The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-11-26
CORRESPONDENTS OFBONAPARTE.
Startling Confessions.

The London correspondent Of the Chicago
Tribune writes in recent letter;-
Perhaps there are not hundred readers in
he United States who have attempted to mas
ter the contents of the volumes of the CORES
pOndence of Napoleon Bonaparte, which are
being issued at intervals by the French Govern
ment. Some twenty-five bulky books in the
French language, comprising more than 1000
closely printed octave pages, and containing
nearly 20,0 600 letters, proclamations, bulletins,
and documents of different kinds, are formi-
dable enough, yet 1t is most interesting to note
the revelations they contain. You are probably
aware that after fifteen volumes had been
published, the commission appointed by the
present Emperor to edit them was suddenly
changed.
In their zeal they had put into print numbers
Of letters OF Bonaparte, which together form the
most complete and irrefragable collection of
accusing testimony that one man was ever
made to furnish against himself. The new COM
mission, of which Prince Napoleon is the head,
announced they should only print such papers
as they believed the Emperor himself would
have rendered public could. he have outlved
himself, and yet, with all his decision, the two
volumes issued within the last fortnight tell
such a story as would consign any man who
was the subject of ii to iniamy. Never was
such moral likeness more manitestly shown.
The first Italian campaign, as told by Bonaparte
himself, is one long tale of violence rapine, and
deceit. Some of the letters are truly original
IN their confessions.
In all history, perhaps the darkest page is
that which relates to the cession of Venice to
Austria, de not only tells his perndy, Dut
eXults IN it. On the very day on which he
wrote to the municipality of Venice that hls
tIoops were there to secure the liberty of the
city, and that wretched Italy, free and inde
pendent of foreigners, should take a glorious
place In the world, and resume among great
nations the rank to which nature, her situation,
and late alike call heron that very day he
wrote home to say that the first conference for
the dehnlte treaty of peace between France and
the Emperor of Germany had been held the
0ay before, and that, according. to the project
1sISe1 $3.50 upon, Venice was to be given over to
1t was but yesterday that Venice came out Of
the DOhuage INTO which she was sold by Bona
parte seventy years ago, and of all his misdeeds
none has borne more lasting and more hitter
nu1ts. Inc horrors he Committed in Fgvnt arc
all told IN these volumes The correann1dance
in Its untlinchlng truthfulness. pivea tha Ier
order signed Bonaparte, for the welIkn oygI
massacre OF Jana. 'Eu prendnt preo0,tione de
SadTieTe qU'U n'eT echdppe duounS More H., @
200O men, who had surrendered were bntcharad
in cold blood. In one letter he saws exniHno,7tu
s'EVery night we cut off thirty heads, and t5oSsa1
OF many chiefs; this, 1 think, will serve as a
good lesson"
Among the instances OF his tyranny Ia Ger.
many, which brought upon him the hate OF the
people, was the tragic fate Of Palm, the book
seller of Nuremberg. During the occupation OF
Germany by the French in 1876 several pam
DhIets hostile to the invaders had been circu
lated through the country. One OF these was
sraeed to Falm's and though he offered to prove
that he had lHOt sold q single copy, he was ar
rested and shot the following day. The poor
bookseller more really hero than the Emperor
who caused him ~ be butchered, refused the
pardon that was OtSSSed him on condition o.