has been successful; so far as the execution has been splendid: and in pursuit of these praises to himself, he has led his Army into unprofitable dangers, and finally left them to a ruin, which he has refused to share. Of the Revolution, he helped to establish with his cannon that form, which he has now overturned with his bayonets. And when the time of trial to this new fabric shall arrive; it may strike the people of France, perhaps, that he who abandoned an Expedition of his own planning, as soon as its Catastrophe appeared unavoidable; might again give the last blow to a Constitution of his own erecting,' whenever he should see reason to apprehend On the 18th Vendemiaire (Oct. 1795), at the period of the last revolution but two,-no: but three: when Bonaparte, under the direction of Barras, commanded the artillery at Paris, and mowed down whole groupes of the people of the Sections. Bonaparte is said to have been the only military man who could be found to undertake this work of slaughter. It was the origin of his promotion; the first foundation of his greatness. Undoubtedly the recollection of it must render him dear to the People of Paris. The friends and relatives of those who fell in the massacre of that day, must feel their remembrance of those victims, pleasingly excited, as often as they are called upon to troop after the heels of the FIRST CONSUL to the Opera, or the Infiitute;-and to admire, in a morning, his blue coat, and white pantaloons; and, in the evening, the white coat, with the blue ones: Magnificence' cheaply purchased by the blood of "mon bon peuple de Paris." 1 that he might otherwise be crushed himself in its fall. They may recollect, perhaps, that the fol lowers of BONAPARTE have not as yet been admitted, in the crisis of danger and distress, into a fair participation of his boasted fortune; and that the great effort of his prudence, and the best resource of his genius, has hitherto consisted in facrificing THEM, to extricate HIM SELF. And when, at length, these things shall force themselves, as they must, upon the observation of those who are now awed by his power, or dazzled by his name; and when they see that these things are known and felt throughout Europe; may they not think it matter of serious doubt, whether that name and that power be indeed (as they have been taught to believe), destined to consolidate the fortunes of France;to heal the wounds, and calm the agitations, of her long series of Revolutions; to efface the memory of her multiplied crimes and sufferings; to re-establish her station among the Nations ef. the Earth; and to restore to her, once again, tranquillity at home, and peace abroad? May they not reasonably doubt whether the qualities of BONAPARTE, such as they are here recorded, and the Government of which they constitute the sole recommendation and security, are fitted to so high and arduous a duty? And then,-ye implicit and unwearied admirers of every possible French constitution,—say, does this last work of "human wisdom and integrity" promise to be immortal? What think you, ye Jacobins of Europe, will not your Idol totter on his throne? TABLE OF CONTENTS. No. 1: Kleber, Commander in Chief, to the Executive Directory. 2. Bonaparte, Commander in Chief, to the Army. 3. Bonaparte, Commander in Chief, to General Kieber. 6. Estimate of the different Sums due on the 23d of August, 7. Etats des principaux Objets rélatifs à l'Artillerie, manquants à l'Armément des Places, à l'Armée active, et à l'Equipage de Siège. 8. Le Roy, Commissary of the Marine, to the Minister of the Marine, and of the Colonies. 9. E. Poussielgue, Comptroller of the Expences of the Army, the Commissioners of the National Treasury. 10. E. Poussielgue, to Citizen Merlin, Member of the Exe cutive Directory. 11. Damas, General of Division, to the Minister of War. 12. E. Poussielgue, to the Executive Directory. 13. Dugua, General of Division, to Citizen Barras, Member of the Executive Directory. 14, 15. Bonaparte, Commander in Chief, to the Grand Vizier, 18, Kleber, Commander in Chief, to the Grand Vizier. Au Quartier-Général du Caire, le 18 Vendémiaire, KLEBER, Général en Chef, au DIRECTOIRE LE Citoyen Barras, m'étant particulièrement connu par fa loyauté, par fon dévouement au Gouvernement par fon amour pour la République et pour la vérité, j'ai cru, Citoyens Directeurs, ne pouvoir faire un PART III. B |