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350 the French court; but wherever her influence is thought to be exerted, it is for the prosperity of the nation, and the glory of the hero to whom she has the happiness to be allied. She is less beautiful than Madame Tallien, who continues to enjoy the admiration of Paris, and past the period of life for having children, but nevertheless a woman of great personal charms, Her daughters by a former marriage are represented as some of the most beautiful and graceful women in France.

When Bonaparte officially notified to the Batavian government his elevation to the first consulship of the French republic, he repeated the assurances made by the preceding rulers of France, that the independence of Holland should at all times be an object of the peculiar care of the French nation; and it was afterwards communicated to the directory, that the interests of the Batavian republic would be faithfully attended to, in any negotiations that might be carried on between the governments of France and Great Britain.