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and erudition) lives in a state of exile, at 
Tivoli near Rome; the causes of this se- 
clusion are perhaps unknown to any but 
the parties immediately concerned : many 
are assigned on the Continent, but none 
absvlutely confirmed. 
Joseph Napoleon is partially recog- 
nized as King of Naples: his consort is 
sister to M. Antoine, mayor of Mar- 
seilles, who isa worthy and unambitious 
man. 
Louis Napoleon is partially recognized 
as King of Holland, very much against 
the will of a majority of the Mynheers, 
who certainly merit the mihtary rigour 
which they endure. As the Frogs of 
Batavia croaked most unreasonably at 
Sing Log, they must not complain that 
Fate has sent them a King Stork. 
Jerome Napoleon is partially recog- 
nized as King of Westphalia, and is 
to be married to a daughter of the 
King of Wirtenberg! I have been 
in company with this new-fledged mo- 
march, m the United States, where he 
was accompanied by his wife, the late 
Miss Patterson of Baltimore, and his 
physician and secretary. He isa deli- 
€ateily made man, of modest manners, 
and seemed to me to possess a tolerable 
understandings; I rather think © that 
** greatness hag been thrust upon him,” 
perhaps at the pressmg instances of Ma- 
dame la Meére (the fmperial Mother) who 
is most tenderly attached to this her 
youngest son.* 
Field-Marsha] Eerthier, Prince of 
‘Neufchatel, is minister of war, and 
among the first personal favourites of Na- 
poleon. To him is assigned the organiza- 
tion of those vast military plans which ori- 
ginate in Lis warlike master. At the battle 
* In forming the establishment of this 
‘young gentleman, we find another glaring in- 
stance of ingratitude and baseness. The Abbé 
Maury, who made the ‘* welkinring” with 
praising the high and noble qualities of the 
royal house of Bourbon, and who was ine 
vested with the dignities of a cardinal at 
Rome, at the express solicitation of the pious 
aunts of the unhappy Louis the Sixteenth, no 
avoner found the house of Napoleon impe- 
riaiized by the Holy Father, than he crawled 
to Paris, and solicited, and obtained the ap- 
po:ntment of Aumonier, or chaplain, to the 
* newly-created prince jerome, whese family 
he now sanctifies from the pulpit, at the ex- 
pence of his benedictions as a priest, and of 
bis integrity asamean! Sucha duty inthe 
Cardinal Fesch is in consonance with his re- 
ceived obligations, but in the Cardinal Maury 
it is disgusting 
A View of Modern Paris. 
(March 1, 
of Marengo, this officer, who was second 
in command, rode upto Bonaparte, when 
victory’ was inclining to the Austrians, 
and exclaimed “ General, I fear the day is 
lost, for the enemy’s cavalry have pene- 
trated our right wing.” “ This is the - 
first time (replied Bonaparte) that I have 
seen General Berthier m agitation!” on 
which he galloped off, and placing him- 
self at the head of Desaix’s corps of re- 
serve, charged the Austrians, and gained 
the day. 
The present war establishment of 
France, consisis of nearly one million, in- 
cluding the gensd@’armes, &c. These armies 
are recruited by an aunual levy of 80,000 
conscripts, of which 50,000, are raised in 
the three first months of the year, and 
30,000, which are cailed, the reserve, in 
the remainder. They are raised by bal- 
lot in each department, which furnishes 
their quota, agreeably to their population. 
All descriptions of persons, excepting the 
clergy, and registered officers, are liable 
to this levy, which is selected from those 
young men who have passed their twen- 
tieth year, and not arrived at their twen- 
ty-third. When the lot falls on the son 
of a rich man, from 4 to 15,000 franes 
are frequently given for a substitute, — 
who must be previously examined and — 
admitted by a military commission in 
each department. When any of thecon 
scripts are refractory to the marching 
ders, they are chained together, and : 
under an escort’to the armies! : 
M. Champagny is the minister of the - 
interior: to whom is confided the regula- 
tion of every thing that leads to the in- 
ternal prosperity or embellishment of 
the empire*. He is now raising, under 
the orders of Napoleon the tollownig 
superb structures in Paris, viz. - 
A column inthe Place Vendome, to the 4 
honovr of the French arms; it is to be 
150 feet high: in the inside is a spiral 
staircase, and on the outside are to be 
placed, many of the cannon which have 
been taken from the Russians, Austrians, 
Prussians, Saxons, and othernations. The _ 
sides are to be decorated with appropriate 
sculpture, in imitation of the column of 
Trajan, at Rome, and on the summit 
is to be placed a statue of Napoleon. To 
reuder the effect of this column more 
striking, they have cut a handsome ave- 
nue, from the place Vendome, to the Bou- 
levards. 
+ Since writing the above, I understand 
that M. Champagny is made minister for fo- ei. 
reign aftairs, and General Clarke is made mi ane 
nister ef the war department, baa 
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