered at Salamis. the conquests of the Greeks, and the defeat With regard to the pompous accounts of of their numberless enemies, it must be recollected, observed the Emperor, that the Greeks, who wrote them, were a vain and hyperbolical people; and that no Persian chronicle has ever been produced to set our judgment right by contrary statements." But the Emperor attached credit to Roman history, if not in its details, at least in its results; because these were facts as clear as day light. He also believed the descriptions of the armies of Gengiskan and Tamerlane, however numerous they are said to have been; because they were followed by gregarious nations, who, on their part, were joined by other wandering tribes as they advanced; "and it is not impossible," observed the Emperor," that this may one day be the case in Europe. The revolution produced by the Huns, the cause of which is unknown, because the tract is lost in the Desert, may at a future period be renewed." Napoleon's Second Marriage. The marriage of Maria-Louisa was consummated at Fontainebleau, immediately after her arrival. The Emperor, setting aside all the etiquette that had previously been arranged, The Emperor wished to spare her all, the details of domestic etiquette, customaryon such occasions. She had received care-, ful instructions at Vienna relative to the ceremonies to be observed on her marriage. The Emperor inquired what directions she had received from her illustrious relatives with regard to him personally. To be entirely devoted to him, and to obey him in all things, was the reply. This declaration,, and not the decisions of certain cardinals and bishops, as was reported, proved the solution of all the Emperor's scruples of conscience. Besides Henry IV. acted in the same way on a similar occasion. 'Maria-Louisa's marriage, said the Emperor, was proposed and concluded under the same forms and conditions as that of MarieAntoinette, whose contract was adopted as a model. After the repudiation of Josephine, negotiations were entered into with the Emperor of Russia, for the purpose of soliciting the hand of one of his sisters: the certain points relative to religion. Prince difficulties rested merely in the settling of Eugène, conversing with M. de Schwartzenberg, learned that the Emperor of Austria would not object to an union between Napoleon and his daughter; and this information was communicated to the Emperor. council was convoked to decide whether an alliance with Russia or Austria would be most advantageous. Eugène and Talleyrand were for the Austrian alliance, and Cambacérès against it. The majority were in favour of an Archduchess. Eugène was the Minister for Foreign Affairs was enappointed to make the official overture, and powered to sign it that very day if an opportunity should present itself; which proved to be the case. A Russia took umbrage at this; she thought herself trifled with, though without just ground. Nothing of an obligatory nature had yet transpired; both parties remained perfectly free. Political interests predominated over every thing.' The following anecdote shews how' Madame de Montesquiou managed the King of Rome :— The apartments of the young Prince were on the ground floor, and looked out on the court of the Tuileries. At almost every hour in the day, numbers of people were looking in at the window, in the hope of seeing him. One day, when he was in a violent fit of passion, and rebelling furiously against the authority of Madame de Montesquiou, she immediately ordered all the shutters to be closed. The child, surprised at the sudden darkness, asked Maman Quiou, as he used to call her, what it all meant. love you too well," she replied, "not to " I better. NAPOLEON'S MEMOIRS. MUCH as the harvest of the Napoleon The first sitting of the Consuls lasted se- A better regulated system of finance was adopted, and a variety of changes were effected in the administration, some of which were not quite so satisfactory: Sieyes was often alarmed at the plots of the jacobins in Paris, and their threats of assassinating the Consuls. He once camé in great agitation, and awoke Napoleon at three o'clock in the morning, to tell him something of this kind, which he had just heard from the police. "Let them alone," said Napoleon; in war as well as in love, we must come to close quarters to make an end of it. Let them come; it may as well be settled one day as another." Frenchmen, who, proceeding to La Napoleon set at liberty the nine Vendée, had been shipwrecked at Ca lais, deeming them entitled to their liberation on account of their being under the laws of hospitality. One of the principal agents of the diplomatic body acquainted Napoleon that the Bourbons had agents in Paris intriguing for their return: 'He even presented to Napoleon, Hyd; de-Neuville and Dandigné, two of the agents. Napoleon received them at ten at night in one of the small chambers of the Luxembourg. "A few days ago," said they to him, "we felt confident of triumph; now every thing is altered. But, general, you will never be imprudent enough to rely upon such events? You have it in your power to re-establish the throne, and to restore it to its legitimate master; we are acting in concert with the leaders of La Vendée, we can bring them all here. Disclose to us what you wish to do; how you purpose to conduct yourself; and, if your intentions agree with our's, we shall all be at your disposal.” lent. In 1815, men of high influence in European diplomacy, endeavoured to sound his opinions, with the view of ascertaining whether, in case Napoleon should again be constrained to abdicate, and the choice should fall on him, he would accept the crown. On this occasion, as on every other, the Prince steadily pursued a line of duty "The first act of government was the orand honour which will immortalize him.ganization of the ministry. Dubois de Honour and fidelity was his constant reply; Crancé was Minister at War. He was inand posterity will make it his device. competent for such a post; a party man, "On the distribution of states, in 1811, little esteemed, and altogether devoid of the Emperor Alexander, who frequently habits of business and order. His offices visited the Empress Josephine at Malmai- were filled by creatures of faction, who, inson, signified a wish to procure for her son stead of doing their work, spent their time the sovereignty of Genoa. Eugène, how-in discussions; it was a downright chaos. ever, declined this proposition, at the insti- It will hardly be believed that Dubois de gation of the ruling diplomatists, who falsely Crancé could not furnish the Consul with a 'Hyde-de-Neuville appeared to be a flattered him with the hope of something single report of the state of the army, Ber- young man of talent; ardent, but not viothier was appointed Minister at War. He Dandigné seemed an outrageous At the Congress of Vienna, the Emperor was obliged to send a dozen officers, one madman. Napoleon answered them, "that Alexander, who honoured Prince Eugène after another, among the military divisions it was useless to think of re-establishing the with particular marks of favour, insisted and regiments, to obtain states of the dif-throne of the Bourbons in France; that that he should be made the Sovereign of at least three hundred thousand subjects. He &c. The Ordnance Office was the only one that his intention was to forget the past, and ferent corps, their situation, pay, supplies, they could never ascend it but by striding testified the sincerest friendship for him, and which possessed any returns. A great numthey were every day seen walking about to-ber of corps had been formed, as well by to receive the submission of all who were gether arm-in-arm. The landing at Cannes generals as by the administrations in the willing to concur with the nation; that he put a period, if not to the s. ntiment, at least different departments; their existence was would willingly treat with Chatillon, Bernier, to the manifestat on of it; and changed the unknown to the ministry. It was said to Bourmont, Suzannet, D'Autichamp, &c.: but upon political interests of the Emperor of Russia. Dubois de Crance: "You pay the army, you thenceforward be faithful to the national condition that those chiefs should -The Austrian government even enter- can surely give us a return of the pay." tained the idea of seizing the person of "We don't pay it."-"You victual the army; munication with the Bourbons and with fogovernment, and should break off all comPrince Eugène, and sending him a prisoner let us have the returns of the Victuallingto a fortress in Hungary; but the King of Office."-" We don't victual it."-" You reigners." Bavaria, his father-in-law, indignantly re- clothe the army; let us see the statements presented to the Emperor of Austria, that of the clothing."-" We don't clothe it." Eugène had gone to Vienna under his protection and guarantee, and that they should not be violated. Thus Eugène remained free on his own private parole and that of the King bis father-in-law.' (To be concluded in our next.) "The army at home was paid by robbing the military chest; it was subsisted and clothed by means of requisitions, and the War-Office exercised no kind of control. It took General Berthier a month to collect the materials for drawing up a state of the a.my; and, until that had been accomplished, it was impossible to set about its re-organization.' over five hundred thousand dead bodies; both parties were mutually convinced that This conference lasted half an hour, and there was no possibility of their coming to an understanding upon such a basis.' Sieyes was now organizing his grand plan of government, which was to have a conservative senate, that should chose a Grand Elector for life, All acts of government, all laws, and all judicial proceedings, were to be in his name. He was to be the sole representa tive of the national glory, power, and dig- voli, of Neumark, no more? They would Napoleon opposed this in the Assembly; he said, The grand elector, if he confines him self strictly to the functions you assign him, will be the shadow, but the mere fleshless shadow, of a roi faineant. Can you point out a man hase enough to humble himself to such mockery? if he abuses his preroga-line; tive, you give him an absolute power. If, for example, I became grand elector, when I appointed the consul for war and the consul for peace, I would say, if you nominate a single minister, if you sign a single act without my previous approbation, I will remove you.' But,' you reply, the senate, These magic words put a stop to the evil as by enchantment: the army was reorganized, subsistence was provided, and the deserters returned.' (To be continued.) As comes my teazing creditor on me. This pretty satellite tends towards me and mine. The Spirit of the Monarchy' succeeds; it is certainly by Mr. Hazlitt, on whom Mr. Leigh Hunt has-lit as a cos adjutor in the Liberal.' It possesses some smartness, but it is too republican and too full of antitheses. tended for a satire, we believe, on the The Dogs,' the fourth article, is inabusers of the Liberal; if so, it is perfectly harmless, and though the Dogs snarl, they do not bite. The fifth article is an account of Genoa the Superb, but certainly not a superb account of Genoa. It is even worse than the description of Pisa in the preceding number of the Liberal. This is cer in its turn, will merge the grand elector: The Liberal: Verse and Prose from the tainly by Mr. Leigh Hunt, for no persour South. No. II. of it HAVING devoted the whole of our first the remedy is worse than the evil-nobody, but a thorough-bred Cockney would have recorded so many silly things in a diary as he has done in his account of Genoa. We will take for a specimen his first entry:→ did not diminish our idea of Genoa: but 'June 15.-Our arrival in the harbour our notions of the Italian countenance were formidably startled by the pilot-hoat, which came out to offer its assistance in conducting us by the mole. The mole had been in jured greatly by the storms of the preceding winter. The boat contained, I think, as ugly a set of faces as could well be brought the Pisan periodical, since it is chiefly pilots were singularly neat and clean in their together. It was a very neat boat, and the town made,' though not, like London cutlery with such an imprimatur, the at me as much as to say, persons; but their faces! My wife looked are these our fine best of its kind. Lord Byron has cer- southern heads." The children looked at tainly contributed one article, but we me: we all looked at one another: anri, much doubt he will ever write another; what was very inhospitable, the pilots all whether he may give Leigh Hunt the looked at us. The sum was in their eyes advantage of his name or not, we nei-and there they sat on their bars, grinning up desertion were disorganizing the army; and ther know nor care; there is little dan- at us, and bargaining with the captain: The French military discipline had become relaxed, The cavalry and other horses were perishing for want; contagious diseases and the evil rose to such a height, that whole corps abandoned their positions, and, with drums beating and colours flying, repassed the Var. These disorders gave rise to many general orders from Napoleon to the soldiers of Italy. He said to them, "soldiers, the circumstances which detain me at the head of the government, prevent my being ger of the productions of the one being The second article in the Liberal' is The older ones were like monkies; the younger like half-withered masks hard; stony, and even pale. One young man, however, was handsome both in face and person: he had the fine black eyes and brown colour we expected to meet with and, luckily, driving a less hard bargain than the rest (which was to be expected of him); in the midst of you; your wants are great; of the Animali Parlanti,' wrote on his the captain agreed with him, and he came every measure is taken to supply them. + on board. His dress and appearance we found might be taken as a specimen, and by no means an uncommon specimen, of the better order of boatmen, upon this and the Tuscan const; for we soon had the pleasure of being agreeably disappointed with regard to the slovenliness we had looked for. It was that of a smart English apprentice with |