she also takes the lead of every other nation, England not excepted, in the sciences and the arts, of which Buonaparte is the avowed and liberal protector. Mark the result of all his victories: their object has not only been the extension of the empire, and the aggrandizement of France, they also tended to render Paris the grand emporium of the arts. Wherever he went, he made his victories subservient to this purpose. Witness his campaigns in Italy, Holland, Prussia, and Germany: whatever they possessed the most rare, but chiefly in what tended to the advancement of the sciences and the arts, was decreed to be part of the price of the peace he accorded them[1].
Even the campaign in Egypt was glorious, if considered in a literary point of view[2]; and the mere list of the names of
- ↑ Pius the VIth signed an armistice, whereby he renounced several cities, agreed to pay twenty millions of livres, and give one hundred objects of art, to be chosen from the museums of Rome, and five hundred manuscripts from the library of the Vatican.
- ↑ "While Buonaparte was at Cairo, the learned tra-
