Delaware Gazette And Peninsula Advertiser

The following is one of the many stories which now occupies the gossips of Paris:--"A person, who was apothecary to Bonaparte, it seems, at the desire of the ex-emperor, after his return from Waterloo, prepared him a poison, active, subtle, and inevitable. This he wore concealed in his sleeve, and tasted it afterwards at Malmaison. But the courage of heroes sometimes vacillates, and it is certain that Bonaparte did not swallow the whole portion. His faithful Mameluke, who witnessed the transaction, believed his master poisoned, and ran precipitately to the Duc de Vicenza, (Caulaincourt,) to whom he imparted his fears. The Duc coldly replied.--Laissez le faire, leave him to himself! but an instant after entered into the presence of his fallen master. From the internal sufferings he was exposed to, apprehend he had taken too much, and under this idea depressed, but not without coolness and self-command, took leave of those who surrounded him."