perpetually in her ears: thus swimming with the tide of events, he directed them at his pleasure till his expedition to Egypt. While he was there, the management of affairs necessarily devolved on other persons, whose interest and whose views were widely remote from those of Buonaparte. What was the consequence? France, every where victorious, and enjoying the sweets of peace in the capital, when he sailed for Egypt, was on the eve of destruction on his return. "In what state," said he, "did I leave France: and in what state do I find it? I left you peace, I find war; I left you conquests, but the enemy has now passed your frontiers; I left your arsenals full, they do not now contain a single stand of arms. Your cannon has been sold; robbery has been raised into a system, and the resources of the state are exhausted; vexatious measures, the reproach of justice and good sense, have been had recourse to; the soldier has been sacrificed without defence!—Where are the heroes, where are the hun-
