Waterbury evening Democrat., 1895-04-06

NAPOLEON BY wHESSEL.
 then lieutenant-coloneli in tho alleged National Guards. he had undertaken to got possession of tho citadel of Ajaccio, and had failed. His leadership. like a rod of glass, broko to fragments in his hands Hu and tho wholc Bonaparto family wero discountenanced, and he was glad to get away-being careful 10 carry with him n military record which he himself had prepared and the colonel of tho Second Battalion had signed, showing his patriotic military services and his rank as an officer. With this Inc would regain his lost position in the French army.
 At NRlVnCc, thcro was still much in Napulrun's favor. Tho royal army waS literally going to pieces. Tho organiza- ton of the National Guard i'll various parts of the kingdom had drawn off many uf tho officers and infected many moro with tho disease of patriotism. The colonel of tho Fourth Regiment was an old royalist who had gladly cut off tho Jacubin Bnnaparto from his com mand It was useless for tho latter tO return to ValcncC. hoping to bo rein stated at such court. lio therefore mado all speed for Paris. where ho would havo hearing before the minis ter of war.
 By tho summer of 1793 tho roaring winds of revolution wrro shaking not only tho pinnaClvS, but th1 very founda- tions, of French civilization. The old order was already in ruins. Paris was ill an upruar. The King and court ha,i been obliged in the pr, crdiu. autumn tu leave Versailles and come. in thc most remarkable procession in history, to Paris. Tn" starving pupulac" had gone out tn tho royal palarr. invaded 1t, h0oted around it, drawn forth the King and Queen and their ill fatvd scion, and had hurried them off into tho city, danc- ing about them en routO and shouting in wild jocularity that now they had the baker and tho bakeress and the bak- CTS little boy! All this wreck of royal ty and nobility heaped itself up in the Tuileries, out of which the ancient monarchy of the BOurbons looked with wan face at tho weltering world.
 It was to this Paris that Napoleon | came, with billet of dismissal and pc tition for reinstatement One war min- | ister after another, to the number of six, had now filled the important office before which Bonaparte stood peti- | tioner for rohoaring, The new minister was Nationalist and favurably dispos- ed towards tho CorSicau atlventuror; for tho latter Camo with haggard rovolu- tionary face and long hair hanging tC his shoulders. Thero was delay ill the office; and Bonapartc, with his former schOolfellow and futuro secretary, Bour- rienne, was we'll nigh starving in the | streets.
 To add to his distress, the Royal School for Girls at Saint Cyr, under the immediate patronage of Mario Antoi. nette, went to pieces, like other exist ing things; and Elise Bonaparte wa: turned adrift with no friend ill France except her sullen brother. To the credit of tho latteS he chung to his sister, and presently took advantage of her presence to get another Icdrc of absence. "in or | der to conduct her home" But he die | not do so until his cause in the war-of ice had. on the 30th of August, beer 1 decided in his favor. He was exoner atod, restored to rank. promoted to [ captuincy, and to crown all the new com mission was dated back to the preceding February.
 This was great victory for the mar of destiny. He was Captain Bonaparte Taking Elise by the hand, he sped away to Lyons and NaleuCe-where he paused to be seen in his new regimentals-aul then to Marseiiles and Corsica His re turn brought together at Ajaccio all th' members of the family of Bonaparte He left behind in Paris the Countess Josephine do BcauharnaiS, aged twenty nine And yondrr Gt Vienna, in hel Hapsburg cradle, nine months old, lie the girl babe Maria Louise. These tw' shall have relations with history in tn next two decades!
 France had now become an ocean O molten brass, seetAiug, bubbling, break ing along tho pillows into flames c lurid light The RvYulUtiOn was cOmln to its crisis. Hunger and despair in tn hearts of men had done their perfeC work. War was 0u with Prussia an | Austria and Euslaad. The smigrapt nC bility across tho borders was ill leagu with the enemies of tho French nation That nation had sprung up, an inturi sted tigress, and woe be henceforth traitors! There was intrigue betwee the dying court and the Emigres beyon the Rhine. It was now or never. Th Terror came on; chateaus were flaming the streets were slippery with red; tn axe went always up and down in tn Place de h Revolution; the day of deat and extermination was at hand.
 This condition of affairs in the el tinct kingdom of the Bourbons hrongh the revolutionists of France and thoS of Corsica into closest sympathy; fC Jacobinism is universal. It is simpl humanity in insurrection. Whether be in France, in Germany, in Italy, i the Mediterranean islands, in England