1808.] 
A Martial Temple, on the Boulevards 
Saint Honoré, in which are to be placed 
the statues of all the generals who have 
served under Napoleon, with the various 
standards taken in battle: and on plates 
of gold are to be engraven the names of 
all the officers and soldiers who have 
fallen; and on plates of silver, of all those 
who may have survived these contlicts of 
horror and carnage. . 
‘A Triumphal Arch, at the Tuileries, as: 
already described. 
A Temple to Victory, at the Barriere 
of the Champs Elysees, which is to be en- 
circled with several colonnades, and of a: 
magnitude so extended, that they have 
deemed it necessary to lay the founda- 
tion ninety feet beneath the surface. 
A new facade to the Palais du Corps 
Legislatif. 3 
The Column of Rostock, brought from 
Prussia by Napoleon, where it was 
erected by Frederick the Great, to com- 
memorate a victory over the French ar- 
mies, . 
The New Gallery of the Louvre. 
The Quai Desaix, which is to be faced 
with a piazza, 
The Pantheon of Saint Genevieve. 
_ The New Bridge of the Champ de Mars, 
aac. | 
_Inregard to your question on the state 
_ of those public characters who have been 
so conspicuous during the revolution, and 
who are yet living: I can only answer 
impertectly; General Moreau lives at 
_ Morrisville, on the banks of the Delaware, 
in the state of Pennsylvania, in America. 
General Humbert (who was in Ireland) 
is in astate of domestic exile in Nantes, 
on a suspicion of being accessary to the 
plansimputed to Moreau. ‘Yallien, who 
overthrew the monster Robespierre, is 
now a commercial agent in the Adriatic. 
Barrere, the inflated orator of the demo- 
cratic assembties of Paris, is now the au- 
thor of the leading article of the Argus of 
Paris, which is translated into English 
under the inspection of a censor. Vol- 
ney is a senator, but is not in favour at 
St. Cloud: he receives the salary, and 
lives in rural sequestration... The Abbé 
Sieyes, who had been the secret, but ef; 
ficient mover of the governing machine, 
previous to the consulate of Bonaparte, 
lives in philosophic retirement: his in- 
fluence is still supposed to be great, but 
he has.never been known to exercise it 
for his own emolument. 
_ I visited M. Barras at his chateau, 
_ where he lives, almost in a state of seclu- 
Classical Defence of a Bull. 
‘greater portio 
factors, than 
YO 
sion from soeiety. Te amused himself with 
the diversions of the chace, but the: usé* 
of fire-arms being “interdicted by the 
prefect of that department, in conse- 
geuence of an assault upon a few gens 
d'armes by some robbers, his pleasures‘ 
are now confined to reading, and the cons” 
versation of a very limited number of 
visitors. Such is the recluse and fallen™ 
state of a man, who but a few years since~ 
was the dictator, of France, and the oris* 
gin of the’ imperial greatness of Napo-” 
leon himself! ; Reet 
The test of the Gemocratic actors, may 
be presumed to be in a state of secret: 
mortification: those, who have virtue, 
regretting the consequences of their folly ; 
and, those who are incurably desperate 
lamenting that order and security is re- 
stored to society on any terms whatever. 
Thus ends this trivial, but- temperate 
and well-meant statement.’ Ifyou should 
object to the applidation of the epithet 
great as applied to the conqueror Napo- 
leon, you’ must recollect that the Gres 
eian Alexander possessed it on the same 
terms; and until mankind shall assign a 
honour to their bene- 
destroyers, such an an- 
ignity will run current 
feo) 
nexation of fa 
in opinion, 
Ee 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
GENTLEMAN of whose classical 
erudition I had reason to enter- 
tain a very high opinion, lately made use 
of the expression a “ sidver horn” in the 
course of conversation, and several per= 
sons in company accused him of having 
made «a bull; he defended himself by 
saying that the word horn as frequently 
alludes to the form, or shape, as to the 
substance; thus we do not hesitate to 
talk of a duet on the horns, although we 
know that the musical instrument, called 
the French horn, is; generally made of 
brass. This defence, however, did not 
satisfy. some half-learned critics present; 
and my friend, continuing awhile silent, 
allowed them to enjoy the imaginary 
triumph which they fancied had been 
thus obtained over a professed man of 
letters. Ina few minutes he wrote with 
a pencil some lines from memory on the 
back of a letter, which he handed pri- 
vately to me, and I found them to con- 
tain the following words :—=“ Pindar uses 
the expression drinking oxt of silver 
horns,” thus, . 
66 ES agyugewy negara mivoyrres Eat ov To—em 
And 
