The Tiffin tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1868-1887, 1871-11-09
France Immediately, without hinder

France Immediately, without hinder
r ance Or'question."
, add" said he, 'iand alive"
"EOu would have made 4 goo
diplomat" said Napoleon, as i
made the required addition.
Chavarri hesitated for a nom ent
. removed his hand from the sprinl
= and bowling his head, glided toward
the door. Just upon the threshold b
|. turned around in sudden dismay.
Where shall 1 find my daughter
asked Chavarri.
"When she is found we will sen
/ Monsieur word," ;" sneered FOuche.
An expression Of the most intens
malignity flashed across the old man
face, and with an oath he sprang bacl
toward the table in the room. But
pistol confronted him.
''The pardons are forfeited ~ crieC
FOuche.
NO" said the Emperor, "let hin
pass"
Chavarri, with a look of wonder
then wheeled slowly about and disap.
| peaTed.
After his departure Napoleon stood
/ for short time in the center Of the
apartment lost in a profound reverie
Then, as his gaze fell upon the
clock and the autOmaton standing be,
meath the suspended crown within,
he bent forward and regarded the fig
ure attentively.
49," he said, "this was 70 have
been my successor"
1t is scarcely necessary TO add that
D h .faN7
be an Internal machine of the most
ingenious and deadly description
Concealed beneath the metallic slab,
which formed the pavement of the
mimic chapel, and which was con-
structed to fold back at the proper
moment, was found a triple row OF
small wrought iron barrels, loaded
heavily with slugs and balls and ar
ranged to cover an area of forty-five
degrees, at a distance of twenty
yards from the machine; no one
within range could possibly have
withstOOd their discharge, exploded
simultaneously, exactly when the
hand on the dial plate indicated the
hour of noon; but a spring on the
outside of the case gave the manipula-
tor power to alter the "set" of the
works, and discharge them sooner, if
necessary.
A few months after the occurance
of the incident narrated above, Fouehe
received letter from Chavarri, then
in England, written in a vein in
which men, who have played a des-
perate game and lost occasionally,
write to those who have outwitted
them. The writer stated that the
clock was entirely the work of his
own hands, and that he and his
daughter alone was concerned in the
plot, which had been frustrated by
Touches promptness.
As for himself, he had but little ex-
pectation of escaping, having freely
resolved to involve himself, If neces-
sary, in the destruction which should
overwhelm the Emperor. His daugh-
ter, the only person on earth, for
whom he retained any affection, he
could not afford thus to sacrifice, He
had made provision elsewhere for her
future support, and according to the
plan, she was to have left
Paris some thirty days bOfOre the con-
Of the plot, thus having
time to pass the frontier and
reach place of safety. This had been
fOiled by an unforeseen event. On
the evening before the final fiaseo at
the Tuileries they had received infor-
nation to the effect that Napoleon
was on the point of departing for the
frontier, and everything being in read
iness, and the period of his return be-
ing uncertain, it was determined to
make the attempt at once. On the
following morning, accordingly she
departed at as early an hour as posi-
BILE. trusting for her escape to good
and he himself, fortified with
letters from prominent officials, had
proceeded to the palace at eleven,
having given his daughter all the
time it was possible to spare.
Fouche himself knew the rest.
No personal danger, no promised
honor, nothing in short, but the cum
ningly devised falsehoOd regarding
his daughter, could have induced him,
10 have stopped tht hands
Of the fatal clock.
He also confessed that it was he,
who, two years before, had fired the
shot in the Rue de RivOli, and stated
that it had long been the aim and
purpose of his life to assassinate Ma
poleon. He added, however, that
they need never have any fear of his
the attempt, as the magma
limity Of the Emperor on the last oc-
easiOn had completely disarmed him. !
Chavarri subsequently died in ex-
RENE poverty in London. OF the af- !
.er fate Of his daughter, nothing is
Known. His clock, despOiled of the !
nurderous part of its machinery, was
for several years in the
rQileries, and was finally destroyed
,y an accidental fire and the falling
If wall.