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ing the same punishment to a crowned offender as to humbler culprits. I state this on General Grant's authority. He never forgave the Bonapartes. When he was in England and a guest at my house, he received an invitation from Mr., now Sir Algernon Borthwick, the proprietor of The Morning Post, a man of political and social importance, and who had been a staunch friend of Napoleon III. The party was a breakfast in the country to meet the Prince Imperial; Grant declined the invitation politely; he said to me that he was unwilling to show any courtesy of a significant character to the son of the man who had so injured this country in the moment of its greatest peril. I went to the party, for Borthwick had always been civil to me, and when I was presented to the Prince he inquired very courteously about General Grant. On my return I repeated his remarks, for I always told my chief whatever was said to me about him, of whatever character; but he was in no degree mollified. He was n