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THE

SECRET HISTORY

OF THE

COURT AND CABINET

OF

ST. CLOUD.

IN A SERIES OF LETTERS:

...

FROM A RESIDENT IN PARIS TO A NOBLEMAN IN LONDON, WRITTEN

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DURING THE MONTHS OF AUGUST, SEPTEMBER

AND OCTOBER, 1805,

Stewarton

FOURTH AMERICAN EDITION,
With considerable and interesting Additions

NEW-YORK:

PRINTED FOR AND PUBLISHED BY BRISBAN AND BRANNAN,

NO. I, CITY-HOTEL, BROADWAY.

1807.

“PUNUC LIBR, 3V

153015

ARTOR, LENOX AND TILBEN FOUNDATIONS. 1899.

REMEMBERED, That the thirteenth

District of}ss. BE IT FFebruary, in the thirty-first year of the In

dependence of the United States of America, BRISBAN & BRANNAN, of the said District, have deposited in this Office, the Title of a Book, the right whereof they claim as proprietors, in the words and figures following, to wit:

"The Secret History of the Court and Cabinet of St. Cloud; in "a series of Letters from a Resident in Paris to a Nobleman in Lon"don, written during the months of August, September and Octo"ber, 1805. Fourth American Edition, with considerable and interest'ing Additions.”

IN CONFORMITY to the Act of the Congress of the United States, entitled, "An Act for the encouragement of Learning, by securing the "Copies of Maps, Charts, and Books, to the Authors and Proprietors "of such Copies, during the times therein mentioned;" and also to an Act, entitled," An Act supplementary to an Act, entitled, An Act for "the encouragement of Learning by securing the copies of Maps, "Charts, and Books, to the Authors and Proprietors of such Copies, "during the times therein mentioned, and extending the benefits there"of, to the Arts of Designing, Engraving, and Etching historical and ❝ other prints."

EDWARD DUNSCOMB, Clerk of the District of New-York.

CONTENTS.

The characters of the principal emigrants well known to the French
government: Mehee de la Touche: his perfidy and ingratitude his
mission and intrigues in England: refused the wages of his infamy
by Talleyrand: Real, a forgery committed by him in 1788: strange

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Buonaparte finds his wife involved in gambling debts, and surrounded
by Jews and other creditors: Talleyrand's mode of settling their
demands: Count de Segur completes Buonaparte's household estab-
lishment his character, and public employments: his domestic
misfortunes character of the members of Buonaparte's civil list :
methods adopted to augment it with Prussian and German nobles

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