The National Register.
London, England, 1818-11-02 00:00:00

BUONAPARTE

The following letter, are from the Morning Chronicle.
TO TIM 1.:OVEI{N01:.
Longwdod, iii. Pith of „1n1y,11817.
Ste—l have received the live cases you have taken the
tremble to forward to me, containing a check •board, a boa of
counters, and two ivory work baskets,• sent from Canton by
Mr. Eleistustose. The Emperor was sill prised to see in your
letter, that you conceived your dirty sequired you should not
deliver these articles. "If I acted," sty in strict epn•
tnrmity with the established regulations, I ought to abstain
(ruin sending them.'
in this ease, Sir, yea worthi have done a gracious act in
withholding them.
Permit me, however, to ask the meaning of your observe.
lion. Id it because these things did not arrive through the
channel of the Minister? In the Alinister's restrictions it
certainly is stated, that letters most come through that chow
net, bat not such things as wearing apparel, busts, and airfi-
eld-A of farnitare. We have been constantly in the habit of
receiving mail things from the Cape, which havu been sent
•-fir us Besides, Lord Bathurst, in hiaspeech, and you sour•
self, in one of year letters, have indignantly repelled the
assertion, that letters which arrived lieu e per post, or by
private hands, had been sent to London in order to be re-
fereed to this country. Hence, )con neither call nor ever
could he authorised to withhold such things as busts, articles
of household furniture, books, and such like, not affecting,
its any shape, the security of the detention.
It may be, perhaps, because the counters have a crown
Imprinted upon these? But then, no regulation can exist of
which we are kept in ignorance ; nor are we aware that we
mien riot possess any article bearing the impression °fa crawl.
In that ease, Sir, yen 1111 l st havu some new sets of playing
cards mittle, for those we have hear croons EUOU thein.
Oar linen and small residue of. plate are frequently sect to
the town, and they are all marked with a crown
lint whmce emanates this regulation which you assert
to exist ? Is it fro.ii your Government, which alone, by the
hilt, has the right of making any ? Your bliiiistrr has de-
clared in open Parliament that no restriction had been hit-
posti,since those which had beets printed and proclaimed to
all Europe, and which were given to your predecessor, and by
him handed over to you. He added too, that you had not
Imposed any restrictions, but merely adopted measures for
their execution. Indeed you have not the right to imposts
any.
The Emperor wants no favour, Sir, nor will he be in-
debted for any thing to any niau's caprice. Bet he has a
tight to know what the restriction's ate which lie is subjected
to. Your Government, Parliament, and all nations have the
same right.
I therefore beg you, Sir, to communicate to es these fresh
• restriction.,' and if any such do exist, they insist he in contra-
diction of the assertion of Lord Bathe' st, " that their only
object is to ensure the security of the detention." The Eili-
peter thiects me to protest against the existence of any ie-
striction or regulation which shall not be legally notified to
• bins, before it be pout its force.
1 have the honour to be, Sir.
Your most obedient, arc.
(Signed) LE crE. BERTRAND.
To Lieutenant.Geueral Sir Hudson Low, Governor.

TO KR. RADOWICH, IBASTKR-GI:NNER, ON BOARD THE SHIP

THE BARING.

Loogwood, July 111,1817.
Stn,-1 have received the marble bust of young Napoleon.
I delivered it to his father. It has afforded him the most de.
lightful gratification.
I regret it has not been in your primer to come and see us,
and to furnish us with some particulars, which, to a father so
ailnated, must always be interesting.
From the letters you havesent, it appears, the artist esti-
mates the value of this work at 1001. sterling. The Emperor
has ordered me to send a bill of exchange for 3001. sterling.
The surplus is to indemnify you for the losses he knows you
have sustained in the sale of your adventure, from not having
burn able to laud ; and fur the annoyaoce which this event
Las occasioned you, simple as it is, and which must have en.
titled you to the good opinion of every sensible man.
Hove the goodness to convey the Emperor's thanks to the
per,oas who have had this obliging attention.
I have the honour to be,
Your very humble and most obedient servant,
(Signed) LE ITE. BERTHAND.
I'. S. I request you us ill be so good as to acknowledge the
receipt of the enclosed bill of exchange.

About thirteen years ago, a young man, who had been
employed as a clerk in the counting house of a merchant io
Lord ni, absconded with a large sum of money in his pos.
which he had received from the batils.A-s with whom
emploeer transacted business. Every possible inquiry
was made to discover hint, but ineffectually; rewards were
mteted,lnitidbills were circulated, but in vain. On Satur-
day senuliclit a packet was placed in the holds of the gentle_
mail be had served, enclosing the su:u of Mad., with a letter,
which ran in these words :

" SIR—At the time I parted from you with the sum which yon
Intrusted me to get from your bankeN, I resolved to act us honestly
Its circumstances would permit me hereafter; this I have done. I
enclose the sum of 1131.1 for the amount of that which I took with
Inc. with interest from that day to this time. I have all along re.
enlVed to do this, with the assistance cf heaven: and I am thankful.
• I have been able to do Co. It is not necessary for Ire to say more, u
I am aware of the unfavourable light my conduct must be tiered in
by you. '• I remain, Sir, &c.
• P.S. There rue some odd shillings and pence ever this sum,
which it was not convenient to enclose.

A pensioner of Greenwich hospital went on Monday to Charlton
fair, and on his return to G:.e.m wich, ac, to his great surprise, found
in one of his coat pockets a handsoins silk purse, with a gilt clasp,
tontaming a draft for 301. payable
.three months after date, drawn by
a person at IVoolivich. The pensioner very properly immediately
gave it up to the Lieutenant-Governor of the hospital, who has caw-
. ed the proper officer to write to file party whose signature appears to
the draft. It is conjectured some pickpocket stole the purse in the
fur, and having secured what money it might have contained, drop-
ped it, with the draft, into the pemioner's pocket, to prevent their
Le•ng found upon his own person ; and there is not a doubt that had
the pickpocket been collared by the loser, hut he would have instantly
Foisted out the pensioner as the tlii,•l, and would have declared he
saw him commit the robbery, which would hoe been confirmed by
the purse, Ate. being found in his possession; and thus might an
honest man have been transported thiough the villany of an adept at
knavery.
ty five sheep, the property of Mr. NPlCenzie, were on Sun-
flay last doyen sWI) from a field, be!nsr!ng to mat gtntlrman at
Dulwich ; they were traced to Vauxhall Gate, aad there the track
was lass.

THE NATIONAL REGISTER

THE ARMY.

The following is the official account of the reduction!, &c.
in the Army :

46,.
6314
1i {s
216