Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1896-09-03
EMPEROR OF ELBA.
How Napoleon Conducted Himself
During Exile.

During Exile.
The Powers Which Swayed the Larger
world shown to Good Advantage In Hrs
Pigmy Kingdom-His Letters to Marie
/, Louise.
William NJ. sloane in September Century.
Eiba was an island divided against it
self, there being both imperialists and
royalists among its inhabitants, and a
considerable party which desired indepen-
dence. BY representing that Napoleon
had brought with him fabulous sums the
Austrian and English commissioners
easily won the Elbans to fervor of
loyalty for their new Emperor. Before
nightfall of the 18th the court was estab-
lished, and the new administration began
its labors. Having mastered the re-
sources and needs of his pigmy realm. the
Emperor began to employ all his powers,
mending the highways. terrifying the
strategic points, and creating about the
nucleus of four hundred guards which
We're sent from Fontainbleau an efficient
little army of sixteen hundred men. His
expenses were regulated to the minutest
detail both at home and abroad; the salt
works and iron mines, which were the buI-
warks of Ethan prosperity, began at once
to increase their output, and taxation was
regulated with scrupulous nicely. BY that
supereminent virtue of the French burg
her, good management, the island was
made almost independent of the Tuileries
| treasure fabout five million francsD which
4 Napoleon had brought from France. The
same powers which had swayed a world
operated with equal success in sphere
almost microscopic by comparison.
| Before long the Princess Borghese,
separated soon after her marriage from
her second husband, and hanishcd since
1910 from Paris for impairment conduct
to the Empress, came, according to prom
4 Use, to he her brothers companion, and
ltAiadame Mere, though distant in prosper.
'ity, came likewise to soothe her son in
adversely. The intercepted letters of the
former prove her to have been at least as
i loose in her life at Elba as ever before
but they do not afford a sufficient basis
for the scandals concerning her relations
| with Napoleon which were founded upon
them, and industriously circulated at the
court of Louis XVIII. The shameful
i charge has no adequate foundation of any
sort.
4 Napoleon's economics were rendered moi
merely eNpedient but imperative, by tn,
| fact that none of the moneys from Franc,
were Forthcoming which had been prom
ised in his treaty with the powers. Aftel
4 a short stay Roller frankly stated that il
his opinion they would never be paid, anC
4 departed. The island swarlned will
Bourbon spies, and the only conversation
in which Napoleon could indulge himsel
ungtIardedly was with Sir Neil Campbell
ii the English representative, or with tn
II titled English gentlemen who gratiiie,
their curiosity by visiting him. Durin,
the summer heats when the court was EN-
camped on the heights at Marciana for re
treatment, there appeared a mysteriOu
, lady with her child. Both We're well re
ceived and kindly treated, but they with
! drew themselves entirely from the puhli
gaze. Common rumor said it was tn
! Empress; but this was not true; it wa
, the Countess Walewska, with the son sh
, had borne to her host, whom she still
!, adored. They remained but few days
n and departed as mysteriously as they ha
come.
y Base females thronged the precincts o
|. the imperial residence, openly struggliu
for Napoleon's favor as they had so fla
3 never dared to do; success too freauentl
. attended their efforts. But the one We
man who should have been at his sid
. was absent. 1t is certain that she mad
, an honest effort to come, and apartment
n We're prepared for her reception in th
: little palace at Porto Rerrajo. Her fatheI
4 however, thwarted her at every turn, an
finally she was virtual prisoner d
i Schonbrunn. So manifest was the r,
$ straint that her grandmother, Carolin.
il Queen of the Two Sicilies, cried out i
r Indignation, IF / were in the place q
t Maria Louisa, ! would tie the sheets q
p my bed to the window frame and flee.
d Committed to the charge of the elegar
Q and subtle Neipperg, Il fayorite chambe
a lain whom she had first seen at Dresden
v he piled her with such insidions wiles tn;
il mt last her slender moral fiber was entirel
l. broken down and she fell victim to HI
" charms. As late as August Napoleon n
q ceiyed impassi0ned letters from her: the
It she grew formal and cold; at last, undo
e Metternich's urgency, she ceased to writ
d at all. Her French attendant, Meneya
e managed to convey the whole sad stor
il to her husband, but the Emperor was i,
" credulous, and hoped against hope unit
r. December. Then only he ceased from h
incessant and urgent appeals,