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GOLDSMITH, LEWIS (c. 17631846)

This article appears in Volume V12, Page 214 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: GOA-GRA
GOLDSMITH, LEWIS (c. 17631846) , Anglo-French publicist, of Portuguese-Jewish extraction, was born near London about 1763. Having published in 18o1 The Crimes of Cabinets, or a
Review
  of the Plans and Aggressions for Annihilating the Liberties of France, and the Dismemberment of her Territories, an attack on the military policy of Pitt, he moved, in 1802, from England to Paris. Talleyrand introduced him to
Napoleon
 , who arranged for him to establish in Paris an
English
  tri-weekly, the Argus, which was to
review
 
English
  affairs from the French point of view. According to his own account, he was in 1803 entrusted with a mission to obtain from the head of the French royal family, afterwards Louis XVIII., a renunciation of his claims to the throne of France, in return for the throne of Poland. The offer was declined, and Goldsmith says that he then received instructions to kidnap Louis and kill him if he resisted, but, instead of executing these orders, he revealed the
plot
 . He was, nevertheless, employed by
Napoleon
  on various other
secret
  service
missions
  till 1807, when his Republican sympathies began to wane. In 1809 he returned to England, where he was at first imprisoned but soon released; and he became a notary in London. In 1811, being now violently
anti
 -republican, he founded a Sunday newspaper, the
Anti
 -Gallican Monitor and Anti-Corsican Chronicle, subsequently known as the British Monitor, in which he denounced the French Revolution. In 1811 he proposed that a public subscription should be raised to put a price on Napoleon's head, but this suggestion was strongly repro-bated by the British government. In the same year he published
Secret
  History of the Cabinet of Bonaparte and Recueil des mini-testes, or a Collection of the Decrees of Napoleon Bonaparte, and in 1812 Secret History of Bonaparte's Diplomacy. Goldsmith alleged that in the latter year he was offered 200,000 by Napoleon to discontinue his attacks. In 1815 he published An Appeal to the Governments of Europe on the Necessity of bringing Napoleon Bonaparte to a Public Trial. In 1825 he again settled down in Paris, and in 1832 published his
Statistics
  of France. His only child, Georgiana, became, in 1837, the second wife of Lord
Lyndhurst
 . He died in Paris on the 6th of January 1846.


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