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THE YANKEE
Boston, Friday, October 13, 1815NAPOLEON AND THE LETTER
Another despicable piece has appeared in the Centinel, purporting to be copied from a London paper, stating that Napoleon was seen to tear up a letter, and throw in overboard (there being no Sire in that part of the world since his second abdication!) but that it had been picked up and put together, and found to be from a very distinguished character in New England, to the Emperor, disclosing matters of the greatest importance; but which the English government did not think fit to make public. Here there is a sub-plot of the first magnitude, ready got up and hooped against election. Who knows but Goody Harper had some hand in it? We have now got to let gaping conjecture to work, to guess who the "very distinguished person in New England" is. Who can it be? Let us see -- Caleb Strong is a very distinguished man in New England... and so is Gov. Chettenlen... and Mr. George Cabot, president of the Hartford Convention... and Mr. H.G. Otis and Mr. Timothy Bigelow... and so is Mr. John Lowell, who was well known to admire, and to eulogize beyond all bounds, the great and glorious Bonaparte.. Major Raffet is "a very distinguished character in New England... and so is his brother John... and so is Mr. Young... and so is Mr. Francis Blake... and so is Stephen Burrows. In short, we have so many "very distinguished" characters in New England, they come so thick upon us, that "we are weary of conjecture" and can hardly tell where to fix it. On this occasion, we very much lament the death of Moll Pitcher; but if she has, as we have often heard, dropped her mantle on our "WOODEN ORACLE," her loss is made up to us. We shall learn all about it in proper time. We may expect to see printed in red ink, by the time the elections come on, "a letter from a very distinguished character in New England," to a very distinguished character in the British Channel, by ______ _______.
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