spacciting up his bat from the table, threw it among a set of perecidive whica stood near him. The astonished Austrian to louger vedured to oppose him, but consented to sign and gus. Pis peace was concluded on the 17th of October, 1297

the time was now approaching when Bonaparte was to rese the great reward of all his toils, of all his perils, and of all bis victories, in the applause of his fellow-citizens, and the grateful acknowledgements of the government he had served. He had quitted Paris almost as a simple individual, without fame, distinction, or notoriety, and he was about to return the conqueror and pacificator of Europe. Had he lived in the times when the Roman generals returned to their country in triumph, he would have been attended by the armies who shared his victories, by the spoils of conquered nations, and by vanquished princes tied to his chariot wheels; but in civilized times these indecent spectacles are out of fashion, and Bonaparte was too modest or too prudent to revive them. He set out from Italy to Paris with the simple equipage of a private gentleman, attended only by two generals, two aidesde-camp, a secretary, and a physician. At Geneva he dined with the French resident, and having been expected for some time, relays of horses were waiting for him on the road, and immense crowds of people were all in earnest expectation to behold him. At Mondon, where he slept the night before, he had been received with great honours by the celebrated Colonel Weiss, the bailiff of the place, a man well known by his political and philosophical writing, by his zeal for liberty and mistaken admiration of Bonaparte. Near Avenche his carriage broke down, and he was obliged to walk for some miles. One among the crowd of spectators who had assembled to see him thus speaks of him, I had an opportunity of being very near him, and he seemed to me always to be talking to those around him as if he was thinking about something else: he has the mark of great sense in his countenance, and an air of profound meditation which reveals no

thing that is passing within; he seems constantly big with deep thought, which will some day or other influence the destinies of Europe. A burgess of Morat, observed with astonishment the figure of the general. How small a stature for so great a man,' cried he, loud enough to be heard by one of his aides-de-camp. He is exactly the height of Alexander,' said some one. 'Yes,' said the aid-de-camp, 'and that is not the only trait of resemblance.' He left Geneva on the 22d of November in the evening, and arrived the next night at Berne. At Faubron, a little village nine miles from Berne, he supped with a large party who had out of curiosity and respect accompanied his train; and after that he went to Soleure. All the towns through which he passed in the night were illuminated. At Basle he stopped some hours, walked round the town, and received a long and fulsome address from the burgomaster. In passing through Lausanne they had prepared a great fete for him, which he did not seem to enjoy: three citizens stopped his carriage and presented to him three young women, who repeated some fine complimentary verses which they had got by heart; an immense crowd assembled about him,, and testified great joy by their shouts and acclamations. He thanked them with great good humour, but seemed to have more need of sleep than of compliments: he appeared, indeed, every where to shew a profound contempt for popular opinion and popular applause. He spoke very little, to strangers through his whole journey, and seemed to be sensible that every word he said would be noted.'

The government of Berne had sent a deputy to him at Milan, who accompanied him on his journey, and had a son with him, a boy about thirteen years old, and of very quick parts, much above his age. Bonaparte seemed always very fond of talking to him. He found him one day with a map of Swisserland. What are you looking at there?' said the general. Some parts of my own country which I am not acquainted with,' replied the youth. Do you know that

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nich he seemed to treat with derision. On this the Baron bini threatened him with 150,000 Russians; at which Boparte, smiling with contempt, said to him, 'What will beme of your master, the Elector, after peace is signed?? uring his short stay at that place he gave another specimen. what the powers of Europe had to expect from him and the rench republic, by his treatment of Count Ferzen, the envoy Sweden to the congress, a man well known for his attachent to the court of France and his hatred to the revolution.、 Vhen he was introduced to him, Bonaparte received him oolly, but with civility, and then asked what minister the ourt of Sweden had at Paris. To which the Count replied ith evident confusion, 'None,' Bonaparte then expressed is surprise that the king should send a person to meet the lenipotentiaries who were essentially disagreeable to every 'rench citizen. He remarked, that the king would be much ffended if a French minister should be sent to Stockholm who had endeavoured to excite the people to insurrection; and by the same rule the French republic could not suffer his Majesty to send men too well known for their attachment to the old court, to face the ministers of the first nation on earth, which well knew how to preserve its dignity. The Count retired, much irritated and confused, saying he would report to his Majesty what he had just heard.

Bonaparte, after his arrival at Paris, shunned every opportunity of being noticed: he lived in a small house and retired street; he received very little company; he avoided all crowded places, and never went out but in a plain carriage with two horses; he dined sometimes with the different ministers of state, and never appeared but twice at any public meeting: in doing this, he complied with his natural disposition, which is grave and reserved, he shewed his contempt for popular applause, and avoided giving any offence to the Directory: he had, no doubt, formed the design of overturning them, but he saw that the time was not yet arrived. Before he left Italy the Directory had appointed him to the com

Italy, and in England, by every one attached to the royalist party and, in furtherance of this hope, the Venetians not only themselves rose upon the French at Verona, and murdered many thousands in cold blood, but excited the peasants in the Tyrol to avenge the cause of their country. General Balland was surprised, with the whole garrison of Verona, and reduced to the greatest extremities; the garrison of Chiusa also, which consisted only of eighty men, capitulated to the Venetians. General Kilmaine being informed of the distress and cruelties which the French had suffered at Verona, collected all the troops that could be spared from he different cities of Milan, Mantua, and Bologna, and came to their relief; and, on the 14th of April, compelled the Venetians to disperse. Bonaparte having, by the most prudent and vigorous measures, forced the Austrians to an armistice, at a time when they were ignorant of this diversion in their favour, was now at liberty to punish the treacherous Venetians; the very day after he wrote his celebrated letter to the Archduke, he wrote another to the Senate of Venice, stating all the grievances he had against them, and promising to them to make atonement for their conduct, and accept the alternative which he offered in three laconic words- War or Peace.' The cowardly Senate, who had probably heard of his renewed success, for their letter was written on the 15th of April, and the armistice was signed on the seventh, returned a submissive answer they did not deny the insurrection of the people, but pretended that they took every pains to repress it immediately, and promised to find out and deliver up to Bonaparte all those who had insulted or murdered any of the French troops; but they positively disavowed a proclamation attributed to them, and signed the 22d of March, 1797; in which the people were publicly excited to rebellion. Soon after this they sent two deputies to Gratz to enter into further explanations with the conqueror of Italy, and avoid, if possible, a rupture with the French: he received them very coolly, and demanded that all the citizens of Venice should be disarmed,