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Narrative Of The Expedition Of Buonaparte.
arrested , they shall be brought as hostages to Cairo . The town shall be pillaged , and no house left standing . A proclamation shall be issued through the neighbouring towns , stating that Alkham was burnt for having assassinated Frenchmen who navigated on the Nile . ' The French General , like his prototype Alexander , has always laboured to convert his enemies into friends . Example being more
forcible than precept , he exerts every endeavour to impress on the minds of his soldiers an idea of the necessity of being just ; and to effect this , he not only commands the ri gid observance of his re ° -ulations ; but , to make the mind recoil from the commission of sordid
deeds , he reminds them of the glory they have atchieved , of the elevated station in which they are beheld and envied by the universe , ofthe concern which their countrymen , of all ranks , take in their destiny , and the renown which they derive from their conduft . To keep alive their attachment for the French form of Government , and , sensible of the strong hold which a public spectacle takes ofthe minds of the ignorant , to draw towards him the affection ofthe nativeshe directed the foundation
, of the Republic to be celebrated with great pomp and splendour—aided by the power of music , vocal and instrumental , in the latter of which the General himself was considered to be the first performer in his country . On this occasion he delivered the following address to the army . Sr-rr . 22 . ' Soldiers , we this day celebrate the 1 st day ofthe 7 th year of the Republic . Five years ago the independence of the French people was threatened , but you took Toulon , the presage of the ruin
ofthe enemy . A year after you beat the Austrians at Dego . The following year you were on the summits ofthe Alps . You struggled against Mantua for two years , and you gained the famous victory of St . George ' s . Last year you were at the sources of the Drav . e and IIuefouse , returning from Germany . Who would'then have said that this day you would be on the banks of the Nile , in the centre ofthe antient continent ? the
From Englishman celebrated in arts and commerce , down to the hideous and ferocious Bedouin , you fix the attention of the world . Soldiers , your destiny is glorious , because you are worth y of what you have done , and of the opinion'which is ' entertained of you . You will die with honour , like the'brave men whose names are inscribed on the pyramid ; or you will return to your country covered with laurels '
, and with the admiration of . every people . iJuring five months which have elapsed since we left Europe ' , we have been the objects ofthe perpetual solicitude of our countrymen . This « ay forty millions of people are thinking of you . They all exclaim , tt is to their labours , to their blood , that we shall owe a general peace , repose , the prosperi ty of commerce , and the advantages of civil liberty . ' . ' . "' '
M . Volney , the celebrated philosopher , has published the following speculations on the destination of Buonaparte , which lie thus puts into ne mouth of that General : and as these reflections convey a plausible ' ^ n , under the existing circumstances , of the intentions of this exlaordinary character , whose mind is always directed to great objects > ve shall conclude our present Number with them ,
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Narrative Of The Expedition Of Buonaparte.
arrested , they shall be brought as hostages to Cairo . The town shall be pillaged , and no house left standing . A proclamation shall be issued through the neighbouring towns , stating that Alkham was burnt for having assassinated Frenchmen who navigated on the Nile . ' The French General , like his prototype Alexander , has always laboured to convert his enemies into friends . Example being more
forcible than precept , he exerts every endeavour to impress on the minds of his soldiers an idea of the necessity of being just ; and to effect this , he not only commands the ri gid observance of his re ° -ulations ; but , to make the mind recoil from the commission of sordid
deeds , he reminds them of the glory they have atchieved , of the elevated station in which they are beheld and envied by the universe , ofthe concern which their countrymen , of all ranks , take in their destiny , and the renown which they derive from their conduft . To keep alive their attachment for the French form of Government , and , sensible of the strong hold which a public spectacle takes ofthe minds of the ignorant , to draw towards him the affection ofthe nativeshe directed the foundation
, of the Republic to be celebrated with great pomp and splendour—aided by the power of music , vocal and instrumental , in the latter of which the General himself was considered to be the first performer in his country . On this occasion he delivered the following address to the army . Sr-rr . 22 . ' Soldiers , we this day celebrate the 1 st day ofthe 7 th year of the Republic . Five years ago the independence of the French people was threatened , but you took Toulon , the presage of the ruin
ofthe enemy . A year after you beat the Austrians at Dego . The following year you were on the summits ofthe Alps . You struggled against Mantua for two years , and you gained the famous victory of St . George ' s . Last year you were at the sources of the Drav . e and IIuefouse , returning from Germany . Who would'then have said that this day you would be on the banks of the Nile , in the centre ofthe antient continent ? the
From Englishman celebrated in arts and commerce , down to the hideous and ferocious Bedouin , you fix the attention of the world . Soldiers , your destiny is glorious , because you are worth y of what you have done , and of the opinion'which is ' entertained of you . You will die with honour , like the'brave men whose names are inscribed on the pyramid ; or you will return to your country covered with laurels '
, and with the admiration of . every people . iJuring five months which have elapsed since we left Europe ' , we have been the objects ofthe perpetual solicitude of our countrymen . This « ay forty millions of people are thinking of you . They all exclaim , tt is to their labours , to their blood , that we shall owe a general peace , repose , the prosperi ty of commerce , and the advantages of civil liberty . ' . ' . "' '
M . Volney , the celebrated philosopher , has published the following speculations on the destination of Buonaparte , which lie thus puts into ne mouth of that General : and as these reflections convey a plausible ' ^ n , under the existing circumstances , of the intentions of this exlaordinary character , whose mind is always directed to great objects > ve shall conclude our present Number with them ,