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EXTRACTS FROM THE EMPEROR NAPO-
LEON'S "LIFE OE CABAL"

The first volume of the " History of Julius Caesar"
will be published at Paris in a day or two. A num-
ber of copies have been struck off at the Imperial
Printing-ofiiee, of the largest quarto form, with all
the advantages of the finest type and paper, for the
Emperor to offer to the ministries, high functionaries
of state, the representatives of foreign courts, and
certain other distinguished persons. The volume
consists of 357 pages in two books, one containing
six chapters, the other five, with four maps and an
engraving of Qom. The engraving is from a por-
trait by M. Ingres, and it would seem the artist has
done his best to make it resemble that of Napoleon
I. The following are a few extracts :

SYLLeB DICTATOEBEIP,
ml history of the lad 50 years, and especially the die-
tamthhip et SAL, ',ideally showed that Italy required
masts,. Oa all aides the institutions pve way before the
power at ow who was sustained not only by his own parti-
sans, bet also by the warning crowd who, tired out by the
action and the reaction of so many opposite parties, longed
for order and repose. Had the conduct of Sylle been mode.
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mite, that which is celled the empire would probably ham
begun with him ; but his authority was exercised with
such mashy end onemidednese, that on his death
people forgot the abuses of liberty, to think only of
the abuses of tyranny. The more the democratic spirit
spied, the more did the old institutions lose the
prestige that once attached to them. In truth, as de-
mammy, confiding and impainlosed, always believes its
interests to be more suitably represented by a single person
than by a political body, it was ever inclined to entrust its
future to him who should isles himself by merit above hr
emtemporaries. The Graechi, Marius, and SAL had each
in turn disposed at their pleasure of the destinies of the
republic, and with impunity trampled under foot old in.
stitutions and old usages; but their reign was transient, for
they represented oaly factions. lusted of comprehimive
regard for the wishes and intermits of the whole Italian
pommels, they favoured this or that clam of society exclu-
sively. Some wanted, above all other things, to improve
the condition of the pauper population of Rome, to procure
emancipation for the Ballots., or preponderance for the
egoestrian order; while others sought to maintain the
privileges of the aristocracy. Both faded. In order to
found a durable order of things a man was wanting who,
raising himself above vulgar passions,_should combine in
himself the essential qualitiesand the just ideas oft
one of those who bad preceded him, and who should avoid
their defects se well se their ernes. To the greatness of
soul and the love for the people which diatioguished 04C.
tain of the tribunes, he should join the military groinsf
the great genera e, end the profound attachment of the
dictator to order and hierarchy. The man qualified for so
high a mission already existed, but, notwithstanding his
name, be would perhaps have ',maimed long unknown had
not, the penetrating eye of Sylla detected him amid the
mewd, and by permeation drew the attention of the people
upon him. That man was Omer. (Llv. I. chap. vi.)

To these natural gifts, developed by a brilliant dura-
tion, were joined physical advantages, Hie lofty stature,
and his finely moulded and well•proportiooed limbs, im-
parted to his person • grace which distinguished him from
all others. His eyes were dark, his glum penetrating, his
complexion colourless, and his wee 'height and somewhat
Uzi*. His mouth was small and regular, and the lips, rather
full, pre to the lower put of hie lace an expression of
kindliness, while his breadth of forehead indicated the de-
velopment of the intellectual faculties. His face was full,
at least, in his youth ; hat in the busts which were made
towards the close of his life, hie features are thinair, and
bear the traces of fatigue. Hie voice was etearoestaiad
vibrating ; his gesture noble, and an air of dignity mauled
his whole person. His constitution, which as fink was
delicate, grew robust by sober living, and by his halt of
exposing himself to the inclemency of the seams. Amos-
tented from his youth to manly eremite he was a bold
horseman ; and he supported with ease privations and
fatigues. Habitually abstemious, Dia health was not
weakened by emus of labour, nor by ernes of pleasure.
Nevertheless, oe two occasion; coos at Ocalova and
then at Thapsus, he had a nervous attack, which was
erroneously thought to be epilepsy. He paid per-
titular attention to his person, shaved with eau,
or had the hairs plucked out ; he brought for
ward artistically his hair to the front of his head,
and this in his more advanced age served to comma
his baldness. He war reproached with the affectation
of scratching his head with only one finger for fear of de-
ranging his hair. His drew was arranged with exquisite
taste. His gown was generally bordered with the Landon
ornamented with fringes to the hands, sad was bound round
the loins by a mash loosely knotted—a fashion which dis-
tinguished the elegant and effeminate youth of the period.
But Sylia was not deceived by this @how of frivolity,
and he was wont to recommend that people should have an
eye on that young man with the flowing rah. He had •
taste for pictures, statues, and gems ; sod he always wore
on his finger, in memory of his origin, • ring on which
was engraved the figure of an armed Venus. To um up,
there were found in Cesar, physically and morally, two
natures which are rarely combined in the earns person. He
joined aratoontio fastidiousness of roan to the vigorous
temperament of the soldier; the graces of mind to the ro-
tundity of thought ; the love of luxury and of the arts to a
rearm for military life in all its simplicity and rudeness.
In a word, he jolt's(' the elegance of manner which oldness
to the energy of character which commands. Such was
Cesar at the age of 18, when Bylla poisoned himself of the
Dictatorship. He had already attracted the attontioa of
the Remus by his name, his wit, his engaging manners,
which wire so pleasing to men, and, still more so, perhaps,
to women. (Liv. IL, chap. L )
CAESAR'S SOMME.
It is, indeed, a strange inoonsistency to attribute to men
of superior mark at once the moat paltry motives and super-
human forraight. No; it was not the thought of keeping
Cicero in check which guided Cesar. He had not recourse
to tactics more or less skilful ; he acted on his firm convic-
tion, and what places this beyond doubt is that, once Mimed
to power, his first acts were to carry out, as Consul or Dic-
tator, waist he had advocated as a simple citizen; for in-
stance, the agrarian law, and the reinstatement of the
proscribed. No ; if he supported Pompey it was
not because be contemplated pulling him down
after Betting him up, but because the illustrious
captain had embraced the same cause as himself ;
for it was given to no one to read the future so well
as to divine the use which the coo-juror of Mithridates
would make of his triumphs and his popularity. In fact,
when he landed in Italy Rome was in • state of much
anxiety. Would he disbud his artier was toe cry of alarm
heard on all aides. If ha came as a master so one weld
resist him. Contrary to the garret expectation, Pompey
disbanded his troops. How. then, could Cesar forum a
moderation so animal in those days' Is it more correct to
ray that Cesar on becoming pro-consul aspired to supreme
power' No ; on setting out for Heal he could have no
thought of reigning at Roma, no more than Gummi Buono-
parts in nett* out far Italy in 1796 dreamt of the em-
pire. Was it possible for Cesar to foresee that during his
tea years' stay in Gaul be should be always snoseedel, and
that at the end of that period the minds of the Rowse
people would be favourable to his schemes' Could be goer
that the death of his daughter would snap the links that
had bound him to Pompey? that OVUM. luwtoud of s-
toning trilzaphaet from the Bask would be commudaad
slain by the Pathless@ ? that the murder of Mains would
throw all Italy into seatenkm ? and, finally, that the
anarchy which be had striven to pet dawn by means of
the triumvizate would lead to Ide-elevatios ? Claw
bad Were his ere peat example,. He nerchei glad-
toady l. the footsteps d nes like Bipis tad Palm