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    THE X.IEJA BEE. [No. 303, Saturday, ;4£2...

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    "NAPOLEON EN DESHABILLE. The Confidentia...

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    the . man n «> A ^ roa , . , . - , r ^ - « j . SmShtylthe .-Creator of theheavens and theearth ? 9 . And the man answered I worship ' not thy God , neither do I call upon his name ; for I have made ^ ods for myself that dwell in my house , and hear me when I call upon them . 10 ; Alien the wrath of Abraham was kindled against the man , and he stood up and fell tipon--him and drove Mm forth into the wilderness . 11 . And ^ God cried , Abraham ! Abraham ! and Abraham answered , Here am I . 12 . And God said , -where is the stranger that wa * with thee ? 13 . Then answered Abraham and said , Lord , he would not reverence thee nor call upon thy name -and therefore have ^ driven him from before my face into the wilderness . 14 . And the Lord said unto Abraham , Have I borne with the man these hundred and ninety-eight years , and given him food and raiment although he lias rebelled against me , ^ and canst thou Sot bear with him one night ? 15 . And Abraham said , Let not the wrath of my iSrdtekindled against 4 servant , behold I have sinned ! forgive me 16 And AbSham stood up and went forth into the wilderness and cried and sought the mSS foundMM and led him back into his tent , and dealt kindly by him , and the next morning he let him go in peace .

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    "NAPOLEON EN DESHABILLE . The Confidential CorresDondenee of / V > W , ™ . Tinr , nnnrU with his brcther . 7 VW , snm ^ m * ' Kina ^ of Spain : selected and translated , wkk expfOinatory notes , from t 7 ie " Memoires du HoiJoseph . " In two volumes . John Murray . Doubt and dismay may , have well filled the breasts of all thorough going Bonapartists , when first this correspondence was made public . Only " the stump of Dagon" is now left to their idol , his image is broken in pieces . Nothing is so perilous to the reputation of a hero as the publication of his private memoirs and familiar correspondence . It isimpossible , indeed , to deny th at Napoleon's letters , whether addressed * h ™ Wither or to his other eenerals , tend greatly to confirm his military

    reputation , which few persons were disposed to . gainsay . But to . his character as a man they arc most damaging ; of his pretensions as a genuine hero they are , utterly subversive . Only on one occasion does he manifest any real tenderness of fe « ling , and even that may be partly attributable to wounded vanity . Owing to certain information received from Junot he had conceived suspicions of . Josephine's constancy , during his campaign in Egypt , and in bitterness of spirit . he thus wrote , to Joseph from Cairo : — I I have muoh domestic distress . Your friendship i 8 very dear to me . To 11 ^ „ : « ^ 4 . u «^«? o + t Kotr o rtiilir f . n l r > RB ifc . and find that vou betray me .

    , That every different 'feeling towards the same person should be united in one heart ' is ^ ery painful . Let me have on my arrival a villa near Pans or in Burgundy . I intend to ' shut myself up there for the winter . I am tu-ed of human nature . I want solitude and isolation . GreataeBS fatigues me : feeling ib dried up . At twenty-Mine gloiy has become flat . I have exbausted everything , I have no refuffo but pure selfishness . I shall retain my house , and let no oue else occupy ifc . ¦ Tlmve not more than enough to live on . Adieu , my ; only friend . I have itevtertbeen onjust toyou , as you must admit , though I , may have wished to he so ; Sou ; understand me . Love to your wife and Jer & me . It is not veiy clear how he could -have wished to be -unjust without being so rand { f ' he failed contrary to his own desire , lie had little right to make a merit of that failure . And when it is remembered that he was scarcely " off wi + ii * h « nlil 1 rtve : l » ftfrtreihe was on with the new , "— -that within the space of

    i ia also worthyof remark that on the very day on which Napoleon anpounced his . divorce to the . imperial . family , he wrote a long , cool , business letter to Berthier respecting the movements of the different corps d ' armee at that . time in-Spain . His personal feelings , indeed , seldom interfered with either-pleasure *> r business . On one occasion after complaining that no cdurterhad arrived for two days , he goes on to say : — Letters from Borne mention that Salicetti ' s house has been undermined , that his children are killed , and he himself slightly hurt . How horrible ! I am impatiently waiting for details . I shot to-day at Mortefontaine from one o clock till four ; I killed twenty hares . The house looked to me even more frightful and uninhabited than it did four years ago . Charming juxtaposition . It is p leasant to know that anxiety for the life of a devoted partisan did not aflect the accuracy of his aim . If so unconcerned when the welfare of his friends was at stake , it can be little matter for wonder that he spoke with self-complacency , if not exultation , of the terrible severity he exercised against the former members of the Convention , when the excitement produced by the infernal machine had p laced them at his absolute disposal . It is known that he then transported to Cayenne , without any sort of trial , above a hundred leading men of the republican party , although he well knew that it was a royalist conspiracy which had so nearly proved fatal to him . In a similar spirit he writes to Joseph from Valladolid ;—

    You must hang at Madrid a score of the worst characters . To-morrow I intend to have hanged here seven notorious for their excesses . They have been secretly denounced to me by respectable people whom their existence disturbed , and who will recover their spirits when they are got rid of . If Madrid is aot delivered from at least one hundred of these firebrands , you will be able to do nothing . Out of this one hundred , hang or shoot twelve or fifteen , and send the rest to France to the galleys . I had no peace in France , I could not restore confidence to the respectable portion of the community , until I had arrest « d _ two hundred firebrand assassins of September , and sent them to the colonies . From that time the spirit of the capital changed as if by the waving of a wand . Whatever the Septembrisers might have been the Spanish " firebrands : » iunie iu ! *

    were guilty of no worse ottence tnan a aiteuijji , - »* ... »« = v .. ^ «« . « , Yoke . We need not pause to consider what manner of men were the respectable people" whose spirits were disturbed by the existence of their patriotic fellow-countrymen . It was not N apoleon ' s custom , however , to call a spade , a spade . His duplicity amounted to effrontery , and he uiiblushinficly urges his more conscientious brother , again and again , to disguise facts and give a distorted version of events . Of this innumerable instances might be adduced—a few will suffice : — As soon as reports of armaments reaeb . Naples , announce that all will be settled ; and when you hear of the commencement of hostilities , say that 1 ani acting in concert with England to compel Prussia to restore Hanover ; jus Lord Lauderdale is still in Paris , this will not appear improbable . Pay attention to your newspapers , aud have articles written from which it f may be inferred that the Spanish people is subdued and submits itself . M . le General Clarke , —I wish you to write to the Kiug of Spain to impress upon him that nothing can be more contrary to tho rules of war than to publish . nis eitner in hi ju

    ' the strengtn ot army , oraers cm me any , proclamations , or me ! newspapers ; that wlien he has occasion to speak of his strength , he ought to 1 rondor it fnw ^ iA ^ - \ ^ V ~ — ~~ * J-- J ~" — — « -- >^> li » " - » 'i « ^ V ^ it-SK y 3 ii & , .. ... ^« v « , «^ vj - —» 5 «« . « " *'> % i " ^ i ^\^ " ^ e ' th ^ aixeiXiy > ^ should | that , on the other hand , whenlie mentions the strength of ttao j diminish it by one-half or one-third . ieavned to illustrate when The corollary of this proposition T ^ J ° ^ ^ nemv ' s forces to be as two extenuating his defeat at Vrttona he ^ stated ^ hc ^ mnn ^ t ^ ra to one . The French ^^^ l ^ T ^ sted of at least 65 , 000 fightgreatly - "Pen ^^ h ^^^ " ^^ . had only 60 . 000 Eiiglbh ing men , supported by iw guns , ^ ^^ 18 000 ^ far 3 u x htcrm =

    tU ThePresent Emperor of the French has declared that las Uncle vas in favour o f thetiberty of the Press , and generally well disposed towards an ents ^ sssesassf ^^ g I himself with much bitterness regarding a newspaper called the Cnvrner hspagnol , written in French , the object of which he cannot understand : — This moer . he saya , indulges in literary discussions ou Puns , and i « . the written ui , ™«

    Don Quixote of Spain against Franco . If it were ^ . amH „ u . Spaniards , this w-ould be only absurd ; but m French it is al « o JUipiopcr . France , engaged as she is in bo cruel a war in Spain , ought at leant to hupo to regene ^ toind liberalise (!) that country . They nnast bo il d . spoHocUM su ? h a time as this , publish in French timt Spain wan well yovemed x ndc Charles III ., and give a pompous eulogy of n nun hko JovellanoH who m Unknown in Europl , and who is our bitter , unrelenting enemy . Tln « uowspaper must be supproefled , or published in Spanwh , I have ordered all oopion of it to be Htopped .- , The next extract is unique as the profession of faith of a " liberal "XT the " enemies of the monacal profeHaion are literary men niul philosophers . Vou kno \ r that I am myself not fond of them , suico I have do . stroyod

    thorn wherever 1 could . , , And what will bo thought of the honour of a great ruler who enn talk thus coolly of repudiating , thougli only for one yenr , a national debt t On looking at M .. Rcoderw "» report , I wn convinced that you lmvo limnonfio rosourcoB . When you havoto pay twenty-nix million * on account of a National debt , there are at once twenty-six millions to be got by merely stopping payment for one year . Wo know not -which most to admire , the unscrupulous dishonesty ot sucn advice , or the shortsightedness which could suggest it . The non-payment oi a national debt must inevitably entail ruin uponthousunds ot lamihcs whobo sole income was thence derived , upon the tradespeople who supplied tnoju families , upon the manufacturers who supplied the tradespeople , and imany upon the artisans who worked for the manufacturers . i . ; , » There is ono very significant letter which must not bo pftSHcl ovci i » ailenco . Napoleon affected to be idolised by his subjects in general , and not

    three months lie had broken off a long engagement with Mdlle , Clary and weddeflthe Wxom'mda-vjr of Count Alexawlre Beauhamais , —it-may be fairly doubted if "bligitte < l affection" was the sole , or even principal cause , of hxs poignant distress , The workings c » f unsatisfied ambition had long since created a morbid and dreamy state of mind , which lent a jaundiced hue to etery object of life . He had thus expressed himself in a letter dated Pari »;^ the 12 th of August , 1795 : — Tide town , ia always tlie same , always in tho pursuit of pleasure , devoted to woraen , to the iiheatrea , ballB , tho public walka , and tho artiBta' utiuhos . As for me , little attached to life , contemplating it without much solicitude , con-« t « ntly inthoatato of rtilnd in wllioh one in in on the day before n battle , feeling that , while death ia always amongst ua to put an end to-all , anxiety is folly— - everytJring < joia & to male © , mo defy fortune and fa . to ; initimo I ehallnoi get out of tha .-way -when a oarriago cotaefl . I eometimeH wonder at my own state of mind . Itia the roeult . iof what I have eeon and vrliat I Ivavo rioked .

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  • Leader (1850-1860), Jan. 12, 1856, page 18, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_12011856/page/18/