the publishers of the translation purpose to reduce to four: the first two have just made their appearance, and from them we select a few anecdotes illustrative of the character of Bonaparte, which, it is obvious, the author enjoyed the best opportunities of studying. “Women are better judges of character than men. Madame de Bourrienne, knowing the intimacy which subsisted between my young friend and me, watched him very closely. She preserved some notes which she made upon Bonaparte, and which I subjoin, word for word : "On the day after our second return from Germany, in May, 1795, we met Bonaparte in the Palais Royal. He embraced Bourrienne as a friend whom he loved and was glad to see. We went that evening to the Theatre Français. During the after-piece, the bursts of laughter at the performance of Batiste, the younger, were so loud and frequent, that the actor was several times obliged to stop in the midst of his part. It struck me as something very extraodinary that Bonaparte alone was silent and coldly insensible to the humour which was so irresistibly diverting to every one else. I remarked that at this period his character was reserved and frequently gloomy. His smile was hypocritical and often misplaced; I recollect that a few days after our return, he gave us one of those specimens of savage hilarity which prepossessed me against him. He was telling us that, being before Toulon, where he commanded the artillery, one of his officers was visited by his wife, to whom he had been a short time married, and whom he tenderly loved. Orders were given a few days afterwards for another attack upon the town, in which this officer was to be engaged. His wife came to General Bonaparte, and with tears entreated him to dispense with her husband's services that day. The general was inexorable, as he himself told us with a sort of savage exultation. The moment of the attack arrived, and the officer, though a very brave man, as Bonaparte himself assured us, had a presentiment of his approaching death. He turned pale and trembled. He was stationed beside the general, and, at a moment when the fire from the city was very brisk, Bonaparte called out to him: Take care! a bomb-shell is coming!—Instead of moving aside, the officer stooped and was literally severed in two. Bonaparte laughed aloud while he described the event with horrible minuteness. At this time we saw him almost every day. He frequently came to dine with us. As there was a scarcity of bread, and sometimes only two ounces a day per head were distributed in the section, it was customary to beg one's guests to bring their bread with them, as that article could not be procured for money. Bonaparte and his brother Louis (a mild, agreeable young man, who was the general's aide-de-camp), used to bring with them their ration bread, which was black and mixed with bran. I was sorry to observe that all this bad bread fell to the share of the poor aide-de-camp, for we provided the general with a finer kind, made secretly by a pastrycook, from flour which we contrived to smuggle from Sens, where my husband had some farms. Had we been denounced the affair might have cost us our heads.' 666 Of the massacre at Jaffa, which has occasioned so much discussion, the following account is given :-"On the 4th of March we com menced the siege of Jaffa. That paltry place held out only till the 6th, when it was taken by storm and given up to pillage. The massacre was horrible. Bonaparte sent his aides-de-camp, Beauharnais, and Croisier, to appease the fury of the soldiers as much as possible, to observe what was passing, and to report to him. They learned that a considerable part of the garrison had retired to some spacious buildings, a sort of caravanserais, which formed a large enclosed court. The aides-de-camp proceeded to that place. The Arnauts, of whom these refugees were almost entirely composed, cried from the windows that they were willing to surrender, upon an assurance that they should be exempted from the massacre to which the town was doomed; if not, they threatened to fire on the officers, and to defend themselves to the last extremity. The officers thought it right to accede to their proposal, notwithstanding the decree of death which had been pronounced against the whole garrison, in consequence of the town being taken by storm. They brought them to our camp in two divisions, one consisting of about 2500 men, the other about 1500." I was walking with Bonaparte in front of his tent when he saw this multitude approaching, and, before he perceived his aides-decamp, he said to me, in a tone of deep vexation: What would they have me do with these men?-Have I food for them? or ships to convey them to Egypt or France? Why, in the devil's name, have they served me thus? After the explanations, to which the general in chief listened with anger, Eugene and Croisier received a severe reprimand for their conduct. But the deed was done. Four thousand men were there. It was necessary to decide upon their fate. The two aides-de-camp observed that they had found themselves alone in the midst of numerous enemies, and that he had directed them to restrain the carnage. Yes, doubtless,' replied the general, with great warmth, as to the women, children, old men-all the peaceable inhabitants; but not with respect to armed soldiers. It was your duty to die rather than bring these unfortunate creatures What can I do with them?' These words were pronounced to me. 6 in the most angry tone. "The prisoners were then directed to sit down, and placed without any order in front of the tents, with their hands tied behind their backs. A sombre fury was depicted in their countenances. We gave them a little biscuit and bread squeezed out of the already scanty supply for the army." Four days were spent in deliberating on what was to be done with these unfortunate creatures. Want of provisions, and the dangers to be apprehended from the release of so large a body of foes, at length decided their fate. The order for shooting them was given and executed on the 10th March—" Many of those composing the smaller division, which was fired on close to the sea-coast, at some distance from the other column, succeeded in swimming to some reefs of rocks out of the reach of musket-shot. The soldiers rested their muskets on the sand, and, to induce the prisoners to return, employed the signs of reconciliation in use in the country. They came back, but, as they approached, they were killed, and disappeared among the waves." MEMOIRS OF HIS MAJESTY GEORGE IV. Ar a moment when the apprehensions and the sympathies of a loyal nation have been powerfully excited by the alarming illness of its revered sovereign, it is to us matter of sincere congratulation that we can still speak of him without being obliged to use the past tense as we at one time feared we should. Under the present circumstances of his Majesty, a stronger interest must, we think, attach to the portrait here submitted to the public, than it would otherwise have possessed; and they cannot but render the subjoined memoir of the prominent events of his life doubly acceptable. In the latter it is not our intention to minister to that depraved appetite for scandal, for the gratification of which the privacies of domestic life are so frequently invaded, and the foibles of the great exposed and exaggerated. George Frederick Augustus, the fruit of the marriage of his late Majesty George III. with Queen Charlotte, was born on the 12th of August, 1762, on the forty-eighth anniversary of the accession of the house of Brunswick to the British throne. It so happened that while the guns were firing in the Park to announce the auspicious event, a long train of waggons was passing down St. James's street, laden with the treasure of the Hermione, Spanish frigate, one of the richest captures made by the British navy during the war in which the country was then involved. His Majesty, with the great officers of state, who were in attendance at the palace, appeared at the windows to view the cheering procession, and heartily joined in the acclamations of the populace. Before the young prince was a fortnight old it was announced, for the gratification of the public, that his royal highness might be seen on drawing-room days at St. James's from one till three o'clock. Agreeably to this intimation, all persons of fashion were admitted to see the royal infant, with these restrictions that, in passing through the apartment, they should step as softly as possible and not attempt to touch him; and, for the greater security on this point, part of the room was latticed off in the Chinese manner, to prevent the too near approach of curious persons. The ladies who availed themselves of this permission to see the "beautiful baby" and to taste her majesty's cake and caudle were so numerous, that the daily expense for cake alone was estimated at £40, and the consumption of wine was in proportion. On the 17th of August, his royal highness was created, by letters patent, prince of Wales, being the twentieth prince of the royal family of England who has borne that title: at the early age of three years, he was invested with the insignia of the Garter; but even this was not his first appearance in public life, for, a short time previously, he had received in person an address from the Ancient Britons-a society which has a peculiar claim to the patronage of the heir-apparent. The address was well adapted to his infantine years, and he appeared perfectly capable of comprehending the stewards, when they told him that his royal parents had not thought any |