The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-04-12
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However that may be, the tender spot which Napoleon always kept for old friends and associates was sore wounded by the oldest and closest of them all. He had been glad to share his prosperity with Bourrenne as freely as they had shared their poverty at Brienne and in the streets of Paris. He gave him apart ments in the Tuileries and also gave his family an"independent establishment
 Disdaining to limit his friend and con fidant to fixed salary.a he invited him to help himself from their common cash drawer in the palace, and no account was kept between them He fattered himself he could share with him even his fame. "Ah, Bourriennep he proudly exclaimed, You also will be immortal"
 How, General?' the friend asked.
 Are you not my secretary?"
 Poor Bourrienne could not content him. self with this reflected immortality, and loving what his chief despised, money, he yielded to the one sin Napoleon al- ways refused to compound in his own immediate household. T bet if I shut him up in the Tuileries gardens" the first consul said to Coryisart the physician The would eventually find a silver mine there"
 Napoleon could not bear to break the tie that had bound him so long to his
 
 reled with him, only to take him back into his confidence. When at last a case in court disclosed the secretary of the first consul as a partner of government contractors and his avarice thus became a public scandal, Napoleon dismissed him. telling him as he slammed the door in his face, Never let me see you again.
 Why" he grieved to Meneval, the assistant who now took the place of the mia if fnI ha r. that man since he was 9 years old.' Still wishing to spare him the full measure of disgrace, he officially an nounced that Bourrienne had been pro- noted to other duties, and, indeed. it was not long until he did find employ ment for him. But he would not sec him. and they never met again except on one occasion, when Bourrienne was summoned to receive his commission as minister at Hamburg. where for many years he continued his pecula- tions and ended by conspring with the Bourbons against his forbearing g friend and benefactor
 As the plotting against Napoleon went on, he and those about him were seized with a frenzy of spying. The watch on the mails was redoubled un. til no one dared to trust secret ot any kind to the post, while crafty fel- lows filled 1t with letters designed tc cast suspicion on their enemies, or tc create an impression in the mind of the first consul favorable to their own loyalty. The letter openers were knowr as the "black cabinet,' and they for warded to Napoleon copies of all com munications likely to interest him.
 Napoleon thenceforth did not for q moment take his eye off the Bourbons who never relented or rested in theil savage purpose to strike down tho man who stood in their way. While they were seizing on the reopening ot the war between England and France to spring their grand plot, there ap. peared in London a man named La banished after the explosion of the in fernal machine But he had been sci free by Napoleon on the condition thai hee go to England and get Nnto the councils of the Bourbons as an escaped prisoner seeking vengeance against the First Consul.
 La Touche, who was delightfu specimen, at once went into conference with the royalists in London, and witt certain too jealous English officials Prof John Holland Rose of the Uni versity of Cambridge, has found in hi: researches among the official records a list of royalist plotters who were 1T the pay of the British government Professor Rose thinks it possible tha' only the younger and hotter beaded officials may have connived at the plot but he adds that when all is said the British government must stand ac cused of one of the most heinous O crimes"
 La Touche followed the threads o