PERSONAL TASTES OF NAPOLEON.
With all his love of splendor in his court, 1t is difficult to find man with sim- pier personal tastes than Napoleon. In the midst of all the luxuries of the table which French invention could supply, he almost invariably dined upon q grid dled breast ofmutton, or a roast chicken; and when his courters were esparIIingin stars and diamonds, the little mani the fealagote gr3s, ,apdthe three-corneredh hat, was the more conspicuous fromhis exces- siye simplicity. The libels of England, used to represent him as monster at home; every thing however, from the Mss. oif St. Helena down to the very last publication concerning him, tends to show, thatit is impossible fora great man to have been more truly amiable in the centre Of his family. iIisfault was exces- siYeplayfuiness, andhe must bea veryse- we're censurer who calls it fault at all. He would, for instance in the country. play at leap-frog and he even enjoyed af terhe became fat, the game of blindman's buff. 1t Is true he would sometimes miss the grand-marechal, and roll on the floor, he did not however, consider his dignity soiled, and would resume the sport with the same hilarity. When he entered a room it was not unlike him to cover with his hands the eyes of any young lady whose back happened to be towards him, and then demanded who it was that had taken such liberty, in h manner not wholly unknown by play 'ful people on this side of the water. The pages used to consider him as fa- ther; he invariably uttered them and gave his favorites his various little nick names. < Napoleon,' says Madame

 Durand, ,"usedto bathe every day, rub he'd his person all over with Eau de Cologne and sometimes changed his lin- en several times in the course of the twenty-four hours. His fayorite cos tnne was the undress of the horse guards. While travelling. every thing vas good enough; TO lodging too bad,