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 relation, this only can be mentioned,—that it was Born's diviſion which fired, and thus every one is afforded the opportunity of ſatisfying themſelves reſpecting the truth, by enquiring of officers ſerving in the different brigades compoſing this diviſion

The next circumſtance is of nature which requires, indeed, the moſt particular details to eſtabliſh, ſince the idea can ſcarce be entertained, that the commander of an army ſhould or, his own countrymen (or it not immediately ſuch, thoſe amongſt whom he had been naturalized) to be deprived of exiſtence, when in a ſtate which required the kindeſt conſideration. But the annals of Francerecord the frightful crimes of a Robeſpierre, a Carrier; and hiſtorical truth muſt now recite one equal to any which has blackened its page!

Bonaparte finding that his hoſpitals at Jaffa were crowded with ſick, ſent for a phyſician, whoſe name ſhould be inſcribed in letters of gold, but which from weighty reaſons cannot be here inſerted: on his arrival he entered in a long, converſation with him reſpecting the danger of contagion, concluding at laſt, with the remark, that ſomething muſt be done to remedy the evil, and that the deſtruction of the ſick at preſent in the hoſpital was the only meaſure which could be adopted! The phyſician, alarmed at the propoſal, bold in the confidence of virtue and the cauſe of humanity, remonſtrated vehemently, repreſenting the cruelty, as well as the attrocity, of ſuch a murder but finding that Bonaparte preſerved and menaced, he indignantly left the tent, with this memorable obſervation, 'Neither my principles,