A TABLE OF CONTENTS. PAGE J.J. R. CAMBACERES, the Second Consul of the French Republic, and Arch-Chan- cellor of the Empire of the French, &c. &c. 244 JAQUES ALEXIS THURIOT, Judge of the Cri- minal and Special Tribunal of the De- partment of the Seine, before whom Mo- P. F. REAL, the Director of Buonaparte's Police, and his Counsellor of State ........ 304 MEHEE DE LA TOUCHE, the French Spy (with a Fac Simile of a curious Memo- GARAT, Buonaparte's favourite Senator...... 375 FONTANES, Buonaparte's first chosen Presi- dent over the Legislative Body ............ 390. MARIE JOSEPH CHENIER, the French Re- THE REVOLUTIONARY PLUTARCH. LOUIS ANTOINE HENRY BOURBON, DUKE OF ENGHIEN. "Long has the tyrant wav'd his iron rod, PYE. VOLTAIRE justly remarks, that no family, either of sovereigns or subjects, have been more exposed to the vicissitudes of fortune, and to that misery which attends human life in all conditions, than the Royal Family of the House of Stuart; of whom, during twelve, generations, three only died natural deaths: all the others were killed either in the field, during civil or foreign wars; in prisons, by poison administered by VOL. III. B treache treacherous foes, or on the scaffolds erected by rivals, rebels, or regicides. Had this French author lived to see our wretched days, and witnessed the shocking consequences of a political, moral and religious revolution, to which his writings in some degree contributed, he would have been forced to acknowledge, that another Royal Family, considering the long period of its prosperity, and the accumulated sufferings of some few years, might claim a melancholy priority. For fourteen centuries, the Bourbons have, almost without interruption, possessed the sovereignty of France. Factions and revolts, invasions and insurrections, have sometimes disturbed their reigns; but most of them died in their beds, and all in ruling on their hereditary throne, which, when occupied by the most patriotic monarch of the whole race, was overturned; a revolutionary tyranny was created on its ruins, and during eleven years, five Bourbons have perished by violent deaths, victims to the barbarity of French republicans. Neither the virtues of the good Louis XVI.; nor the elegance, the beauty, the sex, the heroic constancy in misfortunes, of Maria Antoinette; neither the pure, the immaculate life of the religiously tender Princess Elizabeth; the innocence and youth of Louis XVII. nor the valour, |