New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-10-27
TIL u WAR IN EUROPE.
y4e EMPRESS AND BAzAINE.

- Authorized STATEMENT - THE wv -,
-~xxs NO PART IN PoLITIcs-ebN' no,a
~ NOT CHANGE HER DISCRIMINATING
SAus Awn,FION - COOL RECEPIioN VI
Nh ~ NAPOLEON.
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LONDON. Wednesday, Oct 20, 1870
TIE o. Jsing lie an authorized Statement wv
,tthstsssxing Whit Is insinuated and even afr'"eu
|. oortain EnglsI. journals, the Empress Das ho'
.,ea mart In any enc of the combinations reierfeo
% having for theis object either peace or an arms
soe. The parlor at Chiselhurst has not become ID
INV sense an Official paror; it is still that OF an ex
H. and il its doors are open to those who knock
a, adnittsnce. it is not to afford field for discuss
hg resee OF war.
Gen. Foyer, the envoy of Marshal Bazaine,
.sy have approached the Empress with a
nav 70 propositions Of peace war to be submitted
/. Prussia ; hut he was received with no more favor
sh.n ysre the emissaries of Bismarck on previous
,,ue 10 propose peace, declaring that the King was
Sruosec TO content himself with small indemnity
Ia money and the cession of Strasbourg. The En-
usss replied with great energy that long as there
ss any question of the smallest cesson of territory,
AZ wc Id hold herself aloof from every negotiation.
The 5ents of last month have made no change in
he ne luton; and 10 far as the efforts of Gen.
Buyer lave been directed to this point, they have
smp ely failed nor could the mission of Gen. Boyer
hve 1 for its object to consult the Empress as to
asp Giety Of surrendering Metz at this moment.
mai only one way of concealing the real object
Sthe urney. Marshal Bazaine, confident of the
srsngtl Of his position as general who has suf-
Nod 10 defeat, and at the head of the
MY french army which still e u.s. thinks
lsmseli entitled to exercise not little influence on
ne erection whether peace shall be made or hostli-
as continue. He would like to make himself indis-
,snsable and would gladly be the Dictator with
whom the enemy should have to treat, taking the
Nd both of the Government that sits at Tours and
nat which is shut up in Paris. He would rejoice
that France should owe peace victory to him, and
10 him only This is respectable ambition; exag-
ecrs.ed it may perhaps be; hut it must not be in
ftrred that Marshal Bazaine would rather conclude
Q peace favorable to Napoleon's dynasty than in
soeordance with the true interests of his country.
There is then, particle of truth in the stories
told about the interviews at Chiselhurst; and it can
scarcely be necessary to add that the approaching
Journey of. the Empress to King Williams Head
quarters belongs ike all the rest to that domain of
invention with which the subtle genius of France,
scming to the aid of her present difficulties has con-
tiyod during the last few weeks to lead us astray
Prince Napoleon, who had taken sides with those
who would perhaps have wished to induce the En-
press to commit an indscretion, has had his labor
Cor his pains; while his violent determinations
against the past policy of the Empire had no other
resut than to compel him to listen to some harsh
truths from his ilustrious cousin and to compel him
10 quit Chiselhurst somewhat suddenly, where, in
decd his reception had been Of the coolest G. VS..