Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1895-04-15

rampant, and General Hoche, who takes the place intended for Bonaparte will find it hot work to reduce the insurgent Vendeans to subjection. The prescience of Napoleon in refusing the command lies in the question, What will become of Hoche? Moreover. the rapid changes in the military management of the Re public left little doubt ill Napoleon's mind that his services would soon be sought. Finally, the striking of his name from the list of general officers was only from the list of those o1t dctiUe dutv Thus his rank was preserved with little injury to his future prospects.
 On the 14th of September, 1704, Ma poleon, partially restored to favor, was given the command of the artillery in 8 proposed expedition to Corsica; and this post he nominally held until March of 1795; but the period was without events. Meanwhile, finding himself with no command at all, he conceived what may be regarded as his first great project of statesmanship.
 ! Bonaparte perceived that the ultimate shemy of the ascen dency of France was England, and that one great arm of her power was her influence in the Eastern Mediterranean countries. This might be broken. mark it welli bg the agency of T1trkey The thought of the Corsican was this: If the Republican administra- tion of France vii l send JIc to Constan- tinople, to organize and discipline the Turkish army, then the Ottoman power will be sufficiently strengthened and Europeanized to renounce the influence of Great Britain and, in full autonomy, to become member of a possible coali- tion of European powers against the common enemy of all
 During the period of his enforced in activity at Paris, Napoleon prepared a plan intended for the National Conven- tion, outlining his purpose. It was q virtual petition that he be sent to Con- stantinople, with six or seven competent officers, to organize tho military. power ' of the Turkish empire. against. Great Aaritain in the East Bourrienne justly remarks that if tho clerk of the War Office had only written the word grant ed on Napoleon's paper, that one word would probably have changed the polit- loal fate of Europe for centuries to come. Napoleon atthis time was twen ty-six years of age. His scheme was worthy of Richelieu, of Talleyrand, of Motternioh, of Disraeli in his ripest years
 The word granted was not written. The French Revolution rapidly worked out its own results, and ill deing so pro- vided place for Bonaparte according to the higher laws of destiny. After the overthrow of the Terror the Convention went on, rather 4tsmperately, to com-s i, plete the new frame of government sealled tho 'Constitution of tho Year III. That instrument was adopted on the 22nd of August, l795. It proved to be not sufficiently intense for the states manship of the Faubourgs The Parisian centers of agitation began to resound with denunoiations of tho latent aristoc- racy ill the new plan of government. For about a month the broil was kept up by democratic pamphleteers and or ators who made tho basements of St. Antoine vocal and smoky with their ob-1 jurgations. aE#S ss#
 Then the nobs began to rise in sacred right of insurrection. Several of the Forty eighth Sections took up arms against the Convention; and that great body was imperiled by the onrushing of @ counter revolution. Matters came to a crisis in the beginning of October. The Convention had to protect itself by force or perish. Swift. swift was the work now necessary to be dono. The stifled. but not extinct. Jacobinisra of Paris be- gan to below; and mobs from the dis aneoted quarters of the city came on tu- mnltuously to assail the Convention Hall and overthrow the existing govern ment. s s A