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“The Five Promifes: Condudé of the 
Conjular Government towards France, 
England, Italy, Germany, and efpecially 
Srwifferland, ce. by Sir Francis DIver- 
NOs.” 
This gentleman perffts in the repetition 
of thofe prophecies which have fo often 
impeached his fagacity; namely, that 
France is on the verge of bankruptcy, 
&c. That the expences of the French 
government are enormous and rapidly in- 
creafing, is perfe€tiy true; but Sir Fran- 
cis cannot be induced to believe that her 
refources are equivalent to this increafing 
expenditure. He is probably miltaken ; 
feveral accounts which we have lately 
read on the fubject, induce us te hold a cor- 
trary opinion, and we give greater credit 
to the financial ftatements of M. Neckar 
than we do to thole of the preient writer, - 
who has taken great pains to invalidate 
them. The five grand promifes, which 
the Firfi Conful is here accufed of having 
broken, are thefe: —1. 2's found his 
government on the facred sights of pro- 
perty, and put an end to all manner of 
confifcation. 2. To refpect, and cauie 
to be refpefied at home, the conftitution 
of the year 8. 3. To conquer peace 
abroad, without ever abufing his vitto- 
ties in order to rife in his pretenhons, or 
aggrandize France beyord the limits at- 
fioned her by nature. 4. To eftablith 
the peace of the Republic, and the happi- 
nefs of Europe, on the faith of treaties, 
without interfering with the domeitic af- 
fairs of other nations. 5. and laftly, 
To reftore the public credit by an tnviol- 
able fidelity to all the engagements of the 
fiate. Under the four firit of thefe heads 
many facts are detailed, which very clear- 
ly prove that Bonaparte is not a man of 
his word! Sir Francis has left the con- 
fideration of the lait promife for future 
epportunity. The hiftoricel information 
communicated in this volume forms a large 
and valuable part of it, and the work 1s 
alrogether well calculated to make the av- 
tocracy of the Firit Conful odious both at 
home and abroad. . 
« Letters from Thomas Paine to the 
Citizens of America,.ajter an Abfence f 
Fifteen Years in Eurcpe. To which are 
fubjoined, fome Letters between bim and 
the late General Wafpington, Mr. Samuel 
Adams, and the prifent Prefident of the 
United States, Mr. Fefferfon.” 
The attorney-geneial 1s not likely to 
fheke his locks at this pamphlet; afew 
objectionable paffages are to be found in 
it, but the Letters chiefly relate te Ame- 
sicap politics, and deicribe the perfonal 
Reirofpec? of Domeftic Literature-—Political Economy, Se. 
perils to which the author was repeatedly 
expofed, under the reign of Robefpiczre, 
in the prifons of Paris. 
Mr. M*‘ArtuHur has publifhed a new 
edition (the fcurth) reviled, corrected, 
and confiderably enlarged, of his ‘* Fnzaz= 
cial and Political Faés, Ge. Ge.’ 
©The Revolutionary Plutarch; exki- 
biting the moft diftinguifbed Chara&ers, 
Gic. in the recent Anwals of the French 
Republic.” q 
The greater part of the materials of 
this work are fta:ed to be derived from 
the original information of a gentleman 
refident at Paris ; as it is publifhed, how- 
ever, without the fan€&iion of a name, one 
can only judge of the authenticity of the 
anecdote by internal evidence. This is in 
very few cafes fufficiently itiong to entitle 
them to any degree of confidence. In- 
deed the ffate-papers bave all the appear- 
ance of being fabricated for a very infa- 
mous purpofe. One of thefe is inftruc- 
tions faid to have been del.vered by M. 
Talieyrand to General Andreofly on his 
coming to England as ambailador. It 
is utterly incredible thar the general 
could debafe himfelf fo much as to receive 
in writing fuch iniulting and filly in- 
fiructions as theie: ** Be polite and conde- 
f{cending at the balls and routs of the 
Engith nobility ; do not forget your rank; 
endeavour to make yourlelf pepular; ne- 
ver refufé an invitaiion from the chief of 
the city or of the wealthy citizen: it will 
be prudent, perhaps, to mix water with 
your wine, &c. &c.”’ Suppofing it pof- 
‘fible taat Talleyrand fhould have penned 
fuch baby directions as thefe, would not 
Andreofly have torn the paper into a 
thoutfard pieces before his face, and turned 
round uponhis heel ? But we fulpect a great 
deal of confurnmate treachery and malevo- 
Jence in this paper 5 for among the inftruc- 
tions we read the following: ‘ Should 
you meet with Pitt, Windham, Gren- 
ville, or any cther- known enemies of the 
- Firft Conful, be civil, but formal and dift 
tant; and at any future invitation to the 
fame place, refule your preience. On the 
contrary, to thofe of Mr. Fox’s party, whe 
have oppofed the late war, and whofe li- 
beral opinions and attachment to the caufe 
of the Revolution are known, you cannot 
be affable enough; and endeavour, by 
diftin&tions, invitations, and amiablenefs, 
to prove to them that the Fir& Conful 
knows, remembers, and is grateful for, 
their paft conduct and behaviour.”” We 
do tufpect that this fentence is the pro- 
duction of an Englifhman, and that it was 
written with the bale, the atrocious, the 
diabolical, 
