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INTERCEPTED CORRESPONDENCE. LETTER FROM DECR ES, THE MiNtsTER OF MARINE, TO JEROME BONAPARTE : " Paris, 30M Cern:Mali Year 1% (April 18, 1804 j. " I have just been fulfilling, my dear JERO ME, a rigorous duty imposed upon me by the FIRST CON. 6UL; that of forbidding the Citizen . Ptctiort to sup. ply you with money, and prescribing to him to prohibit all the Captains of French vessels from re. criving on hoard the young Person to whom you have attached yourself; it being the intention of the EMIT CONSUL that she shall on no pretext what. ever come into France, and should she happen to present herself, that she shall not be received, but be re-embarked for the United States without de. !ay. _ _ -,14 Such, my dear jEttoms, are the orders which I have been obliged literally. to transmit, and which have been given me, and repeated after the interval of a month, with such A solemn severity, as neither allowed me to withhold them altogether, nor to soften them in the slightest degree. " After the dischar4e of this severe duty, I ttannot, my dear I JErtoatv, deny myself the pleasure of lengthening my Letter in a way which the attach.. ment I feel to your will warrot, and our military association entitles me to. If I loved you less—ii the sentiments with which you have inspired me, did not so perfealy accord with those which I owe to your family—if there were not between you and me a sort of companionship in arms, and of intimacy which I delight in keeping up—l should confine myself to the dispatching of the orders which I have received, and to an accurate Official Correspondence, the result of which would give me very little un. easiness. .1‘ Instead of this, / am going to chat with you at a, great rate, and without knowing beforehand what I am about to say; of one thing I am certain, I shall tell you nothing of which I am not well per. boded. Nyar is carrying on, and you are quiet and peaceable at I 200 leagues from the theatre on'which you ought to aft a . great part. If, unfortunately, you come not back in the first French Frigate w hick re turns to Europe, and I have already giverryou that order by -, an order which I repeat to you by the CON iv t.'s command in the most formal manner If, I say, you. shall not return to France till after the Peace, what dignity will accompany your return ? How will men recognize in you the Brother of the Regulator of Europe ? In what temper of mind will you find that Brother, who, eager after glory, will see you degtiinte even of that of having encountered dangers ; and who, convinced that all France would shed its blood for him, would only see in you a man without energy, yielding to effeminate pas,ionc, a nd having nut a single leaf to add to the heap of laurels wi:h which he invests his name and our, Standards " 0 JERoME, this idea .lane ihnpla determine you to. return , with ail e%pedition amongst us---the sound of arms is heard in every quarter, and of the preparations for the noblest enter Prize. You arc enquired for, and I—Nexed that I should he at a loss what answer to gitre to More who . a , k 'Where you are-,Atclare that' you are just at hart& Give tue not the lie,. I beseech you. '• " Your Broth-r jou Vn, father of a faimily that Iv! adores, possessed of a fortune proportioned tohis rank, itiveted with the highest civil honours of the State, known throughout Europe for his . sagacity and , . his diplomatic labours, wishes to add to so mu c h glory that of sharing with-the CONSUL, the clangeri c►f. War, and has just got one of the Regiments that Are ahnor to embark—Louts, kno t wo'hy his tary services, a General of Diviiiok.is de4rous of ridding to that gloiy that of displaying talents for civil arratagements--,he has just entered into. the C,Jurcil of State,-the $e Zion of Legislation. Luc:it t 44, it is true, has just quitted rrance, Arid has exiled himself to Rome, in . consequence of a oßrri:oge reptignint to the views of the FIRST CON. t.UL ; butt LUCI El 4 is known by the sryiees.he has tendered, by his gehitti, by his talents, by the dignity of a Senator, He. is possessed of a great and independent fortune.,-and yet the connexions (lisayowcd by 'his Brother) which he has con_ traaed have been found incompatible with his abode in France. What has taken place in your faMily points out to yon staciently what the Ft Art. CONSFL eX. IStts of you, and his infl , tibility concerning what yun shall di in opposition to his views. Sole archi. reel of the glory of which he hai attained the sum. mis, acknowledges no family but the French rep& ; and in proportion as he exalts his Brothers who press around him, so have 1, seen him, chew oldness, andeyen aversion,to those of his own blood who 1)46h not forward in the career which his genius sr44es out for them, Whatever is foreign to the accomplishment of his gre ti designs setms 'o him treasun agkinst his high destioi anti t elieve for I know your Zither better than you know him yotssself-:-if you should persist in keeping yourself at a distance from him, he would get angry at it at first, and would conclude by entirely forgetting you; and Heaven knows what regrets your obscurity would lay up in. store for you. Scarce can a MOM brilliant career be opened to a man of your age ; shut it not up yourself. The union, which you have formed has deeply affated him. " Whilst I (thought he), am doing every thing for glory, for that of my name, and for the happiness of the people that have put their fate into my hands, by whom may I hope to be seconded if not by my Brothers ? And the youngest among them . forms an inconsiderate Con. nexion, on which he has not even asked my opinion -.-he has disposed of himself as a private indivi. dual ; it is, therefore, as a private individual he wishes roe to consider him. What claim does he earn to my benefaCtions ? None ; fur instead of being useful to me, he raksi the route diametrically oppeisite to that which I wished him to follow.'' In vain, availing myself of the.freettom which the Plass' CONSUL permits in domestic privacy, did I wish to make the voice of natural affetlion be heard ; I became sensible, from his conversation, that he neither kit nor was liable to feel any pliancy of that kind. . " I will receive Jr%ome, if, leaving in America the Young Person in question, he shall come hither to associate himself to my fortune ; should he bring her along. with him, she shall not put a foot on the Territory of France; and you must answer to me for this by the Orders which you are bound to give to prevent her landing.. If he comes alone, I s h a ll never recall the et ror of a moment, and the fault of youth.—Faithful services, And the conduCt which lie owes to himself and to his came, will regain him all my kindness."--Such, my dear Jeßosts, are nearly the words of the FIRST CONSUL. Bethink yourself, my friend, that he is only your Brothel', and that as I have already told you, a Brother feels Hilt the yielding condescension of a Father, who identifies himself in some measure with his Son ; consider that you have as yet dune nothing for him, and that in order to nbtain the advantages attached to the honour of being connected with him, you have not a moment to lose for deserving them. Fur it is his charaCter, that merit and services rendered, or to be rendered, are the only things on, which he sets a real and solid value, - 11 In truth, I am frightened at the regrets you are preparing for yourself and the person with whom you have conneifted yourself. Should you go the le ngt h o f opposing the views ofyour Brother, your pa,:siona will pass away, and you will reproach your. self with the injury which you will have done your. self=--perhaps you will accuse even, involuntarily, the Yowl Person who will have seen the occasion ,of it. Listen to reason, aid she will tell you, that at any rate you have committed the, fault of fail. ing in respeet for your Brother, and for a Brother, fed for a length of time with the love an d venera tion of all France,' and with the respeel of Europe. You will be sensible how happy it is for you that you are able, by returning to France, to obtain - the pardon: of this fault; that it would be incon. sistent with your personal dignity to carry thither woman who would be exposed to the mortifica. tion of not being received. I know not whether you can hope to overcome your•Brothet's unfavour_ able disposition towards her,„ and to deal frankly with you, I see no probability of 'such a thing ; but if there be any meana of obtaining it, it must be by your presence, by your compliance with his views, by proofs of your devoted attachment to.him, that you can bring it about . . You are so -young, that if you unhappily let slip the, opportunity of placing yourself about the'CoNsuL, you will have many years for regret to steal upon you. The obscurity to which you would thus condemn yourself would h e long ; and long and bitter the comparison be. t ween the lot you had chosen for yourself, and that which once awaited you. Without distindion, fame, or even fortune, how could you bear the _weight of the naite with which you are honoured ? glory attached to it, it To your a stranger to the would'become Jan insupportable hurthen. I repeat it for the last rime, my dear jEaotaE, come hither; come hither by the first French Frigate which shall sail from the United States, anti you will meet with. such a reception as you could desire—but I regret that you know not the COMUI, sufficiently, because you would then be persuaded, that you cannot re. gain his good.will but by this expedient, and this good. will is essential to your happi ness an d your glory. I conclude with the expression of the most sincere attachment, which I shall never cease to r e. tain—happy if I have been able to influence pasr determination in the way I could wish-rmore happy still, if my Letter were unnecessary for that purpose. A thousand kind wishes. (Signed} 61 . DEcit2llos! gl Path, la Fiorerl, Year 12 ) Nth ~iprily zBo i.) . " MINISTRIt OF MARINE 70 1. PICINI( ' COO. 6UI...CRNIRAL AT NEW-YORK. " Path, tbe 3oth Crttraix4l, tub Year of 'be Freerb Rep4lie (Bth April, 180.41. " I have taken the orders of the Ft ;tn . ' Cotastn, Citizen, concerning the demand which you made on me for the appointinent of an allowance to be granted to Citizen JERnme BONAPARTE ; and bound to obey the orders which he has given me, in a way that :hewed it was not his intention that the slightest modification should have place either in my mode of transmitting them to you, or in the execution of them, I discharge my duty in notifying to you his resolution that no money shall be advanced on the order of Citizen Jastorus. 44 He has received orders, in his capacity of Lieutenant of the Fleet, to come back to France by the first French Frigate that was returning thither ; anti the execution of this order, on which the FIRST CONSUL insists, in the most positive. manner, can alone regain him his affeftion. " But what the FIRST CONSUL has prescribed me, above every thing, is to order you to Prohibit all Caltains of French Vessel* from receiving on. board the young person with whom the Citizen it. Roma has connected himself ; it being his intention that she shalt by no means come into France, and his will, .that should she arrive, she be nut suffered to land, but he sent back immediately- to the United States. • 4 1 After having thus nptified to you those inten. dons of the FIRST CONSU L, and having ordered you to attend to the arrangements he has made, it remains Board of --. For yourself only. for me to invite you to employ, for the persuasion of the Citizenj a Roma, every expedient which your tom, your prudence, and excellent judgment shall suggest. I have written him to this purpose, and have represented to him that the glorious and bril. liant carter to which his destiny calls him, requires of him a necessary sacrifice, due also to his interest, his personal glory, and the designs of the Hero to whom he has the honour to he related. Explain to him that -having been absent for several years, he little knows the FIRST CONSUL, whose inflexibility can be compared to nothing hut the vastness of his conceptions. Cherishing important and profound meditations, he consideri himself as having no fa mily but the French People ; every thing uticqnnefled With the glory and the happiness of France is indif. ferent to him. In proportion as he delights in exalting and honouring those of his 'elation* who participate those sentiments with him, does he feel coldness for those who do not partake them, or who walk in a different path from that which his genius has traced out for himself. Unwearied fabricator of his own glory, he bewails in secret, that he sees not his example followed with the same persevertnce by those of his own blood ; he is indignant at the ob. stacles thrown in his way by what he calls their : effeminacy, and. be declares against beholding them otherwise engaged th,tn in following the steps Of his career. " Citizen Josmt, his eldest brother, distin. guished by the eminent services he has rendered in his Council, by diplomatic mediations and labotirs known to all Europe, by the Treaties he has con. eluded, invested with the senatorial robe, and of the first rank in the Legion of Hunour,'has seemed to him nut yet Sufficiently clothed with glory, and wishing to crown him with 'that for which every one may find instruments in perils, hardships, and genius, he has just given him one of the Regiments which ate to bear into England the National yen. geance, " General Louth „General of Division, known until now by military glory, is about to add to it that of the Statesman, and has been just admitted into the Council Set ion of Legislation. " Citizen Luct ex, with the reputation of pait condua, and a fortune• perfealy independent, has formed connedions repugnatn'to the views of the FIRST cONSU ; and the consequence is, that he has just quitted France, and that, obliged to abandon the Theatre of the Glory of his own Family, he has exiled himself to Rome, where he becomes the simple speaator of the destinies of his august Brother and the Empire. gi These examples will inform Jeftome what his Brother experts of him, and• what he may exiled from his Brother. Young as yet, and of an age at which the laws authorize not a marriage to which relations have not consented, he has indiscreetly and rashly contraled one (these are the CONSU L'S words) ; he has abandoned the labours which tl.c Country required of him ; yielding to an irrational passion, he has, without doubt, aced grievously wrong, but his youth shall be suffered to plead his excuse, provided he is wise enough not to disobey the voice which calls him. U Athatned of his indolence, too long,prottaned, let him seize. the first. cccOion of returning to, share those ia hours whereof he4hould have given a n example,, and he will moves his brother in the Head of the State.—it is the only means to eons& crate the ties which Unite them. " As his friend, as devoted to his family, as MO superintendant, in fine, in the career which he has dens e ihis embraced,brhoedh,ea: every day, eearight to exec a a quiet hearing s from jertori.F, and I intreat he will execu te the or• and follow my advice : I see day, and I give him no pros• pea of bending that brother, by a diderent eonduft, it is because, in truth, I have perceived that he is in this respea it JEROME it wrung," said lie to me, " to fancy that he will find in me affeaions that will yield to his weakness ; the relation in which I stand. to hire dues not admit of parental condescension, for, not possessing the authority of a father over him, I on• not feel for him a father's afFeaion. A father is Winds -and .takes a pleasure - in blinding himself, because his son and he are identified. They have given and received so much, reciprocally, that they fore . but one person ; , but as to me, what am I coition What identity can subsist between u,? Sole WTI• cator of my liestiny, I owe nothing to my brothers' In what I have done for glory, they have found oleos to :capita them,et yes an abundant harvest i..bars hc i must not Oh that account abandon the field where these is something to be reaped. They must not leaveele insulated and deprived of the aid and services which I have a right to expeCt from theft,: They cease to be any thi!.g to me if they press not around tot Ye t ' s.in, and if they follow a path that h opposite : 14) mine. If I require so much from those 'hen who have already rendered so many stritiC, it kompletely abandon him, who in matuter yeiri has thought proper to withdraw of my bro. direction, what has JEaus4a to exp il e j a m ; elf So fr ; s: as yet, and - only known by forgetfulness of his i ye duties, assuredly if he does nothi n g futile, ;t in the deem Wale, which has darn:shoal dial 1 ought to Is Not biNg for him." 41 This is what the hero bath said and rePoSI44/1) me in divers con versations. The solemnity o f those to confidential communications he has condescendedn ha make to me on • this subjea,- has struck toe, s . repose them in your bosom , that you 04.11018 mo ment and the manner of impressingtiernPnJ we l io you iii Roue. What gratitude will he nohow you succeed in persuading him : ee : lci bu t b t l g e : degtee of resistance you will ape attachment be m e w n e tlso well ltPeirifmurauded duty, iha tittliisatillriensfir:tinwPiethrwil himll on such details. My Fltt,TCort“Th, but this milting to him the du tyo. rd , e m r n a g i g a , h o t s e b e l i t n i 11 il l g t e n : l , t p s i t i nt c th e se e ° i t; 1 o tn . ht 't•g him, and he is PO' stts..would end by forgettt pied by so many great objects, l habit....and this is no other motive but my friendship for him.. rite VO' painful at fi rst, oat settle Intowt this what I fear. " II the delirium o f thf• passion should rin‘ht him inaccessib:e to the vo ice of . reaso n, y ot thave‘ orl (site thing to rej4esent to him, which is, that 41* pa',l,ions cea,,e, or at least decline, an 0161 i 0 eate the consequence would he endless. IEOO i n ote Very young, his life will he long, and 1, woo-, his btother much better than he himself knowiliNth am certain, that should he not comply with 114 wi , hes, he is itoriniup for himiclf tbc moo Pitt . _ nant regret. " :Moreover, if unfortuna'tely for Jcaatist," fl theli t ll\ l ev t i : s p ro t ,n o i l oi o r n pd g eaa h ncr i e s stay :hu u u h i t n b t e l I e m U a ; e t i t i e ) e d fo !.: :I l e: , 1 4 : 1 ii rj : o ! what a grief for him to have owed with a v ic)/11' ‘ prepare, even for the Is6onmdanwillie3trsrrltg;r%evthar:hstihi:billiatra by hi* obscurity, he.shall one by irnoUle 1° ' ler.' it,wuc- 13n1 eyen involuntarily and SeCretilt at the 114) ,11 of his heart! the induient part to which lie ' s' l have been reacted by the passion w!letewith 511$ IP' spired him. . . " And even if he loves. this woman, let him lea rii ' for her sake, to,..quit. her. Let him ratan „„a ken' i r ec a d lo sh n g iP w w it h h ic i k :ii: near his brother—Ae wagive him credit for 0 4°S ; orifice ; and from the sentiments of good-viill 3 . 1 1 , den him to conceive hopes: B ut l eg him not V in t they may they wtuld b will thente result, it is not. lOW *tiredly the' order is given to prevent her 130 11 1! ep.rthnr;roca:ci;llon ve l i i rt s 1 4 1 n t :e n f t o i r ' w o: 11 0 ; t t would be fresh trouble ', and a disobedience 1,6° and it w gross of the orders of the Fiala CoN , ut. t ' ) lia 'ln, any other effrft than an irritation rxtreinelY pleasant for what is and, o u g ht to be to 'lc° to ti.e heart Of Jr ROME. tile Oh' " I repeat to you. Citizen, Ireentrateml jea of this letter to your "" . careful' aitentii:li:,23o‘l 411,1:: your solid judgment, as to the tute Y t he na t ur e of it ; I have entered into no detail on 11 es t ion, he' of the illegality of the con nexion in q" on ef cause I treat this affai r in a seniirnebrat rii Pv i merely ; but I have some difficulty the Father of the young 0600 to co"ceive I t Pio' irelf' to yield to an onion, reprobate(' br ° 4fli fonor ",`" 4,134 which the dignity of Js lOW 8 Rath brnotirl- iso, >- :-.,