New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-01-30

Dinner and in several other OF his printS Anu ~
is constant feature OF carcature, before that uc
partment of art was softened ana rciineu W ''''
Punch.
There is perhaps, no period OF English hiS'oiS
which more forcby exhibits English character
than that which covers the career OF Napoleon
Doubtless the great nation was then ID some peru
Of its life at any rate it was III danger enough 10
he thorourbly in earnest There is a VIDE dlsctep
ancv between the contempt which Englshnch pro-
fessed to feel for the abilities and cliaracter oi Io
great soldier and the unfeigned terror "nIch ms
preparations for invading the island a"iA'n1o
Thackcray in one of his lectures touches upon ti'
popt amusinely. know nothing oil inc hIl'u ni''0
curious than the depreciation oil the soiuoI Vi Aus
terjtz and Marengo which fed the Dii''Sn P'I''
Nor did ever encounter such extraordinary lalSe-
hood-sucb ploIn. plump and valiant mendacity
Hononarte as | learn from n loyal publication oil
tbo time had threatened that should he ever OBJ
tain posSeSsIon of Jerusalem. he would plant the
tree of Liberty on tue spot On which the cross OF
Jesus stood and would Wry the hrSt FRENCH
erenadirr who should fall in the attack III inc 'olo
of our Saviour mock cptaph represents M" "'
being buried under this dunghIll accuses nm Oh
"inlexbe cruelty OF heart and uneXamplcd de-
prayity Of mind" and puts him on record as too
i.rojdHt and jnsepGbe TO do good to mankind" In
The 4,f-GaIf.un, Z loyal monthly magazine of the
time there is biography of him which eiicctually
ranks Linn among the mcauest and baScSt OF man
kind His father was Il lawyer. His graudidthcr'
Joseph Buona. was - butcher. His great grand
father, Charles Bu0na, kept sort oil tavern, was
convicted of murder, and sent to the gaiicyS where
lie died, while his wife died in the House OF Cor
rection at Geneva. After his military education,
he commanded the battalion of Ajaccio, and oucreu
to bctray that place to Lord Hood, Tor when
treason it being discovered ne was caShierrd ana
sent to Franco, where he remained III poverty ana
obscurity till the evacuation Of Tonlon. Al that
place he caused 1,5G0 men, women, and children
to he killed by grape shot in the public square-an
| act of helsh barbarity. lie married the caste
mlstres; of Barras. In Egypt he invented" slcF-
ching variety Of f"lschoOds, ana plunged iNt0 an
| abyss OF inramy" But enough OF the style III
which the British historian wrote OF the wonderful
| early career of Napoleon. 1t might have been I'M
| possible to admire him, but it WAS surely possible
| to tell the truth about him; and the most obscure
| British historian Of today would hardly venture 10
write of him after such foolish fashion. venture
to give the ttle-page of book published abon that
| time as Il photographed curiosity Life OF Bona
] partc, in which the atrocious Deeds which he has
perpetrated in order his attain lis elevated Stua-
| ton are faithfully recorded; hF which means
every Brton Will be enabled TO lndge OF the Disp"-
slton of his threatening Foe; and have FAINT Idea
of the Dsolation hich awaits this Country should
| his Menaces ever he realized. BY Lieutenant Sar-
| ratt Of the Royal York Mary-c-Bonc Volunteers
| DID, 2SGr And what does tho reader think OF
| Bonapartc: or the Freebooter Drama, III three
Acts BY John Scott Riprn"' The booksellers fun
nished that kind OF patriotic pabulum and plenty
| OF it in those days. Their object was ito hand
down for ages to come to the just cXccraton OF pos
| teritv the name and memory of Nh B-p-c," for
! 50 they sometimes gave It, the more fully. sup
nose to express their cOntemptuOus dctcstation OF
the CorsIcan demon" The British lion being fully
| aroused growed thus ut mIscTeaht iIcnciilneh.
| Caricature, always coarse, was then coascI thah
| ever I have several prints, as I write, before me.
| which are incredibly foolish. One OF them repre-
| sents sea monster after an engagement between
| n French and English frigatc, pulling Napoleon IN
| fnl uniform under water. Another depicts Ing
| Esh prisoners in France seated about tub. endcav-
oring, by the consumption OF frogs. to aSSiage the
| n,nps of hunger, There is another, called - be
| Frcnchman's DTcam,' which represents the French
officers after successful invasion, OF course ban
oucting upon roast beef, plum pudding aud beer
| while John Bull and his wife aIe hanging upon
| rallows Ill the BACKGROUND. one would think from
the general turn which English ca'IcatnIc TOOK al
that time, that the solo Object OF Napoleon ANA Ms
| soldiers in undertaking the invasion was not 50
much glory as to get something 10 eat. Consider
| ING that ut the very tune there " r. probably ~
| many people in England and Ireland hungry with
ont the mean. of satisfying HUNGER. ~ III France,
one doc, not exactly sc the point Of these diccti'
apneals d" Les iHjlas sont Il Plus ma'Go9r., SAID
the Count Oxcnstern; but just then the quantity
of roast beef eaten in the English cottages. meyer
very large, was smaller than ever. y" they 'HnS
" The Roast Beef Of Old England just a. loudly as
il they had been filled with it. and went TO the war
| IN mt down that Corsican devil with the utmost
| cleerfnlncss IL was to their credit, but certainly
was little odd
Tom Davies. IN his "Dramatic Misccllanies,"
says: 1t is All old observation that England IS one
great cooks shop" and he adds colnpIaccntiy ::
" Our neirhbors must confess that i'll 10 other
rountry are the means of gratifying the appetite TO
Ina obtained 50 beautifully" Yet this Is precisely
what EnglanGs "negltbOrs" havo not been willing
to confess" After all, however, these naflonal
preudices seem small enough There were Two ili
tons in Egypt the Olnbi and the FentyIltn, who
were always at odds, because the former ioVeu
crocodies, while the other hated them The Con-
tiDerta dislike of England has doubtless less IT.
rational origin than this Shaftesbury, di%ourslng
of these things. says 9" For OUT part we neither
care that foreigners should travel to u.s. nor any OF
mrs should travel into tOreig ign countries Our best
polcV and breeding u.s. is seems. to look abroad as
little as possible, contract our views within the
narrowest Of compass. and desplse all knowledge
learning or manners which are OF forelgn
growth" Stene. who was as little English rs an
Enelshnan could well DO, characterized two of hra
travelling countryuen, in " The Sentimental Jour
new viz. smelfungus and Mundun&us The for
rner who was meant for DR.. Smollett, he met in
tho grand portico of the Panthcon--he was lust
coming outfits nothing but hugo cockpit sani
he.n Mundungus no better: "With all I'M
mense fortune. he made the whole tour; going
from Rome to Esples--from Naples TO Venice-froIn
Venice to Yienna-to Dresden, to Berlin, without