PREFACE. The first four Chapters of this work were written nearly seven years ago. My task was then suspended during a long absence from England; and it was only in the course

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LETTER XXV. PARIS, October, 1805. MY LORD:—The Legion of Honour, though only proclaimed upon Bonaparte's assumption of the Imperial rank, dates from the first year of his c

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EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION. The sense of personal loss occasioned by my brother's death is still so keen and vivid that if I am to write at all about him—and my duty in that respec