The Sun.
London, England, 1827-06-30 00:00:00

NAPOLEON'S SIMPLICITY OF DRESS.

" Amid the gleam of embroidery, of orders, decorations,
and* all that the etiquette of a court demands to render
ceremonial at once accurate and splendid, the person of the
Emperor was to be distinguished by his extreme simplicity
of dress and deportment. A plain uniform, with a hat
having no other ornament than a small three-coloured
cockade, was the dress of him who bestowed all these gor-
3eons decorations; and in honour of whom these costly
robes of ceremonial had been exhibited. But his utmost
efforts could not carry a similar spirit of economy among
the. female part of his imperial family ; and it may be a
consolation to persons of less consequence to know, that in
this rppiptzt the Emperor of half the world was nearly as
Powerk...; as they may feel themselves to be. Josephine,
with all her amiable qualities, was profuse, after the gene-
ral custom of Creoles; and Pauline de Borghese was no
less so. The efforts of Napoleon to limit their expences,
sometimes gave rise to singular scenes. Upon one occa-
sion the Emperor found in company of Josephine a certain
milliner of high reputation and equal expence, with whom
he had charged his wife to have no dealings. Incensed at
this breach of his ordeti, he directed the marehande des
modes to be conducted to the Bicetre ; but the number
of carriages which brought the
Wives of his principal cour-
tiers to consult her in captivity,convinced him
Popularity of the milliner was too powerful
even for his
imperial authority; so he wisely dropped that the
Pped a contention
which must have seemed ludicrous to the public • and the
of Paris att was aher ct at
own libe
pleasure.rty, to charm and pill
age the gay world

NAPOLEON AT BRIENNE.
" The alert movements of Napoleon surpassed the
anti-
cipation of Blucher. He was at table with his staff in the
chttgin. General Alsufieff, a Russiani occupied the town
of Brienne, and General Sacken's corps was drawn up in
columns, on the road from Brienne to La Rothiere. At
once a horrible tumult was heard. The Russian cavalry,
2,000 in number, were completely driven in .by those of
Napoleon, and at the same moment Ney attacked the vil-
lage, while a body of French grenadiers, who, favoured by
the wooded and broken character of the ground, had been
enabled to get into the park, threatened to make prisoners
all who were in the chateau. Blucher, with his officers,
had barely time to reach a postern, where they were under
the necessity of leading their horses down a stair, and in
that way made their escape with difficulty. The bold re-
sistance of Alsufieff defended the town against Ney, and
Sacken advanced to Alsufieff's assistance. The Cossacks
also fell on the rear of the French in the park, and Bona-
pitrte'S own safety was compromised in the melee. Alen
`fere killed by his side, and he was obliged to draw his
ii%rd in his own defence. At the very moment of attack,
hil‘eted4utioti was engaged by the sight of a tree, which he
reeo
to be the same under which, during the hours

of recreation. at Brienne, he used, when a ‘chool-boy, to
peruse the 9erusalemd,elivered' of Tasso."

NAPOLEON'S HUMANITY•
Riding where the recently wounded had not been yet
removed, he expressed, as indeed was his custom, for he
could never view bodily pain without sympathy, a very
considerable degree of sensibility. His wound is incur-
able, Sire,' said a surgeon, upon whom he was laying his
orders to attend to one of these miserable objects. Try,
however,' said Napoleon ; and added in a suppressed voice

There willalways be one fewer of thern,"--meaning,
doubtless, of the victims of his wars. Napoleon's is not
the: only instance in which men have trembled or wept
at looking upon the details of misery which have followed
in consequence of some resolutions of their own."
After the battle of Bautzen, " the whole day of the
22d of May was spent in attacks upon the rear of the allies,
which were always repelled by their coolness and military
conduct. The Emperor Napoleon placed himself in the
very front of the pursuing column, and exposed his person
to the heavy and well-aimed fire by which Miloradovitch
covered his retreat. He urged his Generals .to the pur-
suit, making use of such expressions as expressed his im-
petuosity. You creep, scoundrel !' was one which he
applied to a General Officer upon such an occasion. At
the heights of Reichembach the Russian rear-guard made a
halt, and while the cuirassiers of the guards disputed the
pass with the Russian lancers, the French General Bruyers
was struck down .by a bullet. He was a veteran of the
army of Italy, and favoured by Buonaparte, as having been
a companion of his early honours. But fortune had re-
' served for that day a still more- severe trial of Napoleon's

feelings. As he surveyed the last point on which the Rus-
sians continued to make a stand, a ball killed a trooper of
his escort close by his side. Duroc,' he said, to his an-
cient and faithful follower and confidant, now the grand
master of his palace, fortune has a spite at us to-
day.' It was not yet exhausted. Some time afterwards,
as the Emperor with his suite rode along a hollow
way, three cannon were fired. One ball shivered a
tree dose to Napoleon, and, rebounding, killed General
Kirchenner, and mortally wounded Duroc, whom the
Emperor 1/lad just spoken to. A halt was ordered, and
for the rest of the day Napoleon remained in front of his
teat surrounded by his guard, who pitied their Emperor,
ax. if he had lost one of his children. Ile visited the
dying man, whose entrails were torn by the shot,
and expressed his affection and regret. On no other but that
single occasion was he ever observed so much exhausted,
or absorbed by grief, as to decline listening to military de-
tails, or giving military orders. ' Every thing to-mor-
row,' was his answer to those who ventured to ask his
commands. He made more than one decree in favour of
Duroc's family, and impledged the sum of two hundred
Napoleons in the hands of the pastor, in whose house
Duroc had expired, to raise a monument to his memory,
for which he dictated a modest and affecting epitaph." •
NAPOLEON AFTER HIS DOWNFALL.

" At Montelimart, the exiled Emperor heard the last ex-
ptessions of regard and sympathy. He was now approach-
ing Provence, a region of which he had never possessed the
affections, and was greeted with execrations and cries of.—
' Perish the Tyrant Down with the butcher of our
children!' Matters looked worse as they. advanced. On
Monday, the 25th of April, when Sir Neil Campbell, hav-
ing set out before Napoleon, arrived at Avignon, the officer
upon guard anxiously inquired if the escort attending the
Emperor was of strength sufficient to resist a popular dis-
turbance, which was already on foot at the news of his ar-
rival. The English Commissioner entreated him to pro-
tect the passage of Napoleon by everrmeans possible. It
was agreed that the fresh horses should be posted at a dif-
ferent quarter of the town from that where it was natural to
have expected the change. Yet the mob discovered and sur-
rounded them, and it was with difficulty that Napoleon was
saved from popular fury. Similar dangers attended him else-
where, and, in order to avoid assassination, the ex-Emperor
of France was obliged to disguise himself as a postilion, or
a domestic, anxiously altering from time to time the mode
of his dress ; ordering his servants to smoke in his presence :
and inviting the commissioners, who travelled with him,
to whistle-or sing, that the incensed people might not be.
aware who was in the carriage. At Orgon, the mob
brought before him his own effigy dabbled with blood, and
stopped his carriage till they displayed it before his eyes ;
and, in short, from Avignon to La Calade, he was grossly
insulted in every town and village, and, but for the anxious
interference of the commissioners, he would probably have
been torn to pieces. The unkindness of the people seemed
to make much impression on him. He even shed tears.
He showed also more fear of assassination than seemed con-,

sistent with his approved courage ; but it must be recol-
lected that the danger was of a new and peculiarly horrible
ascription, and calculated to appal many to whom the
terrors of a field of battle were familiar. The bravest sol-
dier might shudder at a death like alai of the De Witte,—
At La Calade he was equally nervous, and exhibited, great
fear of poison. When we reached Aix, precautions were
taken by detachments of gene d'armes, as well as by parties
of the allied troops, to ensure his personal safety. At a
chateau called Bouillidou, he had an interview with' his
sister Pauline. The curiosity of the lady of the house, and
two or three females, made them also find their way to his
presence. They saw a gentleman- in an. Austrian uni-
form. Whom do you wish to see, ladies ?'-4 The Em-
peror Napoleon.' lam Napoleon.'—' You jest, sir,' re-
plied the ladies. What ! I suppose you, expected to see me
look more mischievous? Oh yes,--confess that since fortune
is adverse to me, I must look like a rascal, a miscreant, a
brigand. But do you know low all this has happened?
Merely because I wished to place France above England.'
While on board the Undaunted, Napoleon spoke with
great freedom of the facility with which he had outwitted
and defeated the allies dur►ng the last campaign. The
Silesian army,' he said, ' had given him most trouble.
The old devil, Blucher, was no sooner defeated than he was
willing to fight again.' But he considered his victory over
Schwartzenberg as certain, save for the defection of
Marmont. Much more he said, with great apparent
frankness, and seemed desirous to make himself in every
respect agreeable to his companions on board. Even the
seamen, who at first regarded him with wonder, mixed
with suspicion, did not escape the charm of his affability,
by which they were soon won over, all excepting the
boatswain Hinton, a tar of the old school, who could
never hear of the Emperor's praises without muttering the
vulgar but expressive phrase, ' Humbug.' The honest
boatswain, however, could understand and value what was
solid in Napoleon's merits.. As he had to return thanks in
the name of the ship's company for 200 lonia with which
the Emperor presented them, he wished ' his honour good
health, and better luck the next time.''