The Revolutionary Plutarch: Exhibiting the Most Distinguished Characters, Literary, Military, and Political, in the Recent Annals of the French Republic; the Greater Part Fom the Original Information of a Gentleman Resident at Paris. To which as an Appendix, is Reprinted Entire, the Celebrated Pamphlet of "Killing No Murder.", Volumen3John Murray, 1804 |
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Página 127 - Were it permitted for a soldier to regret any one who has fallen in the service of his country, I might be excused for lamenting him, more than any other person; but it is some consolation to those who tenderly loved him, that as his life was honourable, so was his death glorious. His memory will be recorded in the annals of his country — will be sacred to every British soldier, and embalmed in the recollection of a grateful posterity.
Página 47 - Of having offered his services to the English Government, the enemy of the French People...
Página 12 - to put the King of France in a situation to establish in perfect liberty the foundations of a monarchical government equally agreeable to the rights of sovereigns and the welfare of the French.
Página 46 - Of having maintained a correspondence in the town of Strasburgh, tending to stir up the neighbouring departments, for the purpose of effecting there a diversion in favour of England.
Página 128 - Nor was even the scene of this important and memorable contest devoid of interest or unworthy of record. The field of battle exhibited the ruins of a Roman colony. At a little distance was a city famous in the annals of mankind, and calculated at once to remind the beholder of the genius of Alexander, and the exploits of the first Caesar.
Página 129 - ... connected with the signal defeat of Anthony in one age, and of De Bruix in another. A terrific grandeur was at the same time impressed by the sight of so many bodies of men and horses mingled promiscuously together, while hundreds of cannon, darting forth scorching flames and metals mingled with heat, at once enlivened the gloom, and added to the multitude of victims. To crown the whole, an heroic chief, pierced with a mortal...
Página 54 - It is moreover asserted that, upon hearing that the grenadiers commanded to shoot him were Italians -of Bonaparte's guard, be said, " Thank God they are not Frenchmen ! I am condemned by a foreigner, and God be praised that my executioners are also such.
Página 211 - Dt ake had an agency at Paris ; but other ministers, the instruments of discord and exciters of mischief, like him, may also have agencies. — 'Mr. Drake, in his correspondence, unmasks all those that exist in France, '.by the very, measures he takes to deny that he knows any thing of them. " / repeat
Página 54 - ... of the Duke d'Enghien, the royal victim looking at the soldiers, who had pointed their fusees, said, " Grenadiers ! lower your arms, otherwise you will miss, or only wound me !" To two of them who proposed to tie a handkerchief over his eyes, he said, " A loyal soldier who has been so often exposed to fire and sword can see the approach of death with naked eyes and without fear.
Página 49 - There is no mention of this charge in the accusation — there is no mention of it in the evidence. 6. Unanimously guilty of being one of the favourers and accomplices of the conspiracy carried on by the English against the life of the First Consul; and intending, in the event of such conspiracy, to enter France.