that an officer and a gentleman, would deliberately perjure himself, the officer, therefore, was honourably acquitted. The soldier was then brought before another court-martial, and the same evidence being adduced against him, he was found guilty, and sentenced to be shot, subject to the approval of the Duke. The poor fellow was marched, a prisoner, through the country, and when the troops settled at Paris, he was led out to execution, with his wounded arm hanging powerless by his side. His pardon being suddenly announced to him, he was deprived of his reason. The transition was too sudden; it would have been an act of mercy, to have carried the sentence into effect. The officer who gave evidence against him, was killed at Waterloo.

Before the final breaking-up of our camp, the sight-loving people of Paris were gratified by the exhibition of a sham fight, upon a large scale, on the ground between Paris and St. Denis. In going through the evolutions, no regard was paid to the nature of the ground; if we came to a wall, we must surmount it;

and if we came to a stream of water, we were expected to go through it; so that by the time the affair was over, the men were so fatigued, that of them were not able to accompany

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us home to camp.

In the month of October, the weather set in very cold, with sharp frost, so that it was not deemed advisable to keep us longer at camp, lying on the cold ground.

Louis now felt himself tolerably safe, from any further efforts of Napoleon, who was, by this time, approaching St. Helena. May I be excused, for quoting the historical character of Napoleon, as drawn by Mr. Charles Phillips, the late eminent barrister.

"He is fallen! We may now pause before that splendid prodigy, which towered amongst us like some ancient ruin, whose frown terrified the glance its magnificence attracted. Grand, gloomy, and peculiar, he sat upon the throne, a sceptred hermit, wrapt in the solitude of his awful originality. A mind, bold, independent and decisive; a will, despotic in its dictates; an energy, that distances expedi

tion, and a conscience pliable to every touch of interest, marked the outline of this extraordinary character-the most extraordinary, perhaps, that in the annals of this world, ever rose, or reigned, or fell.

66 'Flung into life in the midst of a revolution, that quickened every energy of a people who acknowledged no superior, he commenced his career, a stranger by birth, and a scholar by charity; with no friend but his sword, and no fortune but his talents, he rushed into the lists where rank, and wealth, and genius had arrayed themselves: competition flew from him as from the glance of destiny. He knew no motive but interest-he acknowledged no criterion but success-he worshipped no god but ambition; and with an eastern devotion, he knelt at the shrine of his idolatry.

"Subsidiary to this, there was no creed that he did not profess; there was no opinion that he did not promulgate. In the hope of a dynasty, he upheld the Crescent: for the sake of a divorce, he bowed before the Cross : the orphan of St. Louis, he became the adopted

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child of the Republic; and with a paricidal ingratitude, on the ruins both of the throne and the tribune, he reared the tower of his despotism. A professed catholic, he imprisoned the Pope a pretended patriot, he impoverished the country: and, in the name of Brutus, he grasped without remorse, wore without shame-the diadem of the Cæsars!

"Through this pantomime of his policy, Fortune played the Clown to his caprices. At his touch, crowns crumbled, beggars reigned, systems vanished: the wildest theories took the colour of his whim; and all that was venerable, and all that was novel, changed places with all the rapidity of a drama. Even apparent defeat assumed the operations of victory. His flight from Egypt confirmed his destiny ruin, itself, only elevated him to empire. But, if his fortune was great, his genius was transcendent; decision flashed upon his councils, and it was the same to decide and to perform.

"To inferior intellects, his combinations appeared utterly impossible-his plans, perfectly

impracticable: but in his hands, simplicity marked their developement, and success vindicated their adoption.

"His person partook of the character of his mind if one never yielded in the cabinet, the other never bent in the field. Nature had no obstacles that he did not surmount— space, no opposition that he did not spurn: and whether amid Alpine rocks, Arabian sands, or Polar snows, he seemed proof against peril, and endowed with ubiquity! The whole continent of Europe trembled at beholding the audacity of his designs, and the miracle of their execution. Scepticism bowed to the prodigies of his performance: romance assumed the air of history. Nor was there aught too incredible for belief, or too fanciful for expectation, when the world saw a subaltern of Corsica waving his imperial flag over her most ancient capitals. All the visions of antiquity became common-place in his contemplation. Kings were his people-Nations were his outposts; and he disposed of courts, and crowns, and camps, and churches, and