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dosed for Bonaparte, after the event, differ from
each other; no miracle that. There was, in fact,

none pronounced to the Ancients," etc. etc. Upon
this, Count Boulay remarks, " All this account is
false. Finally," continues the Count, "to com-
plete his description, Bourrienne says, " I have re-
lated bow Bonaparte spoke at the Council of
the Ancients; see how the Moniteur reports his
discourse !" and he copies, in effect, the discourse
of Bonaparte which appeared in the Moniteur.
One would, doubtless, suppose that it was the one
which he pronounced in the Council of the An-
cients, on the 19th of Brumaire, at four o'clock in
the afternoon, at St. Cloud. No such thing; it is
the one which Napoleon delivered on the 18th, at
Paris, before the same Council, at eight o'clock in
the morning. Is it possible to commit a more
enormous blunder ?"

Count Boulay de la Meurthe adds in the post-1
script : " The observations which Joseph Bona-
parte has made upon Bourrienne's Memoirs have
just been communicated to me. Amongst the nu-
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he has given to this last

person, I remark one, relative Co Bourrienne's ac-

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count of the 18th Brumaire." " All this recital

(he says) is a forgery : General Bernadotte did not
see General Bonaparte on the morning of the 18tb,
and did not enter his house." " And, in support
of this. Joseph does not hesitate to appeal to the
testimony of Bernadotte himself, saying, " Gene-
ral Bernadotte is still living ; his wife, and her
sister (Madame Joseph) also know as well as I do,
that he did not see the General on the 18th of
Brumaire." Now, from the evidence of Joseph,
it results that, with respect to the point which we
are discussing, Bourrienne, as usual, is a liar.
Because, if Bernadotte did not see Bonaparte on
that day, it must be false to assert that they
had any conversation together, or that they
could have mutually reproached or menaced each
other.

In vol. vi. page 80, the " intimate Secretary,
and early friend of the family" says, that " Lucien
married secretly, at the Hotel de Brienne, the wife
of an Agent, who, for the sake of greater conve-
niency, was sent to the colonies; where sometime
afterwards he died." To this, Count de Sure illiers
replies, " that when Lucien married Madame Jou-
berthon, a lady of great beauty and talent, she was
a widow ; and that it is false that the marriage was
performed in secret at the Hotel de Brienne ; that
it was celebrated at Ole,ssis Chaman, a country
place of Lucien's, in the department of the Seine,
at Oise." "It is easy," he continues, to " per-
ceive in this " sending to the Colonies," that the
spirit of the author is prolific in calumny and per-
fidious insinuations."

In vol. 2, page 18, NI. de Bouriennne affirms, I
" that Napoleon, instead of bringing from Italy
only three hundred thousand francs, as stated by
him at St. Helena, returned thence, to his certain
knowledge, with more than three millions." Jo-
seph Bonaparte, in reply, observes, that, in de-
parting from Egypt, Napoleon deposited all his
property in his (Joseph's) hands ; and that it
approached much nearer to the three hundred
thousand francs, as was stated at St. Helena,
than to the sum mentioned by the Ex-Secretary.
Moreover, in vol. 3, page 291, M. de Bourrienne,
forgetting the three millions, which be had con-
ferred upon Napoleon, in the preceding volume,
makes him so poor, on the marriage of Murat with
Caroline Bonaparte, as to be only able to give
his sister a marriage portion of thirty thousand
franca, 1,2501.
In vol. 4, page 346, M. de Bourrienne states,
" that the first Consul was annoyedand tormented
by continual demands for money, made upon him
by his brothers; and adds, that to put a stop to
this on the part of Joseph, who expended enor-
mous sums of money at Morfontaine, as did
Lucien at Neuilly, he caused M. Collot to be ap-
pointed purveyor of provisions ; but on condition
that, out of his profits, he paid annually one mil-
lion five hundred thousand francs to Joseph.
This assertion Joseph pronounces to be an in-
famous calumny, and laments, that the actual
state of France does not permit him to prosecute
the slanderer for libel.
But it would require several volumes to refute
all the misrepresentations of M. de Bourrienne.
Under a conviction, however, that I have stated
enough to excite the curiosity of the public upon
the subject, I shall now take my leave of M. de
Bourrienne, with the following extract from Count
Boulay de la Meurthe's observations on his Me-

moire:—
Facts, motives, intentions, all are either falsi-
fied or perverted. Instead of a faithful, simple,
and truly historical recital, you find a romance void
of connection, judgment, and 'vraisemblance;'
the materials of which are partly the offspring of
his own imagination, warped by revenge and ava-
rice, and partly taken from preceding publications,
equally inspired by passion, and which deserve no
lother name than libel."
In vol. 2, page 212-13, of the Edinburgh Tran-
slation, M. de Bourrienne quotes the following
passage from the last Will of Napoleon. " It was
I who caused the Duke d'Enghien to be arrested
and judged, because that was necessary to the se-
curity, the interest, and the honour, of the French
people, when the Duke d'Artois entertained, by his
own confession, sixty assassins at Paris. In si-
milar circumstances, I would act again in a similar
manner." Upon which, M. de Bourrienne makes
a statement, which my own personal knowledge of
the subject in question enables me to contradict in
toto " Napoleon" (writes M. de Bourrienne)
" dictated this remarkable sentence to the friend
who wrote the whole document to his dictation ;
this individual passed, entreated, conjured him to
suppress a declaration, which would bring a blot
upon his glory. and zhich was so evidently at
variance with all that Ss bad previously said upon
the subject. Overcome by the entreaties of so

faithful a friend"—(who was ho ?)•
consented to the suppression."
M. de Bourrienne continues : "tl
then concluded, and enclosed in a box
Bonaparte alone kept the key; but,
death, the passage I have just cited,
covered in a codicil." In reply to this.
deny that the Will here alluded to,
up in a box ; for I have repeatedly
ing upon the table of Napoleon':
amongst numerous other' papers, seal
directed in the Emperor's oa n hands•'
following effect : " To be given to
of Austria, after my death." Moreover
tonce quoted by M. de Bounienne
dictated to an amanuensis, nor teCOl
dicil ; but forms a part of the eigbk
of the body of the Will, where it was
inserted by the Emperor himself, in
writing. Of the truth of this any
satisfied by referring to tl.e last Will
which may be seen on applying at the
in Doctors' Commons.

We lament that such an exposure
pear to disabuse the public long ago.
have been engendered, not easy to
hereafter M. de Bourrienne will never
as an authority by any respectable hi
are the calumnies of a discarded
tected in frauds by an indignant master
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. would have been Wpm& even the ingenuity 1.
Bourrienne, to have named erb ik.cndly Amanuensis,
we come to consider that Napoleon concludes
the Will in his own hand.writing, and

words :—"Ce pnatint testament, foie writ
mein eat signs d wells de mee anew.
( &was) " NA
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IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF LORDS, JULY 27.
The holm rat at ten o'clock this morning in a Committee.
of Privileges.
The lards present were the Lord Chancellor, the Earl
of Eldon, the Earl of Shaftesbury, Vi►count Clifden, the
Earl of Craven, and Lords Leven and Bldsille, Selkirk,
Redeidalc, Wynford, and Wallace.
NORMAXTON PEERAGE.
The Committee, after bearing evidence, rewired that ti e
Earl of Normanton had made out his claim to vote at the

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