The Sun.
London, England, 1841-01-01 00:00:00

EXTRAORDINARY PROPHECY

RESPECTING NAPOLEON.

The Memorial de Rouenwas the first to publish the
following prophecy, which has since been taken up by
several French Journals, and which, if genuine, would
unquestionably be one of the most remarkable things in
history. The Rouen editor adduces various proofs of
the authenticity of this prophecy, establishing, as he
thinks, conclusively, the fact of its existence at least so
far back as the year 1793, and pledges his reputation to
the truth of his several allegations. The whole is ma- '
nifestly fictitious, but it will doubtless amuse our readers.
It should be premised that Napoleon's well-known
tendency to fatalism was frequently admitted by himself.
Napoleon (says the Rouen editor) went one evening
to Malinaison. He was very fond of" talking the mar-
vellous" upon these occasions—more especially with
his consort Josepiiine, whom he knew to be very su-
perstitious. Upon the evening in question he spoke of
his gigantic projects, and finished by placing in Jose-
phine's hands an old manuscript book, bound in parch-
ment, and bearing the date of 1542. The shape of the
book was duodecimo, and the paper on which it was
written, as well as the parchment cover, had the yellow
hue of antiquity. " Tiens," said the Emperor," regarde
et lis."
Josephine read aloud—" Prediction de Maistre Noel
Olivarius."

W ell ?" inquired Josephine.
" They say that it has reference to me," replied the
Emperor.
" How, in a book published in 1542 ?"

" Read."
The Empress tried to read it, but as the style was old
French, and the characters ill-formed, she was obliged
for some minutes to run over it with her eye, and then
she read aloud as follows :
" Italian Gaul will give birth not far from her bosom
to a supernatural being. This man will spring in his
youth from the sea, will come to assume the language
and the manners of the Celtic Gauls, and will open to
himself, still young, a path amongst soldiers through a
thousand obstacles, and will become their leading chief
This sinuous path will cost him much labour. He will
become a great warrior near to his natal country in a
lustre or more. Beyond sea he will be a warrior with
great glory and valour, and will invade the Roman

" He will give laws to the Germans, will pacify trou-
ble and fear amongst the Celtic Gauls, and will be after-
wards not named Roy,' but Insperator,' amidst great
popular enthusiasm. fie will wage war everywhere in
the empire, and chase princes, lords, and kings for two
lustres or more. Then will arise new princes, and
lords, and cry 0 sidera, 0 sacra !' He will be seen
with an army of 49 times 20,000 men, foot soldiers
armed, who will carry arms with iron horns. There
will be seven times 7,000 horses, mounted by men, who
*hall carry a large sword or a lance each, and a steel
corselet. There will be seven times seven times 2,000
men, who will set terrible machines in play, and vomit
forth sulphur, and fire, and death. The entire of his
army will contain forty-nine times 2,000 men.
" He will carry in his right hand an eagle, the sigu of
victory. He will war through many nations. He will
return to the great city, ordering many great things—
edifices, bridges, sea gates, aqueducts, canals. He will
make of himself alone, through great riches, as much as
all the Romans. He will have two wives."
Here Josephine stopped.
" Continue," said the Emperor.
" And one son. He will go warring to the point
where the lines of longitude and latitude cross, fifty
and five months. There his enemies will burn with
fire the great city, and he will enter there and depart
from it, from beneath ashes and ruins ; and his men
having neither bread nor water, through a great and
decimating cold shall return amidst such disasters, that
two.thirds cf his army will perish.
" Then the great man, abandoned, betrayed by his
friends, shall be chased in his turn with great loss, even
to his own cite, by a great European population, and in
his seat will be placed the Old Cape (Caper) King.
He himself constrained to exile in the sea, whence he
came forth so young, and near to his natal soil, will
remain there for eleven moons with some of his friends,
true friends and soldiers, who being no longer seven
times seven times two thousand in number, immedi-
ately that the eleven moons shall have filled their horns
and waned, he and his will take ships and will set foot
once more upon the Celto-Gaulic soil.
" And he will set out towards the great city, where
the old Cape King will then be seated, who will straight
arise and fly, carrying off' the royal ornaments. He will
then restore things to his ancient domination, and give
many admirable laws to his people.
" Again driven from his seat by a' Trinity European
population,' after three moons and the third of a moon,
the old Cape King shall be restored to his place, and
he shall be believed to be dead by his soldier-people,
who during this time shall guard him as their penales
near their hearts.
" The people and the Gauls shall tear each other
like tigers. The blood of the old Cape King sh,ol
be the subject of black treasons. The malcontents shall
be deceived, and slain by sword and fire. The lily
shall be maintained, but, the last boughs of the old
tree shall still be menaced. Thus shall they war
amongst each other.
" Then shall a young warrior journey towards the
great city. He will carry a lion and cock on his
armour. The lance shall be given him by a great
Prince of the East. He will be seconded marvel-
lously by warlike people of Belgic Gaul, who shall unite
themselves to the Parisians to remove trouble, and
cover themselves with branches of olive. Peace for
25 moons. Then in Lutetia shall the Seine be red
with blood, &c."
This prophecy brings matters so minutely down to
the " glorious three days" of 1830, that it is a pity the
writer has not given us all the evolutions of the Eastern
question v. bile his hand was in. What rasp set can
newspaper editors in France have for the null ets of
their readers who palm off for authentic so pilpably
fictitious a divination, and pledge themselves for its
having been existence for three centuries back ? It
must be added, in their justification, that the prophecy,
or at least the greater portion of it, was published in
the " Memoirs de Josephine" in 1820 and 1827, and
again by Edouard Brison, in his " Recueil de Pro-
. pheties." The allegation concerning it is, that in 1793
it was discovered by Francois de Metz in a Benedictine
convent at Paris.
COURT OF BANKKUPTCY, DAC. 30.