L'Ami des Loix, &c. condemned the conduct of the commissary, who was dismissed from his office. I have been told, that he now keeps an hotel at Leghorn, taking good care, no doubt, never to relate the fact, that the mother of Napoleon, the first and last Emperor of the French, King of Italy, Protector of the Confederation of the Rhine, Mediator of Switzerland, Maker of Kings, and Manufacturer of Princes, Dukes, Counts, Barons, &c. had kept a brothel at Marseilles, and pandered away her own daughters, the Princess Eliza, the present Grand Duchess of Florence, and the Princess Paulina, the present Princess Borghese. The Princess Caroline, now Queen of Naples, then only thirteen years of age, was the little Mercury of her sisters.

There is a French proverb, Quand le Diable est vieux il se fait Hermite, that may be applied with propriety to Madame Letitia Bonaparte: she is now become very religious, and is a great conservator and amateur of relics. She is at the head of a religious order, called "Les Sœurs de la Charité," who always attend the sick and dying: this office they of course perform gratis.

This virtuous old lady has no influence whatever with her imperial son. Some years since, when she had the courage to reproach him with the unnecessary murder of the Duke D'Enghien, his Imperial Majesty kicked and pinched, and afterwards banished her. Nero's conduct to his mother,

Agrippina, was something similar. Were Madame Letitia handsome, and in the prime of life, Napoleon would, most probably, do the same as Nero did with his mother!

JOSEPH BONAPARTE, KING OF SPAIN, GRAND ELECTOR OF FRance.

THIS is the eldest of the family, and a man of a very peaceable, mild disposition. When the thrones of Naples and Spain were forced upon him, he resisted a long while, but he was obliged to yield. He is a very domestic man, a good father, a good husband, and the poor man's friend *.

Joseph Bonaparte served many years in an attorney's office at Marseilles, and married the daughter of a petty woollen draper, his present wife. He was not brought into notice till a year or two after his brother's elevation to the command of the army of Italy.

He was, in the year 1796, appointed a member of the Council of Five Hundred, and was after

* I know of several very charitable acts of his amongst others was that of allowing a pension of 6,000 livres per annum, 2401. sterling, to the venerable Bernardin de St. Pierre, author of The Indian Cottage, Studies of Nature, Paul and Virginia, &c. &c.

wards sent by the Directory as ambassador to Rome; where he did not stay long, on account of one of his suite, a General Duphot, having been murdered by the populace of Rome.

He then returned to Paris, and was again appointed a Deputy of the Council of Five Hundred. When Bonaparte usurped the government of France, he made his brother a counsellor of state, a senator, and a king.

PRINCESS PAULINE,

WIFE OF THE ROMAN PRINCE BORGHESE.

THIS Lady is the ci-devant wife of General Le Clerc, who died in St. Domingo. He was with Bonaparte and Murat at Toulon and Nice; was imprisoned with them, and cashiered, like them, for bad conduct.

Shortly after Bonaparte was appointed to the command of the army of the interior, after the affair of the 13th Vendemiaire, he met his old friend, Le Clerc, inviting persons in the Palais Royal to an amiable tête à tête. He was, in short, a p of the lowest order.

Bonaparte got him a situation in the army of the Sambre and Meuse, then under the command of General Hoche. He was at Franckfort

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on the Main when the news arrived there of the preliminaries of peace having been signed between Bonaparte and the Archduke Charles; which, however, did not prevent Le Clerc plundering and pillaging the inhabitants of Franckfort, although a neutral city.

He afterwards served in the army of Italy; and Napoleon, finding him a fit person to belong to his family, gave him his sister Pauline in marriage.

The Princess Pauline is a very handsome delicate woman, although a courtezan since the age of fourteen, when, as already observed, she lived under her mother's roof in a state of prostitution. She has still preserved her beauty.

She also has an incestuous intercourse with the Emperor Napoleon; but she is neither so insolent nor so proud as her sister Murat. She is very witty; and very frequently, in her sallies, tells her imperial family some bold truths, and very often mocks them. She thinks, I suppose, that, as she is married to a genuine Prince, such liberties are permitted. She has a long list of admirers; but the most favoured is Lafonde, a tragic performer of celebrity. Prince Borghese, her husband, is a Roman prince, and a ci-devant patriot; was a great jacobin when the French first entered Rome, who, in return for his kindness towards them, ruined him. When the French army, in 1799, were obliged to quit Rome, Borghese followed.

Bonaparte, to usher in his imperial dignity, commenced by giving his sister in marriage to a genuine Prince. The match in every respect suited Borghese, as he was very poor, and his bride very rich. Her riches, which she brought with her from St. Domingo, were estimated at 300,000. sterling.

Prince Borghese is now Governor of Genoa. Some new kingdom will no doubt be given to him.

THE PRINCESS ELIZA,

LATE DUCHESS OF LUCCA AND PIOMBINO, NOW GRAND DUCHESS OF FLORENCE.

THIS Princess is Bonaparte's sister. She was born in 1776, and, at the age of fifteen, was already a perfect syren. Her amours, since she has been married to her present husband, have been out of number. Amongst the favoured was Mr. Hengerlo, a rich contractor, but ruined by the government not long since.

The insolence of this woman is beyond example. When she was created a Princess, she appointed Mr. D'Aligre, son of the President of the Parliament of Paris, and whose private revenue is 25,000l. sterling per annum, to be her first chamberlain. When I say she appointed, I