The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-09-01
EMPEROR toF ELBA.

How Napoleon. Conducted Himself Dur
M ii ~ E isss. ing Exile. IL Z; 1X 1ss Re ]
Eliza was an island divided against it
SELF there being both imperialists and
royalists among the inhabitants, and Il
considerable party which desired indie
pendence. BY representing that Napoleon
had brought with him fabulous sums the
Austrian and English commissioners
easily won the Elbans TO Il fervor of 10y
atty for their new emperor. Before night
fall of the 18th the court was established,
and the new administration began its
labors. Having mastered the resources
and needs of his pigmy realm, the E;n-
peror began to deploy all his powers,
mending the highways, fortifying The
strategic points, and creating about the
nucleus OF four hundred guards which
We're sent from Fontainebleau 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
bulwarks of Ethan prosperity, began ut
once to increase their output, and taxa
ton was regulated with scrupulous
nicely. & By that supereminent virtue of
the French burgher, good management,
the island was made almost independent
of the remnants of the Tuilleries treasure
(about five million francs)which Napoleon
had brought from France. The same
powers which had swayed IL world oper-
ated with equal success in II sphere al
most microscopic by comparison.
Before long the Princess Borghesc, sep
arated soon after her marriage from her
second husband and banished since 1910
from. Paris for impertinent conduct to
the empress, came, according to promise,
n hp bar broth M nipr, and
anne Mere, though distant in prosperity,
came likewise TO soothe her son in adver-
sity. The intercepted letters of the for
mer prove her to have been at least as
loose in her life mt Elba as ever before,
but they DO not afford sufficient basis
for the scandals concerning her relations
with Napoleon which were founded upon
them, and industriously circulated Mt
the court of Louis NVIII The shameful
charge has, no adequate foundation of
any sort. NJ , ~. :tt-5;,s.,:,al
Napoeon's economies were rendered
not merely eXpedient, but imperative, by
the fact that,,none of the moneys from
France were forthcoming which had been
promised in his treaty with the powers.
After Il short stay Roller frankly stated
that in his opinion they would never be
paid, and departed. The island swarmed
with Bourbon spies, and the only CON
versation in which Napoleon could in
dulge himself unguardedly was with Sir
Neil Campbell, the English representa-
tive, or with the Titled English gentle
men who gratified their curiosity by WIS.,
iting him. During the summer heats
when the court was encanmped on the
heights at Marcana for refreshments.
there appeared mysterious lady with
her child. Both were we'll received and
kindly taI 1,,t a. Il
selves entirely from the public gaze. Com
mon rumor said it was the empress; but
this was not true; it was the Countess
Walewska, with the. son she had borne to
her host, whom she still adored They
remained but few days, and departed
as mysteriously rs they had come.
Base females thronged the precincts of
the imperial residence, openly struggling
for Napoeon's favor as they had so far
never dared to do; success too frequently
attended their efforts. But the one
woman who should have been at his side
was absent. 1t is certain that she made
an honest effort to come, and apartments
were prepared for her reception in the
little palace at Porto Ferrajo Her faith
er, however, thwarted her at every turn.
and finally she was IA virtual prisoner at
Schonbrunn. So manifest was her re-
straint that her grandmother, Caroline
queen of the Two Sicilies, cried out in
Indignation, IF | were in the place at
Maria Louisa, | would tie the sheets of
my bed to the window frame and flee -
Committed to the charge of the eloquent
and subtle Neipperg, favorite chamber
lain whom she had first seen at Dresden.
he piled her with such insidious wiles
that at last her slender moral fiber was
entirely broken down and she fell n vic
tim to his charms. AS late rs August
Napoleon received impassioned letters
from her; then she grew formal and cold;
at last, under Metternich's urgency, she
ceased TO write at all. Her French at
tendant, Meneval, managed to convey the
whole sad story to her husband, but the
emperor was incredulous, and hoped
against hope until December. Then only
he ceased from his incessant and urgent
appeals. of Napoleon; The Exile
and His Return" by Prof w. NJ Sloane,
in. the September Century.
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