English Caricature and Satire on Napoleon I. Volume 1 (of 2)Ashton, John
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English Caricature and Satire on Napoleon I. Volume 1 (of 2)
Ashton, John
Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821 -- Caricatures and cartoons
We give and bequeath to the _Citizens of the Republics_ in
_Italy_, _Switzerland_, and _Holland_, our Corsican Mourning
rings, with an inscription, ‘_Liberty lost, 1801, and
unrevenged, 1803_.’
N.B.--We give and bequeath to the _Citizens_ of the _United
States of America_, the funeral speeches on the tombs of the
Liberty of _France_, _Germany_, _Switzerland_, _Italy_, and
_Holland_, translated and published by Citizen _Plot_, in
_Louisiana_.
To all our _Senators_, _Legislators_, _Tribunes_,
_Counsellors_, _Ministers_, _Generals_, _Cardinals_, _Bishops_,
_Prefects_, &c., &c., &c., and to all other of our _Slaves_
of every denomination and description, whether _Rebel_,
_Royalist_, or _Regicide Jacobins_; either _Traitors_,
_Apostates_, _Murderers_, or _Plunderers_, we give and bequeath
the Cannon of _St. Napoleon_, the dagger of _St. Brutus_, the
poison of _St. Aly_, the Guillotine of _St. Robespierre_, and
the halter of _St. Judas_; all true relics, to be equally
divided amongst them.
We give and bequeath to the Manes of all the Citizens
butchered by us at Toulon, murdered by us at Paris, and
poisoned by us in Egypt; our confession to our Cardinal Bishop
at Paris, and our absolution from his Holiness the _Pope_.
We command, and desire most earnestly, not to be buried in any
Church or Church-yard, in any mosque or pantheon, but in the
common sewer of _Montmartre_, where the corses of our worthy
predecessors, _Marat_ and _Robespierre_, were deposited;
but for the quiet of our soul, we do order, and put into
requisition, _La Revalliere_, high priest to the _Goddess_ of
_Reason_, _Mercier_, the atheist of the Institute, _Amarat_,
the mufti of _Constantinople_, and _Pius_ the _Pope_ of _Rome_,
to say prayers over our tomb, and to read ‘_Domine salvum fac
Consulem,’ sic transit Gloria mundi_!
Lastly, to _Louis_ the XVIII. commonly called the Pretender,
and to all Princes of the _House_ of _Bourbon_, their heirs,
executors, administrators, and assigns, we give and bequeath
our everlasting hate; and it is our further will and pleasure,
that, if any potentate or power, shall harbour the said _Louis_
XVIII. or any of the said princes, such harbouring shall be a
good cause of war; and the potentate and power guilty of such
humanity, and hospitality, shall be punished by a Coalition of
Powers as a violater of the law of nations, and contrary to the
rights of man.
In Witness whereof, we have hereunto set our hand and seal the
25th day of Prairial, (14 June, 1803) in the eleventh year of
the French Republic, one and indivisible.
BRUTUS ALY NAPOLEON BONAPARTE.
As a specimen of the bombast of the time, we may take the subjoined
illustration of what our Tars would do with Napoleon.
[Illustration: INVASION.]
CHAPTER XXXII.
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