_Bon._ O, Heaven! what must I expect after so many reverses? _Echo._ Reverses. _Bon._ What? should I, like a coward vile, to compound be reduced? _Echo._ Reduced. _Bon._ After so many bright exploits be forced to restitution? _Echo._ Restitution. _Bon._ Restitution of what I've got by true heroic feats and martial address? _Echo._ Yes. _Bon._ What will be the fate of so much toil and trouble? _Echo._ Trouble. _Bon._ What will become of my people, already too unhappy? _Echo._ Happy. _Bon._ What should I then be, that I think myself immortal? _Echo._ Mortal. _Bon._ The whole world is filled with the glory of my name, you know. _Echo._ No. _Bon._ Formerly its fame struck this vast globe with terror. _Echo._ Error. _Bon._ Sad Echo, begone! I grow infuriate! I die! _Echo._ Die!" It may be added that Napoleon himself (_Voice from St. Helena_, vol. i. p. 432.), when asked about the execution of Palm, said: "All that I recollect is, that Palm was arrested by order of Davoust, I believe, tried, condemned, and shot, for having, while the country was in possession of the French and under military occupation, not only excited rebellion amongst the inhabitants, and urged them to rise and massacre the soldiers, but also attempted to instigate the soldiers themselves to refuse obedience to their orders, and to mutiny against their generals. _I believe_ that he met with a fair trial." JAS. J. SCOTT. Hampstead. * * * * * BLACKGUARD. (Vol. ix., p. 15.) In a curious old pamphlet of twenty-three pages, entitled _Everybody's Business is Nobody's Business answer'd Paragraph by Paragraph_, by a Committee of Women-Servants and Footmen, London, printed by T. Read for the author, and sold by the booksellers of London, and ... price one penny (without date), the following passage occurs: "The next great Abuse among us is, that under the Notion of cleaning our Shoes, above ten Thousand Wicked, Idle, Pilfering Vagrants are permitted to stroll about our City and Suburbs. These are called the _Black-Guard_, who Black your Honour's Shoes, and incorporate themselves under the Title of the _Worshipful Company of Japanners_. But the Subject is so low that it becomes disagreeable even to myself; give me leave therefore to propose a Way to clear the streets of those Vermin, and to substitute as many honest and industrious persons in their stead, who are now starving for want of bread, while these execrable {154} villains live (though in Rags and Nastiness) yet in Plenty and Luxury."