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LIANDuN, MONDAY, JULY 6.

The Emperor NAPOLEON has thought it neces-
eery to take notice of the extraordinary references i
to him in Mr. ROEBUCK'S speech of Tuesday last,
and accordingly the Munitcur yesterday contained
a short article on the subject which could only have
been written by the EMPEROR himself. Mr. LINDSAY
has also written to a contemporary, declaring that
" what he (Mr. ROEBUCK) has 'stated is true ;"
so that all the parties to the remarkable interview
at Fontainebleau have now spoken.
The EMPEROR'S statement opens with a sentence
in which the object of Messrs. Rozsucx and
LLNDSAY'S visit IS characterized. Mr. ROEBUCK
has stated that he and his colleague went
to France to clear up a misunderstanding, by I
ascertaining the EMPEROR'S opinions ; but the
EMPEROR'S words are that " Messrs. ROEBUCK
" and LINDSAY visited Fontainebleau to engage
" the EMPEROR to take official steps at London for
" the recognition of the Southern States." This,
is just what the public suspected ; this it is which
has caused the outcry of disgust that has gone
up from the whole country. We have now the
highest warrant for believing, we are indeed ex-
plicitly told, that these two persons went to Paris
to ask a neighbouring potentate to put a pressure
upon the Government of our QUEEN, and so get by
foreign aid what they could not obtain through
the action of English opinion. Nothing can be
clearer than the Estraaoa's statement, and this is
its purport. _ . .

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The EMPEROR also notices to contradict another
of Mr. Rotorua's allegations. After repeating the
substance of the conversation at Fontainebleau, be
adds : " These explanations will demonstrate that
" the EMPEROR has not attempted, as certain pub-
" lications pretend, to influence the British Par-
" liament by means of two of its members." This
remark shows that the Emerson knows what is
due to the House of Commons. But what
" publications " are here referred to ? Every
newspaper that published a report of Mr. Rog-
RCM's speech must be included, for it is really
that gentleman's own statement that the Ex-
PRIOR is refuting. " I know," said the Member for
Bheflield, " certain things about the state of the
" mind of the great French Ruler, which I am
" authorised to lay before this House." The House
received this assumption of the ambassadorial cha-
racter with laughter, but Mr. Roemer, although
thus warned, proceeded—" The Emperor of the
" FRINCII said, and be gave me authority to
" repeat it here," fcc. And again, " I give you
" full liberty to state this my wish to the House
" of Commons, and to say to them that I have
" determined," dm. The EMPEROR, however,
now denies that be gave anybody authority
to use his name to influence the British Parlia-
ment.

These are matters of form, but very important
matters nevertheless. We now come to the sub-
stance of the conversation. And first • most sig-
nificant omission is to be noticed. Mr. RonnucE
had said :
I asked his Majesty this. I laid before him two 000nsa.
I rid, "Your Majesty mar make a formal application to
England." He stopped me, and said, " No. 1 cannot do
that, and I will tell you why. Some months ago I did
make a formal application to England, and England sent my
despatch to America. That despatch got into Mr. Seward's
hands, and was shown to my ambassador at Wuhington,
and it came beck to me, and I feel that I was ill-treated by
such conduct. (` Hear, bear,' and sensation.) I cannel
subject myself to the danger of similar treatment. Bat I
will do everything short of it ; I will give you full liberty
to state to the English House of Commons that this is my
wish, and to state that lam determined in all things to
act with England, and, more than this, that I wish to act
with her as regards America."
We have just seen that the EMPEROR disclaims
the appeal from the Foreign-office to the House of
Commons, so ostentatiously set out in this pas-
sage. But of the complaint of bad faith of the
British Government in sending his despatch clan-
destinely to Washington he said nothing at all.
And although Mr. LINDSAY affirms that Mr. Ros-
aries's statement " is true," yet it is impossible to
believe that the EMPEROR had so far forgotten the
facts an that gentleman would have us believe. The
despatch referred to was only read to Earl Rua-
SELL on the ICth of November. No copy was left
at the Foreign-office, so that none could be sent to
Washington, and three days after the reading the
despatch appeared in the Moniteur. These facts
have been stated in the Hones of Commons, and
have been universally accepted as an utter refuta-
tion of the charge repeated by Mr. RORBCCX.
That the Moniteur should pass that charge over in
silence is very remarkable.
The very brief portion of the EMPEROR'S state-
ment which has • positive character, although
it is the only part that can be appealed to to
give colour to Mr. ROEBUCK'S strange story,
is far from bearing it out. Mr. EOZRUCE
represented the EMPEROR as having said that
he had instructed his Ambassador to state
to the British Government that his feeling
wee stronger than ever in favour of recognition,
and to ask them " whether they would be willing