Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1852-05-22

ceiye very false idea Of the manner in which it cons
ders its duties necessity should ever lead to such
resolution it can only be accomplished by the initiative
the constituted Powers, and with the assent Of tn,
/ whole people. 3a4
true valuable testimony of the sentiments by which il
animated but these accamatons cannot produce any
political result Thus at the ceremony of the 10th May
next the sixty thousand men assembled en- the Champ
Mars will in vain salute the President with the name
Of Emperor for the re-estabishment Of the Empire will
not be advanced by such course single hour"
The Gazette de France, criticizing this last ex-
pression remarks as follows:
Adorned single hour The hands of clock are
movable but the figure of the hours is stationary We may
accelerate reard the movement Of the hands but the
point towards which they move, whether slowly or rapid
y remains fixed To Advance event is hasten the
arrival Of an inevitable occurrence Thus Seneca could
say, sit is great misfortune to advance by our fears
evils which must certainly overtake u.s."
Interesting intelligence has recently come to light
touching the disposition and intentions of the prin-
cipal Continental Powers with regard to the reestab
lishment Of the Empire in France The Journal
DIES Debats about week since created great SEN
sation in political circles by announcing that the
Prime Minister of Austria, the Prince SCHwARzEN-
BERG, very recently dead, was well disposed to this
political dcnouen,ent in France and had in fact made
Cabinets of Russia and Prussia The correctness
of this information has been since confirmed The
following article translated from one Of the Minis
teria journals Of France, will give you at once
thentic intelligence touching the Austrian Minister'S
note, the reception and answer given to it by the
Prussian and Russian Cabinets, and the giie,cs Of
tAis Govc,mment with regard to the foreign aspect
of the great affair of the momentthe re-ostabhsh-
ment Of the Empire in France. The article below
acquires additional interest andimportance from the
proper name over which it is published. LEON VIDAL
sone Of the best known political journalistic Of France
notorious long since as the writer of semoficial
Bonapartst correspondence intended for circulation
in the departments; and he occupies at the present
moment an important official position in the Minis
try of the Interior at Paris. In the beginning Of
his article M. L. VIDAL speaks Of the approaching
Empire in this country "as future which every
body is looking for, and which the unceasing ma
nGuvres of the ultra parties would render necessa
ry even if the logic of events were not irresstibly
leading to it." He then adds:
st will not answer to sanction even in diplomatic
circles, the antiquaed ideas Of 1914 and 1915; to
allow that Governments insist, in their international
relations upon acts and principles which have never OBJ
tanned in France any but forced acquiescence" <
IL results from this document which 1t is useless to
quote length that the Powers do deny to France
the right elect the Prince President Emperor and thus
reestabsh the Imperial Monarchy. But, if we may be-
eve the version which before there will be one con-
dton VIZ that this change in the form Of Government
take place by vote of the country and by psbce
They freely admit that Prince LOUIS NAPOLEON would thus
become Emperor ofthe Republic. They render upon this
occasion just and solemn homage for all the great good
social vigorous acts which the Prince has accomplished
for the reesabshment of order in France and toward
pacyng parties which dangerous, not only for its
own tranquility but for that of the world Neyertbe
less it would appear from the second part of this note
that hr ~
hereditary Empire and arguing from the treaties of 1914
and 1885, which they say excluded NAPOLEON BoNAPARrE
forever from the of France they pretend that
the re-esabshmen of the Napoleon dynasty and Of the
hereditary rights of ne Empire W not recere their assent
1t is certainly superfuous to discuss the question
relative to the national vote Universal suffrage will
hesitate when its assent asked for the reestabsh
ment of the Imperial Government than hesitated the
10th and 10th Of December give the nephew Of the En-
peror all powers and all authority in order that he might
raise France from its state deporabe ruinthe work of
foreign INVASION and of the revolutionary demagogues of
1S48. But France will suffer foreign Powers
prescribe the extentto which she shall exercise her rights
require of her the exclusion Of dynasty, any
than she would submit against her WILL have
imposed upon her the government Of another France is
Free and her mistress she is strong in her indepen
dence and il need be- will know how to make 1t respect
ed whatever may be said by oldfashioned statesmen,
whose ideas nailed to fatal date and who since
1915 have not made step in advance with Europe.
France recognises the Napoleon dynasty, created and
thrice consecrated by the national wi regretted
since its fall and again restored to fall no more.
They win do well in Berlin and st. Petersburg to cease
recalling these painful and Notifying souvenirs or they
will end by irritating passions and disturbing interests
which throughout Europe have need Of calm and peace
eve have not been willing TO leave, without protest
this note attributed Prussia and Russia and which, in
consequence of that fact has produced sensation in
the diplomatic and political world but it has not posi-
lively given rise there to any real and DESTROYS Dispute
tnde because, since these Powers admitting and recog
missing, from the unsound position which they have
taker that France has the right to elect Emperor, all
the rest Of their observations without meaning and
practically without result It important, however,
not to allow these doctrines pass without repeng them
in the of patriotism of truth and Of every feeling
Of nationality" = So far, then, as concerns the
re-estabshment of the Empire If il shall be proclaimed
some day, France be tranquil.
First il is France and everywhere her win will be
spected and then foreign Powers even while making
with possible result viii accept the Empire with
out difficulty since this event. in securing order to France
in an enduring, immovable form, win thus benefit all
Europe"
The magnificent tomb of NAPOLEON, which has
been for several years in course Of erection at the
Hotel DIES invatdes, is progressing rapidly towards
its completion. The inscription which has just been
engraved in letters Of gold upon his coffin, is in the
following words: 4
NAPOLEON BosAPARTE, E
Born the 18th Of August, 1869.
Major Of Artillery the seige Of Toulon "a years
Commander OF Artillery in Italy, 1904 at % years.
Generalnchief Of the army Of Italy in 1897 % years
| lie made the expedition to Egypt in l798 atof 20.
Elected First Consul in 1899, at 80 years.
Consul for life after the battle OF Mareuro in 1900