Waterbury evening Democrat., 1895-04-18
.INSEpIIINE.

JOSEPHINE.
 rampant, and General Hochc, who takes the place intended for Bunapartr, will find it hot work to reduce the insurSrnt Vendcans to subjectiun. Tho prcsciumcv uf Napoleon in refusing the command lies ill tho question, What will become of Hoche? Moreover. the rapid changes ill tho military management uf tho Re public left littlo doubt ill Napolcun'S mind that his services would soon bo sought Finally. tho striking of his namo from the list of general officers was only from the list of those on 0ctirr dutu Thus his rank was preserved with little injury to his future prospects,
 On the 14th of September, 1794, Ma polcon, partially restored to favor, was given the command of tho artillery in proposed expedition to Corsica; and this post he nominally held until March of 1895; but the period was without events. Meanwhile, finding himself with no command at all, ho conceived what may be regarded as his first great project of statcSmanship.
 l Bonaparto perceived that the ultimate | enemy of the ascendcncy of Franco was England, and that ono great arm of her power was her influence ill the Eastern | Mediterranean countries This might be broken, mark it well! by the agency of | Turkey. Tho thought of tho Corsican was this: If the Republican administra- tiOn of France will send Nc to Constan- tinople, to organize and discipline the Turkish army, then tho Ottoman power will be sufficiently strengthened and I ..,,l n thp in fiUtIl,ra of Great Britain and, i'll full autonomy. to become a member of a possible cuali- tion of European powers against tho | common enemy of all!
 During the period of his enforced in activity at Paris, Napoleon prepared plan intended for tho National Conven- tion, outlining his purpose. It was 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 Britain in tho East BOurricnne justly remarks that if tho clerk of the War Office had only written the word grant cd" on Napoleon's paper, that ono word would probably have changed the polit- ical fate of Europe for centuries to come. Napoleon at this time was twen ty-six years of ago. His scheme was worthy of Richclicu, of Tallcyrand, of Mcttcrnich, of Disraoli in his ripost , years
 Tho word granted" Was not written Tho French Revolution rapidly worked out its own results, and in doing so pro yidcd place for Runaparto according to tho higher laws of destiny. After the overthrow uf tho Terror tho Convention went on, rather tompcratoly, to com plotu the new frame of government called tho Constitution of the Year III" That instrument was adopted on r tho 22nd of August, l19j. It proved to | be not sufficiently intense for the states manship of the FaubOurgS. Tho Parisian centcrs of agitation began to resound , with denunciations of the latent aristoc
 racy in the new plan of government. For about a month the broil was kept up by democratic pamphleteers and or
 ators who made the basements of St.
 Antoine vocal and smoky with their ob- jurgations.
 Then the mobs began to rise in sacred right of insurrection. Several of the Forty eighth Sections took up arms
 against the Conventions; and that great , body was imperiled by the onrushing of a counter revolution. Matters came to a + crisis in the beginning of October. The D Convention had to protect itself by force 2 or perish Swift, swift was the work now necessary to be done. The stified, q but not extinct, Jacobinisln of Paris be- d gan to below; and mobs from the dis
 affected quarters of the city came on tu- !, multuously to assail the Convention t Hall and overthrow the existing govern
 ment
 Never has history shuwI n moro dra-
 hiatic scene than that which now en-
 sued. It was the 5th of October, 1895.
 In the peril of the hour the Convention
 drew to itself the troops that were still
 faithful to the established order. A
 commander was necessary. By nasty
 decree this dangerous honor was con
 ferred on Paul Francois Barras, presi
 dent of the Convention. He was intrust
 ed with the fearful responsibility o
 protecting the body and preserving, Il
 possible, the half -ripe-but ripening-
 fruits of six years of legislative toll anC
 travail He had already shown himself
 capable in two preceding riots Thl
 one, however. was more formidable
 What he most of all needed iu the emer
 gency was a real commander. who ha'
 the courage and skill to extemporize
 with all haste, a division of troops to
 the defense of the government, Barra 70 arose in his place. and nominated as hi
 lieutenant and second in command Ma }" poleon Bonaparte. He had seen tha - officer at his guns before Toulon- h. Napoleon himself was sitting. ot ss scurely, in the gallery when his nam ss was presented for the perilous duty. H Tn accepted; and immediately there wa
 speedy work A young officer, whor .'p Napoleon knew, Joachim Murat D
 name-whom history will presently n
 s..a ss che great cavalry general of th