THE NAPOLEONS.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume VI, Issue 80, 5 April 1871, Page 2

THE NAPOLEONS.

To the Editor of the Nelson Evening Mail, " Un petit faquin, un petit drole de Corse, — Barras. Sir — In reading a work on Napoleon Buonaparte, published iv 1810, I came across the following terse description of that notorious iudividual, which I think so applicable to the likewise notorious individual who has held such a prominent position for 20 years in Europe under the title of the "Third Napoleon," that I

trust you will find mom for it, especially as there is a deal of admiration and maudlin sympathy for cup, who gained the throne by blood (not his own) aud lost it by similar means : — "Strange to say, atrocious as the conduct of that arch-usurper, whom Providence seems to have employed as the scourge of the European continent, has been, there are numbers still so obstinately blind, so stupidly infatuated, or so criminally perverse, as to shut their eyes against his enormities, as to deprecate every attempt to lower him in the estimation of the world, and as to call upon their countrymen to treat him with respect. Every one therefore who labors to dispel a delusion so extraordinary in itself, and so pernicious in its consequences, is unquestionably entitled to the gratitude of the public." I am, &c, E. T.