THE TWO NAPOLEONS.

Westport Times, Volume V, Issue 794, 28 March 1871, Page 2

THE TWO NAPOLEONS.

Bonaparte was a great administrator as well as a great general: his activity was inexhaustible; he corresponded with everybody; he looked after everything ; he knew whether he was well or ill served, and his mode of obtaining power did not debar him from availing himself of the best men of all classes which the Eevolution had no! expelled from France. Louis Napoleon very reverse of all this; his highest quality was tenacity of purpose ; he could rouse himself to a great exertion, but in his general Dibits, he was indolent and pleasure loving; ho was more a man of thought than a man of action ; and, assuming him to be capable of discriminating j between efficiency and inefficiency, his ] mode of rising had precluded him from all liberty of choice. In the course of the coup d'etat, nine-tenths of the pub* lie men of France had been subjected to humiliations and indignities ty which they were personally estranged, and a host of co-eonspirators had acquired claims which it was not safe to repudiate or neglect. Places, titles, pensions, preferments, and employments were distributed amongst them with reckless profusion ; besides largesses in money; their debts wert

paid repeatedly, and many pecuniary transactions bordering on peculation " wore hastily huddled up by authority to prevent exposure.—" The Pergonal History of Imperialism in 1570," in " FrozeVa Magazine."