Why then do not the French Princes shew themselves worthy of such an ancestor? It is not even now too late, although the, Corsican Usurper affects to be solidly established on the throne of France.

His banners will be soon deserted, even by his most subservient tools, provided the French see the Royal Princes of their own nation at the head of Frenchmen, and on French ground, ready to drive the odious foreigner, the Assassin of Frenchmen from the seat of government which he pollutes and disgraces.

Buonaparte is universally abhorred and despised in France, in spite of the ridiculous farces so ostentatiously published in his official and officious Moniteur.

He cannot walk alone the distance of one hundred yards, out of sight of his devoted satellites, without the certainty of being massacred by those very persons who vociferate vire Buonaparte!

CHAPTER VI.

Buonaparte gains a Victory over the Turks landed at Aboukir. His desertion from the Army of Egypt, with several Generals, and his guides, His arrival in France, where he succeeds to put himself at the head of a mixed faction, and overthrows the Directory, on the 9th of November, 1799.

BUONAPARTE, having thus been repulsed

from Acre, hastened back to Egypt, where soon an opportunity offered of making some amends for his shameful and disastrous expedition to Syria.

A body of eight thousand Turks (the learned Vivant Denon says twenty thousand) had landed near Aboukir, and carried by storm the small fort of that name.

But as it afforded the last achievement of Buonaparte in Egypt, let his dispatch be inserted here:

"Army of the East.

"Buonaparte, Member of the National Insti"tute, commander in chief, to the Executive "Directory.

"Head quarters at Alexandria, the 10th of "Thermidor, 7th year, (the 29th July, 1799.) "Citizen Directors, I announced to you, in my dispatch of the 21st Floréal, (the 11th May) that the season for attempting to land "had engaged me to quit Syria.

"The landing has, in fact, taken place. On "the 23d Messidor, (the 12th July) one hundred "sail, including several men of war, appeared "before Alexandria, and cast anchor at Abou"kir. On the 27th the enemy landed, stormed "and took the redoubt and fort of Aboukir with

an astonishing intrepidity, brought on shore " his field ordnance, and supported by fifty sail, "encamped, his right extending to the sea, his " left to the lake Maadie, on some beautiful hills.

"I set off from my camp at the Pyramids, on "the 27th, arrived on the 1st Thermidor, at

Rhamanie, then marched to Birkat, which be46 came the centre of my operations, from whence "I hastened to meet and found myself in presence of the enemy, on the 7th Thermidor, at "six o'clock in the morning.

"General Murat commanded the van-guard. "He ordered General Destaing to attack the

• The learned Vivant Denon says two hundred sail. The difference is but trifling. But it is evident that the obsequious Denon had forgotten the dispatch of his patron, when he published his work in Paris,

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" right of the enemy. The general of division, "Lannes, attacked the left. General Lanusse ἐσ supported the van-guard. A fine even ground "of eight hundred yards formed an interval be"tween the wings of the enemy's army. Our cavalry rushed in there, and turned with great "rapidity their right and left. They were both "cut off from the second line; the enemies threw "themselves into the water, in order to get on board their vessels, of near three miles.

which were at a distance

They were all drowned;

"the most horrid sight I had ever behield.*

"We then attacked the second line, which oc "cupied a formidable position; before it a village surrounded by a wall; in the centre a re"doubt; and entrenchments which extended it "to the sea. Above thirty gun-boats covered "its wings: General Murat forced the village; "General Lannes attacked the left from the sea "side; General Fugieres led his close column "against the enemy's right. The attack and the "defence became smart. The cavalry decided "the victory; charging the enemy, turning ra

pidly their right, and making a horrid slaugh"ter. The chief of battalion of the 69th, Bernard, "and Citizen Baylle, captain of grenadiers of

* Wonderful sensibily of an atrocious assassin! Does he forget Toulon and Paris? and Italy and Jafia?

"the same half-brigade, covered themselves with glory; the redoubt was taken, and the hussars

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having still rushed in between the fort of Abou"kir and the second line, the enemies were com

pelled to throw themselves into the sea. Be

ing pursued by our cavalry, they were all "drowned. We then invested the fort, where "remained the reserve reinforced by the nimblest "runaways; and not willing to lose men, I di"rected six mortars to be got ready to bombard "it. The shore, where the waves brought last

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year the dead bodies of the British and the "French, is now covered with the dead bodies "of the enemy. One has already counted above "six thousand; three thousand have been buried "in the field of battle. Thus, not a single man "of this army shall have escaped, after the sur"render of the fort, which must soon take place.*

The learned Vivant Denon, with a mathematical accuracy, says, That out of twenty thousand men landed, four thou sand were killed, six thousand were taken prisoners, and the remainder were all drowned.

Sir Robert Wilson says: "It will not be totally irrelevant "to correct Buonaparte's account of the victory he gained "over the Turks at Aboukir, which describes their force as amounting to seventeen thousand men, the whole of which "he states to have been either killed or taken.

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"The consequent importance of such a conquest, attached "certainly much credit to the commander, and from the cir"cumstances of the times, proved of infinite advantage to