1829. 
interests of the old employés, soon familia- 
rized him with the tricks of the office, which 
he, by degrees, remodelled according to his 
own conceptions of efficiency, and spreading 
his nets on all sides, was thus able, at any 
moment, to catch whom he pleased. He 
evidently speaks as if he had every thing 
under his thumb, though no man can doubt 
but he must have been for ever the dupe of 
the rascally agents, high and low, he em- 
ployed. His accounts of the execution of 
police duties are decidedly amongst the 
most attractive and novel parts of his book 
—by far too complicated and extensive for 
us to analyze ; but we may direct the read- 
er’s attention to them, as to portions that 
beyond all others deserve it. 
As Minister of Police, he continued till 
the exile of Napoleon to Elba ; and, though 
forbidden to take leave of him, was allowed 
to reside on his estate at some distance from 
Paris—taking no part in public affairs. 
The triumphant return of the exile surprised 
him. He went to the Tuilleries to meet 
him—was summoned by the Emperor as 
Minister of Police—executed an order given 
on the spot, but peremptorily refused to re- 
sume the invidious office, though he seems 
to haye taken the command of the gensdar 
merie. He was not at the battle of Water. 
loo; but was one of those who faithfully 
proposed to accompany the Emperor, 
wherever his destinies led him. He was 
with him on board the Bellerophon ; but 
both he and Lallemand were harshly re- 
fused permission to share his exile at St. 
Helena. After Napoleon was put on board 
the Northumberland, Savary and Lalle- 
mand were conveyed away to Malta, thrown 
into prison, and kept there till April of the 
following year, and then turned adrift. 
Savary went to Smyrna, and concealed him- 
self in the family, first of an Englishman, 
and then of a Frenchman, till he learned 
by the papers his condemnation, par con- 
tumace, and was urged by his friends to fly. 
He took the first ship, and was landed at 
Trieste, where he was seized, and carried to 
Gratz, when, very unexpectedly, he found 
himself at liberty. Luckily the Emperor 
of Austria and Metternich, were passing 
through Gratz, and Savary obtaining an in- 
terview with Metternich, engaged him to 
- him permission to reside at Smyrna. 
'0 Smyrna, accordingly, he returned, when, 
March 1819, he found himself again ex- 
} to the vexatious harassings of the 
rench Ambassador at Constantinople, and 
oc ai to quit his asylum. He was now 
ved to face his difficulties, and present 
himself to the authorities at Paris; and, 
being brought before a court-martial, was 
tried, and acquitted, and left at large. 
Of Bernadotte, Moreau, Fouché, Talley- 
rand, and their treacheries, as well as of a 
multitude of less distinguished personages, 
the reader will find particulars in abun- 
dance. The whole must, however, be re- 
ceived with caution—but whose memoirs 
Domestic and Foreign. 
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ought not to be so received? Here and 
there, perhaps, there is wnusual glossing. 
The Protestant, by Mrs. Bray, 3 vols., 
12mo. ; 1828.—The author—for the femi- 
nine termination is so wholly un-English that 
it is not to be borne with—the author, we 
were going to say, has conspicuously, more 
than any body we could readily mention, 
the merit of irrepressible perseyerance, and 
is now reaping, what every body does not, 
the fruits of it. She mends, and mends 
decisively. Though not, we confess, dis- 
posed to admire the selection of topic, and 
still less the spirit, in which the story is 
developed, we readily allow it is well told, 
and simply told; not complicated by cir- 
cumstances, and encumbered with details ; 
her characters are fairly and fully worked 
out, and her autherities, such at least as 
she has chosen to trust to, carefully con- 
sulted and correctly represented. The im- 
pression which the author leaves, is that 
persecution under Mary’s reign was uni- 
versal, over men, women, and children ; 
clergy and laity ; perpetual and unceasing ; 
and burning as common as dining, though 
the number of the sufferers is thoroughly 
known. Mrs. B. will not so far misun- 
derstand us, as to retort upon us a desire to 
apologise for catholic enormities. 
We trust to the good sense we are sure 
the author possesses, to take our expostula- 
tion, or rather our lament, in good part, 
while, as is our wont, we sketch slightly 
her simple and afflicting story. The ‘ Pro- 
testant’ is an aged clergyman, a friend of 
Cranmer’s, who had taken orders at forty, 
and then a married man. He had an ex- 
cellent wife, a very amiable and beautiful 
daughter, and a son who had imprudently 
suffered himself to be drawn into a corre- 
spondence with Wyatt, in his attempt to 
raise a party in favour of Elizabeth. The 
scene of the story is in the neighbourhood of 
Canterbury, and the precise historical event 
connected with the family story, is the sur- 
vey and visitation of the churches in Mary’s 
reign ; which was executed in the Canter- 
bury diocese by Thornton, called the Suf- 
fragan of Dover, and Hampsfield, archdeacon 
of Canterbury, and a Spanish priest, the 
confessor of a catholic family in the neigh- 
bourhood. These personages are represented 
as thorough-paced bigots, or knaves—Thorn- 
ton, licentious and profligate—Hampsfield, 
cruel and savage—the friar, as cunning as 
cruel, and all the subordinate agents, rogues. 
The story opens with the visit, apparently 
friendly, of Thornton, whose object is to 
entrap the aged protestant into an explicit 
declaration of his heretical sentiments ; but 
manceuvres are quite superfluous ; he is not 
ashamed of his doctrines, and disdains con- 
cealment. He resists the importunities of 
his wife, who urges him to be cautious 5 
and a crafty and scoundrel attorney is at 
hand to take notes of the conversation be- 
tween him and the suffragan. Officers are 
