Napoleon's Statement About Enghien

When Napoleon was on his deathbed, a maladroit attendantreadfrom an Engiish review a bitter arraigument of him as gnilfy of the duke's murder. The dyng man rose, and catching tip his wil] wrote in his own hand : "Ihad the Duc d'Eughien seized and tried because it was necessary to the safety, the interest and the honor of the Freiich people, vhen by his ownconfession the Comte d'Artois was STipporting 60 assassins iu Paris. Under similar circurostauces I would again do likewise. ' ' Nevertheless hegave hiraself the utmost pains on certain occasions to unload the entire responsibility on Talleyrand. To Lord Sbrington, to O'Meara, to Las Cases, ;o Montholon, he asseverated that Taleyrand had checked his impulses to clemency. - "Life of Napoleon," by