The sun., 1896-07-05

| lnr supper first-a couple OF Bottles Of iced
| Champagne, after a couple of quarts of Small
eer.whoh She calls, you know, Swie Of Beer"
After Paget went to Vienna, In September,
1901. we begin to hear good deal about Napo-
| leon In his letters Thus, under date OF Sept.
IA. 1901. we read: "Bonaparte livos In q con-
slant state Of fear and apprehension for his life,
which fears are heightened by Fouche, who has
attained and maintains his influence over him
by the occasional discovery OF pretended plots
and conspiracies against him. Sieyes has been
heard to say that the present Government tho
| Consulate) will not last the winter. This have
| heard from more than one authority since my
arrival here. and this Fouche / have also
| heard Is likely man once moro to revo-
lutionize France. AS far as l could Judge
! from tho conversations l allowed myself
| to have with different people whom
| chance threw in my way upon tho
road. Bonnparte Is generally liked-that Is. the
people live In dread of change of Government.
because they think that 1t cannot be brought
| about but by revolutionary means All the
| French princes. except the Prince de Conde,
are more or less ill-thouRht OF. Monsieur less so.
| perhaps. than the rest. peace with England
Is the universal wish lin France; that which
has taken place on the Continent is talked OF
with comparative indifference Tho churches
| I'm France are by no means generally frequent
ed. and the reason assigned to me for this was
that. since the right acquired by the priesthood
to marry, the people averse to hearing
| the Scriptures administered to them by persons
who. by such an act, have rendered themselves
unworthy Of the once; but disregard for relg-
ious ceremony has become . habit"
In q despatch to Lord Hawkesbury. dated
Vienna. March 23. 1904. Paget announces tho
Seizure of the Due d Enghien on March S. and
continues: 1T is too atrocious to require any
comment from me. But must wait to sec
how this direct violation of territory and In
fraction of the law OF nations and of every
other hitherto except BY that nationl respected
barrier between civilization and barbarsm. will
| be borne by the two imperial courts. do not
| like to throw out anything like false hopes,
| otherwise might be tempted to say that tho
| Court Of Petersburg, as far as have ground
| for Judging. is not. at this moment quite in q
| humor to brook the above insult. With respect
| to that o: Vienna, will only observe with tho
| most anx ious prayer that may soon be enabled
to say better things OF it, that on Sunday Inst
| the Emperor paid congrntulatory compi-
ment to the French Ambassador upon a plot
against the First Consurs life having been dis
| covered and frustrated" On April g Paget
wrote to the same correspondent: ION the day
after the accounts had beer received here OF tho
| irrupton OF the French into Germany and of the
| seizure OF the Due d'Enghien. ! waited upon the
Nicc-Chancellor, and having ade few strong,
| predatory remarks upon tho nature of tho
events which had taken place all of which
were most perfectly thrown away. l proceeded
| TO inform him that, from the protection which
| his Majesty had constantly afforded TO the
| princes OF the unfortunate House OF Bourbon.
| had no hesitation in assuring him for the En-
peror's information that tho King would learn
| with pleasure any steps that his imperial Maj
esty might, in his wisdom, be disposed to tnko
for the release OF that unhappy Prince. There
| is nothing in Count Coblentzs answer to this
communication at all worth recording. 1t was
at once evident that he. at least, would think IL
prudent not to interfere in the business" On
the next day further reference was
made to the d'Enghien affair. II was
upon tho point Of despatchinG Sparrow last
night when l heard that accounts had been
received here OF the Due d'Enghieu's condem-
nation. ] was with the Vice Chancellor this
morning. who seemed not 10 be acquainted with
the execution OF that unfortunate and illus
trous person. From Count Cobentzrs Ian
guage. l cannot help thinking that he begins to
consider a continental war not impossible per-
haps not i'm probable" Six days later he recurs to
the same topic: Tho situation OF affairs upon
the Continent becomes every day more critical
some new act OF encroachment and infamy on
the part OF the French Government, and every
day exhibits the incapacity, the weakness. and,
] fear. In many instances the treachery OF those
men whom sovercigns have had the mpru-
dence to place and have the blindness to main
tain In the direction OF their Government. In
tho three weeks since l returned to Vienna I
have seon treaties broken. territories violated
tho rights of nations trampled upon. murder
,t.s - h,,t H.
tho slightest indication Of any disposition
on .he part OF the Emperor's ministers to check
the progress OF this monstrous hostility much
less to avenge the insults which have been daily
and directly levellod At the imperial Crown"
At last, and largely owing TO the work done BIZ
Paget Mt Vienna, Austria consented to toin
Russia and Great Britain in tho coalition
against France, which was to ond in catastro-
phe. On Nov. 10, 1905. Just a fortnight before
the battle of Austerlitz, Paget writes from
olmntz to Lord Mulgrave as follows; "wo arc
now. perhaps, upon the eve OF a decisive battle
] do not feel sanGuine. II tho battle taxes place
between this place and Prosnitz. tho country ia
open and fiat, and we have little or no cavalry.
whereas the French have not less than from
sixteen to twenty thousand. IL is said that both
tho Emperors are To take the neld, that they are
determined upon II, In spite OF the counsels and
remonstrances of all around them. As for
tho Emperor or Germany. he will have with
him Prince John Lichtenstein, Prince Charles
schwArtzberg, and Gen. Woyrothen, all good
and experienced officers. But for the other [ths
Gear, Alexander IL when reflect that he is TO
be guided by Kutusow and Baschovden and
MAncertius. and God knows who, own trem-
BILE. Nobody knows exactly where tho French
are, or In what force. II, as report says they
are already In tho neigh borhoOd OF WischAu
(2I1 posts from hence on the Brnnn roAd), they
will probably again attack tho Russians before
hnx Ia Ina ~.