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London, England, 1810-06-20 00:00:00

INT.SRCEPTED COARESPONDZhC.E.

MT= PROM NAPOLEON TO THE QUEEN OF SICILY,
11/1411N THE OCCASION OF THE UNION HE HAD CON-
TRACTED WITH lIER MICE, THE ARCHDUCHESS MARIA
LOUISA.
[lt was enclosed in a letter from Madam Beuret, dated Paris, the
28th February, to her husband, the Colonel of the 17th Regi-
, went of light ikfantry, is the second division of the second
corps of the French army in Spain, and was intertepted by the
light Parties attached to the army of the left. The original is
in the possession of his Excellency the Marquis of Romana, to
whom it was delivered.]
LETTER FROM MADAM BEURET TO' HER HUSBAND.
66 My dear and good friend—l have just received
a pretty large packet, enclosing a letter for myself,
one for M. Clerisif, another for the-Mayor of La Rif,
viere, and a fourth for M. De Barthiley. lam very
glad that you have written to the last mentioned, as
spy papa had just received a letter from him, com-
plaining of your silence, and expressing his fears that
you would imitate your protector and forget him.—
He is much -attached to you, and will write to you
as soon as we have informed him of the- number of
your corps and division. You say nothing concern-
ing your health ; but I conclude that you are com-
pletely recovered, from your frequenting the lodges
of the freemasons. Mine is good, notwithstanding
the cold we experience here. Papa and mamma are
very well, and Eugene better than any of us. He is
continually talking of you, and is the favourite of the
family, and the object of our caresses. I shall give
the best reception to Mrs. de Bureau, when she arrives.
You need not be uneasy, for I will carefully attend
to your orders. A number of new battalions are
raising for the impertal guard; and all the young
men prefer serving in a corps which usually remains
in garrison, in Paris, to going to die in Spain. It is
said, the Emperor sets off for that kingdom on the
20th inst. but there is nothing certain upon this sub-
ject. Gan grant that he may go ; for you might
probably, in that case, be placed near his person, and
obtain a handsome estate of 5000 pieces a year, with
the title of Baron ! This would be tolerably well ;
and I assure you that I should be not a little proud
of hearing myself styled my Lady Baroness; but for
the present I have renounced all hopes, and shall
think myself very happy in seeing you once more.—
The war with Spain is universally pronounced to be
an endless contest ; for such is the ferocity of its in-
habitants, that they would sooner convert the whole
of their country into a desert than receive the Empe-
ror's brother ! What barbarians those Spaniards are !
What a set of cannibals ! I hate them implacably,
and particularly the friars. You are already apprised
of the intended marriage of our Emperor with an
Archduchess or Austria. Some think favourably of,
this-inatch ; but the major part are of opinion that it
will prove the ruin of /k!apoleon. It is said that Jo-
sephine all eady begins to Le an object of alarm to the
Emperor ; and it is contidently rumoured that Russia
is on the eve of breaking with us. When will our
wars have an end ? Our Italian friend, who visits in
the Duke of Bassano's family, has given me the en-
closed copy ot -a letter to be forwarded to you, which
is certainly a very singular production. It is said,
that the Queen of Sicily will not accept the proposals
of the Emperor, and that a new and sanguinary war
is about to commence. I leave you to think with
what regret I hear such tidings. Adieu, my esteem-
ed friend. I embrace and love you with my whole
beart. Your best and most faithful friend,
66 P. SECRET DE CELLERIER."
66 p. S. Mamma and papa, and the whole family, charge me
with a thousand things to you. I have not yet received the letter
for your pension as a.Member of the Legion of Honour."
COPY OF A LETTER FROM HIS MAJESTY THE EMPEROR
OP THE FRENCH, KING OF ITALY, Ac. TO HER MA-
JESTY THE QUEEN OF SICILY.
66 MADAM and COUSIN—The events of the year
• 1805 interrupted our friendship and harmony. A
formidable coalition against France, artfully planned
n the Cabinet of Mr. Pitt, and masked in an extraor;
—dinary manner, had put in motion against my legions
that were posted on the coasts of the ocean, the-Rus-
sian, German, and Prussian armies. In that critical
situation, my duty was to...deliver France from the
conflict, and to disperse the dreadful storm, or at
least to diminish its effects. This lat length accom-
plished, by bringing Prussia, Wirtemberg, and Ba-
',aria, to a sense of their own interests ; and
by forming a treaty with King Ferdinand, your Ma-
jesty's spouse, in which he engaged not tcbreceive in
his kingdom either Russian or English troops. In
consequence hereof, my troops evacuated his states.
War was declared ; and scarcely had my eagles en-
tered Vienna in-triumph, when I learned that the
Court of Naples had violated the sacred faith of the
Treaty, and was admitting an army into its very
)
6' I instantly knew that the seductive gold of Eng-
land, z.,; purtunely employed by her agent, ActOn,had
triumphed over the debility of King Ferdinand. The
battle of Austerlitz secured to me the happy result of
a war unjustly proveked ; AO France and her allies
loudly demanded the destruction of the Dynasty of
Naples, which its perjury had covered with disgrace.
• Placed in this critical ,situation, and being a o.austi-
tutional Monarch, what resource had I kit I Your
Kijt.sty, who hatltexperienced the arrogance of your
Subjects, knows, and I ought to know, that we So-
vereigns-must frequently stifle our own inclinations,
from a regard to the interests, and even the preju-
'dices, of the people we govern Thus was the fate of
ihe Mouse of N. pies decided ; and it was doomed to
lose its kin*dom, without any possibility on my part
to prevent it'! What pangs did this determination
cost me./ How odious in my eyes were the sceptre
and crown, when I LAind .myself compelled to a pro-
ceeding so adverse to my own sentiments ! Neverthe-
less' I did not lose sight of the interests of a misled
and disgraced Dynasty ; and when it became
possible for me to re-establish it in Italy, I thought
of giving it an equivalent elsewhere, The proposi-
twits which I made from Erfutth to King George,
leave uo doubt as to this fact. To the war of Ger-
' many, notwithstanding the pacific overtures by Lord
Lauderdale, and the announced swage of the Rots-
iian messenger Novozilt;off, immediately succeeded
that of rrosia, whose Sovereign would not agree to
the moderate proposals Which 1 glade him, litstigaL
fed lind Winded by Russia, and the insinuations and
promises pf Ergland, be, in a manner, presumed to.
dictate the• law se me, when his situation was such es'
. ,should have Father prepared him to receive it. A few
days stitcpil to sunvince him of his error; and -not-
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