British Monitor (Newspaper) - April 2, 1820, London, Middlesex THE BY LEWIS PRO ARIS ET April SECRET ANECDOTES OF BUONAPARTE AND HIS COURT OF Continued from lott General Eble experienced so many vexations in his newr that any one but himself would have been quite but using plain and downright language before the went and laid the case before the King when bethought it necessary told him the rear truth and obtained And after his efforts were often useless in trying to do or merely endeavouring to prevent In spite of the reform he aimed at bringing he was still surrounded by nume rous who formed a league to prevent the truth reaching him this Confederation arrived to inch a pitch that he was compelled to keep the official correspondence which might be a secret correspondence in order to be ac quainted with the real state of These gen try often unmasked when they least expected which was rather an awkward circumstance for villains who valued themselves on their several to the Seen and it so arranged that the that what lost by them on one was gained On that vf fitck have spoken of at the had quietly borne t hat he succeeded i n preset situation of Chief he in If is that H but who acquainted with this that he had t K BV I AM kx J which they never and which fell again on the All this did not prevent the private amours proceeding in their usual course at Madame de after trying the power of her charms on her royal of meddling with politics and affairs of There had already been Generals and Prefects of her For the former had only to display leg in the drawing The Court expressed nef take the trouble to if will be found that this is not the only instance that the chronicle of scandal of courtezans becoming These could riot fail producing some catastrophe nothing of this kind could remain a secret at The principal object of the police was to listen at the doors of sent out his and presented every morning to his Majesty a bulletin of facts and remarkable This collection must needs have ther pleasure nor dissatisfaction at this influence I offered a great if one can judge by the im the French alone perceived it increase with portance attached a it by the Director of the Police I n A m as this woman was not partial to The family of look great umbrage at and the more as Madame de was quite a seemed to in favour of de whose ascendancy threatened to Eclipse that The French party sought for a time to de stroy an influence so opposite to its interests was found so as to mortify the self by making him believe that this the police affairs were in the hands of the chief reports were a cor respondence and private meetings were and when the mind was already U Uras present at at the moment that the Iving was repairing who acted this part die appearance of lover iu the and bit escape as fast aa he the idea that he was the happy did not take the towards ilie au agrees of t jesty was xto an did as an i V and the money he spent to compose It may well be supposed that the Countess de no in considerable part in this collection of anecdotes it in have been no little treat for the Prince to be acquainted with all the freaks of this while he was pretending to be ignorant of still kept company with her they vied in cunning with each other for several months but when she was coming out of the and presenting her hand to turtles seized by a dozen forcibly thrust into a coach and conducted without further explanation to the frontiers of the where they were left to act as they thought little expedition not be effected at the close of a without causing rumour and scandal the shrieks 9 the the protestations of the amused tbe public and collected a each one made his remarks it may they were ti 0ie advantage neither 1i V 1 t f kCi that were lo pe neither ot I Iff of a the I 5W iad y had orders to depart fa M jut therefore his was t the dis m fi i ced upon fty of tbt civil and judicial or of It had been servilely planned ow 4tot of which was dressing out in That for the u their thek civil is a thing almost in Never had a thing been witnessed as changing the manners srod the a people by a mere stroke of the The machinery was rather out of feel it moved this was no incon the present de Bulow advanced in the he directed own Fresh foans were the came and money was at last funded ia the treasury Consequently we very man they the Westphalia for the finances were as they the vital prin of Those whom the mediocrity his talents had rendered the most began to imagine that he bad discovered the phi A Convention had just been concluded with France for the As could not immediately complete its tlm pre text use of to upon U the obliga tioo vf maintaining and keeping in pay French which were IP be garrisoned at Mag and iu was likewise to provide for the maintenance of apy number would be thought proper to send 6ver and above that the of which was to be deducted from the amount of its war two divisions of the corps dar mee of the Prince under the command of and took up quar ters the latter end of December in the country of in the circle of La Saute and in the Tiie revenues of Westphalia which were to pro vide for the necessities of these troops were so badly that oftentimes it was absolutely necessary to quarter the soldiers the already exasperated by the continually increasing li is probable had it noi been of the French the Ger would have been driven to some this would have been wholly attributable lo the foHy of the which paid enor mous lo contractors in advance for a service a fancy was wife to art of and had a person of consequence he ooe as in be served to the the jn haWt of giving at worthy of a Messa Jina and at toot as she surrounded with and abandoned repeating lascivious tudes of a Bayadere ot a without any regard to decency or What was the most ridiculous that the Count was in love with his wife sTie was unfaithful to at least a do zen times a and every one knew it except His house became the rendezvous of the most abandoned of the Court used to go on foot thither in open day and assist at using of which were all highly applauded by some of the li This connexion having become somewhat it at last reached the Queens who expressed her According to she was pacified with but things went on just as Madame de was not a woman to content herself with Royal favours j she sought for cham pions even in the most obscure ranks of society or all were welcome to In she renewed the of ihe wife of Claudius ahd celebrated offerings of where of infamy was What modern ju yena could vije debauchery that insatiable that indecency of a shameless putting on a par with those prostitutes whom hunter and de What pen dare to pourtray those clandestine against mo were shaded by tiit gloon Let us rather draw a veil over isi Listing abo It was in a house of he de B made a ot i Atj Ia fh this L in the war office it Mna lie rival of a1 lu these two beio vh born for to carry imi not remain long connexion ii iji to I fact will hardly fcj ul I is should always in public private life if had for witnesses of their and 41 who reigned over was the only one of the Emperor Napoleons bro who seemed best to understand this By flattering the National governing ana and respecting the language of the he had succeeded in causing the people to forget they were under he procured their love and esteem so far the Conqueror who had placed him on the durst not dethrone but with the assistance of ah The Marshal Duke de Reggio was charged and the dreadful reunion was j Of all the outrages that can be borne by a that of seeing its eame effaced from the chart is the most cruel and most If it still pos sess any dignity there is ltd other way left to it but to have recourse to arms and to cause its dence to be respected by its In decreeing the reunion of the Em peror promulgated tbe act of tbat famous determination in which be as a principle of that placed on the different Thrones of first moed to him and to France before oved themselves to their peo This was urging too far the contempt of all propriety and policy this profession of in opened the eyes of all Europe it was plainly perceived that men were considered as so many who were to be by power of to the profit and advantage of one was no novice in point of despotism and yet he did not a injure himself in this instance by hia A Charles the Fifth might have imagined a but would not have proclaimed I is remarkable that in the political system of man he always did little in favour of his If that liberty rh h ideology was in t i if be trusting to i was in he and aU his AI a U v a a Tf Ins conquest himself uas a of little consequence 5 ior ever thi ill i 111
