The New York herald., 1879-12-27

Prussia have accepted his mediation You must
now-ths very day--declxre what you mean to do.
settle term for the duration of the negotiations.
you VIII reject it. and my master, the Emperor.
further decisions are concerned The situation il
urgent upon US. The army must have food to
eat In few days~w shall have 25o.ooO men in
but not for monthsl' Here Napoleon again inter-
rupted me: to break of into long DEPRESSION re-
cording to his calculations we could not, ut the
very most. got togethar more than 76.O)O men in
Bohemia. He based his deductions upon the
normal numbers OF the empires population. upon
his estimate Of losses the late wars, and upon
our system Of recruitment. l betrayed considerable
surprise ct the tncorrectness of his assumption. and
told him that he could very easily procure more
curatc information. 81 myself" observed, "will
be bound 20 to fu,ni.h your Majesty with complete
~ less correctly informed respecting tho strength Of
tho Austrian armyY' ~ am quite well informed"
ports upon your combatapt strength. and am per-
fectly sure that have not been deceived regards
the oti6Se of your effective forces NJ de Narboune
has sent out host OF spies and his reports extend
In detail even to the drummers Of your army. Ny
headquarters staff has been no less active; and I
know best what reliance Is to be placed upon my in
formation. My calculations are based upon math-
ematc.l propositions; therefore they ere sure.
After ALL nobody has got moro than he can have!"
SACRIFICING HUMAN LIFE.
He then took me into his study and showed me
the muster rolls OF our army. just as he received
fulness. regiment by regiment. Over this question
alone we disputed for more than an hour. When
more abo,it the politicai issues AZ STAKE and r,,
have fanced that he wished to distract nv attention
from the purpose of nv m,ssion had not known
by exporience how great an aaisnt he was in tSssa
well calcullted roundabout ways He talked abont
his operations in hussa. and extremely diffuse
to France Every word he said made It mora and
more clear to me that his exclusive object was to
convince mo that his rpverses in 1919 were
attributable to the winter season and that his
prestige in France had never been greater than in
to him for half an hour interrunted him with the
remark that .his own words affor.ied me strikinv
proof Of the necessity that bring ali these
may betray you" observed sas she did in 1912
AS a rule armies constitute only small ner
wSs Uoope to a.ys Ua' st you n are srea
in assembling YOUR AMY Of to-day swent
away. 90 to speak whole sener.tionq ihave seen
Is convinced that you arc indispensable to the
French nation but is not the nation also
shall have been sacrificed what will you do then y
At these words Napoleon allowed himself to be over
come BY rage; He turned deadly pale. and his fss;
he exclaimed, fercely, s.and YOU do not under
stand what goes on in q soldiers soul have
I I am ma makes no account Of T million nn mons
lives!" He used O much stronger express
sion than this. and ss he spoke. or rather
hitherto kept In his hand into corner Of the room
did not stir but leaned upon console between the
Snny o me, WSy o aoS 40
lion To- me between four wallsf Let us onen the
doors and NAV your words resor,nu from one end of
France to the otheri Il is mot the can az which
represent that will lose thereby - Masterin0 his
passion he replied in more mojerate tone of Voice
:sThe French cauuot complain of me. In order To-
spare them have sacrificed INV Gcrmans and nv
Poles Duripu the Russian canpaion lost am t,0o
men but only 80 900 Of them were Frenchmen
THE MARRIAeR A MIsrAKn
.You forget Sire that YOU are speakine To n Ger.
mani'' Upon this Napoleon began to walk up and
down the room with me- As he turned For the sacond
time he picked up his hat Then he began again
ahomt his marriaee "Yes. ves !" he sa;J 81 co,n-
mitted an enormous piece Of follv when I tool An
Austrian Archduchess to wife" .If your Majesty
wish to know INV opinion IN the matter % I renie3
II win openly admit that Napoleon the Coz
oueror did Certainly make mistake nnon
that Occasion ssAnd so the Emneror Frsnca
wants 10 dethrone his dsuuhterYs' sSrha Emnoror
knows nothino but his dutv and that he will fuIal
Wnatoyer may be his tar's lot the En,neror Ia
auant tout monarch and the welfare Of his peoples
will aver occupy the rst pace in his nrograrme oS
seton." eyes" antarrupted Nspoieon ..th.t doos
not surprise me- It only coufrms me In INV oDin-
ion that have been guilty Of an unparionabjc
error Nv INV espousal OF an archdnchess I mr..
posed connecting tho present with tins nast(ynthic
preiuaices with the institutions OF nv century. /
deceiyed uvsef and feel TODAY the W hoie we,o,,t
of INV delusou It will perhaps cost me INV throne.
but will bury the world under its dabrisi H.
By this time our conyersaton had lasted till half
mast eiuht p M Il was already uuite dark Nobody
had dared to ntrude upon u.s. Our animated discus
sion had not suffered one minutes pause Six sew