The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1895-06-22

TO the letter; the KING or Rome was
borni Jospehine, at Malmaison, might
almost have heard tho artillery and
shouting. Would she have smiled IL the
firing had ceased with the forty-ninth
gun? That would have meant ddugh-
ter.
In May of 1910 10 could bo said OF
Napoleon that he had had his way. In
few instances his prodigious dreams
had dissipated into naught; but only in
a few. His great scheme Of planting
French civilization In Northeastern
Africa and of carrying thence the tri-
color to Damascus, Aleppo and Bagdad,
had failed. His project Of making Con-
stantinople the outpost Of France In tho
East had vanished like a chimera. His
hope Of boating England on the sea end.
cd with Trafalgar. But for all the rest,
what was left unfulflled to the Dream
er and Iconoclast2 Out of the mulberry
patch in Ajaccio he had risen to the
supreme scat Of power in the most
splendid capital of the world. And he
was not yet forty -onei
AS for war, that had sunk into NUT
tering and growing on the horizon.
During the year no great battle was
fought in Europe. Napoleon had the
land; and the sea was England's. In the
Spanish peninsula, the English and
French armies advanced or receded by
strategic movements. In that country,
General Wellesley had struggled hard
to uphold the foftunes of } = Inland VII.
In 1909 the allies had s.ifored great
hardships and roverses. Wellesley had
to get himself behind the line Of the
Torres Vedras, only short distance
from Lisbon; there he lay at bay.
The reign Of King Joseph was estab-
lished in the greater part Of Spain. AT
one time the British arm hardly reach
| cd out forty miles from Lisbon. On
July 27th and 2sth, Wellington (for no
was now Lord Wellington won the
bloody battle of Talavera. Solut was
not able to Withstand him; but Napo-
leon sent more than $50, 600 men across
tho Pyrenees, and the British with their
allies were obliged to find safety again
behind the Torres Vedras. Massena
with his SIX hundred guns could not
dislodge OF drive his enemy further. He
could not tempt Wellington into the
| field During the whole year 1910 the
nearest approach to q battle was that OF
| Busaco, where on the 27th of September
the French suffered an unimportant re-
verse. Not until the 9Th Of May, 1911,
were the British able in the open field
to capture Almeida; not until the 18th
Of January, 1912, did Ciudad Rodrigo
yield to Wellington. On the 9th Of
April he captured Badajoz.
Twice already Joseph Bonaparte had
been driven from the throne; and twice
| had he been replaced by the Emperor.
| His third flight from his precarious
Kingdom did not occur till 1913, when
he left Cadiz never to return.
In 1909 Louis was urged by Napoleon
TO suppress the British sympathies Of
| his subjects, cut off intercourse with
England, and build a navy for France.
Just after Eagram there was stormy
interview between the brothers at Paris.
The Emperor, not trusting Louis, sent
French troops TO occupy Amsterdam.
! Matters went to such pitch that on
the 1st Of July, 1910, Louis was Obliged
to abdicate. The Emperor's threat t.
annex Holland to France was carried
out; and the ex-king retired into Aus
tria.
Napoleon's system Of ruling by subor.
dinate kings did not work we'll. In such
a system thoro were more wills than
one; and there must be but One. The
| One more and moro declared himself
The absorption of Holland was followed.
in December of 1910, with the annexa-
tion Of the Hanse towns and the whole
northern coast of Germany. If, on New
Years Day. 1911, tho status in quo
could have been Acknowledged it
was ready to be by all the Powers ex-
cept Great Britain - the dream OF
Charlemagne III. for European Empire
might be regarded as fulfilled.
From the Pyrenees to the Baltic and
eastward to the limits Of the Continent
there was nominal peace; but on all seas
the war fleets and merohant-ships Of
England terrorizod and tempted the ma
tions. The need of Europe for the prod
ucts of Great Britain was an argument
that tantalized all harbors from Riga to
Sovastopol. Europe was hungry for
goods, and the Continental blockade for
bade it, In. 1S10-ll the antiFrenoh
party in st. Petersburg was reinforced
by the commercial classes demanding
intercourse with England. The Gar,
though no had ratified the treaty of
Schonbrunn, looked with ever-increas-
ing jealousy on the unappeased ambition
of his friend Bonaparte. He saw the
Duchy of Warsaw growing on his bor-
ders. He saw Oldonburg, a fiof Of tho
Romanoffs, annexed to the French Em-
pire He saw the wollnigh successful at
tempt to construct Northern Confed-
Grafton ort of Warsaw, Denmark and
Sweden. He saw sixteen nations con-
tributing their quotas to the Grand
Army of France. He saw in his own
harb the secret violation Of existing
agreements, and blinked tho offonse.
From that day the prodigious final strug-
gle of France and Russia was inovita-
BILE. Alexander concluded treaty with