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 nor the character of my profeſſion, will allow me to become a human butcher; and, General, if ſuch qualities as you inſinuate, are neceſſary to form a great man, I thank my God that I do not poſſeſs them."

Bonaparte was not to be diverted from his object by moral conſideration; he perſevered, and found an apothecary, who dreading the weight of power, but who ſince has made an atonement of his mind, by unequivocally confeſſing the facts conſented to become his agent and to adminiſter poiſon to the ſick! Opium at night was diſtributed in gratifying food, the wretched unſuſpecting victims banqueted, and in a few hours five hundred and eighty ſoldiers, who had ſuffered ſo much for their country, periſhed thus miſerably by order of its Idol!

Is there not a Frenchman whoſe blood does not chill with horrror at the recital of ſuch a fact; Surely the manes of theſe murdered, unoffending people, muſt be now hovering round the ſeat of government, and *****

If a doubt ſhould ſtill exiſt, as to the veracity of this ſtatement, let the members of the Inſtitute at Cario be aſked, what paſſed at the fitting after the return of Bonaparte from Syria: they will relate, that the ſame virtuous phyſician, who refuſed to become the deſtroyer of thoſe committed to his protection, accuſed Bonaparte of high treaſon in the full aſſembly againſt the honour of France, her children, and humanity; that he entered into the full details of the poiſoning of the ſick, and the maſſacre of the garriſon, aggravating theſe crimes, by charging Bonaparte with ſtrangling, previouſly