The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1804-11-02 00:00:00

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THE MINISTER or II %RINE TO Y. PICIION, CONSUL-

01.1.kitAt. AT NEW VOILIE•
" Pons, the riOth Germinal, 12th
Year err the IF,eiteli Republic
(13t.i ii, 1804
" have baton the micro of the Firco eo•raw. Citizen, (tan.
eeruing ti,c demand which yuu On me for the eroeni-
metat of a.t allowance w too 'muted w Cituen Jerome

Revd of
For yuurbelf thity.

pate; tu.d, ;annul to o:oey t'lj. orders whit's he ha. Mvest tue,
in a way that the'd/Cd it was Ma hi& totet.tion that the aing ,1 of
atoditic.atioal.hould hays tit,bef AI my on de anf trans-
urinmg them to yin, or 0.1 the ex Cutt,,tl of thew, I di.ch.,ge
d .ty ur no; lying to you Ili• r.:•Coittival t, at ',II money shah
be a Iran-d on the u.der of t.t ta.• Prnme

" le I.s mien d mists, in his cape •ty ri• I..eistesaiit of
the F.. e., to oriole basas to France ba the first Fiend' fegate
that was r. tormise thither; and the emeeution .1 this rotes.,
tan whim the First Can.a hist •ts, tattle must positive agency,
can alone regain him it, wirer! 141
" But what the Frail:wont :as pnricribed me, above every
thing, is to odes you to pron.bat all Casa at of French •v4intr
from receiving or bond Use s oung wan whu.n tlt. Ca-
emu Jerome lias tounected hunk 1; it b.-ing his intention
that she shall by no nicans come into hod tits sail, tn.!,
should she &Mrs, sr, be not suffered to 1.-nel, but DC soot bask
int tiled at. ly to the Caned States
" Aster naval: thus notified to yen those intentions of the
First Consul, aid having ordeed you le attend to the ars loge
meads lie has mad!, it remains for me to haute you to em-
ploy, for the persu,miii of the Ctiten Jerome, every extnt,.
rot which your wisdom, you prudence, and exceilent jodg
tr.mt shall suggest. I have wri ten hi it to this 'impose, and
have represented lotion that the gl.itius an I briltimit weer to
which his d ntiny calls bhn, reqoire, ni hint a neces+ary sun-
fiCe, doe also to his interest, las• pesonal glory, and th, dengue
of the lien, to whom sic nas this honour to be related. E X 1.1 ill
to hint that having been 'bent for several years, he little
knows the First Consul. whose iuSexilotry can be compared
to inching but the vastness id hit concepttons. Cherishing
important and „rolitiiid inerliuttows, he considers himself as
having .his family but the French r..0p1.•; every thing %lotion-
necteri with the glnty and happiness of Prance is indirfercht to
hint. I s prnportion as he deoght. in exalting and bona •'log
those of hie relations who oat ti.ipate thenisentimentswith him,
does he feel coldness far three a ho do not pelt:lc:then,' air who
walk in a (tan nit oath troth that winch Isis geom. has traced
out for himself. (There-hied fahiwator of his own glory, he
bewails 's secret, that he sees not !or example followed with
the same perseverance lay those of Ins own blond; he is lard g-
iant at the ohishicim ll,rnwn an his way by visit he cars th-ir
effeminacy, and he declare. agatust twirulding them otherwise
than in foliuwiog the steps of his care •r.
" Citizen Joseph, his eldest brother, distinguished by the
eminent venires lie hes rendered in his Council, by diplomatic
media-Ate and labours known to at. E ye, lay the trcatiel 1
he has creschiduil, invested with the Senatorial iohe, and of the
first rank el lh, i..guni tai lionour, ha: seemed to him nut set
Saftrientfy clothed wito glair.; and, wishing tocrown him with
that for which every one may hid instrinnents in pe:ils, hard-
ships, and genius, he has just given him one of the regiments
which are to bear into England the nat:onal yengeence.
" General Louis. General .4 thaision, known until now he
military glory, is about to add to it that of the statesman, And
has hem pie admitted into the Connell Section of Eeloslation
st Cinema Lucien, with the reputatme of past conduct, and
a fortune perfectly inn quest lent, his formed cutineetions re-
plignatit to the views t 4 the First Con+ul ; amid the oche-
iiiience is, that he baited quitted France, and that, obliged to
a widish the theatre of the gay of his own family, he has
tailed himself to Rome, where hr bccom • the simple spectator
of the destinies of his ai.gost tooth• r and the °mime.
" These exempla wig MI inn Jerome what his Plusher ex-
pects of him, and what he nay impel from his Monier.
Voting as yet, arid of a h age at win, h the laws autlionse not a
marriage to which relations hoar not contented, lie ha+ iwtn-
cteetly and rashly contracted one (these are the Consul's wools 4
lie ha. abitidin.ed the labcurt winch the Country required of
hint; yielding ta an irrational passion. he has, without doubt,
siert gneysisly raring; bot his ninth shall be sullen:4 M plead
his exec e, provided he is wise enough sot to desobey the voice
which calls him.
" Ashamed of his iodelener, tee tong pretracterl, let him
seize the hrst OCC .1./011 M retnniing too sham those labouirS
whereof he should have given an exastiFle, mid he will recover
fix bother it. the I lead of the State—it is the ouly mean. to
consecrate the hes which unite them.
" A. tic (mod, as &anted to Iris family, as his soperintenl-
ant, ha En?, in the eaten which he has embraced, 1f here a
ri:ht to expect a quiet hearing fronatenert, rind I iitreat le
will esicate the orders lie has received, and follow sn advice t
I see his hrother assay by, and if I give him tin prospect of
became that brother, by a duff, rent conduct, it is timings, in
trail', I have pereered that be is in this respect infirsihlt.
st Jerome le *twig," said h • to me, " In fancy that he will
find in me affeftions that will yield to his weoltitess ; the vela.
time in which 1 stand to hint does not admit of i sonnet c
deices:sum ; for, not posersing the .iuthoi nv of a fatl.er ..env
him, I cahoot kel for hint lather's affe non A father is
Wind, :old hates a pleasure in blinding himself, bream" hie
SOPS and he ate identified Theo 11,vc given and sentient so
mach, renprecare, that they furor but one person.; but at to
me, what sus Ito Jerome ? What identity can subsut between
stO bole rabfleator of toy de.toly, 1 owe neolk.ne to nee bee-
tiers. In what I have done for glory, they have friend means
to, reap kr thi•mgelves an abundant !mishit ; but they snort not ,
on that account abandon the field where there is soinething
he reaped. 'They must not leave lie insulated and deprived of
the aul and services which I have a sight to expect (non them.
They crass to be arty thin„ to me, if they press not ernsind sty
riga, mid if they follow a path that is opoosite to matte. If
I require es much Gain those of my breithers who have already
rendered so miry services ;if 1 cona..let ohsndon him who '
in matisier years has though, proper to withdraw himself lion:
my direction, what hasierowie to export ? So 'cony, as y.t,
ad only known b.; forgetfulness of his duties, assinegly, if he
does nothing roe Me, I ate it ire she decree y' jets, Ouch hee
"NI that 1 ovee re donsittiNe jerkins "
~a what taw hero hath said and tweeted to was in (li-
ven conversatiotic Tie solemn'o yof tho.• confidettal COM-
Inutlic.tlooa he has roncemen lel to mak,, to mewl this sub-
ject ha• Critic no-, and I revose them in your po site, that
sins may setae toe moment and the manner of imprimatur
them usclehime What grit tune will he not owe to yen, if
you suceYid i t penuailing him I know not what degree of
institute sou wilt experieuce; but. let WWI Ire yieliorsooded