weakness. I have seen the dead and the dying, scattered heads and limbs, and my heart failed me no longer; here is a sufficient proof, then, of the possibility of accustoming one's-self to carnage. I rode through the midst of three thousand slaughtered Mameloucs; Milord trembled under me, while I fixed my eyes on those poor victims of ambition and vanity, and said to myself,"WE CROSS THE SEA, WE BRAVE THE ENGLISH FLEET, WE DISEMBARK IN A COUNTRY WHICH NEVER THOUGHT OF US, WE PILLAGE THEIR VILLAGES, RUIN THEIR INHABITANTS, AND VIOLATI THEIR WIVES; WE WANTONLY RUN THE HAZARD OF DYING WITH HUNGER AND THIRST; WE ARE EVERY ONE OF US ON THE POINT OF BEING ASSAS

SINATED; AND ALL THIS FOR WHAT? IN TRUTH, WE HAVE NOT YET DISCOVERED!"

The disgust of the army is universal. All the administrations are disorganized. There exists among us a selfishness, a fretfulness that absolutely incapacitates us from associating together. With respect to myself, I plunge into business, and thus escape the general ennui. I am still with the same commissary of war; but you must allow me to observe to you, that I have no in

There is a passage in Macbeth so perfectly applicable to the sentiment before us, that we cannot resist the temptation of laying it before the reader.

Macb. I have almost forgot the taste of fear.
The time has been, my senses would have cool'd
To hear a night-shriek; and my fell of hair
Would at a dismal treatise rouse, and stir

As life were in't. I have supp'd full with horrors;
Direness, familiar to my slaughterous thoughts,
Cannot once start me.

clination to wait till I am five-and-twenty, to become a commissary myself. Do not forget me then, and, above all be assured, that the sooner you can obtain my recall, the better it will be for me.

The career in which I am engaged at present, is a most humiliating one, and we are constantly squabbling with the generals. The Commander in Chief is the only one who pays us any attention; but he is obliged, at the same time, to wink at every thing in the officers. He treats them with great delicacy, and evidently fears that the army, which already begins to murmur, will at no great distance of time, proceed to something more alarming. In a word, take into your consideration too, that Sucy has lost much of his influence; that since he left Alexandria, he has executed no part of his office, on account of his having had the imprudence to go on board the flotilla (to insure, as he pretended, the subsistence of the troops), and that he found himself, as he ought to have foreseen, without the possibility of rejoining them. Finally, take notice, that in consequence of the climate, we are become, in spite of ourselves, listless and inactive; and that we have the greatest difficulty in determining ourselves to put one leg before the other.

I leave to your prudence and good sense to reflect on what I have said; confident that your friendship for me will lead you to what is fittest and best. I shall look for your answer with impatience.

Sucy's wound prevents him from writing; it appears that he will lose all but the two fore fingers of his right hand: he supports his misfortune, however, with patience; which is more than he does the immense space that separates us from our country.

I am very seriously engaged on the history of our expedition having already collected a vast quantity of materials, which I shall immediately set about putting in order. Adieu; I love you entirely. Adieu, my dear Miot; when shall I have the satisfaction of locking you in my arms? write to me, pray write.

P. S. (15 Thermidor) August 2d.

I am this moment setting out with General Le Clerc,*

"O most lame and impotent conclusion!" Who would have expected to see our Savant, after his pathetic description of the miseries he had already contributed to bring upon this unfortunate country, who would have expected, we say, to find him gaily setting out upon a fresh expedition, of which the avowed (not "secret") purpose was the most flagitious and cruel robbery that was ever yet attempted! (we speak of the meditated seizure of the caravan.) But this is nature.

Hæc ubi locutus fœnerator Alphius
Jam jam futurus rusticus,

Omnem relegit Idibus pecuniam

Quærit Calendis ponere!!!

When we first found in some of these letters, sentiments of enlarged kindness and humanity, we were inclined to give the writers credit for them, and spoke with cordial approbation (Part I. Introd. &c.) of feelings which we imagined to be as sincere as they were well expressed; but a farther acquaintance with this correspondence has almost cured us of our credulity: for we observed, as we proceeded, that there was not one of those moralizing, those humane declaimers, "however he might write the style of gods," that did not in some part or other of his letter, like the Savant before us, betray the same infuriate passion for pillage and destruction, as the General himself, although a keen perception of his own wretched situation, might lead him, at the moment, to deprecate and deplore the wide spreading ruin before him.

on a secret expedition. Here then I leave Grand Cairo, but I hope to return to it.

Sucy is a little better; he wishes to return to France; but does not seem disposed to take me with him. Write to him on the subject. Once more, I embrace

you.

No. V.

Au Grand Caire, le 9 Thermidor, an 6.

Cher Père et chère Mère,

Je n'ai pas pu vous donner de mes nouvelles depuis mon embarquement, vu la difficulté des couriers. Je présume que ma dernière vous sera parvenu en date de Toulon.

Je voudrois pouvoir vous faire tous les détails de ce qui s'est passé depuis notre départ de Toulon jusqu'ici; je vous dirai seulement de gros en gros ce qui s'est passé.

La conquête de l'Isle de Malthe a été le début de la campagne; après quoi nous avons continué notre route jusqu'en Egypte. Le débarquement de l'armée s'est fait à Alexandrie, qui nous a couté plusieurs braves militaires, qui ont perdu la vie sous les mûrs de cette ville ancienne. De là toute l'armée s'est mise en marche sur cinq divisions pour le Grand Caire, où nous sommes enfin arrivés avec toutes les difficultés imaginables, ayant souffert tout ce qu'il est possible de souffrir. Vous allez frémir en lisant ce qu'il suit: nous avons marché pendant dix-sept jours sans pain, sans vin, ni eau de vie, et cinq jours sans eau, dans des plaines brûlantes, et l'ennemi continuellement à nos trousses. Figurez-vous que nous avions à combattre des barbares, qui ne connoissoient point les droits de la guerre, et par conséquent qui exerçoient toutes les cruautés imaginables envers les malheureux Français qui tomboient entre leurs mains;