Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1895-06-30

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 In May of l8I0 it could be said of Napoleon that he had had his way. In a few instances his prodigious dreams had dissipated into naugbt; 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 the East had vanished like a chimera. His hope of beating England on the sea end- ed with Trafalgar But for all the rest, what was left unfulfllca to the Dream CT and Iconoclast? Out of the mulberry patch in Aiaccio he had risen to the supreme seat of power in tho most splendid capital of the Sorld. And he was not yet forty-one
 As for war, that had sunk into nut tering and growing on the horizon. During the yoar no great battle was fought in Europe. Napoleon had the land; and tho sea was England's. In the Spanish peninsula, the English and French armies advanced or reccded by strategic movements h that country, General Wellesley had struggled hard to uphold the fortunes of Ferdinand VII In 1909 the allies had suffered great hardships and reverses. Wellesley had to get himself behind tho line of the Torres Vedras, only a short distance from Lisbon; there ho lay at bay.
 Tho reign of King Joseph was estab- lished in the greater part of Spain At one time the British arm hardly reach ed out forty miles from Lisbon. On July 27th and 18th, Wellington (for he was now Lord Wellington won the bloody battle of Talavera. Solut was not able to withstand him but &apa- leon sent more than 350, GOO men across the Pyfenees, 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 or drive his enemy further. He could not tempt Wellington into the field. During the whole year 1810 the nearest approach to q battle was that of Busaco, where on the 27th of September the French suffered all uninportant re- verse. Not until tho 9th of May, 1811, were the British able in the open field to capture Almeidai not until the 18th of January, 1872 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 Twice already Joseph Bonaparte had been driven from the throne; and twice had he been replaced by the Emperor.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 preearious Kingdom did not occur till 1913, when he left Gadiz 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 q navy for France Just after Wagram there was 2 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 10 II out; and the ex-king retired into Aus tria.
 Napoleon $ system of ruling by subor- dinate kings did not work we'll In such system there were more wills than one; and there must be but One. The One moro and moro declared himself The absorption of Holland was followed, in December of 1810, with the annexa- tion of the Hanse towns and the whole northern coast of Germany. If, on New Years Day, 18Il, the status in quo could have been acknowIedged-a it was ready to be by all the Powers ex- cept Great Britain - the dream of Charlemagne II. 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-heets and merchandising of England terrorized and tempted the na- tions. The need of Europe for the prod ucts of Great Britain was an argument that tantalized all harbors from Riga to SoYastopol. Europe was hungry for SOOuss dlid tHG CO0Glueuldt Di0GkdQ6 TOT bade it In 1810-11 the anti French party i'll St. Petersburg was reinforced by the commercial classes demanding intercourse with England. The Czar, though he had ratified the treaty of Schonbrunn, looked with -increas- ing jealousy on the unappeased ambition of his friend Bonaparte. He saw the Duehy of Warsaw growing on his bor- ders. He saw Oldenburg, lief of the Romanoffs, annexed to the French Elm pire He saw the wellnigh successful at tempt to construct a Northern Coufed- eration out 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 rbors the secret violation of existing agreements. and blinked the otfense. From that day the prodigious final strug- gle of France and Russia was inevita- ble Alexander concluded treaty with the Sultan, and planted an army of 90, : 900 men on his western borders.
 The crisis came by the act of Sweden.