The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1893-11-01
INVASION OF ENGLAND.
NapoIeon,s Plans we're Laid and zoo. Of
Hen were in Readiness.

men were IN Readiness
The following is an extract from
the hitherto unpublished diary of
the secretary of the British admiral
who conveyed Napoleon Bonaparte
to ST. Helena. Il is printed 10 the
clentuary
Napoleon walked considerable
time with the admiral after dinner.
talking of the invasion Of England.
lie said that when the demonstra-
ton was made at Boulogne, he had
most perfectly and decidedly made
up his mind TO it 6the inyasion9;
that his putting guns into the
praams and the rest Of his armed
fiolilla was only TO deceive and en-
deavor to make a descent upon Eng
land with their assistance only.
whereas he had never intended to
make any other use Of them than
Us transports. and entirely depended
on his fleets being enabled to de-
ceiye ours by the route and man
euvers he intended them to make.
and that they would thereby be en-
ablcd to get off to Boulogne, so as
to have a decided superiority in the
channel long enough to insure his
making landing, for which he said
everything was SO arranged and
prepared that he would have re-
quired only "a hours after arriving
at the spot fixed on.
He said he had 200, 900 men for
this service, of which 5000 were
cavalry, which would have been
landed with horses and every ap-
pointment complete and fit for act
ing the moment they were put on
shore; and that the praams were
particularly intended for carrying
over these horses.
He said the exact point of de-
barkation had not been fixed on, as
he considered it not material, and
only therefore to be determined by
the winds and circumstances of the
moment; but that he intended to
have got as near to Chatham as he
conveniently could, to have secured
our resources there at once, and to
have pushed on to London by that
road.
He told Sir George cockburn he
had ordered his Mediterranean ad-
miral to proceed with his fleet to
Martinique to distract our attention;
and draw our fleet after him, and
then exert the utmost efforts to get
quickly back to Europe; aud look
ing into Brest Cwhere he had order
ed another fleet under Ganteaume
to be ready to join him), tho whole
was to push mp channel to Boulogne,
where he CBonaparte) was to be
ready to join him, and to move with
them over to our coast at an hours
notice.
And in point of fact, he said, he
was so ready, his things embarked,
and himself anxiously looking for
the arrival of his fleets, when he
heard of their having returned in
decd to Europe; but instead of their
coming into the channel, in con-
formity with the instructions he had
given, they had got to cadiz, where
they were blocked up by the Eng
lish feet, with which they had q
partial engagement off Ferrol, and
thus, he said, by the disobedience
and want of management of his ad-
mirals, he saw in a moment that all
his hopes with regard to invading
England were frustrated, with this
additional disadvantage (Which he
had fully foreseen when he first
turned in his mind the idea of such
an attempD, that the preparations
at Boulogne had given stronger
military blast to every individual
in England, and enabled ministers
TO make greater efforts than they
otherwise perhaps would have been
permitted to do.