The Arizona champion., 1891-03-14
NAPOLEON'S COUPS.
An old Story of the Great Elm
 peror Retold.
SUCH DARING aS VAS NEVER EQUAlED.
To Capture France With Eleven Hun
 dred Soldiers.

they had been left out in the proceedings of the previous day. Bonaparte appeared at the bar to justify his action. He be- gan violent speech, lost lis presence of mind, but catching a glimpse of the grenadiers outside he Threatened the council with military violence if they should decide against him. Meanwhile, in the council of five hundred Lucien Bonaparte read the resignation of the three directors amid shouts from the members of No Cromwelll No dicta- tor! The constitution foreverp
 Bonaparte now entered with four gren- adiers, and attempted to speak, but was interrupted by cries and generations, and could utter only few broken sentences.
 The members appeared to be on the point of proceeding to violence against him when a body of soldiers rushed into the hall and carried him off. A motion was made for his outlawry, but Lucien refused to put it, left the chair and went outside the hall, where he addressed the troops, declaring that body of factious men in the pay of England and armed with daggers had set the deliberations of the representatives of the people at defi- ance, and that he, as president of the assembly, summoned the military to quell the disturbance.
 The soldiers hesitated until Lucien swore that he would stab his own brother if he attempted anything against the Republic.
 Glurat, at the head of body of grena- diers, then entered the hall and ordered the assembly to disperse. The members replied with shouts and generations. The drums were then ordered to beat, the soldiers leveled their muskets, and the members of the council made their escape by the windows. Bonaparte had mean while gone to Paris, where he said that attempts had been made to stab him, and one person declared that he had received wounds intended for Bonaparte. The Council of Five Hundred was dissolved by vote If about fifty of its members, who also, in conjunction with the An clients, passed a decree making Sieyes, BonapaTte and Ducos provisional consuls and investing them with supreme execu- tive power. The coup d'etat was merely begun on the 18th Brumaire, and its suc- cess was only assured on the 18th.
 After his installation at Elba, early in May, 1914, Napoleon feigned resignation, but really and secretly he prepared small body of picked troops and dimin- utive navy for any chance and bent an attentive ear to every rumor from France. News from the continent began to re- store his hopes. A report came that the allies were thinking of transporting hi'1 to a distance, and that the Vienna con gress was about to break up. He re- newed his preparations, concealing them as best he might.
 The only thing that should have re- strained Napoleon was the interest of France, and not loyalty to treaties which had never been respected toward him. The promises made him had not been kept; the French government had not paid the annual two millions promised him and had seized the personal property of his family. Moreover, he fully believed in the scheme for depriving him of Elba and transporting him to some remote region. He sent a message to Murat begging him to apprise Austria that he should soon be at Paris, and would &C., cept the treaty of May 30, 1874. If he was sincere his return had not even the excuse of endeavoring to restore to France the frontiers that she had lost through him.
 He set sail Feb. 26, at Porto Ferraio, with Gems. Bertrand and Drouot and HOO soldiers, 700 of whom belonged to the Imperial guard and the rest were Poles, Italians and Corsicans. The fleet, composed of seven vessels, escaped the French and English cruisers guarding Elba. On the morning of March 1 the fleet cast anchor in Juan Gulf, between Cannes and Antibes, and landing was easily effected.
 Napoleon chose the way across the mountains of Provence and Dauphiny to reach Paris. He set out, scattering proclamations to the people and the army as he went, imputing his misfortunes to treachery and claiming to be recalled by the prayers and complaints of France. He addressed an eloquent appeal to the troops. 'Unfurl," he cried, 'the tricol- ored streamers which you wore in our days of glory. Victory will march be- side us; the eagle and the national colors will fly from spire to spire to the turrets of Notre Dame."
 On the 9th of March Napoleon reached Grenoble, where there were several regi- ments and large supply of arms and ammunition. The general in command of the troops sent out a detachment of engineers and artillery to blow up @ bridge over the little river Bonne, in the hope of delaying Napoleon. The men disObeyed their orders and never touched the bridge. The chief officer fell back some distance and posted himself be- tween the hills and the ponds. Napoleon marched straight upon him, and the commandant, doubting his men, would fain have retreated, but there was nc time. Napoleon was close at hand, on foot, at the head of his little band. Soldiers" he cried, "do you know mel" "Yesl yes" was the answer. He barred his breast and cried, "Which of you will fire on his emperor" They waved their caps on their bayonet points, shouting, ''Long live the emperorr' ran to kiss his hands, and, wild with joy, hailed him as their general, their emperor, their fatherl Napoleon turned to Drouot and Bertrand "Within ten days" he said, i've shall be in the Tuileries."
 A fresh supply of troops came up from Grenoble, commanded by Col. La Bedoyere, who embraced Napoleon and joined him. On the same day Napoleon entered Grenoble. He now had 7,0SJ soldiers, and with them he reached Lyons March 10, and entered the town in the evening, the garrison joining hR troops. March 13 he left Lyons, and on March IS he was joined at Auxerre by Marshal Ney, who had been sent to take him prisoner. On the night of March 19 Napoleon reached the palac of Fontainebleau, and on the evening of the next day he was in the Tuileries Thus ended his second and last coup d'etat.-New York Herald.
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