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neglected to fulfill. Principally as re-
CARDS Rome, Orsini was furious at see
inc the temporal power of the Pope
maintained by French garrison of
5000 men, and two years before at
tempting Napoleon's life he wrote anon
ym0usly to warn him that the Carbona-
70 lodges had decreed his death and
that the sentence would infalhbly be
carried out if the imperial policy to-
ward Italy were not altered. Had
Count Orsini's aecOmplices-Rierrl, ku-
dio, and GOmez-been men OF his met
tie and determination, the attempt
against Napoleon on the night OF Jan.
II, 1858, must have been crowned with
success; but they were poor ignorant
cravens, who did their work for pay,
not from conviction, and their hearts
failed them ut the critical moment.
Each of them had been provided with
two explosive shells which Were to be
thrown under the Emperor's carriage
as il drove up to the opera. Orsini
threw his two shells and Pierri one, but
the other two men ran off in fright
when they heard the first explosion.
The damage done by the shells was
ghastly. Five people were killed out
right and nine wounded; all the soldiers
of the mounted escort were bruised or
scratched; the Emperor's coachman fell
off his box stunned on to the carcass of
one of his horses who lay dead, and one
of the fOOtmen was blown twenty yards
off, with his skull battered in. Mean
while, hundreds of panes of glass in the
street had been smashed. all the gas
lamps were extinguished and in the
darkness there resounded an appalling
tumult of plunging horses and shrieking
women. Lanterns and torches had to
be brought out of the opera, and then
it was seen that the Imperial coach was
a complete wreck. How the Emperor
and Empress managed to escape, with
not so much as a singed hair or cut
finger, is nothing short of marvellous.
Apparently not daunted in the least by
what had happened, the Empress said
to the Emperor, ave must go into the
house to show them we are not afraid,
and few minutes later the entry OF the
Imperial couple into their box became
the signal for magnificent ovation, all
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cheering to the echo. Neverthe-
less, from this time Napoleon Ill. was
an altered man. In the following year
he undertook the war against Austria
for the liberation of Italy, and ever
afterward he went in fear of his life.
Not a coward fear, for he was thor
oughly brave man, but fear which the
French call Granite rdiS0nnee. He ex-
pected to be murdered, and took the
minutest precautions 10 insure that the
Government should be carried on by a
strong regency in case of his demise.
He never went out without leaving di-
rections as to where the latest copy of
his will was to be found; and at times,
when he was in low spirits, he used to
say that he had dreamed he should be
assassinated within such and such a
time. During the remainder of his
reign all Italians visiting France were
required to exhibit passports. and If not
persons of undOubted responsibility,
were closely watched till an excuse was
found for expelling them from the
country. In despite of these precau-
tons, Napoleon life was again attempt
ed, by an Italian, in 1868, while in 1866
three other intriguers of Orsinis inter-
esting country-Greco, Trabuco and
Imperatore-entered into murderous
plot against his life, which was happily
nipped in the bud by the police. There
is said to have been another and more
mysterious attempt against the En-
peror, of which the public heard moth
ing, except by rumor. A gamekeeper,
of the forest of Comgiegne, shot at His
Majesty while the latter was engaged
in a pleasant bGttWe; but one of the
equerries in attendance on Napoleon
discharged both the barrels of his
breech-loader into the head of the MUIR
derer and killed him on the spot. So
the story runs; but whether it be true
one or not will probably never be known
till some of the secret memoirs of the
imperial era come to light.-CoTnhill
Magazine.