The Washington herald., 1914-04-26
FRONTING ENGLAND.

DATES AND EVENTs-AGE $3.50.
seD,snbe. O. lsOl-Robert Fulton reported to Ma
poleon the slccess Of his submarine boat at Brest
March 2. Isp-The peace Of Amieus.
March L.. ls-Napoleon's w.rike outburst to Brit
ish Ambassador
MAY 2. IsO5-war reopened between France and Eng
land
June Is. Isos-Ftancc seized Hanover.
June g. iSs-Sapoleon at BouIogns.
July =, Ise-ordered . test Of Buttons steamboat
August 9 lsp-The steamer made a trip the
Seine
October 70 l50S-AIlsnce with Spain
December 49, IsO3-AIiance with Portugal.
AyriI o. lso4-Fulton left for England
August Is. Distribution Of the ribbons Of the
Legion Of Honor.
March 70 Ig5-yineneure's feet sailed from Toulon.
August ?, IsO5-Returned from West Indies to Span
ish coast
August p Is0SNapoeon broke camp and army
marched toward Germany.
THE green lease that crowns the chalk
J. cliffs OF Folkstone with the velvet
turf of England. Is hardly lost 70
the view OF the passengers by the
steamer that is bearing them to the
shore of France. when they see tail
and beautiful Doric column rising from
the sand dunes of Boulogne. That shin
ing sand obelisk is the boundary stone
OF the empire OF Napoleon, and on its
top stands the bronze eftigy OF the man
who spent fifteen years Of his life in
futile effort to cross the English Channel.
As the boat draws nearer the end OF
its voyage from the English isle TO the
Continent of Europe, the ruined tower
OF Caligula is seen on the brow Of the
yellow nights, where the DICTIONARIES or
Rome planted II in the fortieth year OF
the Christian era. Hard by the con-
scripts of Napoleon reared for him
timbered palace in the third year OF
the nineteenth century, where he could
dwell in the midst OF his nearly Ao'VW
warriors who were ready at his nod 10
bear him on their arms into the palace
of St James. And down alongside the
quay, where the Folkstone steamer now
ties up, 1900 boats waited to ferry them
over the Twenty-Five miles of water thai
rolled between them and their goal some
of the craft are aflOat to this day, the
bareegged fisherwoman of the old town
insist. and are numbered among their
herring feet But they have never
crossed the channel and grated on an
English beach!
The IrrepressIbIe Conflict.
The peace of Amiens, which really was
not peace at all. but a mere truce in an
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France and England. had lasted less
than fourteen months. when the clash of
arms was renewed. 1t was only the re-
sumption of vendetta which had en-
broiled the two countries since the Nor
man conquest and in pursuit of which
they had hunted each other to the ends
of the earth. from the Ganges to the ST |
Lawrence and from Yorktown to Acre. |
When. like two winded pugilists, they
agreed in the treaty of Amiens TO lay |
aside the gloves after ten years in the |
ring the old score was left unsettled. |
with one the mistress of the ocean, with |
one the master of the land and each at
the mercy of the other. The French |
shore was England's door step on the
European continent, while the British |
Isles and the British rock of Gibraltar
were the gateposts on the lane that led
from France to the highway OF the sea
England, with immense dominions be-
yond the ocean. had all but stripped the
French Of their once great colonial en-
pire. while France dominated Europe as
never before. 1t had been the settled
policy of the French under all govern
ments to regain a foothold in the New
World and in the Orient, and Napoleon
had no sooner subdued Europe on the
Plain of Marengo than his restless spirit
turned to plans for reviving the colonial
power of France.
AS his eve searched the globe for new
worlds to conquer it fell upon even the
far-away little Island of st. Helena, and
ministers were commanded to investi-
gate the feasibility of annexing il, while
at the same time he added Elba to the
French dominions. He was more inter
ested. however, in continents than Is
lands and he DISPATCHED an expedition
10 unknown Australia and with the Car
Paul planned the joint invasion of Asia
by great army OF Russians a,a ana hd trench.
fsiana from Spain and obtained A strip
of Brazilian coast. hoping by those ac-
cessions to control the two great water
ways Of North and South America, the
Mississippi and the Amazon;
He longed TO see France take the posi-,
ton in the a hd lost o Inv the
Revolution. That he appreciated what
American independence had cost the Brit
Ish may be seen from a remark he made
ford son of Lord North, was presented.
MY Lord the First Consul said: your
father was very great man But, he
his mouth, as the proud son of his father
moved Was ii not he who lost
America for England? Yes, he was
very great man. indeed.
batting Napoleon.
If war may have its amenities, peace
may have its asperities. The signers OF
the Peace of Amiens stopped hShtlng
only the better to quarrel And the Brit
fish could easily outquarrel the French be ]
cause at the opening Of the nineteenth
century they enjoyed the cruel advantage
of the only free press in Europe The
Journalists of London hurled their quilts
at Napoleon like banderillos, goading and
infuriating him by their merciless assaults
upon his policies and ambitions. his gov |
eminent and even his domestic life. He I
demanded, in his innocence of British in I
situations, that the London government
suppress these attacks, but was told he |
would have to for libel like any I
other aggrieved person, When he brought '
suit, however, the trial merely served to '
give the lawyer for the defendant an op-
portunity to heap fresh insults upon him 8
1t was a peculiarly trying situation for
him. He could not afford to stop his J
paper, since those unmuzzled journals of
England were the only papers at liberty 4
to print the news of the world, and he s
had to have them. The sight of a packet q
Of London newspapers never failed to I
excite in him a curiosity, which could be Ia