1824,] 
nacing air, and promising victory for 
the next campaign. ‘Nor did he 
appear in the least intimidated by the 
Jast remarkable “and dreadful catas- 
trophe with wiich the campaign ter- 
minated. » | 
As a reward of my services, I 
obtained the rank of second lieutenant, 
in which capacity, in the month of 
May following, I served in Saxony, 
and fought at the battles of Lutzen, 
Beautzen, Dresden, and others of 
minor importance. For fifteen years 
consecutively, I was always at my post, 
having never bad leave of absence. 
In 1815, the elemeiits were in 
eague with our enemies; the army of 
Silesia suffered immense losses from 
an inundation, and we were obliged to 
retire.. Our allies betrayed us; the 
Saxons deserted us in the battle of 
Leipsic; and the Bavarians, in con- 
tempt of all treaties, were for inter- 
cepting our march to Hanau. 
Here I regret my being inexpert in 
the art of writing; I could wish for 
language more expressive and com- 
prehensive to declare my ideas, lan- 
guage dignified or familiar, language 
that would furnish samples of all quali- 
ties, all possible shades in the scale of 
gradation. I mention this because I 
feel myself incompetent to depict the 
sublime efforts of Napoleon in that 
campaign, wherein he had to defend 
the Frencb territory. Let me quote; 
however, an instance, wherein I can 
vouch, as 1 said above, for the spirit 
which Napoleon had. infused into 
the guards. A Prussian battalion had 
made a lodgment in a large farm in 
the vicinity of Montmirail. The 
major of our regiment sent thirty men 
to harass them; it was my turn to 
mareh ;-and, though I was then under 
medical treatment, having received a 
bad wound in my head, at Chateau 
Thierry, 1 determined upon accompa- 
nying them, though advised to the con- 
trary by my superior officers. We 
suddenly assailed the Prussian batta- 
lion with fixed bayonets ; and, giving 
them no time to collect themselves, 
the whole battalion laid down their 
arms to thirty grenadiers of the Old 
Guard ! 
Ina few days after, Paris surren- 
dered, the emperor abdicated, and 1 
accompanied him to the isle of Elba. 
Devoted as I was to Napoleon, with 
a strong sincere regard, my attach- 
ment was not so firm, nor had preju- 
dice and passion such a hold upon my 
Various Readings in different Editions of the Bible. 
515 
mind, that any motive could have 
induced me to take up arms against 
my country. 
(To be continued. ) 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
N relation to a communication, in 
the Monthly Magazine for Octobet 
1822, signed Pater Familius, I beg to 
inform your correspondent, that I 
have recently collated various editions 
of the Holy Scriptures, and chiefly 
authorised ones; but have not noticed * 
such a decrepancy in any passage as 
in the 10th chapter of Proverbs, verse 
23. I quote it as follows :— 
Eyre and Strachan’s edition, 1816:— 
“It is as sport to a fool to do mischief.” 
Charles Bill, 1698:—** It is a sport,” &c. 
Thomas Newcombe, 1699 :—‘* Tt is as 
a sport,” &c. 
Cambridge, no date, stereotype :—“‘It 
is as a sport,’ &c. 
Mark and Charles Kerr, 1795 :—“ It is 
a sport,” &c. 
——_______—_,, royal 4to, 1793: 
—‘ It is as sport,” &c.” 
SEE SDI UY Se OE Ee 
Cannes’ notes :—“ It is a sport,” &c. 
sk td et foliggs BPOS et 
1799, 
“Tt is as sport,” &c. 
Blair and Bruce, 1813:—‘ It is as 
sport,” &e. : : 
—————., 1816;—‘‘It is a 
sport,” &c. 
—— » 1821:—“It is as 
sport,” &e. 
I find amongst my memorandums 
there is one edition, but I have omit- 
ted to mention which, that runs thus, 
“Tt is sport to a fool,” &e. The 
Bishops Bible, commonly called Mat- 
thew Park’s Bible, folio, 1573, not now 
authorised, has it thus; ‘A fool dvoth 
wickedly, and maketh but a sport of 
it.” How comes it that there are as 
many readings as there are words in 
the sentence, and why do the same 
printers vary at different periods? 
T might add other examples of the 
same passage, but have not noticed 
any varicty of reading from the above. 
Nov. 11. Perer ''HOMSON. 
—— 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
N your last Monthly Magazine, 
page 424, I find a correspondent 
to it enquiring for the real name of 
the author of the ‘ Beggar’s Petition.” 
LT can inform him, that it was written 
by the Rey, Thomas Moss, A.b. who 
Was minister of Brierly-hill Chapel, - 
in the parish of King’s Swinford, Staf- 
fordshire. 
