The National Register. — London, England, 1814-10-09 00:00:00

Tai NATTONALREGISTER. ocr • •0 r • NAPOLEON AND THE RED MAN ; OR, THE MYSTERIOUS MONITOR. Ever since the retreat of Napoleon across the Rhine, and his return to his capital, a visible change had been observed in his habits and in his .conduct. Instead of scaring the livery of woe for the discomfiture of his plans of •ambition, and the loss of his secord wand army, he had dismissed his usual thoughtfulness. Smiles played on his lips, and cheer fulness sat on his brow. His manners had become light and easy, and his convetsation lively. Bosi tress seemed to have lost its charms for him ; he sought fc:. atal sure, and like another hero of an inferior rank, whenever his spirits sunk, had recourse to the sparkling cup to raise them high with wine." Balls and entertainments succeeded each other, and the Parisians began to fancy that either Na poleon was certain of making an advantageoes peace with the Allies whenever he thought proper, or n as convinced that his downfall was at hand, and their:foie wished to spend the last weeks of his Imperial dignity in etkioyieent and ease. A new conscription had been ordered, and the Legislative Body had been dismissed ; but these were signs of his ex isteric:e, not of his activity. Indolent, at least in appear ance, he remained buried in pleasure whilst the invaders crossed the Rhine, and r.pidly approaching Paris, threat ened to destroy at once his throne and the metropolis. On a sudden his conduct experienced a second change, his flee resuoied its deep and habi•ual thoughtful gloom, his attention was once more entirely engrossed by the cares due to his armies, and every day witnessed new reviews of regi inents in the place of the Carrousel. Sleep could no longer seal his wakeful eves, and his wonted activity, in which no other mortal pethaps ever equalled him, was displayed with snore energy than ever. All the .time he could spare from• his armies and his cabinet, be bestowed on his state council. So striking an opposition between his present and his. past conduct, could not fail to excite a 'rowel ful agita tion in the minds of the Parisians, and to make them .strive to trace up a change so abrupt in the matwers of .the Em peror to its true eau e. But to the still gi eater astonish tent of the whole city, the report of au interview of- Na poleoe with his genius, under the shape of a t»ysterious Iled Man, transpired. The gentleman, from whom we received this curious communication, heard it related with the following patticulars, on the first day of January, at Par is, where he spent the whole of last winter. The Ist of January 1814, early in the Morning, Napoleon shut himself in his cabinet, bidding Count Mole, then Coun cillor of State, and since made Grand Judge of the Empire, to remain in the next room, and to hinder any person whatso. eve.; from troubling him, whilst he was occupied in his ca. binet. Ile looked more thoughtful than usual. He had Dot long retired to his study, when a tall man, dressed all in red, applied to Mole, pretending that he waned to speak to the Emperor. Ile was answered, that it was not pos ," I must speak to him ; go and tell him that it is the Red Man who wants him, and he will admit me." Awed by the imperious and commanding tone of that strange person age. Mole obeyed reluctantly, and trembling, executed his dangerous errand. " Let him in," said Boaapaite, sternly. Prompted by his curiosity, Mole listened at the door, and oveilicard the following curious conversation :--The Red Man said, 1‘ This is my third apparition before rau ; the first time . we met it was in Egypt, at the battle of the Pyramids. The second, after the battle of Wagram. I then granted you four years more, to tettninate the cope uest of Lurope, or to make a general peace; threaten sing yow that if you did not pet form one of thoie two things. 1 wuutd withdraw my protection from you. Now lam come for the third and last time, to warn you that you have now but three months to complete the execution of your designs, or to comply with the proposals of peace that are offered ran by the Allies: it' you do not achieve the one, or accede to the other, all will be over with you, so remember it well." Narmteon then expostulated with him to obtain more time, on the plea that it was impossible in so short a space, to reconquer what he had lost, or to make peace on he.. mumble terms. " Do as you &m^, but my resolutioa !!0; t ,, z e shaken by intreaties, nor otherwise, and I go." !h".! the Emperor followed, intreating but to ; the Red Man would not stop any longer, . , •-- _ he went away, on his Imperial Majesty a contemptu. ous look, and retie : :; !).?: in a stern voice, three months, no . longer." Napoleon made no rerly, bit his fiery eyes darted li fury, and he retur.,Nl sullenly into his Cabinet, which he did not leave the who: , ! Such were the reports %vete spread in Paris three months before the fall of Napoleon Bunnaparte, where they caused an unusual sensation, and created a superstitious be ; lief among the people that he had dealings with infernal spi rits, and was hound to•fulfil their will or to What 41 I more remarkable is, that in three mdeths the last wonderful events justified the fled Man's words completely; more un fortunate than Ca'ar, or Henry the Wth of France, these ' presages did but foretel his ruin and not his death. Who the man really was who visited Napoleon in a red dress has never been known ; but that such a person 'ob tained an interview with him, seems to have been placed be yond a doubt. Even the French Papers, when Buonaparte was deposed, recurred to the fact, and remarked, that his mysterious visitant's prophetic threat had been accomplished. The Duke of Wellington lately gave a splendid entertain* went to the French :\larshals at Paris. The Duchess,accom panied by her two s: ns, will shortly be conducted to France by Col. Campbell. It is said that the Duchess of Cumberland will speedily accompany he: husband to this country, where their marriage will be re-solemnized, according to the forms of the Chards of England. A gentlemen from the East Indies, who lately arrived at Exeter, presented a lady of that city with a little African negro boy, about nine or ten years of age, which some 1 time since he humanely preserv ed from bein g destroyed b y i I a stave merchant : it appear ed that amon g man y staves which I were oltered for sale to the Captain of a slave ship, this black infant was one, but not being able to procure a purchasci. he took the child up by the leg and arm to throw it into the ocean, and when in the very act, the above gentleman intr.! posed, and agreed to give s ome consideration ; the boy i* very tractable, has a good capacity, and a retentive memory. Tet M pit Ma I advises from our correspondent in Larur. we are informed,tlott the letter sent to us under the signature of Wm. M•Ct.to.i.‘Nn," is a forgery ; no animal having been taken in Hand Magee at all answering the description there Oyu:. Means are adopted t►r endeavouring to detect the writer of the letter. A iisiserman Went into a Shop in this town,• where a ter: people Kern tathiitg aiiont the mermaid, that was maid to have been caught at Portmock in Island Magee. The young man behind the counter said, ." I think it is a hoax" It is a %%hat," said the fisherman.—" Why." said the young man, " 1 think it a hoax." Sir." replied the fisherman, " I would advise you to talk about thiugs that you are acquainted with, fbr I tell you; that I have tot lowed.the fi , hing trade these thirty-five years; anti these is not ,1 fish in the European seas that I could not tell its name ; but may be d-r-a if ever 1 heard of a fish called a hoax."—( Belfast Chro; r