Harper's New Monthly Magazine

Harper's New Monthly Magazine - No. XVI.—September, 1851—Vol. III.

NAPOLEON BONAPARTE. THE TREASON OF BENEDICT ARNOLD. MEMORIES OF MEXICO. THE POOLS OF ELLENDEEN. A WATERSPOUT IN THE INDIAN OCEAN. MAURICE TIERNAY,THE SOLDIER OF FORTUNE. THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A SENSITIVE SPIRIT. ESCAPE FROM A MEXICAN QUICKSAND. THE BEAR-STEAK. WEOVIL BISCUIT MANUFACTORY. MEMS FOR MUSICAL MISSES. POULAILLER, THE ROBBER. SCIENTIFIC FANTASIES. THE HOUSEHOLD OF SIR THOS. MORE. WORDSWORTH, BYRON, SCOTT, AND SHELLEY. THE LAST DAYS OF THE EMPEROR ALEXANDER. AN EPISODE IN THE LIFE OF JOHN RAYNER. JOYS AND PERILS OF LUMBERING. THE HIGHEST HOUSE IN WATHENDALE. SHOTS IN THE JUNGLE. A VISIT TO ROBINSON CRUSOE. THE WHITE SILK BONNET. BORED WELLS IN EASTERN MISSISSIPPI. MY NOVEL, OR, VARIETIES IN ENGLISH LIFE. Monthly Record of Current Events. Literary Notices Editors Drawer. Fashions for September While Napoleon was spending his few months of furlough in Corsica, he devoted many hours every day to the careful composition, after the manner of Plutarch, of the lives of illustrious Corsicans. Though he had made considerable progress in the work, it was lost in the subsequent disorders of those times. He also established a debating club, composed of the several officers in the army upon the island, to discuss the great political questions which were then agitating Europe. These subjects he studied with most intense application. In this club he was a frequent speaker, and obtained much distinction for his argumentative and oratorical powers. Napoleon, at this time, warmly espoused the cause of popular liberty, though most sternly hostile to lawless violence. As the reign of terror began to shed its gloom on Paris, and each day brought its tidings of Jacobin cruelty and carnage, Napoleon imbibed that intense hatred of anarchy which he ever after manifested, and which no temptation could induce him to disguise. One day he expressed himself in the club so vehemently, that an enemy, Salicetti, reported him to the government as a traitor. He was arrested, taken to Paris, and obtained a triumphant acquittal. Some years after he had an opportunity to revenge himself, most magnanimously, upon his enemy who had thus meanly sought his life, and whom he could not but despise. Salicetti, in his turn, became obnoxious to the Jacobins, and was denounced as an outlaw. The officers of police were in pursuit of him, and the guillotine was ravenous for his blood. He ungenerously sought concealment under the roof of Madame Permon, the mother of the young lady who had suggested to Napoleon the idea of "Puss in Boots." By this act he exposed to the most imminent peril the lives of Madame Permon and of all the members of her household. Napoleon was on terms of familiar intimacy with the family, and Salicetti was extremely apprehensive that he might discover his retreat, and report him to the police. Madame Permon also, knowing the hatred with which Salicetti had sought Napoleon's life, participated in these fears. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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