[199] "How does Sir Walter make these different assertions agree? The truth is, Napoleon never wished or pretended to give _appanages_, but to act as he thought right towards France, and this design was as great as it was noble and generous; exaggeration only deforms it."--LOUIS BUONAPARTE, p. 48. [200] "One day, after a warm despute between the two brothers, Lucien, taking out his watch, and flinging it violently on the floor, addressed Napoleon in these remarkable words: 'You will one day be smashed to pieces as I have smashed that watch; and a time will come, when your family and friends will not have a resting-place for their heads.'"--_Mémoires de RAPP_, p. 11. [201] De Bourrienne, tom. vi., p. 80. [202] In 1805 he settled at Rome, where the Pope, calling to mind the active part he had taken in the negotiation relative to the Concordat, treated him with marked attention and kindness. [203] Towards the close of 1803, Jerome married Miss Paterson, the daughter of a rich merchant of Baltimore. In the spring of 1805, he embarked in a neutral vessel, and landed at Lisbon, whence he set off, by land, for Paris, directing the ship to proceed to Amsterdam; from which city he intended his wife should follow him, as soon as he had obtained the requisite permission from his imperial brother. On the arrival, however, of the vessel in the Texel, Madame Jerome, not being permitted to go on shore, landed at Dover, took up her residence during the summer at Camberwell, and in the autumn returned to America. [204] "The marriage took place on the 4th January, 1802. Louis became a husband--never was there a more gloomy ceremony--never had husband and wife a stronger presentiment of all the horrors of a forced and ill-assorted union! From this he dates the commencement of his unhappiness. It stamped on his whole existence a profound melancholy."--LOUIS BUONAPARTE, _Documens Historiques_, tom. i., p. 126. [205] Louis pleaded the delicacy of his constitution, and the unfavourableness of the climate. "Better to die a king than to live a prince," was Napoleon's reply; and in a day or two after Talleyrand waited on him at St. Leu, and read aloud to him and Hortensia, the treaty and constitution. This took place on the 3d of June, 1806; on the 5th Louis was proclaimed King of Holland.--DE BOURRIENNE, tom. viii., p. 126. [206] Murat's father was the keeper of an humble country inn, and, having once been a steward of the Talleyrands, enjoyed the protection of that ancient and wealthy family. [207] They were married in January, 1800, at the Palace of the Luxembourg. [208] Las Cases, tom. iv., p. 357. [209] M. de Talleyrand said of her, that "she had Cromwell's head on the shoulders of a pretty woman."