Waterbury evening Democrat., 1895-05-18

mitted to the people. A p1ebiscite was sent forth, and the French nation was asked to pass judgment on its favorito. Napoleon, sera-t-il Consul a Vie?" Such was the inscription prepared and put up over all the voting places in France. Napoleon, shall he be Consul for Life:''
 An extraordinary spectacle was wit messed. On the 4th ot August, lS02, the election was held. The voters in Franco numbered 3,517, 259; and of these 5, 36S, lS5 voted in the affirmative, leaT- ing only 2O9,074 in the negative! It was perhaps the most overwhelming popular decree ever registered by peo- pie True, tho soldiers voted-voted for their idol. True, the clientele of tine Consulate vOted-vOted for the master. True, the Revolution voted-voted for its offspring. True, the New Order voted voted for its hope. But nevertheless. the people voted-voted for their Man! Napoleon might well mutter, "Whose are the votes opposed to me? Those of ideologists, Jacobins and peculators un- der the DireCtory!' What he said was true!
 But not all, in the meantime, had been well with the Republic-and with him. Fortune in some things had gone against the French. The coveted occupa- ton of Egypt had tottered and fallen. General MonOu, who succeeded to the command of the army in that country after the assassination of Kleber, had behaved wiGh singular fatuity. Failing to perceive that eccentricity is not gen ] jus, he had turned Mohammedan, and i taken the name of Abdallah Bey. He sank into imactiOn at Alexandria; aud when, in March of 1901, Admiral Keith and Sir Ralph Abercromby landed at AbOukir and came against him, he was defeated ill battle, and the prospects of the French ill Egypt were ruined.
 Napoleon heard of the Egyptian dis astcr with anger and modification. His chasrin was little relieved by the death of Abcrcromly, who was fatally wound ed in the battle of Alexandria, or by the foolish assurances of Menou that all was going well. It became necessary for the French colony to evacuate Egypt, and this was dono on the 3oth of August, 1901.
 The year 1909 has been cited as the most glorious ill French history. It was certainly tho most fertile in promise. Why should not the treaty of Amicns become the happy date of a new era for mankind? Franco was regenerated. England had gold and maritime glory. Italy had emancipation. Germany had cxpericncc-if nothing better. Russia had her pacific Alexander l., her Suwar- off, and her new provinces of Georgia.
 Tho fatal thing in the treaty of Amicns was that 1t promi>cd-promised, and did not rerform. There were things | to bo done; and these were not done. Prctcrnatural suspicion seized on the cabinets of all Europe. Note tho circum- stances: England in the preceding war | had emanCipatcd the negroes of Hayti | TOuSSaint iOuVCrture, leader of the na- | tiveS, had been made cOmmander-i in = { chief by the French, in 1797. Independ- cnCe was reached under the patronage of France; but when Bonaparte became 1 First Consul. au act was passed in the | French Council for tho restoration of slavery i'll the island; and an army under General Lpclerc, brother -in-law of Bona partc, was mt tO Samaua to enforce the | decree. TOuS>aint was put down, treach- crously sc!Z.d and taken to France, where he presently died in prison. The 1 civil Cuntii.t continued ill Hayti; the yellow f. Yer broke out, and an English l fleet appeared off the coast. Notwith- standing the I,CHc, of Amiens, here was IcGr
 In the meantime, Sebastiani, Napo- Icons ageut i'll the East, came ba k tc Paris, and published in The Mon!. 1T a | report ill which thero was a hint of the purpose of France to rtOcCupy Egypt
 Moreover. the First Consul proceeded tc divide Piedmont into Departments, after tho French mannvr-as though the country were altogether French. To the complaints uf Lord Whitworth, the English ambassador, he simply answer ed, "Thosp things are only bagatelles. '' England hercupon-the treaty of Amicns to the contrary notwithstanding -rcfusc,l to give back Malta to the Knights of St. John. This was fragrant. | She had agreed to do so; and Napoleon insisted that sine must. Moreover, the Capo of Good Hope, the ''Caravansary of the Indies. was not surrendered. It became apparent that England would not keep her compact; and this siGnified the imminent renewal of War Bona parto himself fOresaw the coming storm. Ill his caScrncss to prepare for it-Ees- ing the exposures of the French empire in North -AmCriCa-he made haste to sell to the United States for 60, ooo, eco fran,,S the vast domain from the Missis s;rVi tn tho Pacific Pitt got Malta. Napoleon an excuse, and Jeffersen Lou | iSaHa, JOHN CLArK RIDrATH.