to be Napoleon and Lucien, one to be at the head of the department of war and foreign relations, the other of everything connected with the affairs of the interior; but although the failure of this plan must have disappointed Lucien, the avidity with which he accepted the titles of senator and count of the Empire proved that he cared very little for a republic of which he was not to be one of the heads.  I am sure that the marriage of Monsieur Lucien to Madame Jouberthon was the only cause of this disagreement.  The Emperor disapproved of this union because the lady’s reputation was somewhat doubtful, and she was also divorced from her husband, who had become insolvent, and had fled to America.  This insolvency, and the divorce especially, offended Napoleon deeply, who always felt a great repugnance for divorced people.

Before this, the Emperor had wished to raise his brother to the rank of sovereign, by making him marry the Queen of Etruria, who had lost her husband.  Lucien had refused this alliance on several different occasions; and at last the Emperor became angry, and said to him, “You see how far you are carrying your infatuation and your foolish love for a femme galante.”—­“At least,” replied Lucien, “mine is young and pretty,” alluding to the Empress Josephine, who had been both the one and the other.

The boldness of this reply excited the Emperor’s anger beyond all bounds.  At that moment he held in his hands his watch, which he dashed with all his might on the floor, crying out, “Since you will listen to nothing, see, I will break you like this watch.”

Differences had arisen between the brothers before the establishment of the Empire; and among the acts which caused the disgrace of Lucien, I have often heard the following cited.

Lucien, being minister of the interior, received the order of the First Consul to let no wheat go out of the territory of the Republic.  Our warehouses were filled, and France abundantly supplied; but this was not the case in England, and the scarcity of it was beginning to be felt there.  It was never known how it happened; but the larger part of this grain passed the Strait of Calais, and it was stated positively that the sum of twenty millions was received for it.  On learning this, the First Consul took away the portfolio of the interior from his brother, and appointed him ambassador to Spain.

At Madrid, Monsieur Lucien was well received by the king and the royal family, and became the intimate friend of Don Manuel Godoy, Prince de la Paix.  It was during this mission, and by agreement with the Prince de la Paix, that the treaty of Badajos was concluded, in order to procure which it is said that Portugal gave thirty millions.  It has been also declared that more than this sum, paid in gold and diamonds, was divided between the two plenipotentiaries, who did not think it necessary to render an account of this transaction to their respective courts.