Virginia advocate. [volume] (Charlottesville, Va.) 1827-1860, 1829-09-11
CnAnLOITEsVILLE, VIRGINIA, FRIDAY sEPrEMRER :, ,e

to the repose and happiness of France.
History will give you credit for it.
am not insensible to the usfortunes
oil your family. l shall learn with plea
sure, and will contribute with all nv heart
10 secure the tranquility of your retreat.
BONAPARTE."
Shelving me the letter he said Glow
DO you lind it? Is it not very well pa He
never got angry when made gra,ninat-
zeal observation ] replied, g Since YOU
nave taken your determination, | can
nave nothing more to say but will make
dh observation as to the style [ observed
to hun that people did not learn NTH
/ pleasure to secure &c" On reading ace
more, he was of opinion that he had gone
too lar, aud had committed himself by
saying Mnt he ,oould contribute usifh ali
his heart to lie therefore struck his
pen through the latter phrase and wrote
above: :" will contribute with pleasure
towards the happiness and tranquility O,
| your retreat"
letter thus blotted and corrected was
not mt to be despatched he lett il. never
theless. On the table with his signature.
| Some time after this, he wrote another
'euer' the three hrst paragraphs of which
were exactly the same as those we have
just read. lie changed the latter and
put: y" am not insensible to the misfor-
tunes OF your family, and | shall learn
with pleasure that YOU are surrounded
WIN al that can contribute to the tran.
qui'i'y oi your retreat" BY these express
s'ons lie pledged himself t. nothing. not
even In words. The idea of has contribu-
ing towards the happiness of the retreat
no longer existed. Every day that increas-
Ell his power and strengthened his position
| diminished, by his account the chances If
the Bourbous. Seven months eI,psed no
tore the first letter of the king and the de-
| nH'e answer OF the first consul This let.
Ter Is dated 2 vendenaire yea, 10 (24th
sept. lSo0) Just at the moment when the
! congress OF Luncvile was abou, IN a..
sembie
a lew days after the receipt of the let
Ter OF Louis 18Th, we were taking a walk
at '"aimaison. IN his favorite path, which
was only separated from his summer house
ny small bridge he was in an excel
ient hnmor, things were going on admira-
oiy " Has my wife said any thing more
to you on the subject of the Bourbons ,"
SAID he to meme, general Brt-wbile
you were engaged in conversation with
| her' you gave little into her way ofthink-
| ing ell me, why you wish to see them
mere You can have no interest i'm their
return, no expectations from them. Yon
are not OF sufficient high birth ever n nh.
tam place OF any consequence. You
VIII never be any thing to them. You
were, 1t is true, through the interes, Of NJ
de Chambonas, appointed Secretary of Lee
ga'ion to Stutgard and had no change
taken place. you must have remained there
all your life, or occupied some inferior
place. Have you ever known men to raise
| themselves to places about throne
through their merit alone I'm that
country every thing is given to birth
great connections, to fortune and intrigue.
Endea9our to view things i'm their proper
| Light, while you look into futurity exer.
else every particle OF reflection that Won
are master Of" General" replied to
him, " my ideas on certain point are in
perfect accordance with yours. | have
never at any time received from the Bosr-
pohs either presents, places, or favors |
am nos vain enough 10 suppose that |
should have arrived at a post of d,st;nc.
ton. But you will not forget that nv an
poihtment preceded the ptostration of the
throne by lew days and | cannot. in
uuth, draw any conclusion, on subject
that has never taken place from causes
uDhaPplly but too positive, as to VIVA,
| might, had the case been otherwise haze
happened As for the rest, assure YOU
that am not actuated by sentiments of a
| personal nature, when address YOU with
the iraDkDess which you have required of
me. 1t is not myself that consider. but
france IN general. [ am perfectly will
ing 10 believe that you will retain YOUR
power as long as you live but rou have
10 cOildren; II is, moreover, morally GER
tam mat you will never have any by Jo-
sephine. What shall we do afer Won are
gone What will become Of US? You talk
to me ot the future look tn that of beau-
tiiuI France, who has solicited i, at your
hands. You have often told me that your
brothers were not--IIe here interrupt
ed int with, All as to that. Won are
right vt l should not live thirty years
longer to complete what have begun az
ter my death you will have endless civil
wars; for my brothers would not suit
France you know what they are. You
will then hate dreadful contentious
between the most distinguished of nv pe.
Derals, zach of whom will conceive him
selfentitled to fill my place" Very well
general, tiren why would you not rem,
edy evils which you foreseel Do YOU
suppose that that does not OCCUPY nv
thoughts =" But on the other hand weigh
well ali the difficulties contained in their
1 DY0Dos;fton hoy shall + oo,ron.x.