MIDDLESEX. THE KING, UPON THE INFORMATION OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL, Against JEAN PELTIER. MICHAELMAS TERM, 43d GEORGE III. INFORMATION. STATES-That before, and at the times of the printing and publication of the scandalous, malicious and defamatory libels, and libellous matters and things, after mentioned, there subsisted, and now subsists, friendship and peace between our Sovereign Lord the King and the French Republic, and the subjects of our said Lord the King and the citizens of said Republic; and that before and at those times, citizen Napoleon Buonaparté was, and yet is, First Consul of the said French Republic, and, as such, the chief magistrate of the same : to wit, at the parish of Saint Anne, within the liberty of Westminster, in the county of Middlesex. That Jean Peltier, late of Westminster, in the county of Middlesex, gentleman, well knowing the premises aforesaid, but being a malicious and illdisposed person, and unlawfully and maliciously devising A devising and intending to traduce, defame and vilify the said Napoleon Buonaparté, and to bring him into great hatred and contempt, as well among the liege subjects of our said Lord the King, as among the citizens of the said Republic; and to excite and provoke the citizens of the said Republic, by force of arms, to deprive the said Napoleon Buonaparté of his consular office and magistracy in said Republic, and to kill and destroy said Napoleon Buonaparté; and also unlawfully and maliciously devising, as much as in him, the said Jean Peltier, lay, to interrupt, disturb and destroy the friendship and peace subsisting between our said Lord the King and his subjects, and the said Napoleon Buonaparté, the French Republic, and the citizens of the same Republic; and to excite animosity, jealousy and hatred in said Napoleon Buonaparté, against our said Lord the King, and his subjects, on the 16th of August, in the forty-second year of the reign of our sovereign Lord George the Third, by the grace of God, of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, King, defender of the faith; at the parish of Saint Anne, within the liberty of Westminster, in the county of Middlesex, unlawfully and maliciously did print and publish, and cause and procure to be printed and published, a most scandalous and malicious libel, in the French language, of and concerning the said Napoleon Buonaparté; that is to say, one part thereof, to the tenor following, to wit: LE LE 18 BRUMAIRE, AN VIII. "Ode, attribuée à Chénier. "QUELLES tempêtes effroyables Grondent sur les flots déchaînés? "Dieux! quels torrents épouvantables "Les fleuves n'ont plus de rivages; La terre va-t-elle, écroulée, “Se détacher de l'univers? "Ah! plutôt pour se faire absoudre D'une trop longue impunité, "Les cieux peut-être avec la foudre, "Vont protéger la Liberté. "Dieux du peuple que l'on opprime, .66 Vengez cette auguste victime "De l'audacieux attentat, 66 Qu'aux jours malheureux de Brumaire, "Les lois ont, dans leur sanctuaire, "Vu consommer par un soldat. 66 Trop vain espoir de la vengeance ! "Que vos bras pour libérateurs? A 2 Jouets "Mais sous quelles viles entraves "A succombé notre vertu ! 66 Quoi! l'univers nous voit esclaves "Sans que nous ayons combattu! "Au sein d'un sénat parricide, "La noire trahison préside, "Le pouvoir sans appui, sans force, "Tombe à sa voix, et c'est d'un Corse "Que le Français reçoit des fers! And And in another part thereof to the tenor following, that is to say: "Déjà, dans sa rage insolente, "Le despote ose menacer. . . . . "Est-ce pour vous donner un maître, "Que les droits du peuple et ses lois. And in another part thereof to the tenor fol lowing, that is to say: "Veu d'un bon Patriote au 14 Juillet, 1802. "Quelle fortune a fait le fils de Létitie ! "Corse, il devient Français ! Sa nouvelle patrie L'adopte, le nourrit au rang de ses enfants, "Et déjà lui promet les destins les plus grands! "Un orage survient; sous l'effort des tempêtes "L'état est renversé; les plus augustes têtes "Tombent, tout est brisé : le Français malheureux Regrette, en soupirant, son erreur et ses vœux ! "Napoléon paraît ! de victoire en victoire "Il atteint en volant au faîte de la gloire ! 66 L'Orient, l'Occident, témoins de ses exploits, "Le Nil avait frémi; mais le sort qui l'entraîne 66 66 Rappelle son vainqueur aux rives de la Seine. Cinq chefs, ou cinq tyrans partageaient le pouvoir, "Il arrache à leurs mains le sceptre et l'encensoir. "Le voilà donc assis où s'élevait le trône ! "Que faut-il à ses vœux? un sceptre? une couronne ? "Consul |