Waterbury evening Democrat., 1895-04-04

NAPOLEON BY APPIAHL
 period of fifteen months His ocCupa- tiuns at that place were much like th,,-c at ValcnCo and Ajaccio. He performed his military duties in q deeulhory way. bus with moro oxnotitudc than the French orle of military ethics at that timo required. But military duty de manded Only fraction of his time: tho rest was given to that intense but frag- mentary study by which his mind was trained and supplied with wide rango of information.
 Tho winter of l1SS-S9 Was passed hy Bonaparto ill his quarters at Auxonne. As yet, Lieutenant Bon.partc had never as q soldier draSn Muod. or sotn it drawn by others Ills reStl,sSness now boro him rapidly On tu action. His pas sion for doing somtdhing and for "fol- lowing bis destiny y'-a fiction which he wns always dwelling upon-led him to commit himself (ambiguouslyl to the Corsican patriots His HdrOitneSS was such, however, that he kept ever cord to his purposes whereby he might re- cover himself for France. In fact, he knew not what thing he would be called to do, or in what cause his sword should first bu actually unsheathCd His nature | was always to avail himself of tho first contingency Napoleon iS doubtless such was his slc,plrSs viGilancc-tho only great man uf history who never lost an opportunity.
 Bonapart" Was with his regiment, >u- called "uf Ir,n. at Aux0nnc, W hen the great Revolution ill Franc" began. Within month from the tritling event | at Scurre, the Statcs-GCneral assembled 1 at Versailles. There, on the 9th of May. 11S9, the most remarkable political body of modern times went into session. on the condition of France and man. | kind There was procession of great men; gathering to their seats ill the l Hall of Menus; n seating of six hundred representatives of the people: looking down from the gallery of the young | Baroness de Stael Holstein on the heads | of RiQuetu de Mirabeau. the hlloSophlc | Volney, the lean Jean Paul Marat. the l big young Danton of Arcis-s ur-Aube. l the 1.-the Camille. the Sea green Robe l Epierrs. and the rest.
 It was the beginning of the end of muoh-the opening of a small crevaSse l in the great dyke whereby feudal civ ilization had walled in the destinies of | mankind for centuries. Outside that an cient wall lay the roaring ocean. soon to rush in wave on wave, till the deluge, fiecked with blood. should riso to the pinnacles of all palaces, and splash the dones of all cathedrals.
 The effects of the extraordinary move ment thus begun for the reform of the French nation were strikingly diverse in the different parts of the kingdom. Franco was as yet homogeneous in noth- ing. The towns of the South, under the loyal sentiments of ths old Provencal race, received the news Il one spirit, and the towns of the North i'll another.
 On men themselves the news fell from week to week with varying effects ac- cording to their personal characters and prejudice of race. In general, they who had imbibed tho principles of the new French philosophy either went after the Revolution or ran before 1t waving a flag Such mind was Bunaparte's. No doubt he was born reyolutioniss- provided always he could himself con- trol the revolution. His nature was fit ted in every part for that sta;o of fruit ful anarchy which tends again to order. He was essentially man for tho storm and hurricane, but suited best the after stages of the tempest,
 Would not this revolutionary fire in France leap the sea and kindle itself in Corsica? Does not occasion now offer for the recovery of CorsiCan independence? Does not the path of destiny open by way of Ajaccio rather than ty way of Paris? Or if the cause indeed lies by way of Paris, does it not first extend through the native island? The patriot Paoli resides in English exile; perhaps ho may return to Corsica, and we aS his lieutenant in chief may yet lead tho pa. triots to independence and glory. To sum up all, Napoleon at this stage was whirlod along by tke coming storm; but he cautiously kept his bearings, became practical rather than theoretical, and impatiently awaited the opportunity tc become great
 Lieutenant Bonaparte remained with his regiment at Auxonne until the 18th of September, 1790. The Revolution had now been in progress year and foul months. The movement had become more and moro portentous at every step. The ruined Bastile was already hate ful, but glorious, reminiscenco. At thi: time Corsica was represented ill the Ma tional Assembly by two moderate pa triots, named Salicetti and Colona Int royal delegate from the island was that Buttafuoco whom Choiseul had used il establishing the French protectorate 1T Corsica.
 The people of tho island wero divided into several hostile factions. First O all, there was a royal faction, very few in number. composed of tho petty Cor sican nUblos and the higher ecolesiastics These virtually eonstitstsd the inEulaI .~-