anything about, his successor to the throne of France? And then, where was his power, of which he had no more than any one of the mice within the walls of PARIS? The fly, in the fable of LAFONTAINE, which, sitting on the harness of the coach-horse, said to the horses "How we drag it along!" the vanity of that fly was not greater than the vanity of this man upon this occasion. The assemblies seem to have had a little more sense the two chambers declared their sittings to be permanent; they appointed a provisional executive government; they adopted vigorous measures for preserving the peace; they graciously received the offers of service of many bodies of the people; but they took especial care to say not a word about resistance of the allies; and, in short, they made every preparation for delivering up PARIS and the whole of their country, very quietly, into the hands of its invaders, who very soon came, bringing the King of France in their train; and, as we shall byand-by see, went very methodically to work to do everything, the necessity of doing which had been so strongly urged by the hired press of England, but of which I shall no further speak at present, having to pursue the vain NAPOLEON .to his end.

237. Having abdicated, and performed the ridiculous antics mentioned before, he, with a parcel of his favourites, escaped from PARIS in

disguise, and reached the little town of ROCHEFORT, in Brittany. There he got on board of a brig of war, hoisted a flag of truce, went to the English ship, the BELLEROPHON, and, on the 14th of July, surrendered himself a prisoner of war to Captain MAITLAND, the commander of that ship. Captain MAITLAND, of course, soon brought him to England; and, that it might be as far from gaping London as possible, he took him, very judiciously, to PLYMOUTH. He had with him one Lieutenant-General with a wife and three children, two other Lieutenant-Generals, several other persons, his "personal surgeon," besides forty other persons, and great heaps of money and diamonds. Already there. were baseness and poltroonery enough; but, as if he had had a mind to overdo it, he addressed the following letter to the Prince Regent from PLYMOUTH :

YOUR ROYAL HIGHNESS,-A prey to the factions which distract my country, and to the enmity of the greatest Powers of Europe, I have ended my political career; and, like Themistocles, I seek an asylum among a foreign people. I place myself under the protection of British laws, which I invoke from your Royal Highness, the most powerful, the most determined, and the most generous of my enemies.

238. In the first place, here is a calumny on the French people. He had not been a prey to any factions; he had been a prey to his own insolent vanity. THEMISTOCLES, indeed! What an empty

coxcomb it must have been ! Much he knew about British laws! This is like his dogmatical gabble recorded by his biographers. He was, with regard to us, a prisoner of war, and nothing more; and, with regard to the King of France, he was simply a rebel. If we chose we had a right to deliver him up to his sovereign, as one of his subjects; and as a prisoner of war, who had laid down his arms and surrendered himself to us, we might have given him his liberty, and have suffered him to remain here, if we had chosen ; but his pretensions to write letters to the King of England were no better than they would have been in any other prisoner of war. He had been called an Emperor; and he had been a great soldier; and he had had kings at his feet, brought there by the bravery of the French people; but, having turned fool, having married into the families of kings, having become insufferably vain and insolent, and having wanted the courage to re trieve his affairs, he had come down again to that which he had risen from; and he really was no more in the eye of the laws of England, than any common soldier taken at the battle of WATERLOO. But what excites our loathing here, is his excessive baseness. Invoking from George the Fourth protection, and calling him the most 66 qenerous" of his enemies, deserved a death once a day for fifty years. Why, I will be bound

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to find a hundred thousand men in England, each of whom would have suffered any death that you could have inflicted upon him, rather than have called George the Fourth "generous." It may be said, that he was in the power of George the Fourth; but were there no razors, no penknives, on board the BELLEROPHON? Had his "personal surgeon" no laudanum, or other potent drug? There was the sea, at any rate. It was hard if he could not have got some one to tie a shot to his heels. When an American was told, not long before this very time, that he, having been born in America before the rebellion, might avoid ruin by claiming his rights of allegiance as a subject of the king, he exclaimed, "What are there neither razors nor ropes in England?" I do not believe that an act of baseness equal to this was ever before committed by any man of any nation.

239. It was not long, however, before this act of baseness received a suitable punishment. It was settled by our Government that he should be conveyed on board an English ship to the island of St. HELENA: and here it is of importance to observe, that this very island had been, while he was at ELBA, pointed out as a proper place to send him to; and the hired press distinctly proposed that he should be sent from ELBA to this very island of ST. HELENA. He was taken, in the month of August, from on board the BELLERO

PHON, and put on board the NORTHUMBERLAND, commanded by Sir GEORGE COCKBURN. The ship sailed with him, in the early part of that month; and the voyage was of about the usual length. Orders were sent out to provide a residence for him in the island, where he was to be guarded day and night by English soldiers. Part of his property was taken from him. The total And it is of it was of very great amount. very curious that, in all his hurry and confusion, he did not forget to commit this act of plunder upon the French nation. Every shilling's worth of valuable effects, found in his chests, ought to have been taken, and sent to the treasury of France. The great thing of all which he seems to have taken care of, was the amassing of wealth for himself and the divers members of his family. Before he sailed, he sent a protest to the Government, dated on board the BELLEROPHON, on the 10th of August; and this protest is, if possible, more childish and stupid than the letter to the Prince Regent. The following are the words:

I solemnly protest, before God and man, against the violation of my sacred rights, in disposing by force of my person and my liberty: I came voluntarily on board the Bellerophon; I am not a prisoner, I am a guest of England. As soon as I was seated on board the Bellerophon, I was upon the hearth of the British people. If the Government, in giving orders to the Captain of the Bellerophon to receive me and my suite on board, meant no more than to hold out an ambush, it has forfeited its honour and tarnished its flag. If this act be consummated, in vain will the people of England