Napoleon's Letters To Josephine Part 15

_January 11th._--Cross the Brenta.

_January 16th._---Armistice at Treviso between Brune and the Austrian General Bellegarde.

_February 9th._--Treaty of Luneville, by which the Thalweg of the Rhine became the boundary of Germany and France.

_March 8th._--English land at Aboukir.

_March 21st._--Battle of Alexandria (Canopus). Menou defeated by Abercromby, with loss of 2000.

_March 24th._--The Czar Paul is a.s.sa.s.sinated.

_March 28th._--Treaty of Peace between France and Naples, who cedes Elba and Piombino.

_April 2nd._--Nelson bombards Copenhagen.

_May 23rd._--General Baird lands at Kosseir on the Red Sea with 1000 English and 10,000 Sepoys.

_June 7th._--French evacuate Cairo.

_July 1st._--Toussaint-Louverture elected Life-Governor of St.

Domingo. Slavery abolished there. The new ruler declares, "I am the Bonaparte of St. Domingo, and the Colony cannot exist without me;" and heads his letters to the First Consul, "From the First of the Blacks to the First of the Whites."

_July 15th.--Concordat between Bonaparte and the Pope, signed at Paris by Bonaparte, ratified by the Pope (August 15th)._

_August 4th._--Nelson attacks Boulogne flotilla and is repulsed.

_August 15th._--Attacks again, and suffers severely.

_August 31st._--Menou capitulates to Hutchinson at Alexandria.

_September 29th._--Treaty of Peace between France and Portugal; boundaries of French Guiana extended to the Amazon.

_October 1st._--Treaty between France and Spain, who restores Louisiana. Preliminaries of Peace between France and England signed in London.

_October 8th._--Treaty of Peace between France and Russia.

_October 9th._--And between France and Turkey.

_December 14th._--Expedition sent out to St. Domingo by the French under General Leclerc.

No. 1.

TO JOSEPHINE, AT PLOMBIeRES.

_Paris the "27" ..., 1801._

The weather is so bad here that I have remained in Paris. Malmaison, without you, is too dreary. The fete has been a great success; it has rather tired me. The blister they have put on my arm gives me constant pain.

Some plants have come for you from London, which I have sent to your gardener. If the weather is as bad at Plombieres as it is here, you will suffer severely from floods.

Best love to "Maman" and Hortense.

BONAPARTE.

EVENTS OF 1802.

_January 4th.--Louis Bonaparte marries Hortense Beauharnais, both unwilling._

_January 9th.--The First Consul, with Josephine, leaves for Lyons, where,_

_January 25th.--He remodels the Cisalpine Republic as the Italian Republic, under his Presidency._

_March 25th._--Treaty of Amiens signed in London. French lose only Ceylon and Trinidad. Malta to be restored to the Order of Knights, reconst.i.tuted.

_May 7th._--Toussaint surrenders to Leclerc.

_May 19th._--Inst.i.tution of the Legion of Honour.

No. 2.

TO JOSEPHINE, AT PLOMBIeRES.

_Malmaison, June 19, 1802._

I have as yet received no news from you, but I think you must already have begun to take the waters. It is rather dull for us here, although your charming daughter does the honours of the house to perfection.

For the last two days I have suffered slightly from my complaint. The fat Eugene arrived yesterday evening; he is very hale and hearty.

I love you as I did the first hour, because you are kind and sweet beyond compare.

Hortense told me that she was often writing you.

Best wishes, and a love-kiss.--Yours ever,

BONAPARTE.

No. 3.

TO JOSEPHINE, AT PLOMBIeRES.

_Malmaison, June 23, 1802._

_My Good Little Josephine_,--Your letter has come. I am sorry to see you have been poorly on the journey, but a few days' rest will put you right. I am very fairly well. Yesterday I was at the Marly hunt, and one of my fingers was very slightly injured whilst shooting a boar.