Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1904-06-11

| Hlantly agltated the posSessOr OF an un.
limited power. The great searcher into
the state, 1 could complain, eensuro and
| condemn Tor the whole OF France. Such
then was this vast and terrific machine
| called the general police OF the empire. "
And Napoleons minister OF police did
not overrate his genius and power
Ways Bourrienne, Napoleon's first Sec
| retary
THE machinery he set I'm motion was
so calculated that the police was rather
| the police OF FOuche than that VI the
minister Of the general public"
Writing of one OF the famous cou-
spiracles against Napoleon, Bourrlenne
says:
II have never had any doubt in my
own mind as TO the secret support given
to the conspirators by Touches police"
Meneyal who served Napoleon as
secretary from 1902 to 1874, says
Two men, or, rather. two evil genli,
had attached themselves to NapOeon's
fortunes. Everybody will know that /
am referring to Fouche and Talley-
rand. Fouche needed intrigue as he
needed air TO breathe.
IT might have been said that Fouche
held Napoleon under the effects Of a
charm, for which the best reasons for
dismissing him the emperor still hest
tated One day, at st. Cloud. having.
according to very usual custom OF
his, come and seated himself ON a cor
ner of my writing table. Napoleon said
TO me, after some words OF no impor-
lance and with brusque change OF
subject, Meneyal, | have mind TO
dismiss Fouche. | could not prevent
myself from exclaming Sire, | ex-
pected this and | am only surprised at
a tss q l., "a
sent him away before. He rose slowly
without answering me, took one or two
turns in the study with his hands be-
hind his back and then occupied him
self with some other matter
DR.. O'Meara reports a remark Of Ma
poleons at St. Helena I'm which he at
tempted 10 justify hiss relations with
Fouche. Said he.
"As a man who had been a Terrorist
and a chief of Jacobins ! employed
him as an instrument to discover and
get rid Of the Jacobins, Septembrzers
and others of his old friends. BY
means of him | was enabled to send
into Punishment 10 the Isle of France
200 of his old associates, Septembrizers,
who disturbed the tranquility Of
France. He betrayed and sacrificed
his old comrades"
dor under Napoeon's consulate, says,
"Fouche was one Of Napoleons great
mistakes and Prince Metternich the
Austrian minister grouping Fouche and
Talleyrand another notorious plotter in
Napoleons cabinet, says that the pair
never had any communications with
one another except when they were
Matching some plot against the estab-
lished order of things and CHANGED to
meet"
At last Napoleon saw his influence
undermined by the ruling spirits in
Paris while he was absent on the bat
tleheld and vacated the throne of
France, Among his opponents Fouche
was conspicuous,and Napoleon declared
at that time;
Il ought to have him hanged. / leave
that for the Bourbons TO dc"
But the Bourbons didn't hang Fouche
although he had voted to send their
king, Louis XVI, to the scaffold, n fact
he once boosted OF TO Napoleon, saying,
THAT is the first service had the hap
piness of rendering your majesty"
The new Bourbon king. Louis XVIII,
made use of Fouche, but the escape Of
Napoleon from Elba and his triumphal
return to Paris placed his former ad-
hercnt under suspicion, and the kings
agents came to Touches house to arrest
him. Slipping out the back door, he
made his way to the house of Queen
Hortense, Napoleoh's stepdaughter and
ooolly let the Bonapartists assume that
he was ready to serve their cause
afresh. How he did 80 Is revealed in
his own confessions
II wished to have nothing further 10
do with Napoleon. yet If he should be
victorioua / qhould he COmDplled 10
submit TO HIS yoke. On the other hand,
| had engagements with Louis XVIII
not that | was inclined to his restora-
ton, but prudence required that |
should procure for myself beforehand
something IN the shape Of a guarantee
MY agents. moreover, 10 NJ, de Meter
Mich, the Austrian minister, and Lord
Wellington had promised mountains
and maryels. The generalissimo. at
least. expected that should divulge to
him the plan OF the campaign
AS ostenslble supporter of Napoleon
he obtained n copy OF his plan for the
Waterloo campaign and dispatched II
by a woman confederate TO yelling
toms camp.
AT the same time | occasioned Inn
pedIments on the part Of the frontier
which she was TO pass I'm such man
ner MS to prevent her reaching the
headquarters Of wellington Till after
the result
So he kept the letter II not the spirit
Of his compact with Napoleon's foes
and landed at last IN the arms OF the
restored Bourbons,
GEORGE L, KILMER.
Next weeks letter viii be on pen
Portraits" Of Napoleon