The Rhode-Island Republican. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1809-1841, 1822-10-09
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have dooe, must have been overwhelmed
by the armies of 800 900 10 100000 msn that
| were eon:ag sgsinst me. by giving me
| bsrtie, there wss o chance for me. II wss
| the creates, foiiy 10 dsuniie The EpgIish and
| Pr0ssian arniss. They ought 10 have been
| united, and l cannot cooceive the reason OF
their separation I: wss folly in Wellington
| 10 give me battle in place, where IL defeat
| cd, all must have been lost, for he could DO,
| retreat There wss wood in his rear, and
bu, one road &c gaio il. be wooId have been
| destroyed. Moreover, he allowed himself 20
| be sufprised by me. This vas a great fault,
he ought To have been eDcamped from the
beginning oL June, as he must have known
! thar ! in,endsd to attack him. He might
have lost every ,biDg. But he hes been fort
| unA,e his destiny hes prevailed, aud every
| thing he did viii meet with spplsuse. My
intentions were to stacs and destroy the
/ English army This knew would have pro
duced an immediate chaoge Of ministry. The
: indig ignation against them, Tor having caused
the loss Of 10000 of the flower Of the En-
! glish army would have excited such popu.
! lar eornn,o,ion, that they would have boen
turned out, The people would have said,
! what Is ~ TO Us who is on the throne OF
France, Loui, o. Napoleon; are we to sacri-
fce all our blood In endeavours 10 place on
The throne de,ested family? No, We have
suffered enough, IL is no cHiir of ours; let
them settle il among themselves. They
would have made peace. The Saxons, Ba
l vatians, Belgians, Whtem5ergers, would
| have Joined me. The coalition was nothing
! without England The Russians would have
made peace, and ] should have been quietly
| .ea,cd on the ;htCns. Peace would have
| been permanent, az what could France do Of.
ter the treaty If Paris? What was 10 be fear
| cd from ne ! These CONTINUED he) wore my
reasons for attacking The EnglIsh---l had
beaten the p iussians. Before twelve O'clock
| had succeeded every thing was mine l
| may say; but accident aod destiny decided 1t
otherwise. The Eoslish fought braveiy
doubless--nobody can deny it; but they
mu.t aave been destroyed.
"P,t and his politics CONTINUED he) neat
iy ruined England, by keeping up eon,inen.
tai va, with France" remarked that il
was asserted by many able politicians III En-.
gland, that If we had not carried on that war
| we should have been ruined, and ultimately
have become p,ovince Of France. " Ii Is
tue" said Napoeon-" England being al,
wa, With France, gave the latter a pretence
and an opportunity Of extending her co0quests
10 tho length she did under me, on,ii l be-.
came emperor Of oesry ell the world which
could Mt have happened, If there had been
no wa" The conversation then turned up
on tho occupl,ion Of Malta. "Two days."
said ne, before Lord Whl,worth left Paris,
an uaer was made to the ministers and 10 9th
c,s, about the sum Of thirty millions Of franc, :,
| and TO acknowledge me ns king OF France,
provided would give up Malta" Napoleon
added however, ,ha, the war would have brok
| n OUT had Malta been out Of Tho question.
Some conversation then took plsc. about
| Brush seslDeD. Napoleon observed that the
English seanen were much superior TO
nc Fiench. as the latter were TO the Span
l tsrds / ventured 90 say. that though, ,he
French would never make good ssanIeD, on
,ccouDt Of Ihei' volatility of temper, and i'm
paience That especially they world nevet
,ubmit without complaining, 10 blocsade por' ,
or yesrs ,ogsthsr, suffering fro-h ne com
hined eEscts Of bad weather and Of privstiou
| ove,y KIDD, as We had done at Touion -
! l dn no' agree with you there, Stgnor Dos
ore" said he, Z" but do not think that The y
will ever make AS good seamen ss youcs
The sea is yours-yous seamen are as much
better than ours, as The Dutch were once "a
yours. think, however, that the Americans
sss better seamen ,hao yoors, because they
! are less nurerous." i observed thst the A.
'peiicsos had copside able numoer OF Eo
gish seamen in their service, who passed for
| Americans, which was remarkable, os indie
p,nden, of other circ0 0n,stabces, the Ame,i
can discipline oo board men Of war, was much
more severe than ours, aud, that if the a mer.
leans had large navy they would find i, i'm.
possible TO have so many able .esmen in each
ship, as they mad ., present. When obsesv.
ed tha, the American discipline was more
severe than ours, he smiled aud said, "sare
DIE d.Bfetis q ereGere."