The secret history of the Cabinet of Bonaparte including his private life, character, domestic administration, and his conduct to foreign powers together with secret anecdotes of the different courts of Europe, and of the French revolution. With two appendices, consisting of state papers, and of biographical sketches of the persons composing the court of St. Cloud. By Lewis Goldsmith (Still Image)

The secret history of the Cabinet of Bonaparte including his private life, character, domestic administration, and his conduct to foreign powers together with secret anecdotes of the different courts of Europe, and of the French revolution. With two appendices, consisting of state papers, and of biographical sketches of the persons composing the court of St. Cloud. By Lewis Goldsmith

Goldsmith, Lewis, 1763?-1846

624 p. 24 cm

3rd ed

The author, Lewis Goldsmith (1763 - 1846), was an English political writer and agitator. He started his career as an enthusiastic defender of the French Revolution. In 1801, he published "The Crimes of Cabinets, or a Review of the Plans and Aggressions for Annihilating the Liberties of France, and the Dismemberment of Her Territories." Being threatened with prosecution for this work, he went to Paris in 1803 where he offered the French government the help of his pen against England. The offer was accepted, and resulted in the publication of an English journal at Paris—"The Argus, or London Reviewed in Paris." But there were limits to his denunciations, and because he refused to do as his employers wished they negotiated with the English government to surrender him in exchange for a French political prisoner in England. He continued to reside in France, however, and was taken back into the confidence of Napoleon, who employed him upon various secret missions. In 1809 he was conveyed to England, formally tried for treason, and discharged. Embittered by the treacherous conduct of the French government, he started (1811) a Sunday newspaper called the "Anti-Gallican Monitor," in which he denounced the French Revolution as violently as he had formerly espoused it. He went so far as to propose the assassination of Napoleon. In his "Secret History of the Cabinet of Bonaparte" and his "Secret History of Bonaparte's Diplomacy," he attacked  his former employer and advocated the restoration of Louis XVIII, and when this event took place that monarch rewarded Goldsmith with a pension for life.
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Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821

France -- Foreign relations -- 1789-1815

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DC202.5.G63 1810

London, J. M. Richardson [etc.] 1810

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