Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1870-09-03
Al TnteryisN H.tA SapOIe0a.


Paris Correspondent Of London Telegraph,
July % Hf-
1t is with the purpose Of enabling
your reafers TO form their own tpdg-
ment upon the views now expressed by
the Emperor Napoleon that l venture
TO repeat the words which he yesterday
employed while speaking to 3 friend
and 10 myself dufingan interYieH with
which he honOred rs at the Tuilleries.
must begin by remaEkiDg that l have
known the EmpeF0e~fOr many years,
and hav 4 ldOnI seen him looking bet
ter. When last / spoke with him, fvee
months agO, he looked caTewoTn and
bageaftl, With complexion more than
ustIailv sallow aud ash-e0lored. Yes
terday his face looked fuller, his eye
bright, his cheek healthy. I wish! ~
addition, to peu1ise that; after he had
spoken, i inquired whether we were at
liberty to repeat his words q hdltte eotr.
He answered, "Iiwish nothing better
than that / should be represented to
the people Of England az holding these
views.r - ia f1v3te gT5l H.
The Emperor amer speaking with
his usual Guiet kindliness upon some
private matters, turned suddsnlyt the
nOlitical situation of France and Of
Europe. He said, ~ One 6bflnight be-
fore the utterance Of the Dnc de 9Fa-
mont in the Corps Legislath-w 'ich
utterance has, assit seems to me, bten
so uDjustlyTehecied upon hY khe Eng-
Iish press-I had no notion That war
was at hand, nor am I, even at this mo-
ment by any means prepared for u.
trusted that, when the Due de Gramont
had set me straight with France by
speaking nianfally in public as to the
HohenzOlIern eanditure, Y should be
able to SO manipulate and handle he
controversy ~ TO make peace certain.
But France has slipped out Ofmy hand.
| cannot rule unless / lead. This Is
the most national war that in my time
France has undertaken, and ! have
no choice but to advance at the head
Of a public opinion which can neitll-
er stem nor check. In addition, NJ de
Bismarck, aIthOugha very clever man,
wants too much, and wants Il too
quickly. After the victory of Prussia
in 1855, reminded him that but for
the friendly and seli-denyiDg neutral
itys of France, he could never have
achieved such maTyels. IpOinted out
to him that had never moved = FfelIeh
soldier near to tho Rhine frontier du-
ring tue continuance Of the German
war. / quoted to him from his own
letter, in which he thanked me FER
MY abstinence. and said that pc had
left neither q PrIissian gun nor q Prtls-
sian soldier upon tlIe Rhine, but had
thrown Prussia's whole and undivided
strength against Austria and her allies.
| told him that, as some slight return
for my friendly inactivity, | thought
that he might surrender Laxemburg,
and one or two other little towns which
graveiy menace our frontier to France.
| added that in this way he would, by
a trifiing sacrifice, easily forgotten by
Prussia, in view of her enormous sue
cesses and acquisitions, paciIy the
French nation, wllose jeal0usins It was
so easily to arOtsse, 50 difficult to dis
arm.
an. de Bismarck replied to me, az
ter some delay, Not one foot Of terri
tory, whether Prllssian or neutral, can
resign. But, perhaps, il l were to
make some further acquisitions, / could
make some concessions. How, for in
stance, if | Were to take Holland. What
would France want Is a sop for Hol-
land"
"I replied, said the Emperor, "tllat,
if he attempted to take Holland it
meant war with France; and there the
conversation, III which NJ. de Bismarck
and NJ. de Benedetti were the interlo.
cutors, came to an end
Z / have repeated this conversation
as nearly as possible in the Emperor's
words. While we were speaking the
Due de Trevise brought a dispatch to
His Majesty, which the latter read, and
which was the effect that "the uth
Corps of the ,Prussian army were at
that moment troOping into TFeves."
/ have little, sir, to add to this recapit-
ulation. These words, which / have
faithfully endeavored to interpret,
must speak for themselves