Portland gazette, and Maine advertiser — Portland, Me., 1810-01-15 00:00:00, page 1

PORTLAND GAZETTE,
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| jPORTLAA'Dy PUBLISHED BY ARTHUR SHIRLEY... FISH-STREET.
J*. 40, of Vol. XII.’] MONDAY, JANUARY 15, 1810. * [Whole No. 612.
SETH CLARK,
FISH STREET,
HAS juft received an aJortment of auper
fiue and Common
BROADCLOTHS;
which He offers for fale on the moft reifona
b!e terms.—LiSetvife, WAISTCOAT PAT
TERNS and TRIMMINGS of ail kinds—
Together with a frrlli fuppW of Webb’s New*
york Patent SUSPENHEkS
He continues to execute the
tailoring business,
io the moft fafliionaWe ftyle, and with fidelity.
WANTED, j
At the above bufineU, an AP PREXTICE of
ioduftrious and “ fteady habits’’—to whom
good encouragement will be given.
Portland, January 8, 1810. (tf)
[enks & De Cartereit,
MAVE lately opened a handfome affort
tnent of
ENGLISH GOODS,
Together with a general affortnaent of
W. L Goods if Groceries ;
which they will fell at reduced prices for
ready pay. Haviug been almoft exc ufiveJy
io the habit of crediting tne year paft, and
being convinced ef the evil conlequ^uca* at
tending fuch practice, both to Creditor and
Debtor, they are determined to trade on a
different plan. Wood, Bark, Boards, Staves,
sod almoft all kinds of produce will be re
ceived in pay, and the fmallell favor grattful
|y acknowledged- But thofe who with to
fave their feelings are earneftly requefted not
to apply for the leaft credit, as they are de
termined not to (lain any more paper with
charges.
N B—All perfons indebted to the firm
•re requefted to make immediate paymen —
All who negletfl till the firft of March next,
will be fued without diferimmation.
Xo/thy nr mouth, Jan. 8, 1810. (2m)
Enoch Moulton,
Jfo. 8, Jots' Rot*, Fifi firoM,
HAS juft received by the Packet, from
Liverpool, a haudfome alTbrtment of
}‘Ltcd and Japaned Ware, Je welry,
l?c tec.
PLATED WARE.
Elegant Cruet Frames—Cand'eftick*,
lea Pots—Sugar Batons 3c Cream Pots,
Soup Ladles—Fills Kuives,
Snuffers and Trays,
I Tabte and Tea Spoons, Ac. Ac.
JAPANED Ware.
Elegant cream ground goid bordered Wai
ters,
Red and black ground do do.
Bread and Kobe Trays,
Chcefe and Snuffer do.
Biitannia lea Pots—Tumblers, Ac. Ac.
MILITARY ARTICLES.
Gilt and plated mounted Swords,
Saddle piftols,
White and yellow Epaulets,
do. do. Chords
do. do. Prul&an Binding,
Crimfon Sallies,
Military Plumes, elegant and common
JEWELRY.
Black and Pearl fetBroacne*,
do do Finger kings,
Plain Broaches and Rings,
Hair F.*tr Hoops,
do B: acelects, virion* pattern*.
Co’d Kar Hoop*, Knobs, and D- op*,
do Watch Chains, Seals, and Keys,
Tortoife Shell Combs,
Coral Beads
CUTLERY.
f
Table Knives ami Fork*,
Penknives— Sciftar*—Steel Snuffer*,
Saddle and Chaife Whip*,
{L>* CmHantly on hand, Silver Lidles, Ta
b’e and Tea Spoons, of the moll fafhiouable
pattern*.
Gold Necklaces,
Pocket Books, and Purfes, Ac. Ac.
IE>* Hair W »k, of ad kinds executed with
neatnefs and difpatch.
He ha* in a Iditiou to the above, almoft ev
ery article in th* Jewelry & Fancy line, gen
erady in utc—which will be difj)"fed ot on
term* that cannot fail to meet the views of
pur chafer*.
He ha* for file, “ Odoriferous HON
EY WATER, for cioaning, pe- fuming, tbi>kt*-ig.
Jl'trgfbt'ir.g and preventit g the hair from
Turning gki.v
^•-genuine ESSENCE cf LFMON—To
gether with fume ce ebraied COl.D CREAM,
which ckaules, foheiu and beautifies the
eompltxi.iu.
Portland, Dc:. 4. (if)
Is at nan tfucknam,
Offers f*r fate, at N't. 9 15* 10, Lorg- Wbarf%
2700 bufhefs of Maryland CORN,
320 barrel* fupertine FI.OUR—of the
firft quality, juft landed from fchoner Eros,
Atjo-~H50 quintal* of new CODFISH,
which may be feen at Themis Burnham's (tore
fen Street Portland, Dec. 25.
Dtvid Chenery’s Eft ate.
71 he 4’i by orJer of Court, on THVRSDAl the
fifteenth <hy rjf February n xt, at eleven o'doth
•* the f -en xm, at the Huuse late of Dauii
Chene y, *f Falmouth, in the ccunty <f Cumber
tami, Jtceafei, intsfiate—
rVHE whole of the Real Eftate, being the
Homeffea 1 of faid deceafed ; ronfifting
of ahi>»i: twenty acres of Land with the build
ing* thereon, excepting the Widow * Dower,
f r payment of the faid deceafed’* debt*.
Martha chenery.
Jtruery ?, 1810, (#)
Hour, Salt, and Lime.
JOHN AL.DEN
HAS for fale, at his Sfore oa Titcomi't
Wharf,
A quamiry of Superfine Flour,
ditto St. Ubcs Salt,
ditto Lime.
Jan* 8.
’YJR. JAMES HALL, begs leave
to inform the public that he ha* recent
ly arrived in this place from Edinburgh,
(Scotland) where be taught the following bran
ches of Education, vie—
Englilli Reading, Menfuration,
Englilli Grammar, Algebra, with its ap
Wri:ing & Cyphering, plication to Geom
Geography, wi:h the eery,
ufe of the Globes, Laud Surveying,
Book Keeeping, Guagiug,
Geometry, Navigation,
Trigonometry, *
All which he now «iTcrs to teach in the
Academy in this town upon modc-are term*.
The Cyphering will be taught in claries by a
new and elegant method, in which, eafe to
the pupil, and great progrefs in the fcicnce,
are united.
N. B.—A few young Gentlemen may be
inftrutffed in the eh meats of the Latin, Greek,
and Hebrew Languages
Mr. Hall will likewife op*n an Eveniug
School (this day) in a Room adjoining Meflrs.
Coffin and Clapp's Office, for teaching young
Gentlemen the above mathematical branches
Math, January 8, 18It)
ioo Dollars Reward.
r^ESERTED from the U. S. Ganifon, at
Wileaflet, in the months of Auguft and
September part, four Soldiers in the fervice
of the United State*, viz.
ROBERT JAMISON born on Cape Eli
zabeth, 32 years of age, 5 feet 8 inches high,
d*rlc completion, eyes, and hair, a Mariner
and Horfe Dealer
SAMUEL PARDONS, born in Alfred, 23
years of age, 5 feet 8$ inches high, light
completion, grey eyes, and dark brown hair,
• a Carpenter
JOHN OSGOOD, born is Conway, N H.
! 22 years of age, 6 feet high, light complex
ion. evto and hai*, a Joiner.
BLN'S A MIN BICKFORD, born in Ar
undel, 27 year* of age, 5 feet 9 inches high,
dark complexion, dark grey eyes, and black
hair, a Mariner. Twenty Frv: Dei'an and all
necelTtry charge? will be paid for each or ei
ther of the above defcribed Deferters on their
delivery at any Military Port in the United
State*, by applying to
J. BINNEY»
Cifit 4tb Rig. U* S Inf. Commanding.
U S. Gaxrifon, Wifcaflet, Dec. 16, 1809.
PUBLIC NOTICE
TS hereby given, that agreeably to a vote
! of the Proprietors of Ba.k Cm B iige, a:I
i teams that come into town over the Bridge,
leaded, and pay toll, will be permitted to go
• out of town over the bridge unloaded, free of
toll, during the feafon of fleding. By order
« of the Standing Committee of the Proprietors.
I.EMUEL TUKJEY, TM Gatherer
Jann.uy 8, 1310
J Benj. A. Jordan’s Eft ate.
Tu lit fold by order of Court, am THUR ' D A1 the
fjieeatc day rtf February rent, at twv o'tie, k m
tbe after moern, at the late Dwlltng b eft of Ben -
j»' in Alien Jerdan, r.rreefed, in Gubin*—
\ much ct the laid deceafea'o Heal Efface,
v a* will produce the fuin of f *ur hur.Jed
and thirty dollars, to enable u» to pay the
debts of *aid ucceafed
* BRA HAM lYhT.R
SARAH TYL.ER, A *n x anjaiJ jfjte.
Dt 27, 1809 , (J ')
FOR SALK,
I^HAT valuab c Lfi.itc fnuated in North
Yarmouth, twelve mile* from Porilaud,
Hid about one hundred rods trom the head
of the tide m Norrhyarnvur.h, lying on the
Poll Road f om Portland -o WifcafTeit, and
has been occupied by the fubfertber for a tav
ern a nrrrber of year* part. Said Ertare con
lilts of a very convenient three Itory Houie,
a S»ab'e, Barn, Shed, and other our houtes,
with a giM><! well of water, an«l an acquedutrt
'eadiug to tiie houfe, tviih about one hundred
and ten ac-es of excellent l.and, having a
young Orchard un the lame, fa;d farm is un
der excllcnt imp: uvement.
—ALSO—
A Fahm in the town of Freeport, at Fitm s
corner, fo called, within one mile of Porter's
landing confifting of fifty four acres of excel
lent land, a convenient Dwelling-houfe. Barn,
i &c. Said Farm is under good improvement,
! is well watered, cuts about fifteen tons of
Hay, and has an Orchard which bears eon fid
erable fruit yearly, and is w ell fitnated, either
for a Farmer. Merchant or Mechanic.
The above Farms will be fold together or
feparaie as may beft fuit the purchaier. For
terms (which will be made ealf) pleafe to ap
ply to the fubfcriber at Northvarmouth
' SETH MITCHELL
Aogufl 21, 1809. (t.f)
NOTICE is hereby given, that the fubfcri
ber has beeu duly appointed guardian of
Thankeul Wise, of Ttfjbam, in the county
of Lincoln, mom c.mftvs , and has taken upon
himself that truft by giving bonds as the law
directs *—and all perfons having demands up
on theeftateof the (aid non compos, are re
quired to exhibit the fame, and all perfons in
debted to thefaid eltate are cal led upon to make
payment to Situ Huikley, Guardian,
Ocl 9t 18o9 _
BLANKS
Of all kinds for fair at the Br.kjlorc
of l ADAMS,
i
Poetry.
ANNUAL MARINE LIST,
AdJrsssed by the Ctv tiers of the Nevryork.
G .zette, to their Patrons.
Arrived from ancient Chaos* den,
The New-Year eighteen hundred ten.
S|x»ce, crossing dark oblivion’s line.
The Oid-Yeai eighteen hundred nine.
T!d arrival of this ship was seen
In our IhsI Rrgisi#*- Marine ;
We now her Manifest rehearse,
And note her log hook in our ver^e.
From the dead-reckoning ’twill appear
( Which we made out a former year)
That ship Columbia, in distress,
Was spoke with heavy gales at West i
Almost abandon’d by her crew.
With a dread Ue shore full in view.
Destruction star’d us in the face,
\nd thib tireti must have takrit place,
11 -d the South-western wind i:to eas’d—•
Rut, it chop’d round to N. N East,
And did a little time aiford
To heave th* Embargo iverfoartl /
I'o get the vessel under weigh,
And once more try her course to lay.
But still her way she could not force
Being lumber'd with Non-Intercourse.
Old J tterson’s restrictive breeze,
Still bait’d the freedom of the sens /
The wind had not come quite about,
And pilots could not work her out t
The captain, to give some relief,
Found out a passage o’er the ieef ;
I was new and uuuiscover d quite,
For which he merits patent right.
He gave the mariners command
To i iil the vessel over land,
dv some wise-acres it is thought,
Thai all this voyage must go tor nought.
They say Via in their minds a oouSt,
If, in this way, the ship i* out ;
They hold, as law has her lan i-iock'd,
She’s still embargo'd, still dry dock’d.
But these poor men arc in the dark ;
They know not those who steer the ba k.
The mariners who m w command
Can ft. it much better on dry l. ml ;
The T.istruments ih* V !»:«ve ill motion
Were ne’er intended for the ocean ;
The cad by widch they steer the nation,
Is all made up of « 1/ration ;
Their Needle has more piles than cue,
Is true to all and true to none ;
3y such a needle 'twill appeal,
■ C^iute easy for a man to steer ;
i For if resistance it poin'* out,
Why helm a let and go about 1
For, it is provhi, as plain as day
Resistance is, to run »w.y.
But were the needle still*in joint.
And always looking to one point,
To steer by it would never do
For a false, wav'i ing, trimming crew.
In latitude of thirty nine,
D -.cried two large slops of the line ;
Close h ul’d the wind—with larboard tack*
on i
This one the Smith, and that the Jackson.
foe Smith bore down and u> >k her station,
To tire at tile Insinuation ;
Anti when *!u hud her guns in inotion,
To blow the Insult from the ocean ;
ijut s;id to tell, when site came round,
iTi* Ir.sir.utiiiou Was noi found ;
And, wh.tt wui more provoking yet
l’lic I..ult was loo small to hit.
She bore do wo i.« .1 10 ad her pride,
\hd ga.e iln- Jackson a broadside ;
And, '.hat the mu tie might lie won,
Refused to tight another gun.
The Jackson thus Iclt in disgrace*
Tut down her helm, and went in stays,
Ar.d bo;e away in sullen slAe,
1 he older* of her king lo wait.
We end our rhyming log book here,
And cios'. our reckoning lor the y ear ;
’ But ne orr topsail* wr unbend,
And down our sails ami rigging ser.d,
Let «s, like hea. ty sa.lois free,
Hail all our friend* with three times three.
Hiiz* * for COMMERCE—navigation,
1 he Lfc ■nd Soul of every nation j
May 11 > embargoed bucfcwaui loice
E’er' | ut a st-It cr on their course.
Huzza for FARMERS and their trade,
(Bv winch all commerce must l>e made,)
Without whose noble enterprise
Ail TRAD* and NAVIGATION dies.
Huzza tor ail MECHANIC arts,
Bv which the above perform tiieir part*,
Which lend their expeditious aid,
To Agriculture, ami to Trade.
Huzza tor SAILORS, ev’ry one
Who s eer by chart „f WASHINGTON.
Huzza for those whose fortitude
Can stem the to.tent rough and rude,
Which threatens to o’erwhelm the ship,
Ai d sink her in toe boundless deep.
Huzza for ALL our Matrons kind,
Bv whose support we raise the rjitui ;
M.,v they enabled be to keep
Their barks afloat upon the deep,
And meet no cross tempestuous gales
To check their way, or bac k their sails,
Till death's grim blast shall on them frown,
And bring tiieir m.tsts and rigging down ;
Then may they land on heav’n's shore,
To sail ui pleasures eve. more.
... ■ ■— i ■ .1 —
Zip tponitor.No. XVII.
To pass through hte w ith any degree of
honour to himself, the young man on his
first entrance into the world should make
choice of proper company. It is not enough
that his principles be of the right kind, -
neither is it sufficient ti.at his mincl is pure,
and his intentions r g it- llis associates
must be among tins nnc, and his compan
ions selected from among the excellent of
flie earth. Vices are infectious, and the
purest ptinciplts are liable »o be corrupted
l
The company of the sabbath breaker, the
proane swearer, the liar, the drunkard,
and the impure is extremely dangerous.
When vice becomes familiarized to our
view we lose the abhorrence of it almost in
sensibly, and though we may still appear to
walk in the path of obedience yet we grad
ully recede from virtue, and by a continu
ance in such courses we soon are prepared
to commit downright wickedness. But
this is not all. The wise and prudent will
ever shun the society of him whose asso
ciates are among the vilest of the vile. Bill
there i% yet a kind of intercourse with the
worhl which ever tends to lessen a young
man in the opinion of men of pure lives and
nice sentiments of honor and propriety.
This is a spirit of acoomodatinn to the low
and vulgar. A corteous deportment to
ward all is undoubtedly commendable, for
all may justly lay claim to common civility
and good offices, but no one is under obli
gations to receive as bosom companions the
ignorant, the profligate, or the vicious
The sober and discreet man will not often
visit him who is ever surrounded with the
refuse of the e&ith, neither will a man of
good sense and delicacy trust himself a
mong the brawlers of the street. These
considerations should induce those who are
forming their characters to erect a standard
of company and conversation, and while
they are solicitous to treat all with respect,
beware of lessening their own value in the
opinion of men of virtue and real understan
ding. Let them equally avoid that haugh
ty and ui*‘--'iu carriage which most assured’
ly will bring contempt, & by a life regulated
by the precepts of unerring wisdom, and
proper sentiments of honor and dignity, se
cure to themselves the friendship of the
most virtuous and the approbation of their
own consciences.
FOR THE GAZETTE.
Here do ye see, Mr. Printer, if you wish
to know the mind of an Embi.rgoroon*d Sai
lor, on public matters, hero ye tiav’t. I ax
nothing for it—and so here’s a cud of tobac
co to the better management of our ships
and dry docks. It is a true copy of brother
Jack’s letter, which I got from uncle Jona
than when I was up to thanksgiving. The
old lad when he read it bometimes laugh'd,
sometime—shook his head and look’d wise,
and once he blubbered so you might have
heard him all over the house.
BEN. BOWSPRIT.
Dear Uncle,
SHIVER my timbers my uncle, but I do
love you I want, do ye see, to state to
you a plain case. You know, that when I
followed the plough that I was a pietty
smart, titisk sort of a lad— but having got
some notions in my head as how I should
like to go to sea, I left you my old boy, and
all my plump rosy cheek’d cousins, and
went off in the good ship General Wash
ington. I am now so much of a water fowl
that I can’t for the life of me make up a
mind to lubber it ashore. I hear folks say
that our government men are not vety well
disposed to give the honest tars a living and
therefore cannot be very friendly to the
Farmers. For you know uncle that f>r the
lust ten years before the Embargo, 1 used
to carry your corn, and pork and lumber to
a very good market—and you thereby had
a plenty to pay your taxes and cloathe your
i family without selling your land.—Now un
cle, they begin to talk that we shall not go
to st a at all by and by—or if we do, they
are going to lay such impositions that we
can bring nothing home—and your trees
may stand—your grass may rot and your
land may be sold to pay your taxes —for one
of the great men at VVushington City, says
they want money there and must have it—
| that they must borrow or lay a tax on the
lands, to get 4,000,(K)Q,oooooooo millions—
a win-gin sum, unck ’twill take a good
many potatoe fields.
I have often thought, my uncle, that I
would, the first chance, a&kyou some ques
tions about the Embargoes. How should
you like it uncle, suppose one of the under
strappers of our Mr. President, should come
on to your farm next spring—sirut about &
look big*—and say—Flu must not plough this
field, this year and you most not sow that —
You must not raise grass, corn or potatoes,
not enough to keep alive your family and
the pigs, for fear it should get out of the
country and feed the English—[but you
may teed the Fiench if you won’t tell on t]
—and suppose litis big looking man should
tell you further, that you must not send
vour cows, or your mares to pasture, for
fear the one may raise calves ar.d be turn’d
into beef—aiul the other, coal's, and the\
might get the distemper and die ; and in
short, unkey, suppose they should lay an
Embargo on your farm, ai d this was all the
w «y you had to get a livelihood—would you
think uncle that this would be using yon as
a Farmer of a free land ought to be ? would
vou not say that it was as wicked as it was
for England to tax us against our will, to
pay their Inzv King and no-bil-ity at home,
or for France to rob ami burn our ships ? 1
,av uncle it would be full as wicked. What
would y ou sayj osuch a bamboozler ? I know
what you would say and what you would
do, old ’75. You would—yes, sou would
give the breaches a starboard pull—above
up the old grecne cap—catch up the pitch
fork or Lay hook and say—*• b. gone, thou
rogue, rascal, robber 1 I am an indepen
uent fir?ner—the sod I stand on U my cun
i
—I will do with mv land what 1 please —
my cows and mares shall frolic when they
are frisky.—You—you upstart—mushroom
—tinker—toad-stool—you pretend to tell
me tha* I shall not build uj$ this fence, or
pull down that ?-—til I shall not plough,
sow or reap ? Begone monkey—I know the
Constitution which Washington gave us,
better, & so outfit your mailer#.** Would’nt
you uncle, do just so? I know you would.
Y*ou did n’t receive that scat on your fore
head for nothing. You fought for your lib
erty and won’t give it up tamely, I’ll be
sworn. Now uncle is not this the exact
case with us ta^s, who don’t go to plough
the land, but water—who *uffer so many
dangers and hardship* for the sake of an
honest living—we are r t suffered to
plough, to sow or to reap, i can’t for the
life of me help the salt water in my eyes
when I tell you how my brother messmates
were serv’d last winter i instead of having
a dollar in the pocket to share with a friend,
thev had to go to the soup house—yes, uncle,
Sailors went about the streets a begging /lie
very thought makes my heart thump like a
constable, but I can’t help it. We had been
embargoed from the ocean a lon^ twelve
month, and the government men, w
duty it is to provide for all classes of peo
ple left us poor Tars to vnsery and want.—
Heaven knows I am willing to do nu share
for the government which protects all alike
—but how can I kiss the hand that holds a
rope’s end to score me with. If the men at
Washington have made money out of the
embargoes it is more than any body else has
done that I know of. I went to China once
with Capt Magee—the (feepie there live
without any commerce of their own, exce t
at home ; but what is the reason -why, un
cle, they can't a mother’s so*, of them read
or write—tftey are all slaves, except some
of what they call Man ila rins ; Chi ho ang
tis t Chin-ko tettgs t BuW wows, and JLwpe*
rors.
Now if our folks want to do so with us,
do ye see, they must not learn us our a-b
abs—if they do we shall lead the Constitu
tion and know what laws ought to be. There
are some people, a good many too, at the
south’ard, Planters—they call themselves
“ Republicansand hep slaves >* very proud,
and much above our Farmers because they
have negroes to work for them. They hate
the Merchants. Now I don’t see why—
for they are friends to the Farmer and Sai
lor too j they find a money jobb for one and
buy the pork and lumber of the other at. a
good fat price, when there is no Embargo.
I have made a sober letter of it. I should
like to shake your hull once before 1 say
i good bye.
Have you ever seen any of the new water
! fowl ? they call ’em ** Gun bouts” ,• they
I feed some of ’em a*. Clay-cove. don't
venture much to sea, for fear of the gulls 8c
other large water fowl ,* they are green look
ing birds. What do you think they lock
like uncle ? Like a hawk—no. Like an
eagle—no, no. Like a goose ; not much
like a goose—what then ? why, like a bird
that has no name, commonly called a——
poke—all body and no inside.
Good by, dr. uncle ; give my love to the
folks. Yours ’till death.
J ACK TAHPOLIN.
imrrfir rmifMVi ^ — -
T he Political Paih
Is obvious to us all, though encompassed
with briars and thorns. It is merely the
path of National IndbPendence and
; National Defence Notwithstanding
ihe clouds that now overhang it, it may jet
become u path of pleasantness and peace.
The qualities which are wanting are Re
flection and Union. Hesiod* one of the most
ancient of the poets, divides mankind into
three classes—those who .hiuk for them
selves ; those who let Olliers think, for
them ; and those who neither think for
themselves nor will be thought for. Unfor
tunately loo many of our countrymen ap
pear to act as if they belonged to the last
class, but if we will all unite in the fb'st,
the Re public may' at least be saved from
Ruin.
« Clouded 39 our present path ap
pears to be, the luminous track of •
glorv lies open to our view ! But our
conduct must be Just, uniform, ener
getic, and independent.—Fr*s. Journal.
The Insurance Office of Philadel
phia, have published an official state
ment of the captures of American prop
erty, in their respective houses, since
the raising of the Embargo, vix.
“ By the British, 30,000 dis. 10,000
of which has been restored.
“ By the French, 138,420 dls. 38,
500 of which has been recaptured by
the British and restored on salvage.
ICT* Fhn includes no part of the lute
sequestrations in Italy, or tn the Indian
seas»
44 By the Danes, 209,142 dls. 94,500
of which has been released on paying
charges, amounting in most cases, to
ransom*
44 By the Spaniards, 10,000 dls.
BONAPAKili -wNii HIS WIFE.
When the Infernal Machine was ex
ploded in tiie streets ot Paris, Bona*
pane's carriage had just passed the
fatal spot, where it stood and that of
Madam Bonaparte had not reached it.
Somebody being asked what had hap
pened, oberved it was only a blow-up
oetween the first Consul and his Yv ife.
The late intention of the Emperor to
repudiate Josephine, gives currency
and reality to the okl story.