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London, England, 1815-11-11 00:00:00

DIXON'S ANTIBII.IOUS PILLS,

Foe INDIGESTION, HEAD•ACHES, HEARt•BURN, Scc.
91HESE Pills long since obtained a just celebrity
1. In the private practice of the Proprietor, Mr. DIXON,
Apothecary and from their great success in many obstinate
bilious disorders, on numerous Patients of distinction, parti•
=daily the Duke of BEDFORD, Sir GEORGE WARREN.
Sir GREGORY PAGE TURNER, the Dowager Lady SAY
and SELE, the Viscountess BULKELEY, &c. Occ. he was per •
=laded so offer them to the Public, under the approbation and
unction Of their. names.
They are found to be an incomparable remedy for restoring
the tone of the stomach, for curing indigestion, or preventing
crudities, and their consequent disagreeable eructations and Sate.
knees. They remove habitual and temporary costiveness, sick
headache, and heartburn. whether arising from the acrimony
of the redimelent bile, intemperate diet, or drinking to excess.
By promoting a due secretion of the bile, they are dimmed wou-
derfully to clear &sallow complexion ; and being a certain though
gentle operative' they prevent these obstructions in the liver,
which are en troublesome in all countries, but particularly fatal
in warm climates. On this account, they are a valuable death:.
return in the medicine chests of those who go to the East or
West India, or make frequent voyages; and are so mild and
gentle in their effects, that they may be adopted as a Family Me-
didoe upon every ludispoeition arising from a disordered state of
the Stomach or Bowels.
COPY OF 46 LETTER FROM CAPTAIN CREGOE TO
MR. DIXON, APOTHECARY.
TSODINGTCM, MIDULtirI, 21st May, 1815.
gilt—l have received so much benefit from your DIXON'S
ANTIBILIOUS PILLS, that I feel a satisfaction in communica-
ting to you my testimony to their efficacy. I returned from India,
after many years residence there, with my constitution very much
impaired, by several attacks of a Liver complaint ; and I attribute
the renovation of my health entirely to this Medicine, and Mo-
deration in diet. I have recommended it to many Indian friends,
who likewise acknowledge M. virtues.—Your very obedient ser-
vant, F. CREGOE,
Captain 21st Infantry, Madras Army.
Sold by Mr. Butler, Cheapsidt,Corner of St. Paul's Charch-
Yard, loudest; and may be had of most Medicine Venders in
&gland, Secidand, Ireland, Wake, East and West Indies, Anis-
du, &Ala boxes at Staid. and us, each.

NUR di;
LATE SOIMISAN f KING OP NAPLES.
[Coneludtd from the STA' of Thursday.]

' Murder, tho' it bath no tongue, will veil*
44 With most miraculous organ."
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After the reduction of Mantua, Bonaparte ordered
some divisions of his army to invade the defenceless
Papal territory, but upim the unexpected approach
of the Archduke Charles towards Italy, with a small,
but well-affected and well-disciplined body of troops,
tte French Cominalider postponed his intention of
di throning the Sovereign Pontiff, whom he obliged,
11:)w,-ver, to sign a litimiliating and ruinous peace.
On the 21th of February, Murat was ordered to
attack the enemy, strongly fortified near Foy ;
wh,•re, after being repulsed twice, and having two
horse, killed under him, he finally succeeded ;
though he on this occasion had more men killed,
than dx number of Austrians whom be combated and
vanquished.; but he, like most other Republican
Generals, has justly been reprobated for the profu-
ston with which they squandered away, often urine-
c;ssarily, the lives of their soldiers. Had he, after
bein4 it pulsed once, waited half an how only before
hd renewed the assault, according to the last quoted
ain4lor, seven hundred Frenchmen less had perished
on that day ; as the Austrians were preparing to
evacuate their intrenchuients when they were at.
{diked a second and third time.

Upon the determination of Bonaparte to penetrate
i! to Carinthia, many petty skirmishes took place
between the advanced posts of the Imperialists, and
the French under the Generals Murat, Belliard, and
Kellermann, The Archduke, already under the ne-
cessity of acting on the defensive, in continuing, how-
ever, to retreat, avoided as much as possible any se-
rious engagements ; and therefore, in crossing the
Tagliamento, cut down the bridges behind him, and
threw up intrenchments, which extended from the
passes of the mountains to the neighbourhood of Bel-
grade. In this position the young Prince halted for
some days, determined in dispute the passage of that
river, which, though naturally impetuous and rapid,
might then be forded, the stream heinggreatly
in consequence of the severity of the !rust in
Cie mouutainons regions.
'raking advantage of this fortunate circumstance,
Bcnaparte, on the 16th of March, ordered Mtirat at
the head of one division, and Duphoz heading ano-
ther, to cross the ford, so as to advance against the
right of the enemy's intrenchments, while the troops
under General Guieux executed the same operation
in a different quarter.ai Murat and Duphoz precipi-
tated themselves nearly at the same time into the
Water, and gained the opposite bank, where the
French infantry was repeatedly but ineffectually
charged by the Austrian horse, whom they received,
uithout flinching, on the points of their bayonets ;
but it was principally to the murderous fire of their
artillery, that the Republicans were indebted for this
day's victory, as the cannon were stationed so as to
shower down such terrible and incessant discharges
of grapeshot on the foe, that all opposition soon
became ineffectual. The Austrians, however, still
presented an undaunted front, fearless of danger and
of death. But Murat and Guieux having penetrated
to the village of Cainin, where the Archduke had
established his head-quarters, they fell into some
disorder, and retreated towards tl-e mountains. On
the 19th, In pursuit of the tanquistied enemy, Murat
distinguished himself again at the passage of Lizonzo,
where he had a horse killed under him, acid his clothes
pierced with bullets.
After the preliminaries of Leoben had been signed,
Bonaparte, with his usual treacherous policy, over-
turned the Republic of Venice, and whilst the defini-
tive treaty was negociating at Campo Formio, he
restintrigued to change this form of Government,
and afterwards openly attacked the independent and
neutral Republic of the Grisons and of the Valteline.
Murat was ordered by him, in September, 1797, to
march with a column towards the frontiers of the
Valteline, and to settle the differences between these
two States. After some previous•plunder and requi-
sitions, Murat published a declaration, 68 That con-
edering the many wrongs of the Grisons towards
their ally, and the unanimous desire of the citizens of
the Valteline, this latter country was incorporated
with the Cisalpinc Republic." Such, however, was
the unanimity, that the very day, September 26, when
this impertinent and false declaration appeared, this
Republican General ordered twenty-two of the most
respectable citizens, who formerly had occupied
places as Magistrates, to be tried as cznspirators, by
a military commission, for protesting against this
union with the Cisalpine Republic, and they were all
slot the next day. Such has been the conduct of
Frenchmen wherever they penetrated. Of the timid
and cowardly they make slaves—of the traitors,
friends—the patriots they butcher—the rich they
plots generally precede them—tyranny enters
with them—ruin and wretchedness remain. behind
clam, and the curses or detestation of the good and
tte.: virtuous, of the religious, and of the moralists,
st,iiimpany them both under the triumphal arches
to: their graves !
hen the anniitilation of that constitution was de-
ttrniined upon, which Bonaparte had so often sworn
to defend and obey, Murat, in the confidence of hisJ
Itlend, received, first, the command over the posts
near the Council of Five Hundred; and, when the
, Revolution was effected which seated the Usurper
Upon the throne of the Bourbons, the command over
she Consular Guard. To bind more firmly those
bands which united these two worthies, Bonaparte
gave him in marriage his sister Caroline Bonaparte,
who, in J 797, had been betrothed to General Duphoz,
anprdered in an insurrection provoked by Joseph Bo-
*parte at Rome, on the 27th of December tha't
year. What bad become of Murat's former sant•tu-
lotk wifc is not known for a certainty. In a pan:-
phlet • called 44 La Sainte Fumille," it is said that he
bad been divorced in 1795 ; and in another ram.
Wet, LcYff Asa Geittilhortow Francois al' Lleurpateur
orsc,' it is reported that she died of hard-drinking.
In the spring of 1800 ap army of reserve was col-
lecting near Dijon, under the command of General
Ikrthier, and Murat was appointed one of his Lieu-
tenant-Generals. After the negligence of General
Maas had permitted this army to cross the Alps and
to enter Italy, the Austrians were defeated at Monte-
ello on the lOsh of Junes 4414 the 4;e4t day General

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Murat, whp commanded the advanced guard, sue-
ceeded in driving them across the Bormida. At the
' battle of Marengo, on the 14th, he led on the ca-
valry, and, though at the outset completely routed,
rallied again; and when the valorous General De-
'skit took advantage of the imbecility of the Irnceriatl
General, he, with Generals Marmont and Bessieres,
pierced the third and last line of the Austrian infan-
try ; in consequence of which a defeat ensued, and
the horse, infantry, and artillery, fled promiscuously
towards one of the bridges laid across the Bormida.
But such was the undaunted courage of the Impe-
rialists, deserving to be headed by a more able chief,
that the rear-guard presented a regular front, though
Murat cut many of them to pieces in protecting va-
lorously the retreat of the main body.
On his return to Paris in August, he found the
scandalous boasting of his brother-in-law, Lucien,
concerning an incestuous intrigue carried on with
Madame Murat, the common topic of conversation.
Three duels during two months were the conse-
quence; and had not the First Consul interfered, and
fur this and for some other faces, removed Lucien
from the Ministry of the Interior, and sent him in
disgrace as Ambassador to Spain, Murat would either
, have been divorced from his wife, perished himself,

or killed his brother-in-law.
Twelve months absence of Lucien, and even an
apology on his arrival from Madrid, in 1801, did
nut produce a reconciliation with Murat, who dial-
lenged, fought, and wounded him again. To put
an end to these family quarrels, Napoleon Bonaparte
promoted Murat to the command in chief over the
French army in Italy, or, which is the same, made
him Viceroy over the Italian and Ligurian Republics,
and over the revolutionary kingdom of Etruria. His
wife accompanied him ; and when he was afterwards
recalled to Paris, Lucien was first sent off to plot at
Naples, and afterwards ordered to visit his senatoriee
on the Rhine, and to travel in Germany.
During Murat's reign in Italy, his manner of liv-
ing was more expensive and more sumptuous, his re-
tinue more brilliant, his staff more showy, his palaces
more magnificent, and his guards more numerous
than those of any lawful European Sovereign, and
hardly surpassed by the Corsican Usurper at Paris.
He introduced at Milan neatly the same etiquette that
prevailed at the Thuilleries and at St. Cloud. Madame
Murat had her maids of honour, her routs, her assem-
blies, her petit and grand entree, her petit soupier:, and
her grand circles ; as her husband had his pages, his
prefects of palace, his aides de camp, his military re-
views, his diplomatic audiences, his presentations, his
official dinners, his sallies of humour against foreign
Ministers, and his smiles of complaisance to his mi-
nions ; with all the other farrago of the pedantic, in-
solent, affected, but revolutionary haul ton, introduced
by the upstart and foreign tyrant of the French.
After Bonapal te's second visit to the army on the
coast, where his Admirals at well as his Generals
tiied to convince him of the danger, it not the absur-
dity, of attempting an invasion with his flotilla,
which two or three of our small craft kept blocked
up; tomccupy the public attention, and to divert the
discontent which delay or disappointment must ex-
cite among his soldiers, who had already been ten
months devouring the riches of Great Britain, and
regarding her conquest as easy and certain, a plot
was necessary to be invented. The treachery of the
spy Mehee de la Touche, and the impudence and in-
discretion of others, unfortunately procured him do-
cuments enough to cause his French slaves to think
it not only probable but certain.
If all occurrences during the eventful winter of 1,
18'.13 are remembered, little doubt remains but that
the arrest and disgrace of Moreau, the murder of the
Duke of Enghien, and the publication of the preten-
ded conspiracy in February, 1804., had been deter-
mined upon by Bonaparte, in December, 1803. In
that month Moreau's base enemy, Jourdan, was no-
minated Commander in Chief in Italy, and his im-
pertinent and cowardly calumniator, Junot, Com-
mander in Chief over the Corps d'Elite of the Army
of England; Louis Bonaparte received a command
in the camp on the coast; Joseph Bonaparte was sent
to Brabant, and Murat recalled from Italy to be
Governor of Paris, and Commander of the Army of
the Interior, with his headquarters at Paris.
Murat had then 150,000 livres (26000) per month
for appointments, as the Governor of Paris, besides
hotels, furnished at the expense of the republic, for
himself, his wife, and his Aides de Camp : 30,000
livres (21250) were allowed him for the open table
he kept for ofiscers on business, or on leave of absence
in the capital.
It was in this year, 1804., and as a Military Go-
vernor of Paris, that Murat furnished the guard which
shot the Duke of Enghien. He attended the execu-
tion in company with Hullin, and a few other wor-
thies, who have ma as yet landed in Calabria, and
personally gave the word of command to the Italian'
assassins, who shot a Prince of the Blood Royal of
France.
The history of Bonaptarte's campaigns since 1804,
to the present moment, contains all that is known of
the public life of Murat, and must be fresh in every
person's memory. With the exception of his career
in Spain, which we are about to particularize, Murat's
life was that of a mere soldier; and it he had never
forgotten that he was a mere soldier, his name would
not now have been execrated by posterity.
His conduct in Spain is sufficient to make every
honest man rejoice that the world is rid of him. It
was he who, in the memorable invasion of that coun-
try, entered the Capital as a friend, and in concert
with the French Ambassador, persuaded the King
and Royal Family to proceed to Vittoria, to meet
their protector the Emperor Napoleon. From Vit.
toria they were decoyed to Bayonne, where they
were seized, dethroned, and sent prisoners to France.
These events were no sooner known in Madrid than
the people of Spain were awakened to a suitable
feeling against the oppressor of themselves and So.
vet rigs. A popular commotion took place, which
was followed by one of the most bloody massacres
recorded in history—a massacre which will cover
the name of Murat with horror to the latest pos-
terity. Nor did the scene of carnage end with the
massacre during the commotion. Marshal Murat
was not to be satiated till it was followed up Li, mi-
litxry
execution.
In the afternoon lie issued an order to General
Grouchy to form a Court Martial, and to have
brought before it all the perspns who had been made
prisoners in the morning, or who were found in the
Fon. lill4 wets act:m-
acrons *tit any kind of wea

dingly dose, and all who were is brought were een-1
dossed to be shot, and sentence was executed
without delay.
Three bodies, of forty each, were successively shot
in the Prado; a great number (to add a blasphe-
mous outrage to an atrocious murder) were shot in
the Church of the Sllidad ; and several other groupes
of SO or 40 each were murdered in a similar man-
ner near the gate of St. Vincent.
Here we shall close at present the disgusting scene
of this man's enormities—that he possessed animal
courage no person can doubt, but that he was a
truly brave man no person in his senses will advance.
Bonaparte frequently reproached him with his mental
imbecility, and in the last act of his lite he gave a
proof of the accuracy of his master's judgment. He
must have been btrengly infatuated to attempt the
recovery of a country which, when his power was at
the highest, he could not retain. It he was not able
to preserve his crown when Bonaparte so closely
engaged the attention of the Allies, how could
he expect they would now be so supine as to permit
him to recover it ?
No man, in short, could die more gezerally unpi.
titled than Murat ; he wits liithful to no side ; Bona.
parte justly viewed him as a traitor, and the Allies
knew that if ho, for a time, appeared to act with
them, it was only because he thought theirs the
strongest side.
A reader of discernment will not fail to conclude
with us, that there is something extremely rontatitic
in the Biography which we have just given—had
Murat been a good actor, he probably would have
been a tragedian no where but on the stage : or had
Lafayette done his duty as a god soldier, and sent
him back as a deserter to his regiment in the Champs
Elysees, instead of proinoting him in the NaLional
Guards, Murat might have made his exit from life
in the field of honour, and precisely in that sphere of
life fur which he was fitted by his LAlents.

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