The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1885-02-06
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Among the many interesting feature,
b the @Correspondence Diaries Of Johr
Wilson Croker !" just published In New
York, are Croker's notes Of converse
hons with the Duke Of Wellington,
taken down IS they occurred. The fol
lowing extracts relate mainly to Napo.
leon snd Waterloo. Speakingo Of Bona
parte the Duke said: II never was q
believer in him, and ! always thought
that in the long run We should
overturn him. He eve seemed
himself OF his ease, and even in the
bofdest things he did there was always
: mixture Of apprehension and mean
ness I used TO call him Jonathaa Wild
The Great, and at each new coup he
made I used to cry ont, Well done,
Jonathan TO the great scandal Of some
81 my hearers. But the truth was, he
had nc more care about what was right
or wrong, just or unjust, honorable or
dishonorable, than Jonathan, though
his great abilities and the grea. stakes
he played for threw the knavery into
the shade.
aPosterity will hardly believe the
success and extent OF that system Of
darkness which Bonaparte spread over
France, butt is so complete that even
I who has been for SO many years in
contact with his armies, and was now
for months ON his frontier, was glad to
CLEAN from any %precarious and humble
sources some knowledge Of the real
state of the interior"
The best of all the publications
about Bonaparte) is that Of Baron Fain.
Allthe dictations to Montholon. Gour-
yaud and Las Casas are of little real
authority. They are what Bonapate
On after consideration thought it ex-
pedient to represent things to have
Deen, and not what they were. ANY nc.
sv5tte reader will find them to be what
raade.up stories always must be, full Of
:ontraiictians, but we who know tho
AFFAIRS Of our time know that they are
full OF falsehoods.
NAPOLEON wATcH
HBonaparte's mind was, in it's details,
low and ungentlemanlike. I suppose
The narrowness OF his early prospects
and habits stuck to him; what NE un-
aerstand by gentlemanlike feelings he
knew nothing at all about; I'll give you
scurious instance.
II have q beautiful little watch made
By Breguet at Paris, with 9 map.of Spain
most admirably enameled on the case.
6ir Edward Puget bought it ut Paris
and gave it to me. What do you thitik
the history of this watch was-at least
the history that Braguet told Paget
and Paget told me? Bonaparte had
ordered it Us q present to his brother,
The king Of Spain, but when he heard
II the battle Of Vittoria-he was then
1t Dresden, in the midst Of all the
preparations and negotiations of the ar
m~istice, and one would think, sufficient
y busy with other matters-when he
heard of the battle OF Vittoria, / say he
remembered the watch he had ordered
lor n whom he saw wonld never be
king of Spain and with whom he was
angry for the loss of the battle, and lie
wrote from Dresden to countermand
the watch, and if it should be ready8to
torbid its being sent. The best apology
one can make for this strange httleness
9, that he was offended with Joseph;
but even in that case . gentleman would
not have taken the moment when the
poor devil had lost his chateaux en-
Espagne to take away his watch also.
All those codlcils to his will, in which
ne b~equeathed millions to the right and
left and among others left q legacy to
the fellow WHO was accused Of attempt
ing to assasainate me, is another proof
II ittleness of mind; the property he
really had he had already made his dis
position Of. For the payment Ct all
those other high-sounding legacies there
Was NOT the shadow ofa fund. He might
NJ we'll have drawn bills for ten millions
IN that pump at Aldgate. We had on
sur way driven past it.. While he was
writing all these magnificent donations
he knew that they were oil in the air.
Ill afalsehood. For my part, I can see
no ~magnanimity in q lie, and I confess
that think one who could play such
tricks but a shabby fellow"
1t was on this occasion that he gave
mean i~nstance!of the Importance of a
very ordinary degree OF thoughtful
common sense. He described his very
e~ritlcal position on the march before
the battle Of Assaye, when his small
Storce was threathenedby an overwhelm-
ing deluge OF native cavalry. and his
only chance, not Of victory only. but OF
safety, was his getting to the other
bank Of the river (Kistna). which was q
few miles on his right. He had some
of tbs best native guides that could be
had and he made every possible effort
to ascertain whether the river was any
where passable. and al his informants
assured him that it was not. He him
self could not SEQ the river, and the
enemy's cavalry was in such force that
be could not send out to reconnoiter.
At last, in extreme anxiety he
resolved 70 see the river him
veil. and accordingly, with his most
Intelligent guides and an escort of, /
think he said, I'LL his cavalry, he pushed
forward in sight of the river in the
n~eighbOrhOod of Assaye. which stood