Nel. What said Rapp? Wel. Rapp went up to him and asked him what he wanted. He replied — that he had a memorial to give to the Emperor. Rapp told him that I was busy, and that he could not speak to me then. He had his hand in his breast all this time, as if he had some paper to give me, Nel. How come they not to suspect something wrong? Wel. Finding that, notwithstanding his refusal, he insisted upon seeing me, and was pushing on; Rapp Nel. I suppose gave him a rapp. Wel. You are right. Rapp, who is a violent man, gave him a blow of his fist and knocked him down, or shoved him away to some distance. He came again afterwards, when the troops were passing. Rapp, who watched him, ordered some of the guards to seize, and keep him in custody until after the review, and then bring him to his quarters, that he might learn what he complained of. The guards observing that he always kept his right hand in his breast, made him draw it out, and examined him. Under his coat they found a knife, as long as my arm. When asked what he intended to do with it, he replied instantly, "to kill the Emperor." Nel. This fellow had courage, messmate. Wel. He had. Some time afterwards he was brought before me. I asked him what he wanted? He replied-To kill you! I asked him what I had done to him, to make him desire to take away my life? He answered-That I had done a great deal of mischief to his country; Nel. This was a bit of truth for Bonny to hear. Wel. It was. against it. That I had desolated and ruined by war, which I had waged Nel. Hear, hear. Wel. I enquired of him, why he did not kill the Emperor of Austria instead of me, as he was the cause of the war, and not I?— Nel. Ha, what answer did he make to this? Wel. He replied-Oh, he is a blockhead Nel. This reply one would think would have saved him from the block. Wel. Ah. And if he were killed another like him would be put upon the throne, and if you were dead, it would not be easy to find such another. Nel. Here was a compliment for Bonny, only one Buonaparte in the world eh! after this I should think Bonny set that young fellow free, notwithstanding the knife as long as his arm. Wel. You shall hear. He said that he had been called upon by God to kill me, and quoted Judith and Holofernes; spoke much about religion, and fancied that he was another Judith and I a Holofernes. He cited several parts of the Testament, which he thought appropriate to his projects; he was the son of a Protestant clergyman at Erfurth; he had not made his father privy to his design, and he had left his house without money. I believe that he had sold his watch, to purchase the knife with which he intended to kill me. Nel. Bonny had a chance to go as well as the watch, time and eternity here, messmate, at all events, Bonny was near coming to a stop. Wel. Truly so. He said-That he had trusted in God to find him the means to effect it. I called Corvisart, ordered him to feel his pulse, and see if he were mad. Nel. Ha, his pulse I'm sure would not tell him that. Wel. No. He did so, and every thing was calm. I desired him to be taken away and locked up in a room with a gendarme, to have no sort of food Nel. Then poor fellow he would not want his knife. Wel. For twenty four hours, but as much cold water as he liked. Nel. Why Bonny's coming out as a water doctor. Wel. I wished to give him time to cool Nel. So he gave him plenty of cold-water. Jus Receipts Apprenticeship Indentures-Debentures for Drawbacks-Policies for Assurance-Scrip CertificatesPublished, price 2d. fine paper, with wrapper, THE NEW STAMP ACT, shewing the New Duties on Attorneys' Certificates-Conveyances, &c.; without a wrapper, 1d. Wel. And reflect, and then examine him when his stomach was empty. Nel. Indeed he did. But go on. Wel. After the twenty-four hours were expired, I sent for him, and asked if I were to pardon, would yon make another attempt upon my life? He hesitated for a long time, and at last, but with great difficulty, said that he would not, as then it would not appear to be the intention of God that he should kill me, otherwise he would have allowed me to have done it at first. I ordered him to be taken away; it was my intention at first to have pardoned him, but it was represented to me, that his hesitation after twenty four hours fasting was a certain sign that his intentions were bad. Nel. Well, really this is funny. Bonny's plenty of cold-water and twenty-four hours fasting has brought the young man to say, that he would not attempt it again, and even, that it was not the intention of God that he should kill him, and now they want to prevent Buonaparte from doing what would have redounded much to his credit. Wel. Yes. That he still intended to assassinate. Wel. Ah! how indeed. That he was an enthusiest. Wel. And that it would set a very bad example. Nothing, continued Napoleon, is more dangerous than one of these religious enthusiasts they always aim at either God or the king. He was left to his fate. Nel. I expected as much. Wel. Another time, proceeded Napoleon— Nel. What, another! "The cry is still they come." Wel. A letter was sent to me by the King of Saxony, containing information that a certain person was to leave Stutgard on a particular day, for Paris, where he would probably arrive on a day that was pointed out. That his intention was to murder me. A minute description of his person was also given. The police took its measures, and on the day pointed out, he arrived. They had him watched; he was seen to enter my chapel, to which I had gone, on the celebration of some festival. He was arrested and examined. He confessed his intentions, and said, that when the people knelt down, on the elevation of the host, he saw me gazing at the fine women. Nel. Oh, Bonny! Bonny! to be gazing at the fine women during the eleva tion of the host: however, quite apropos, messmate-Mars true to his Venus. Wel. Quite so. He intended to advance and fire at me Nel. Ha, ha, darts in all directions. Wel. So it seems. In fact, he had advanced near to me at the moment, but, upon a little reflection, thought that he would not be sure enough, and he determined to stab me with a knife. Nel. More knives; Bonny was a lucky blade! Wel. Yes. I did not like to have him executed, and ordered that he should be kept in prison. When I was no longer at the head of affairs, this man, who had been detained in prison for seven months after I left Paris, and ill treated I believe, got his liberty soon after. He said, that his designs were no longer to kill me; but he would murder the king of Prussia, for having ill treated, the Saxons and Saxony. On my return from Elba, I was to be present at the opening of the legislative body; which was to be done with great state and ceremony. When I went to open the chamber, this same man, who had got in, fell down by some accident; and a parcel containing some chemical preparation, exploded in his pocket, and wounded him severely. It never has been clearly ascertained, what his intentions were at this time. Nel. Bonny's assassination plots, end in smoke. To be continued. VOICE FROM THE TOMB. A DIALOGUÉ BETWEEN NELSON AND WELLINGTON. OVERHEARD AT ST. PAUL'S. THIRTY-SIXTH PART. LONDON: J. PATTIE, CHRISTOPHER COURT, ST. MARTIN'S-LE-GRAND AND SOLD BY M. A. PATTIE, 110, SHOE LANE, FLEET STREET. PRICE ONE PENNY. A VOICE FROM THE TOMB. A DIALOGUE BETWEEN NELSON AND WELLINGTON, OVERHEARD AT ST. PAUL'S. Wellington. On the 10th of March, three days after their surrender, the prisoners were marched out of Jaffa, in the centre of a battalion under General Bon. Nelson. Bon! indeed. The Turks had no reason to call him good. Wel. True. When they had reached the sand hills, at some distance from the town, they were divided into small parties, and shot or bayoneted to a man. Nel. Horrible! Wel. They, like their fatalists, submitted in silence, and their bodies were gathered together into a pyramid, where, after the lapse of thirty years, their bones are still visible whitening the sand. Nel. Such a deed of blood must ever brand Buonaparte. No wonder he hates to be called General. Wel. The historian proceeds-Such was the massacre of Jaffa, which will ever form one of the darkest stains on the name of Napoleon. Nel. True, true. Wel. He admitted the fact himself, and justified it on double plea, that he could not afford soldiers to guard so many prisoners, and that he could not grant them the benefit of their parole. Nel Oh, oh! Wel. Because they were the very men who had been set free on such terms at El Arish. To this last defence the answer is, unfortunately for him very obvious, Nel. Certainly! Wel. He could not possibly have recognized in every one of these victims an individual who had already given and broken his parole. If he did (still that would not avail him,) the men surrendered with arms in their hands. No general has a right to see men abandon the means of defence; and then, after the lapse of three days! to inflict on them the worst fate that could have befallen them had they held out. Nel, Certainly not. Wel. The only remaining plea is that of expdiency; and it is one upon which many a retail, as well as wholesale murderer, might justify his crime. Nel. Just so; this was a wholesale murder, and nothing else. I perfectly coincide with every word the historian has said on this diabolical and bloody deed. But tell me more of what he said at St. Helena on this subject. Wel. He continued - In justice to the lives of my soldiers, as every general ought to consider himself as their father,— Nel. His soldiers certainly had a tender father! Wel And them as his children. Nel. Well, in many cases, the children certainly proved themselves worthy of their sire. The Turks at Jaffa, could fully testify and bear witness to the prompt obedience of his children. Wel. Yes. To leave as a guard a portion of my army, already small and reduced in number, in consequence of the breach of faith of those wretches was impossible. Nel. Oh, oh, wretches, eh! Their executioners were indeed wretches, I may say, messinate, first-raters. Wel. Indeed, to have acted otherwise than I did, would probably have caused the destruction of my whole army.— N. 1. Oh! Wel. I therefore availed myself of the rights of war, Nel. Rather say, the wrongs of war. Wel. Which authorizes the putting to death prisoners taken under such circumstances,— Nel. Ha! what a stickler. for the rights of war. Ilow well the devil can quote the Military Act, as well as scripture. Wel. Independent of the right given to me by having taken the city by assault and that the retaliation on the Turks, ordered that the prisoners taken at El-Arish, who in defiance of their capitulation, had been found bearing arms against me, should be selected out and shot Nel. How hard he labours to justify himself, but in vain. Wel. The rest amounting to a considerable number, were spared. Nel. It was time to spare, I think, after he had butchered (by his own account,) a thousand or twelve hundred !" Wel. Yes, we are told, Napoleon payed a visit to Countess Bertrand, after her confinement, whom he complimented much upon her beautiful child. Sire, said the Countess, I have the honour to present to your majesty Le premier Francais, who, since your arrival, has entered Longwood without Lord Bathurst's permission. Nel. Capital, Madame, capital; this was a smart reply, messmate. Wel. Excellent. We are told, his doctor informed him, that he had a book containing an account of a society named " Philadelphi," which had been formed against him; and expressed his surprise that he had never fallen by the hands of some conspirator Nel. Ha! what did he say to this? Wel. He replied-No person knew five minutes before I put it into execution, that I intended to go out, or where I should go; for this the conspirators were baffled,— Nel. No doubt of it. Wel. As they were ignorant where to lay the scene of their interprize. Wel. Shortly after I was made consul, there was a conspiracy formed against me, by about fifty persons; the greater number of whom had been very much attached to me, and consisted of officers of the army, men of science, painters, and sculptors; they were all stern Republicans.— Nel. Hear, hear. Wel. Their minds were heated ; |