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Show Treaty of Amieni By REV. T. B. GREGORY. H THK Treaty of Amicus. signed one hundred and ten years ayo by thc Mnglisu diplomats and the ropre sentative of First Consul Bonaparte filled Europe with rejoicings. The people of Kneland and tho people of the Continent wero tired of wnr aud its ravages, and tho thought of peace filled them with a deliri-um deliri-um of gladness. But there is a biz difference be tween the people and the men who run the political machines, and the ponce of Amiens was destined tn I nut a short duration. it lasted but a little more than a vear. and then began thc awful fries of wars which devastated Europe till the summer of 1A15, Napoleon was not a saint, and fl il ia well krfown that he oni times lied; but he maintained to tho last dav of his life that he Sin-cerely Sin-cerely wanted th peac which was inaugurated at Amiens, and that it wn his solemn intention to ' have kept it hnd ho boon permitted io do so. And he probably told mWm tho triith. -M At any rate, the great man put tM bis splendid sifts of organization vM to work at once, and Franco fairly bloomed with the wonders of his ndmiuistintivo genius. He put tho lfl finances upon a health)- footing; he began the measures which wero to ond with the amicable settle-ment settle-ment of tho religions difficulty; he revolutionized agriculture; ho M breathed thc breath of a new life mwM into tho body of tho civil law, and did more for France in a y6ar tlmn had been dnno for her in all fho centuries of his predecessors in of- mmt Says a by no means friendly an-tllority: an-tllority: "On every side frcsV'on-ercy frcsV'on-ercy was evoked, now enterprises -stimulated; all things wore felt to 1 proceed from ono oenter a center not, as in the old mpuarchy, of : selfislmoss.and waste, but of active and beneficent influence." Such was thc situation in Franco and such thc employment of Napoleon's energies whou'some- mW thing happened. 'Hint fomcthinr: U was ap ultimatum from England demanding tho concessions winch U angered Napoleon and brought a declaration of wnr on May ,1. 1S03. In other words. England U broke the plighted troth. BoiirrienDe, who was in n-posi tion to get at the real facts .in the case, says; "That Englnud wished for war there can bo no doubt. She occupied Malta, though she bad promised to give it up. She was lo have evacuated Egypt, vol lifer she still romaiued. - The Cape of Good- Hope was to have been siir-rendered, siir-rendered, but she still retained possession of it. England- h.iit stgued at Amicus :: peace which she had no intention of maintain- Tn tho warb that followed tbr rupture of thc peace of Amicus millions of human beings were mangled or murdered, millions of widows and orphans made and bit ' lions of treasure spent; and it is probably true that the greater part of the responsibility for it all rest1; upon thc shoulders of the men wbn at that time stood at tho head of the British nation. |