The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-07-05

and fettered the masses, he proclaimed that 'all persons may now establish inns. mills, ovens. wers and fisheries and give free play to their enterprises" Sweeping away the vexatious and burdensome taxes on trade between the provinces, he left it to flow freely all over Spain.
 But when he undertook to deal with the church, with it's orders and its reve- nues and with its great body of ecclesias- ties, he found himself on treacherous ground. Although he forbore to estab- fish freedom of worship. as elsewhere in his empire. and to repeal the old law pro- hpitins any other than the rites of the state religion, his abolition of the in- qusition. his suppression of two-thirds Of the convents and his confiscation of much of the church property deepened the enmity of priests and parishioners against his entire revolutionary pro- gramme.
 The spanish people would accept noth- ing from his hand. He opened the thea tres in order to reawaken the gayety of Madrid, but the Spaniards would not en- ter them. For days hardly a woman ap- peared in the streets and the gallant in- vaders sighed fin vain even for glimpse of a pair of black eyes behind the grilled gates of the houses. Although Napoleon heralded abroad his appearance at grand reviews pride overcame curiosity and the people refused to come out to see the most extraordinary parsonage of modern times
 The Emperor threatened the obdurate race that if they persisted in their hos tlity toward the King he had given them he would put the crown on his own head They were commanded, therefore to as- semble in their churches and swear on their altars fealty to King Joseph.
 Retreat of Sir John Moore
 Napoleon was organizing at Madrid an expedition to drive the English out of Portugal, when 30000 British, under Sir John Moore( crossed the Portugese fron- tier to drive him out of Spain, and they moved straight toward his communica- tions. This threat diverted him from his Lisbon campaign, and leaving Mad rid in mdwinter, after a stay of three weeks in that capital. he began the pur- suit of Moore. Afoot in storm of hail and sleet he led his army over the Sierra de Guadarrama whose peaks divide Old Castillo from New. But in spite or his swift marches the English had escaped him and already were well along in their retreat at Sorunna There the haggard and ragged Britons made their last stand at the very waters edge and fought their way to the ships wait ing to carry them home. But they left cr Joiitl Moole lylnS Tn ms narrow bed on the ramparts of Corunna
 like a warrior taking his rest. With his martial cloak around him, Where
 Slowly and sadly We laid him down.
 From the field of his fame fresh and
 gory;
 We carved not line, we raised not q
 stone,
 But we left him alone in his glory.
 fresh alarm had already recalled Napoleon from Spain and he had turned from his dreams of planting his eagles on the towers of Lisbon," to hurl hiin- self against the walls of Vienna 1900 miles away Abandoning the war on the peninsula to his marshals, he covered on horseback the first stage of his flight between Calladolid and Bursos, a dis tance of 80 miles. s1h ps hours General Savary with difficulty kept ahead of his master. but Duroc and Roustam Jagged In the dust, while the Emperor, flashing and spurring with a solitary aid de camp at his side. flew on from relay to relay of horses in his race to Paris. Copyright, 191S-19l4. by James Morgan.) Next Week-How Napoleon, after fight ng under the walls of Vienna the first osing battle in a dozen years, saved his Irmy and gained the famous victory at Wagram-and won . brids.