The National Intelligencer And Washington Advertiser

The Palace of St. Cloud is now nearly completed; and the First Consul would have gone there on the 15th this month (Messidor) had not the business of the New Constitution so occupied his time. It is to be presumed that he will go there immediately, as he has ordered a post for letters to be established in the Palace for his own particular use, similar to the one already placed in the Thuilleries. The administration, or Directors of the Post Office Department, who are not much satisfied at these innovations, solicited that an office might be given them, where the persons employed might be lodged, and that the expenses might be paid by the Consul: he sent for answer a negative: and added, that such surplus charges must fall upon the Post-Office Establishment.

Upon a late visit of the First-Consul made to St. Cloud, the workmen surrounded him, and by observing, that in such weather people were dry, pleaded for some money. He appeared much offended at this sort of familiarity, and sent them off with haughtiness, but without a present.