Identifier: journalofbritish00warr (find matches)
Title: The journal of a British chaplain in Paris during the peace negotiations of 1801-2 from the unpublished ms. of the Revd. Dawson Warren, M. A., unofficially attached to the diplomatic mission of Mr. Francis James Jackson
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Warren, Dawson, 1770-1838 Jackson, Francis James, 1770-1814 Jackson, George, Sir, 1785-1861 Broadley, Alexander Meyrick, 1847-1916
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Publisher: London, Chapman and Hall, limited
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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ink I shall giveit up. We looked into a Panorama of Paris, andanother of Toulon, both wretched things afterBarkers.^ Francis dined with the Spanish Ambassador,M. Le Chevalier de Azara and met the same partyhe was with yesterday. He came home early andchanged his full dress for a frock coat to go to theopera. His Consular Majesty (for so I may call Bona-parte in consequence of the regal state he isgradually assuming) dwells awfully retired fromthe public eye. He only appears in public upongrand parade days, and then surrounded by someof his finest guards. So I stand little chance ofseeing him this month. Even Lord Cornwallishas only had one private audience, for Bonapartegives no dinners and sees no company. 2 1 The famous panorama in Leicester Square. 2 On 9 Nov. Lord Cornwallis wrote to Major-General Rossthat he was uncertain as to whether Bonaparte intended to granthim a private interview. On the following day, however, hereports to Lord Hawkesbury that the audience had taken place:
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MY PARIS JOURNAL 35 A Round of Visits Nov. 20th. I accompanied Francis in his carriage to makevisits. We were admitted by the PrussianMinister, Le Marquis de Lucchesini, a Httle, Uvely,talkative, pleasant man, with whom I was muchdelighted. He was a friend and favourite of theGreat Frederic, disliked and dismissed by hissuccessor, yet by means of his insinuating addresshas again brought himself into employment. Wethen went to Pougens, the bookseller. ^ He has animmense Library. Francis enquired for a FrenchMaster for me, with whom I mean to fag. He alsoasked for some small connected History of theRevolution. There are, said Pougens, 144,000Histories of the Revolution. I sell 12,000 of themin my shop. If you want the best full details ofevents as they passed I recommend a completeset of the Moniteur for the last 10 years, whichwith an index of reference I could sell you for 50Napoleons. This Pougens is an extraordinarycharacter and very interesting. He is quiteblind, yet so well inform

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