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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,

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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 preserved from being destroyed by
iI a stave merchant : it appeared that among many 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 some 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;

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