The Rhode Island American, And General Advertiser

Extract of a private letter from France.

"Bonaparte is so given to passion, that at times he appears mad, and there is no doubt that he will at last turn really mad. In his late journey to Antwerp he committed himself in such a way, that a statute of lunacy would have been taken out against any other person. When the Deputation of Commerce and Manufacture were introduced, he abused them in the coarsest way. Called them "Fools, they did not know what Commerce was, that: they had deceived him with their promises, but to punish them he would build a town on the other side of the river, plant 6000 Dutch families and give it such important privileges, as would cause it to become more famous than Tyre and Carthage." He stopped the Archbishop of Mecklin, who went to compliment him at the head of the Clergy, and said to him, in a great passion, "How durst he appear before him with such false language--that he knew their hearts, and that they refused to pray for his marriage with Loaisa that if they had their deserts, they ought to have a stone tied to their necks, and be thrown into the Scheldt--but that if it were done they were ambitious enough as to think they died martyrs." The above however strange, may be relied on.

"The situation of Holland is most lamentable--I see nothing but bankruptcy.

"The Emperor scarcely ever takes the advice or opinion of his Minister--Like Mahomet, he considers every thing that comes into his head as inspiration. The King of Holland he has used in a barbarous manner, and would have sent him to prison had not his mother interfered. The Empress Josephine, is said to be greatly in debt; and she will soon, I have no doubt, be forced to resign the title of Empress."