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MARSHAL MARMONT,

DUKE OF RAGUSA,

Is of a very good family, an able officer, and a gentleman in conduct and behaviour.

He is married to the daughter of the late Mr. Perregaux, the banker.

MARSHAL MONCEY,

DUKE OF CORIGLIANO.

He

THIS man's name is not Moncey: he was originally a valet to a gentleman of that name. is not considered as a man of any military talents; nor have I ever heard any thing to his disparagement.

MARSHAL NEY,

DUKE OF ELCHINGEN.

THIS is an atrocious brigand of the first order. He is the son of a knife-grinder at Saar Louis. Before the revolution he engaged himself to an officer who was in garrison there, and came with

his master to Paris. He soon left him, on account of some petty theft, and lived as hostler, about a twelvemonth, at a livery stable in the Rue des Petites Ecuries, Fauxbourg Poissonniere. He became tired of his place, and ran away with two horses. He was caught and imprisoned for it. The revolution saved him, as well as many others, from the galleys. He embarked in the cause of liberty, and soon made his way in the world. He is married to a niece of Madame Campan, who kept a boarding school at St. Germain. The Duchess of Elchingen was debauched by Louis Bonaparte, previous to her marriage. She was one of the Dames d'Honneurs of the repudiated Empress Josephine, and most probably holds the same situation in the establishment of the new Empress.

MARSHALS PERIGNON & SERRURIER.

BOTH officers of the ancien régime. I have never heard any thing disrespectful of these two gentlemen.

MARSHAL SOULT,

DUKE OF DALMATIA.

A Brigand, in every sense of the word: a common thief before the revolution. This man of

course embarked in the cause of French liberty, d'ame et de corps. He served in the ranks, and, owing to his revolutionary speeches, soon got promoted. His Lady, who is a Dame d'Honneur of the Empress's household, was a shopkeeper's daughter at Sohlingen, in Westphalia, and a notorious prostitute.

MARSHAL VICTOR,

DUKE OF BELLUNO,

WAS a drummer in the army before the revo lution. This man has the reputation of being a great coward, but a daring fellow in organizing robberies of couriers, and other domestic villainies,

Thus much for the present Marshals of France, the successors of the flower of the French nobility!

DUROC,

GRAND MARSHAL OF THE PALACE, AND DUKE OF FRIOULI,

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THE son of a tavern keeper, is a person of very indifferent talents, either as a soldier or as a politician. I am persuaded that he is not acquainted with the history of his own country. To make up for the deficiencies of his head, I can say, without fear of contradiction, that he has a good heart. He is kind, benevolent, generous, and obliging. If I am asked, why Bonaparte keeps a man about him who has no head, but a good heart?-the latter of which is certainly no recommendation to him; I must reply, that the scandalous Chronicle of Paris accounts for it in a way which I think unfit to explain.

General Duroc is a very handsome man, and of very engaging manners.

GENERAL JUNOT,

DUKE OF ABRANTES,

WAS a livery servant before the revolution. In the early period of his military career, he served in the ranks; and what brought him into the notice of Bonaparte was the following trifling occurrence:

Bonaparte wanted a dispatch written on the field of battle: neither his aids-de-camp nor secretary were then near him. He called out to the soldiers nearest to him, "Grenadiers, which of you can write

a good hand?" Junot, stepping out of the ranks, recommended himself. He was promoted that instant to the rank of serjeant; after that he was soon made an officer, being a great defender and champion of the cause of liberty. This man is very rapacious, rusé, and cruel. The horrors committed by him in Portugal are still fresh in the mind of the public.

GENERAL COUNT RAPP,

FIRST AID-DE-CAMP OF THE EMPEROR NAPOLEON,

WAS originally a servant at Colmar, in Alsace, and afterwards a soldier in the army. He advanced by his own merit, having the advantage of knowing how to read and write the German and French languages, which was then a great acquisition. He served in General Dessaix's brigade, who soon made him his aid-de camp. He was with him in Egypt, and returned to Europe. Rapp was not concerned in the murder of his General,

There is a great deal of naïveté about this man, and much good nature. I believe no one can

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