The Emperor Napoleon.

Cromwell Argus, Volume I, Issue 7, 22 December 1869, Page 7

The Emperor Napoleon.

(From the European Mail.) I When we dispatched our last summary, grave apprehensions were felt for the health of the Emperor. The following important particulars, therefore, relative to his illness, obtained from the best authority, will be read with interest:—" The health has improved greatly since' s ?l|y last letter. He is now convalescent. H% features are however much altered; his?' has become pale and thin. He has recovered his appetite, and is now able to take and digest food. It is rumored ■in certain high quarters, that he will shortly lepve St. Oloud and repair to Biarritz, or some town on the southern coast of France, in order to strengthen his system. The -rheumatism has been very secondary indeed —only a passing touch, entailing slight pain, but tho chief disease has been a fissured hemorrhoidal tumour. It was this affection that prevented the Emperor from walking about, from sitting on horseback, or in a carriage, and obliged him to keep in bed or almost constantly on an easy couch. The strict diet, the preoccupations, and the treatment adopted have combined to render the Emperor somewhat thin, and to give him a wan expression of countenance." His Majesty, however, seems to be restored, if not io convalescence, at least to a better state of health than he has enjoyed for some weeks. The Emperor and Empress were present on September 26 at the Bois de Boulogne races, where they where most warmly received. There is something ludicrous in the rival bulletins issued by tho Gaulois and the Figaro. The first-named journal invades the privacy of the Imperial bedchamber, and furnishes the following • undress portrait of the chief of the states : ■•—"ln.his room tho Emperor is clothed in a loose woollen dressing gown which allows the open shirt to be seen, and the flannel waistcoat which is the only mail his Majesty wears. ■ A pair of yellowish trousers and. morocco slippers complete his ~hospital costume." On its side Figaro says that the Emperor eats underdono cutlets and drinks Bordeaux and Vichy water.

y The Jteveil, in an article which is rather *4oo critical, says : -The digestive fuctions of his Majesty will gradually deteriorate, ar. 1 will pi-ove unequal to repair the k frirength which is daily diminishing in of the bodily suffering endured and the loss of blood ; and, finally, in a month, in three months, in six months at the most, the lamp for want of oil will die unless some unforeseen complication, forrwhich one ought ahvays.fco be prepared in the course of.chronic disease, puts it out suddenly. France, -therefore, must be lhi a .spared to heat,.soon a Be Prbfundis' «jung, immediately to Ikj succeeded by a Down, unless indeed * * * ! WL -. —