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Show The New Yobk Herald exhumes a batch of letters left at the Tuileries by Emperor Napoleon, the publication publica-tion of which must bo nearly as unpleasant un-pleasant to the writers as was the publication pub-lication by McKcozie years ago of the curious budget of letters of a New York politician found by him in the Uustom House. Hero are letters by John Slidell, J. 1'. Benjamin, and other confederate agents, endeavoring endeavor-ing to rope the Emperor into the sup-pott sup-pott of the southorn cause. It appears ap-pears that he nibbled but didn't bite. There is a letter from James Watson Webb offering to sell newspaper support sup-port and a patent gun. The Emperor returned thanks but declined the purchase. pur-chase. Mr. Hiram Fuller, oneo the :;2e!! Urittun" of the New York Mirror, and latterly publisher of a weekly paper in London called The Cosmopolitan, wanted to sell the support sup-port of that powerful organ of public opinion to "keep it from falling into the hands of the Orleanists," but Napoleon Na-poleon was as little inclined to buy Fuller's Cosmopolitan as Webb's gun. i ho charming Woodhull & Clallin isters sent copies of their "Weekly-," hoping that ho would "read and approve also sending send-ing their love to Eugenie and the Princo Imperial. Miss Grcenhow writes asking an "audience" with tho Emperor for whom she expresses "great admiration." All sorts of American bores and dead-beats feem to have inflicted missives upon the the unlbrtunato Emperor; the Count JuhaDnes sent to ask for the ribbon of the Legion of Honor; John S. C. Abbott, Ab-bott, the dauby historian of both Napoleons Na-poleons tho Great and Little writes letters of course, and feels that his "mission is a national one." Some functionary of the British Government writes a letter in which ho acknowledges playiug the spy upon- General Meade to get bis views concerning what the United States would do if Napoleon didn't evacuate Mexico. These views could not have been very pleasant reading for the Emperor, but may have helped him to come to the wise conclusion con-clusion he did, to get out of Mexico. Altogether, this batch of letters ie a curious one; and the lesson of their publication should not be lost upon indiscreet in-discreet writers who put their faith (epistolary) in Princes, |