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Newgate-street. — rams tatting to the Count de Suriilliers,' M. - de Bour rienne bad been, for years, in the habit of re counting this sublime scene as it really occurred, and of boasting of the courage he displayed in approximating so closely to Napoleon. Nay, more ;—being one day in the cabinet of Monsieur de B. and standing before a sketch of the fine pic ture of the Pestifiris, in which Bonaparte is re presented in the act of touching a plague-patient, he complained of the forgetfulness of the painter in having neglected to place him by the side of the General in Chief. In vol. 3, page 50, M. de Bourienne makes Bernadotte say to Napoleon, " Your brothers are the principal founders of it (the Manage) ; and, nevertheless, you accuse me of favouring that club; you well know that your friend Salicetti, and the one amongst your brothers who is his confidant, make themselves remarked among the directors of that club." Upon which the Count do Survilliers thus remarks :—" It is not true that Joseph or Lucien were members of this society (the Manege.) The author puts into Bernadotte's mouth conversa tions which he never held ; in general, all the speeches of Bernadotte are out of the line of truth. Finally, Bernadotte is still alive ; he will appreciate land judge them." He kills General Vandannue under the walls of 6:ovations upon the At=loity qj Bourrinuses MOOS of Napoleon. By BARRY K. O'Maaaa, Eau• formerly Swarm in Ordinary to the Emperor Na- w roison,it St. Helena.-Is. 6d. These observations, says the Author, are prin cipally selected from others which have been re cently published in Paris upon the earlier editions of the above work, by such of the cotemporaries of Napoleon, as from their personal, or otherwise in-, , timate knowledge of the details of his history, are eminently qualified to disprove the misrepresenta tions of M. de Bourrienne, and convince the public of his false pretensions to the reputation of an au thentic historian. The first opinion which I formed of the above work, and frequently gave to enquiries made by gentleman in this country, was, that I considered it a confused mixture of truth and falsehood, (the latter greatly preponderating,) but in which, both were so promiscuously blended together, as to ren der it difficult for the generality of English readers to separate the one from the other. Nor does it appear that my opinion was erroneous ; for, from the information 1 received during a few weeks re sidence in Paris, in December last, 1 was fully con.' winced of its being a book-making speculation, auspicated by the legitimates, and " got up" for , the united purposes of profit and malignity. The memoirs of M. de Bourrienne have been proved, by incontrovertible evidence, to contain innumerable misrepresentations, either concocted through deliberate malice, or (what is equally probable) through absolute ignorance of transac tions, many of which he pretends to have per sonally witnessed : that they teem with various falsifications and fabulous conversations, in order to substantiate the assertions of their author, and that they are altogether so replete with contradic tions and anachronisms, as to induce a belief, that he merely got together a few notes, documents, and recollections, for a well known manufactory of memoirs in Paris, the proprietors of which are partly booksellers, and partly literary men of all work, who are ever on the alert to contract with any one having had opportunities of being near the person of Napoleon, requiring, however, no more, than permission to use his name as an au thority for a mass of anecdotal matter, which they undertake to supply from their own manu factory. It appears that M. de Bourrienne was appointed private secretary to Napoleon, in the year 1796, in which capacity he remained until the end of the year 1802, when he was dismissed by his master on account of his stock jobbing transactions, ac cording to his own showing, though others have assigned peculation as the cause of his dismissal. " It is well known," says Count Boulay de la Meurthe, " that Napoleon had great repugnance to change either his ministers or his agents. He never disgraced any person except at the last ex tremity, and for the gravest reasons, &c. ' " Now it is notorious that Napoleon, after having hesitated for a long time, withdrew his confidence from M. de Bourrienne, and dismissed him from his Cabinet. He was in some measure forced to do so by the pub lic voice, and in older not to appear to be his accomplice: Bourrienne did every thing to avert the blow; he wept, and rolled about the floor ; but in vain ; out he must go, and quit the Cabinet: he had recourse to every species of supplication and protestation of devotedness; but on this point Na poleon remained inexorable." " Nevertheless the Emperor," continues the Count, " having pre served some little interest for him, employed him on a mission to Hamburgh, which circumstances rendered important, where he remained, until, in consequence of numerous complaints having been made against him, Napoleon instituted an enquiry into his conduct; and on the report of one of the first functionaries of the State, aided by documen tary evidence, condemned him to refund two mil lions of francs; which, however, he never did." " It will readily be believed, adds the Count, " that all this filled his heart 1% ith hatred and revenge, of which, momover, proofs arc well known." In vol. ii. page 211, M. de Bourrienne reports 'I a conversation wherein Junot is made to impeach the chastity of Josephine, and which, according to , bim, took place at Alassoudiah between the Gene-1 ral in Chief, and Junot. By a letter from the Commissary in Chief, d'A tire, to General Bona parte, dated 7th Ventose, announcing the arrival at Gaza, of two convoys, commanded by Generals Grezieu and Junot; by a letter from the same, to the Commissary at War, Ludieres, at Salahieh, reporting a complaint made by Junot on his arrival; and also by the registry of General Berthier, at tha War 011 ice, it is proved that Junin did not ar rive at Massoudiali, until several days after Bona parte had left it. It is impossible , therefore , that the defamatory conversation, relative to Alatlame Bonaparte, could have taken place, as M. d e Bourrienne has reported it. M. de Bourrienne affirms, that he accompanied Bonaparte on a visit to the hospital, who passed rapidly through the rooms without touching one of the pest-patients. Yet the contrary has been proved by numbers of documents ; amongst which are the recital of Desgenettes, the Chief Physician to the Army in the East, and the report of Gene ral Andreossy to the Institute of France. Ac- Hamburgh, though the same general was in OX.• stence but a few months ago. He makes General Bertrand construct the bridges at Haarbourg, who, at the period of which he speaks, had the command of the fourth corps. After Tilsit, he sets General Guilleminot and Mustapha Bairacter together by the ems ; though Mustapha bad been deprived of power, and of life, a long time before. At Ma rengo, he kills General Boudet ; though that Ge aeral had subsequently a command at St. Domingo, sod at Wagram. He attributes to Clarke the functions which were assigned to Berthier ; and makes one person both Minister of War, and Go vernor of Berlin, at the same time. " These gross errors," says one of the contributors to the refutation, " sees 10 prove that Bourrienne is in nocent of the work that bears his name." In vol. 3, page 286, M. de Bourrienne accuses Murat of cowardice before the enemy : (Murat a Coward !H) According to Bourrienne, Bona parte had left General Miollis with only four thousand men before Mantua, with orders to op pose the sorties made by Wurmser, whom he had compelled to take refuge there, together with his troops, whose number amounted to twenty thousand. He adds, that Murat, having been ordered to head a charge againstWurmser, was afraid to do it; and, in his trepidation, pretended to be wounded ; and that, in consequence of his poltroonery, Murat was disgraced by the General in Chief, and placed in Reille's division. All this, however, is contra dicted by General Belliard, who shows—first, that Wurmser never was driven into Mantua, with twenty-eight thousand men; next, that Miollis was not ordered to stop his sorties with four thou . sand men, because such a number were incompe tent to the duty; and, thirdly, that Miollis, who was then only a Brigadier General, did not com mand the blockade at Mantua ; but that it was consecutively entrusted to Serrorier, Sahagnet, Kilmaire, and, finally, to Serrurier again, to whom the fortress surrendered. The same General shows, also, that Reille, upon whom the veracious Ex-Secretary has conferred the rank of General, was, at this time, simply a Captain, and attached to the Staff of Massena. After this, it is almost needless to state, that the fear attributed to Murat is an invention. " The Secretary," says General Belliard, " who is as well acquainted with geography, as he is with the period which we are retracing, transforms a wretched village, where Werneck was overtaken, into a grand fortress; and as if this were not enough, he imagines that Vienna was situated upon the left bank of the Danube ; and that it would be necessary to cross the river in order to take the city." " Such ignorance of topography," conti nues the General, " would appear incredible : one would suppose that, previous to writing, a historian, a Minister of State, would at least cast his eyes over the map. M. de Bourrienne has given two versions of the Revolution of the 18th of Brumaire: the one pro fessing to be from his own notes, and the other from information derived from M. Collot. Both are at variance with each other, and both are false, according to Count Boulay de la Meurthe, who, for some years, has been occupied in writing his own ' memoirs. The Count adds, moreover, that one of these versions has been principally taken without any acknowledgment from the historical notes in serted in the appendix to the " Life of Napoleon, by the romancer Walter Scott," attributed by some to Bernadotte ; but which, in the opinion of the Count, " must be regarded as the work of some fiiend, who is so indiscreet, so badly advised, and such a liar, that he might well pass for an enemy to the glory of that General." He adds, also, " that every thing reported in the above notes of Moreau is false." M. de Bourienne, in giving a history of what passed at the meeting of the Ancients, on the 19th of Brumaire, expresses himself as follows : " Bonaparte had the President on the right; he could not see him quite in front. I found myself on the General's right ; our clothes touched ; l3erthier was on his left. All the harangues com- ... 42 .. 12 ,~~ ~~e THURSDAY EVENING, JULY 28, 1831. eh , _ _ • _ _VE PRICE SEVENPENCE. dosed for Bonaparte, after the event, differ from each other; no miracle that. There was, in fact, none pronounced to the Ancients," etc. etc. Upon this, Count Boulay remarks, " All this account is false. Finally," continues the Count, "to com plete his description, Bourrienne says, " I have re lated bow Bonaparte spoke at the Council of the Ancients; see how the Moniteur reports his discourse !" and he copies, in effect, the discourse of Bonaparte which appeared in the Moniteur. One would, doubtless, suppose that it was the one which he pronounced in the Council of the An cients, on the 19th of Brumaire, at four o'clock in the afternoon, at St. Cloud. No such thing; it is the one which Napoleon delivered on the 18th, at Paris, before the same Council, at eight o'clock in the morning. Is it possible to commit a more enormous blunder ?" Count Boulay de la Meurthe adds in the post- 1 script : " The observations which Joseph Bona parte has made upon Bourrienne's Memoirs have just been communicated to me. Amongst the nu .. he has given to this last person, I remark one, relative Co Bourrienne's ac- . . count of the 18th Brumaire." " All this recital (he says) is a forgery : General Bernadotte did not see General Bonaparte on the morning of the 18tb, and did not enter his house." " And, in support of this. Joseph does not hesitate to appeal to the testimony of Bernadotte himself, saying, " Gene ral Bernadotte is still living ; his wife, and her sister (Madame Joseph) also know as well as I do, that he did not see the General on the 18th of Brumaire." Now, from the evidence of Joseph, it results that, with respect to the point which we are discussing, Bourrienne, as usual, is a liar. Because, if Bernadotte did not see Bonaparte on that day, it must be false to assert that they had any conversation together, or that they could have mutually reproached or menaced each other. In vol. vi. page 80, the " intimate Secretary, and early friend of the family" says, that " Lucien married secretly, at the Hotel de Brienne, the wife of an Agent, who, for the sake of greater conve niency, was sent to the colonies; where sometime afterwards he died." To this, Count de Sure illiers replies, " that when Lucien married Madame Jou berthon, a lady of great beauty and talent, she was a widow ; and that it is false that the marriage was performed in secret at the Hotel de Brienne ; that it was celebrated at Ole,ssis Chaman, a country place of Lucien's, in the department of the Seine, at Oise." "It is easy," he continues, to " per ceive in this " sending to the Colonies," that the spirit of the author is prolific in calumny and per fidious insinuations." In vol. 2, page 18, NI. de Bouriennne affirms, I " that Napoleon, instead of bringing from Italy only three hundred thousand francs, as stated by him at St. Helena, returned thence, to his certain knowledge, with more than three millions." Jo seph Bonaparte, in reply, observes, that, in de parting from Egypt, Napoleon deposited all his property in his (Joseph's) hands ; and that it approached much nearer to the three hundred thousand francs, as was stated at St. Helena, than to the sum mentioned by the Ex-Secretary. Moreover, in vol. 3, page 291, M. de Bourrienne, forgetting the three millions, which be had con ferred upon Napoleon, in the preceding volume, makes him so poor, on the marriage of Murat with Caroline Bonaparte, as to be only able to give his sister a marriage portion of thirty thousand franca, 1,2501. In vol. 4, page 346, M. de Bourrienne states, " that the first Consul was annoyedand tormented by continual demands for money, made upon him by his brothers; and adds, that to put a stop to this on the part of Joseph, who expended enor mous sums of money at Morfontaine, as did Lucien at Neuilly, he caused M. Collot to be ap pointed purveyor of provisions ; but on condition that, out of his profits, he paid annually one mil lion five hundred thousand francs to Joseph. This assertion Joseph pronounces to be an in famous calumny, and laments, that the actual state of France does not permit him to prosecute the slanderer for libel. But it would require several volumes to refute all the misrepresentations of M. de Bourrienne. Under a conviction, however, that I have stated enough to excite the curiosity of the public upon the subject, I shall now take my leave of M. de Bourrienne, with the following extract from Count Boulay de la Meurthe's observations on his Me- moire:— Facts, motives, intentions, all are either falsi fied or perverted. Instead of a faithful, simple, and truly historical recital, you find a romance void of connection, judgment, and 'vraisemblance ;' the materials of which are partly the offspring of his own imagination, warped by revenge and ava rice, and partly taken from preceding publications, equally inspired by passion, and which deserve no lother name than libel. " In vol. 2, page 212-13, of the Edinburgh Tran slation, M. de Bourrienne quotes the following passage from the last Will of Napoleon. " It was I who caused the Duke d'Enghien to be arrested and judged, because that was necessary to the se curity, the interest, and the honour, of the French people, when the Duke d'Artois entertained, by his own confession, sixty assassins at Paris. In si milar circumstances, I would act again in a similar manner." Upon which, M. de Bourrienne makes a statement, which my own personal knowledge of the subject in question enables me to contradict in toto " Napoleon" (writes M. de Bourrienne) " dictated this remarkable sentence to the friend who wrote the whole document to his dictation ; this individual passed, entreated, conjured him to suppress a declaration, which would bring a blot upon his glory. and zhich was so evidently at variance with all that Ss bad previously said upon the subject. Overcome by the entreaties of so faithful a friend"—(who was ho ?)• consented to the suppression." M. de Bourrienne continues : "tl then concluded, and enclosed in a box Bonaparte alone kept the key; but, death, the passage I have just cited, covered in a codicil." In reply to this. deny that the Will here alluded to, up in a box ; for I have repeatedly ing upon the table of Napoleon': amongst numerous other' papers, seal directed in the Emperor's oa n hands•' following effect : " To be given to of Austria, after my death." Moreover tonce quoted by M. de Bounienne dictated to an amanuensis, nor teCOl dicil ; but forms a part of the eigbk of the body of the Will, where it was inserted by the Emperor himself, in writing. Of the truth of this any satisfied by referring to tl.e last Will which may be seen on applying at the in Doctors' Commons. We lament that such an exposure pear to disabuse the public long ago. have been engendered, not easy to hereafter M. de Bourrienne will never as an authority by any respectable hi are the calumnies of a discarded tected in frauds by an indignant master • It- . would have been Wpm& even the ingenuity 1. Bourrienne, to have named erb ik.cndly Amanuensis, we come to consider that Napoleon concludes the Will in his own hand.writing, and words :—"Ce pnatint testament, foie writ mein eat signs d wells de mee anew. ( &was) " NA • IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LORDS, JULY 27. The holm rat at ten o'clock this morning in a Committee. of Privileges. The lards present were the Lord Chancellor, the Earl of Eldon, the Earl of Shaftesbury, Vi►count Clifden, the Earl of Craven, and Lords Leven and Bldsille, Selkirk, Redeidalc, Wynford, and Wallace. NORMAXTON PEERAGE. The Committee, after bearing evidence, rewired that ti e Earl of Normanton had made out his claim to vote at the \\ lr , tvirarlisaD 2 . o • - 1788. w .: ! •. 5 W .. ~ 4 .4 -iirit-c " Bonapa 1 . . the Will teas ---' .a I nx, of which l ull ' tut, after his ited, was re- title, I firmly I , was locked ly seen it ly s bed-room, oiled up, and ", • writing to the I; • ' the Emperor 1.; • rover the sen- was neithere ,r , . 3vered in a Co • F . hth paragraph !. was originally his own hand ii 1 y one may be I • of Napoleon, tr. - • he proper office ~: i 1 i ' e did not ap• a. Prejudices remove, hut rer be quoted listorinn. 1-1.5 '- t d servant de- 3 . , . . taster. ':•"1 ~ t : • %amity of M. de . ,manuensis, when Ides the body of .1; in the following it de sea prone t - 11, PAPOLEON." 1 :t t 3IENT. r,; T 27. i tic in a Committee s medlar, the Earl :I aunt Clifden, the ' ' t i 'l Melville, Selkirk, tl.. ' . i , resolved that ti e 1 1 im to vote at the and. 4 11 I en b.half of th a ' :is ',stilton claimed ticr and Harden. t r.gth into the 1...- mr.usit•ts, that the of obtaining from hcr ploceedings el I • wed his surprise at se were now to he had received a 0 t d further informs- 4" wish their lordships • i • is) had not yet re• ha did, the House .• . .. . . election of Representative Peers for Ireland. AIIitANDALZ PIEIAGE. Dr. LUSHINGTOW ap as counsel on b-half of th claimant, John James Jo=to d ite,who by hik p.thuin claimtd to be entitled to the earklom of Annantlair and Harden. The learned counsel proceeded at gnat lcr.gth into the i.c digree of the family, and observed, in conc,usamt, that the present application was for the purpose of obtaining from the comudttee advice as to how the further ploceedings of the cue should be conducted. The LORD CHANCELLOR expressed his surprise at this, believing the arguments of the case were nor to gone into. The Earl of ELDON observed, that he had received a letter from the claimant, stating he had further informa tion to adduce, with which he would furbish their lordships as speedily as possible. He (Lord Eldon) had not yet re• ceived that information, but so soon as be did, the House should be put in possession of it. The further consideration of the case was then adjourn d Jim die. At Four o'clock the House resumed. In the absence of the Loan Custicnt.t.oa, the Earl of SHATIESDUaII the on the Woolsack, The Oaths be the Lord Steward Bill was read a third time. The House then adjourned. HOUSE OF CO %MONS. Sir R. BATESON prer.erted pe.itions ttom Belfast snd Lisburn, in favour of the gnat am& to the Kildare.s.teet wow. Hr. ROSS presented a petition from Dandle against the nee of melon's in distilleries and a pension to he lan manufacturers of Abudeer:, apkibt any legimatsve cr foresee with the hours of labour. HOSHOUSE said he bad not made up his m•nil whether to include Scotland in the operation of the bil . Mr. BUNT presented ■ petition from Alseclesfield for the repeal of the Corn LAW/; and a petition flow John 11 cheil, of Bolton, praying that imoletnt debtors' rotate" should be allowed to pus through the poet eifice •ithuut paying postage. POOR LAWS IX IRELAND. Sir J. NEWPOKT presorted a petition from Watrrford, for a law for making a provision for the poor ot Ireland. He had long been opposed to the establishment ot poor laws in Ireland, but experience had convinced him of the indipen sible necessity of the measure. Mr. GRATTAN was happy to find that his tight hon. friend had become a convert to the opinion that pour laws were necessary for Ireland. He si ould, within a month. ask keys to bring in a bid, similar to thit he ni,d brought in bye years ago for the relief of the poor of !re told ; be proposed making some alterations, to make the ghou property contribute to the support of the poor. Mr. SLANEY said, poor lows tot Ireland went become indispensible—he was confident the evils of the English poor laws might be avoided. Sir ROBERT BATESON was confident that the con nection between Ireland and England depended on a speedy movision being made for the poor of Ireland. Mr. HUNT had heard the proposal of pour lass for Ireland with great delight. He was confident the English members would support the measure of pour hies for Ire land insti y te of his Majesty's ministers, it they should op pose It. Hear.) Mr. W SE felt that a provision for the poor of Ireland woe absolutely indispensible. Mr. ItUTHVEN was happy to find that all those who made the Nato of Ireland the subject of consideratioe were agreed that poor laws were Indispensible for Ireland. Many Irish members who formerly opposed the introduction of poor laws were now convinced of their necessity. Mr. CALLAGHAN had long been et opinion that nothing could so much conduce to the tranquillity of Ireland as a well.digested system of Poor Laws; but he was aware that the landlords of Ireland feared that they might by the operation of Poor Laws become paupers on their own estates. Mr. GEORGE DAWSON had long been opposed to the introduction of Poor Laws in baud, but was con vinced that it was impossible to tranquillise Ireland without Poor Laws. lie wished the subject was in the hands of Government, rather than of any individual.— (Hear, hear.) Mr. LEADER said, the question of a provision for th e pr of Ireland was become a vital English question. (Hear, hear.) The state of society in Ireland was one that could not continue; it was on the verge of anarchy, suffer ing in the last stage of destitution and despair. The popu. lotion was put below the level of humanity—it wasted the. blessing of Government, and nothing would prosper till that great want was supplied. Mr. S. RICE thought the question could only be properly I discussed when there - was a distinct proposition before the house. Mr. HUME said, a provision for the poor of Ireland was a measure that ought to be brought forward by the Go vernment. Ile considered much of the depression of the English character, and of the comfort of the people, had been caused by the poor laws, and should oppose the intro duction of the English poor laws into belied. Mr. SHELL thought the question of a provision for tl.e land, Ireland was one that pressed both on Ireland a nd ' land, and ought not to be neglected or delayed. . SADLER hoped he would be allowed to bring fur. ward his measure for relieving the poor of Ireland on the day be had given notice, the 2d of August. Lord ALTHORP said, he feared it would be impossible that the hon. gentleman could have the attention of die have on the 24 of August, but was satisfied the boo. gentleman would have the opportunity before the close of the SOSbi( n. antsion. Mr. HUME asked, whether there was any °Ake ion to Loy the the Housepapers respecting the settlement of Belgium LwowOttote Lord PALMERSTON said, the 'moss/Son was net vrt completely Olociaded, when it should the House would Pe informed. His Lordship brought up a copy of a P. loc.'s, agreed on botwetio 'England. Prussia, Austria, and flu relative to the demolition of some of the fo t s u