ported by numerous oaken trunks, entwined with climbing evergreens. Within this range of oak columns is the fitting room, which, in confequence of its lefs dimenfions, admits of a walk between it and the oaken colonade. On each fide of the entrance are two griffins, the fupporters of the city arms, which were removed hither when the Guildhall of London was new fronted in the year 1790. Facing the cottage is a ftatue of Venus rifing from the fea, by Locatelli; and over the door a beautiful reprefentation, in alto relievo, of the story of Acis and GaJatea, in ftatuary marble; and the whole is furrounded by a shrubbery of evergreens. This fanciful and picturefque Tout ensemble has alfo engaged the mufe of the elegant author of Indian Antiquities, in a manner fo defcriptive of the place, which we have further elucidated by an accurate engraving, that we cannot refift the pleasure of giving it to our readers, and with it conclude our account of a combination of picturefque neatnefs and beauty, fuperior to any other production of rural art in the vicinity of the metropolis.

Hark! through the wooded circuit's ample bound,

How fweet the rural fymphonies refound! Hark! from their fecret fprings the Naiads call, [fall. While foft around the murmuring waters Oh! nymphs propitious to th' exhausted mufe, [treams diffule; Wide, and more wide their cooling In torrents dash them thro' the fultry air, And fainting Nature's waited strength

All the fair beauties of the grove combin'd: [furvey, Whether my eye your tranquil stream Or o'er its fhrubby marge luxuriant stray,

Or to yon high o'er-arching woods afcend, That wide thro' air their branching ftreams extend;

A towering theatre of mighty shade, With Heaven's blue canopy aloft o'erfpread: [stand, Transfix'd with wonder and delight I And own in all a Mafter's daring hand, With dazzling brilliance while the fun beams dance, [panfe.

On the chafte bosom of one bright ex

From the too powerful glare and fcorching heat,

Yon rural Cottage yields a cool retreat: What tho' it want the fpacious marble hafe, [grace; What tho' its roof no gilded trophies On lafting oak its mode front it reary,

And next in ruftic elegance appears; While thick around with mantling foliage twin'd,

It bids defiance to the fun and wind.
See Guardian Venus rifing from the tide,
With Flora o'er the hollow'd porch re-
[Imiles,

fide;

But not that Venus, who with harlot And crimson cheer, th' unwary youth begnites, [tie, To rend, as Barnwell erft, the facred And in his Patron's blood the poniard dye;

[tire, But dignified, referv'd, in thafte atWith Delia's bathful lock and temper'd fire. [clote, Againft unhallow'd flames the door they But wide unfold where virtuous paffion glows. [charms, Here then, let wearied beauty rest her And fleep fecure from all but love's alarms.

ROBERT WILSON, in his "Hif SIR tory of the British Expedition to Egypt," gives the following narrative of the cruelties committed by order of General Bonaparte, now First Conful of France.

"The Turks juftified themselves for the malfacre of the French by the maf facre at Jaffa. As this act, and the poifoning of the fick, have never been VOL, XLIII. JUNE 1803,

credited because of fuch enormities being fo incredibily atrocious, a digref. on to authenticate them may not be deemed intrufively tedious; and, had not the influence of power interfered, the act of accufation would have been preferred in a more folemn manner, and the damning proofs produced by penitent agents of thefe murders; but neither menaces, recompence, nor proKk k

miles,

be

mifes, can altogether ftifle the cries of outraged humanity, and the day for retribution of justice is only delayed. Bonaparte having carried the town of Jaffa by affault, many of the garrifon were put to the fword, but the greater part flying into the mofque, and imploring mercy from their purfuers, 'were granted their lives; and let it be well remembered, that an exafperated army in the moment of revenge, when the laws of war juftified the rage, yet heard the voice of pity, received its impreffion, and proudly refuted to any longer the executioners of an unrefifting enemy. Soldiers of the Italian army, this is a laurel-wreath worthy of your fame, a trophy of which the fubfequent treafon of an individual shall not deprive you! Bonaparte, who had expreffed much refent ment at the compaflion manifested by his troops, and determined to relieve himfelf from the maintenance and care of 3800 prifoners*, ordered them to be marched to a rifing ground near Jaffa, where a divifion of French infantry formed against them. When the Turks had entered into their fatal alignment, and the manifold preparations were completed, the signal gun fired. Vollies of mufquetry and grape inftantly played against them; and Bonaparte, who had been regarding the Icene through a telescope, when he faw the fmoke afcending, could not restrain his joy, but broke out into exclamations of approval: indeed he had just reafon to dread the refufal of his troops thus to difhonour themselves. Kleber had remonitrated in the most ftrenuous manner; and the officer of the etâtmajor who commanded (for the general to whom the divifion belonged was abfent), even refused to execute the order without a written inftruction; but Bonaparte was too cautious, and fent Berthier to enforce obedience. When the Turks had all fallen, the

French troops humanely endeavoured to put a period to the fufferings of the wounded; but fome time elapfed before the bayonet could finish what the fire had not destroyed, and probably many languished days in agony. Several French officers, by whom partly thefe details are furnished, deck red this was a fcene, the retrospect of which tormented their recollection; and that they could not reflect on it without horror, accustomed as they had been to fights of cruelty. Thefe were the prifoners whom Allalini, in his very able work on the plague, alludes to, when he fays, that for three days the Turks thewed no fymptoms of that difeafe, and it was their putrifying remains which produced the pef tilential malady which he describes as afterwards making fuch ravages in the French army. Their bones till he in heaps, and are fhewn to every traveller who arrives; nor can they be confounded with those who perished in the affault, fince this field of butchery lies a mile from the town. Such a fact should not, however, be alledged without fome proof or leading circumfiance, ftronger than affertion, being produced to support it; but there would be a want of generolity in naming individuals, and branding them to the latest poflerity, for obeying a command, when their fubmiffion became an act of neceffity, fince the whole army did not mutiny against the execution: therefore to establish farther the authenticity of the relation, this can only be mentioned, that it was Bonn's divifion which fired; and thus every one is afforded the opportunity of fatisfying themfelves refpecting the truth, by enquiring of officers ferving in the different brigades compofing this divifion.

The next circumftance is of a nature which requires, indeed, the molt particular details to establish; fince the

idea can scarce be entertained, that the commander of an army thould order his own countrymen (or, if not immediately fuch, thofe amongst whom he had been naturalized) to be deprived of existence when in a state which required the kindelt confideration. But the annals of France record the frightful crimes of a Robertpiere, a Carriere; and historical truth must now recite one equal to any which has blackened its page. Bonaparte, find ing that his hofpitals at Jaff were crowded with fick, fent for a phyician, whole name should be infcribed in letters of gold, but which, from weighty reasons, cannot be here inferted on his arrival, he entered into a long converfation with him refpecting the danger of contagion, concluding at lalt with the remark, that fomething must be done to remedy the evil, and that the destruction of the fick in the hofpital was the only meature which could be adopted. The phytician, alarmed at the propofal, bold in the confidence of virtue and the caufe of humanity, remonstrated vehemently, reprefenting the cruelty as well as the atrocity of fuch a murder; but, finding that Bonaparte perfevered and menaced, he indignantly left the tent with this memorabie, obfervation: "Neither my principles, nor the character of my profeffion, will allow me to become a human butcher; and, Ge neral, if fuch qualities are neceffary to form a great man, I thank my God that I do not poffefs them." Bonaparte was not to be diverted from his object by moral confiderations. He perteve ed, and found an apothecary, who, dreading the weight of power (but who has fince made an atonement to his mind by unequivocally confething the fact), confented to become his agent, and to administer poifon to the fick. Opium at night was administered in gratifying food; the wretched, unfufpecting victims banqueted; and in a few hours 580 foldiers, who had fuf. fered so much for their country, pe. rihed thus miferably by the order of its idol Is there a Frenchman whofe blood does not chill with horror at the recital of fuch a fact? Surely, the manes of thele murdered, unofiending people must be now hovering round the feat of government and ...... It a doubt thould till exit as to the veracity of this statement, let the members of the Institute at Cairo be alked

what paffed in their fitting after the return of Bonaparte from Syria; they will relate that the fame virtuous phyfician, who refufed to become the deftroyer of thofe committed to his protection, accufed Bonaparte of high treafon, in the full affembly, against the honour of France, her children, and humanity; that he entered into the full details of the poifoning of the tick, and the maffacre of the garrifon; aggravating thefe crimes by charging Bonaparte with ftrangling previously at Roletta, a number of French and Copts, who were ill of the plague thus proving, that this difpofal of his fick was a premeditated plan, which he withed to introduce into general practice. In vain Bonaparte attempted to justify himfelf. The members fat petrified with terror, and almost doubted whether the fceae paffing before their eyes was not illufion. Affuredly, all thefe proceedings will not be found in the minutes of the Institute;-no! Bonaparte's policy forefaw the danger, and power produced the crafure: but let no man, calculating on the force of circumftances which may prevent fuch an avowal as is folicited, prefume on this to deny the whole; there are records which remain, and which in due feafon will be produced. In the interim, this reprefentation will be fufficient to ftimulate enquiry; and, Frenchmen, your honour is indeed interested in the examination." (p. 72-76.)”

General Andreoffi, in the late Official Correfpondence, terms the above "a most atrocious and difgutting ca lumny." In confequence, Sir Robert has fice written the following letter, which we confider as conclusive on the fubject.

SIR,

TO THE EDITOR.

In the official correfpondence lately published, there appear tome remarks, which the French Ambassador was in ftructed to make on my Hiftory of the Expedition to Egypt, and of which I feel called upon to take notice, not in pericnal controverfy with General Andolly, for, conscious of the fuperior virtue of my caule, I find myself neither aggrieved nor irritated by the language he has uied; but that the public may not attribute my filence to a delire of evading further difcuffion, and thus the thallow mode of contra K kk1 diction

diction adopted by the Chief Conful acquire an unmerited confideration. The ambaffador obferves, "That a Colonel in the English army has pub. lished a work in England, filled with the most atrocious and difgufting calumnies against the French army and its General. The lies it contains have been contradicted by the reception which Colonel Sebastiani experienced. The publicity of his report was at once a refutation and reparation, which the French army had a right to expect."

"But furely a new fignification must have been attached in France to the word calumny, when fuch a term is applied to my account of the conduct of the French troops in Egypt, and the confequent difpofition of the inhabitants towards them!

"Independent, however, of the proofs to be adduced in corroboration of my statement, Europe may juftly appreciate the probable truth of what I have written, when the recollects the unparalleled fufferings endured by the unoffending countries into which, during the last war, a French army penetrated; and fhe will at least hefitate to believe that the fame armies fhould voluntarily ameliorate their conduct in a country more remote, where the atrocities they might commit would be lefs liable to publicity, and that this extraordinary change fhould be in favour of a people, whofe principles and refittance might have excited the refentment of more generous invaders. "I will not enter into an unneceffary detail of the numerous facts which I could urge; but I appeal to the honour of every British Officer employed in Egypt, whether those obfervations are not facredly true, which defcribe the French as being hateful to the inhabit ants of that country, which represent them as having merited that hatred from the ruin and devaftation with which their progress through it has been marked; and I am ready, if there be one who refufes to fanction this relation, to resign for ever every pretenfion to honourable reputation, and fubmit, without a farther ftruggle, to that odium which thould attach to calumny and a wilful perverfion of truth.

"But, Sir, I feel confident there is no individual, who will not amply confirm all that I have written on this Lubject; and perhaps Europe has a

right to condemn me for not having made the accufations ftill stronger, when I can produce frequent Generai Orders of the French army, for the deftruction of villages and their inhabitants; when I can prove, that above 20,000 of the natives perished by the fwords of the French foldiery; and that every act of violence was committed, and particularly in Upper Egypt, which could outrage humanity and difgrace the character of civilifed nations. When writing a history of the campaign, was it poffible not to exprefs indignation against the authors of fuch calamities? Would it have been natural not to have felt the animation of that virtuous pride, which a reflection on the different conduct of the British foldiery must infpire in the breast of every Briton? I have asserted that a British foldier could traverse alone through any part of Fgypt, or even penetrate into the Defert, fecure from injury or infult. I have defcribed the natives as confidering the British their benefactors and protectors, foliciting opportunities to manifeft their gratitude, and efteeming their uniform as facred as the turban of Mahometanism; and I may venture to predict, that hereafter the French traveller will be compelled to conceal the name of his nation, and owe his fecurity to the affumption of the British character.

"But, Sir, does the effect of Colonel Sebaftiani's report juftify the Chief Conful's conclufion, that it is "a complete refutation of what I have advanced," even if we attach to that report implicit belief in its candour and veracity? Is it poffible that the Chief Conful can fuppofe the world will trace respect for the French name in the circumftance which occurred to Colonel Sebaftiani at Cairo, and which rendered it neceflary for him to demand protection from the Vizir? or would he imagine that the apologue of d'Gezzar Pacha was not intelligible even previous to the inftructions being published which M. Talleyrand fent to the French commercial agents.

"That illuftrions Senator, to whofe virtues and stupendous talents England owes fo much of her profperity, has declared that this report of Colonel Sebastiani in no cafe contradicts my statement; and I should confider that high opinion as amply fufficient to remove any impreffion which the French Ambafla

der's