"That we may be the better enabled to enjoy the scene, the vessel is hove to, the boat is hoisted out, and we get into it, enveloped in the smoke of her guns that salute us. Her sails are filled again; she is a fish, a bird, the sovereign of the seas, the miracle of art. She stops her course, and we return on board.

"The prince is fired with ardour: he wants to see every thing, and does not know where to begin. I calm him, quoting ramos compesce fluentes. I teach him, that the captain of a ship on board her is a king: that we owe him the same honour and respect as the meanest of his crew, whose Jupiter he is: and thus, after having rendered the captain, the officers, and the crew, what is due to each, we are saluted with acclamations and extolled to the skies. Prince,' I say to him, you see, that a tooth for a tooth, and an eye for an eye, is the law of nature.'

The whole economy and discipline of the ship is now explained to the great prince, and his much greater preceptor.

"Meantime we have one entertainment after another, during the course of our study. All the practices common on shipboard are shown to us, even to the ceremonies used on crossing the line: the serving out of provision; clearing the decks for battle; manning the tops, forecastle and quarter-deck; casting loose the guns; and stationing the men. We fish in

all ways, and with all kinds of implements. We drink, smoke, and mess with the officers. The prince keeps his watch as a midshipman. At length after a fortnight's cruise we return to the road.

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"Here we spend a couple of days in surveying the coast, seeing how they take soundings, how they cast anchor, and how they moor. length our departure is fixed; we make our presents; and put off to shouts of Long live the Emperor!"

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They visit the fortifications; the convicts, 5000 in number, fed, says the work, on "coarse food, seasoned with rancid oil;" they discuss, at large, crimes and punishments, and quit Brest.

"As the bee returns from the field laden with the essence of flowers, we return full of ideas and images, which we must bring together, and arrange, to compose from them, if possible, true knowledge; which is to be fully sensible, that we know nothing.

"With this view we return on foot, followed by our carriage, observing at leisure what we had only seen at full speed, gayly talking over all we see; aud thus we reach our quarters for the night, where we meet a reception equal to the degree in which we are beloved.”

The Council of State, in their first person singular, were to have had at this period a hard task before them; their charge was to have been assailed by love. The following is the sage remedy:

"In vain I endeavour to direct his thoughts, by kindling his self-love, or exciting his curiosity: in vain I embellish, and call to my aid the voice of glory he lends, but cannot give, an ear to them: his eyes are heavy, are dull, he is blind, he is deaf.

"In this situation, far from endeavouring to deceive him, I open his eyes to it. To save him from himself, I fix the wavering of his senses by enlightening his mind; and, not daring to trust myself, or compromise myself, by speaking to him of love and pleasure, I call in Lucretius to my assistance, and with the invocation to Venus in my hand, I blushing give him the counsels of prudence.

Happy that the poison has not crept into his heart, that yet it only cireulates in his veins, and that he delights only in vague phantoms; I should

have no resource, but to throw him into the sea, as Mentor did Telemachus, when he did not know what to do with him. He restored him by violence, as I would by travelling or war, invoking absence or glory to save him from love.

"The crisis, however, at which he has arrived, is that rapid in the stream of life, which we can neither overleap nor avoid, and from which we most commonly escape only by skilfully yielding to the current."

To all instructors of youth and students of mankind, we recommend the following patent method of inculcating the most difficult and important of all knowledge, that of one's self.

"My art consists in inspiring my pupil with such an ardent desire of knowing himself, and so much sincerity in this desire, that he may be capable of examining himself as coolly as he would examine another, and of feeling himself probed to the quick without blinking.

"This sincerity is the golden bough, with which he will dissipate the illusions of self-love; it is the signal that confirms me in my course, and leads me to appoint a day for our first conversation.

"With this view I arrange a hunting party; and in the most retired and gloomy part of the forest, after pressing him to my bosom, I begin by reminding him of the celebrated inscription on the temple of Delphos, KNOW THYSELF, which he alone, who is indued with great understanding, can fully comprehend, and he alone, who is possessed of virtue, can realize. Could vice stand before the mirror of truth? Virtue, however, far from dreading it, seeks it, and takes as much pleasure in viewing herself in it as the beauty does in contemplating her image in the glass.

"But not to convert this essay into a novel, let it suffice to say, that, after several meetings, and the most scrupulous analysis, in which we mutually assist each other, he by his candour, and I by my sagacity, we finish a portrait of my young pupil; such, should its principal features be fixed and permanent, as may render him hereafter the admiration and blessing of his people.'

After all the pains, the following eloquent qualifications are rather damping.

"However,' I tell him, you will not become a Napoleon, without breaking the charm that binds you; without stifling that vanity which degrades you, and exchanging for steadiness that fickleness which ruins you ; without redoubling your ardour for every thing great and useful, giving, pardoning, rushing towards glory, being rigid in the cause of virtue, and taking care not to let those faults, which are at present only blemishes, degenerate into vices."

After a course, en passant, of the steam-engine, as they gallop back to Paris,-of the hydraulic ram, learned men, and all other sorts of machines and manufactures, this system of systems ends thus,

"All the principles, all the foundations, being laid, to say more would be entering into an empty detail.-Here, therefore, I stop.

"I have taken the royal infant by the hand, I have guided his first steps in the career of life. I have taught him the secret of his own career, by instructing him to seek pleasure in glory, and happiness in virtue. What can I teach him more?-I retire.-Higher lessons will unfold to him the secret of the throne-the secret of combining virtue and glory. St. Cloud, July 27, 1812."

Napoleon, says the title-page, personally superintended this production. Is it in posse that he may have written it alto

gether? Its style of reasoning and speculating, (the original French is subjoined to the translation, although from the latter only we have quoted,) very much resembles that of his bulletins and decrees, and his speeches to the legislative body; to say nothing of his own history dictated by himself, and edited by Mr. O'Meara, which has somehow fallen still-born from the press. It is matter of congratulation to literature, to say no more, that with the imperial jacobin has fallen the execrable style of composition with which he insulted the age, the trash called reasoning, which the world can now afford to scorn and ridicule, when it is no longer enforced by the sabre and bayonet. We think the publication of such imbecile, as well as wicked productions as that before us, the undisguised confession of systematic hypocrisy, despotism, ambition, and blasphemy, as the bases of the nurture of the future series of the oppressors of France and of Europe, of incalculable benefit to mankind. The real moral weakness that could conceive such trash, and the ignorant blindness that could anticipate advantage from it to any human being, entitle us to say, that if ever these men, or men actuated by similar views,-for such will be produced by all violent revolutions,-shall again be permitted to seize the vantage ground of power, and insult at once liberty, learning, and common sense, the world, warned and enlightened as it is, and by themselves too, will deserve its degradation.

An uncommonly fine engraving, from a miniature of the Prince, adorns the title-page. We have no means of judging of the likeness, but if it be correct, the ci-devant King of Rome must be a youth of exquisite beauty. We heartily congratulate him, at all events, on his escape from the tuition of the Imperial Council of State, with his father at their head*.

The preface by the translator,-who has performed his task fairly, whom we ac quit of any favour for the absurd work, and who we trust is actuated by our own wish to reduce these men to the contempt they deserve, has a curious document, illustrative of Napoleon's more juvenile history. It may amuse our readers"Royal Military School at Brienne. Examination, 1784. Account of the King's Scholars of an age to enter the service, or to be sent to the School at Paris; namely, M. de Buonaparte, (Napoleon), born the 15th of August, 1769; 4 fect, 10 inches, 10 lines high; has gone through the fourth class; of a good constitution, and excellent state of health of a docile, courteous, and grateful disposition; has always distinguished himself by his application to the mathematics; is tolerably acquainted with history and geography; but indifferently skilled in accomplishments, and in Latin, in which he has only gone through the fourth class. He would make an excellent seaman. Deserves to be admitted into the school at Paris."

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