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LO2VDON, MONDAY; APRIL 26, 1869.

Because the Emperor NAPOLEONAII. intimated
very recently his intention to celebrate the Cen-
tenary of the birth of the wonderful,Founder of his
Dynasty, by bestowing an additions 'pension of ten
pounds a year upon each of the veteran soldiers still
surviving from the wars of the First, French Empire
tnd from the wars of the First—French Revo-

lution—£lo a-piece per annum to the war-
riors of the Great Emperor and of the Great
Revolution—simply because of this the announce-
ment thus made by his Imperial AIAJEs-ry has been
received by very many people almost with derision.
For ourselves we cannot but regard the derision thus
xpre.i.sed as in itself exceedingly- contemptible. It is
certainly carrying to an extr, adinirari prin-
ciple. Ingratitude is notorioisly the basest of vices,
even among individuals. Ingratitude on the
part of a whole nation is simply detestable. And cer-
tainly, if another man might say, apres moi le delude,
NAPOLEON the GREAT might haVe said, in regard to
France, avant moi le deluge. " Chaos," before his ap-
pearance upon the public scene, had " come again."
With all Europe in arms against Revolutionary
France, NAPOLEON, on first assuming power, had to
build order up,'once more, from the very foundations.
By means of the Concordat, lie raised anew the altars
of GOD, desecrated, until his advent, by the orgies of
infidelity. By means of the immortal Code, with
which his name is identified, and which constitutes,
in fact, his securest passport to immortality, he was
enabled at once to ensure again the just administra-
tion of the law, first of all throughout France and
afterwards, accordingly as his conquering armies ad-
vanced from one European country to another, '
throughout the chief part of the natioas of Christen-
dom. Wars were forced upon him by Coalition after
Coalition. Two only of the NAPOLEONIC wars were
distinctly of his own creation—the war against Spain,
nto which he was tempted by the discreditable and
even disgraceful degeneracy of the then reigning family
at Madrid, the fatuous CHARLES IV., his profligate
Queen, their contemptible and faithless son FERDI-
NAND VII., and his mother's frivolous paramour
EMANUEL GODOY, Prince of the Peace—the other
wantonly - provoked war being the one ad-
ventured upon, in 1812, against Russia, the
.)tie commenced by the triumphal advance
across the Neirnen, and drawing towards i-s close
in the di..eaatrons retreat a'21033 the Borodino.

Uthorwise than in those t7,.0 instance, it is dir.otly
:Jntrary to the teachings o? history to assrt that the
First NAPOLEON was the tlggressor in that long series
of wars in which the provecation always came from
one or anotbt-r of the great anti-Gallicaa Coalitions.
Co charge NAPOLEON with all the bloodshed, therefore,
of those sanguinary tiwcs, is simply an absurdity, is
simply a contradiction of notorious facts, is simply a
vio!ation of common-sense. He wielded the sword of
France as a great warrior, as the greatest of all warriors.
lle ruled Prance, he ruled Europe from his
imperial throne, as a great monarch, as a new SEsos-