Napoleon's Deathe-bed Statement

When Napoleon was on nis death bed a maladroit atte2é=3t read from an English review a bitter arraignment of him as guilty of the duke's niurder. The dying man rose, and catchlng up his will, wrote in his own hand: "I had the Duc d'Enghien seized and tried becauee it was necessary to the safety, the interest, and the honor of the tYench people, when by his own confe8sion the Comte d'Artois was supporting sixty assassins in Paris. Under similar circumstances I would again do likewise." Nevertheless he gave himself the utmost pains on certain occasions to unload the entire responsibility on Talleyrand. To Lord Bbrington, to O'Meara, to Las Cases, to Montholon, he asseverated that Talleyrand had checked his impulses to clemency.