The National Register. — London, England, 1815-03-19 00:00:00

THE NAT visitation be intended only as a solemn warning to those Sovereigns who had sworn to restore the ancient constitu tion and prosperity of Enrolee; and when it shall have in duced them to sacrifice all views of personal ambition, and to complete the noble work of real restoration, may it vanish away with the same rapidity with which it has been conjured up. IHIONAPARTE'S CONSPIRACY AT ELRA, AND HIS AD DKESS TO HIS SOLDIERS. We give the following very interesting details of the con duct pursued by Napoleon while at Elba, in order to deceive the watchfulness of Europe, and his address to his soldiers when he found the hour for action had come, from an "Ac count of the Conspiracy and Conspirators of Napoleon Buo naparte ;" whist), besides the merit of being well written, seems to possess that of containing authentic information. In order to deceive ihe eyes of those by whom he imagined him self to be watched, he seemed occupied only in the ordinary pursuits of an active mind now at leisure and iu repose. lie rose, according to his former habits, very early, and then read or wrote intently; his. books were general literature, chiefly history ; and the subject of his writings was his own campaigns. Eveiy thing was seemingly most carelessly, but actually most studiously. open to the eyes of all; his mode of life was known and discussed by every one in the island; and the daily papers of Europe admired this graceful and unbending of a mighty mind. After a breakfast, in which he seemed to de scend without any force into the simple habits of private life, be proceeded to review his miniature army; and though he employed an evident care and attention in, their exereise and discipline, it was imputed very naturally to a taste remaining from former habits. It is natural that he should be delighted with the shadow who had for. merly wielded the mighty reality. He was merely beholding that in a drains, which he had so recently acted upon the ample theatre of the world. Upon the termination of this review, he took his morn ing's ride, accompanied by Bertrand, Drouet, and others of 14 4 suite. In course of this progress he gave audience to all whom lie met; and with his asset dexterity, where his purposes required it, -a risfied and conciliated all. He examined the lands Ind mines of his island : he applied to them the attentiou which a private gentle man woni.l give his estate. He procured larger sums than the island was supposed to contain- 7 40 little is the real wealth, of these mines known beyond the island. He returned, to dinner, where he met every one with the open countenance, unfolded brow, and familiar quetion an answer, of a mind perfectly at ease. He was unquestion ably not an ordinary character in his private life, and wanted only virtue to render him great and amiable. Without forgetting his dig nity, but maintaining it without offence, lie had the art of becoming at his own table the private gentleman amongst gentlemen; and as courtesy precluded every one from introducing any thing of personal interests, the conversation was as free, and seemingly as unguarded, as in a private mess-room. It was by this course of life that lie ef fectually deceived his sentinels into the most unsuspicious confi dence; and if the judgment of their respective courts had been formed only by their reports, Europe would have believed that the magnanimity of the Emperor Charles V. and of the Roman Emperor whom he imitated, were here outrivalled ; that the Emperor Napo leon had descended with grace and simplicity from a lost Empire in to private life; anti, like an eminent actor, equal in all his parts, had exhibited the same masterly mind by performing to Truth and nature the private condition. " When lie was visited, as he frequently was, by eminent strang ers, and where there was no personal or politivat reason for their exclusion, or for any restriction is, admitting them, lie exhibited the same familiar character; and seemed ambitious only of the fame and report, that he proved himself above his fortune by his tranquil sub mission to It. To philosophers and men of science he talked of the ITER. MA Institute, the Royal Society ) and the stew cheinistry and of the day—to English gentlemen of their improved agrieutu, their happy laws—and to military men of writing the historical MOlll of his own campaigns. He scented alike so sincere thing, that all travellers returned with the same report • lieve Lord Sheffield and Sir Joseph Banks were about s ome Leicestershire rams to cross his Elbese sheep. " He managed his correspondence with Paris and the same dexterity and artifice. .One of the mediums . course with Paris is suspected to have been the celebrated Talmo. This matt is the common fa vourite of the late of the leading men at Paris; he was, therefore, a most strument for their confidential intercourse and agency. critical period, he requested and procured permission . former master, and to arrange for him the dramatic representat in the Court of Elba. Under this pretext, be visited N it is more than suspected, if we judge from the events, turned to Paris to execute what was committed to him. " The resolutions of the Congress being at last publicly and so many nations so justly dissatisfied, Napoleon time was immediately at hand for his long-projected attenip interests of his personal safety eqmally impelled hint to solution, for be obtained intelligence from those to thing was known, and who served him well even in bi 4 that the king of France had implored the powerful interposi England with the Congress, that he should be removed ' and if not actually confined in a close prison, that he least secluded in some military post (Malta, we believe was from all possible communication with France. It was of time that his sister made him a personal visit, and 11 mtmity of interests and therefore of feelings, of Mond are supposed to have led to a direct league and alliance. therefore was now ripe; and the former favourite of Airtime well Instructed its the value of the golden moment of inviting tunity to decline it. "Every thing, therefore, being now ripe for the extent certainly had been long meditated, Bnonaparte, on the the ?6th of Febrnary, reviewed his troops in Elba, and then), upon their dismissal, to assemble again upon the in the evening. The troops were accordingly paraded at o'clock the same day ; Bumnaparte suddenly appeared amongst and drawing them in a hollow square, himself in the eeni ed them upon his views and purpose. He represented that military and popular eloquence by which he is characterized, and to which he owed so snuck of h:s former over the minds alas followers—" That fortune now afforded portunity, on which they might prove themselves wort( timation in which he had always held them ; that it consolation and delight of his retirement to form them pline, the military mind, and the noble daring of soldiers, the time was now at hand in which they were to prove bours had not been lost. France, Belgium, and Italy back to the Imperial Crown; he had only to effect his to display his Imperial standard, anti the whole military and the greater part of the Marshals who owed to him and reputation, would obey the summons, and again their King and Emperor ; that he had been forced and from the Imperial Crown, not by the French then►sel by an overwhelming foreign force, which the most sir cumstances had form() into a coalition, and to which calamities from which France had not then recovered , temporary success ; that that coalition had since fallen and had fallen so as never to re•nnite again, under the jealousies, the selfi•h dealings, and the narrow and pem its members ; and that the King of Naples had found th faith was in his own family, and that the Crown Prince now instructed in the gratitude of Princes. had learner once what Acre his true interests, and where he insist port and safety ; that France had already learned what by the exchange of one whose whole life and atrvice were - RCH 19. int Galvanism triculture and listorical me. icere in every in ; and I be- t to send him Napien with I of hi. inter- bratecl actor, Emperor and suitable in- y. At a vett u to visit his preset; tat ions tapoleon; and ts, that he rc• blicly known, saw that the ttea►pt. The an 'HANOI re- whom every his adversity, terposition of rd from Elba ; should be at was proposed) a► at this point that the cour- t and himself, The time irtnne was too aviting °ppm , . !ution of what ie morning of Ind appointed same parade at about eight amongst them, !ntre, address- rl to them, in ; so peculiarly 7mer influence Forded the op- thy of that es- had been the I to the disci- iers, and that ye that his la- y invited hi►n a landing, and ary of France, ► their dignity ► rally round from France, ►entselves, but. untoward cir• I coalition the d had given a lies to pieces,. divisions, the genet views of hat the surest e of Sweden, ed by experi. t look for sup- t she had lost 'ere employed • .•