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GOLDSMITH, LEWIS (c. 17631846)

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

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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

REVIEW (Fr. revue, from revoir, to see again, Lat. re and videre)

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

NAPOLEON

, who arranged for him to establish in Paris an

English

ENGLISH

tri-weekly, the Argus, which was to

review

REVIEW (Fr. revue, from revoir, to see again, Lat. re and videre)

English

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

PLOT
PLOT, ROBERT (164o-1696)

. He was, nevertheless, employed by

Napoleon

NAPOLEON

on various other

secret

SECRET (Lat. secretum, hidden, concealed)

service

missions

MISSIONS (Lat. missio, a sending)

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

ANTI, or CAMPA

-republican, he founded a Sunday newspaper, the

Anti

ANTI, or CAMPA

-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

SECRET (Lat. secretum, hidden, concealed)

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

STATISTICS

of France. His only child, Georgiana, became, in 1837, the second wife of Lord

Lyndhurst

LYNDHURST, JOHN SINGLETON COPLEY, BARON (1772–1863)

. He died in Paris on the 6th of January 1846.

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