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Bonaparte, 
[Dec. I, 
fullest reliance. Tin's ofncer, who never 
lett the person of Bonaparte during fiis 
l:I_;yptiau cainpaiiins, strenuously denied 
the polsf^ninii of the sick at Jada, and 
assorted that the crime wouhl have heen 
altogether supe/tlnous, as it was on.lv 
nece^5arY, on evacuatiiiii th.at city, to 
leave tliein in the iutnds (jf the Turks, in 
order to render their destruction inevi- 
tahle. lie admitted tite fact of the inas- 
sacre of tiie Turkish prisOiiers, hut did 
not liimself ur.deMake to vindicate the 
deed. He ineieiy tuentiotied the pica 
which I’ne c inmandtr in chief had as- 
frigned on titat occasion — the necessity 
o! the case. Tiie iiiitcr was advancing 
into Upper Egypt, aiul the Tuikish pri- 
sioncrs weie too miinerous to be trans¬ 
ported witli him, paiticuhirly as his own 
army was straitened by the want of pro¬ 
visions. If the'Furks iiad been liberated, 
li'.ey would have enita>ied in active ser- 
Tice against him immediately, as tlie gar¬ 
rison of Jafta iiacl done, notwithstanding 
the most ts.press stipulations to the coii- 
tiary. St If preseruuion, tlierefore, left 
no alieine.tite l>>n tiieir destruction, and 
tins was tlketed hv causing them to be 
s^hot, to the number of a liinusand at a 
Lime, m cold h'ond. Such was tiie jus- 
fdicaiiitn ulucii B<maparre oifered for 
this deed, and it i> hy no means destitute 
or piausihiliiv. The case is not without 
a pifcCiiieirt in liistorv, although it must 
he acknowIt(iged, tliat the example to 
which I aliuiie, that of Henry \'. after 
tiie battie of Agincourt, is <if an unti- 
rpiity nil her too remote to decide t;:e 
jnvifeges of inodern warfare, or the 
tla.'ijiS (;f relined iiumanitv. 
l.:c- consuminate abilities cf Bona- 
pa. to, butii as a general aiwi a states¬ 
man, are now umversailv ackumviedged. 
Until a lew years past, ids eneii.ics were 
Kovvdiing to allow him that supremacy 
of genius w hich he undouhtedlv p>t)5se5ses, 
and to winch cieiy nulividur.l, witli 
whom 1 cunvcised on tkis sulnect in 
Paris, hole the amplest icstimonv. 
iNona Qi Ins counsel.ors, no fimctiofiary 
oi h;s gt>-. crnmeiit, approaches him, with- 
i*ut feeling the’ ascendciicv of Ins mind; 
and tlitre are hut few about l.is person, 
who can penetiate into the recesses of 
ills p'-‘-i:cy. Ilia thoughts are perpetually 
occupic-d by vast sclicmes of coiiqueot, 
and t.usieti in ail the most subtle rti'ine- 
laeiits ot elaborate fraud. Hts gicat 
stiokes or policy, as well as th-e move- 
ji.tiKb (d iiis ailints, originate witli hini- 
and h-e disphiss no lysi: tkill ihan 
1 
despotism in the application of the 
talents of others to his own purposed. 
His ministers, however able or profli¬ 
gate, are scarcely equal to embrace 
either the vast compass, or the gigantic 
depravity of his ambition. Although 
decorated ivith splendid titles, and en¬ 
riched with an ample share of the pubhc 
spoil, they are, nevertheless, tiie most 
miserable and laborious slaves in ex- 
ic-ience, under the inflexible dominion of 
tiie most capricious and insolent of all 
masters. Tr.ey suffer personal indig¬ 
nities without number, and are at no 
one niomcnr, secure of die favour, upon 
w hich they know their existence to de¬ 
fend. 
A 
If the foreign enterprises of Bonaparte, 
as well as tiie internal organisation ot hia 
empire, be attentively examined, it will 
be perceived that he acts, in almost all 
instances, from a profound knowledge of 
the iiisiory of mankind, and of human 
nature under ail its phases. There is 
scarcely a successful device, in tite ca¬ 
talogue of tlie means, employed by con¬ 
quering nations for tiie extension of Uieir 
domimon, or by tlie Philips, die Ccesars, 
the Constantines, ami the Cnarlemagnes, 
for die coasolitiaiion of ilicir poxer, of 
which he will not be found to lava 
made a skilful and c-hicacious use. 1 lie 
inventive faculties and the erudite ac¬ 
quirements of thousands of iugeni ;us 
pol.ticians, and oflahouous Lchuiars, are 
mcessantiy engaged in providing him ^ 
with materials, both of ihougiit and 
accu;H, subsidiary to his designs. 
He has iie‘.er felt, ami is incapable of 
feeling, any influence calculated to frus¬ 
trate the views of liis anibiti.m, but that 
or an impetuous^ temper. To feniaie 
hiandiaiimems he is uiie.- ly in'si-nsibie, as 
far as iliev tend to sulguga-e the mniri, 
aiihoiigh he has never deserved the re- 
putati.ni for continency, which he has 
enjoyeu'beyond the limits or Paris. Jo¬ 
sephine possessed not the siighiest as¬ 
cendant over his decisions, or liis in¬ 
clinations, in any one point; mm will the 
preseuc empress exert any larger shaie 
of iuliueiice, whatever may be the su¬ 
periority ol iier titles-to dci'erence or to 
love. 
It is often asked, anti yon perhaps 
may be disposed to mqiiiie, liow it hap¬ 
pens, that a despot, whose gotemmcist 
is so oppressive, and whi' has contracted 
tlie uinveisal odium o\ Ins subjects^ 
siiould so long escape the l.ite m* a Piiilip 
Cf of a C'tC'.ai imintt-./iiv of Ins 
power, 
