The Rhode Island American, And General Advertiser

FROM THE LONDON COURIER.

Manheim, November 1.

A publick newspaper contains the following from Paris:-- "The French Commissary at St. Helena, M. Montholon, has lately sent to his Court a report of the incidents that have occurred at that island since his arrival there, in which the following anecdote, among others, has created much laughter :--Bonaparte had since his residence at St. Helena, formed an acquaintance with the daughter of a notary, who is a very lively girl--so much so, that she has been reckoned a little cracked. With this young woman Bonaparte was lately alone in a room, when she took into her head to draw a sword which stood in one corner, out of its scabbard, to put herself in the posture of a fencing master, and to push at Bonaparte with the point of it, crying out lustily, 'Now defend yourself!'--Bonaparte, who at first took this assault for a joke, but soon saw the girl pressing upon him in earnest, flew behind an arm-chair; and here the former ruler of the world called to the sentinels, who rescued him from his peril. Las Cases, Bonaparte's Secretary, reproached the young woman for her hostile purposes, inasmuch as he said Bonaparte really loved her, and that she made a very bad return for his affection. The girl haughtily replied--'He love me! No, he never loved any one; it is not in his nature.'"