gardens of Malmaison, while it embellishes the form, strongly expresses the character of the original.

"I have studied the eye of Bonaparte. That eye shuns inspection. A German observer, with the hand of a master, has pointed out the difficulty of describing it. This eye is represented lively, sparkling, open, and deeply arched. Engravings, medals, and coin, represent it as such, but all flatter in approximating the countenance to the antique.

"This eye suffers nothing to escape of what is passing within; it appears dull and fatigued by the efforts to which it has served as the organ. Eyes I have found none in those deep sockets. I found two places where these had once been. They are two craters, bearing the traces of the lava which has issued from them, and announcing that frightful abyss, whose borders they form. Perhaps at the moment the volcano groans in its recesses, and prepares death and destruction; perhaps at the moment it is breaking out, and is about to annihilate all that is within its reach.

'How looked this eye, when Bonaparte resolved on the destruction of the throne of Naples-the degradation of Austria-the extinction of the Germanic empire-the humiliation of Prussia? How looked this eye, when Bonaparte resolved on the exile of his benefactor, Barras ?-the death of Pichegru? How, when he ordered the young D'Enghien, just entering the suburbs of Paris, to be hurried away to Vincennes, and when Madame Bonaparte was drowned in tears at his knees? I should like to see this eye when it wants sleep. Does it ever close? How sleeps Bonaparte?'

BIOGRAPHICAL ANECDOTES.

[The Editor has collected the following Biographical Anecdotes of those remarkable Personages, who have either opposed or promoted the ambitious projects of Bonaparte, from the most authentic sources; and trusts that they will be found equally pleasing and instructive.]

JOSEPHINE, Ex-Empress of France. We have before given a brief account of the early life of this woman, whose varied fortune will render an object of curiosity to posterity. While she actell the part of wife and empress to Napoleon, she attracted much attention, not from the ostentatious display of royal pomp, which she anxiously shunned, but from the continued exercise of the virtues of humanity. After her divorce she retired for a short time into Italy, but now resides in the vicinity of Paris, where she employs her leisure hours in the cultivation of flowers and plants.

MARIA LOUISA, Archduchess of Austria, and Empress of France, being sprung from one of the most dignified houses in Europe, and educated in a court remarkable for its scrupulous etiquette and haughty sentiments, has of course a great influence in restraining the violent passions and natural vulgarity which Napoleon has so frequently displayed. His former empress soothed his raging spirits by her insinuating manners and gentle expostulations, but the present by the playfulness of her wit, or the offended glances of a high bred female; and he knows too well the political importance of this connection, to venture to use her with any degree of disrespect.

JOSEPH BONAPARTE, King of Spain, is the elder brother of Napoleon. In September, 1795, he was deputed from Liamone to the council of five hundred; but his election was not acknowledged oral till June, 1797. In 1796, he married a young lady of respectable

ly in Avignon, named Clary, whose sister has been since united arshal Bernadotte. On the 14th of May, in the same year, he

was sent to Rome in the quality of ambassador from the French repub lic, upon which occasion he protested against the nomination of the Austrian general Provera, to the command of the Roman troops, and in this, as in other matters which were discussed during the early part of his embassy, he was successful. Among other things he obtained the liberty of the imprisoned Roman patriots, and prevailed on the pope to grant an audience to his wife and sister. In December, the Corsina palace, where he resided, was invested by a mob, and by an armed force. Joseph, accompanied by General Duphot, went out to induce the populace to withdraw, but several balls were fired at once at the general, who fell dead by the ambassador's side. Joseph Bonaparte immediately left Rome, and went to Florence, in his way to Paris, where he arrived on the 20th of January, 1798, and gave a relation of what had passed to the directors, who declared themselves satisfied with his conduct. On the 24th he became one of the council of five hundred, and took the oaths. On the 21st of June following he was chosen secretary. After the revolution of the 18th Brumaire, he was made a member of the council of state, for the interior section. He concluded a treaty, in the name of the French republic, with the Uuited States of America, on the 9th of November, 1800, and gave a brilliant fete at his villa de Morfontaine, to the American ministers, at which the consuls, ministers, &c. &c. were present. He was afterwards appointed plenipotentiary to treat for peace with the emperor at Luneville, where his operations were crowned with the most entire success; the definitive treaty was signed on the 9th of February, 1801. The following year Joseph Bonaparte again met with the same success at the congress of Amiens, where peace was signed, on the 25th of March, 1802, between France and England, and the allies of France, the Batavian republic, and Spain. In July following he was appointed grand officer of the legion of honour, and called to the conservative senate. In the month of August, 1803, he went to preside over the elective college of Oise, on his return from the waters of Plombieres, where he had staid a month. In April, 1804, he was appointed colonel of the 4th regiment of regular infantry, and became a grand elector and a French prince. The next year he went to Brussels, and made an excursion through the departments of the Rhine. In October, 1805, he was appointed by the emperor to preside over the senate, and direct the administration in his absence. Shortly after he was ap pointed King of Naples; but when his brother determined to drive the Bourbon family from Spain, he was proclaimed king of that country. The protracted war that has arisen from this circumstance renders his situation highly critical and disagreeable, and has frequently in

duced him to solicit his recal from that distracted and impoverished kingdom.

LUCIEN BONAPARTE, a senator, and younger brother of the Emperor of the French, was at first employed in the war-office, married at Maximin, became war-commissioner, and was, in March, 1797, deputy of the department of Liamone to the council of five hundred; he there appeared in the tribune, on the 18th of July, 1798, and rejected, as tyrannical, the proposal of ordering shops to be shut on Sundays, in order to compel the observation of decades. He was a very active member of this body, and attracted considerable attention. On the 18th Brumaire he contributed materially to the revolution, which his brother Napoleon seemed to want the talents to effect. He was afterwards named minister of the interior, where he was distin guished for his rapacity. In October, 1800, he quitted the administra tion to go as ambassador to Madrid; and at the end of September, 1801, he signed at Badajoz, a peace between France and Portugal, after having settled the conditions of it with M. Cypr Bibeiro Frein, the minister of that kingdom. He returned to Paris in the following month, and was appointed member of the tribunate on the 9th of March, 1802 it was nearly about this period that he lost his wife. Some time after he carried up to the legislative body the wish of the tribunes in favour of the compact. On the 18th and 19th of May he demanded the adoption of the project which created a legion of honour, and on the 7th of July following he was named grand officer of it, and took his place in this rank in the consular senate. On the 3d of February, 1803, he was called to the institute, an academy of the political and moral sciences; shortly after, the senatorship of Treves was conferred upon him. In July, 1803, he went into Holland, and the de partments of the Rhine, to take possession there of the property be longing to the legion of honour. On his return he married Madame Jouberteau, the widow of a banker, and left France with her, in the month of April, 1804, to go and reside in Italy. Here he employed himself in collecting pictures and literary curiosities: but his lofty spirit not brooking the indignities offered him by his brother Napo leon, he determined to seek a peaceable asylum in the Uuited States of America. After effecting his escape from Italy, he was detained by the governor of Malta until instructions respecting him arrived from England; and the ministers refusing to permit him to proceed on his intended journey, he was conveyed to this country, where he now re sides, with his family, amidst affluence and hospitality. By many it is thought that he really wished for permission to reside in England.

LOUIS BONAPARTE, brother of Napoleon, and a French prince. He entered very young into the service, followed his brother in all his campaigns, and became colonel of the 9th regiment of dra goons, and afterwards general of brigade. In 1802, he married Mas demoiselle de Beauharnais, daughter of the Empress Josephine, by whom he had successively two sons, who were held over the font by the emperor their uncle. In September, 1803, he went to preside over the electoral college of the department of the Po, was named counsel lor of state and general of division in the month of April, 1804, and high constable of the empire immediately after the accession of his brother to the imperial throne. Two months after, the rank of colonelgeneral of the carabiniers was conferred on him. He accompanied the emperor into Italy at the time of his coronation in May, 1805, and was invested at Turin with the rank of governor-general of Piedmont. His health soon after obliged him to go and take the waters of St. Amand; and returning to Paris, he there filled for a time the place of Prince Murat in the government of that town, and afterwards he went into Holland about the end of November, to assume the command of the army of the north. His services were rewarded by his being some time after declared King of Holland; but the growing distresses of the Dutch rendered his situation inconceivably disagreeable. His merciful and compassionate disposition at last excited the resentment of Napo leon, and he was permitted to abdicate a dependent throne which his virtues disqualified him from filling.

JEROME BONAPARTE, King of Westphalia, is the youngest brother of Napoleon. He was intended for the sea, became lieutenant of a vessel, and was employed in that capacity in the expedition to St. Domingo, commanded by Leclerc. He soon returned to France with dispatches from this general, then set out again for Martinique in the frigate l'Everpier, which he commanded, and towards the end of 1802 he placed vessels to cruise before the road of St. Peter, and the island of Tobago. After being on a station for some months, he put into harbour in America, where he married Miss Patterson, the daughter of one of the richest merchants of the United States; which was not ap proved by the emperor his brother, on account of his minority. The English, who wished to seize his person, blocked up all the porta whence he could depart to return to France; but he at last escaped their watchfulness, and arrived in May, 1805, at Lisbon, which place he then quitted, went to his brother Napoleon, who was then in Italy, and arrived at Genoa, where he received orders from the emperor to go to Algiers, and claim as his new subjects the Genoese who were in slavery there. M. Jerome Bonaparte acquitted himself of this com