The BonapartePatterson marriage in 1803 Author:William Thomas Roberts Saffell Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. Letter from M. Dacres to citizen Pichon—Strict orders— Jerome's pay withheld—lie is ordered home—His w'fe to be left in the United States—Not to ... more »put her foot on the territory of France—French captains not to receive her on board their vessels—Jerome is implored to return alone to France—LetUr from M. Dacres to Jerome—Napoleon's opinions of the marriage—Letters of Dacres intercepted by a British commander —lie copies them—The secret out—Mr. Patterson writes to Jerome—Gives the extent of his information—Hope runs high—Chancellor Livingston recalled from France—General Armstrong succeeds him—Mr. Livingston writes to Mr. I'at- terson—He sends Joseph Bonaparte's letter—Its translation. Heading his letter, "For yourself only" and dating "Paris, April 20th 1804," M. Dacres, French Minister of Marine, writes to Citizen Pichon, " French Consular-General at New York." "I have taken," writes he, " the orders of the First Consul, citizen, concerning the demand you made on me for the appointment of an allowance to be granted to Citizen Jerome Bonaparte; and, boun:1 to obey the orders which he has given me in a way that showed it was not his intention that the slightest modification should have place, either in my mode of transmitting them to you, or in the execution of them, I discharge my duty in notifying to you his resolution that no money shall be advanced on the order of Citizen Jerome. " He has received orders in his capacity of lieutenant of the fleet, to come back to France by the first French frigate that was returning thither; and the execution of this order, on which the First Consul insists in the most positive manner, can alone regain him his affection. But what the First Consul has prescribed to me, above everything, is to order you to prohibit all captai...« less