trick: the popes made a pretty penny of the gates of heaven: Mahomed did wonders through his seven heavens, his flying ass, and his houris: Cromwell held the sword in one hand, and the Bible in the other: Buonaparté, in Egypt, was a Mussulman, predestinarian, sent by the prophet to deliver his brother Turks from the tyranny of the beys; he is, now, also a Roman Catholic, and has possessed himself of St. Peter's keys; (think of that and tremble, all ye rebels against his power-to be buffetted by him in this world, and to have the gates of heaven shut against you in the next!) and he now tells the Spaniards, in case they reject his brother Joey, that "he shall place the crown of Spain upon his own head, and cause it to be respected by the guilty ;-for God has given him power and inclination to surmount all obstacles!!!"

Here's a divine mission for you-and thundering prophet, with a vengeance!before whom the degraded Continent

bow their heads with homage down,

And kiss the feet of this exalted man :

The name, the shout, the blast from ev'ry mouth
Is Buonaparté!-Buonaparté bursts

Your cheeks, and with a crack so loud,

It drowns the voice of Heav'n: Like dogs you fawn, The earth's commanders fawn, and flatter him : Mankind starts up to hear his blasphemy;

And if this hunter of the barb'rous world

But wind himself a god, you echo him
With universal cry."

LEE'S ALEXANDER.

Impudence and luck are a sufficient stock at any time for a prophet, and the little great man has enough of both. The sapient pro fessors of a certain German university have already shoved him up into Orion's Belt; ;and as he never knows when to stop, there will be fools enough ready to take his own word that his place is yet higher. But however much to the taste of Turks, Copts, and Arabs, may be the massacres, robberies, and lies, with which the coming of the Corsican prophet amongst us, have been marked, being conformable to, though rather more out

rageous than, the progress of their own Mahomed; yet we should imagine they can never be accredited by the followers of the doctrines of the meek, humble, and beneficent Jesus Christ. We hope so, We hope so, and pray that our Catholic brethren of Ireland will not (to use a very homely though appropriate figure) cut off their noses to be revenged upon their faces; but will have patience and shuffle the cards, till our enemies shall have less power, and our ministers more sense, when we may all reasonably expect more tolerance, and fewer taxes:

Good Heav'n! we pray thee quickly send the time,
Authors may feed on somewhat else than rhyme;
And all mankind serve thee in their own way,
With plenteous boards, and moderate to pay!
Then each light heart may chaunt-God save the King;
But now we fast and pay too much to sing.

Buonaparté will, in the end, serve as another eternal proof, that the Almighty Father of the universe will not permit any earthly tyrant, however dignified, to wrest from him

the absolute dominion, which belongs to himself alone, over his creatures.

Waiting for such a happy change in the tide of our affairs, but with a very faint prospect of it for the present, we will proceed with our guess :-If Buonaparté succeed in Spain, (of which the most sceptical can now scarcely entertain a doubt) he will attempt to humble to his feet, or associate to his views against Great Britain, all the rest of Europe, by a partition of Turkey, through which country his way will be clear to Persia and the Indies. Nay, in all probability, the National Institute of France may be, at this moment, employed in making a digest from the Persian and Sanscrit languages, and in tracing the pedigree of the Corsican Buonapartés to Shah Abbas, or Vishnu, according to the Mussulman and Hindoo laws.-Having once established a kind of family compact with his Mussulman and Hindoo brethren, he hopes, by their means, to inflict, at least, a desperate wound on the British empire in India, if he shall not be able to glut his

revenge by its total annihilation. We trust that Buonaparte's expedition to Egypt; his embassy to Persia; his unguarded threats of stabbing Britain in India, as well as on the Continents of Europe and America; will sufficiently bear us out with every reasoner against the charge of being a visionary. We have all dreamed too long; it is now time to open our eyes to the light of the sun. If Buonaparté should succeed in his embassy to Persia!-It is reported that he has succeeded-Well, whence comes this art of his, of alienating the confidence of all nations, Christian, Mussulman, or Hindoostanee, from his adversaries ?-Why-he has skilful agents with each-no boobies, without any other pretensions than high birth and fortune, but men of talents-(no-hang that word-it has been too much burlesqued!) men of judgment.-Our civil list is so scanty, that when an ambassador is wanted, the question is not who has the greatest diplomatic genius, but who has the longest purse, and the ambition to shine at a foreign court at