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LEWIS GOLDSMITH (c. 1763–1846)

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Originally appearing in Volume V12, Page 214 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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LEWIS See also:GOLDSMITH (c. 1763–1846)  , Anglo-See also:French publicist, of Portuguese-Jewish extraction, was See also:born near See also:London about 1763 . Having published in 18o1 The Crimes of Cabinets, or a See also:Review of the Plans and Aggressions for Annihilating the Liberties of See also:France, and the Dismemberment of her Territories, an attack on the military policy of See also:Pitt, he moved, in 1802, from See also:England to See also:Paris . Talleyrand introduced him to See also:Napoleon, who arranged for him to establish in Paris an See also:English tri-weekly, the See also:Argus, which was to review English affairs from the French point of view . According to his own See also:account, he was in 1803 entrusted with a See also:mission to obtain from the See also:head of the French royal See also:family, afterwards See also:Louis XVIII., a renunciation of his claims to the See also:throne of France, in return for the throne of See also:Poland . The offer was declined, and See also: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 See also:plot . He was, nevertheless, employed by Napoleon on various other See also:secret service See also: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 See also:notary in London . In 1811, being now violently See also:anti-republican, he founded a See also:Sunday newspaper, the Anti-Gallican See also:Monitor and Anti-Corsican See also:Chronicle, subsequently known as the See also:British Monitor, in which he denounced the French Revolution . In 1811 he proposed that a public subscription should be raised to put a See also:price on Napoleon's head, but this See also:suggestion was strongly repro-bated by the British See also:government . In the same See also:year he published Secret See also:History of the See also:Cabinet of See also:Bonaparte and Recueil See also:des mini-testes, or a Collection of the Decrees of Napoleon Bonaparte, and in 1812 Secret History of Bonaparte's See also:Diplomacy . Goldsmith alleged that in the latter year he was offered £200,000 by Napoleon to discontinue his attacks . In 1815 he published An See also:Appeal to the Governments of See also:Europe on the See also:Necessity of bringing Napoleon Bonaparte to a Public Trial .

In 1825 he again settled down in Paris, and in 1832 published his See also:

Statistics of France . His only See also:child, Georgiana, became, in 1837, the second wife of See also:Lord See also:Lyndhurst . He died in Paris on the 6th of See also:January 1846 .

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