experienced the same fate that the atrocious Collot-d'Herbois, the worthy friend of Fouché, had so well deserved. Alas! far too lenient for such a monster.

The National Convention, after the fall of Ro bespierre, and of but too few of his accomplices, had banished the three ferocious beings Collotd'Herbois, Billaud-Varennes, and Bertrand-Barrère, to Cayenne. This last found, however, means to remain in France, and resided chiefly in Bourdeaux with a lawyer called Betbeder, or with a broker called Constantin, in whose country-house assembled the most infamous Jacobins of that city.

But this is not the place to say any thing farther about Barrère.

Buonaparte became more attached than ever to his brothers and friends, the Jacobins, without which he never could have succeeded in usurping the sovereign power.

It is true that the Jacobins who now occupy the first places in France, and some of whom voted the King's death, have cunningly renounced their fraternal appellation of Jacobins, thinking, no doubt, that by leaving such an odious and de tested denomination, they would succeed to consolidate their power, and to enjoy undisturbed the profits of their plunder.

They will have no king, but such an usurper as

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Buonaparte, supporter and accomplice of their

heinous crimes.

That is what they emphatically call a Republic! Buonaparte, forgetting how much he owed to Carnot, pursued him even in his retreat, in order to please the mighty directors.* That ferocious

* Let Carnot speak for himself, in his pamphlet published nearly a month before Buonaparte's departure for Egypt, page 126:

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"I was so persuaded that it was impossible that Buona" parte had contributed to my proscription, that when he "passed, on his way to Rastadt, through a small town where "I was for a short time, I was on the point of sending him "note, in order to ask him a momentary interview; and if I ❝did not do it, it was because I feared that I might put him "to some trouble; for I had never entertained the smallest "doubt about his generosity. I then let him pass, and illu"minated my windows, as did all the inhabitants, reflecting in "the gayest humour on the whimsical destinies of mankind. "A few days afterwards I felt extremely happy in having "acted as I did, when I heard that at Geneva Buonaparte "had put under confinement a banker, called Bontems, only "because he was suspected to have taken me from Paris to “Geneva, after the 18th Fructidor, in order to rescue me "from the pursuits of the Directory, who sent out whole bat"talions and artillery to find me in the neighbourhood of "Paris. The suspicion was unfounded; I had never seen "Bontems in Paris, and it was not to him that I owed the obligation to have taken me out of the frontiers. The un"happy man remained, however, several months in pri* son. Such is the account I heard from many persons who

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Corsican has always shewn, that liberal feelings and generous sentiments are wholly incompatible with the perfidy of his ungrateful heart.

“had seen him at Geneva, and who had heard him mention "the fact, adding that Buonaparte was excessively angry, "and made him the most violent threats."

Still that same Carnot was base and mean enough to become the humble minister of the ungrateful Corsican, who turned him out of office, when he did not want him any more.

CHAPTER III.

Buonaparte signs the Treaty of Peace with the Emperor at Campo-Formio.-He is the bearer of its Ratification to Paris.-His Presentation to the Directory.-He is appointed to the Command of the pretended Army of England. -His Inspection of the Sea-Coasts of the Channel, in order to get ready for his pretended Invasion of England. -He goes to Toulon, from whence he sails for his philanthropic Expedition to Egypt.

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S soon as the Directory became invested with the dictatorial power, through the baseness of the representative spared by the Triumvirs, and who had not spirit enough to refuse to assemble, they sent orders to Buonaparte to sign the Treaty of Peace with the Emperor, on the same conditions on which it might have been signed five months before.

But the Directors knew, that by making peace at that time, the people would think that it was the fault of the proscripts, if such a blessing had not been restored till then.

They flattered themselves that their infamous acts would be forgotten by a few months of a patched-up peace, which they never intended to be of long duration.

They new that the congress of Rastadt would be long enough for their purposes, and that at last hostilities must be unavoidably renewed.

Buonaparte then signed the Treaty, and sent it to Paris by his devoted confident, General Berthier, who was accompanied by the learned. Monge.

After Berthier had spoken, Monge made such a ridiculous speech, that one would have taken it for a satire on the Directors, if the speaker had not been known for the most fulsome flatterer, and the vilest sycophant.

He earnestly and submissively entreated and besought the mighty Directors not to punish the English nation, but only the English govern

ment. *

* The unfortunate Madame Roland mentions Monge in ber Memoirs, page 126, second volume:

"He is a kind of original, who would play apish tricks "like the bears that I have seen in the ditches round the "town of Bern: there cannot be a more awkward buffoon,

"I need not mention the time when he was a minister; "the deplorable state of our navy proves but too well his in "capacity and nullity."