Marshall County Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1855-1859, 1858-05-27
Correspondence of the Manchester Guardian.
Discovery of New Plot to Assassinate
the Emperor of the French.

1t is now positively certain that all those who
have any means ofknowing what passes behind the
scenes, that the ceremony of opening the Boule-
ward de Sebastopol, was put off on account of tho
discovery of fresh plot to assassinate the Empe-
ror The details of the affair are kept in the ut
most possible mystery, and probably only
known TO the new Prefet of Police, General Espi-
nesse, and the Emperor himself; but the mere
fact of the existence of the plot is known to some
hundreds of individuals, and it has even caused a
modification in the ceremonial of yesterday,
whereof trace is to be found in this morning
Monitcur. The fficial paper alluding to the name
of the new Boulevard, says, sit was quite right
that muster Of troops should mark the Inaugural
ton of such artery Of the capitol, and, after the
Emperor, our soldiers were the first who ought to
have trodden soil bearing the name of so glori-
Gus victory This, as you will see, is manner
of explanation for the presence of all the troops
that were called together yesterday, In the orr
gin, the ceremony was purely civil and municipal
one; but when it was discovered that so great a
danger threatened, it was resolved to change the
character altogether, and instead Of municipal, it
relate a curious circumstance that has just
cured, and for which l can vouch. Last week,
of the very highest placed functionaries here,
aud one Of the nearer, if not the nearest, in habit
ual cofdence to the Emperor, Napoleon Ill, call
ed upon lady friend of mine, with whom, and
with whose husband, he has been on intimate
terms of friendship for the last fourteen years
Both this lady and her husband arc foreigners set
tied in Paris. The persougc speak of made the
visit in question on purpose to ask these friends of
his what property they had preserved in their own
country, and how far they had identified their for
tunes with those of France; and the language he
held was textually this-"With all my position OBJ
lges me to know, can not reconcile it to n,ylons
staining friendship Tor you and yours, not to en-
tighten you upon the reality of the situation we are
all CT US, now living in France. The Emperor's
existence is an all but impossible one: he is so
surrounded by plots that every day brings to light,
that he is compelled to suspect the very in
dividuals that him in the interior of the pal
ace, that it is next to positive miracle that he
should escape. His own faith in his preservation
is shaken and from day to day, from hour to hour,
iig1llS may uappeH III aris, anu arts pccoHle d
place where no one who is not forced to live should
be desircus of prolonging his stay. All this may
not occurit possible that nothing of it at ali may
happen; but it is just possible that it may all
cur any day. and that being the real state of affairs
here, can not reconcile it to myself not to warn
you, and not to advise you to be always ready to
leave this country at a moments notice.
fl could name to you the man who uttered these
words, you would at once that, unless they
were pronounced by Louis Napolean himself, they
could not be so by any one more important. Icon
fess my own impression is, not that the plots for
assassination will succeed in their direct and pres
ent form, but firmly believe they have another
danger, which is every bit as great, and which is
evident to some few of those who live in Louis Ma
polean's intimacy. The notion of an incessant and
horrible danger hanging over his head has so pos
sessed the Emperor that in spite of all his resolves
to the contrary, his nervous system is shaken to
the roots, and he is in that peculiar state of mind
that prevents man from seeing straight or NOV
ing straight He no longer enjoys his liberty of
ton or thought, and his own mistaken acts it will
be that will probably one day bring fatal crisis
on.