as well as former occafions, has been the laft retreat of the unfortunate brave, while the Thuilleriers ftill exhibit the contraft of being the afylum of fuccefsful guilt. They were guillotined between eleven and twelve o'clock, and it remains only to be observed in juftice to the memory of Georges, that he made no fubmiffion whatever to the authority that tried him, and was even firm enough to refuse all request of pardon, when he need only to afk and have: he died with unexampled intrepidity and loyalty, and with no other oftentation than fuch as it was neceffary in his fituation to fhew: a mind unbroken in the midft of death, from a conviction of the juftice of the glori ous caufe for which he fuffered. During the trial of the confpirators, a circumftance occurred that made a confiderable impreffion upon the Judges as well as the audience; it was the addrefs of the younger Polignac, when before the tribunal. With a firm and intrepid voice, he thus addreffed the court: "fhould my brother Armaud be found guilty, and I declared innocent, I fupplicate moft earneftly to be permitted to take his place, and to die for him; he has a wife, I am unmarried, and in the prefent fituation of my king, my country, and my family, I have no ties that attach me to life; which, befides I have not enjoyed long enough to lament its lofs; an unfortunate and loyal exile from my youth, I have tafted little of exiftence but its wretchednefs, which now is become almost infupportable, and I fee no other happinefs or glory on this fide the grave, than to be allowed to afcend the fame fcaffold where the moft virtuous of men and the best of kings Louis XVI. has bled. bled. My fentiments are unalterable, neither to be shaken by terror, or moved by clemency. No Polignac was ever traitor to his God, or to his king, and I certainly shall not be the first that dishonours my name. Whether I am to die in an hour, or to live a century, my last prayer fhall be, that providence may restore to my country its lawful fovereign." During his fpeech of which this is only a fketch, feveral ladies in the Galleries evinced by their tears the intereft he infpired; even the Gens d' Armes were moved at feeing his firmness and hearing his franknefs. While the minds of the people of France were agitated by the alarming reports of the danger of the country, from the dreadful confpiracy then inveftigating, Buonaparte was actively employed in forming a plan for rendering the government hereditary in his family; the dreadful scenes of counter revolutions, which had so oft deluged Paris with the blood of its beft citizens, were called to remembrance by the crafty agents of the tyrant, and reprefented as being about to be renewed had not the vigilance and activity of the First Conful, fruftrated their defigns; from this they failed not to infer that Buonaparte was fo dear to the nation, that it would be the most manifeft ingratitude not to raise him to a dignity fuperior to the Governors of other ftates, and confiftent with the grandeur of the Great Nation; by artifices fuch as these was the deluded French feduced to elevate to the highest degree of human grandeur, a wretch whose whole life has been a tiffue of the blackeft crimes. The tribunate ever fervile and complacent in the fitting fitting of the 30th of April, after a moft fulfome and degrading panegyric, paffed the following decrees. I. That Napoleone Buonaparte now Firf Conful, be declared Emperor of the Gauls. II. That the imperial dignity be declared hereditary in his family. Thefe decrees were fucceeded by congratulatory addreffes from the different armies of the Republic, declaring in the most abject terms, their fealty and homage, Nothing now remained to complete this fuperftructure of tyranny; but the recognition of his title by the crowned heads of Europe; and it is with regret we remark that a too fervile defire to maintain their prefent fpecious and momentary fecurity, has induced but too many of the continental powers to countenance this ufurpation, and to bow before a Corfican adventurer, clad in the IMPERIAL MANTLE OF DEGRADED LOYALTY. WE have now traced, from infancy to the affumption of imperial power, the tyrant who, in imitation of Hannibal, has fworn eternal hatred to you, sons of Albion; he, whofe avowed object is the annihilation of your existence, who lufts to lead his devastating minions unto your ifle, to plunder your homes, to defile your daughters, and above all, to deftroy your conftitution! He, whofe bloody and nefarious deeds will ever blacken the page of history, with recitations of horrors and crimes, arrogantly afferts, that you fhall no longer exift but in name! It is to you, Britons, Britons, who, feelingly alive to the tendereft fenfibility of foul, love your wives as yourselves, your children with parental affection; and who view the conftitution that fecures your freedom and happiness, as your pride and boaft, that he holds out his arrogant and infulting threats! And can you tamely brook the daring infult? Will you bafely tarnish the well earned laurels of your ancestors, and degradingly fuffer a ruffian band to commit their outrageous depredations with impunity? Will you become the flaves of France? and crouch to tinfelled emptinefs? No! The zeal already fhewn in defence of your country, prohibits even the fuppofition. Arife, then, Britons! rally round the ftandard of your Sovereign! Be his name unto you a tower of ftrength. Supporters of of George and liberty! fhould the daring foe try the hoftile experiment, you will convince them that you are ftill the defcendants of the conquerors of Crefy, Poitiers and Agincourt! And, may the Almighty Ruler of the Univerfe, who fees the juftice of your cause, and and whofe infinite wifdom will not suffer the unjust to triumph, give his bleffings to your fleets and armies, then fhall you conquer, and the world be at peace! APPEN APPENDIX. . EXPEDITION TO EGYPT. THE following fhort account of the glorious exploits of the British army in Egypt, though not immediately connected with the life of Buonaparte, ftill as their influences in a great measure, fevered the deareft interefts of Buonaparte's ambition, totally annihilated his gigantic expedition, and completely defeated views nearest to his heart; we truft our readers will find it matter of highly interefting import, and not illtimed as an appendix to the foregoing, when Buonaparte holds out to the world, the prepofterous affertion that Englishmen alone, are not capable of coping with Frenchmen! Thofe memorable engagements, which determined the fate of Egypt, will ever remain a lafting monument of British bravery and heroifm; by them the British characters has been raised to the highest pitch of military honor and renown. The grateful fenfations, the honeft pride and valorous dignity which muft poffefs every bofom, cannot fail of inspiring that magnanimity and confidence which awaits with calmness and deciffion the eventful moment, which must break by one tremendous fhock the iron arm of French ambition; or with that indignant, yet |