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 hanton of power which he then enjoyed, together with his life at one and the same moment. When all this occurred, as had been foreseen, M. de Beauharnois himself was denounced as an aristocrat by his own soldiers, deprived of his commission by superior authority, and conducted to Paris, where he was placed in a state of arrest. Josephine, the sensibility of whose heart is well known, immediately interposed, and adopted every possible mode, both through the medium of friends as well as by her own personal solicitation, to obtain his liberty. Her husband, on his part, was deeply moved by the affectionate attachment and unceasing assiduity of his wife, who was not only soon after denied the pleasure of consoling her unhappy husband, but actually deprived of her own liberty, having been seized and confined at the convent of the Carmelites, for the course of a few weeks, the unfortunate comte was carried before the revolutionary tribunal, which instantly condemned him to death.

Dr. Memes has bublished so interesting an account of the empress Josephine, that we gladly avail ourselves of his valuable "Memoirs," which throw much new light on the domestic life of this accomplished female. Josephine, we need not remind our readers, was a Creole. The native elegance of mind and manner so often possessed by these transatlantic Europeans, their aptness in the acquisition of all external accomplishments, their warm temperament modified and restrained by natural self-possession, are generally known :- As regards accomplishments she played, especially the harp, and sung, with exquisite feeling. She exercised her pencil, and her needle and embroidering frame, with beautifull address. ' A love of flowers,' that truly feminine aspiration, and according to a master in elegance and virtue,