The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1870-10-08 00:00:00

THE EMPEROR NAPOLEON ON THE
NEGOTIATIONS FOR PEACE.

The following document has been fors arded front the
office of Len Sit.otion, the French Imperil'li‘t journal
recently ei•tahlished in Loudon. It appe.ara uuder the
title, " Les lihtt a de l'Empereur," and In introdueol liy
the statement that Count Itientarck, immediately after
the failure of the negotiatioua which he had with M.
Jules Favor, forwarded an exact teport of what had
posed to Wilhelniatithe. The Emperor Napoleon
thereupon retired to hi, cabinet, and the lame evening
thttpatched M. de Caatelnan to the Prus,ian flead-
Quartiii with the following note, the whole of which
was in the Etuperor'a own handwriting

" immediately after the failure of the negotiations with
14 Jule. Vivre, Count Bistnarek Is said to have comniuni.
rated to Willrdni•Lehe the exact report of thou mantle-
Com. The Emperor then shut himself up in hi. c
cud on the mime evening M. de Castelnau left for the
Priorilan Imadquarter. with the following note, the eutire of
which is in the Emperor's handwriting
'"li, keeptu me Informed from d-iy to day of the events
which have taken place from the hour which Providence
coin:nailed Me to deliver my sword, the Kii.g seem, to spromi
to the prisoner un the trial. which the P, widen armies Im-
p 'go upon Fran°, in an interest which Le believes to be that
of Germany.
. . • .•-•

'The c numunleatlon of tie Count confirms me In this
upinion. But has the proper time arrived for me to reply to
thie double nt.ention by tie expression of my hie,/
" 'Up to the 4th of September the reserve which I have
maintained shift Sedan rested on toy firm resolution to brave
Vie Empress lon idid entire liberty of conforming to the in-
tentionn of the country.
" Alt. r the 4th September I could not but entertain the
wish that France, even at the *saer fice of try Cy.sty,
thnlM mcceed In ll,rclng the Invader beyond the natural
frontiers.

1,, making their overture to the Gaunt. of which It MO
eery to foresee the result, they deprived the war of its real
character, bettering that they would thee get rid of the
responsibility of the movement, to the impulse of which my
Garenimeot thought it ought to yle'd.
. ' This was to destroy the effect of the motives they had
for not subscribing to the terms offered : it was especially to
paral3 Z the national defence at the very mo vent when it
was about to 1,11111110 proportions worthy of France
"'The Count does not appear to liana c unprehentled that
they refused an armistice nears racy to the reconstruction of
a rt pear G Nertitsient, and he wonders that none of the
Powers legally existing hes not Riven he opinion on what he
considers sprout of the King': moderation.
" • No one can hiamo a Frenchman for having repaired an
in rudent step by refusing to snbscrihe to prooositto n
which are hut little in harmony with our glorious past.
'A duel like that which has taken place between France
anti Germany can only red by the complete ruin of one of
the two autagouLds, or by thew Ours awl loyal concilla-
.

' The Count should, therefore, above all things, ask him-
self II Germany has a greater interest In her ruin than in the
alliance of Flouter ; and whether, adrttlog the first itty-
p 'thesis, Gummy does not believe France able to and her
safety in her despair, even though tutope should consent to
remain on Indifferent spectator of an iLV•6IOO that has no
precise limits.
•"p interview with the Keg au lionises me to think that
he flinch prefers the alliance of France t ruin, that he Is
Oct free from anxiety as to the results of &struggle it entrance,
HO that be appreciates at their jest value the rights which
a perlect knowledge of the sentiments manifested during the
war by the different nations a Europe would give to two
peoples whohave become closely united.
• If such irrre in reality the King's opinion, it would only
remain fir him to point oat the way of Orin... It efinct ; but
I. It for the conquered to specify the obligations of the
roomy rm, that his genet oak arty not teem more opt naive
than his exigency s ?.. . . .

" I can roily be; the Connt to bear to mind that one never
so( eke In %Ode to the heart flf the French people by heroic
sets, whilst he I. c,rtaiti to °Main nothing title attempts to
stir In lb • ir bosoms the chortle ollegotiam or few, with vela 41
they will rennin n,,ationaimed, what,ver may be the re-
'genes ProvLience imposes on us
. . . .

" In-tined tWa.cl-nnTand' loyal alliance with G...rmany by
noble she is, Fierce would be the first to agree that between
the taro Enipi,,s a ilea of defence, no longer commended by
fortress., would have any emend for exatence.
As to the molders which France should submit to
besides, she would not hesitate to make theta the moment
she was allowed to appreciate the immense ad vsntrges which
would resnit to bath i atlons from • peace of which they will
be unseen crib the only arbiter.
" • Tire frank tad clear statement of the tut. h I al xas s
made eatablished between France aril m)self a current of
sympathy which nothing can ever destroy. Were I to affirm
that our honour has no state to fear from • reconciliation
based n the cliarniamentof fortreares new become useless,
and on the prier:Tie el • war Indennity to be vet lari by
experts, I bel rave that peace wonid be possible. These con-
ditions nesy hinder France from having recourse to ex,
tremities which a caprice or chance might render fatal to the
social ender of Europe.
" Led back by ex lenience to a sound appreciation of the
divisions by which she is torn, ea delivered from the
aeourge of war, France would be swift to see and tt hind:
that her misfurtrulea are doe te her want of political unity,
and that she must henceforth sink prosperity by •
strict regard hi the inviolabliPy of Margot in..
These considerations will daily lose force, eapecially
if the King hesitates to take them into account before
attacking Paris. The ten tele shock which Providence has
permitted betw en Germany and France nosy have struck
ont a spark which progress will end useful to the n:oral and
material safety of Europe but if on both rides they persist
in ba•lgim to force as Me erly solution, there wig surely
series; from this chock a formidable unknown gm inconnu
mloutable, an much to the misfortune of Germany as to the
miafortune of France. " • NA Pr .LEON.
.• • Wilnelmshahae, 26th September, WM.'"

The Indeprndance Bdat, commenting on the foregoing
docucuf nt, says : -

.- - -
We have asioni ourselves Mit was not an apocryphal docu-
meat. We cannot understand, in feet, how there should
exist such relatiens salt discloses between the mail whose
siensture It bears 1.114 • government which respects Itself
err, above all, how this man should receive every day, as air
letter says Iro does, Information direct from the King
of Prussia on the situation of ilium 1411 ii the progress
ef military operations. Meanwhile the thing displays
such a cynicism. It offels ,so Ignobly to purchase by
moans of a mutilation of France, the alliance of Ger-
mmly. in order to late • joint advantage of Euterpe, that it
must really emanate from the adventurer and vlsien try to
whom France owes the capitulation of Sedan. It would seem
then, that disarm,e the most merited and the remembrance
of that long crime of nineteen years which is called the
Empire, and 'which is to day no completely unveiled, el-rea
snit weigh open him sbariently to estiwidsh in his miserable
mind the dream of a retnru to Parts, and of a new escalade
of the throne of Franca with the aid of Prussian bayonet..
If Germany eenbt be atieerres enneigh to help him, eight
days wedild not elapse, lon eel, ainty, before she would sea
hint disappenr Car ever before tho vein/elm blast which would
he raised a,cal reit hiin by the whole of lire, great nation vadat
he has covered with iitsgraca after outrageously rob Ying it.

Tne Nord !Uri thot the "idea' developed in the
document are t derably Utopian, and adds that the
moment seem., an ill.choeen one to start the idea of an
alliance between France and Germany.