The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1895-05-11

Porte and the English government were
now at one against the French. Napo-
Icons uns were not heavy enough, and
his forces not sufficiently strong, to cap
turo Acre; and on the goth of May the
siege was raised. The losses of the French
In the Syrian campaign had reached near
ly three thousand men; those of the Turks
and the allies, perhaps five times that
number.
Napoleon was weak in the matter of re-
treat He could not retreat we'll. His
fallings back were likely to degenerate
into panic. This fact was exemplified in
his withdrawal from Palestine. The march
began on the goth of May. The 22nd found
the French at Casarea. Two days after
wards they reached Jaffa. There a pest
house had been established for those who
had the plague. Napoleon ordered. the for
tifications of the town to be blown up; but
what should be lone with the hospital?
Man was never in a sadder dilemma.
Bonaparte well knew that those of his sick
soldiers who should be left behind would
be horribly butchered rs soon as the Turks
shout re-enter Jaffa. To take the infected
with him was only to spread the disease.
He went with his surgeons and aides into
the ~plague-hOuse, v passed among the
dead and dying. He struck his boot tops
will his whip as he went along, saying,
I'm a few hours the Turks will be here.
Let all those who have strength enough
rise and come with u.s." None could arise.
Then it was that, in a hurried consulta-
ton with his physician Desgenettes, Bon
aparte proposed to anticipate with a pOr-
ton of laudanum and "a painless exit the
cruel death which he saw to be inevitable.
For this proposition he has been con-
demned by a sentimental wurld-against
all reason and humanity. His project was
just such as a HUMANE man would propose
for his own brother under the cruel alter
native then presented.
The returning expedition reached Cairo
on the 18th of June. Affairs in Egypt
were already in a distracted condition.
El-Mahdi was crying out like a j prophet in
Bohahireh. The fellahs and Arabs were
rallying to his standard. Murad Bey was
returning with his forces from Upper
Egypt, to form a junction with the NAH
dis rout at the Natron lakes. Meanwhile,
a force of about fifteen thousand, COM
manded by Mustapha Pasha and under
conduct of English ships, arrived at Abou-
kir. A division of French, under General
Marmont, held Alexandria; but that Off
Ger would be unable to keep the city
against the gathering forces of the enemy.
Napoleon hastily marched against the
Turks and English at Aboukir. Here, on
the 25th of July, 1899, with only five
thousand men, he attacked the enemy,
three times as strong in numbers, and
gained a victory so signal as almost to
counterbalance the disaster of the year be-
fore, when Brueys's fleet at the same place
was annihilated. In the negotiation that
followcd between B~onaparte and the Eng
llsh Admiral, the former obtained a copy
Of the French Gazette, of Frankfort, in
forming him Of the condition of affairs in
Europe. For ten months he had received
virtually no news at all from his own
country. The French army had to all in
tents been blockaded in Egypt and Pales-
tine. "Heavens!" the General cried out;
my ~prosentiment has been verified. The
fools have lost Italy All the fruits of our
victories are gone. l must leave EgyptI'
1t was necessary that Napoleon should
be secret as well as expeditions. He in
formed the divan of Cairo that he should
be absent briefly in the Delta. Afterwards
he published a bulletin to the army, say
ing that he was going to France, but
would soon be back again. The command
should remain with General kleber, who
was truly said to have the confidence of
the Goneral-in chief. Berthier and Lannes
were to accompany the commander to
France. Two %frigates, the Muiron and the
Carrere, were quickly prepared, and, on
the 23rd of August, a company of about
five hundred men went on board with Ma
poleon.
By keeping close to the African shore
the vessels were enabled to escape detec-
ton. After twenty-one days the site of
Carthage was passed, and the danger was
over. On the 1st of October the ships were
driven in at Ajaccio. Bourrienne narrates
the comical circumstance that the fretful
and impatient Bonaparte was obliged for
about a week to stand godfather for one
fourth of the recently born children in
Ajaccio; the hero was now popular at the
place of his BIRTH
While detained in his native island Ma
poleon learned of the disastrous battle of
Novi, the death of Joubert, and all the re-
cent misfortunes of France. On leaving
Ajaccio, his ship was followed by two
English vessels, and well nigh taken; but
on the Sth of October, he reached the road
way of Frejus and was safe. The enthu-
siasm of the people broke out spontaneous
ly. They of Frcjus, when warned to keep
off on account of the possible infection of
the French, said, IAN right; ae prefer
the plague to the Austridns!r" Bonaparte
left Immediately for Paris, by the Bour-
bonnais road. At AK and Lyons he was
received with wild acclaim. Nobody stop
ped to inquire whether the Egyptian cam
paign had been wholly successful or not.
The French simply claimed everything.
and shouted.
On the 10th of October Napoleon en-.
tered Paris. Josephine came to greet him,
and the suspicious against her, with
which his mind had been poisoned by
some ~recitals of Junot in Egypt, were soon
dispelled. An interview with the Direct
DRY followed on the next day, and it be-
came evident that the relations between
Napoleon and that body were already
strained. The General informed himself
of everything; and it was not long till he
conceived the project of getting himself
chosen a Director, with the Interior de-
sign of overthrowing the existing order.
JOHN CLARK RIDPATH.
He Had Nerves.
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