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accordingly been given to Brahmins and Fakirs, but great as is his Highness's superstition, it will hardly induce him to loosen his purse-strings. He has removed from that quarter of the palace where the vulture sat. Another alarm has been caused by the spirit of Matabar being supposed to have entered the room in which he was murdered, and made a great noise, on the night of the 5th instant. The Maharajah accordingly ordered Poojah to be performed in the room, and then desired that it should be closed for ever."

October 2, 1845.

"The Maharajah has ordered all the Pundits to examine their books, and to inform him whether the British will be victorious against the Punjaub."

PRINCE LOUIS NAPOLEON TO

SIR ROBERT PEEL.

1846.

Prince Louis Napoleon to Sir Robert Peel.

MONSIEUR,

Je considère comme un devoir de vous informer de mon évasion du fort de Ham, et de mon arrivée sur le sol hospitalier de l'Angleterre.

J'ai supporté six ans de captivité sans me plaindre, parceque je voulais prouver par ma résignation que je méritais un meilleur sort: mais mon père infirme et malade ayant désiré me revoir encore sur cette terre je demandai au Gouvernement Français la permission de me rendre à Florence, l'assurant de mes intentions pacifiques et lui offrant toutes les garanties que l'honneur me permettait de donner. Le Gouvernement a été inexorable. Je suis parti.

Aujourd'hui que je suis libre je viens vous donner, Monsieur, l'assurance formelle que si j'ai quitté ma prison ce n'est point pour m'occuper de politique, ni peur tenter de troubler la paix dont jouit l'Europe; mais uniquement pour remplir un devoir sacré. J'espère que vous compatirez à mes souffrances, car votre cœur doit étre aussi accessible au malheur que votre esprit l'est aux grandes choses.

Je vous prie Monsieur de recevoir l'assurance de mes sentiments de haute estime.

LONDRES, le 27 mai, 1846.

NAPOLÉON LOUIS BONAPARTE.

Je demeure sous le nom du Comte d'Aremberg, à Brunswick Hotel, Jermyn Street.

Note.

It was desired at one time by Mr. Cardwell and myself to insert this letter in a volume of Sir Robert Peel's biography or correspondence. Permission being asked of the Emperor accordingly, his Majesty replied as follows.

S.

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J'ai reçu votre lettre et je consens très-volontiers à ce que le document dont vous me parlez paraisse dans les Mémoires de Sir Robert Peel. A ce nom illustre en effet se rattache pour moi le souvenir de l'hospitalité Anglaise et ce souvenir me sera toujours précieux.

Je vous remercie donc, my Lord, d'avoir eu la pensée de me demander un consentement que j'accorde avec plaisir, et je vous renouvelle l'assurance de mes sentiments distingués.

NAPOLÉON.

INSCRIPTION,

BY LORD MACAULAY.

1847.

THE active mind of Lord Macaulay, which applied itself, and with good fruit, to so many subjects, once considered how some stately ecclesiastical structure might have been raised in grateful commemoration of our glorious Peace in 1814. What in such a case might have been a suitable inscription? Here is the one that Lord Macaulay composed and gave to me (May 8, 1847).

LIBERATIS HISPANIS

DEBELLATIS GALLIS

PACATO TOTO TERRARUM ORBE

REBUS DOMI MILITIÆQUE

FELICITER GESTIS

HOC TEMPLUM

DEO OPTIMO MAXIMO

DICAVERUNT

REX SENATUSQUE BRITANNIARUM.

P. M. A. C. F.

1849.

Lord Mahon to the Right Hon. T. B. Macaulay.

MY DEAR MACAULAY,

Brighton, Jan. 3, 1849.

At page 440 of your first volume you give an account of a curious broadside from "evidently a zealous Roman Catholic," containing an account of the death of Charles the Second, and you add: "The initials are perfectly intelligible except in one place. It is said that the D. of Y. was reminded of the duty which he owed to his brother by P. M. A. C. F. I must own myself quite unable to decipher the last five letters."

In attempting to play the part of Edipus on this occasion, I beg to assure you that I make no pretensions to that character in general. I have very often found myself at fault on such subjects, and have puzzled long and fruitlessly while others have pounced on the meaning at once; and I think that success in such things is apt to depend much less on skill or experience than on accident and first impression. But now to the point.

On considering the deathbed scene of Charles the Second, we must, I think, bear in mind that his reconciliation with the Roman Church was claimed as a great honour and triumph by the Roman Catholics, and that

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