Chapter LXII

VOYAGE TO ST. HELENA--CESSATION OF CARICATURES.

The ‘Northumberland’ crossed the Line on September 23, and the sailors had their then usual bit of fun. Neptune and Amphitrite came on board, and Napoleon’s suite were introduced to them in a ceremonious and courtly manner, escaping the usual ordeal by some small presents to their Majesties. Napoleon, of course, was sacred, and, when he was told of the extreme, and unusual, tenderness with which his followers had been treated, he wanted to give the crew a hundred napoleons; but the admiral would not allow it. The caricaturist, however, gives a different version of the affair.

‘Boney crossing the Line’ is by Marks (September 1815), and illustrates the rough sports which then obtained on board ship. Napoleon, blindfolded, is thrown into a tub, where he is being subjected to the usual rough usage, at the command of Neptune, who, with his spouse, are drawn on a gun-carriage by sailors. Neptune says, ‘I command you’l cleanse him from his iniquities.’ Poor Boney little likes his treatment, ‘I no like de English valet de Chambre, Have mercy.’ Two French generals stand by, blindfolded, ready to undergo the same treatment. One says, ‘I wish de Dirty Job was over;’ the other, ‘Be gar, me no like de shaving shop.’ But a sailor remarks to them, ‘Have Patience Gentlemen, and we’ll shave you directly, and give you a good _lathering_ as Old Blucher did!!!’

The last caricature I shall reproduce is called ‘Fast Colours, Patience on a monument smiling at grief, or the Royal Laundress washing Boney’s Court dresses (G. H. inv^t, G. Cruikshank fec^t October 26, 1815).’ It shows the poor fatuous Bourbon trying to wash out the tricolour, thus bemoaning the task: ‘Bless me, how _fast_ these _colours_ are, I’m afraid I shall not get them _white_,[63] altho’ I have got such a strong lather.’ Napoleon, seated on his rocky home, says, ‘Ha, ha! such an old woman as you, may rub a long while before they’ll be all _white_, for they are _tricoloured in grain_.’ There is another print of the same date and subject, uncoloured, which has the addition of Wellington, Russia, Prussia, and Austria stirring linen in a copper of _Holy Water_.

From this time the caricatures of Napoleon practically ceased; and, in the collection of prints in the British Museum, I can find but two more, published in 1816--the ‘Mat de Cocagne’ and ‘Royal Christmas boxes’--both of which are too silly to reproduce or describe. It is to the credit of the English, that, in this instance, they respected the fallen. Napoleon had been captured, disarmed, and held in safe durance, and from that time, until his death, we hear but very little of him, and none of that news is either satirical or spiteful. Clearly, therefore, this book ends here. It has nothing to do with the voyage to St. Helena, or with the perpetual squabbles of Napoleon and his suite with Sir Hudson Lowe, which are fully recorded by O’Meara and Las Cases. To all intents and purposes, Napoleon was dead to the English when he left our shores; and when he passed to his rest on May 5, 1821, all animosity died with him. Years had even tamed the bitter scribes of the ‘Times,’ as is evidenced by the leader in that paper (July 5, 1821) announcing and commenting on his decease:--

‘Thus terminates in exile, and in prison, the most extraordinary life yet known to political history. The vicissitudes of such a life, indeed, are the most valuable lessons which history can furnish. Connected with, and founded on, the principles of his character, the varieties of fortune which Buonaparte experienced are of a nature to illustrate the most useful maxims of benevolence, patriotism, or discretion. They embrace both extremes of the condition of man in society, and therefore address themselves to all ranks of human beings. But Buonaparte was our enemy--our defeated enemy--and, as Englishmen, we must not tarnish our triumphs over the living warrior by unmanly injustice towards the dead.

‘The details of his life are notorious, and we omit them. The community of which Buonaparte was in his early days a member, and the military education which he received, may, independently of any original bias of character, have laid the foundation of the greatness to which he attained, and of that mischievous application of unbridled power, through which he fell very nearly to the level whence he first had started. Nothing could be more corrupt than the morals of military society among the French before the Revolution--nothing more selfish, or contracted, than the views (at all times) of a thoroughbred military adventurer.

‘Buonaparte came into active life with as much (but we have no reason to think a larger share of) lax morality and pure selfishness as others of his age and calling. The public crisis into which he was thrown, gave to profound selfishness the form of insatiable ambition. With talents and enterprise beyond all comparison greater than any against which he had to contend, he overthrew whatever opposed his progress. Thus, ambition in him was more conspicuous than others, only because it was more successful. He became a sovereign. How, then, was this pupil of a military school prepared to exercise the functions of sovereignty? An officer, as such, has no idea of divided power. His patriotism is simply love of his troops and his profession. He will obey commands--he will issue them--but, in both cases, those commands are absolute. Talk to him of deliberation, of debate, of freedom of action, of speech, nay, of opinion--his _feeling_ is, that the body to which any of these privileges shall be accessible, must fall into confusion, and be speedily destroyed.

‘Whatever pretexts may have been resorted to by Buonaparte--whatever Jacobin yells he may have joined in, to assist his own advance towards power--every subsequent act of his life assures us, that the military prepossessions in which he was educated, became those by which he was influenced as a statesman; and we are well persuaded of his conviction, that it was impossible for any country, above all, for France, to be governed otherwise than by one sole authority--undivided and unlimited. It may, we confess, be no satisfaction to the French, nor any great consolation to the rest of Europe, to know through what means it was, or by what vicious training, that Buonaparte was fitted, nay, predestined almost, to be a scourge and destroyer of the rights of nations, instead of employing a power irresistible, and which, in such a cause, none would have felt disposed to resist, for the promotion of knowledge, peace, and liberty throughout the world.

‘In hinting at what we conceive to be the fact, however, we are bound by regard for truth; our business is not to apologize for Buonaparte; but, so far as may be done within the brief limits of a newspaper, to analyze, and faithfully describe, him. The factions, also, which he was compelled to crush, and whose overthrow obtained for him the gratitude of his country, still threatened a resurrection when the compressing force should be withdrawn. Hence were pretexts furnished on behalf of despotism of which men, more enlightened, and better constituted, than Buonaparte, might not soon have discovered the fallacy. Raised to empire at home, his ambition sought for itself fresh aliment; and foreign conquest was at once tempting and easy.

‘Here the natural reflection will obtrude itself--what might not this extraordinary being have effected for the happiness of mankind, and for his own everlasting fame and grandeur, had he used but a moiety of the force, or perseverance, in generous efforts to relieve the oppressed which he wasted in rendering himself the monopolist and patron of oppression! But he had left himself no resource. He had extinguished liberty in France, and had no hold upon his subjects, but their love of military glory. Conquest, therefore, succeeded to conquest, until nothing capable of subjugation was left to be subdued. Insolence, and rapacity, in the victor, produced, among the enslaved nations, impatience of their misery, and a thirst for vengeance. Injustice undermined itself, and Buonaparte, with his unseasoned empire, fell together, the pageant of a day.

‘His military administration was marked by strict and impartial justice. He had the art, in an eminent degree, of inciting the emulation, and gaining the affections of his troops. He was steady and faithful in his friendships, and not vindictive, on occasions where it was his power to be so with impunity.

Of the deceased Emperor’s intellectual, and characteristic, ascendency over men, all the French, and some of the other nations besides the French, who had an opportunity of approaching him, can bear witness. He seems to have possessed the talent, not merely of command, but, when he pleased, of conciliation and persuasion. With regard to his religious sentiments, they were, perhaps, of the same standard as those of other Frenchmen starting into manhood at a time when Infidel writings had so domineered over the popular mind, that revealed religion was become a public laughing stock, and in a country where the pure Christian faith was perplexed with subtilties, overloaded with mummeries, and scandalized and discountenanced by a general looseness of morals. Upon the whole, Buonaparte will go down to posterity as a man, who, having more good at his disposal than any other potentate of any former age, had actually applied his immense means to the production of a greater share of mischief and misery to his fellow creatures--one who, on the basis of French liberty, might have founded that of every other State in Europe--but who carried on a series of aggressions against foreign States to divert the minds of his own subjects from the sense of their domestic slavery; thus imposing on foreign nations a necessity for arming to shake off his yoke, and affording to foreign despots a pretext for following his example.

‘The sensation produced by the death of Buonaparte will be a good deal confined, in this country, to its effects as a partial relief to our finances, the expense of his custody at St. Helena being little short of 400,000_l._ per annum. In France, the sentiment will be more deep and complex, and, perhaps, not altogether easy to define. The practical consequence of such an event may be remotely guessed at by those who have had occasion to watch, in other Governments, the difference between a living and an extinct Pretender. A pretext for suspicion and severity in the administration of affairs may be taken away by a Pretender’s death; but then, a motive to moderation--a terror, now and then salutary, of popular feelings being excited in the Pretender’s favour by misgovernment--is, at the same time, removed from the minds of reigning Princes. Buonaparte’s son still lives, it is true; but how far he may ever become an object of interest with any great party of the French nation, is a point on which we will not speculate.’

The last individual memorial I can find of Napoleon, in a popular form, was published by Hone in May 1821. It is a black-edged sheet, having, as heading, profile portraits of Napoleon, Maria Louisa, and the King of Rome, and down the sides four full-length portraits of Napoleon. It is called:--

MEMORIAL

OF

NAPOLÉON

BORN 15 AUG. 1769. DIED 5 MAY 1821.

He put his foot on the neck of Kings, who would have put
their yokes upon the necks of the People: he scattered before
him with fiery execution, millions of hired slaves, who
came at the bidding of their Masters to deny the right of
others to be free. The monument of greatness and of Glory
he erected, was raised on ground forfeited again and again
to humanity--it reared its majestic front on the ruins of
the shattered hopes and broken faith of the common enemies
of mankind. If he could not secure the freedom, peace, and
happiness of his country, he made her a terror to those who
by sowing civil dissension, and exciting foreign wars, would
not let her enjoy those blessings. They who had trampled
upon Liberty could not at least triumph in her shame and her
despair, but themselves became objects of pity and derision.
Their determination to persist in extremity of wrong, only
brought on themselves repeated defeat, disaster, and dismay:
the accumulated aggressions their infuriated pride and
disappointed malice meditated against others, returned in just
and aggravated punishment upon themselves: they heaped coals of
fire upon their own heads: they drank deep and long, in gall
and bitterness, of the poisoned chalice they had prepared for
others: the destruction with which they had threatened a people
daring to call itself free, hung suspended over their heads,
like a precipice, ready to fall upon and crush them. ‘Awhile
they stood abashed,’ abstracted from their evil purposes, and
felt how awful Freedom is, its power how dreadful. Shrunk
from the boasted pomp of royal state into their littleness as
men, defeated of their revenge, baulked of their prey, their
schemes stripped of their bloated pride, and with nothing
left but the deformity of their malice, not daring to utter
a syllable or move a finger, the lords of the earth, who had
looked upon men as of an inferior species, born for their use,
and devoted to be their slaves, turned an imploring eye to the
People, and with coward hearts and hollow tongues invoked the
Name of Liberty, thus to get the people once more within their
unhallowed grip, and to stifle the name of Liberty for ever.

He withstood the inroads of _Legitimacy_, this new Jaggernaut,
this foul Blatant Beast, as it strode forward to its prey over
the bodies and minds of a whole People, and put a ring in its
nostrils, breathing flame and blood, and led it in triumph,
and played with its crowns and sceptres, and wore them in its
stead, and tamed its crested pride, and made it a laughing
stock and a mockery to the nations. He, one man, did this, and
as long as he did this (how or for what end, is nothing to the
magnitude of this mighty question) he saved the human race from
the last ignominy, and that foul stain that had been so long
intended, and was at last, in an evil hour, and by evil hands,
inflicted on it.

If NAPOLEON was a conqueror, he conquered the Grand Conspiracy
of KINGS against the abstract right of the Human Race to be
free. If he was ambitious, his greatness was not founded on
the unconditional, avowed surrender of the rights of human
nature. But, with him, the state of Man rose exalted too. If
he was arbitrary and a tyrant, first, France as a country was
in a state of military blockade, on garrison duty, and not to
be defended by mere paper bullets of the brain; secondly, but
chief, he was not, nor could he become, a tyrant by ‘right
divine.’ Tyranny in him was not ‘sacred’: it was not eternal:
it was not instinctively bound in league of amity with other
tyrannies: it was not sanctioned by all ‘the laws of religion
and Morality.’

HAZLITT.

Disgusting crew! _who_ would not gladly fly
To open, downright, boldfac’d tyranny,
To honest guilt that dares do all but lie,
From the false juggling craft of men like these,
Their canting crimes, and varnish’d villanies;
These HOLY LEAGUERS, who then loudest boast
Of faith and honour when they’ve stain’d them most;
From whose affection men should shrink as loath
As from their hate, for they’ll be fleec’d by both;
Who, even while plund’ring, forge Religion’s name
To frank their spoil, and, without fear or shame,
Call down the HOLY TRINITY to bless
Partition leagues, and deeds of devilishness!

MOORE.

Even his old enemy, George Cruikshank, whose peculiarly impetuous temper had found a free vent in caricaturing Napoleon, left off doing so when he was in safe keeping, and only designed (in a publication called the ‘Omnibus’) a ‘Monument to Napoleon’ when he died. In a note to this design he says, ‘As for me, who have skeletonised him prematurely, paring down the prodigy even to his hat and boots, I have but “carried out” a principle adopted almost in my boyhood, for I can scarcely remember the time when I did not take some patriotic pleasure in persecuting the great enemy of England. Had he been less than that, I should have felt compunction for my cruelties; having tracked him through snow and through fire, by flood and by field, insulting, degrading, and deriding him everywhere, and putting him to several humiliating deaths. All that time, however, he went on “overing” the Pyramids and the Alps, as boys “over” posts, and playing at leapfrog with the sovereigns of Europe, so as to kick a crown off at every spring he made--together with many crowns, and sovereigns, into my coffers. Deep, most deep, in a personal view of matters, are my obligations to the agitator--but what a debt the country _owes to him_!’

INDEX.

Abercrombie, Sir Ralph, i. 143

Achambau, i. 217

Addington, i. 150, 163, 164, 165, 171, 177

Addington, Hely, i. 177

Alfieri, i. 1

Allessandria, Senator, i. 2

Allies, treaty of, ii. 229

Amiens, Treaty of, i. 149, 151

Anagrams, &c., on Napoleon’s name, i. 7, 8, 10, 12, 13

Andreossi, General, i. 176

Ansell, caricaturist, i. 74, 150, 152, 158, 164, 168, 170, 172, 176,
187, 202, 223, 227, 282, 290; ii. 8-14, 16, 17, 19, 53, 58, 61,
63, 66, 69, 71, 72, 74, 76, 79, 84, 97

Apocalyptic Beast, the, connected with Napoleon, i. 9, 10, 11, 12, 13

Arcola, battle of, i. 44

Argus, caricaturist, ii. 37, 51, 60

Armistead, or Armstead, Mrs. (afterwards Mrs. Fox), i. 157

Arms of the Bonaparts, i. 2

‘Army of England,’ the, i. 52, 53

‘Army of England,’ withdrawal of, ii. 43, 44

Artand, Chevalier, i. 2

Atrocities of Brutus Napoleone Ali Buonaparte, i. 258

Austrian ambassador’s drive through Paris, i. 162

Barclay de Tolly, ii. 126

Barras, i. 30, 31, 32, 34, 35, 38, 39, 40, 41, 43, 52, 53, 217, 218

Bassano, battle of, i. 44

Bathurst, Bragge, i. 177

Beauharnais, Eugène de, i. 32, 88, 218; ii. 208

Beauharnais, Fanny, i. 218

Beaulieu (Austrian General), i. 43

Bedford, Duke of, i. 54, 56, 57, 72, 152

Beer brewed in London in 1796, i. 47

Belliard, General, i. 143

Bernadotte, ii. 168, 221

Berry, Captain, presented with the freedom of the City of
London, i. 72

Berthier, Marshal, i. 45, 46, 96, 105, 112, 217; ii. 111,
112, 114, 191

Berthollet, Claude Louis, Comte, i. 112

Birba, La, great-grandmother of Napoleon, i. 5, 6

Birth, date of Napoleon’s, i. 13, 14

Bisset, James, caricaturist, ii. 21

Blackhall, Thomas, Lord Mayor of London, i. 46

Blanquet’s, Admiral, sword sent as a present to the Corporation of the
City of London, i. 71

Blockade of England, ii. 62, 63, 64, 66, 75

Blücher, Marshal, ii. 184, 187, 188, 194, 196, 197, 205, 206, 207,
211, 219, 225, 228, 230, 243

Bob Rousem’s Epistle to Bonypart, i. 237

Bonapart, Hugo, i. 3

Bonaparte, Caroline, Queen of Naples, ii. 112, 120

Bonaparte, Celtruda, Napoleon’s godmother, i. 14

Bonaparte and Talleyrand, i. 287

Bonaparte, Jacopo, i. 2

Bonaparte, Jerome, i. 217; ii. 53

Bonaparte, Joseph, i. 124, 217; ii. 53, 80, 81, 85, 88-143,
150, 151-195

Bonaparte, Lætitia (Napoleon’s mother), i. 14, 15, 16, 17, 43, 218;
ii. 142, 207

Bonaparte, Louis, i. 2, 217; ii. 24, 53, 116

Bonaparte, Lucien, i. 31, 124, 217

Bonaparte, Napoleon. (_See_ Napoleon.)

Bonaparte, Trial of, i. 267

Bonaparte’s Soliloquy at Calais, i. 269

Bonaparte’s Will, i. 216

Bonduca, or Boadicea, i. 213

Boney and Talley, i. 273

‘Boney and the Gay Lads of Paris,’ &c., ii. 147

Boney’s, Master, Hearty Welcome to England, i. 207

Bourrienne, De (Louis Antoine Fauvelet), i. 32, 88, 138; ii. 100

Bouvet, Admiral, i. 46

Bread, compulsory adulteration of, i. 141;
price of, in 1796, 47;
in 1797, 53;
in 1798, 81;
in 1799, 125;
in 1801, 142;
receipt to adulterate, 142;
stale by law, 142

Brienne, military school at, i. 19, 22

Britons, Strike Home! i. 213, 214

Britons, to Arms! i. 224, 225

Brobdingnag, Voyage to, i. 285

Brunet, the actor, makes fun of the Flotilla, i. 143, 144

Buona, Carlos, great-grandfather of Napoleon, i. 5, 6

Buona, Joseph, grandfather of Napoleon, i. 6

Burdett, Sir Francis, i. 72, 152; ii. 116

Burghersh, Lord, ii. 215

Cadoudal, Georges, ii. 7, 9

Cairo, revolt at, i. 77, 78; capitulation of, 143

Cambacérès, i. 125; ii. 12

Cann, designer of ‘Violettes du 20 Mars 1815,’ ii. 209

Canova, i. 1

_Carabas, Marquis of_, i. 24

Caricatures, titles of, vol. i.--
‘The French Bugabo,’ 50, 51;
‘The Storm Rising, or the Republican Flotilla in Danger,’ 54;
‘The Consequences of a Successful French Invasion,’ 55;
‘We explain de Rights of Man to de Noblesse,’ 55;
‘We fly on the wings of the wind to save the Irish Catholics from
persecution,’ 55;
‘Me teach de English Republicans to work,’ 55;
‘The Shrine of St. Anne’s Hill,’ 56;
‘Anticipation, Ways and Means, or Buonaparte really taken,’ 58;
‘Extirpation of the Plagues of Egypt;--Destruction of Revolutionary
Crocodiles;--or, The British Hero cleansing y^e Mouth of y^e
Nile,’ 73;
‘The Gallant Nellson bringing home two uncommon fierce French
Crocodiles from the Nile as a present to the King,’ 73;
‘A terrible Turk preparing a Mummy for a _present_ to the Grand
Nation,’ 74;
‘John Bull taking a luncheon, or British Cooks cramming old _Grumble
Gizzard_ with Bonne Chére,’ 75;
‘Destruction of the French Colossus,’ 76;
‘High fun for John Bull, or the Republicans put to their last
shift,’ 78;
‘Fighting for the Dunghill--or--Jack Tar settling Buonaparte,’ 79;
‘Buonaparte hearing of Nelson’s Victory, swears by his sword to
extirpate the English from off the Earth. See Buonaparte’s
Speech to the French Army at Cairo, published by Authority of
the Directory in Volney’s Letters,’ 80;
‘The Ghost of Buonaparte appearing to the Directory,’ 82;
‘Siege de la Colonne de Pompée or Science in the Pillory,’ 85;
‘L’Insurrection de l’Institut Amphibie--The pursuit of Knowledge,’
86;
‘Allied Powers, unbooting Egalité,’ 111;
‘Bonaparte leaving Egypt,’ 116;
‘Exit Liberté a la Francais! or Bonaparte closing the Farce of
Egalité at Saint Cloud, near Paris, November 10th, 1799,’ 122;
‘Satan’s return from Earth. Discovered in Council with Belzebub and
Belial--a Sketch after Fuseli!!!’ 123;
‘The French Triumvirate settling the New Constitution,’ 125;
‘The Apples and the Horse dung, or Buonaparte among the Golden
Pippins,’ 128;
‘Democracy, or a Sketch of the life of Buonaparte,’ 18,
23, 62, 129;
‘Negotiation See Saw,’ 144;
‘John Bull’s Prayers to Peace, or the Flight of Discord,’ 145;
‘The Child and Champion of Jacobinism new Christened (vide Pitt’s
Speech),’ 150;
‘Political dreamings--Visions of Peace--Perspective horrors!’ 150;
‘The Balance of Power,’ 150;
‘A Game at Chess between Bonaparte and Lord Cornwallis,’ 152;
‘Cross-examination,’ 152;
‘The National Institute’s first Interview with their President,’
152;
‘A Peaceable Pipe, or a Consular Visit to John Bull,’ 153;
‘A Trip to Paris, or John Bull and his Spouse, invited to the Honors
of the Sitting!!’ 153;
‘The Consular Warehouse, or a Great Man nail’d to the Counter,’ 154;
‘The Corsican Conjurer raising the plagues of Europe,’ 154;
‘Parcelling out John Bull,’ 155;
‘Introduction of Citizen Volpone, and his Suite at Paris,’ 156;
‘English Patriots bowing at the Shrine of Despotism,’ 158;
‘Taking leave,’ 159;
‘Lord Whitworth’s Coachman at Paris,’ 160;
‘A peep at the Lion,’ 160;
‘The first kiss these ten Years! or the meeting of Britannia and
Citizen François,’ 161;
‘German Nonchalance, or the vexation of little Boney. Vide the
Diplomatique’s late Journey through Paris,’ 162;
‘Leap frog,’ 163;
‘The Evacuation of Malta,’ 163;
‘Rival Gardeners,’ 164;
‘Physical Aid, or, Britannia recover’d from a Trance, also the
Patriotic Courage of Merry Andrew, and a peep thro’ the
Fog,’ 165;
‘The Political Cocks,’ 168;
‘An Attempt to swallow the World,’ 168;
‘John Bull teased by an Earwig,’ 169;
‘Easier to say than to do,’ 169;
‘An Attempt to undermine John Bull, or working through the
Globe,’ 169;
‘A Stoppage to a Stride over the Globe,’ 170;
‘The Governor of Europe, Stoped in his career, or Little B----n too
much for great B----te,’ 170;
‘John Bull listening to the quarrels of State affairs,’ 170;
‘Doctor Sangrado curing John Bull of Repletion, with the Kind
offices of young Clyster pipe and little Boney. A hint from
Gil Blas,’ 171;
‘Britannia repremanding a Naughty Boy!’ 171;
‘Lunar Speculations,’ 172;
‘Ultimatum, or the Ambassador taking proper steps,’ 175;
‘The Bone of Contention,’ 176;
‘The Bone of Contention, or the English Bulldog and the Corsican
Monkey,’ 176;
‘Armed Heroes,’ 177;
‘A Little Man Alarmed at his own Shadow,’ 178;
‘Maniac Ravings, or Little Boney in a strong Fit. Vide Lord W----s
account of a visit to the Thuilleries,’ 178;
‘A great Man Intoxicated with Success,’ 179;
‘French Invasion--or Buonaparte Landing in Great Britain,’ 183;
‘The Scarecrow’s arrival, or Honest PAT giving them an Irish
Welcome,’ 183;
‘Britannia correcting an Unruly Boy,’ 186;
‘The Corsican Beggar Riding to the Devil,’ 187;
‘Playing at Bubbles,’ 189;
‘King of Brobdingnag and Gulliver,’ 189;
‘Bruin become mediator,’ 192;
‘Olympic Games, or John Bull introducing his new Ambassador to the
Grand Consul,’ 192;
‘The Final Pacification of Europe,’ 198;
‘Green Spectacles, or Consular Goggles,’ 198;
‘Boney in possession of the Millstone,’ 202;
‘Flags of Truth and Lies,’ 202;
‘Death of the Corsican Fox.--Scene, the last of the Royal
Hunt,’ 204;
‘A British Chymist Analising a Corsican Earthworm!!’ 210;
‘Little Ships, or John Bull very inquisitive,’ 210;
‘Amusements after Dinner, or the Corsican Fairy displaying his
Prowess,’ 215;
‘A Monstrous Stride,’ 216;
‘Invasion,’ 221;
‘Buonaparte forty-eight Hours after Landing!’ 222;
‘After the Invasion. The Levée en Masse, or Britons Strike
Home,’ 223;
‘Preparing to invade,’ 226;
‘How to stop an invader,’ 226;
‘The Consequences of an Invasion, or the Hero’s Reward. None but
the Brave deserve the fair. The Yeomanry Cavalry’s first
Essay,’ 227;
‘Johnny Bull giving Boney a Pull,’ 229;
‘Resolutions in case of an Invasion,’ 230;
‘A rash attempt, and woful downfall,’ 230;
‘Observations upon Stilts,’ 230;
‘Harlequin Invasion,’ 232;
‘John Bull and Buonaparte,’ 238;
‘Boney at Brussels,’ 239;
‘John Bull out of all Patience,’ 240;
‘Crocodile’s Tears or Bonaparte’s Lamentations,’240;
‘Britannia blowing up the Corsican Bottle Conjuror,’ 244;
‘The Corsican Moth,’ 245;
‘The Handwriting on the Wall,’ 246;
‘A Knockdown blow in the Ocean, or Bonaparte taking French
leave,’ 246;
‘Pidcock’s Grand Menagerie,’ 252;
‘John Bull landed in France,’ 253;
‘Three plagues of Egypt,’ 253;
‘An Attempt on the Potatoe bag,’ 257;
‘Gulliver and his Guide, or a Check String to the Corsican,’ 258;
‘John Bull and the Alarmist,’ 261;
‘John Bull shewing the Corsican Monkey,’ 264;
‘Buonaparte on his Ass,’ 264;
‘The Corsican Macheath,’ 265;
‘A full and particular account of the Trial of Napoleon Buonaparte
before John Bull,’ 267;
‘Buonaparte’s Soliloquy at Calais,’ 269;
‘The fable of the Bundle of Faggots exemplified, or Bonaparte
baffled,’ 271;
‘A peep at the Corsican fairy,’ 271;
‘The Corsican Carcase Butcher’s Reckoning day, New Style, no
Quarter day,’ 271;
‘The Corsican Locust,’ 279;
‘The Grand Triumphal Entry of the Chief Consul into London,’ 279;
‘The Corsican Pest, or Belzebub going to Supper,’ 280;
‘The Balance of Power, or the Issue of the Contest,’ 281;
‘Thoughts on Invasion both sides the water,’ 282;
‘The little Princess and Gulliver,’ 282;
‘The Centinel at his Post, or Boney’s peep into Walmer Castle!!’
282;
‘French Volunteers marching to the Conquest of Great Britain,’ 283;
‘John Bull guarding the Toy Shop,’ 283;
‘The King’s Dwarf plays Gulliver a Trick,’ 286;
‘Boney in time for Lord Mayor’s Feast,’ 289;
‘Destruction of the French Gun Boats, or Little Boney and his friend
Talley in high Glee,’ 290;
‘Boney’s Journey to London,’ &c., 290.

Caricatures (_continued_), vol. ii.--
‘Boney attacking the English Hives, or the Corsican caught at last
in the Island,’ 1;
‘Selling the Skin before the Bear is caught, or cutting up the Bull
before he is killed,’ 2;
‘New Bellman’s verses for Christmas 1803!’ 2;
‘More than expected, or too many for Boney,’ 2;
‘The Brobdingnag Watchman preventing Gulliver’s Landing,’ 3;
‘A Cock and Bull Story,’ 3;
‘The Cold-Blooded Murderer, or the Assassination of the Duc d’
Enghien,’ 8;
‘The Coffin Expedition, or Boney’s Invincible Armada half
seas over,’ 14;
‘Dutch Embarkation, or Needs must when the Devil drives!’ 14;
‘Gulliver manœuvring with his little boat in the cistern,’ 15;
‘A French Alarmist, or John Bull looking out for the Grand
Flotilla,’ 15;
‘A great Man on his Hobby Horse, a design for an Intended Statue on
the Place la Liberté at Paris,’ 16;
‘A new French Phantasmagoria,’ 16;
‘The Frog and the Ox, or the Emperor of the _Gulls_ in his
stolen gear,’ 16;
‘Injecting Blood Royal, or Phlebotomy at St. Cloud,’ 17;
‘The Right Owner,’ 17;
‘A Proposal from the New Emperor,’ 17;
‘The Imperial Coronation,’ 17;
‘Harlequin’s last Skip,’ 18;
‘British Men of War towing in the Invader’s Fleet,’ 18;
‘Boney’s Inquisition, another specimen of his Humanity on the person
of Madame Toussaint,’ 19;
‘The Genius of France nursing her darling,’ 20;
‘The death of Madame Republique,’ 21;
‘The Loyalist’s Alphabet,’ 21;
‘Design for an Imperial Crown to be used at the Coronation of the
New Emperor,’ 23;
‘The Grand Coronation Procession of Napolione the 1st, Emperor of
France, from the Church of Notre Dame, Dec. 2, 1804,’ &c., 24;
‘A New Phantasmagoria for John Bull,’ 37;
‘The glorious Pursuit of Ten against Seventeen,’ 37;
‘The Plumb Pudding in danger,’ &c., 39;
‘St. George and the Dragon,’ 42;
‘Napoleon’s Apotheosis anticipated,’ 42;
‘The departure from the Coast, or the End of the Farce of
Invasion,’ 44;
‘The Surrender of Ulm, or Buonaparte and General Mack coming to a
right understanding,’ 45;
‘Boney beating Mack, and Nelson giving him a Whack!!’ 46;
‘Nap Buonaparte in a fever on receiving the Extraordinary Gazette of
Nelson’s Victory over the combined Fleets,’ 47;
‘John Bull exchanging News with the Continent,’ 48;
‘Tiddy doll, the great French Gingerbread Baker drawing out a new
Batch of Kings,’ &c., 48;
‘Boney and the Great State Secretary,’ 51;
‘Pacific Overtures, or a Flight from St. Cloud,’ 52;
‘Roast Beef and French Soup--The English Lamb * * * and the French
Tiger,’ 53;
‘Two Wonders of the World, or a Specimen of a new troop of
Leicestershire Light Horse,’ 53;
‘Bone and Flesh, or John Bull in Moderate Condition,’ 54;
‘Comforts of a Bed of Roses,’ &c., 54;
‘John Bull threatened by Insects from all Quarters,’ 55;
‘Jupiter Buoney granting unto the Dutch Frogs a King,’ 55;
‘Experiments at Dover, or Master Charley’s Magic Lanthorn,’ 57;
‘The Pleasing and Instructive Game of Messengers,’ &c., 58;
‘News from Calabria,’ &c., 58;
‘The Continental Shaving Shop,’ &c., 60;
‘Political Quadrille,’ 61;
‘Jack Tars conversing with Boney on the Blockade of Old
England,’ 63;
‘Bonaparte blockading John Bull,’ 64;
‘John Bull playing on the Base Villain,’ 65;
‘The Entrance into Poland, or another Bonne Bouche for Boney,’ 65;
‘The Giant Commerce overwhelming the Pigmy Blockade,’ 66;
‘Boney and his Army in Winter Quarters,’ 66;
‘The Political Cock-horse,’ 67;
‘The New Dynasty, or the little Corsican Gardener Planting a Royal
Pippin Tree,’ 68;
‘An Imperial Bonne Bouche, or the dinner at Tilsit,’ 71;
‘Mutual Honors at Tilsit, or the Monkey, the Bear, and the
Eagle,’ 71;
‘The Polish Pie, or the Effects of the Peace at Tilsit,’ 72;
‘Gulliver towing the Fleet into Lilliput,’ 73;
‘Malignant Aspects looking with envy on John Bull and his
Satellites,’ &c., 74;
‘In Port, and Out of Port, or news from Portugal,’ 75;
‘Blockade against Blockade, or John Bull a match for Boney,’ 76;
‘The Continental Dockyard,’ 76;
‘The Bear, the Monkey, the Turkey, and the Bull, or the true cause
of the Russian War,’ 76;
‘John Bull refreshing the Bear’s Memory,’ 77;
‘Boney stark mad, or more Ships, Colonies, and Commerce,’ 77;
‘Delicious Dreams!’ &c., 78;
‘The Corsican Tiger at Bay,’ 78;
‘Boney Bothered, or an unexpected meeting,’ 79;
‘The Spanish Bull fight, or the Corsican Matador in danger,’ 80;
‘The Corsican Spider in his Web,’ 81;
‘Burglary and Robbery,’ 82;
‘Apotheosis of the Corsican Phœnix,’ 83;
‘The Oven on Fire, or Boney’s last Batch entirely spoiled!!!’ 83;
‘A game at quadrille,’ 84;
‘The Fox and the Grapes,’ 85;
‘Prophecy explained,’ 85;
‘Napoleon the little in a Rage with his great French Eagle!!’ 85;
‘A hard passage, or Boney playing Base on the Continent,’ 86;
‘The Valley of the Shadow of Death,’ 87;
‘Nap and his partner Joe,’ 88;
‘Nap and his friends in their glory,’ 88;
‘Apollyon, the Devil’s Generalissimo,’ 90;
‘General Nap turned Methodist Preacher,’ 91;
‘Political Quacks, or the Erfurt Co-partnership commencing
Business,’ 92;
‘The Progress of the Emperor Napoleon,’ 94;
‘Boney’s broken bridge,’ 96;
‘The Broken Bridge, or Boney outwitted by General Danube,’ 97;
‘The rising Sun, or a view of the Continent,’ 98;
‘Three Weeks after Marriage, or the Great Little Emperor playing at
Bo-peep,’ 115;
‘Boney the Second, or the little Baboon created to devour French
Monkies,’ 118;
‘Nursing the Spawn of a Tyrant, or Frenchmen sick of the
brood,’ 121;
‘The Deputeys apointed by the Legislative Body, doing Homage to the
King of Rome in the Nursery at St. Cloud,’ 121;
‘The first glorious exploit of the Invincible Flotilla,’ &c., 124;
‘The Parting of Hector--Nap--and Andromache, or Russia threatened,’
125;
‘British Welcome, or a Visit from the Bantam to the Lion,’ 127;
‘Jack Frost attacking Boney in Russia,’ 132;
‘General Frost shaveing Little Boney,’ 132;
‘Polish Diet with French Desert,’ 132;
‘Boney hatching a Bulletin, or Snug Winter Quarters,’ 134;
‘The Valley of the Shadow of Death,’ 134;
‘Nap nearly nab’d,’ &c., 136;
‘The Narrow Escape, or Boney’s Grand Leap _à la Grimaldi_!!’ 137;
‘The Arms and supporters of Napoleon Bonaparte,’ &c., 138;
‘Nap’s glorious return, or the conclusion of the Russian
Campaign,’ 142;
‘Boney returning from Russia covered with Glory,’ &c., 142;
‘The Hero’s return,’ 143;
‘Bonaparte reviewing his Conscripts,’ 144;
‘Bonaparte addressing the Legislative Body,’ 145;
‘The Wags of Paris, or the Downfall of Nap the Great,’ 145;
‘Anticipation for Boney,’ &c., 146;
‘Nap reviewing the Grand Army, or the Conquest of Russia
anticipated,’ 147;
‘Boney receiving an account of the Battle of Vittoria,’ &c., 151;
‘A Scene after the Battle of Vittoria,’ &c., 152;
‘John Bull teazed by an Earwig,’ 152;
‘Tom Thumb and the Giant,’ 153;
‘Execution of two celebrated Enemies of Old England, and their Dying
Speeches,’ 155;
‘The Two Kings of Terror,’ 156;
‘Cossack Sports, or the Platoff Hunt in full cry after French
Game,’ 157;
‘Caterers--Boney dished--a Bonne Bouche for Europe,’ 157;
‘The Daw Stript of his Borrow’d Plumes,’ &c., 158;
‘A Long Pull, a Strong Pull, and a Pull all together,’ 158;
‘The Corsican Toad under a Harrow,’ 159;
‘Dutch Nightmare, or the Fraternal Hug, returned with a Dutch
Squeeze,’ 160;
‘Head Runner of Runners from Leipsig Fair,’ 160;
‘Bonaparte’s Bridge,’ 162;
‘Grasp all, Lose all,’ &c., 164;
‘Napoleon the first and last,’ 164;
‘The Corsican Munchausen humming the Lads of Paris,’ 166;
‘Funcking the Corsican,’ 167;
‘The Mock Phœnix!!! or a vain attempt to rise again,’ 167;
‘Friends or Foes,’ &c., 167;
‘Political Chemists and German Retorts,’ &c., 167;
‘Gasconading,’ &c., 168;
‘Bleeding and warm water,’ 169;
‘The Head of the Great Nation in a Queer Situation,’ 170;
‘Mock Auction, or Boney selling Stolen Goods,’ 171;
‘The Double Humbug,’ &c., 181;
‘The Devil’s Darling,’ 182;
‘John Bull bringing Boney’s nose to the Grindstone,’ 183;
‘The Allied Bakers, or the Corsican Toad in the hole,’ 183;
‘Boney forsaken by his Guardian Angel,’ 184;
‘Blucher the Brave extracting the groan of abdication from the
Corsican Bloodhound,’ 187;
‘The Corsican Shuttlecock,’ &c., 187;
‘Europe,’ 188;
‘Bloody Boney the Carcass Butcher,’ &c., 194;
‘Coming in at the death of the Corsican fox,’ 194;
‘A Grand Manœuvre! or the Rogue’s march to the Island of
Elba,’ 194;
‘The Rogue’s March,’ 195;
‘The Sorrows of Boney, or Meditations in the Island of Elba!!!’ 196;
‘The Affectionate farewell, or Kick for Kick,’ 196;
‘The last March of the Conscripts, or Satan and his Satellites
hurled to the land of oblivion,’ 196;
‘A delicate finish to a French Usurper,’ 197;
‘Boney at Elba, or a Madman’s Amusement,’ 197;
‘Cruce dignus,’ 198;
‘Broken Gingerbread,’ 200;
‘The Hellbaronian Emperor going to take possession of his new
Territory,’ 201;
‘Nap dreading his doleful Doom, or his grand entry into the Isle of
Elba,’ 201;
‘Snuffing out Boney,’ 202;
‘Thou’rt doom’d to Pain,’ &c., 202;
‘_Otium cum dignitate_, or a view of Elba,’ 203;
‘Boney’s Elbow Chair,’ &c., 203;
‘What I was, What I am, What I ought to be,’ 204;
‘Needs must when Wellington Drives, or Louis’s Return!!’ 205;
‘The Tyrant, overtaken by Justice, is excluded from the
world,’ 205;
‘The departure of Apollo and the Muses, or Farewell to Paris,’ 205;
‘An Imperial Vomit,’ 207;
‘Drumming out of the French Army!!!’ 207;
‘Boney and his new subjects at Elba,’ 207;
‘The Peddigree of Corporal Violet,’ 209-10;
‘John Bull mad with Joy! or the First of August, 1814,’ 211;
‘Twelfth Night, or what you will!’ &c., 214;
‘The Devil to pay, or Boney’s return from Elba,’ 216;
‘The European Pantomime,’ &c., 216;
‘Hell broke loose, or the John Bulls made Jack Asses,’ 217;
‘Boney’s Return from Elba, or the Devil among the Tailors,’ 218;
‘A Review of the New Grand Army,’ 219;
‘The Genius of France expounding her Laws to the Sublime
People,’ 220;
‘The Congress dissolved before the _Cake_ was cut,’ 220;
‘The flight of Bonaparte from Hell Bay,’ 221;
‘Hell Hounds rallying round the Idol of France,’ 222;
‘Vive le Roi! Vive l’Empereur!’ &c., 222;
‘Scene in a New Pantomime,’ &c., 222;
‘The Corsican and his Bloodhounds at the Window of the Thuilleries,
looking over Paris,’ 223;
‘The Corsican’s last trip under the guidance of his Good
Angel,’ 223;
‘The Phenix of Elba resuscitated by Treason,’ 223;
‘The Royal Allied Oak and self-created mushroom Kings,’ 225;
‘The Crown Candidates, or a modest request politely refused,’ 226;
‘Preparing for War,’ 227;
‘A Lecture on Heads, as Delivered by Marshalls Wellington and
Blucher,’ 230;
‘Monkey’s Allowance,’ &c., 230;
‘R. Ackermann’s Transparency on the Victory of Waterloo,’ 231;
‘Compliments and Congées, or Little Boney’s surrender to the Tars of
Old England!!!’ 235;
‘The Bone-a-part in a fresh place,’ 236;
‘Buonaparte on the 17th of June--Buonaparte on the 17th of July,
1815,’ 236;
‘Boney’s threatened Invasion brought to bear,’ &c., 237;
‘Boney’s Trial, Sentence and Dying Speech, or Europe’s injuries
revenged,’ 243;
‘The Ex-Emperor in a bottle,’ 252;
‘The downfall of Tyranny and return of Peace,’ 253;
‘The Exile of St. Helena, or Boney’s Meditation,’ 253;
‘Boney’s Meditations on the Island of St. Helena,’ 254;
‘Napoleon’s trip from Elba to Paris, and from Paris to St.
Helena,’ 255;
‘General Sans Pareil,’ 256;
‘Boxiana, or the Fancy,’ 257;
‘Boney crossing the Line,’ 259;
‘Fast Colours--Patience on a Monument smiling at grief, or the Royal
Laundress washing Boney’s Court Dresses,’ 260;
‘Mat de Cocagne,’ 260;
‘Royal Christmas Boxes,’ 260;
Last Contemporary Memorial of Napoleon, 265;
George Cruikshank’s apology for caricaturing Napoleon, 267

Cartaux, General, i. 27

Castiglione, battle of, i. 44

Castlereagh, Lord, ii. 54, 215

Cawse, the caricaturist, i. 123, 154

Chaptal, i. 217

Charles, caricaturist, i. 258, 282; ii. 236

‘Clyster pipe, young,’ i. 171

Cobbett’s windows smashed, i. 149

Combe, the brewer, i. 158

Concordat with the Pope, i. 143

Conscription in England, i. 193

Consols, price of, in 1796, i. 47;
in 1797, 53;
in 1798, 81;
in 1799, 125;
at the time of the Peace, 146

Consuls, the first, i. 122;
the second, 125

Copenhagen, bombardment of, ii. 73

Cornwallis, Lord, i. 151, 152

Coronation of Napoleon, first news reaches England, ii. 33

Corporation of the City of London present Nelson with a sword, i. 72

‘Corsican Pest, the,’ i. 280

Corunna, retreat from, ii. 96

Cosmopoli, the name for Porto Ferrajo, ii. 208

Council of Five Hundred, dissolution of, i. 118-22

‘Cruce dignus,’ ii. 199

Cruikshank, George, caricaturist, i. 41, 48, 49, 64, 78; ii. 133, 137,
143-46, 151-52, 169-70, 184, 187, 195, 200-3, 209, 214,
217-18, 220, 223, 227, 235-37, 253, 255, 260, 267

Cruikshank, Isaac, caricaturist, father of George, i. 55, 58, 82, 169,
175, 183, 192, 216, 226, 229, 239, 244, 266, 283; ii. 2, 17, 18,
46, 73, 76, 77, 83, 90

D’Aiguillon, Duchesse, i. 35

Dalrymple, Sir John, i. 46, 55

D’Angely, Comte, ii. 100

Danish fleet, capture of, ii. 73

Degan, battle of, i. 44

D’Enghien, Duc, ii. 7, 8

Desaix, General, i. 67, 130-132

Desgenettes, Dr., i. 103, 107

Devil, the, and the Consul, i. 203

Ducos, i. 122-24

Dugommier, General, i. 29

Dupont, General, ii. 83, 87

Dupuy, General, i. 66

Ecole Militaire at Paris, i. 22

Egypt, expedition to, i. 59

Egypt, Napoleon’s flight from, i. 110-116

El-Arisch, capitulation of, i. 85

Eldon, Lord, i. 161

Elmes, William, caricaturist, ii. 183

Emerson, Sir J., i. 3

English mastiffs, i. 194

English visit France, i. 161

Epigram on Bonaparte, i. 83

Epitaph on Napoleon, i. 228

Erfurt, meeting of sovereigns at, ii. 93

Erskine, Lord, i. 72, 74, 75, 158

Farmers supplying horses and carts, i. 58

Fast, proclamation of a general, i. 141

Father of Napoleon, i. 6

Fesch, Cardinal, i. 218; ii. 25, 114

Field, J., caricaturist, ii. 226

Flotilla, the French, i. 54, 143, 144, 263; ii. 14, 15, 123

Fox, Charles James, i. 54, 56, 73, 74, 76, 152, 155-159, 166, 171;
ii. 50, 51, 54, 57, 58, 61

French army, distressed state of, i. 43, 44

French fleet, number of, i. 263

Furio, Don Antonio, i. 2

Fuseli, i. 123

George the Third and family, measures for the safety of, i. 195

Gillray, James, caricaturist, i. 40, 54-56, 63, 72, 73, 75, 76, 79,
80, 83, 85, 86, 109, 111, 116, 122, 125, 126, 129, 150, 156,
161-163, 165, 171, 177, 183, 189, 204, 222, 261, 271, 280, 283,
290; ii. 15, 24, 39, 42, 45, 48, 52, 54, 58, 68, 78, 80, 83, 87

Gourgaud, General, ii. 234, 241, 242

Grafton, Duke of, i. 56, 57

Greek extraction of Napoleon, i. 3

‘Green Room Opinion (The) of the threatened Invasion,’ ii. 4

Hanover claims exemption from, the War, i. 179;
A Peep into, i. 180

Harlequin Invasion, i. 232

Harrel, the police spy, i. 137, 138

Hawkesbury, Lord, i. 144-146, 150, 166, 171, 177

Histria, grandmother of Napoleon, i. 6

Hoche, General, i. 35, 46, 47

Hood, Admiral, i. 27

‘Incroyables,’ i. 109

Institute, the, i. 86

International courtesies, i. 153

Invasion of England by the French, and landing on the coast of
Pembrokeshire--defeat, i. 51

Invasion sketch, an, i. 247

Invasion, the, i. 254

Ireland, invasion of, by the French, i. 46, 47

Iron crown of Lombardy, ii. 41

Jaffa, massacre of troops at, i. 88;
De Bourrienne’s account, i. 88-92;
O’Meara’s account, i. 92-94;
English accounts, i. 95-97

Jekyll, Mr., i. 72

Jiubéga Laurent, Napoleon’s godfather, i. 14

John Bull and Bonaparte, i. 238

Jordanus of Namur, i. 11

Josephine (Marie Josephine Rose de la Pagerie), Napoleon’s first
meeting with her, i. 32;
her birth, i. 32, 33;
parentage, i. 33;
marriage to the Vicomte de Beauharnais, i. 33;
return to Martinique, i. 33;
decapitation of her husband, i. 33;
her imprisonment, i. 33;
amusements in prison, i. 33;
said to be Barras’ mistress, i. 34;
her intimacy with General Hoche, i. 35;
ditto with Madame Tallien and Barras, i. 35;
her dress described, i. 36;
her walk with Junot and Madame Tallien, i. 37;
her good looks, i. 37;
‘Nôtre Dame des Victoires,’ i. 38;
English satirists’ account of her, i. 38-40;
her bad teeth, i. 37, 41;
her marriage with Napoleon, i. 41;
short honeymoon, i. 41;
her spendthrift habits, i. 42;
her personal appearance, i. 246;
made Empress, ii. 13;
her coronation, ii. 29;
her figure and elegance, ii. 29;
visits Italy, ii. 40;
divorce from Napoleon, ii. 100-109;
allowance made to her at Napoleon’s abdication, ii. 191;
her death, ii. 211

Jourdan, Marshal, ii. 150-52

Jubilee, national, ii. 211-12

Junot, Madame (Duchesse d’Abrantes), i. 4, 5;
her recollections of Napoleon’s youth, i. 17, 18, 22;
anecdote of Napoleon and her sister--_Puss in boots_, i. 23, 24;
description of Napoleon in 1793, i. 26

Junot, Marshal, i. 29, 37; ii. 75, 87

Kallergis, General, i. 4

Καλόμερις, i. 3-5

Kleber, General, i. 85, 96, 98, 103

Klenau (aide to General Würmser), i. 49, 50

Knight, caricaturist, ii. 54, 55

La Force, prison of, i. 33

Lambert, Daniel, ii. 53-54

Lannes, Marshal, i. 66, 112, 134; ii. 97

Lansdowne, Earl of, i. 56, 72

Lauderdale, Earl of, i. 56

Lauriston, Count, i. 146; ii. 124

Lebrun, i. 125

Leipsic--blowing up the bridge, ii. 161

Letter from Napoleon to George the Third, i. 126

Letter from Napoleon to George the Third, ii. 35;
reply to, ii. 36

L’homme rouge, ii. 172-8

Lloyds’, subscription opened at, i. 70

Lodi, battle of, i. 44

Lonado, battle of, i. 44

London, city of, protests of, ii. 110

Lowe, Sir Hudson, ii. 261

Mack, General, ii. 45, 46

Madrid, entry into, by Joseph Bonaparte, ii. 81

Maina, the ancient Sparta, i. 3

Maitland, captain of the ‘Bellerophon,’ ii. 223, 234-36, 239-41

Majorca, the home of the Bonapartes, i. 2

Malmesbury, Lord, i. 52

Mamelukes, i. 64

Man in the Iron Mask, i. 7

Mantua, siege of, i. 49;
surrender of, 50

Marbœuf, Count, i. 15, 16, 19

Marengo, battle of, i. 130

Maria Louisa, ii. 111-16, 121, 124-25, 142, 171, 184, 216

Marks, I. Lewis, caricaturist, ii. 205, 216, 253, 259

Marmont, Marshal, i. 37; ii. 184

Mayer, L., i. 12

Menou, General, i. 32, 143

Militia, enrolment of, i. 193

Millesino, battle of, i. 44

Mondovi, battle of, i. 44

Monge, Gaspard, Comte de Péluse, i. 112

Montenotte, battle of, i. 43

Montesquiou, Madame de, ii. 121

Moore, Sir John, ii. 96

Mortier, General, i. 180

Moses, the new, or Bonaparte’s Ten Commandments, i. 205

Mourad Bey, i. 66

Mulgrave, Lord, ii. 36

Murat, Joachim, i. 66, 112; ii. 53, 80, 113, 126, 131

Napoleon, vol. i.--
his ancestry, 1;
his own account, 1;
his brother’s account, 2;
pedigree by Don Antonio Furio, 2;
his Greek extraction, 3;
excites the Greeks to revolt, 3;
his family name--Καλόμερις, 3-5;
biographies by English satirists, 5, 6;
descent from the ‘Man in the Iron Mask,’ 7;
anagrams, &c., on his name, 7, 8, 10, 12, 13;
Nicholas as his baptismal name, 8;
legend of Saint Napolione, 8;
the Apocalyptic beast, and its connection with Napoleon, 9-13;
disputed and real dates of his birth, 13, 14;
his real godparents, 14;
Count Marbœuf, his putative father, 15-17;
poverty of the family, 17;
personal appearance as a boy, 18;
his own description of himself, 18;
goes to the military school at Brienne, 19;
behaviour at school, 19-21;
leaves Brienne and goes to the Ecole Militaire at Paris, 22;
appointed second lieutenant of artillery, 22;
anecdote of Madame Junot’s sister and Napoleon--_Puss in
Boots_, 22-24;
his poverty when sub-lieutenant, 24;
journey to Corsica, 24;
application to the British Government for service, 24;
his supposed visit to London, 25;
his personal appearance in 1793, 26;
promoted to be commandant of artillery, 27;
supersedes General Cartaux, 27;
taking of Toulon and conduct of the French, 27, 28;
again promoted, 29;
goes on a diplomatic errand to Genoa, 29;
his poverty at that time, 29, 30;
revolt of the Sections, 30-32;
made General of the Interior and Governor of Paris, 32;
his marriage with Josephine, 40, 41;
short honeymoon, 41;
made commander-in-chief of the army of Italy, 43;
visits his mother, 43;
battle of Montenotte, 43;
bad state of the French army, 43;
victories of the Italian campaign, 44, 45;
Bonaparte and Berthier, 45;
story of a game at cards with him, 45, 46;
Napoleon’s exactions in Italy, and spoliation of works of
art, 48, 49;
siege of Mantua, 49;
interview with General Würmser’s aide-de-camp, 49, 50;
surrender of Mantua, 50;
‘The French Bugabo,’ probably the earliest English caricature, 50;
is promoted to the command of ‘the Army of England,’ 52;
abandons the invasion of England, 56;
expedition to Egypt, 59;
starting of the Fleet, 60;
landing in Egypt, 60;
Napoleon as a Mahometan, 60-63;
atrocities on landing at Alexandria, 64;
his hatred of England, 65;
march across the desert, 66;
battle of the Pyramids, 66;
march on, and entry into, Cairo, 66, 67;
battle of the Nile or Aboukir, 67;
its effect upon Napoleon, 67;
revolt at Cairo, 77;
slaughter of the inhabitants, 77, 78;
rumour of his assassination, 82;
his intrigue with Madame Fourés, 83, 84;
his schemes of conquest, 84;
celebrates ‘Ramadan,’ 85;
capitulation of El-Arisch, 85;
massacre of troops at Jaffa, 88-97;
siege of St. Jean d’Acre, 98;
victory over Achmet Pasha at Mount Thabor, 98;
capture of his battering train by Sir Sydney Smith, 98;
siege of St. Jean d’Acre raised, and retreat to Jaffa, 98, 99;
accused of poisoning his sick soldiers at Jaffa, 100-8;
returns to Cairo, 108;
he leaves Egypt, 110-13;
feeling in the army, 113, 114;
arrival in Paris, 117;
public dinner, 117;
dissolves the Council of Five Hundred, 118-22;
made Consul, 122;
takes the lead, 123;
fresh Consuls appointed, 125;
their salaries, 125;
his letter to George III., 126;
answer to same, 127;
battle of Marengo, 130;
death of Desaix, 130-2;
plots against Napoleon’s life:--that of Oct. 10, 1800, 136-8;
that of Dec. 24, 1800, 138-40;
Napoleon’s portrait, 140;
his Concordat with the Pope, 143;
the Flotilla at Boulogne, 143, 144;
negotiations for peace, 144;
attends to home affairs, 151;
ratifies the peace of Amiens, 151;
made Consul for life, 155;
receives Fox, 156-58;
behaves rudely to Lord Whitworth, 166, 172, 173;
ultimatum, 175;
tour to Belgium, &c., 239

Napoleon (_continued_), vol. ii.--
Cadoudal’s conspiracy, 7;
trial and execution of the Duc d’Enghien, 7, 8;
proclaimed Emperor, 12, 13;
his coronation, 23-34;
sends a letter to George the Third, 35;
visits Italy, 40;
crowned king of Italy, 41;
his name given to a constellation, 42;
war with Austria, 43;
withdrawal of ‘Army of England,’ 43;
surrender of Ulm, 45;
battle of Trafalgar, 47;
negotiations for peace, 57;
victories of Jena, &c., 62;
proclamation to blockade England, 62;
invasion of Poland and entry into Warsaw, 65;
battle of Eylau, 66;
capture of Dantzig, 69;
meeting with the Emperor of Russia at Tilsit, 69-73;
declaration of war by England, 80;
English troops sent to Spain, 82;
raising the siege of Saragossa, 84;
defeat at Vimiera, 84;
convention of Cintra, 84;
meeting of Emperors and Kings at Erfurt, 93;
the broken bridge across the Danube, and the retreat to the island
of Lobau, 96;
battle of Wagram, 97;
divorce from Josephine, 100-9;
proposes to marry the Grand Duchess Anna Paulovna, 111;
betrothal to Maria Louisa, 111;
his marriage, 114;
birth of the King of Rome, 116;
his christening, 117;
Napoleon as a father, 119, 120;
said to have been present at a naval engagement off Boulogne, 123;
goes to Dresden, and meeting of Sovereigns there, 124;
visits Dantzig, 124;
war declared against Russia, 124;
entry into Wilna, 126;
battle of Smolensko, 126;
battle of Salamanca, 126;
battle of Borodino, 127;
entry into Moscow, 128;
burning of Moscow, 129-31;
flight from thence, 131;
nearly caught by Cossacks, 135;
rejoicings in England, 140;
his return to Paris, 142-44;
preparation for war: anticipates the conscription of 1814, 144;
an armistice, 150;
battle of Vittoria, 150-52;
defeat at Leipsic, 154;
losses and new conscription, 172;
campaign of 1814, 182;
his deposition, 185;
his abdication, 185;
conspiracy to kill him, 190;
treaty with regard to his abdication, 191;
attempts to poison himself, 192, 193;
sails for Elba, 194;
his arrival there, 206;
his beneficent rule and improvements, 207, 208;
faith broken with him, 208;
‘Caporal Violette,’ 209;
leaves Elba, 215;
lands at Cannes, 215;
war again declared, 229;
campaign in Belgium, 229;
battle of Waterloo, 229;
retires to Paris, 231;
he again abdicates, 231;
a prisoner in French hands, 233;
negotiations for surrender to England, 234;
goes on board the ‘Bellerophon,’ 234;
letter to the Regent, 234;
arrival at Torbay, 239;
is sent to Plymouth, 244;
anxiety of the English people to see him, 244-47;
sent to St. Helena, 248;
his protest against it, 250;
transferred to the ‘Northumberland,’ 251;
sets sail for St. Helena, 251;
crosses the line, 259;
his death, 261

Napoleon and the letter M, ii. 179

Napoleon’s sisters, i. 218; ii. 24, 29, 207

Napoleon’s supposed credulity, ii. 178, 179

Napolione, Saint, i. 8

Navy, prizes, &c., ii. 38, 39

Nelson, i. 60, 67, 69-75, 78-80, 82, 144, 176; ii. 46-48

Nelson’s receipt to make an Olla Podrida, i. 51, 52

‘New Bellman’s verses for Christmas, 1803!’ ii. 2

Ney, Marshal, i. 135; ii. 123, 124

Nicholas as Napoleon’s baptismal name, i. 8

Nichols, Mr., i. 56

Nieuhoff, Count, King of Corsica, i. 5

Nile, the battle of the, false and late news, i. 66, 67;
how the news was received in England, 69, 70, 73;
illuminations in honour of, 71

Norfolk, Duke of, i. 56, 72, 74

O’Hara, General, i. 27

Ongley, Lord, i. 58

Orion’s Belt to be called Napoleon, ii. 42

Otto, M., i. 144-147

Paoli, i. 14, 16, 24

Paraviccini (cousin of Napoleon), i. 14

Patriotic songs, i. 57, 69, 195, 203, 207, 213, 214, 224, 225, 232,
238, 240, 254, 273; ii. 2, 5, 148

Peace, negotiations for, i. 52, 144-46;
ratification of, i. 146;
negotiations for, ii. 57

Pelham, T., i. 47

Peltier, Jean, i. 173, 174

Pichegru, ii. 7, 9, 10

Pidcock’s Grand Menagerie, i. 251

Pierre le Clerc, ii. 178, 179

Pitt, William, i. 54, 59, 150, 168, 252; ii. 50

Pitzipios, Prince, i. 4

Pius the Eighth, ii. 24, 25, 28

Platoff, the Hetman, ii. 148, 157

Playbills, sham, i. 200, 201

Plébiscite as to Napoleon becoming Emperor, ii. 12

Plots against Napoleon’s life, i. 136-139

Poisoning sick soldiers, i. 100-108

Portuguese royal family, flight of, ii. 78

Poverty of Napoleon’s family, i. 17

Press-gangs, i. 58

Prisoners playing at mock trials, i. 33

Punch and the Emperor Nicholas of Russia, ii. 132

_Puss in boots_, i. 23, 24

Raymond, the caricaturist, i. 163

Regent, the Prince, ii. 207, 211, 224, 225, 227, 234, 253, 257

Rhodocanakis, i. 3.

Roberts, the caricaturist, i. 144, 145, 169, 240

Robespierre, i. 33

Rome, King of, ii. 116-122, 125, 142, 143, 167, 171, 184, 191, 194,
195, 226, 243

Rosetta, surrender of, i. 143

Rostopchin, ii. 130

Rouyer, the apothecary who is said to have poisoned the sick soldiers
at Jaffa, i. 103

Roveredo, battle of, i. 44

Rowlandson, the caricaturist, i. 78, 170; ii. 16, 44, 47, 57, 78, 85,
88, 96, 115, 118, 121, 155, 156, 158-160, 166-167, 170, 181,
182, 187, 194-197, 202, 204, 222, 223, 231, 243

Russian campaign, French losses in, ii. 141

Rûstem, i. 217; ii. 152, 191

St. Jean D’Acre, siege of, i. 98

St. Regent, i. 138

St. Vincent, Lord, i. 147

Salamanca, victory of, ii. 126

San Giargo, battle of, i. 45

Savants, the, with the French Army, i. 85, 86

Saveria, i. 17

‘Sayings, A New Song of Old,’ ii. 5

Sebastiani, i. 218

Sheridan, Richard B., i. 54, 72, 74-76, 152, 165, 171; ii. 58

Sidebotham, J., caricaturist, ii. 205

Sièyes, i. 122-24

Smith, J., caricaturist, i. 189

Smith, Sir Sydney, i. 95, 98, 99

Souley, or Sauler, caricaturist, ii. 64, 67, 98

Soult, Marshal, i. 172

Soup kitchens in Paris, i. 133

Stapulensis, Johannis Faber, i. 11

Stephanapoli, or Stepanapoulos, i. 3, 4

Talleyrand, i. 82, 163, 217, 271, 285, 287; ii. 8, 25, 49, 52, 56, 59,
67, 68, 84, 115, 187, 195-197, 205, 228

Tallien, Jean Lambert, i. 35

Tallien, Madame (Thérèse Cabarrus, Princesse de Chimay):
meeting with Josephine, i. 33;
‘Nôtre Dame de Thermidor,’ 33;
intimacy with Josephine and Barras, 35;
her dress, 36;
her obliging disposition and good looks, 37;
‘Nôtre Dame de Septembre,’ 38;
dancing naked before Barras, 40;
her beauty, 41

Taw, S. T., caricaturist, ii. 226

The Voice of the British Isles, i. 195

Tiddy Doll, ii. 48-50, 83, 200

Tierney, Mr., i. 54, 56, 72; ii. 212

Tilsit, meeting of the Emperors at, ii. 69-73

Toulon, siege of, i. 27;
capture of, i. 27, 28

Toussaint l’Ouverture, ii. 19

Trafalgar, battle of, ii. 46-48

Trevor, Mr., i. 58

Twenty thousand pounds reward, i. 210

Ulm, surrender of, ii. 45, 46

Viconti, Madame, i. 36

Violet, the, a symbol of Napoleon, ii. 209

Volunteers, i. 283, 284; ii. 1

Walcheren expedition, ii. 110

Waterloo, battle of, ii. 229

Wellington, Duke of, ii. 82, 126, 150, 151, 172, 197, 205, 206, 214,
224, 225, 228-30, 243

West, T., caricaturist, i. 169, 186, 210, 215, 230, 232, 253, 279;
ii. 3, 15, 23

Whitbread, Mr., i. 58; ii. 91, 212

Whitworth, Lord, i. 160-62, 166, 167, 172, 175, 176, 178

Windham, i. 150

Wonder of wonders, most wonderful, i. 260

Woodward, caricaturist, i. 32, 152, 160, 179, 238, 245, 264-266, 269;
ii. 37, 42, 48, 57, 66, 75, 76, 81, 85

Woronzow, Prince, ii. 184

Wright, Capt., ii. 9-11

Würmser, General, i. 49, 50

Yeomanry cavalry raised, i. 58

THE END.

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FOOTNOTES

[1] Gauls.

[2]

False of Heart, light of Ear, bloody of Hand,
Fox in Stealth, Wolf in Greediness, Dog in Madness,
Lion in Prey;--bless thy five Wits.

_King Lear_, act iii. scene 4.

[3] _Memoirs_, vol. ii. p. 345.

[4] Coombe evidently did not think chronological accuracy of any importance, for Napoleon’s coronation was on December 2, even if reckoning old style.

[5] _The Naval Chronicle_, 1805.

[6] As a matter of fact, the crown is a broad circle of gold, set with large rubies, emeralds, and sapphires, on a ground of blue and gold enamel. The reason of its being called the ‘Iron Crown’ is that, running round the centre of the _interior_ of the circle is a thin and narrow band of iron, which is supposed to be manufactured from one of the nails used in the Crucifixion of our Saviour, and given by St. Helena to her son Constantine as a talisman to protect him in battle.

[7] Free translation for ‘God has given it me--let him beware who would touch it,’ the usual form of words when this crown was used.

[8] Vol. xlix. p. 763.

[9] September 11, 1805.

[10] The news of the victory at Trafalgar was only published on November 6.

[11] _Everyday Book_, vol. i. p. 575.

[12] He was a constant attendant in the crowd on Lord Mayor’s show.

[13] On March 31 Joseph Bonaparte was made King of Naples, and Murat Grand Duke of Berg and Cleves. A few months subsequently, Louis Bonaparte was made King of Holland, and the following year Jerome King of Westphalia.

[14] A ‘hand,’ as a measure in horse-flesh, is four inches.

[15] The nine of diamonds.

[16] Suspected.

[17] Of Austria.

[18] ‘The Broken Bridge, or Boney outwitted by General Danube,’ June 1809.

[19] The divorce took place on December 16.

[20] His second valet.

[21] _Memoirs of Madame Junot._

[22] Third part of King Henry VI., act v. scene 6.

[23] See next page.

[24] _Napoleon in Exile_, by B. O’Meara.

[25] _My Reminiscences_, by Lord Ronald Gower, vol. i. p. 209, ed. 1883.

[26] The italics are mine.--J. A.

[27] The Hetman, Platoff, is said to have promised his daughter in marriage, and a fortune for her dowry, to whoever would bring him Napoleon’s head.

[28] Napoleon was at Dresden when he heard the news of the defeat at Vittoria.

[29] Würtemburg.

[30] The real quotation is: ‘Justice demands of her the sacrifice of her bloodguilty tyrant.’

[31] Gas was just then coming into notoriety as an illuminating power. Westminster Bridge was lit by gas December 31, 1813, but its use did not become general in London until 1816.

[32] Deceiving.

[33] ‘Funking’ is smoking, or causing a great smell.

[34] _Buonapartiana, ou Choix d’Anecdotes curieuses._ Paris, 1814.

[35] One of the pyramids.

[36] _Histoire de l’Empereur, racontée dans une Grange par un vieux Soldat._

[37] Borodino.

[38] In the French original it is ‘_Tirez donc, François, vous nous faites attendre!_’

[39] They alluded to the Duke of Bassano, Caulaincourt, Bertrand, and some others.

[40] He accompanied the Emperor to Elba. Constant, as we have seen, left him.

[41] Anagram upon Bonaparte’s name, on his attempting to steal the Crown, &c. ‘_Bona rapta pone, Leno!_ Lay down the goods you have stolen, Rascal!’

[42] The first twenty-seven verses of the fourteenth chapter of Isaiah.

[43] As a matter of fact, both his mother, Madame Letitia, and his sister, Pauline went to Elba, soon after his arrival.

[44] _A Voice from St. Helena._ O’Meara.

[45] Plentifully.

[46] Slept.

[47] Rolls of the drum.

[48] Horse, or, as we should say, ‘gee-gee.’

[49] Stronger.

[50] We must recollect that George the Magnificent was then Regent, and his taste in architecture was decidedly Eastern.

[51] Or Hartwell, in Buckinghamshire, where he resided whilst in England.

[52] There is a very amusing skit about these ‘R--l Whiskers,’ which were assumed to be as false as the historical wigs, published early in 1816. It is too long to reproduce, although it is really laughable; but, at all events, space can be found for the first few lines.

L’ADIEU.

_From a puissant Prince to his Cast-off Whiskers, on his
leaving London to make an Excursion._

Adieu, my dear Whiskers! dear Whiskers, adieu!
I ne’er shall love Whiskers as I have lov’d you,
So becoming your form, and so brilliant your hue,
I ne’er admir’d Whiskers as I’ve admired you.
Your curve was so lovely, so like a horse-shoe,
Not a Whisker at Court was so lovely as you.
The Baron Geramb’s were immense, it is true,
But they didn’t sweep round half so tasty as you.

[53] _Times_, June 1, 1815.

[54] George Alexander Stevens gave the famous ‘Lecture on Heads’, _circa_ 1763 or 1764, by which it is said that here and in America he cleared nearly 10,000_l._

[55] June 30, 1815.

[56] July 25, 1815.

[57] General Gourgaud.

[58] _A visit to Bonaparte in Plymouth Sound_, by a Lady. Plymouth, 1815.

[59] Mackerel.

[60] _Interesting Particulars of Napoleon’s Deportation for Life to St. Helena, &c._ London, 1816. Printed for W. Hone.

[61] By George Colman the younger.

[62] _i.e._ the midshipmen who took female parts.

[63] The Bourbon colour.

Transcriber’s Notes

Punctuation, hyphenation, and spelling were made consistent when a predominant preference was found in this book; otherwise they were not changed. Vernacular spellings not changed. The spelling and accent marks of non-English words have not been thoroughly checked.

Simple typographical errors were corrected; occasional unbalanced quotation marks retained.

Ambiguous hyphens at the ends of lines were retained.

Text uses both “Blücher” and “Blucher”; both retained.

Text uses “Wurtemberg”, “Würtemberg”, “Wurtemburg”, and “Würtemburg”; all retained.

Illustrations in the middle of poems have been moved so as to either precede or follow those poems.

Some materials in Volume II also appeared in Volume I.

Index references not checked for accuracy.

Page 87: “far too serious in its conception” was followed by a wide space, then “Napoleon’s”, in two editions of this book. Transcriber added a period after “conception”.

Page 117: The reference number to footnote 22 has been moved from the beginning to the end of the line on which it appears.

Page 201: The “Hell” of “Hellbaronian Emperor” was printed with a strikethrough, above which is “El”. In the text version of this eBook, this is represented by “Hellbaronian/Elbaronian”.

Page 203: The “ow” of “Elbow” was printed with a strikethrough, above which is “a”. In the text version of this eBook, this is represented by “Elbow/Elba”.

Page 216: “Hell Bay” was printed with a strikethrough, above which is “Elba”. In the text version of this eBook, this is represented by “Hell Bay/Elba”.