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NAPOLEON.
Mr. C. E. Jones lectured on Sunday in the
City. Hall on" Napoleon at. Marengo." The
unscrupulous proceedings.of Napoleon in;
Europe, before bis departure for : Egypt,
had prepared the tray for the isolation of
France, during his absence ; and the want
of .adequate resources, daring the same ,
time, had lost or imperilled all the terri-
torial gains his military genius had tempo-
rarily secured. Napoleon had not returned
to his old home in Paris one month, when
the Government of the Directorate had
been brushed aside, and Napoleon was in-
stalled as Provisional First Consul, with
two lay. figures, Sieyes and Roger Ducos,
as his colleagues. His next advance as
First Consul for four years, and the sacri-
fice of Republican simplicity, made war
necessary abroad, as part of hie programme.
Glory, associated with conquest ef foreign
powers, salved the loss of liberty, and much
besides, when Napoleon returned from
Marengo with the spoils tbat Austria
could surrender. The losses of life and the
other Bufferings of France were hardly
noted, except by the firesides that bad
been robbed of fathers and sons, compared
with the ruin that eat enthroned over
Austria. The Capitulation of Campo
Formio, the Treaty of Luneville and of
Amiens, and the Concordat with Rome,
promised an enduring peace all over the
world. England ceased to be at war with
France, and the genius of the conqueror
turned to new fields of Codification and
Administration, in 'which he shone with
greater effulgency than in war itself.' The
constructive ability of Napoleon was, of
course, assisted by the highest legal
capacity of his time. The president,
Captain ' Oats, M.L.A'., was in the chair,
and an excellent debate followed.
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