d'Gezer pacha was not intelligible, even prior to the instructions published, which M. Talleyrand sent to the French commercial agents?

That illustrious senator, to whose virtues and stupendous talents England owes so much of her prosperity, has declared that this report of Colonel Sebastiani, in no case contradicts my statement; and I should consider that high opinion as amply sufficient to remove any impression which the French embassador's note might otherwise have made, did I not think it a duty to press some observations on that part of the paragraph which alludes to the direct accusation against General Buonaparte; that the public may know I was fully aware of the important responsibility which I had voluntarily undertaken, and in which much national honour was involved, I would wish the world seriously to examine, whether the accuser or accused have shrunk from the investigation ; and then hold him as guilty who has withdrawn from the tribunal of enquiry.

I avowed that I was his public accuser; I stood prepared to support the charges. The courts of my country were open to that mode of trial; which, as an innocent man, he could alone have required, but of which he did not

dare to avail myself. It was no anonymous libeller against whom he was to have filed his answer, but against one (and without any indecent vanity I may say it) whose rank and character would have justified his most serious attention.

The charges were too awful to be treated with neglect, and we know that they have not been read with indifference. Nor is it possible that the First Consul can imagine the fame of General Buonaparte is less sullied, because a few snuff boxes, bearing his portrait, were received hy some abject or avaricious individuals with expressions of esteem. Or can he hope that the contemptible, but not less unworthy, insinuation directed against the gallant and estimable British General, will divert mankind from a reflection on the crimes with which he stands arraigned?

Fortunately for Europe, she is daily becoming more intimately acquainted with the character of this hitherto inconceived man; and I confess that I feel considerable gratification when I indulge the thought that I have contributed to its developement.

Success may, for inscrutable purposes, continue to attend him. Abject senates may decree

him a throne on the pantheon, but his history shall render injured humanity justice, and an indignant posterity inscribe on his cenotaph

-Ille venena Colchica,

Et quicquid usquam concipitur nefas

Tractavit.*

I am, Sir,

Your's,

ROBERT WILSON, K. M. T,

Lieutenant Colonel,

Hor, Od. 2, 13.8m

APPENDIX III.

TRANSLATION OF A FRAGMENT OF THE EIGH

TEENTH BOOK OF POLY BIUS, FOUND IN THE MONASTERY OF ST. LAURA, ON MOUNT ATHOS. BY THE COUNT D'ANTRaigues. A NEW EDITION.

As a translation from a translation has very obvious objections, this version was not made from the German translation annexed to our work, but from the original French, using the edition which bears the pretended date "Londres, 1806."