Nashville daily patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1855-1857, 1856-02-18
Napoleen,s Confidential Correspo.-

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| The Baltimore american has been favored
By the Publishers, d. Appleton & Co., of New
York, with the early sheets of book which
We feel certain is destined to create some stir
in the Literary World The title Of the book
is ''The Confidential Correspondence of Ma
| poleon Bonaparte with his Brother Joseph"
To be published in vols. IL mo-. This book
viii affoid deeper insight into the mind Of
| Napoleon than all the biographies which have
ever been written. The letters cover period
of twenty years, or from the time of his sp-
point'nent as a General in Brigade TO his fall
at Waterloo
| 1t proceeds to give a few extracts, which
will enable the reader to form an estimate Of
their interest. Under date of July rs, 1898,
he writes:
"Let me have on my arrival villa near Paris
or in Burgundy | intend to shut myself up
there for the winter. | am tired nf human ma
ture. want solitude and isolation. Great
ness fatigues me; feeling is dried mp. Al 29.
glory has become dat ! have exhausted eve
| rythng. l have NO refuge but pure sc fistness
shall retain my house, aud ler no else occupy
it. | have not more than enough TO live on
Adeu, my old friend. | have never been IN
just to you, as you must admit, though | may
have wished to be 50. You. understand me.
Love to your wife and to Jerome"
The following is NapoleOn's own account of
| the battle of Austerlitz:
| AUsTERLITz, Dec 8, 1S05.-My Brother
! | hope that by the time the courier reaches
you, my abide camp Lebrun, whom | sent off
from the field of battle, will have got TO Pari-.
| After some days of man9uvres, had yester
| day decisive battle. put tn flight he allied
army, commanded by the two EmperOrs OF
! Germany and Russia in person. 1t consisted
of $4,000 Russians and 10000 Austrians.
have taken about 10000 prisoners, among
whom are 90 Russian Generals, 40 colors 100
pieces of cannon, and all the standards of the
| Russian imperial guards. The whole army
has covered itself with glory.
| The enemy has left at least from $4,000 to
| Is 900 men on the field l do not yet know
my own loss estimate it at 800 or 900 kill
ed, ard twice as many wounded. A whole
! column of the enemy threw itself into lake,
and the greater part of them were drowned
! | fancy that | still hear the cries of these
! wretches WhOne 1t acas impossible to SAFE.
| We insert the following letter as showing
Napoleon's goodness of heart:
NAPOLEON TO JOSEPH
March 10, l8O0.-M de Stael is in the deep
est poverty, and his wife gives dinners aud
balls. If you still visit her, would it not be
we'll to persuade her to make her husband IN
allowance of from 1000 to 1000 francs ii
month"; Or have we already reached the lime
when not only decency, bat duties even more
sacred than those which unite parents and
children, may be trsmpled under foot without
the worlds being scandshzedl Let US give
! Madame de Stael the benefit of judging her
morals as if she were man; but would man
who had inherited NJ. Necker's fortune, and
who had long enjoyed the privileges attached
! to ii distinguished name, and who allowed his
wife to remain in shject poverty whilst he
lived in luxury, would such man be received
in society,"
Napuleuns care for small matters was re-
markable. He kept a waIchful eye upon eve
ry lien of expense attending the provisioning
and furnishing ot an army with food and cloth
ing-a remarkable contrast TO the miserable
state of the commissar.at department of the
English army in the Crimea last year.
ST. CLOUD, June 29th, 1906 My Brother
| see from your letter of the 18th, that you
had received some biscuit, and that II, 900
pairs of shoes have reached you from France.
| Take care to inform me of the arrival of each
consignment OF bisclit and shoes, tuar | may
make sure Of not being cheated in my ac-
counts Count the biscuit one by one : their
quality sbonld he good. The shoes ought To
be made of stout leather, not paste board; lhe,
cost me 8 IL francs pair. Ii they t NOT
good, let Inc know, | will have deduction
made for them in the general settlement.