1809.] Ancient Inscription on a Pillar m Aberdeenshire. 5538 
is true, that they do not quite resemble 
Ervy, &c. :for they boast much, but 
“manners make the man,” and the in- 
ference is highly Konsprable to the mi- 
litary literau, who copy the modest 
victors of Greece and Rone. 
Now, sir, it is evident that Buonaparte 
Wishes to be cock. ef the walk, and to 
crow over every body. He well knows, 
that every little makes a mickle ; and 
therefore, by confederations of the Rhine, 
per petual couscriptions, &c. 1s as cool as a. 
eucuinber, about the success of his wéld- 
goose projects, Weil knowing the old adage 
‘of the numble ninepence, he is\Aere and 
there, and every where, over the hills and 
fur away, before we can say Jack Robin- 
son: always with a stout heart, but not 
probably with a thin pair of breeches ; j for 
we do not find by the bulletins, that he 
ever complains of losing leather. He 
has «salve for every sore; and therefore 
never cries stinking jish, to alarm the 
conscripts. As money nakes the mare to 
g0, he takes care to have plenty of Na- 
puleons with him for distribution; and 
because, a still tongue makes a wise head, 
takes alsa good care to keep thuét cat in 
the bug. He has heard of much cry and — 
little wool being, in the issue, injurious to 
repute; and he therefore inverts the 
eflect, by adding, a great deal of wool to 
much cry: also, because Brag is a good 
dog, and Hold- fist is «a better, he wisely- 
keeps buth. Nothing venture, 7 nothing 
huve, is a good maxim, it united ‘ith 
playing a safe game; and, though nothing 
ws certain in this wor ld, but death und 
taxes, people may be bndnetit to think 
otherwise, by turning Seese into swans. 
He likes a feast to end im a fray, tor eut 
of nothing nothing would come. Some 
people’s noses he soaps first, and pulls 
afterwards, as the King of Spain’s (the 
Emperor of Russia being now seaping | 
with Castille soap, for Wrndsor is out 
out of the question ;) other ha ach s heads 
he breaks, and then applies a plaster, 
with a cooling regimen, &c &c. Where 
he cannot bite, he will however bork; tor 
we fiad Lord Cochrane, long before his 
safe arrival in England, driven jnato. the 
sea by dn Itahan regiment ; and lest his 
own troops should be rather dispirited, 
he calls the English soldiers cowards: 
and though Ais soldiers shrunk from the 
bayonet, at Corunna (a5 every officer 
and private attests), he gains the victory 
by that superior weapon, the long-bow. 
In plain English, the bulletins are al- 
ways gross and flattering misrepresen- 
> 
tatiuns : sometimes downr ight falsehoods; 
that is, there can be uo reason to dispute 
id Cochrane’s assertion, that the 
rench ships struck in the Basque Roads, 
aan were, One excepted, set on fire by 
tlie Enefish: yet the bulletins assert, that 
this conflagr ation was made by theF eeeH, 
Tt is certainly painful, that, wiflle the 
devil is put to shame by telling truth, 
a Frenchman should be covered with 
glory for possessing privileges beyond 
the fallen archangel. Indeed, every teele 
ing person, who knows the frequent le= 
ce:sity, under which his tfernal mgh- 
ness must labour, of deviating froin 
truth, must rather think that impudence 
should: have been added: it is still 
harder, because every word he says, can- 
not of aan he be gospels 
In short, Buonaparte is a mighty 
genius, buta Charlatan; he cannot com- | 
mand inipossibilities: and officers de- 
clare, that bis success is owing to nume= 
bers. In Egypt, and in Portugal, the 
troops were vobied of that resoarce, and 
exhibited no commanding superiority, 
Tn pointe of literature, bravery, and mind, 
Scotland is perhaps the trst country in 
Europe ; and were its resources and po- 
pulation adequate, and itself a con- 
tinental power, [ am inclined to think, 
that in their struggles for Number I. of 
which. the people of both. nations: are 
very fond, the Scots would outdo them. 
Independence is indeed the soul 
of national well-being, because it 
enables a nation to consult its own in- 
terest: but ifout of a population of thirty 
millions, two hundred pouuds is paid in 
France for a substitute, in the conscrip- 
tion, a pretty accurate estimate may be 
formed of the nambers employed, and 
the losses sustained, through the remorse- 
less ambition of “the grand human 
enemy of days of 1 innocence and peace.’ 
The real interest of the poor is a profit 
able employment of, and market for, their 
industry ; and trade, peace, and the arts 
were the best interests of France, and 
of man: buct then, Napoleon would 
not die conqueror of the world! what 
selfish cruelty | Oh, that he had been 
born and bred a Quaker! i 
Your's he Bo Pier Younes 
Ty the Editor of the Monthly Magazine, 
SIR, 
HERE having been lately disco- 
g' vered in this, neighbourhood a very 
singular curiosity, it would be desirable 
to receive the opinion of learned anti- 
quaries, concerning it ; and as your work 
has such an extensive circulation, I have 
sent youa drawing of it; persuaded that 
you will net deem an engraving of this 
2 relic 
