The National Register.
London, England, 1816-09-02 00:00:00

FOUCIIE, DUKE OF OTR ANTO.

The billowing account is given from an inspection of
-the manuscript notice of the-Life of touche.
The work has been drawn up under his own eye, by
Demartettn, his private anti confidential secretary. It
‘tatce Ftniche was .horn on the 19th of May, 1763.
at Nantes, the depattnient of the Lower Loire. Lk
dequieti for the naval service, in u hick his father hail pass-
ed the. greater part of his life. and accoriliiigly rizathe
rnatic .. Wilvti he was 011 the I t, however, of quilting the
siVille::e, his woos, 31. Doris', represented to his family that the,
yea would not ugree with his constitution. Accordingly, a dif.
Afcrevii direction was given to his studies. and after ha v at.
• shined emmidera hie proficiency in lock • iviaphy sic s, natural
anti moral pitilirsophy, , be reliiriwd ill N, mites nith the i Wen-
-t. et' marrying. anti establishing himself there as an advocate.
M hen the French Itevoliiti hiek e 'jilt, he fias called to the

T•ational Convention, he did not seek for celebrity, hut se-
• chided bilieadi in the Commitice of Public Instruction, where
be eitimeeti d I self with C lower. The following is the
clia railer given of him Its his biographer -
They whip the ui Otranto hi the midst of his
f. 'ly, err tempto el to believe, that ideas and sent' •iits
•tiever Chtendeil beyinid the circle of domestic endearments.
IVA Ml; 'is Are imaitteeted and correct. A. far a. I self is
•enneeriled, it nook' he iisele.. for him to he rich : 1w disdains
:Artifice *mil .iibt!ety, and suffers every one to speak frankly to
hl na. 'futile, he caa treat like a trifler, lint lie bestow, a seri-
and lafaivialis attention upon grave topics. Every thing
-relative to rife rondifion of man. hi. ss elfare, and lii, ihnie., are
tiimilim rto him. %hairier c '4llll, the fiirmation of civil so-
,ciely, elrarsir tends to it, impros einem, its defence, its cmr-
ruption, awl it. At-drat-lion, ate the cuuriuu.tl Objects Or hi,
meditation,. lie Ixn protected, during bas !Ong and difficult
Ministry, every kind of existence m about c‘eeption; every
'lathsitl tI had complete security, if lie dad not :aim to disturb
the piddle tratigaillity. Ile always opposed himself to laws of
"temporary expepienev ; " frequently," he used to observe.
"• they only verified the evil without remedsing it, because their
execution, which was neee.sitrily arbitrary, was always en-
it rusted to the passions." As the Duke served under various
Governments, his enemies have conic:nom-4:d to insinuate, that
eliaria`ter way pliable to All ; but if that liad been the ease,
Le would not have passed a part of his lilt iu exile And pro-
-
famche never concealed his real opinions from Napoleon.

Afttn• for !wave of 'filot, he itraed puns pr ensploy his thoughts
upon the administration of his empire. " Von may,- ....id he,
" conquer new' provinces, hut muffing can 110 W .0141 to your
powers The C of Spain, with which thes have fas-
cinated y ryes, is titily a lain authority ;in reality )0.1 are
-already SOVereitl of that country. fop yllll draw front it sol-
/firm for your urnsirs, amp money for y treasury.'. 'list
N I.ICP of flattery prevailed, and Ilitenapartc departed for Spain.
'What pagseil at liayoutte created a great krotentation its the
*interior. It was rein csctite.l as .5 conspiracy, and Bitonaparte,
atharincd, retailed to Fratier.--The conspiracy disappeared
iike a ibliafituul when he anis ril in Pali.. lie then sat off
for the North, where fortune, wk.) 1001 crowed his iilatis iu the
North, seemed to prepare new obstacles for him. fits vic•
%Pries were sanguinary, and mingled with revers.•••• lire

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English made as de.cent upon tl iolchereio. 'floe Doke of
-Otranto, svku was then entrusted with the :Ministry of the lio.
levier and of Police, caused a numerous national gond to be
every where enrolled. " I.et us prove," said le., •' to Europe,
Algal if the genius of Iluonaparte bestows lustre upon France by
,his victories, his presence is not necessary to repulse our ene-
mies." The impulse gi% ell to the moth's' was general. The
..Faiglish hastened to re-I oiloark. Di 1111 l aparte concluded at
et'dl'l' et Vienna, and a etariord quickly to Paris. The Notional
Quivrol wes and the Miosister who load piestioned
'to say, that Ducotaparte was not nece.sary, scan tlismi.,t• 41.
Diteemparte, to cosoeiliate piddle opini 1111 l appointed his E%.
Minister Governor of Ronne ; but before lois olepartore, he
sent General Flertloier to him to demand the delivery of his
Torre*ii,mienre. The Dole of Otranto replied, that lie would
mot gist. it up, and as the demand was accompanied with one-
maces, he added, " Go, and tell your inaster, that 1 have been
siecusloined liar tine stood twenty years to s;eep with my head
ninon the scaffold. 1 know the extent of power, but (Jo not
dread it The Duke was then exiled to Aix, in Poo%eosee, but
-was soon recalled by lloosiaparie. Their first inter% hew was
mot vcrs sali.factor, for the I(tossian war was us little areor-
xlant with doe principles alb,. Minister, asdu. Spanish one loud
:hero. Th.. I)iike, therefore, retired again to lois estates.
Niles) ltionlaparte was at I)restlen, he wrote lo Foot lie to jolt%
loam there; bat his notions of peace and deration displeased
ion, and II parte ordered him to repair to Illyria, and take
kipon hionself the government there.

The Illyrian provinces, with the addition of some dis-
tr:cs beloogne: to Inner Austria and the kingdom of
Italv, have been erected into a kingdom, under the title !
of the kingdom of Illyria. It is reported, that the new
kingdom is intended as an establishment tin. the Empress
Maria Louisa and her son, in lieu of the Duchy of Par-
itia, which will be restored to the Queen of Etruria, its
ji)rmer possessor.
In a sitting of the French Chamber of Sciences, Dr.
11agyndie read a Memoire, the result of which is, that,
.by a certain regimen, a person may hope to cure himself
•,!)f the gravel or stone. The Mrmoire, was heard with
411uch interest.

A Parisian juggler, (we beg his pardon, we should
any A rlist ,) announces, that he intends, with some
4kiik:iAtant, to dive Into the Seine, and treat the gaping
saultitude with a representation of Neptune, Bacchus,
Venus and Cupid, deseending in splendid cars, mid atter-
wards axending without wetting themselves. They are
to re-ascend under a glass temple in the middle of the
Stine, and drink success to sub-marine navigation.
The crw•iosts series of Pictures, front the revival of the
Arts to the time of Raphael, bequeathed to the King's
'College of Aberdeen, by the late Mr. Morrison, the cele-
brated Autiqulay, ore still at Rome, and they arc likely
to reniaia there, tam the learned Professors of the College
not seem inclined ei►her to pay the Legacy Duty, or
tile price tit' their Leis% eceirivcdby the Custom-house Cri I ics
in this country.

The novii.: itica recommence this week at Belvidere, ill
Kvut l Lund L.tr4l‘) attiveil there ou Friday, from a tour.