The Hillsborough Recorder

Napoleon's Mother—The following is an extract from a private letter, dated Rome, Oct. 12. "Well it may be said we live in extraordinary times. Who would have thought, 30 years ago, that the wife of an humble citizen of Ajaccio, and who afterwards lived in straitened circumstance in the city of Marseilles, should breathe her last, in 1822, in one of the most princely palaces of this city; publishing her last will and testament to the world with a pomp and eclat that is not often seen in individuals of the most exalted station? Such is the fact, however, as applicable to Madame Letitia Bonaparte. Her chief heir is her grandson, the young Napoleon, who, it is said, will ultimately receive an immense fortune—To her eight children now living, viz: Joseph Bonaparte, Lucien, Louis, Jerome, Eliza, Pauline, Caroline, and Hortensia, she bequeathes to each and every one the sum of 150,000 scudi (37,500l. sterling,) making in the whole three hundred thousand pounds! The four daughters of Lucien are to have each a marriage portion of 25,000 scudi. And to her brother Cardinal Fesch, who already rolls in wealth, she bequeathes a superb palace, filled with the most splendid furniture and rarities of every sort."