Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1816-11-12
[ From tic Boston Doilu Adyertiscr.

We have received from friend in Eu-
rope the following account OF d work which
was about To be published at Dresden.
Ii is 10 be entitled Memoirs of the Duke
ofOhanto, extracted and translated from
the German work under the title of F." Zeii-
geahossen, or orr celebrated Contemporaries
No. H." The fact is, the work is not a
translation from the German, but me-
NOR written by Fouche himselfin French,
III which language it is already printed,
but retained from publication until the
German translation, which is to pass for
the original, shall have come ont in the
next number of the Zeilgenllossen, which
was to appear In September. The man
nerlnwhich the work came into the hands
of our correspondent, it cannot be impor-
tant TO the reader TO know
1t is represented to be in all points, a
remarkable performance. 1t is intended
to defend the subject and author of it, for
a moment, iii the eyes of the world, from
the accusations which now press so hea-
Willy upon him, until he can have time to
publish his full and regular memoirs. II
is pamphlet of about $50 pages, and
touches chiefly on those important mo-
ments i'll which he has incurred the great
est censure. 1t is made very interesting
by the letters TO Buonaparte, Murat, and
others, which are nov published for the
FIRST time, and throw much light upon the
history of those periods. The following
is nasty sketch of some of the most i'm
pOrtant parts of the work
? JOSEPH ForCHE, Duke of Otranto.
wastie son of ii sea-captain, and born Nav
-, 1903, at NAMES, lower department of
the Lolre.-At school, he could neither
be taught Grammar nor French and Latin
prosody; but was fond of books of rea-
sonlng, and particularly delighted with
the Penseos de Pascal. He studied after
ihis successfully at the Institution de
IOratorle at Paris, where he used TO hide.
'Iacitus, Horace and Euclid, in his room.
when all secular books were forbidden
at the Academic Roy ale de Juillv, at Arras.
where he pursued with distinguished sue
cess morals, loglck, physlcks and mathe-
nlatlcks-and at the military school i'm
Nendome and finally returned to Naples
ana became an advocate, apparently of
that class, of which Burke speaks i'm his
letteron the French Revolution. Here he
was chosen member of the convention.
and united himself to Condorcet. He
passes rapidly over the death of Louis
- NHO TIT pan tOOh III DIS he SalN =.
Louis XVIII. thong he ought TO throw
a veil over it, by appointing him his Min
lister of Police" that he Was OBLIGED to
accommodate himself TO the language of
the times, and TO pay his tribute TO tie IA
tally of circumstances" but he boasts of
braylng RObcspircre and of retiring yo-
luntarily from public affairs, until the Di-
reciory sent him minister to Milan and
the Hague, aud afterwards called him TO
tie head of tic police.
Alter pretty decisive eulogv of himself.
and two papers of Nov. l70O, TO prove his
independence, which do moi seem to make
out the case, he springs over TO the period
when he had bcenalready once diseraced
by Bonapaite, and was now replaced. and
claims the credit of having first used his
recovered influence TO procure MORGAN
leave tO retire To America.
When the peace of J'iIsithad been sign
ed, aud the Emperor began to think of
conqucring Spain, .FOuche advised him
decidedly against IT, telling him" You
may conquer new provinces, but af pre-
sent nothing can add 10 your powerg--
NJ the time of the expedition of Walche-
ren, Bopparie being in the South of Ter
many, and fouchc, minister of fhe Into
rl0r and o. the POhce, lIe called upon the
National guards and told them =" De
clare TO Europe; that if the genius of 30
naparte can give 'ustre TO France. by his
victories, his presence isnot aeccssayg for re-
Pefhng cHr enemies" To this EXPRESSION
he says, he owed his second disgrace.
lie says nothing ofconscquen.e ofhim-
sell after this, except that he infimases
that ne expressed his opinion 10 Bouapaxie
against the Russian war, until we find him
III inc end of 1878. returning from Naples,
| after having IN yaip attempted TO persuade
! JOACHIM, from frcafi., 4 ~. a.. ILL.