are here! You are brave fellows-I saw you at Aboukir at Marengo-at Austerlitz. What! have you not got the cross of the legion of honour? Stay, I will give it you." Then the delighted soldiers would say to each other, "You see the emperor knows us alf; he knows where we have served." What a stimulus was this to soldiers!

HIS HATRED OF THE PRESS.

It was at the Luxembourg, that Bonaparte first displayed (27th Nivose) his hatred of the liberty of the press. By a consular act, or rather act of the First Consul, it was decreed, "that, whereas a portion of the journals printed in Paris are instruments in the hands of the enemies of the republic, the minister of police will take care, that, during the continuance of the war, there shall be printed, published, and dis tributed, only thirteen political journals, as per margin, exclusive of those connected solely with science, art, literature, and commerce." Certainly this may well be regarded as a preparatory step, and may serve as a scale to measure the greater part of Bonaparte's acts, by which he established his own power, un 'er pretence of consulting the interests of the republic. The restriction, too, during the war," showed only provisionally, and left a little hope for the future; but the provisional is of a nature very elastic, and Bonaparte knew how to stretch it to infinity-BoUR

RIENNE.

HIS PRIDE ON RECEIVING THE TITLE OF

FIRST CONSUL.

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The title of First Consul made him disdain even the title of Member of the Institute,-an honour which, in his proclamations, he had even preferred to that of Commander-in-chief. But in speaking of his nomination, I forgot to say what he really thought of it. truth is, that, young, ambitious, covered with glory, he received no ordinary gratification from the title which was thus offered; it was for the public. But in private, how often have we laughed heartily on weighing the value of these literary distinctions! Bonaparte knew a little of mathematics, a good deal of history, and, it need not be added, possessed immense military genius; but with only all this, he was good for nothing at the Institute, unless to deliver a course on ancient

and modern strategy. Already he no longer entertained the least regard for that learned body, of which in the sequel he cherished so great a distrust. It was a " corporation-an authorized assembly:" there required nothing more to give umbrage to Bonaparte, and Napoleon was no longer at the pains to dissemble how much he detested all that enjoyed the right of assembling and deliberating. Even from the time of his return, after the Egyptian expedition, he began to be weary of a title by which "too many colleagues" had the privi lege of addressing him; and he detested colleagues. "Do you not find," said he one day to me," that there is something triviál, something ignoble, in the phrase, 1 have the honour to be, my dear colleague? It tires me." In general, all expressions which sounded like equality displeased him utterly. The figure of the Republic, seated, and holding a lance affixed to legal instruments, at the beginning of the consulate, was not long in being trodden unler foot: fortunate would it have been had he thus treated only the "image" of" liberty!-BOURRIENNE.

THE POET CAMPBELL.

This celebrated, but irritable poet, whose political bias is no secret, having been invited to a bookseller's dinner, shortly after the legal murder of l'alm, the German bookseller, was called upon for a literary toast. or sentiment. To the astonishment of the company, Campbell stood up and gravely pronounced " Bonaparte!"-"What!" said his host, "Did we understand you rightly? Do you really propose Bonaparte, we asked you for a literary toast, or sentiment Camp. bell, laughing, replied, " Yes, I give you Bonapartehe has performed one good service he once shot a bookseller" The whole company relished the joke,. and Bonaparte's health was drank as it deserved

THE FOUNDATION OF THE LEGION OF

HONOUR.

One of the preparatives for the future order of things, which dates from the Luxembourg, was the institution of" honorary sabres and fusils." Who does not discover in this humble means the foundation of the Legion of Honour? A sergeant of grenadiers, named Aune, having been included in the first distribution, "easily" obtained permission to write, thanking the First Consul. Bonaparte, desiring to reply ostensibly,

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dictated to me the following letter:-"I have received your letter, my brave comrade. You have no need to tell me of your actions; you are the bravest grenadier in the army since the death of the brave Benerete. You have had one of the hundred sabres which I distributed to the army. All the soldiers agreed that you were the person who best deserved it. I wish much to see you again. The minister of war sends you an order to come to Paris." This cajoling, addressed to a soldier, tended marvellously to the object proposed. The letter could not fail to circulate in the army. The First Consulthe first general of France, call a sergeant, "My brave companion!" Who would act thus but a sincere republican-an enthusiastic admirer of equality? There wanted nothing more to inflame the whole army with devoted admiration.-BoURRIENNE.

HIS FAULTS.

"Napoleon one day asked me," said Josephine, "What are my faults"" I replied, I knew only of two, want of firmness and indiscretion; you suffer yourself to be governed by those who seek only your ruin, and are so fond of disputing, that you divulge your secrets. He folded me in his arms, and owned that it was true. When I pointed out to him the danger of ambition, he answered,-'It is also on your account, and that of your family, for if I were to die, thou wouldst be sacrificed!'"

After the divorce, Josephine exclaimed, "I have drained the cup of misfortune. He has cast me off! forsaken me! He conferred on me the vain title of empress, only to render my fall the more marked. Ah! I judged him rightly; I did not deceive myself as to the destiny that awaited me, for what would he not sacrifice to his ambition!"-IBID.

STATUES AT THE TUILERIES ERECTED

BY HIM.

At this very time, Bonaparte had begun to find himself straitened in the Luxembourg, an preparations were making for the Tuileries. But this grand step towards the re-establishment of monarchy was to be taken with all prudence. It behoved first to remove the supposition that none save a king could inhabit the palace of our ancient kings. What was to be done in this case? A very fine bust of Brutus had been brought from Italy; and was not Brutus the scourge of tyrans