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NOVELTIES OF FOREIGN LITERATURE. 
MS. REMAINS of ike EMPEROR NAPO¬ 
LEON, brought from St. Helena , and 
published by Santini , his Valet. 
(Concluded from our last.J 
THOUSAND follies were com¬ 
mitted at Berlin at the time of 
the declaration of war. A few head¬ 
strong youths went so far as to sharpen 
their sabres under the very windows of 
the French Ambassador: it was pro¬ 
bably in order to save us the trouble 
of putting a fine edge upon them, for 
a few days afterwards these very sabres 
no longer belonged to their masters, 
who came and modestly deposited them 
at our feet. 
My van-guard encountered the Prus¬ 
sians. The king’s brother who com¬ 
manded them, a brave soldier, was 
killed while fightiugsword in hand with 
a quarter-master; a part of the enemy 
were cut to pieces; those who remained 
were our prisoners, and very few es¬ 
caped. I then put myself as the head 
of the army, as the Prussians waited for 
me at Jena. This was one of the most 
glorious days of my life. The Prussian 
army was annihilated ; and soon after 
this much boasted kingdom was on the 
brink of being no longer reckoned 
among the European powers. 
Franee had now’ to make up for all the 
gold which for the last twenty-five years 
she had lavished in Prussia. I drew 
large sums out of it; but they were 
never equivalent to what she had 
received from us during the time we 
had the misfortune of dreading her 
power. 
I had great designs on Prussia; 
and it Was not until some days after the 
peace of Tilsit that I abandoned them, 
out of friendship for the Emperor Alex¬ 
ander, who nevertheless was ignorant 
of my intention. 
I knew from the best sources that 
the majority of the Prussians were 
much inclined towards a less despotic 
government. I had arranged every 
thing jn a manner so as to offer a con¬ 
stitutional monarchy to Prussia,through 
the medium of its principal magistrates; 
I should have left them under no re¬ 
straint whatever, and without inter¬ 
fering with them in the least; they 
would thus have chosen that form of 
government which best suited them. 
At the battle of Austerlitz, the 
Russians were so terribly in disorder, 
that it was sufficient for me to ma¬ 
noeuvre on their left extremity and on 
their centre, in order to compel them 
to lay down their arms. I did nothing 
out of respect for the Emperor of Aus¬ 
tria. The Russians v r ere at liberty to 
withdraw; I was generous, Alexander 
repaid me with ingratitude; but some 
time after he made common cause with 
the Prussians, and again marched 
against me. 
The battle of Eylau was one of the most 
sanguinary in winch I had ever com¬ 
manded. The Russians there showed 
themselves worthy of their adversaries; 
the French performed prodigies of va¬ 
lour. I remained master of the field, 
but it cost me dear; two more such 
victories, and 1 should have been oblig¬ 
ed to recross the Rhine and commence 
a new campaign. 
The victory of Friedlaud was less 
dearly purchased and much more deci¬ 
sive. It brought on the peace of Til¬ 
sit, surnamed by the soldiers 44 the 
peace of three Emperors,” because in 
fact three emperors w r ere present to 
ratify it. 
This peace, which saved the King 
of Prussia, (for whom I was preparing 
to cut out w ork in his own states,) I 
should not have consented to, had I not 
previously had occasion to captivate 
the esteem and the friendship of the 
young Emperor Alexander, and that, 
w ith a view to the great designs which 
I had formed on the Spanish house of 
Bourbon. 
Under the head of the 44 Spanish 
war,” are some valuable and highly 
interesting facts; he thus introduces 
the subject: 
I occupied the throne of the Bour¬ 
bons; nothing was more natural than 
that all who formed part of this family 
should continually be disposed to 'njure 
me one time or other. 
To expel this family from the thrones 
of Europe, was most certainly the best 
thing 1 could do for my own safety and 
that of my successors. In fact, as long as 
a Bourbon occupied a throne,that crown 
which I had received by the general 
consent of the nation, w r ou Id alway shave 
been in a very precarious state. This 
is, no doubt, a truth apparent to all; 
a truth flowing from the sceptre I had 
acquired, and wdiich all the reasoning 
in the wnrld will not metamorphose into 
sophistry. Nowg should the impartia¬ 
lity of my contemporaries be joined to 
that 
