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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume VI, Issue 127, 31 May 1871, Page 4

Napoleon 111. — Crime is crime, whether committed against individuals or Jind surely if there are any crimes whatever that call for social reprobation, they are those of wilful perjury «nd deliberate homicide; and the guilt of these crimes ate intensified when they have evidently been perpetrated simply and solely for selfish ends. Napoleon, after takiDg a most solemn oath in the year 1848 to be faithful to the French Republic, took every possible advantage of his newly-acquired power to betray and destroy the French Eepublic; after his lawless invasion of the French Assembly, he committed an indiscriminate slaughter of the citizens of Paris for the sole purpose of inspiring terror. These things are matters of history. To these may be added many other heinous offences against justice and good faith, committed, for the sole object of attaining his own selfish ends. We should be sorry wantonly to revile a man, however criminal, when, having once fallen, his power to do mischief has ceased; but the power to do mischief has not ceased yet; and should he receive a social welcome from English aristocracy, the effect will be a most injurious stimulus to that pernicious vice of flunkeyism which is one of the worst and meanest attributes of the English character. — English Paper.