"GENEVA, 1819. DEAR LADY MORGAN:... I should never have ventured on another voyage to Europe could I have found the means of education for my son.... We have been nearly ruined by commercial speculations, and even I have suffered.... My son's education, too, demands no inconsiderable expense, and his father never _has_, and never _will_, contribute a single farthing toward his maintenance. We have no correspondence since the demand that he would pay part of his necessary expenditure, which he positively refused.... This town is intolerably expensive--as much so as Paris: there exists, too, an _esprit de coterie_ appalling to _women_ strangers, for men are _les bien venus partout_. They have a custom _parmi les gens du haut_ of receiving strangers to board at a very high price _seulement pour leur agrement_, in which houses there is no feast to be found unless it be of reason: the hosts are too _spirituels_ to fancy that we possess a vulgar appetite for meat, vegetables, tarts and custards; but as I cannot subsist altogether on the contemplation of _la belle Nature_, I have taken an apartment, hoping to get something to eat.... My health is restored, and I am much less in the _genre larmoyant_ than when you saw me.... I am happy not to have gone to Edinburgh: the climate here is finer, living cheaper and the language French--more desirable for my son. Why do you persist in living in Ireland?" King Jerome afterward allowed his son one hundred dollars per month for seven years, but with malignant cruelty ignored him in his will, which wrong at once to her son and her own wifely fame Mme. Bonaparte contested in Paris with a spirit that elicited the sympathy of Europe; but Napoleon III., for reasons of policy, permitted her defeat, and also at this time discontinued the annuity of fourteen thousand dollars allowed to her son, Jerome Bonaparte, although recognizing him at court as his cousin; but the six thousand dollars per annum granted to her grandson, Captain Bonaparte, ceased only with the Empire.