Constitutional Whig

The Memoirs of a Sergeant in the French Army will appear in the course of a week or two. This work is written by a man of the name of Guillemard, who was a sergeant in the grand army, and was on board Admiral Hotham's fleet when the man who got Lord Camperdown's picture was taken. He was present at the assassination of his own Admiral, on which occasion Guillemard was personally examined by Bonaparte. He then joined the army in Germany, was present at the taking of Stralsund, and, marching into Spain, was made prisoner by a guerilla party. Having made his escape, he was sent on the Russian campaign, and, at the battle of Borodino, was taken by the Russians and banished to Siberia, where he remained in captivity till 1814, when he and a few others were suffered to return. At the time of Napoleon's re-appearance from Elba, Guillemard was serving in the Duke of Angouleme's army in the South, and describes the massacres of the Protestants at Nismes. Soon afterwards he assists Joachim Murat (King of Naples) in escaping from Toulon to Corsica. Guillemard's final campaign was in Spain, in 1815, after which he was discharged from service.