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LOUIS NAPOLEON AND FRANCE.-A writer in
the Northern British Review gives the follow
ing on the French Emperor
''The most prominent feature of his charac-
ter is a wild, irregular romdnesqete imagination.
which often oyerrides all his reasoning and re-
fleeing faculties, and spurs him to actions and
attempts which seem insane if they fail, and the
acme of splendid audacity if they succeed
The abortions Of Strasbeurg and Boulogne,
and the coup d etat of last December, we're
equally the dictates-alike the legitimate pro-
geny-of the same mental peculiarly. He be-
lieves, too, in his STAR He is even a binder
and rasher fatalist than his uncle. From early
childhood, he believed himself destined to res
tore the dynasty of the Bonapartists, and the
old glories of the empire. He brooded over this
imagined destiny during long years of exile,and
in the weary days and nights of his imprison-
ment, till it acquired in his fancy, the solidity
and dimensions of an ordained fact. He twice
attempted to pluck the pear before it was ripe.
His ludicrous failure in no degree discouraged
him, or shook his conviction of ultimate sue
cess. He only waited for another opportunit,
and prepared for it with more sedulous diligence
and caution. He 'bide6 his time; the time
camel he struck and won. After such success
after having risen, in four years, flum being an
impoverished exile, to being Emperor of France
after having played the boldeSt stroke for en-
pire, known in modern history-after having
discomhtted, deceived and overpowered the
cleverest; the most experienced men in France
we may well believe that his f. j. his 'des-
tiny is confirmed and rooted 81. &c the pitch
of monomania, and that no future achievement,
no further pinnacle Of greatness, will seem wild
or impossible to him, after q past so eyentful,
marvellous and demoralizing.
Another peculiarly of his character is, that
he never abandons an idea or project he has
once entertained. If he meets with difficulties
and opposition, he dissimulates or postpones;
he never really yields or changes. Cold, pat
lent and inscrutable, he waits and watches, and
returns to his purpose when the favorable mo-
ment has arrived. History affords few exam
pies of such pertinacious, enduring, relentless,
memorable will. This, of itself, is species of
greatness of the most formidable kind. If
then, to this delineration, we add that, reserved
and silent as he is, he has the art of attracting
warmly to him those who have been long about
Kim, and who have lived intimately with him;
that like most fatalists he is wholly unscrupu-
lous and unhesitating as to his agents and his
deliberately matured the most extensive deep
laid and magnificent schemes of foreign policy,
we have exhausted nearly all that we can speak
of as certain and reliable regarding this remar
kable man; and assuredly we have said enough
to satisfy our readers that France has given to
herself master whom it concerns all European
statesmen-those of this county more especial
ly-to study closely, and to watch INCREASINGLY.
Cool, daring, imperturbable cunning and pro-
foundly secret-a perplexing compound of the
olor,l LOT nd tbo CIR
ic--with a large navy and unrivalled army, and
PROSTATE and approving nation, what is there
which he may not attempt, and might not
achieve? He never abandons an idea or pro-
ject; he recoils from no rashness; he believes in
no impossibiity. Why should he? After the
marvellous past, why should he doubt the fu-
ture! He succeeded in the coup d etat-why
should he fail in a coup de main erterie,T2 He
believed himself destined to restore the empire;
he has restored it. He believes himself destin-
ed to recover the imperial boundary line and to
wipe out the memory of Waterloo; he is likely
to shrink from the adventure? 1t is said that
he admires England and her institutions, and
that he is grateful for the kindness and protec-
ton he met with while among US. Both We be-
5sEes t he ta hut TeP did e1asdsgabjS4Gsa s5
in his fstar?'
One Other feature OF Louis Napoleon S MIND
must be noticed before we can be in position
rightly to estimate the probabilities of his fu-
ture career. He is a close and servile copy of
his uncle. He has studied profoundly, not only
the history of the first Napoleon, but his opin-
ions on all matters of policy and administration.
He believes, and we think Justly, that Napole-
onunderstood more thoroughly thanany French
man of his day, the nature of the government
which France needed, and the degree of self
government which she could manage and would
bear; that his sagacity and justice d'esprit on
nearly all subjects of administration approach
ed to inspiration; and that, if he treads in his
footsteps he may aspire to emullte his glory.
This is sentiment eminently misleading, and
full Of danger. The talents of thetwo men are
so wholly different, the internal ctndition, and
to great extent, the character and feelings of
the nation, has been so changed by thirty-fve
years of peace and free institutions that max
inns and modes of proceedings, sound an expe
dent then, may be utterly inapplicable now
The dazzling and the wonderful sagacity of Ma
pOleon l. may be the ignis fatuus which will
lure astray Napoleon III. to discontinue and
ruin