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empress, he used to describe her as very subject to nervous affections when in the least degree indisposed or anxious; he often said she was the most amiable, elegant, charming, and affable woman in the world; and in the language of his native isle, asserted, "Era la dama la piu graziosa di Francia." She was the goddess of the toilet—all fashions originated with her, every thing she appeared in, seemed elegant, and, moreover, she was so humane, and was the best of women. Still, with all the veneration he felt for her, he could not bear that it should be supposed she exercised the sway over his public actions attributed to her, and observed, "Although the Bourbons and English allow that I did some good, yet they generally qualify it by saying it was chiefly through the instrumentality of Josephine; when the fact was, that she never interfered with polities. In alluding to his divorce, he observed, nothing would