Alas! that I who caught Imperial flats, Should now sit here to watch these scurvy rats. I, who Madrid, Berlin, Vienna, Moscow, took, Am doom’d, with cheese, to bait a rusty hook! Was it for this I tried to save my bacon. To use it now for Rats, that won’t be taken? Curse their wise souls! I had not half such trouble Their European brethren to bubble. When I, myself, was hail’d as Emperor Nap, Emperors and Kings I had within my trap: And to this moment might have kept them there, Had I not gone to hunt the Russian bear. One of his suite sees a rat coming: ‘Ah! mon Dieu! Dere, your Majesty, dere be de vilain rogues--Ah, monsieur rat, why you not pop your nose into de trap, and let de august Emperor catch you?’ A female attendant, with a slice of bacon on a fork, says, ‘Will your Majesty be please to try dis bit of bacon? Ah! de cunning rascal! Dere! ma foi! he sniff at de bacon.’ ‘General Sans Pareil’ (September 1, 1815) is an extremely elaborate picture, far too much so for reproduction; therefore it will be better to give the description at the foot of the figure: ‘The above Portrait of Buonaparte, may be considered as an emblematical Index of his extraordinary Life. The Design reflects the highest credit on the Artist, who is a Frenchman: he has judiciously formed the Hat of the different _Crowns_ which Buonaparte placed on other Men’s _Heads_. The position of the forefinger and thumb are particularly deserving of notice, with the words _Moreau_ and _Pichegru_ on them, indicating that _Moreau_ was his guide or _finger-post_ to all his victories; and the word _Pichegru_ being on his thumb, is meant to imply that he always had him in view as being one great obstacle to his rising greatness; while in the other hand he holds a nooze, or rope, as the means of ridding himself of so formidable an enemy. The words on his Breast are the names of the different kingdoms he has overrun or conquered. His Waistcoat is ornamented with the figures of the different Kings he had made; the French call them “_La folie fabrique de sire_”: indicative, that while the dark clouds of despotism hung over Buonaparte’s empire, his Kings reflected their borrowed lustre; but when once the Sun of universal restitution darted forth its rays, they melted “like wax before the sun.” The artist has well contrived to put the little King of Rome, as a monkey, above the heads of the other Kings. The Bales and Casks of Goods, on his left thigh, denote the stoppage of Trade which his system of warfare had brought on the French People. The Beet root refers to the Decree issued for making Sugar of that plant, when he had lost all his West India Possessions. On his legs are represented Skulls, symbolic of Death, who accompanied him wherever he trod--His sword, which so often paralyzed the world, and conquered with a rapidity hitherto unknown, is placed in the form of a Comet or Meteor. Such is this brief and imperfect delineation of the above extremely