The Sun.
London, England, 1858-07-08 00:00:00

STATUE OF NAPOLEON I. AT MILAN.

The statue of Napoleon stands where CanoyS R. ea
placed it at Milan fifty years ago. Various vicis. ENT]
si.tudes of fortune have swept over Italy since then. 'renrsy e vbevni
Long, dark, and weary nights of oppression, broken edmiss
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by brief and stormy gleams of hope and liberty, tt?
have come and gone, and now the spirit of that Ler'Rneale''
mourning land seems to dwell in a twilight of dire,
content, distrust, and doubt. But the master-
piece of the eminent sculptor remains where it wag,
a»-ienus inter pares among the modern monuments
of Lombardy, recalling to the memory of old men •
the day when the great Italian soldier placed the
Iron Crown upon his plebeian brow. The House
of Hapsburg has indeed regained that rugged dia-
dem, and, with the exception of a brief interval,
has succeeded in retaining it within its grasp. But
the image of Napoleon has never ceased to be un-
welcome to its waking sight, and the echo of his
name still troubles its dell dreams. Could the
mute lips of the marble effigy speak, they would
speak in the Italian tongue ; that was the dialect
in which the great usurper thought ; that was the
language of his conquering youth and meditative
age. His rank and power and European fame was
that of France ; but the genius of the man was that
of Italy ; as Emperor of the West, Europe feared
and hated him ; but it was as an Italian king of
Italy who had driven her German gaolers out, and
shut her mountain gates upon them, that Austria
hated him whilst living, and trembled at the recol-
lection of what he haebeen, after he was consigned
to his distant grave. And Austria trembles still
at the mention of Lis name ; and is disturbed at
each successive stop which his' recent successor
seems to take in resuscitating the memories of that
upstart dynasty, which she had hoped was over-
Ca-own for ever. In vain she has tried diligently
to look at first indifferent, and then pleased, at the
restoration of Bonapartism in France. In vain she
has made haste with expressions of royal recog-
nition, and the interchange of the insignia
knightlyhonours. In vain she has affected diploma
confidence, and entered into treaties and cony
tions for the maintenance of that European sta-,
quo, on which her existence as a first-rate pow
necessarily hangs. Never for an hour since
eeeli d', tat rf the 9d•ef DtqTmber, has Austria.
thoroughly at ease. WlidneYer since that. mem,
rable day the recollection of what Napoleon I. w
in Italy has crossed her mind, the uupopul
sceptre of the Veneto-Lombard kingdom I
trembled in her hand. Perhaps she never felt
free from apprehension and misgiving as during
campaign in the Crimea, when the flower of
French army was engaged in murderously p
tracted conflict with the best of her Northern eivt
troops, far from the shores of the unreconcil,
and irreconcilable Italy. But since the Per
of Paris sentiments of alienation seem
have daily gained greater and greater streng,
The French Minister has been withdrawn from
Naples ; and French influence at the Court of
Turin has notoriously been gaining ground. A ,
thousand circumstances' in themselves trivial, have The Warrant
contributed to widen the breach between the two toe=iinstantGovernments ; and the press of Vienna and Paris
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have for months been occupied in mutual reviliugs. 22d June, it
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police, it is impossible to interpret their acrimony
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otherwise than as the overflowing of Imperial 'Diane, LondonSS.
antipathies. Men's eyes are turned instinctively ease on advanl
to the old field of French and Austrian encounter.
Time and time-serving diplomacy, change and assured within
changing policy, have altered nothing there. Italy, 'teller. deducted
the great weakness of Austria in the first Napoleon's
time, is still the great opportunity for France in _ NTERIS
the days of his nephew and successor. All the
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lying of legitimacy and all the peaceful professions "
b been
and
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of the Imperial parvenu cannot make it more or. Policies of assn
less dangerous and tempting than it was, and iA, eaunriiruieaf„wrecnteitue,
end is certain to continue to be. And there, ,3 the death be i
the over-garrisoned capital cf the disaffected realm of grace.
the statue of Napoleon stands, breathing, even as
he did in life, scorn of the stranger and haughty
detestation of the oppressor's race.
There is something ineffably naive, and
yet
some-
thing ineffably pitiful, in the offer made to the
French Government by the EtnperorFrancis Joseph
of the minatory statue of Napoleon. "Have it if
you will and welcome; take it away—pay regal or
divine honours to it if ''you will at Paris ; let it be
worshipped anywhere audibly and openly—only
riot here ; rid us of its presence ; it is a daily re-
proach, an hourly humiliation, au intolerable me-
mento of the past, and menace for the future ; do
us the honour to accept so invaluable a gift." It
would perchance be deemed by the diplomatic
world discourteous if Napoleon 111. declined the'
favour ; and with political badinage refused to de-
prive his Imperial brother of an object sacred not
only as a national work of art, but as an historic)
monument in the eyes of his Austrian Majesty's
Italian subjects. He might add, in erauvaiss
plaisanterie, that in France the work of Canova's
chisel was not needed to keep alive the glorious
recollections of Lodi and Marengo ; and that as the
illustrious artist had been originally commissioned
to make an image of Napoleon for the metropolis
of Northern Italy, where it had in fact been placed
on its completion by his command, it would ill be-
come his peaceful descendant to deprive that noble
city of its noblest statue. Wha't reply may actu-
ally be given to the singular offer we know not;
but be it what it may, the offer and the answer
will excite many a deep emotion, where it would
probably have been better for Austria'sssake that
moody stillness had been left to reign,—Daily
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