The record-union., 1897-08-08

| to me, so that the justice which | will
| mete out to them may serve as pub
| lie example.
! The result is that | shall no longer
want an ambassador from Holland.
Admiral Nerhuell, who is in Paris, has
| received orders to leave in twenty four
| hours. / can no longer be satisfied
/ with phrases and protestations It is
| time l should know whether you wish
disaster to Holland. and intend by
| your fOllies to cause the ruin of that
| country. I do not. wish you to send
Minister to Austria. l do not wish
you to send back the French who are
in Your service. / will no longer have
an ambassador in Holland. The Secre-
| tary Of Legation who remains there
as charge dAffaires will communicate
| to you my intentions. I no longer pur-
| pose to have an ambassador exposed
| to such insults. l will only keep a
Charge d Affaires. AS it was the mas
| ter of the ambassador of Russia who
put you on the throne, you do we'll to
| follow the advice of the latter Write
me no more of your customary phrases.
For three years you have been repeat
| ing them, and every instant proves
their falsity.
"P. S.-This is the last letter I will
ever write to you in my life
JOSEPH BONAPARTE.
Joseph BOnaparte, who was success
sively King of Naples and King of
! Spain, was the favorite brother of Ma
poleon. To him the great Emperor's S
| letters show CLEANS of actual affection.
Here is one dated Bordeaux, July 31st,
| 1908:
The style of your letter of the 24th
does not please me at all. 1t is not a
question of dying, but fighting, and of
being victorious. You are both, and
you Will be both. / shall find in Spain
the columns of Hercules, but not the
limits of my power. Since l have ar
rived there what l find most dastardly
are these Spanish guerillas. But troops
and help of all sorts are on their way
to you. You have a third more power
| than you actually need, if it is directed
with proper precision With the excep-
tion of Money and his dishonorable re-
treat from San Clemente to Ocana, and
his cOWardly councils of war, | am well
content with my troops. SaVary is a
man of heat and heart, who has erred
in some of his movements, because he
has not the experience of being COM
mander-in-ch Nevertheless, he is
stronger than any who surround you at
present. Caulaincourt has done we'll ct
Cuenca. The city has been pillaged--
that is the right of war, since it was
taken in arms.
Russia has recognized you; the Letter
hoe han M Il
my arrival in Paris I shall learn that
Austria has done the same
Your position is painful as King,
but brilliant as General. There is only
one thing to fear: take care not to lose
the esprit de corps of the army or sac
rifice it to the Spaniards. There is no
need to mince matters with brigands
who assassinate my wounded and com
NIT all sorts of horrors 1t is only nat
ural to treat them as they have been
treated. | have said so before, and
now repeat it. Since the great victory
of the Medina del Rio Seco, which so
promptly decided the affairs of Spain,
Marshal Bessieres is the absolute mas
ter of the north
Have no care as to the issue of all
this. know we'll your position. Moth
ing that has come to my ears has as
tonshed me. Were it not for this
would I have sent 10000 men into
Spain, raise two conscriptions and ex
pended eighty millions of francs? I
would rather have lost a battle than
read the proces-verbal of Money"
COMMANDS TO MARIE LOUISE.
From Colditz on May 6, 1913, just
after the great victory of Luton, Ma
poleon dispatches terse and dictato-
rial command to his Empress, Marie
Louise, then the Queen Regent of
Paris.
The command runs as follows: Write
the accompanying letter to the Minis
ter of Religious Worship" The accom-
panying letter ran as follows:
ITO the Minister of the Religious Wor-
ship:
Il send you circular which I wish
you to address to the bishops Be so
good as to let it reach them without
delay"
The circular itself which was framed
in the name of poor Marie Louise. is a
choice specimen of Machiavellian hy-
pocrisy, carried to the very verge of
OIdSpIenly.
THE victory won at Lutzen by the
Emperor and King, our very dear con-
sort and sovereign these are the words
that are put into the mouth of the wo-
man who always loathed him, and who
cared as little for God as he did him
self can only be considered as a spe-
cial mark of divine protection We de-
sire that on receipt of this you cause
a TIE Deum to be chanted and thanks
to be addressed to the God of Armies,
and that you add thereto such prayers
IS you may think best adapted to bring
down the divine protection upon our
arms, especially for the preservation
of the sacred person of the Emperor,
whom God preserve from all danger.
His preservation is as necessary to the
welfare of Europe and the Empire as
to that of religion which he has raised
and restored, and which he has been
called to reaffirm. He is it's sincerest
and truest protector"
Surely Offenbach never conceived of
anything more exquisitely dron. The
spectacle of Marie Louise, who in the
eyes Of the Catholic Church was mere
ly the legalized concubine of Napoleon
Che in his turn being looked upon as
probably the Biblical anti Christi. The
spectacle of this woman writing at the
dictation of this man a request that
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