The Washington herald., 1914-04-26

satisfied only by a prompt translation of
all articles and items bearing on him and
the affairs OF the nations.
More than once his plans were shaped
by the information contained In a para
graph of English type, and after the
war began anew, Charles James Fox
declared in the House of Commons that
the rupture OF the peace Of Amiens was
brought about by Samuel Taylor Cole
ridges articles in the Morning Post.
Moreover, in later years, when Cole
1t necessary to fee from the wrath OF
the Emperor aboard an American ship.
whose captain. however. seeing his YES
sci pursued by French cruiser, insisted
that the poet esSayist must throw over
board his packet OF manuscript as con-
traband of war.
Editor Napoleon.
Napoleon's one chance to get even with
his foes on the British press was to re-
turn their fire in his own official paper,
the Moniteur. where he showed himself
a pretty good fighting editor. with a
ready command of a large and brilliant
vocabulary of vituperation. II was in
the columns of the Moniteur that he
labeled England "a nation OF shopkeepers
turned flibusters," and described her
government as the rule of mad King
and prime minister who was like an old
nurse" while through the same medium
he spread aboard the report of the I'M
happy necessity that actually had arisen
of placing George III in a straitJacket
Finally he inserted in the MOniteur a
report from Gen. Sebastian. a Corsican.
whom he had sent on scouting mission
in the East. declaring that France could
recapture Egypt with 5000 men, and he
replied to British military preparation
would have $4,000 soldiers to avenge the
republic against England. At those
thrusts the British lion rOared the loud
eT, and the speech from the throne pro-
claimed ct nf
the island realm.
At the very next session Of the English
Parliament after the signing of the treaty
OF peace, the Kings speech had breathcd
a warlike spirit. to which Napoleon had
retorted by sending this extraordinary
Challenge to London: The First Consul
is but thirtythree years old. AS yet he
has destroyed none but states of the Sec
ond order. Who knows what time It
would take him, if forced to 1t. to change
anew the face of Europe and to revive
the Empire of the West?''
Questions mt Issue.
Apart from mere recrimination. Eng
land protested against Napoleon's annex |
alton of Piedmont and his active inf1u- !
ence in Switzerland. where he was max
ing over the Swiss Confederation into the |
modern republic that We know today. |
British jealousy was aroused TO tho great |
est hue when England saw him, by invi- |
tation of the German states. acting as
mediator between them and remaking |
the map of Germany
In tine midst OF the quarrel England |
had faithfully carried out her treaty |
agreement to restore the Cape of Good |
Hope to the Dutch and relinquish Egypt
TO the Turks. She also sent home at her |
own expense the remnant of NHpoleon's |
Egyptian army. which she had captured
when she took the country. But she COLI |
tinued to hold on to Malta, because the |
Amiens treaty provided as a condition OF |
her retirement from the island that the
ing its neutrality. and Russia had not yet |
given her pledge. France, however, in
sisted that this was only pettifogging |
with technicalities, and that England |
key TO the Eastern Mediterranean.
In the end the controversy thus mar
rowed down to the possession of a barren
rock twenty miles long and nine miles
wide. But in the temper that had been
aroused on both sides any bone would
suffice to bring on a fight
In Josephine's salon.
The war began in Josephines salon at
the Tuileries one Sunday afternoon.
When Napoleon entered the circle that
mad formed in the drawing-room. he
walked up to Robert r. Livingston. the
pleasant remarks. after which he STROBE
over to Lord Whitworth, the British
ambassador. so" he demanded of the
Briton in his deepest tone. You are de-
.ermined to go to war;"
A diplomat being a gentleman who is
sent abroad to lie for his country. the
Ambassador insisted. of course. that his
nation was only DESTROYS of peace But
he First Consul. in angry accents, in
;isted that England was not keeping her
promises and was plotting to bring on
1ostilities. why these preparations for
WARP" he sternly inquired. Against
whom are you taking these measures?
But IL you arm, 1 shall also
arm. II you will fight, shall also fight.
You may possibly destroy France but
you never can intimidate her!''
ster, he cried, Your King forgets that
Sweden is not what IL was i'm the time
II Gustavus Adolphus-that IL has sunk
o a third-rate power After that thrust,
was Lord Whitworth's turn again to
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