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sheim haughty and indecent conduct of Buonaparte to the Elector at Mentz: secret treaty signed there: the vanity and affected consequence of Edelsheim played on and exposed by Talleyrand: his fondness for orders of knighthood: fawns on Buonaparte, to obtain admission into the Legion of Honour.

LETTER XIX.

The journey of the Pope to France unfavourable to the cause of religion the restoration of Christianity the most popular act of Buonaparte's government: the opinion of the people respecting the act of inauguration by the Pope: their faith in his infallibility shaken :. manners and character of the Pope : promises made to him by Buonaparte not performed: refuses to admit. De Lalande to see him : De Lalande's atheism: enmity between him and Talleyrand. The Pope's aversion to Fouche: Fouche's impious conduct at Lyons.

LETTER XX.

Buonaparte's mother the favourite of the Pope: family parties invited to meet him: ceremony observed on such occasions: superstition of Madame Lætitia Buonaparte her fondness for relics: buys the shoulder-bone of St. John the Baptist : robbed of her relics: Fouche applied to: who discovers pieces of them all in the possession of a favourite servant: the rest found on Madame Genlis, who had bought them of a priest: the priest arrested: claims the protection of Madame Lætitia: threatened with the rack, and confesses his. imposture.

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LETTER XXI.

Decrease in the population of Paris not to be lamented: the crimes committed there not suffered to be published: the system of espionage immense number of spies: how paid: Buonaparte's private spies under the direction of Duroc: dispute between Fouche and Talleyrand: Ducroux employed as a spy by Buonaparte and Fouche on each other: his blunder and execution.

LETTER XXII.

The Pope's manner of passing his time at Paris: great stress laid on his performing the ceremony of inauguration, and sacrifices intended to have been made, had he refused: all promises to him disregarded: his blind partiality for Buonaparte: Caprara dissuades Buonaparte from being crowned by the pope as King of Italy.

LETTER XXIII.

King and Queen of Naples: their firm and dignified conduct: Chevalier Acton his birth: political character: enemy of the French Revolution neutrality of Naples violated: the removal of Acton insisted on by the French government: Marquis de Gallo: his public employments: a favourite with Buonaparte: suspected of being tainted with modern philosophy: the Neapolitan revolution in 1799 favoured by the Nobles: character of the Marquis de Gallo.

LETTER XXIV.

Buonaparte and all his family married by the Pope : his courtiers and grand functionaries by the Cardinals: their regular attendance at mass and vespers: trick of Salmatoris to expose their hypocrisy : is punished: Fouche's visit to the Imperial chapel : his discovery there: the indifference of the common people to religious worship: the mie

litary compelled to atttend mass singular occurrence in conse quence, and injustice of Buonaparte.

LETTER XXV.

Seizure of Sir George Rumbold: intended to have been tortured and put to death why not: Rheinhard officially disavows the outrage : is disgraced in consequence his political life and character: Bourrienne: his employment under Buonaparte : his dispute with him and imprisonment: released and pensioned his extortions and stockjobbing his character.

LETTER XXVI.

Joseph Buonaparte's retired mode of life at Paris: his hospitality at Morfontaine ; amusements there, and freedom allowed to the guests.. Montaigne, a young poet, a visitor there : his drunkenness : writes a poem against it: Madame Joseph's gallantries; duel between her gallants: Eugenius de Beauharnois forbidden the house of Joseph: Madame Miot detected by her husband in an intrigue with Captain d'Horteuil the gallant beats Miot, who begs pardon: Miot's infamous life and character.

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LETTER XXVII.

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Conduct of the King of Spain: his weak character: the present the age of upstarts: the Prince of Peace his former occupation: his want of talents: cause of his advancement: his intrigue with the Queen, and favour with the King: weakness and ignorance of his administration: disgrace, and misfortunes produced by it: Gravina his character and ambition: his military exploits intrigue with an opera girl: his marriage-mania involves him in a disagreeable scrape. LETTER XXVIII.

Vicious morals, gross manners, and open corruption of the Court of St. Cloud anecdotes: Merlin of Douai: his public employments. infamous character, and great wealth.

LETTER XXIX.

Immense number of Buonaparte's household troops: regularly paid, and strictly disciplined: their privileges, &c.: Military reviews: their use less frequent since Buonaparte's coronation; number of military posted in and near Paris : Army of Invalids: their prejudices: how employed: mode of enforcing payment of taxes at Paris: houses of the invalids their reading-rooms, libraries, &c. : their licentiousness and crimes: screened from punishment by the orders of Buonaparte: Rabais, a horse grenadier: his amours and debaucheries accused before Thuriot, and acquitted: his intrigue with Madame Thuriot: discovered by her jealousy: Thuriot applies in vain for redress: Rabais's intrigue with Madame Bachiocchi denounced by Thuriot: arrest and punishment of Rabais: curious effects discovered in his trunk: Thuriot's rage and violence in consequence his employment and crimes.

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LETTER XXX..

The writer visits Lucien Buonaparte at his country seat: Lucien's valuable collection of pictures: his hospitality and engaging manners contrasted with those of Napoleone and Joseph his liberality anecdotes his republicanism : his vices compared with those of Napoleone his immense wealth, how acquired: instance of his generosity and perversity.

LETTER XXXI.

Reasons for not incorporating the Batavian republic with the French empire: partition treaty of Holland offered by France to Prussia: why declined: Buonaparte displeased with the Batavian government: violates its neutrality: remonstrance of Count Markoff, how answered by Buonaparte his determination to change the form of government in Holland: difficulty of finding fit magistrates: Holland not lately productive of great men: Admiral de Winter: his character political connections and employments: Generals Daendels and Dumonceau: their lives and characters.

LETTER XXXII.

Buonaparte advises Prussia of his intention to change the form of government in Holland: chief magistrates thought of: young Prince of Orange: Elector of Bavaria : Buonaparte's increasing displeasure with the Batavian directory: intended to make his brother Stadtholder. Schimmelpenninck: his education: want of talents: political connections and opinions: his embassy to France: bribes Talleyrand to procure him the appointment of Grand Pensionary : his character: Madame Schimmelpenninck her talents and amiable manners Schimmelpenninck's female friends of the Palais Royal.

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LETTER XXXIII.

Buonaparte's cool reception at Milan: ascribed by him to the intrigues of England and Russia: measures of security adopted: frequency of conspiracies in France since the revolution: Buonaparte's reasons for concealing them: plot of Charlotte Encore: attempts to stab Buonaparte : prevented by Duroc expires on the rack, refusing to name her accomplices: their plan and names how discovered. LETTER XXXIV.

All women forbidden to approach Buonaparte without permission: a female servant of Cardinal Fesch, whom Buonaparte had seduced, attempts to poison him: discovered and poisons herself: plot to assassinate him at Milan : his agitation on the discovery: speech of one of the conspirators, who stabs himself: the others torn to pieces on the rack proceedings in consequence of this conspiracy. Buonaparte an object of ridicule in Italy: league of generals against him : its object: the generals disgraced.

LETTER XXXV..

Vanity and Caprice of Buonaparte: his rage, on the Emperor of Germany's refusing to become a member of the Legion of Honour his threat, and violent conduct to the Austrian ambassador: determines to incorporate the Ligurian republic with France: Salicetti, the French minister at Genoa: his birth: employments: a terrorist: recommends Buonaparte to Barras: displeases him by his familiarity Lucien Buonaparte intended to have been made Sovereign of the Ligurian republic: why not the change of government how effected: the Doge and Ligurian Deputation do homage to Buonaparte as sovereign at Milan: their grief and indignation: The PATRIOTIC ROBBERS: stop Salicetti, and seize his papers: PATRIOTIC AVENGERS.

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LETTER XXXVI.

Exchange of orders of knighthood between Buonaparte and sovereign princes foreign ambassadors invited to his coronation at Milan :

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some decline to attend expenses of the journey to Milan, and coronation : General Jourdan : his marriage, and military appointments: cause of his enmity to Pichegru: his military and political exploits his quarrel with Massena : his character.

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LETTER XXXVII.

Conservative Senate, its heterogeneous composition: character of its members Senatorial Commission of Personal Liberty its members Lenoir Laroche, Boissy d'Anglas, Sers: their lives and characters Senatorial Commission of the Liberty of the Press: Garat and Ræderer its principal members: pedantry and inhumanity of Garat an enemy to the liberty of the press: Roederer unprincipled and profligate rejected by all factions : employed first by Buonaparte : his incest: his wealth, libertinism, and foppery.

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LETTER XXXVIII.

Turkish empire preserved by the mutual jealousies of Austria, France, and Russia: its weakness and anarchy: political intrigues at Constantinople: the neutrality of the Porte more useful than its alliance: intrigue of the Brissot faction in 1792, to engage it in a war with. Austria counteracted by count de Choiseul Gouffier, then French ambassador there: De Semonville sent on an embassy thither, in 1793, with rich presents: made prisoner by the Austrians: the Sultan declares war against France: peace concluded: Sebastiani's mission to Egypt and Syria: General Brune appointed ambassador to the Porte: his character: his vices: political intrigues and military employments.

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LETTER XXXIX.

Brune's numerous suite of what composed: real object of his mission avowed by Talleyrand: Markoff remonstrates: Count Italinski: his character: warns the Divan against Brune libelled by him in the Moniteur: Brune's reception at Constantinople: his chagrin : demands his recall, upon the Porte's refusal to acknowledge Buonaparte as emperor: Joubert, a bearer of a letter from Buonaparte to the Grand Signior: his education and employments: young men educated at the expense of the French government in foreign countries: for what purpose: Joubert's interview with the Sultan: how obtained its result: his second message, and failure: French emissaries in Austria, Hungary, and Servia: French Officers in the service of Czerni George and Paswan Ogłou: Brune quits Constantinople : appointed to the command of the army of observation opposite the English coast: his instructions: his wealth, ostentation, and vanity.

LETTER XL.

Madame de C- -n: her fashionable parties: her marriage with count de C-n disputed : character of count de Cn his physiognomical pursuits: trick played on him: purchases Madame de C -n from a Circassian merchant, and sends her to be educated in France: his death: Madame de C- -n's numerous suitors and gallants: her pretended brother: her own story: birth and splendid christening of the son of count de P. -t: Villetard: his

crimes and violence: his sacrilege and infamous conduct at Loretto: treachery and hypocrisy: Cardinal de Bellois : his birth governed by his grand vicars: Treilhard steals Madame de Cgold plates his political life: Madame Francois de Nantes: her theft, gambling, and prostitution.

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LETTER XLI.

Ill temper of Buonaparte on his return from Milan: from what arisings: his violence and insolence to the Prussian and Saxon ambassadors: restoration of ancient etiquette a desirable point to insist on from Buonaparte his conduct to the army of England : Captain Fournois stabs himself on being struck by him his proceedings in consequence discipline and spirit of the French troops instance of heroism in a private soldier: General Savary: his character, birth, and employments.

LETTER XLII.

The Bank of France ordered by Buonaparte to furnish him with a million and a half sterling at two hours notice: alarm of the public run upon the bank notes paid in copper coin: the people grow clamorous many arrested, and transported to Cayenne : total stagnation of trade some Jews offer to purchase the notes at discount: are transported arrangement for resuming payment: amount of notes in circulation at the time of stopping, and of specie in the bank : shock given to its credit attempted to be supported by tyranny : suspicion and severity of the police: anecdotes.

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LETTER XLIII.

Rapacity and extortions of French officers in Hanover: bribe Madame Buonaparte for their appointment: General Mortier: his birth: military appointments: mean addresses to Buonaparte his marriage: his lady's gallantries: splendid christening of his child: his wealth and character: a great favourite with Buonaparte : Bernadotte : his birth, political intrigues, military exploits and violence : sent ambassador to Vienna: his insolent conduct there: bribed by Buonaparte on his assuming the Imperial dignity : his barbarities and merciless extortions: his character.

LETTER XLIV.

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Men of letters patronised by Buonaparte some obscure writers in England and Ireland pensioned by him: literary mission to England intended: Buonaparte's liberal rewards to his panegyrists: examples: great number of works dedicated to him more by Germans and Italians than by the French Spanicetti and Ritterstein, genealogists of Buonaparte, magnificently rewarded by him: vast number of pictures, statues and busts representing his person and exploits. Schumaker, a German artist, executes a model of a tomb for Buonaparte : how remunerated.

LETTER XLV.

Misery and poverty of the French people: wretchedness of the ci-devant nobles, and returned emigrants: their employments: anecdotes : great number of suicides.

LETTER XLVI.

Different opinions respecting Buonaparte's private character: apparent attachment to his wife: his proposed divorce from her, and marriage with a Russian Princess: his intrigue with Mademoiselle George: her insolent conduct: Chaptal: his former occupation: political intrigues and employments: his wealth and character.

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