The National Register. — 1816-12-02 (London, England)

RTE. A very curious and elite. wining book has fallen int!, our hands, treating of this extraordinary man. It -is the Epistolary Journal of a Surgeon on board the Northa:lobed:lnd. The &tails are interesting, and place Buttemparte in a tolerably favourable light, and they have every :tope:trance of authenticity ; indeed; if otherwise, there. are. hundreds of persons implicated in them who cefuld contradict them. Fouche is detested by Buona.:' •parte's adherents, who describe the abdication in favour. of Nappleon the Second to have been brought about by Fouthe's forging &letter from the Austrian-Minister to himself, expressing the resolution of the Emperor of • Austria, to get rid' of •the Traitor (Buonaparte), and 'to leave France to choose between Napoleon the Second . and a Republic. Napoleon swallowed the bait, and abdicated ;,it then turned out, that the Emperor of Aus; tria had.not power, if he had will to establish his little Grandson and thy* Fouche hoped, bongre malgre, to X 4 up 'a %Iwo. Mk. Talleyrand's talents-arc fully admit= ted by Bertrand, Las Cams, and Madame Bertrand if. he had been• with the 'emperor, they had all teen then at 'Buis instead of on hoard the Northutnber• j„, at?ti*„antlFrlince had never changedlter Master. Tolleyiand was distuissed front the Emperer'S confidence at the time of the Invasion of Spain, not beCtinse he diseppnwel of thomeasure,, on the contrary, he strenuously ;advised it, boldly assigning as. a reason, that he did not think his own life 'safe while a Bourbon reigned in Europe. • tralleYrand and Fouche are described by Bertrend as endeayouritq; to hang each other, and the General seemed to wish they might both succeed. There were three. little Bertrands all inoculated (boys and girl) with a military spirit, and constantly galloping anti chatiln,g on the deck, ala Hussar. Bertrand, Lax Cans, , &e, talked very freely about the Generals, and Marshals of France. Maseena had amassed the most money by the Revolution.—Macdonald the least ; the former was t. fencing burster. Bertrand spoke Well of Davoust, and evattjystified his conduct at HamburPh ; but strongly reprobated Ney's behaviour at •Waterloo ; and in coin. paring . Napoleon and Ney, he looked .up to Heaven and down on. the earth, and said the. difference was equal. Soult was, an eXeellent• offitmr.—Ney brave to • a fault-but Suchet possessed more information, add• ress, and politiptl sagacity than any Marshal in France. Buonaparte was generally quiet rather reserved, asking questions 'but never inviting any. He asked the chaptain of the ship if be wax J: Puritan and -a Midahipplan how Brace he had served : to which he replied wipe years,, but that ha had pissed _three of them .-ca, a prison at Verdun. where he.,avis when the •Em: peror went to. Ramie. Buonaparte shrugged his should' era and said nothing. He breakihsted on meat, Claret and coffee, took much snuff, but never offered any.— General arul Madame Montholon were companions of Buonaparte, the General was his Aide-de-Camp, and it is singular that Buonaparte served in the same capacity under the General's father during the • Revolutionary War.—Madanie Bertrand described the little Napoleon as very .beautiful—but Buonaparte scribed him in English as resembling himself only in the tipper part of his form, saying, a-He has one grand big head." Las Camas altered to qualify his Master to read an English Newspaper in a. month, but the Em. parer replied, that though they thought him very clever he could not do every thing. When be learned from Captain Beatty, of the Marines, that he was at the Siege of Acre lie pulled him by the ear, saying, "Aht Yon rogue, you rogue, were yon there He then enquired after Sir Sidney Smith, and repro-. hinted Barbary Ping' hs fully avowed his intention of invading'En;land en person' in 1805. Aware of the weakness of has flotilla, he sent Admiral Villeneuve with the Spanish and French fleet to sail apparently • for Martinique, by way of diversion.. Ho was then to swede Nelson, and return to the English channel, and . the flotilla *Wilt to put forth from Ostend, Boulogne, Dunkirk, &c.: the intention was to dash at,the capi• tal. by way of Chatham ; but Villeneuve, after being defeated by Sir Robert Calder, sailed contrary to orders fir Cadiz ;—and, exclaimed Napoleon, " He might as well have gcne to the East Indies." Buonaparte was a great ohner on board the Northumberland, often reclining on a sufa, quitting the card table early, and not appearing till eleven an the morning; frequently breakfasting in bed, and amusing himself with a novel. The conjectures in England as to his probably terminating his own existence, reached him, and he replied, " No, no, I have not enough of the Roman in me to destroy myself."—He apolte of Mr.Whitbreud's death, , and was inclined to attribute it to our foggy climate and gave this decided opinion on suicide:—" Suicid; ir a crane the most revolting to my feelings;—nor does any reason prevent itself to my tmdervtandiug, by which it can be justified. It certainly originates in that species of fear, which .we determine pultrourrie; for what claim can that man have to courage, who trembles at the frowns of fortune. True heroism consists in becoming superior to the ills of life, in whatever shape they may challenge him to the combat."—Madame Monthutun was an invalid; and Buonaparte enquiring of her medical attendant concerning her health, quoted Macbeth in the fidlowing way : •• Cam a physician minister to a Wad disesstd, Or pluck from nietnory a rooted rya t ' ( 4 • 1;•:, • -s• ,vatinve *sax of ghle Moth