Glasgow weekly times. (Glasgow, Mo.) 1848-1861, 1859-07-07
"reminiscences Of Napoleon the Elder and
the Younger.

tho Younger.
The London Saturday Review has a very
bitter and denunciatory article in relation
to the reliance 10 be placed upon the word
Of the Emperor of France, those portions
of which that purport to state facts, we copy
as matter of record FOR future reference:
"The events of the past few weeks prove
the French armies 10 be fully as danger
Gus TO Europe as they were sixty -ears
since. 1t is not now TO be doubted that
there exists q power in Europe capable Of
over unning the entire Continent. The
Austrians fight better than they did in the
revolutionary war, and are much less STU
pidiy manGuvred, but the ratio Of superb
Ority is exactly what it was. Ever since
1915, and under all governments, the art Of
war has bsen more earnestly studied in
France than any other branch Of inquiry
and we now see the jealous attention Of
forty years deservedly rewarded by d
knowledge of all the appliances and pro-
cesses Of campaigning,..so cOnsumate as al
most 10 make up for the loss OF that passion
ale energy which coniOunded and subdued
the world. That France is infinitely better
equipped for conquest that she was at the
beginning of the century, none but fool
will deny. That the strength Of her enemies
HAS not increased in the same proportion,
the events of the last fortnight have estab-
lished Under such circumstances it is
still insisted that the policy of England
should be regulated by faith, and moi BY
sIghl-by simple trust in the word Of the
Emperor Nopoleon and not BY knowledge
of his power.
The proves OF the French battolions and
the dexterity with which they have been
handled, do not furnish half as much seri-
Gus thought as the rapidlty with which
they have been transferred 10 their destined
battle ground. In three weeks an enor-
nous, splendidly-appointed, and excelIsntly
provided army has been conveyed from the
north and center Of France 10 the middle Of
the plain Of Lombardy. The feat has been
accomplished after series Of assurances
from the French government that it had
made no preparations for war. l, is abso-
lutely immaterial whether this statement
was offered in good faith or In bad. II it
was really true that the French establish
menis were in their ordinary condition we
can cnly ask, with sincere alarm, what ars
they when in 9 state Of extraordinary eff
cheney? If these be peace establishments,
what does France understand by war
footing?
Now the consequences Of believing sim,
plicily the assurances of man of the Bo-
napart character at the head of the French
soldery, have been twice illustrated on the
grandest sca'e-once in the time of the First
Napoleon, and once in that OF the Third
At The beginning Of the century, there was
Prusso- French alliance as sincere, as ma
lufal, and as equitable as the Anglo French
alliance of the present day. Prussia made
mp her mind TO 1.-The strickest neutrality"
when her illustrious friend went to war
with power after power identified with her
by the closest common interests. She mis-
trusted, and was sooihed. She misirusted
again, and was ooo'hed, perhaps a trifls
more cOn,enptOusly, than the FIRST time
She was even allowed 10 offer heself occa-
siona,ly as mediator between The conGiueror
and those who had their eyes open 10 his
designs. and though she was never success
Gul, she was cOurteouisy thanked foriher in-
reference.
Nay, she was even permitted 10 share in
the spoil, and overcane her scruples about
appropriniing Hanover by the reflection
that The King of Great Britain had been Sd
very obstinate in refusing her good Offices
Ii was not till obstacles 10 universal con-
quest had been crushed with her connivance
that The insolence Of her ally became intol-
cradle, and she flew 10 arms. Then came
the field of Jena, and Prussia was plainly
told that Napoleon despised her for her Gre
duity, and had always ipteded to punish
her for having presumed 10 win victory
over the French fifty years before at Ros-
bach, Is there. no lesson in all this for
England? We, too have our Ro.bach, for
which revenge is one day TO be taken, and
we call it Waterloo. We, too, have our
Hanover, which is offered as a bribe 10
neutrality, and il is called Italian nationali-
ty. We, too, have seen our good offices
always accepted, except when they would
have prevented war. We, too, have had
our suspicious, and have had them removed
by explanations which have progressively