NAPOLEON I. Autograph endorsement signed ('Accordé la retraite, Napol') in the margin of a petition addressed to General Songis by an officer requesting leave to retire from the Army of the Rhine on the grounds of illness contracted at Danzig, signed by Napoleon in the inner margin and dated below in a different hand, 'Schönbrunn, 12 June 1809', the petition (incomplete) dated at the head 'Passau, 3 June 1809', and written on both sides of the upper portion of a 4° leaf (190 x 200 mm.), blue/grey paper (lower portion cut away).