A collection of 300 letters written London, Dec. 37. by Napoleon to the Empress Marie Louise. was purchased on behalf of the Prench Government when it was ut up for auction at Sotheby's Gay. The price paid was £15,000.
"Most of the letters in the collec tion have never been published. Among them is the famous letter in which Napoleon wrote that he intended to march towards Mame and drive the enemy away from Paris. The capture of this by the Cossacks was fatal to the Emperor.—Rewter.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.