The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-01-09
II.

How the Emperor kept Germany quiet while
he was at Warsaw, In 1907, will appear from an
order addressed to Gen. Lagrange, Governor Of
Cassel: 81 send you details Of the offences com.
mittcd in tho country of Hessc, and which you
do not mention In your letters to me. They tell
me nothing. And yet you should have known
these facts. and you should have given an ac-
count of them. The Inhabitants of Hersfcld mp.
pear to DO guilty. You will send q flying
column Of 1000 men. and have the town
thoroughly sacked, to punish the insult
offered to the sixty men of my troops.
You must proclaim an order that all
arms arc to DO given up. and declare that any
man found with arms shall be punished with
death. The town of Wacht is guilty. Either 1t
will give up the four principal authors of the
revolt or 1t must be burnt. At EschweRe,
which was the headquarters Of the riotous
gatherings. the guilty persons must be given up;
otherwise the town will be burnt. And also.
no matter how, the Captain who was the chief
leader must be arrested and shot"
In q letter written in April. 1907, to Fouche,
Minister Of Police. occurs a reference to Nine.
dc Stael. couched in language SO coarse that it
cannot BIO printed without at least one excelsior:
Among the thousand and one things that come
into my hands with regard to Nine. de Stael.
this letter will show you what a good French
woman she is. II it had been Prince Louis, our
furious enemy and the author Of the loss of his
monarchy, she would have spared no pains to
see him. I AM resolved she shall never leave
Geneva. Let her consort, II she chooses, with
the friends Of Prince Louis! Paying court, one
day. to the croatia patriot. a Democrat. the
nexti Ones Indignation boils over at the sight
OF all the shapes assumed by this 9 =. 81
fright into the bargain! l do not toll you of
the plans already made by this ridiculous set.
in case, by some good luck. I had been killed.
for a Police Minister ought to know all that.
Everything I hear Of that worthless woman
shows l should leave her in her Coppet, with
her Genovans and her house of Ncckcr."
The humiliation to which the Prussian mon
archy was subjected after the battle Of Jena Is
brought out clearly in n bloodthirsty letter ad-
dressed In September. 1907. by Napoleon. 10
the French Minister for Foreign Affairs. 1t
seems that two actors who had appeared on
the K6nigsberg stage, dressed as French Of
fcers. had been Kissed by the German officers
present: Herewith you will find a letter from
NJ. Daru. Reply that l have been shocked by
tho incident to winch his letter refers; that I
order him to present a note demanding exem-
plarr Justice on the officers who committed
the insult; that I shall refuse all evacuation
until tho two rlngleaders have been shot; and
that, il the King OF Prussia proposes to
offer me such insults. no need not take
tho trouble OF going to Berlin. for he
will not stay there long. You, on your
part, will send for tho two Prussian on
voys who arc In Paris: you will make them
aware of all the indignation I feel at this out
rage on the part OF tho Prussians, with whose
impertinonce ] ain well acquainted; you will
say that I demand that the two rinRleaders
shall be shot: that this affair Is no slight matter;
that 1t is Of much more Importance to me than
the getting In OF the taxes; that the Kings
weakness has already caused the war which has
Just come to an end. and that. II q set of black
guards. who are as cowardly on the battlefield
as thoy arc arrogant behind the scenes of the
theatre, go on behaving themselves after this
fashion. the Prussian monarchy will have
a short lease of life." In the same year
lsO7 an American Consul in Italy discoy-
cred that a representative of the United
States had no rights that the Emperor deemed
himself bound to respect. We extract a passage
bearing on this subject from n letter to Fouche,
Minister of Police: "Give orders to have Mr..
Kuhn. the American consul at Genoa, put under
arrest, for wearing a Cross Of Malta. given him
by the English, and as being an English agent.
His papers will be seized and an abstract of
them made. and he will DO kept In secret con-
inement until you have made your report to
me. This man, having received a foreign dcco.
ration, ceases to be an American. ] am sorry,
by the way. you should have communicated
with the Ambassador OF the United States. Ny
police knows no ambassadors. i am master In
my own house. II I suspect a man, /
have him arrested. / would even have
tho Ambassador Of Austria arrested, II
he was hatohing anything against the State"