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Show I UNGRATEFUL FRANCE. What Prince Bismarck Thought of the Revolution of Sedan. i In an expose of" the motives that actuated ac-tuated Bazaine in his passive defense and ultimate surrender of lUetz, published pub-lished by the Journal des Dtbats, the author an officer in the Anuy of th Hhioe gives the following account of what occurred at the interview between be-tween General Boyer and Prince Bis marck, when the iormer was sent by Marshal Bazaino to Versailles wi:h a "mission" to the Prussian Chancellor: The General introduced to Prince Bismarck, after a few formal remarks, asked him what were his aims and objects, in a word, what he desired as a result of the war. To this M. de Bismarck Bis-marck replied very frankly that his policy was most simple; that the French might do as they please; that as for themselves (the Germans), they wero sure of Paris, its fall being merely a question of time. "The French took Rome without injuring its monuments; the Germans will do the same with Paris, which is a city of arU in which nothing shall be destroyed. I have nothing to say to the various considerations consider-ations that you lay before ma. You tell mo that your Metz army is the solo element of order remaining in France and that it is alone capable capa-ble of establishing and upholding a Government in the country, if this is tho case, constitute this Government; Gov-ernment; we will' offer no opposition, and we wili even render you some assistance. as-sistance. The Marshal will repair to some town to be named with his army, and summon the Empress thither. In our eyes the sole legal government of the country is still that of the clabisc'i- tum of the 8th of May; it is the only one we recognize. 1'ou speak to mc of the necessity of putting an eud to a war such as this onej but who am 1 to treat with? There is no Chamber. I had proposed to let tho election be held on the 2nd of October; the departments de-partments occupied by the Prussian troops would had full liberty in the selection of their deputies. This offer was not taken advantage of. I then suggested the date of the 18th of Uctober with no better success. We then learn that Prince Bismarck, entering enter-ing into another train of ideas, pronounced pro-nounced the following sentence with no little warmth: "I cannot say what will befall Franco, nor what is the future that awaits her; but I do know : this, that it will redound to her shame, to her eternal shame in all time, in all ages, and in all tongues to have abandoned her Emperor as she did after Sedan. The stain which she will never wash out is the revolution of the 4th of September." Finally, returning return-ing to what was peculiarly the object of the interview, tho Chancellor repeated re-peated that he would offer no opposition opposi-tion to the reconstitruotionofa Government Govern-ment by Marshal Bazaine and his army. iSacrame)i(o tfnion. |