‘Destruction of the French Gun Boats--or Little Boney and his friend Talley in high Glee’ is presumably by Gillray, though not signed by him (November 22, 1803). It represents the total destruction of the French flotilla by the English fleet--which Napoleon, mounted on Talleyrand’s shoulder, is watching with great glee through a rolled-up paper (Talleyrand’s plan for invading Great Britain), which is being used in lieu of a telescope. He shouts out, in great delight, ‘Oh my dear Talley, what a glorious sight! We’ve worked up Johnny Bull into a fine passion! My good fortune never leaves me! I shall now get rid of a Hundred Thousand French Cut Throats whom I was so afraid of! Oh, my dear Talley, this beats the Egyptian Poisoning hollow! Bravo Johnny! pepper ’em Johnny!’ Ansell is answerable for ‘Boney’s Journey to London, or the reason why he is so long in coming, i.e. because he travels like a Snail with his house at his back’ (November 23, 1803). He is portrayed as being in a wooden house, drawn by his soldiers, who are being unmercifully whipped with a knout-like weapon. Napoleon, calling out to the officer who is administering the punishment, ‘You Vagabones, make haste, Vite, Vite, or I shall not get to London by Christmass. Give them more of the Fraternal Whip, the dam Rascals do not know the value of Liberty.’ END OF THE FIRST VOLUME. _Spottiswoode & Co., Printers, New-street Square, London._ FOOTNOTES [1] Chevalier Artand’s _Italy_, p. 377; ‘L’Univers pittoresque, Europe,’ tome 2, Paris, 1857, ed. Didot. [2] ‘Ragguaglio Storico di tutto l’occorso, giorno per giorno, nel Sacco di Roma dell’anno 1527, scritto da Jacopo Bonoparte, gentiluomo Samminiatere’ (from San Miniato, near Florence) ‘che vi se trovò presente.’ [3] _Notes and Queries_, 3rd series, vol. xi. p. 307. [4] From Καλὀς, good, and Μερὶς, part or share--Buona-parte. [5] _Notes and Queries_, 3rd series, vol. xi. p. 507. [6] _Memoirs of Madame Junot, Duchesse d’Abrantes_, Bentley, London, 1883. When quoting from her memoirs I always use this translation. [7] Napoleon omitted the ‘u’ in Buonaparte while general-in-chief in May 1796. [8] Madam Junot was very proud of her descent from Constantine Comnenus, the tenth Protogeras of Maina, who quitted Greece in 1675, landed at Genoa Jan. 1, 1676, and arrived at Corsica March 14, 1676. [9] _Buonaparte et la famille, ou Confidences d’un de leurs anciens amis_, Paris 1816. [10] Denying by every means the authority of nations, obedience to princes, or liberty to the Church. He usurped the goods of all, the treasure of neutrals, the souls of nations: in very truth he was an execrable tyrant. [11] _The Corsican’s Downfall_, p. 9. [12] _Buonaparte the Emperor of the French considered as the Lucifer and Gog of Isiah and Ezekiel, &c._, by L. Mayer, Lond. 1806, p. 86. [13] _Memoirs_, p. 269. [14] His nephew was afterwards prefect in Corsica. He was a relation of Napoleon.