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266: 223: 127:) through which he now denounced the French Revolution. He proposed that a price be put on Napoleon's head by public subscription, but found himself condemned by the British government. In 1810 he published 80:. The offer was declined. Goldsmith says he then received instructions to kidnap Louis, or to kill him if he resisted. Instead, Goldsmith revealed the plot. Until 1807, however, when his 315: 300: 243: 238: 295: 43:
The Crimes of Cabinets, or a Review of the Plans and Aggressions for Annihilating the Liberties of France and the Dismemberment of her Territories
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in 1837. He died 'of paralysis' after an illness lasting several months, in his home on the Rue de la Paix, Paris, on 6 January 1846.
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Goldsmith returned to England in 1809. At first he was arrested and imprisoned, but soon was released and established himself as a
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Des révolutions d'Angleterre à la Révolution française: Le tyrannicide et 'Killing No Murder' (Cromwell, Athalie, Bonaparte)
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sympathies began to wane, Goldsmith continued to undertake secret service missions on behalf of Napoleon.
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An Appeal to the Governments of Europe on the Necessity of Bringing Napoleon Bonaparte to a Public Trial
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In 1803, according to Goldsmith's own account, he was entrusted with a mission to obtain from the
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Recueil des manifestes, proclamations, discours, etc. de Napoleon Buonaparte
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a few years later. His only child, Georgiana, become the second wife of
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in London. By 1811 he had become strongly anti-republican, founding the
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This article incorporates text from a publication now in the
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work edited in London, and with a title harking back to the
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Lewis Gerhardt Goldsmith
publicist
Pitt
Paris
Talleyrand
Napoleon
Comte de Provence
Louis XVIII
Poland
Republican
Thomas Mortimer
notary
John Copley, 1st Baron Lyndhurst
Des révolutions d'Angleterre à la Révolution française: Le tyrannicide et 'Killing No Murder' (Cromwell, Athalie, Bonaparte)
ISBN
978-90-247-1509-1
Dictionary of National Biography
Dictionary of National Biography
public domain
Chisholm, Hugh
Goldsmith, Lewis
Encyclopædia Britannica
Works by Lewis Goldsmith
Project Gutenberg
Works by or about Lewis Goldsmith
Internet Archive
Categories
1760s births
1846 deaths
People of the French Revolution

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