The Arkansas advocate., 1830-06-23

[ having almost entirely exhausted its mu- nitiols, continued retrograde move ment towards the frontier of the Rhine. The disorder which accompanied by the retreat, was glorionsly repaired by Napoleon before iiaHau where the Ea- farian army was defeateds On his re- turn 10 Paris, despairing ef preserving Spain, Napoleon restored his crown 10 efdiiial.d NIi; and in the critical po- sition, in which France fould itself, he sought to draw back opinion, which had
 for long time kept aIoof from him in lannouncing pacific dispositions to the senate and the legislative hedY. Soon after, he dissolved this last assembly; and prepared himself to repnlse those enemies, who had already invaded the French territory. Euthe had neglect ed opportunely to call forth the clergy of the nation, which successive reverses had subdued; atd to which he onls of- fered an iron yoke as the price oi Jew sacrifices. The efforts of his genius, the prodigies of salor and of devotion, which he still obtained from the wreck of his army, could not prevent the allies from penetrating 10 Paris. and from en- tering the capital, where the throne of the Bourbons was spontaneously estab- lished, March 3i, Isl4. 4 treaty. con- eluded April II, proclaimed the ahdi- cation of Napoleon. An isle of the Mediterranean (Elha) was accorded to the man, who had wished for the empire of the world. He left it, after all abode of nine months there; and trayersed France with a body of 5U0 men, which numerous defectiol from the royalstand- ard soon transformed into q formidable army. He entered Paris, March E, 1915. In a short time the imperial government was recognized, with little opposition, in every part of the kingdom. Rut scarcely restored the government remained, as if struck with paralysis; and the biographer from whom NC hor- TOW this passage, adds, sbut Bonaparte, in considering the dispositions, ,whiehthe numerous paftisans of the political doc- Urine, called Rberolism, manifested, was but one pressing danger He refused the concessions, which this party de- manded; and the 20th of April, he pub- iished an additional act to the eonstitu- ton of the empire, q kind of new char aeter, which eonseefated the empire regime Of lsI2, and all the abuses witch had been reproaehed against the mof- arehy of l7SS. This act excited gene- ral indignation; ard from that time opin- ion was no longer divided into but two parties, that of royalty under the Bour- bons; and that of d revolution without q dictator. Nothing more remained to Bonaparte, than the arsny. He depart- ed, with it, to combat the coalition on the frontiers of the north; and he was vanquished Of the decisive day of Va " d. terIoo.
 On his return to his capital, he was forced to abdicate the empire in favor of his son; and to recognize the author ity of the provisional government which urged him to quit France. Escorted to Rocheiort, he embarked to implere the hospitality of the English. It was re- fused him. The British government, constituted him g prisoner, and conduct ed him to the Island of St. Helena. q rock of the Indian ocean. He remain cd there six years, guarded by English troop, and died May 9th, 1921. Tete d'armee was his cry of expiring nature. Such was the end of Napoleon Bona parte, after having for i2 years, held in his hands the destinies of Europe; of that old Europe, which he found too narrow for his movements; deyourea with regrets, bowed down under the weight of all the humiliations of fallen ambition, lie expired on rock far from wife and child. But his mind still vault ed into futurity, in the hope so cousoling to the proud child of the earth, of filing the most remarkable pages of the histo- ry of his age. and to live long in the memory of men. It cannot be expect ed, to find in a compass, so restricted as ours. anv other reflection upon this ex-
 traordinary man,
 Who left name, at which the world grew pale,
 To point moral, or adorn tale.'
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