Bonaparte with reproaches; he | effecting his retreat from the council of Five Hundred, in order to recover himself from his perturbation. Little accustomed to popular scenes, he was sensibly affected by the repulse he had so unexpectedly received. His officers surrounded him; and Sièyes, who had had more revolutionary practice than himself, advised him to lose no time, but instantly to employ force. General Lefevre immediately gave orders to bring off Lucien from the council. A detachment entered the hall, proceeded to the chair which Lucien again occupied, took him into their ranks, and returned with him into the midst of the troops. As soon as Lucien came out, he mounted on horseback by the side of his brother, and although deprived of his legal cha justified his brother, but with timidity. After many efforts he at last succeeded in getting to the tribune, and inviting the council to judge his brother with less | rigour. He assured them he had no design against liberty; he recalled his services: but many voices were instantly heard to exclaim, He¦ has destroyed all the merit of them : Down with the dictator! Down with the tyrants! The tumult then became more violent than ever, and they demanded the outlawry of General Bonaparte. "What!" | said Lucien, “ you would have me pronounce sentence of outlawry against my brother!”—“ Yes, yes, Catlawry, that is for tyrants!" Amidst this confusion it was proposed, and put to the vote, that the council should be permanent,racter, he harangued the troops as that it should instantly repair to president. In concert with Bonaits palace in Paris; that the troops, assembled at St. Cloud should form part of the guard of the legislative body, and that the command of them should be given to Bernadotte. Lucien, astounded by all these propositions, and by the cutlawry which he imagined was adopted like the others, quitted the chair, ascended the tribune, and said in the greatest agitation, - Since I have not been able to obtain a hearing in this assembly, I lay down with a deep sense of outraged dignity the ensigns of the popular magistracy." At the same time he took off his cap, his oak, and his scarf. Pse meantime, Bonaparte had parte, he invented the fable, so often since repeated, of poniards being raised against the general in the council of Five Hundred, and he exclaimed, "Citizen soldiers ! the president of the council of Five Hundred declares to you that the vast majority of the council is at this moment under the dread of some representatives, who with daggers besiege the tribune, threaten their colleagues with death, and carry on the most dreadful deliberations! . . . . General, and you, soldiers, and all ye citizens ! you will only acknowledge as the legislators of France those who are willing to repair to me. As to those who remain in the Orangery, let them be driven out by force. representatives of the people, and General Jourdan depicted to them the enormity of such an attempt. The soldiers remained for an instant undecided: but a reinforcement entered in close column, and General Leclerc exclaimed, “In the name of General Bonaparte, the legislative body is dissolved; let all good citizens retire. Gréna Those brigands are no longer the | representatives of the people, but the representatives of the poniard!" After this furious incentive, addressed to the soldiery by a conspiring president, who, according to custom, calumniated those whom he wished to proscribe, Bonaparte took up the speech. "Soldiers!" said he, "I have led you to victory; may I rely upon you?"-diers, forward!" Cries of indig"Yes, yes! Long live the general!" "Soldiers! there was reason to believe that the council would save the country; it has, on the contrary, given itself up to discord: the factious endeavour to excite it against me. Soldiers! may I rely upon you?"—"Yes, yes! Long live Bonaparte !"- "Well then, I will bring them to reason." He instantly commanded some superior officers who surrounded him to clear the hall of the Five Hundred. The council, after the departure of Lucien, became a prey to extreme anxiety and the greatest irresolution. Some of the members proposed that they should issue forth in a body and seek an asylum in the midst of the people of Paris. Others were anxious that the national representatives should not abandon their post, but should withstand the interference of military violence to the last. During this discussion, a company of grenadiers slowly entered the hall, and the officer who commanded it apprised the council that it must disperse. The deputy Prudhon reminded the officers and soldiers of the respect due to the chosen nation arose from every seat in the hall, but they were drowned by the sound of drums. The grenadiers, presenting bayonets, advanced slowly along the whole length of the Orangery, and thus drove the members before them, who still, however, made the air ring with the cry of "Long live the republic!" At half-past five o'clock of the 9th November 1799 [19th Brumaire, year VIII. of the republic] there was no longer a national representation. Thus was consummated this last violation of law; this final blow against liberty; and from this period brute force commenced its dominion. The 8th November [18th Brumaire] was in effect another 31st May as between the army and the representatives, except that it was not directed against a party but against the popular power. On that day the revolution expired: but it is right that we should distinguish the 18th Brumaire from the consequences which resulted from it. It might at that time have been supposed that the army was merely an auxiliary of the revolution, as on the 5th October [13th Vendé miaire], and the 4th September | and who would allow nothing to [18th Fructidor], and that this be heard in the world, which indispensable change would not solely turn to the advantage of a single individual, who would soon convert France into a regiment, until then had been agitated by so great a moral commotion, but the march of his army and the communication of his will. INDEX. ABDELMELECH, Mulley, King of the Moors, Alexander VI., Pope, denounces Savonarola, 11. Alva, Duke of, his treacherous behaviour Alvinzi, General, defeated by Napoleon at America, discovery of, by Columbus, 7; Angus, Earl of, counsels James IV. to at- tack English while crossing the Till, 27. Anne of Austria, Queen of France, her ob- Anne Boleyn, Queen of England, aids in Arcola, battle of, 575. Arcot, defence of, 448. Augustus, Elector of Saxony and King of BAHAMA ISLES discovered by Columbus, 9. his conduct and character, 520; admin- Bastille, taking of the, 529. Berwick, reception of James I. at, 190. Bigi, the, adherents of the Medici, 10. Black Hole of Calcutta, the, sufferings of Blenheim (or Hochstadt), battle of, 400. Boccold succeeds Matthias as leader of the Bouillé, General de, his arrangements for Bradshaw, John, the regicide, his character, Broueys, Admiral, moors French fleet in Bundschuch, warning to the Papists, 48. Buonvicino of Pescia, friend and disciple of Burke, Edmund, in danger from the Gordon CAPPEL, battle of, 71. Carlos, Don, Infant of Spain, is present at Catesby, Robert, proposes the Gunpowder Catherine, Queen of England, intrigues Catherine II., Empress of Russia, comes to court, 244; is sentenced, protesting, 249; 344. Charles V., Emperor and King of Spain, presides over the Diet of Worms, 45; or- Charles IX., King of France, his weakness Charles XII. of Sweden, sudden alteration Charles Edward, the Pretender, fights at Clement VII., Pope, his behaviour at the Clive, Lord, his defence of Arcot, 448. Coligny, Admiral of France, murdered, 149. Columbus, Christopher, equipment of his Covenanters, enthusiasm of the, 317; their Cromarty, Lord, trial of, 443. Cromwell, Oliver, 241-243; his bitterness Cromwell, Thomas, his services to Cardinal Cumberland, Duke of, fights at Culloden, Lord, checks the Scots at Flodden, Dalziel, General, his eccentricities, 319; De Launay, governor of the Bastille, defends De Retz, Cardinal, stirs up an emeute in Derry, siege of, 370. De Ruyter, Admiral, fights the English, 299; De Witt, John, Pensionary of Holland, his Digby, Sir Everard, takes part in the Gun- Directory, the, dissolved by Napoleon, 589. Dudley, Lord Guildford, wishes to be made Dunbar, battle of, 270. EDGEHILL, battle of, 234. Edward VI., dies at Greenwich, 89. Elizabeth, Queen of England, her reluctance Elizabeth, Madame, sister of Louis XVI., Eric, Duke of Brunswick, his kindness to Essex, Earl of, his dispositions at Edge- Eugene, Prince of Savoy, begins his career, FAIRFAX, Lord, his reluctance to take part Fawkes, Guy, takes a leading part in the Fersen, Count de, aids the royal family of Feversham, Lord, his incapacity at Sedge |