The Sun.
London, England, 1814-04-29 00:00:00

ANECDOTES OF BUON.,ii'ARTE.

A pamphlet has been piiiiiis!ied >tt Paris, under
the title of What is became of NAPOLEON ?
by a Parisian with returned front Fon•tairiblean the'
lOth*Wpril rs a few extracts front which Will, we
trust, not be unamosing to our readers. Ater a
short introduction, it proceeds :—•

" It is certain that he was this morniog at
Fontainblean, and that he has been forced to re-
main there. It was there that he receives,' an ac-
• count of those events by which France had in one
day been 'liberated. He had caused all the papers
and letters which were sett by the post front Pa=
ris to be stopped and brought to him ; he eagerly
ran them over.; he wished to read. them all at
once; his eyes, greedy for carriage, ,cimid not fix.
upon any of them. At fir,;t, he could not being
hiuiself to believe the news they contained ; be
took up anti threw down the, paperi and :letters,,
whieli all repeated the saute thing; he tore them
with fury, but he could not, by tearing' them,
efface the facts which they contained. -The im-
portant intelligence tvas not known to the inha-
bitants o'f l'Ontainbleau, nor to the army which
he had with kith ; bur whispers were circulated,
and by slow degrees both the inhabitairs and the
army'were apprized of the truth. They learned,
that the Emperor of AUSTRIA had exhausted every
effort in his power to bring hi‘n back to reason,
and to infuse into him `stirne respect for human'
blood. It was said that BUONAPARTE had lad
peace three times within his power ...since the
Allies had entered prance; that he had even,
within these fifteen days, s;gued and toil) the
treaty. It was then that the E;:..peror of AUSTRIA,
felt the necessity Of making another sacrifice for
the sake of humanity; and of boining, w,thout re-
, strictitm, in the views
,avowed by ALEXANDER, by
Prussia, and liy`England, and in which, Frauce •
participated. At Fontaiubleau, the. names of
ALEXANDER, of the Emperor of AUSTRIA, of the
King of PRUSSIA, 'of IVELLrNo•ro'N, of SCH WART.
ZENBERG, and of Mrtb:AnoTTE, began to be re-
peated among the soldiers, with those of the
BOURBONs. Several or the Marshals of France,
to tvhoni he [tad s, at orders to recommence
the effusion of 'Nolan blood, came to him,
and declared that they had no longer any
armies to carry on a war that was wholly dis-
avowed by public opinion, which now began to
be heard in France. They told him he must make
up his mind, and no longer dispute with French-
men the right of flaring a country, nor attempt.
to deprive that country any longer of thosesol7
tilers which he had reealtedunder the prote,..:tiour
of her The Senate-had not yet itononneed.
to BUONAPARTE the decree by which they had,
withdrawn from him the legal title•to that poo. er, '
which -he had abused with the Most criminal
usurpation, and ~with the west sangni nary des
notism. It svaS thought that these decrees were
only in agitation when he anticipated them by his
own act. It appears that he bad signed the Est
act of
.his publicexistence the moment that the
necessity of it was first hinted to him It is.
my abdication that they want—there it is,' said
he to the Marshals of France ; but he had scarcely ,
given the paper out of his hands before he wished
to have it back again—but he wished jut vain.—
' Well,' said lie, if every thing is finished, I
will poison myself.' —'• He will (loon such
said one of the Marshals, drily, sincelie tants
about it.'

" After that event he still continued to act the
Sovereign ; he •vrote decrees and bulietins ; he
made promotions, and g2tve awayseve;.al. hundred
Cros3ex-itnd ribbandsrot different colours. I.Vhen
the decree of the Senate was- annolinced to him,
' Well,' said he, '1 amAirivetvirom my Throne, but .
I had rather that had happened than that I should
have given up the smallest villag4i.' As .soon as
he was informed that the Island of Elba wss granted
to him as an asylum, he began-to think of the poWer
which ,he should assume, and of the manner in
which be should reign. lie then demanded all
his carriages, amounting to aliove a hundred..._..
Myc wine cellar ought also to he given to sue,' Jr[
he, but it is not of great value ;it is not w •tli
more than 64,000 liVres.'.• He then gave orth.rs
to one of his attendants to go to Paris to make
these demands.. ' 1 shall want two or 'three li-
braries,' said, he, ' in addition to mv-.carriag-es
and my wing cellar.----They have given me the
Island of Elba,' added he.; ' I will fortify it in
such a manner that, no one will think it pruf!sent
to come and attack me.'. He so,pght.for every-map
of the Isle" of Elha, and made numerous inquiries
of every ..One who had be 6) there: He -4-:i:ed,
What are the number and character of its inha-
bitants ? is it fortihed ? what are the fortifica-
tions ? is it possible to have a Royal (,base there ? •
is it rich ? what are its productions ?' When he
was told that it produced iron, he appeared much
struck,:—' iron mines I' said he several times ; .
then walked un and down with uneonthion rapi.
dity : his hands and-firms were violently agitate 4 •
the contortions of his wiouth and body were intili
tiplied, and the sombre fury of his looks because,
mote ardent."