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trial ; which, as ap innocent man, 
he could alone have required, but of 
which he did not dare to ayail him- 
self. 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 chara¢ter 
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 Bonaparte is less sullied _ 
because a few snuff boxes, bearing 
his portrait, were received by some 
abject or avaricious individuals with 
expressions of esteem. Or can he 
hope that the contemptible, but not 
Jess unworthy, insinuation dire¢ted 
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 ac- 
qguainted with the character of this 
hitherto misconceived man; and I 
confess that I feel considerable gra-° 
tification when I indulge the thought 
that I have contributed to iis deve- 
lopement. 
Success may, for inscrutable pur- 
poses, continue to attend him. Ab- 
ject senates may decree him a throne 
or the pantheon, but his history 
shall render injured humanity jus- 
tice, and an indignant posterity in- 
Scribe on his cenotaph. 
Z Ille venena Colchica 
“Et quicquid usquam concipitur nefas 
* Tractavit. 
I am, sir, 
Yours, 
Robert Wilson, K. M. T. 
Lieutenant-colonel. 
® Vide “ Review of Books,” Annual Register for 1802. 
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Journal -of the late Campaign in 
Egypt, &¢. by Capt. Thomas 
Walsh, Aide de Camp to. Major 
General Sir Eyre Coote. 
AVING, in our account of sir_ 
R. Wilson’s valuable work*, 
taken an extensive view of the objects 
of the French government in the inva- 
sion of Egypt, we shall not here reca- 
pitulate our observations thereon, but 
content ourselves on the appearance 
of another record of British valour, 
with congratulating the public, on 
the very respectable manner in 
which the work before us has pre- 
served it ; and which bears every 
internal mark of correétness and au- 
thenticity. 
Captain Walsh commences his 
entertaining and highly interesting 
narrative from the date of the 24th 
of Oétober, 1800, the day on which 
orders arrived at Gibraltar for the 
future operations of the two armies 
under sir Ralph Abercromby, and 
sir James Pulteney, to the period of 
the final conquest of the French 
force in Egypt. Cursory accounts 
of that celebrated fortress, Minorca, 
and Sardinia, are given by our au- 
thor, who, however, very properly 
becomes more diffuse in his descrip- 
tion of Malta, a theme always inte- 
resting to the general reader; but 
now become infinitely more so to 
Britons, as forming the objeét of 
the 
France and England; and, as being 
to be considered, hereafter, in all 
probability, as one of the bulwarks 
of our empire, and a. valuable ap- 
pendage to its dominion. 
This little island, a fief of the 
crown of Sicily, was granted by the 
empéror Charles V. to the knights 
of the order of St. John of Jeru- 
salem, in 1523, who had, at that 
epoch, 
renewed contention between ~ 
