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nice, about the month of April, 1799, presented
:his long wished-for opportunity. The oppressed took
;natant advantage,of it, and, joining themelves to
the vidorious Russians,lllfliaed on the French. a
cnost,exerni)lary and awful retribtitive justice.
If the French in Italy had. respeeted .the xight of
nations, property; and liberty, how could they have
been accused of folloWing a line 'crf .conduct like
that of the Romans in Greece ? HoW could the
p --ere of the crimes of the Romans have excited so
wide-spread7arid tremendous a' commotion ? How
&mid a national vengeance have, been exercised with
Such fatal fury, if there had been no injuries to
irt!tige ? The faR would be inconceivable and in-

him dead on the spot

L To be c.mtiqued.]

ADVICE TO ENGLISH GENTLEMEN,

explicable.
And what was the condua of BuoNArkw.c re-
•-Taling this book ? •Did, he deny the truth which
'it contained ? Not at all : he even soletnnly,4vow-
vd them; yes, avowed Ahem ! since, on Ciis rfturn
from Egypt, having entered Italy a second .tithe, lie
issued; in the spring of 1860,.a erOclaiwltion dated!
at Milan, and addressed to all the Italians, in which
he attributed the whole of the excesses and calp-ni-
iies of which they complained, to the Direatory,!.
which, said be, " I have just suppressed; and front,
which .originated. all yolir miyfin'tanes." At the'
same time he added, that in ;futueelle alone

would regulate their aftiairs, that he" would take
effe&ual means to secure their liberty and independ-
ence, and cense their happiness to spring up atieW !
"This justification, instead of di,abu‘sing theM, ought
to -haVe indreaSed their abhorrence of .him,
in accusing the Dirthory, which. was now no more,
he committed an .a 0 of the blackest ingratitude to-
wards those to whom he owed his existence : and,
in declaring expressly vci that every enormity had
been ordained by the Direa9ry," he proved in so
many words, that he had beed the ready agent 'of
their fury ; a faEt that 'stanps him' with indelible
infamy, since he Who e'xecutes a crime with atrocity
is infinitely 'more culpable' than he who Conimands.
it. Would any one believe that, in defiancetOf all.
this, the ProclamatiOn,-diggraceful as it was to the
author,
.cahned the eXasperated minds,, and in-
spired the Italians with a degree .df confidence of
4rhich, as we .hall presently, see, they had soon

cause to repent,
Another proof that BUONTAPARTE regarded the
author of the Rouians in Greece as too veracious
an historian of the condua of the French army in
Italy is, that he never forgave hini for pointing
him out under the name of FLAMINIUS. He has
always persecuted him to the utmost of his pow.er.
This most admirable writer was, in 1804, attached
to the Emperor of Austria by literary funelions
but the choleric and spiteful BooNArArzi would
not suffer him to i.c.Main in.quiet., He solicited his
dismission• with the uiuiost eagerness, by. CHAM-
PAGNY,, then Minister at Vienna, and at length ob-
tained it ! To OA the author of his persecution, and
discharge out of ,all doubt, the ,Commissary of the
Police, who interrogated the writer, only asked one
question—" Did you write Me Roman: in Greece?"
On being answered'iri.the affirmative, an order was
immediately expedited for him to quit Vienna
within twenty-four hours; and this order was exe=,
cuted.-*
_ _

I canuot conclude this chapter without mention-
ing a fact extremely curious, and which may be
opposed to the letter, or real or fietitious, of Ls
TOUCHE. That letter appqrs to have been fabricat-
ed for the purpose of proving that striet discipline
prevailed in the army of BUONAPARTE ; but the
most indubitable and well-known circumstance
which I am about to relate, proves beyond all pos-
30):Iity of doubt, that in this same army there was
not a shadow of dis-iipline,
At Basun°, in the Venetian State, an unfortunate
soldier was condemned to be shot, condueted to the
place of execution, and, ready to die, he demanded

perinis3ion to harangue 'his comrad6s ; end this is
what he said to thern, wori for wo!-d, as it was re-

ported to .me by many respe.,:ta'olo inhaNtants of
Bassano, who witnessed his e%ecution: " vie see'
fellow-soldiers, the terrible chastisement which I am
• •
about tá undergb. As I fearyou are not all equally
acquainted with the cans of my being punished so
severely, I will explain it to you os briefly as possi-
ble. It is for'stealing three hundred Milanese livres
from my landlady, who is kept by an Aid-de-Camp
of our Commander in Chief I .Beware of imitating
. . -
so scandalous an example 5 you may ineur a punish-
ment like mine I I advise you much rather,to imi-
tate the eample of our Generals—they steal, from
the first to the last, but their thefts are very different
from mine ; judge of them from the enormous for-
tuities which they have so rapidly amassed since their
entrance into Lombardy."

* 1 must not lose the opportunity. of recording,. in this
place, a trait of English genexosity.. This ‘vriter, thus dis-
missed, repaired to the Charge WAIF-44es of tile Court of
LondOn, at 'Vienna, Mr. Charles Stuart. The Minista- in,
formed of this crying injosrice,, put a, "purNe Of ;014. into liis
hands, and said, " Make. -,Lri,.;.of, th:4 to c.qry you to Malta.
When you arrive tli;:re yoU under tho p.otecliort Of
England, :Ina in a :;Curt Om:- a peiwoir ili seLtir.,: )0,1 the
of subsistence for it i the ,i,cl,,red r.f.my So-
vereign to protect and succour ali t;.-.,se v 5.,) employ their
to,proruo;:e the ;4eiters4 ,good of the (.%,use 1: (1

f.'

LAIV REPORT.

Having finished his harangue, he flung ilia cap
into the air,- and cried out " To.hell withothe Re-
COURT OF KING'S lit NC Nov. '2.
public 'lmmediately a volley' of musketry laid

Tli-js took place in (>a.)ber; 1796, And in November I
leai.ried the. tvliole l_lass:t.to, when the French were
o•it'of it by CoCint 'l)'Atv t N 7.1. WCltlld any toe be-
lieve it ? !his man is the only one who was punished for
theft i.o all toe army of Ild,naparte during the 1 tatian. Cant-
paign,! i sa, ;his with the more confidence, because I .made
every pc!sSihle inquiry On this 'particular point, and could
not'discot,er, after the"striaest search, another fastatiee of a
sitnitar punishiwnt ; for with respect to the example. of 141
Touche, I ain: tuft,- cn.lvintcc.l that it is neither
,more nor
less titan ilifabsolute falsehood.

The following is a literal Copy ora Portuguese
'

WeJlies(lAy, the stit October, will be represented, in the
National Tntat re of ialitre, by the Actors aforesaid Theatre,
:in .Ling)', composed by. one of the best Portuguese Poets,
called •

The ATTOUNRY-GENERAL obtained a'conditional
Rule for leave to 'file acrintinal information against
a Mr. Cre and, two other Georlernan, Jastices
of the Peace for ;theT_Courity of GlaMorgan, for
granting licenses to aiehouseleefiers, contrary to,the
opinion anti' deeiihn cif a formernaeetit,g of the Ma-
gistrates of.t.liat,cqupty..::,Jt •appeared troth theriarfi-
davits, that the.-persons.. to wlargrt. kite hcenses had
beetisrante4,by:iW .threq:Gentlemon".cotnplained
had be,.l) anit,idged .improper
.persons by a full
.Iztticli of 11a,_ orates, and had been 4ccorningly.re.,
fused. It alio was stated, that
.o.vo, of the threehad an interest in,thgse

The Court was occupied a- length of time upon a
case ola convietionlof the Nit„:isirates:ol Sheerness,
a ;dins( a poor ‘votnan, in il
...! i.,tnalty of 501. for not
• ..payiog one•penny, ,as. 14,%-citio ditty, ,tipon a :bundle,
containing some wearing.. apparel, :which she. was.
carrying frOm the pier. of. Sheerness on board one of
his Majesty's ships of,.wor lying in the port, on
board of which she resided, - Alter special -argu-
ment upon, the ,Ad of Parliament appointing Com-
missioners to. built} the pier, levy duties, •&c. the
Court considered that the A.at could .not extend to
person's ru, relyncaruing goods on board ships in the
port,. for their own use, but to persons carrying
goods ;for exportatioulrom port to port. The:con-
viction.was' therefore ordered to. beAnashed.
Another cause of some interest
.was that Man ap,-
. peol against ;an order of Session,: by which .Lydia
Hudson. had been refused a settlement in -her hus-.
band's parkh, on account. of her marriage not hay-
ing 'been duly solemnized. It appared that she
had occpippapiM tler,ll,Qit)and, who was a Serjeant
in ithe army, to the:lsland of St. potningo, in 1795.
•He dying, she became acquainted with,another
. Serjeant, and went with him to a chapel at Cape
.where.the marriage service was read
iii the French language by a person in a priest's ha-
bit; ,and. translated by the. clerk. The parties lived'
'together till i79'7_, when this 444Mci 44141 Kind
'was contended that ‘this was, not a marriage ae-
: cording:to the fortusand rites of the Church of Eng-
land, • .
The Court held that. it was a -sufficient marriage
for the purpose of gaining the woman a settlement
in her husband's parish, and the order of Session was
quashed,
.The Court rose at one, and the Judges proceeded
to the Exchequer, to assist the Chancellor of the'Ex-
chequer in appointing the Sheriffs.

A regular gang of robbers .now tit 'the tOkyn
who call themselves,gervai4s, and-who by obtaini9g
temporary service. in families,-bytneans -01-fiait'ams
charaßers,- get a fay,!nral:le opportunity for plnnder•
fn an examination ala fel.ow of the name of 7/Pr-
,• yell, yesterday, it turned nom that there is a society of
rob , bers of this description, -composed of twelve or
more, who alternately give ch:irglers to their accnin"
plices -and solicit servitude. It is' first ascertained
by them what families want servaols, and after hav-
ing applied, the society furidib chiiaaers. One Or
these fellows sports himself is a wan or 6wily, and
recommends footmen, &c. it
.14 needless to add,
robberies are soon committed in honses .wh&e
snob
iervants are .acccvett. Two-of the Offenders . have-
been committed.

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