The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1897-07-02
NAP0LEON'S ANGRY MOODS
REVE4LED IN LETTERS WHICH
HAVE LONG BEEN SUPPRESSED,
Hostility to Madame de StaeI-Referred to
the Pope as a Raving MISUNDERSTANDING
Epistles to His Brother, Prince Jerome
The Emperor's Method of Extorting a
COnfessiOn-Other Letters.

The Emperor's Method of Extorting a
COnfession-Othsr Letters.
Paris, July I'M. Leon Lecestre, cu-
rator of the French archives, will issue
during the present week the first vol
ume of three hundred letters which
were suppressed by the editors of the
correspondence of Napoleon I, issued in
1869, as not calculated to increase the
glory Of the great French emperor.
The volume includes some heated
family letters and some vigorously
worded epistles to Fouche and Dubois.
the ministers Of police and war. al
letter to Marshal Coult in 1904 shows
that Napoleon did not hesitate to adopt
any means Of obtaining confessions.
He orders Soult to arrest fisherman
suspected Of communicating With the
British. adding: IF he refuses to speak
you must squeeze his thumbs in a MUS
ket lock-"
Napoleon's list Of persons to be ar
rested was endless and his abuse Of
Madame de Stael was Nuceasing.
Learning In 1907, through Marshal
Victor, that Prince Augustus OF Prus-
sia was intriguing against him In Ber-
lin Napoleon writes: II am not as
tonished, because he has q dull mind
and has spent his time courting Mad
anne de Stael at Coppet (Switxerland),
and. Of course, could only pick UP bad
habits with her. Send word to him that
at the first michievous remark he utters
you will lock him UP In his castle and
send Madame de Stael to console him.
There are no men SO cringing as These
princes Of Prussia"
Writing to Tallyrand in 1908 that a
prince Of the former reigning family Of
Spain was about to arrive at valencay,
Napoleon added: You may send for
Madame Tallyrand and four or fve per-
sons. If the prince Of Asturias should
form an attachment for pretty per-
son, 1t will be no drawback. as 1t would
supply another means OF watching
him.
Another letter from Napoleon I'd
TallyraEd reads: your mission Is
honorable enough, to receive three IL
lustrious personages and amuse' them
and is quite in keeping with your char
acter."
When Napoleon received the news,
June II, 1909, that the pope had ex-
communicated him. he wrote: II spare
the pope no longer. He is raving
madman and must be locked up
Some scolding letters to his brother,
Prince Jerome, are interesting. When
Jerome was outwitted by the Austrian
General Kienmayer he still boasted OF
his stategic plans, in an inflated order
of the day This caused Napoleon to
write as follows: II have seen your
order Of the day, which makes you the
laughing stock of Austria. Germany
and France. Haven't you a friend
about to tell you a few plain truths?
You king and q brother Of the em-
peror These are ridiculous times. In
time of war you must be a soldier, and
nothing but soldier. You must have
no minister, no diplomatic corps. no
state. You must camp with the van-
guard, be day and night on horseback
and march in the van to pick up news;
or remain In one's harem. You make
war like starap (petty autocrat). Is
1t from me. good God, that you learn
that? I. who. with an army Of 100000
men, kept at the head OF my skirmish-
ers?
"The people are provoked with you.
Kienmayer. with 1900 men has
laughed at you and your ridiculous pre-
tentions and has slipped away from
you and has fallen upon Junot. You
have lot Of pretensions, some little
mind and a few good qualities: but
these are marred by your faulty and
your extreme presumption. You have
no knowledge Of the fitness Of things.
Leave Off being ridiculous, send your
displomatic corps back to Cassel, have
no baggage, and wage war like a young
soldier wishing to earn glory and repu-
tation. Try to deserve the rank you
have reached and the esteem Of France
and Europe who are watching you, and.
by God, do right and speak in seennly