The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1859-09-05

heir Who1e estates IN the cause OF M ASnily, |
when they were about to fail victims 70 popu. 1
ar clamcr during the excitement Of the Popish |
pfot, DC replied That he was not Il aiIfncffned I
% 60 upon his trAveis again We are contiA-
lily reminded Of this cold blooded speech, |
whenever we hear Of NAroLxoN III. In con- |
nection with aninyssion Of England. Equally |
heartless with the Merry Monarch, equally
selflsh, equally fond OF the present moment
and the enjoyment that 1t affords, he fs not
the man to risk second exile, and has no
relish for the Grown of Imperial Martyrdom.
We do not think he will invade England, un-
less circumstances occur which ut this mo-
ment Ii Is almost impossible TO conceive. He
prefers a safer game, one In which all the
chances are decidedly in his favor, and which
there can be scarcely any doubt Of his winning,
We have already seen enough Of him to ascer-
tain that he 10 not the man to I'LL his uncles
shoes He knows that even should he land in
England. gain victory in great battle,
sieze London and sleep in some of the royal
palaces, he will not have conquered England
Paris is France, Berlin is Prussia, Continent
al capitals generally are the countries which
they represent. London is simply London
Take ii, and you take city Of vast dimen-
sions enormous population, wealth enough TO
buy half the rest Of the world, and there is an
end. You do not subdue England any more
than Russia was subdued by the subjngation
of Moscow You still have to conquer twen-
ty-five millions of people, every one of whom
regards the quarrel as personal to himself, ev-
cry one of whom abhors the yoke of the
foreigner, every one of whom regards himself
as superior to the best man of any other ma
;- rad 10 RI
rather than submit You encounter an obsti
nate, rebellious, stiff-necked race, perpetualiy
quarreling with each other and with their
government, long accustomed to go where
they please, do what they please, and be
accountable TO nobody for their movements.
1t will be the hardest thing in the world to
persuade such people to accept master,
forced upon them by foreign bayonets. They
are so heavy that they cannot run, SO stupid
that they cannot find out when they are beat
en-, SO deaf that they cannot hear the argu-
ments that may be addressed to them in favor
of submission, so obstinate that they cannot
be reasoned into a just appreciation of the
benefits resulting from glory and the French
rule. In word, they are most unpromising
subjects for Imperial experiments, sure to be
ungrateful for the favor of destroying their
constitution, which the French Emperor will
bestow upon them, and incapable of being
| taught that the man who comes to sack their
| cities, and burn their farm-houses, is the best
| friend they have in the world. Hard fighting
and plenty of it, would be all that the French
| Emperor would get if he should be enabled to
| get foot in England, and he is quite as fond of
the eclat growing out of victory, as of the Ia
| Dor and danger necessary to obtain it. In ad-
| dition to all this NAPOLEON well knows that
| the English are blunt, unpolit race, ana tnat
| they will not allow their Queen to be so com
! PLEASANT as was the Emperor of Austria
| When he had been month in England, the
| Emperor would doubtless, like to go back TO
| Paris Now, he managed that matter beauti-
! fully at Villa Franco; but there are grave
| doubts as to whether he could manage IL so
| well in England. lie might be told that, mas
much as he had commenced the war, De
| could not be allowed to put an end to II
| exactly when he pleased, and That II ne
! had immortaliZed himself by catching the
| Tartar which his uncle never could catch, he
must wait until the Tartar thought lit to let
him 60 There might still be a method OF get
ting away. XERxEs escaped from Greece In
small boat, HANNIBAL left Zama on Heet
steed. NAPOLEON 1. Travelled through Poland
from Beresina in a sleigh. with these great
examples before him, NAPOLEON III. would
have no reason to despair, although his fleet
should be captured or sunk, which we hold
to be inevitable. There are plenty of skifis
along the coast, and plenty of seamen ready
10 land passenger in France for a valuable
consideration. The army, it is true, might fare
q little badly when left behind by its chief
But what of that! Did not XERXEs leave his
host behind, to be slaughtered like sheep, at
Platala +! Did not HANNIBAL's men fly to the
four-winds of Heaven never to be reunited
into an army again! Did not NAPOLEON l.,
leave the bones of his followers scattered all
the way from Moscow to the Vistula! What
is the blood of aiew hundred thousand French
men, compared to the glory of France, and
what is the glory of France, when weighed in
the balance against the safety ofNAPoLEoN IIIl
We have no doubt it would be the joy of Ma
PoLEoN's heart to invade England and to re-
yenge Waterloo. But he is too cool, too eau
tieus, too much opposed to running any risk
of damaging his position, far less of placing
his crown in jeopardy, to undertake an enter
prise in which the chances of success do not
amount to absolute certainty. lie cannot but
know that he will find in the English very
different foes from any he has yet encountered
1t is one thing to beat men who are the sub
iects, or rather the slaves, of a debasing des-
potism, and another to beat men in whose
veins runs the blood of free men. He knows
very well. too, that if he should land in Eng
land and defeat the British army in a great
battle-a pretty hard thing to do, as Cressy
Potter, Agincourt, Blenheim, Families, Sala-
nance and Waterloo testify-the English peo-
pie will not allow their government to make
peace as FRANCIS JOSEPH did at Villa Franco
He knows that he will not be able to extort
peace from them, until he shall have subdued
the whole island, and that, after the loss of a
battle, the English will not think of submit
ling any more than they did before it was
fought. He knows that the English have al
ways beaten the French at sea- and that if
such an accident should happen while he is
still in England, he will be Theoretically sealed
up in that island. Ii he could hope for a bril-
liant dash, short war, the plumber of Lon
don, a sudden peace a return to Paris. an
other fete, and another Qualification. he
might embark in the enterprise But this
he knows is impossible He may beat the
army and take London, but he will not
have a short war, nor will he get back to
Paris rs easily rs he did from Solferino. A
writer in BtackWood's Magazine insinuates
that should he invade England and gain a vic.
tory, he will find the present ministry willing
enough to compromise matters by making a
hasty and disgraceful peace Such an insinu-
alton affords strong proof of the lengths to
which party spirit will lead men. There is no
party in England, nor was there ever one du-
ring the time of the first NAPOLEON, that
would make any compromise with an inva-
der. The reply of any ministry to such a pro-
position would be analogous to that which
HAROLD made to TosTI, when he sent to know