AND THE FRENCH PEOPLE UNDER HIS EMPIRE. BY THE AUTHOR OF Bonaparte and the French People UNDER HIS CONSULATE. Gustav, Graf von Collabrendorf. From the German. Μὴ γὰρ ὡς Θεῶ νομίζετ ̓ ἐκείνῳ τὰ παρόντα πεπηνέναι πράγματα αθάνατα. Demosth. Phil. i. 4. London: PRINTED FOR TIPPER AND RICHARDS, LEADENHALL-STREET, By Dewick and Clarke, Aldersgate-street. F3342 PREFACE. THE original of the following work, bears the title of "NAPOLEON BUONAPARTE, wie er leibt und lebt, und das franzosische volk unter ihm. Aus dem Englischen. Petersburg, 1806, bey Peter Hammer dem Aeltern." The place of publication may be correctly given, but the pretence of being a translation from the Eng. lish, is contradicted by every page of it. The ' author manifests an ignorance of the English style of thought, unusual in the well informed German literati. We are told that the present work was written by the author of a book bearing a similar title, and having the same design, of which a translation was published last year, by the publishers of this volume, under the title of "Bonaparte, and the French people under his Consulate." The present vo |