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London, England, 1815-03-19 00:00:00

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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 144
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-740 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

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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
some 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

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