Burlington hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1845-185?, 1849-03-15
Translated for the Mo. Republican from the French
Napoleon's Month Of Fate.

Translated for tho Mo. Republican from the French
Napoleen's Month Of Fate. TIE
In reading work published some time
ago, by Madame CHARLOTTE DE- Son,
bearing The title of "The Duke of Bss sano.
or the Recollections of the time of the
Empire" we found the following remark
able passages. Aside from their hstori-
cal curiosity, they show us kind of pro-
phetic fatality, the application Of which we
can all easily make.
The month of December, which was the
predestined epoch for the succession of
memorable events in the life Of Napoleon,
has just now embraced the period within
which We have seen the Inauguration of
the political fortunes of his nephew
What foreboding is in this strange con-
nection. The month Of December occu.
pies high place in the historical time Of
the Empire, and brilliant or gloomy, it
shines forth as the month of fate, in the
destiny of NAPOLEON. How many recol-
lections are connected with this month!
The 10Th Of December, 1893, the ca p
ture of Toulon was the first signal Of his
rising star. 80 @,E .s-.s5 .oJ.sr4&ff
The 26th of December, 1899, he was
appointed First Consul. ssf&.t
The oath December 1900, he was saw
ed miraculously; he rapidly, without
knowing his danger passed the spot
where an Internal machine almost imme-
diately afterwards osered the ground with
ruins and with victims. t
The 81 December, 1904, General BoSA-
PARTE, the elected, maharch -. 80 -
laurels which eirdetl his brow and pro-
claimed him the Emperor. @@@
The Cd December, 1905, by one Of those
signal favors of fortune, the crowned SOL
der on the battlefield OF Austerlitz, ac-
quilted himself nobly of the debt he owed
his country, by Frustrating her implaca-
BILE enemies, and compelling them to beg
for mercy. The pledge of this victory
was the glorious treaty Of Presburg.
Four years afterwards, the 10th De-
cember, the Empress JOSEPHINE, that
poor victim policy, descended the throne.
tomake room for daughter ofthe CEzARs,
by the side Of her beloved emperor. And
four years alter, by one Of those terrible
changes Of fortune, in this same month of
December, this hero who had made the
earth tremble with the noise OF his gigan-
tic exploits, suddenly found it fail beneath
his feet; and those extraordinary trinmphs,
and those miraculous successes, were sue
ceeded by unheard Of reverses and fright
fuldisasters. Intheshort period embrace
ed in the month of December. 1918, events
were developed, concentrated, aud precip-
itated with the rapidity Of lightning, and
exceeding in interest and importance, the
epochs Of century.
And again twenty-seven years after
wards, when he had long slept in the bo-
som Of that desert isle, the slave in death
of British policy, by one Of those inscru-
table DEGREES Of Providence, by last and
brilliant return of fortune, in this same
month Of December, NAPOLEON, the once
magnaninons and all powerful-the pris-
oner Of St Helena, now shaded by his bier
came, even in his repose Of, death, with
the triumph Of a monarch, to re-take his
place in the midst of his ancient compan.
ions in arms, his faithful friends of older
time.
The mind is struck by these singular
condolences in remar kable events! Who
shall ever explain these mysterious phe.
nomena of chance? These secret inAu.
ences Tl(le whole existence. '.X."