Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1852-11-13


application Of military power win be necessary, his
foreign projects In 1854 there viii be war, Napoleon
H. will IN the face Of quaiug Europe be well advanced
in the process of peaceful annexation Of belgium and
Savoy France | viii take occasion in some letter
to relate to you significant facts which make
enlargement Of the boundaries of France the
sary the inevitable fundamental principle of the foreign
policy of the new empire All. If the Emperor were
homo if he belonged to any other of the French
dynases than that of the Bonapartes then the speech
Of Bordeaux might not be oil vain rhetorical pretence
then the empire might indeed be peace With LoUs Ma
the throne it is impossibleit is impossible
it is impossible unless Europe quails and abandons to
French domination every thing between the Pyrennees
and the Alps between the Atlantic and the Rhine An
other of the forerunning the empire is that of
Princes intention declare the Notifications built
around Paris during the reign Of Louis PHILIPPE to be
the boundaries the city This greatly increases the ex
tent of the city, and gives Paris about and half mil
lions of inhabitants all counted. There numerous
objections of inferior order to the execution OF this
PLAN but its manifest advantages and the queque chose
de graadose which characterzes it, will outweigh all these
with LOUIS NAPOLEON and am confident that measure,
lift does precede will speedily follow the proclamation
of the empire. The Prince determined to illus
his reign by the spendor which the capital is to ac-
quire under his fostering protection At least dozen
great works of public improvement rapidly progress
ing at the present moment You think that much is
doing, gentlemen, said high funconary the other day
in conversation upon this subject but you have seen
nothing yet The city Of Paris must borrow five hun
dred millions to be all spent in tho Of nree years
in the establishment Of the capital!'
There are still two institutions which it is believed will
have undergo notifications upon the proclamation Of
the empire putting them in harmony with the
order of thingsthe press and the legislative body 1t
is believed that express declaration of acquescence
in the empire and abandonment of systematic opposition
will be exacted from the editors of all existing newspa
pers. Refusal will be followed by suppression.
AS for the Legislative Corps, there numerous
signs of the slight in which held at the Et
and of the complete abasement to which it is destined
when the Imperial Government shall be well installed at
the Tuileres. slight offered to the members of the
Legislative Corps Bordeaux in the arrangements made
for them public occasion during the Princes
visit producing violent outbreak, which
only prevented by the interpostion of the Prince him
SELF And the French Theatre last week every body
remarked the gnay inferior respect which paid to
M. BILLAUT, President of the Legislative body, when
compared with that rendered to high functonaries of
every other class The imperial Constitution, it is
universally expected, win notably modify the position of
that body in French politics The Legislative body since
I'd December has been almost nulity 1t is to become
quite Universal suffrage for the election of the Chief
Magistrate will of course be abolished upon the estab
ishment of the hereditary empire The Prince will use
the constituent powers which viii probably be grant
ed by abolishing it totally for all political purposes. Will
there not be danger in allowing the existence of pot
cal body which, though elected at long intervals may
at important junctures throw into the face of Govern
ment pretending to be Democratic the argument that it
came Immediately and recently from the people
than the Emperor himsefs And in case of the
death of the Emperor, and Of the political commoton
which in France may well be supposed to follow such
event. body originating in universal suffrage would in
evitably possess moral influence superior to that of
corps having only executive origin. That influence,
which circumstances may readily make decisive in the
conuncture supposed, might readily become antagonist
that of corps 1.-THE Senate the Council of State for in
sance) emanatng from the Emperor, imbued with his
personal policy and having of strong family and
dynastic prejudices LOUIS NAPOLEON Emperor will
not depend upon it, suffer the existence of such body
in the State. He will not venture to directly
the spirit of the nineteenth century to abol
sh totayeye all seeming of legislative bodyeo nomne
He will have probably what he will style Legislature,
but it will have less of legislative powers f it be
possible devise such institution than the actual
called corps And its origin predict will not be direct
universal suffrage Yet in order to preserve his title of
Democratic Emperor and resorer Of universal suffrage
he will not probably strike the institution entirely from
his political code. He will allow universal suffrage to elect
the members Of the departmental nicpa corps who have
political functions whatever whose role is purely adj
minstrstve, and strictly local in its operation With
the election of such bodies the Emperor reservng
himself the nomination Of their officers (which is already
the rule, universal suffrage may be readily trusted
The title of the Emperor will be, 1t is presumed
Napoleon Ill., Emperor Of te French King Of Agery and
Protector Of The Holy Places. 1t is thought becoming and
expeden that the ruler of France the most powerful Of
the Catholic States should possess title suggestive
Of this fact and analogous the title of Most Christian
Majesty by which custom has for ages designated French
monarchs of the Bourbon The title of Napoleon
III may, il is commended be adopted without any pre-
tence his part to the throne heir Of Napo
leon, by inalienabc divine right like Henry " without
ernments like Louis XVIII the first Bourbon
Louis XVI who dated his reign from the death Of the
Of Louis XVI who died soon after the ton Of his
father during the first republic having reigned
day. or even been proclaimed King Young NAPOLEON,
1t is argued proclaimed Emperor by Napoleon him.
self at the Of his abdicaton and recognised
as Napoleon H. in several public after the abdicaton
Should the title Of Napoleon I'LL be really adopted will
il not be little curious that Austria should thus ndi
recty recognise the Duke Of Rechstadt having been
Emperor of the French under the title of Napoleon III
The knottest question connected with the re-estabsh
men of the empire relates the designation Of the line
of succession in case Of the Emperor LOUIS NAPoLEoSs
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