out of repair, he immediately advanced her a million of francs to cover all expences. This sum, in addition to three millions of revenue, enabled her to perform a thousand generous actions.

She was now surrounded by a brilliant circle of distinguished females, all of whom either were or became attached to her. She still preserved the rank of Empress; her daughter, who was obliged occasionally to appear at the Court of her adopted father, always returned with rapture to rejoin her mother at Malmaison; and the elegant assemblages of both sexes, which regularly met there, were preferred even by the Parisians themselves, to those of the Thuilleries. On this being mentioned to Josephine, she replied as follows: "Having passed all my life here, and lived in the society of those who compose the present court, I am of course enabled to converse on more subjects, and with greater facility than a foreign Princess but imperfectly acquainted with our customs and language. Yet, instead of complaining of Her Imperial Majesty, every one ought to endeavour to render France dear to an Empress, who has left her native country in order to take up her abode among strangers !"

It was thus that the amiable Josephine, instead of entertaining any resentment against her rival, wished to contribute as much as possible to her happiness. She was also generous enough to participate most sincerely in the joy experienced by Bonaparte, when her Imperial Majesty produced him a son; she requested to see the child, and always testified the most lively interest in his fate. These were the last happy days of a distinguished female, who seemed to resemble a luminary, which after shining meteor-like, for a while, is extinguished all of a sudden.

The mad and ill-concerted expedition to Moscow, which occurred soon after, had a visible effect on the person, the conversation, and the health of the Ex-Empress. In addition to the inquietude experienced in behalf of a man, who had been once her husband, she was impressed with the still more deadly fear of losing an only son. The fate of Prince Eugene, commonly

called the Viceroy of Italy, remained for several days unknown. He, who so well merited the confidence of his father-in-law, was employed in re-assembling the wreck of one of the finest armies that Europe had ever witnessed.

The year subsequent to this disaster was not more fortunate. Napoleon, justly abandoned by Victory, the favours of whom he did not sufficiently appreciate, returned from Germany to demand supplies of men and money, on the part of those who were still his subjects. They refused both; and the Allies immediately invaded France.

Josephine appeared to take little or no part in these events; but her heart, which was replete with sensibility, experienced the most bitter anguish. She now once more recollected her fatal horoscope; and thought that the predictions uttered in the West Indies were about to be accomplished, both in respect to herself and her children.

Louis XVIII. although then surrounded by the Ultra-Royalists, who were panting for vengeance, took no steps either against this exalted female, or her family. The foreign Sovereigns were desirous to pay their respects to a woman, who had been recognized for several years, as one of the greatest Empresses in Europe; they visited frequently, dined with, and testified their regard, by the most delicate attentions.

Josephine, thus escaped from the horrors experienced by so many persons who had formerly constituted part of her brilliant court, now seemed to enjoy a little quiet and happiness, after the stormy period of so many revolutions in her fortune, and affairs. But appearances were delusive. Her mind had been too much agitated to resume its balance; and her body soon sympathised but too truly and too forcibly with her mind. She was accordingly seized with a mortal malady, which excited the regret and compassion of all parties, classes and descriptions of people. The most illustrious personages testified a lively interest in her fate. The miserable and unfortunate whom she had succoured and assisted, were drowned in tears; while her children implored Heaven to restore a kind,

tender, and affectionate mother to them! Their prayers were uttered in vain: with the glory of Napoleon was extinguished the life of that exalted female, whom, misled by the workings of vanity and ambition, he had been base and impolitick enough to repudiate !

The Ex-Empress Josephine ceased to exist in 1814.

LORD LIEUTENANT, CUSTOS ROTULORUM, AND

M.

P.

FOR THE COUNTY OF CARDIGAN; LATE COLONEL OF THE CAERMARTHENSHIRE MILITIA, &c. &c.

THE

HE subject of this article has been for many years well known to the world, and that too, in a variety of public capacities; as a senator, a planter, an agriculturist, an ornamental-gardener, and a man of letters. The Johnes', (usually pronounced Johns',) are of considerable antiquity in the principality. The father of this gentleman, who appears at one time to have led a gay and dissipated life, entered into all the expensive follies of his day. According to a memorandum furnished by a contemporary, he was accustomed to entertain the Right Hon. Richard Rigby, Sir Charles Hanbury Williams, and Mr. Fox, afterwards Lord Holland, together with Mr.

Lloyd of Peterwell, for weeks together, at his hospitable seat of Llanvair, in Cardiganshire. They played during the evenings for large sums, and Messrs. Fox and Rigby usually proved fortunate; "thus the country gentlemen were cut up." However, both Mr. Lloyd and Mr. Johnes afterwards married heiresses, and recovered. The latter, during some years, represented the county of Radnor, in Parliament; having been brought in, in consequence of his connexion with the Earl of Oxford and Lord Bateman, who then possessed great property and influence there. By his union with Miss Knight, a lady who brought a large fortune into the family, he greatly added to his paternal estates; and, as to his descent, provided the annexed genealogical table, which was drawn up for, and presented to his eldest son, be correct, it must be acknowledged, even by the inhabitants of North Wales, to be ancient indeed!

PEDIGREE OF THOMAS JOHNES, Esq. of Hafod Ychdryd, M. P. Lord-Lieutenant, and Custos Rotulorum for the County of Cardigan, &c. &c. &c.

AED MAWR,

a prince among the first colony of the Britons.

PRYDAIN,

He first consolidated the states of Briton (or Britain), divided into Loegyr, Alban, and Cymru.

He lived about 400 years before Christ, and was the first to combine the laws, customs, and maxims of the ancient Britons into a regular code.

The following is the substance of a note now before me. — “ Miss Knight brought with her a fortune of 70,000l.; and by the blunder of a Welch attorney, who did not know the difference between "heirs-male and issue-male," the estate of Hafod, formerly appertaining to the Herberts, devolved on the Johnes' instead of the Lloyds'. The father bought the very ancient estate of Croft Castle with part of his wife's dower.