Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1852-11-27

but which has its grandeur, too--Je ssrsI serve.
With such man At the head of the Department Of the
Interior and immediate chief Of the preece himself i'm
mediatey and intimately in communication with the
Prince LOUIS NAPOLEON it cannot be doubted under the
intense Capitalization which is established in France that
the petitions which the Senate will to-day take into
sideration gotten up by order of the Prince himself
The term sponaneiy becomes ridiculous soecism when
applied to them They spontaneous just as, and not
otherwise that combustion spontaneous which takes
place when vast Of highly infammable materials
carefully prepared for the purpose, is suddenly gnted
and bazes up furiousy upon the application of hundreds
of lighted matches by agents stationed about il for the
express purpose But the combustion is not the less real
for wanting some of the elements of pontaney There
is splendid confagration magnificent teu dartifee
So it is with the petitions for the Empire have little
doubt that they will prove have been signed by least
of the ten millions Of in France. But this will
have been done by the immense majority without any
settled intelligent comprehension of what they were
doing 1t is but another evidence of the proverba tickle
Of the French of their ignorance their utter
Of any fixed political principle Of the facility with which
they take any direction pointed out by the rulers Of the
moment shouting, thousands OF them still living have
done, Viye Louis XVI! Vive la Republque! Viye pEmpe
reur! Viye Louis XVIII Vive Louis Philippe Vve la
Repubique! Viye rEmpereurl In six months from this
tme if the Count of CHAMBoRD should be in the Tuleries
and have had time to send his instructions to the same
thirty thousand mayors, the millions would
be heard shouting vive Henry vive lie petit-fls de
Henre Nv Vive lie descendant de grand roi Louis
XVI bas pEmpire Oh what comment upon the
famous phrase Pa BOZ de is furnished by the voice
Of universal suffrage in France!
The form Of the senahs consultum which win promptly
issue from the grave body which to-day the
palace of the Luxembourg is not positively known but
there to be pretty general consent its purpor
1t win give the hereditary empire to Louis NAPOLEON and
his direct male heirs He will have the right Of adopting
heir of his family in his issue should
fail In of failure of direct ISSUE and of heir by
adoption the empire will devolve tsbelieved colateraly
upon Jerome broher of the Emperor and his male heirs
to the exclusion of the American branch of that family
1t is believed that the largest powers
will be again RENTED to Lsus Napoleon which he will
put political and civil institutions in accord with
his new title and establish by his s dirt several
important legislative measures, which, in the absence
the ctature the sanction Of the Corps Legislative would
be necessary Not that there is any question that this
sanction would be given there is not the least doubt Of
this but dictatoray is the quicker way the
abe and the preferable in that it dspenses with the
operation of body, like the President himself of popu-
lar origin and which it is therefore policy keep much
as possible in the back ground.
have in former letters argued that the coming empire
from its military character from the and fixed opn-
ions of the Emperor and from the obligatory cir
cumstances by which it viii be surrounded will be- and
cannot be- the which promised in the speech Of
Bordeaux. have shown how irresstbly it will be driven
first to the enlargement of its borders by war; if need be-
to what called the natural limits of Frances and after
wards, it is to be feared when the Emperor himself
would ain stop, to of universal conquest Let
give to-day some other evidence going to show how
dangerous it will be for Europe trust to the pacific de-
carations of Bordeaux, and regard pro-
bable in presence of the undimnshed armies Of France
and Of the unprecedented activity which still regns in all
the docky of the empire France is armed caape
1t is making immense naval preparations Its object is
to tear pieces the treaties of 1875 extend the French
empire to the Rhine and the Alpsby intimidation if pos
sble; by if need be And after that the peace of
Europe will still be eminently prccarious Europe win
be in presence of the powerful and the
ed army the world and there win be Moscoc
and Lesc and above all, Waterloo to apenge The EN-
peror might be willing to stop at the Alps and Rhine
but would the army, and he empire be stopped there
Nous rerons.
The following note Of NaroLEoSs confidential and favo-
rite diplomatic CAULANcoURr addressed the represen-
atives Of the allies at the epoch of the first invasion
shows how the Emperor felt at the prospect Of restrict
ed boundaries other than the Alps and the Rhine for
France:
PARIS JANUARY 10 1914.
The point upon rhich the Emperor insists
cessiy of preserving 10 France ats
That condition qua All the Powers England
even recognised these limits at Frankfort France
duced its ancient limits would not have mt the present
day twothrds of the relative power which 1t possessed
twenty years ago. What she has gained the Rhine does
not compensate what Russia Austria and Prussia have
gained by the of Poland All these States
have enlarged their boundaries and the reduction France
her ancient condition woud be 10 degrade and humdte
her. France Withou The departments Of the Rhine, whout
Belgium ,cithom Ostend schom Antcep, acoud be nothing
The system of reducing France to her ancient limits is
inseparabe from the establishment Of the Bourbons
because they alone could offer systematic guaranty
England is well persuaded Of that Wi ang other system
peace upon such basis ,coud be impossible and could NOT last
Neither the Emperor me Republic ~ repoufions should
Republic reappear woaid subscribe such
condition As his Majesty his resolution Is taken and is
fnmopeabe lie triH not edre France less eIten than
rhen he receired II then The AAes should determine 10
change The bases wch hare been proposed and accped-e
natural Emperor but three for him
10 take these are fight and conquer fight and die glo
riously or finally, fine nation should sustain him. 10
d5dcdte He does not cling grandeus, and he wouid
purchase Their continuance Jy degradation.
/" CAULAIScoURT, Duke Of Vincenza"
In support my opinion that LOUIS NAPOLEON persists
in the opinions above expressed that the realization Of
them is one Of the "Napoeonian ideas the most fixed in
his mind that will be of the fixed purposes Of the
Empire about be established by him and that there
FORE Notwithstanding the Bordeaux speech the Empire
is not likely to be "peace," let me quote from the
onieur Of the Goth September lS40 now before me- the
following passages from speech of LOUIS NAPOLEON
himself 1t was delivered the 2sth September, 1siO