New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1862-09-03
FROM FRANCE.
From Our Own Correspondent;
PARIS, Aug. ~ 1869

Ibhlh aug 40 ioD-
Tie concluding volume Of Thierss History Of he
Consulate and tie Empire WAS published last week.
Well worth any peoples study ut any 'iue, II IL e'-
pecial.y worth onr study now, as, JUDGED all history
il. Had we studied history more, We should, per-
hars, have less OF i; DO, aud what we have to Go
might be better doae. ErPer,eah doceL a diiisen'
Observance of European experience ready MADE
would have spared net only our eeueFas aud states
men something Of the fearful cost in blood aud paper
money, at which Tor the past eighteen months trey
have been buying their own, but have freed us tie
rooplo from many a hunder and foolish notion. II
il had not ma c Young Napoleon" of maiden
general, Il would 81 leart have prevented us from
making him one 10y brevei; is would probably have
kept him from falling into Chickghominy swamp
aud TO from falling back to Lis present perous po-
siiion; it would surely have kept rs from falling from
the clouds to which we had raised ouI.e.re. and
Mml We g. loud not have had such Greet Ia
peciatiols," Tut have been more likely to" come
ont loly.' Let NJ. Theip briefly tell us what tie
original Young NAPOLEON wac ut the sgc Of twenty
Fix: "TLaubs TO this pgofJundneS Of Judgment
with Sc eco men, hardly increased by 1900 in ibe
course OF tie WAY, the Young Bonaparie hoidr
in check all the Austrian armies, AMI III
eighteen months, delivering twelve battles
more than sixty engagements, making more
than lCO eco prisoner, bIeals down Autila fotce.
n m her q final abandonment % Er1uce Of the line
of the Rhine, and general Veace. Ferily, We nay
perute all written history without inld.i pdiSiI'
10 THIS The general conception and Gle art oi lat
ties. everything J. then in a degree Of perfection
unexampled Pass the mountains ~ Monieuotte
willie attracting she Austfiaus to Genoa b. lent,
uHrter oi Milan. Instead OF fastening 20 Ia me ana
NnlIss, Fastening to Verona, coLli rolendu ina,
nr lialV L. to be conteitcd Tor selitst tolNlcs i
tie North, it ia III the North they must te con-
uuered leaving the South az fruit that will iall
from the tree ben 1t l. nIe, choosing among the
ines OF defense that of the Adise, because II II D.
excessively long, like the 20, not easily turned Ike
IsOD10, ard OuIng hIns II unchangetbly there til
ali the Austrian forces have been drawn thriller ana
de stroy eG-surh is the concept ~. Await TIE
enemy before Verona if he peseuts himself IN fron;
r., pulre him by virtue Of the good position OF Cal
dieru If Ae turns to the Tglt toward le low regou
advance 10 tie attack IA the M shes 81 Arcolni
" here numbers are Lothing aud yaior D. everything
When lie desceuds on our lett by the Iyrol receive
him on lLe piiIu oi EiyolI, and lien mss'er ~ tic
two routcs-hat Of tie valley taken by tie artillery
aud cavalry tlat oil the mountains taken ty Tie H.
fmtry-irst throw the artillery aud cavalry nto tie
Adge then take prisoners the infantry, deprived OF
succor from tho other arms, take IH,O'O men WIN
d
lAat at the age of &C. to uute ~ the audaciy OF
youth all he profound judgment OF maturity, has,
We repeat parallel 10 history, Tor grandeur OF
couceI lion joined 10 perfection Of e1ecutonF
The above summary Of the Italian campaigns,
when the historians pen seems 10 We IA ri aliy
wiz the generals operations, II ono ohGrsciefiaic
specimen oi the defect. aud merits Of the histOr
Thew are in gene-al-wAut Of CONCESSION, however
brief and raj Id, repetition OF ideas, ard even al
words; description and aiement graphic and clear
but never picturesque rarely eloquent; AL admin
BILE cousecut.veness III the narration and observancs
Of II commercial he harmony OF pro- Orton according
10 their importance between men and ovcute
and the place gwen them in tie narration. To Dor
row figure iron the painters, N. lhels composf,
and draws better Than lie cOlOis and his Work at,
all 10 rather panorama than work Of h.gh AT
He il TO Michelet and Cullo'. fos example, what
Horace Veruet /. to DeLcroix aud ln.res
"N aterlOo,' "1he Second Addiction" "St
Helena are tue three themes o. lila LAT
volume. Ills account VI taat roiies of ha't.c'
which we put under the one ruhric % Water
loo. is probably Ola the Whole tie he,t De-
,cripton We vet have. Read, WilA help Il tie spe-
cial "a .s tuat Lac been made 10. lhlcrss History
under bis direction which j. a. Ilp0f AIT as d.,
letter nee. OF the history tef to the unlcroiandit
Of the bailc-ieid- let alone the WAR o Tie Cor su-
late and LmplIcl 1t II perfectly oouprrhehs. hlr
Looked al from tie .O,ai aud siI,ty military point
# view. it, disastrous result wa according 20 NJ
Oh having GToucLy there Va. tie fault o. Napoleon,
v o hhd chosen a uIan, uiquce'ionaOly brave AN
l0yal but meal aDlc 81 leading all army under rgc
ci,uinstanoos. With twenty or tIsty thol6auC
more men, Napoleon could have provided for al aC-
odents aud TUNED The iOrtUnes oi tue day. Bui
th.se men were ia the Nrhdee, and tie Nerdee OF
that tiine made part 81 the extraordinary state OF
thing. OF which Napoleon was the sole author.
10 look for the Causes Of that defeat ia NapOcon-
NH airy incai aoity, IA the weakening OF Liz iacuiea
by old age, n not merely To COulOuhd the E'se VIII
lie true, buf the little with The great I've real
causes MI lay IL artale Of things that lie had been
bringing about for fifteen years
Circumstances early enabled BOnaparts to seize
and hold unTesiIaued lenlth Of rope and 20, neces-
sarily be hung iiuseE That, briefly, II the moral
with which N. 1Lcfs constantly adOrn. tue Latte 7
volumnous folde Of his long drawn tale in ,wenty
octavos Of tie " Rec AID Fall Of BonGIlrte." lie
ceverly enough resumes, aud lu,tlics, and applies
tits moral, in pages 6il-Gi7 OF this volume NJ.
1here Is nOt and 10 Do him Justice, does not set him.
self NJ 10 be, philosophical historian; Ie is n
"reaiit,' n rather common lace moralIst, long
experienced, very clever, utterly patriotic working
politician, and rench ulizsn, aud writer and moral
ICES 10 those sen,es. His poftraiture Of Napoleon
BOuayarte 10 captain, admnittratOr and legislator,
drawn in The last note Of this last volume, respect
fully commended 10 the attention OF the Rev. Mr..
Abbott aud Of the numerous readers Of that imagin-
alive clergyman = historical romance, who have not
bis Reverence exciHe of sucoosslul bOok-makn.,
for regarding tie first military man aud ore OF the
irst cyil,lns of tie century as a chimercsl Demo
cratic mOn,ter.
| am told that NJ. Theirs has entered upon new
engagemepts with bis publishers 10 extend his lis
tofcl iaLoTs TO the Restoration and the rel IN OF
LOaif Philippe. In tins case ne will in time catch
up with Guizot and bis Memoirs" and be likely
10 lall ioul Of the statements aud views of his old
parliamentary adversary. 1t is rather late 10 speak
Of Gui2oes fifth volume Of Memories" now out OF
press these three months or more IL covers the time
oil tie authors residence in London in 1870 IA French
Eubassador IL if principally filed with tho story
OF tie then interesting phase Of the Eastern question
tile degree Of sovereign power and independence
OF the Porto to be granted to Mehemet Ali Pasha OF
Egypt, and with the story OF the negotiation there
hhnnI winch IaImlnatea nnIhYOrahY 10 the IreI ID