Oh, yes, this little Lieutenant Buonaparte from the Military School of Brienne was a singular figure.

Conversations with your friend Buonaparte at St. Helena, amusing, but scarce worth sending.

The die had been cast: and the only reward, which he received from Buonaparte for his manly and faithful representations, was banishment to the Isle of Elba.

I was aware that the recent elevation of Buonaparte to the throne had enraged the small but formidable section of Jacobins and extreme Republicans, who saw that all their efforts to abolish a kingdom had only ended in transforming it into an empire.

Now Toussaint came into power, being general-in-chief of the armies of St. Domingo, a little before the end of the year 1796, and remained in power till the year 1802, or till the invasion of the island by the French expedition of Buonaparte under Leclerc.

The next, M. Michaud, had been also an advocate, and is possessor of considerable property in the department of the Doubs; he is a most rigid unbending republican, something in the style of Verrina in Schiller's Fiesco; he opposed the assumption of the supreme power by Buonaparte on the 18th Brumaire; he voted against the Consulship for life, as well as against the assumption of the Imperial dignity.

And now you try to make a friend of Buonaparte by betraying your old associates, who still trust in you.