The Bad Lands cow boy. [volume] (Little Missouri, Dakota [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-1886, 1885-01-29
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Extracts from the Newly Published "ItSs
4 and Diaries, S$2s sly &
Among the many interesting features
of:the 4 Corresp Hence Diaries of John
Wilson croke !, Just published in New
York; are Croker's notes Of converse.
lions with the Duke Of Wellington,
taken lax down as they occurred. The fol-
lowing extracts relate mainly to Napo-
leon and Waterloo. Speaking Of Bona
:parte the Duke said: II never was a
believer in him, and T always thought
th lt g the long run we should
Dsyerturn him. He never seemed
himself at his ease, and even in the
boldest things: he did there was always
3 mlxture Of apprehension and mean
hess fused to call him Jonathan Wild
The Great, and at each new coup he
made I used to cry ont, Well done,
Jonathan, to the great scandal Of some
Of my hearers. But the truth was, he
had no more care about What wasright
Of wrong, Just or unjust; honorable OF
onorable, than Jonathan, though
his great abilities and the great stakes
played for threw the knayery into
The shade.
h Il 2 osterity will hardly believe the
success and extent Of that system Of
dark mess which Bonapa rte spread over vel
France but il Is so complete. that even
I who has been for 50 many years in
contact with his armies, andawas now
for months on his frontier; was glad t.
CLEAN from any precarious and humble
sources some knowledge Of the real
state Of the interior. Z n IL
The best: of all sthe qualifications
about Bonaparte) is: that Of Baron Fain.
All the dictations to Month olon, Gour-
sgaud and Ems Casas are sof aittle real
authority They are what Bonapate
on3aftsr conside ration thought it ex-
pedient to- represent things to have
been, and not what they were. Any no.
onte reader will find them to be what
made-up stories alwaystmust be, full Of
sontradict ions, but We who know the
affairs Of our time know that they are
tull of falseh pods. Y. I.
a NAPoLEogts WATCH. s
aBonaparte IS mind was, in its details,
low and ungentl like. Il suppose
The nnrrowness of his early prospects
and habits stuck to him; what ne fun-
derstand by gentlema nlike feelings he
knew nothing Of all about; I'll give You
u curious instance. 3 ssf:; "a $50 +
II hayesa beautiful little watch made
BY Bregnet at Paris, with q mnp.of Spain
most admirably enameled on the case.
Biz Edward Paget bought it OF Paris
and gavei it to me. What do yon think
The history of this watch was at least
The history that lBraguet told Paget
and Paget told me? Bonaparte had
ordered it Fas present to his brother,
The king of Spain, but when he heard
Of the battle Of Victoria he was then
1t Dresden, in the midst of all the
preparation and gotiations Of the ar
mistice, and one would think, sufficient.
W busy with other matters when be
heard of the battleof Yittoria, I say, he
Remembered the watch he had ordered
lorE one whom he saw would never be
king of Spain and with whom he was
angry for the loss of The battle, and he
wrote from Dresde to countermand
The watch, and it it should beiready ia
forbid its being sent. The best apology
ione can make for this strange ittleness
b, that he was offended with Joseph;
buteve in that case q gentleman would
mot have taken the moment when the
poor devil had lost his \ chateaux en-
Espagne to take away his watch also.
All those codicils to his will, in which
,es bequeathed iillions to the right and
left and among others left q legacy I'd
The fellow who was accused Of attempt
ing to assasainate me, is another proof
IF ittleness Of mind; the property he
really had he had alread made his dis
position Of. For the payment cf all
was not the shadow ~ 4 fnnd IA m;gbi
q wyeH have drawn b;iIss f1r Ian m;1i;ons
s. s. that |7nnmnnI M Alagatas 3fWe had q
5urs Ways driyans mat q sWb;le ha v q
writing iii these n,aonificant donat;ons
lie knew that they' we're an Il The air.
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