O! in thine arms, my son! I could forget that fame Shall give me, through all time, a never dying name. (Signed.) NAPOLEON. Another version is subjoined of lines, "To the Portrait of My Son." O! Cherished image of my infant heir! Thy surface does his lineaments impart:-- But ah! thou liv'st not. On this rock so bare His living form shall never glad my heart. My second-self! how would'st thy presence cheer The settled sadness of thy hapless sire! Thine infancy with tenderness I'd rear, And thou should'st warm my age with youthful fire. In thee, a truly glorious crown I'd find; With thee, upon this rock a heaven should own: Thy kiss would chase past conquests from my mind, Which raised me demi-god on Gallia's throne. (Signed.) NAPOLEON. * * * * * THE COLOUR--BLUE. _(To the Editor of the Mirror.)_ Observing in Number 323 of the MIRROR, an article respecting _blue_, as the appointed colour for the clothes of certain descriptions of persons, it may, perhaps, not be wholly irrelevant to observe that Bentley, in his "Dissertation on Phalaris," page 258, mentions blue as the costume of his guards, and quotes Cicero's "Tusculan Questions," lib. 5, for his authority. I cannot at present turn to the passage in Cicero, but Bentley's quotation may surely be accepted as evidence of the existence of the passage. _Twickenham._ H. H. * * * * * EXTRAORDINARY CRIMINALS. _(For the Mirror.)_ On the trial of _Henry Marshall_, Dec. 4, 1723, for murder and deer-stealing, a very remarkable circumstance took place. Sentence of death had no sooner been pronounced on this offender, than he was immediately deprived of the use of his tongue; nor did he recover his speech till a few hours preceding his execution. G. W. N. * * * * *