of Caesar still resound; it was in the midst of every thing which could move the heart, excite the ideas, or exalt the imagination, that Fourier unfolded the noble life of Kleber.  The orator was listened to with religious silence; but soon, addressing himself with a gesture of his hand to the soldiers ranged in battle array before him, he exclaims:  “Ah! how many of you would have aspired to the honour of throwing yourselves between Kleber and his assassin!  I call you to witness, intrepid cavalry, who rushed to save him upon the heights of Koraim, and dispelled in an instant the multitude of enemies who had surrounded him!” At these words an electric tremor thrills throughout the whole army, the colours droop, the ranks close, the arms come into collision, a deep sigh escapes from some ten thousand breasts torn by the sabre and the bullet, and the voice of the orator is drowned amid sobs.

A few months after, upon the same bastion, before the same soldiers, Fourier celebrated with no less eloquence the exploits, the virtues of the general whom the people conquered in Africa saluted with the name so flattering of Just Sultan; and who sacrificed his life at Marengo to secure the triumph of the French arms.

Fourier quitted Egypt only with the last wreck of the army, in virtue of the capitulation signed by Menou.  On his return to France, the object of his most constant solicitude was to illustrate the memorable expedition of which he had been one of the most active and most useful members.  The idea of collecting together the varied labours of all his colleagues incontestibly belongs to him.  I find the proof of this in a letter, still unpublished, which he wrote to Kleber from Thebes, on the 20th Vendemiaire, in the year VII.  No public act, in which mention is made of this great literary monument, is of an earlier date.  The Institute of Cairo having adopted the project of a work upon Egypt as early as the month of Frimaire, in the year VIII., confided to Fourier the task of uniting together the scattered elements of it, of making them consistent with each other, and drawing up the general introduction.

This introduction was published under the title of Historical Preface:  Fontanes saw in it the graces of Athens and the wisdom of Egypt united together.  What could I add to such an eulogium?  I shall say only that there are to be found there, in a few pages, the principal features of the government of the Pharaohs, and the results of the subjection of ancient Egypt by the kings of Persia, the Ptolemies, the successors of Augustus, the emperors of Byzantium, the first Caliphs, the celebrated Saladin, the Mamelukes and the Ottoman princes.  The different phases of our adventurous expedition are there characterized with the greatest care.  Fourier carries his scruples to so great a length as to attempt to prove that it was just.  I have said only so far as to attempt, for in that case there might have been