Nothing more than rumours, which, 'pon my honour, I can hardly credit. One is that Bonaparte's valet has written to say the ex-Emperor is becoming imbecile, and is an object of ridicule to the inhabitants of the island. KING OF PRUSSIA A blessed result, sir, if true. If he is not imbecile he is worse --planning how to involve Europe in another way. It was a short- sighted policy to offer him a home so near as to ensure its becoming a hot-bed of intrigue and conspiracy in no long time! PRINCE REGENT The ex-Empress, Marie-Louise, hasn't joined him after all, I learn. Has she remained at Schonbrunn since leaving France, sires? EMPEROR OF RUSSIA Yes, sir; with her son. She must never go back to France. Metternich and her father will know better than let her do that. Poor young thing, I am sorry for her all the same. She would have joined Napoleon if she had been left to herself.--And I was sorry for the other wife, too. I called at Malmaison a few days before she died. A charming woman! SHE would have gone to Elba or to the devil with him. Twenty thousand people crowded down from Paris to see her lying in state last week. PRINCE REGENT Pity she didn't have a child by him, by God. KING OF PRUSSIA I don't think the other one's child is going to trouble us much. But I wish Bonaparte himself had been sent farther away. PRINCE REGENT Some of our Government wanted to pack him off to St. Helena--an island somewhere in the Atlantic, or Pacific, or Great South Sea. But they were over-ruled. 'Twould have been a surer game. EMPEROR OF RUSSIA One hears strange stories of his saying and doings. Some of my people were telling me to-day that he says it is to Austria that he really owes his fall, and that he ought to have destroyed her when he had her in his power. PRINCE REGENT Dammy, sire, don't ye think he owes his fall to his ambition to humble England by rupture of the Peace of Amiens, and trying to invade us, and wasting his strength against us in the Peninsula? EMPEROR OF RUSSIA I incline to think, with the greatest deference, that it was Moscow that broke him. KING OF PRUSSIA The rejection of my conditions in the terms of peace at Prague, sires, was the turning-point towards his downfall. [Enter a box on the opposite side of the house the PRINCESS OF WALES, attended by LADY CHARLOTTE CAMPBELL, SIR W. GELL, and others. Louder applause now rings through the theatre, drowning the sweet voice of the GRASSINI in “Aristodemo.”] LADY CHARLOTTE CAMPBELL It is meant for your Royal Highness! PRINCESS OF WALES I don't think so, my dear. Punch's wife is nobody when Punch himself is present. LADY CHARLOTTE CAMPBELL I feel convinced that it is by their looking this way. SIR W. GELL Surely ma'am you will acknowledge their affection? Otherwise we may be hissed. PRINCESS OF WALES