Juliet signal. [volume] (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.) 1844-1???, 1863-09-15


thou must diel' Consider, Lucien, wilt
thou march 10 my route!
How do l understand your majesty ?
replied Lucien throwing upon the emperor
q look Of sus 2icion.
The emperor walked silently towards the
round table which covered the middle Of
the chamber, and placing bis two fingers
upon the corner of large map rolled, he
turned toward Lucien and said, i am at
the summit of my fortune, Lucien. / have
conquered Europe it remains for me to
divide it out to my liking. ! am as victoA
rious as Alexander, as powerful as Angus
tus, as great as Charlemagne; l will and
can. All wellP He took the corner OF
the map and unrolled it upon the table,
with a gesture gracious and ,pOnchalaOt.-
Choose the kingdom which, pleases you,
the best my brother, aud pied e my word
as an emperor, that the moment you shall
have pointed it to me with the end Of your
finger that kingdom is thine
And why this proposition to me rather
than TO the rest Of our brOtbersP
Because thou alone art according to my
mind. Lucie6.'
How can that be, wkeC am not accor-
ding to your principlesf'
Il will hope that thou hast changed du-
ring the four wears that have not seen
thee
And you are deceived, my brother;
am still the same as in go; would not ex-
change my easy chair for Q throne
Simple aud foolish = said Napoleon,
beginning to walk and talking to him.
self:
f ,olish and blind, who will not see that
am sent by destiny to lock the wheels o.
that tumbrel of the guillOtiHe which they
have taken for republican car Then
stopping himself suddenly. and walking to
| his brother But let me carry thee upon
the mountain, and chow thee the kingdoms
of the earth which is ripe for the sublime
/ dream Let US see, is the German BODY
polite, where there is nothing living but
it's universities, o kind of a repu blican pulse
| which beats IN O monarchical body Is it
| Spain, Catholic since the thirteenth cen
fury only, and where the true interpreter
ton of the words of Christ has hardly ger
minated I ls it Russia, whose head thinks,
perhaps, but whose body, galvanized for a
moment by the Gear Peter. has relapsed
into her polar paral vsis. No, Lucien, no,
the time has not come. Renounce thy
foolish utopias; give me thy hand as a
brother and an ally, and tomorrow will
make thee chief Of great people, will
recognize thy wife for my sister, and be-
stow upon thee all my friendship
That is it, said Lucien, you despair
of convincing me, aud you wish to buy
mep
The emperor made movement. Let
me speak in my turn, for the moment is
solemn, it will not have its like 10 tn 9
course Of our lives. I have no i'll will
against you for having judged 60 i'll of me;
you have rendered so many men mute and
deaf by pouring gold into their mouths and
ears that you have believed it would be
with me as with the othersP You wish to
make me q King, do you say7 All we'll
| accept, if you will promise me that nv
kingdom shall not be a prefecture You
will give me people, l will take them, IL
matters lite which, but on condition that
shall govern them according to nv ideas
and their wants; will be their father and
not Their tyraDt; will have them love me
and not fear me the day / shall place the
crown Of Spain, Sweden, Wirtemburgh, or
Of Holland upon my head, shall be no
1 longer brothers according to blood but no.
cording to rank. your commands will be
forbidden u pass my frontiers if you
march against me shall await you prepar.
ed; you will vanquish me without doubt,
for you are q great Captain, and the God oil
armies is not always on the side of Justice;
then, / shall be a king dethrOned, and you
at liberty to give my crown and my people
to some other more submissive or more
greatful. / have spoken
Still the same, still the same murmur.
ed Napoleon, then suddenly, striking with
bis foot; 'Lucien, you forget that you
ought TO obey me, as your father, as your
king
Thou art nv elder brother, not my
father, not my king; never will bend
my head under thy yoke of iron, never
lever?
Napoleon became frigbtfully pale, his
eyes took terrible expression. his lips
trembled.
Reflect on that which I have said tc
you. Lucieu.'
Reflect on what am going to say tC
thee Napoleon; tbou didst badly destroy
the republic, for thou didst strike without
looking it in the face; the spirit of liberty
which thou believest stifled under thy des
potism grows, diffuses, and propagates it.
self; thou beiievedst it pushed before thee
it follows thee from behind; so long al
thou shalt be victorious, it will be mute
but let the day of reverses come, and thou
shalt see if thou canst rely upon tha
France, which thou hast made great but en-
shaved. All empires raised by force mus
fall by force. And thou, thou, Napoleon
who shall fall from the summit of that en-
pire, thou ehalt be broken taking BIZ
watch and crushing it against the earth
broken, seest thou, as / break this watch
whilst We, pieces ard wrecks of thy for
tune, we shall be dispersed over the sur
face OF the earth, because we we're of THY
family, and cursed because we bear THY
name. Adieu, sire = Lucien departed.
Napoleon remained immoVable, his eve
liked; at the expiration of five minutes
the rolling Of carriage was heard coins
out OF the court of the palace; Napoleon
rang
What is this noiseH' said he to the door
Keeper who had opened the door.
. 1T is the carriage of the brother o
your majesty who has set out again TO
Rome
1t is WE'LL said Napoleon, and hi
countenance retOok that icy and impassiv
calm, under which he concealed as unde
, mask, the most powerful emotions.
Ten years bad hardly flown, when th
prediction of Lucien was accomplished. -
The empire had fallen. Napoleon wa
broken, and that family of eagles who's
eyre was the Tuileries had become dispsrs
ed, fugitive. prescribed, and was moving
with wounded wings over the world
Madame Mere, that imperial Niobe, VIII
had given birth to one emperor, thre
kings, and two archduchesses, had retiret
|, to Rome; Luc;en to bis principality of Carl
n.y.; Louis to Florence; Joseph to th
United States Jerome to Wirtemburgh
the Princess Eliza to Baden; Madame Dor
: gbese to PiOmbino. and the queen Of HOl
land to the castle of Aremberg.
bThe administration, 10 this crisics
I inncture Of our military affairs. hna weak