Robert Thomas Wilson

“ The physician, alarmed at the proposal, bold in the confidence of virtue and the cause of humanity, remonstrated vehemently, representing the cruelty, as well as the attrocity, of such a murder but finding that Bonaparte preserved and menaced, he indignantly left the tent, with this memorable observation, 'Neither my principles, nor the character of my profession, will allow me to become a human butcher; and, General, if such qualities as you insinuate, are necessary to form a great man, I thank my God that I do not possess them. ”

“ The next circumstance is of nature which requires, indeed, the most particular details to establish, since the idea can scarce be entertained, that the commander of an army should or, his own countrymen (or it not immediately such, those amongst whom he had been naturalized) to be deprived of existence, when in a state which required the kindest consideration. ”

“ Three days afterwards, Bonaparte, who had expressed much resentment at the compassion manisested by his troops, and determined to relieve himself from the maintenance and care of three thousand eight hundred prisoners, [1] ordered them to be marched to a rising ground near Jaffa, where a division of French infantry formed against them When the Turks had entered into their fatal alignement, and the mournful preparations were completed, the signal gun fired. Vollies of musquetry and grape instantly played against them ”