| Show r rTh Th Centenary of Napoleons Invasion of England Engl nd m IS Is year for celebrating a con cen It ton a r Y which w hie h Is unique In Ha Its ny be beIng beI I 1 Ing the tho one hundredth I b anniversary or on nn In Invasion Ini if that never neer neerI i mine rame It was In I that Napoleon was h to cross the nd For Jor that pur be had nn an n together a 1 great army and the tho t nearest to Eng EngI 1 n I B I rai 5 ejected c a 11 magnificent army nd Iho largest and Jest M MO Inon of 01 machine that the tho first had et willed l bel 1 ludicrous enough 01 l l for It contemplated al t o of an all Immense ct Ibe for tho o floats to tG England It would require the tho cooperation or of a n strong fleet Now France I rance hat has never ner been particularly of ef In a n naval way wo with nil all his military genius the tho little no ability to organize a cam on Oil water Ilia theory theor U If ho could control the English channel ho he could control England and that thai with England out or of his hla way wa he could bo be the master or of nil nilI I Tha plan hall had the audacity that marked all 1111 or of his operation and ho went at the tho execution or of It In the tho energetic and thorough wa and on the tho Immense scale scalo that was IaK characteristically Napoleonic Had HAti a n seafaring nation backed him In his attempt had ho been Joen supported by h the tho ability that has hilK been shown by 1 tho Anglo Saxon for example there thero might have IUle been beon a I very er different history or of Europe Tho lack or of such Kuch support was his un undoing undoing doing He created and mobilized Ills hlf could bo enlisted In any an other way wa for tor forir ir If anything will wll arouse alOuse the or of tho average Frenchman l It Is to move moo against his hili hereditary tot John Johll Hull Bull Napoleon so contend the tho historians who advance 1111 1 II co this view merely merel took look advantage or of French rench hostility to the Iho for tho purpose of forming a n magnificent war engine that he could hurl against Austria and the coalition even een then forming This theory on Its face seems plausible plau enough CliO ugh It not for tor one thing construction of the French This was wall a 1 matter or f very ery great labor ami expense more labor and expense n 1 man us Intensely practical OH Napoleon would place on onn n 11 mere feint In fact up III to 10 that time Franco had never gathered together such n navy watt created for the protection of or the to 10 Invade Eng I n Nor It bi hI mentioned In passing did n 1 ever meet m et n moro more disastrous end limn overtook these Na I At the comfortable remoteness 9 of It Is III the humorous sille of tho affair that appeals to 10 the average Eng Englishman lishman and It Is III this phase that will willbe be JI celebrated In III the tho centenary That ho Is able to take lake such Huch a n facetious view In la not lIot due to the tho proverbial slowness of ot the tho mind In seeing Hoeing tho point of a u Joke but bUI rather to 10 the perfect reeling feeling now existing between France and England 1 III which makes It possible for fill thom them to pans oft as IH pleas pleasantry antry tho efforts made mado by hath both countries a u hundred years earll ago Tho rho situation was not nol without Its humors even een nt lit that time though the average mentality was not nol exactly c In the tem temper per lieI to seo the ludicrous phases ell of the affair It Il Is not easy call fur for ono one to grow hilarious with a n nt lit his hili throat The fact that the two to peoples can cun see seethe the fun fUll of the tho situation even enlI after a century shows that hilI the gospel o or of peace lias been making converts whatever the complacency with which John Hull regarded r them Napoleon did not nol enjoy enjo their humor at all 1111 He Jle com complained complained or them bitterly demanded or ot orthe the Iho government that III he 1111 press lit ilu abuse of ot him Ion even going so far ar ns H to one olle offender who was actually tried and would have hao been bee II punished hall had not the diplo diplomatic matic malic negotiations ended Just JUKl In time timeto to distract governmental attention from the tho offender The peace of Amiens was wasn n lived lasting hut little littleover over oer a II year and this brevity was dUll due In III no small degree to Napoleons because IJ of the attitude of ot the Iho British newspapers After looking over oer the samples here he presented the public judgment will be lenient to 10 Napoleon It II would appear that John Hull was not the only one excited to 10 profanity by J tho strained conditions or of the Iho times time Admiral Nelson who ho was lall so soon Mon to moot meet death and Immortality at mornings 9 did tho citizen soldiery of ot some remote shire march forth to moet meet Honey and his Frenchmen that reported to he moving over oer from tho next county shedding or of Ink con COli continued and tho cartoons grew rel yet et moro more So the bloodless war was not without Its 1111 horrors all 1111 France quite us ilK thoroughly stir stirred red ns nil England At 1 last would meet her hll ancient rue foe and avenge the Insults of centuries She Hh had n II lender now no a 11 leader r who liml victoriously marched from one end or of tho Iho continent to 10 till the othur a 1 lender lendel on more than one olle had turned back the title tide or of overwhelming odds and by II some stroke hud wrested triumph from certain defeat a II lender who hud filled the Ihl world with his hili fame us liS had no 1111 other olin warrior since Julius Why 11 should she not England Had not matchless Na Napoleon 11 wild hl I Il t us bt masters of the I i It 11 dd j I i iy i In w V Vf f I I I L Machine worked by windmills and water wheels which was wa Intended to carry I Indulging In leapfrog men and sixty guns Duns Boney crying for some somo moro more playthings CARTOONS CONNECTED WITH THE THREATENED INVASION OF ENGLAND IN 1804 1 shores the he Arm Mm to the he imich louch as three days das of or calm would he ho to 10 set get these craft and ami f for r the 10 reason that thal channel was 18 scarce 11 HI known to bo calm three days da 8 the carrying out of or tho plan lInn strike the lay 11 mind ns an 1111 utter hn Hut the tho Little Cor eor Cori i J r l hall had tuch fuch a habit of ot accomplish t the apparently Impossible that liest Ihne considerations did not 1101 entirely r fure the average AH IH n a re IC result nil sult there was IS such nn nil uprising throughout the Island kingdom ns UH had hod hodnot not rol been witnessed In 1 Mund Scotland SI became one vast drill pound round Yeomen Y got out old guns cunK that M hJ root not been used In III years Impromptu were formel In every 11 h hie and shire From William Pitt torn practically every man or of Im Importance r In the Iho two Io countries enlisted In the cither to drill others or 01 orID ID I le be drilled himself Arrangements were mule malle for or tho of at signal tits tm 19 that the boats bonia stationed station ell li 13 the channel should give gho Iho word Ihl news could bo he conveyed to all 1111 Brit Britain tin ain is as fast ns as beacons could a lighted on en the discovered III early In tho jine that In order to get his hlf great fleet Hut But at the crucial time limo when he hI Intended to 10 move his hili army IIII his hili admiral railed fullet him und and the plan pla hut hud to 10 bo Jo abandoned It was not nol the Intention or of the tha first consul to 10 risk a n sea sel battle hallie In tho Iho neigh neighborhood of Ho He was far too clover cloer to stake everything on ono one throw In any nn such Buch manner Ho would draw Nelson oll and tho Heet away from the tho channel by br u I feint with his hilt own ships rind steal across ucros the channel when lohn Hull Bull was not nol looking Hut Bul the French admiral to 10 whom In his disappointment and aul rage rase re ro ferret as nf that villain II de u cue steamed away au to tn Lis Ils Lisbon bon hOIl when whon he should have gone In 1 some Bomo other direction and the proposed In III Invasion or England l n was at lit an end The rhe resourcefulness and readiness of ot tho great French commander were shown by h the rapidity with which he threw the tho over Ocr Into Austria to 10 light lie magnificent cam campaign which culminated tI In a blaze of glory at lit There are arc ninny who profess to believe hellec that he ho hall had this end emt In 1011 throughout and that tho move against I Itself was 1111 but a n feint In order to 10 arouse the patriotism m or of the tho French and to enable tho Iho Ruth gath gathering ering together or of n larger than thun ships tile the following year at nl the tho battle of or Trafalgar Whatever opinions may ma bo ho held as to tho real Intention of oC BOlla parte In 11 cre creating IC the tho lIn mid whatever may ilia be thought at this distance of or the practicability of his apparent plan the Iho theone one olle seemed real 1 11 enough and the tho other othel practical enough nt that to 10 stir both hoth and Franco from center to 10 circumference The standing army was Willi already strong 11 1 the tho mid the tho reserve So electrical the Iho effect of the pro proponed Invasion that there was armed and drilled a n body of volunteers that soon reached tho enormous or of In and In III Ire Ireland land The Tho navy was built up Ull In III pro proportionate proportionate degree the tho number or of men being be In raised from to and anda a hundred vessels of the line even een a n larger larer number of ot and hun hUll hundreds of ot smaller vessels being gather gathered ed elt together for tor coast protection Wil William I liam ritt Pitt appeared dally at the head of or volunteers In the country dill dis districts men were drilled with pitchforks or any other weapon that came handy while In Edinburgh Jeffrey the re reviewer viewer In company preparing to 10 slash men with his sword as 11 he hc hud previously slashed them with his pen There lelo pleasantries passed In III It Is III true Irue but they WIle were of or n II rather nature as will be ho seen from tin cartoons of tin tilt period some of which lire are hero hem reproduced The fact that Ihal the hUll hud n reI certain tain Iliin ferocious quality Is III revealed by II the tendency of John Hull to say d don don on any IIII all 1111 occasions The humor that u II man mun swears over ocr contains u II certain clement of 11 to say the Iho least It Is true that Ihal there has hall been n quality of or wit In III all 1111 calculated to In Induce profane expressions express lOlls on the part of the render or hearer In the Iho majority of l cases however this provocative to 10 tIle the smothered lies lits In III the manner In II II lieI oC or the Iho would he Joker while In III Inthe the tho case In point tho Iho Incentive rests In III Inthe the situation Itself lI elf Not 01 but that the cartoons are atrocious enough ellou h to lu excite almost anything an short of ot assault aR that thatIs Is when measured by h modern stand standards ards but picture wit wll was In III Its 1111 In Infancy fancy then Ihen and public taste hall bad not grown hypercritical through Thus Mr 11 Hulls tendency to 10 the tho rather rathel free freo use of or expletives cannot be traced to the bad caricatures of which he was the tho subject hut but rather to the fact that his fighting blood was III up 11 Yet these very ery cartoons had much to todo todo do with precipitating the tho war for gar wild h welcomed the tho of Amiens us n as UM any anyone one Olle but bul hurriedly added that ho would sooner jurat Jural than thull let lel a d d Frenchman know Imo It II An n an all Indica Indication lion tion or of the with which regarded Napoleons plans It Il may be Je mIll added cd that Ihal Nelson thought the French might get as 1111 fur far ns IS tho Enl lI h shore One of or the humorous features of the Iho times was all a representation or of Sir Wal Walter 11 ter Scott nt ul Iho height of his hili fame ume as at a I patriotic yeoman newly newl caught coughl by h the thc universal un I war fever fel While the tho groat rell novelist did not break breakout out nut Into expletives In tho prevailing fashion he did tho next thing to It for he ho set sel nil III a I row of turnips on sticks and valiantly attacking them with withdrawn Ith drawn saber laber shouted Cut them down the villains Cut Cul them down Con Can Considering nil all of nf which It Il would appear that It Il was ns as well for the tho French that tho Invasion 11 to Invade Britain was with martial ardor from pulpit bench college collego down don to country yokel okI The fhe whole nation be ho became came n II military Men Ien with muskets lines or any other weapons that could be brought Into requisition Tho Iho three kingdoms were saturated with rumors and not a Il few fo channel for fill six wo e shall be he masters of or tho world Just how lo 10 this IhlA mastery of the 1 transport the army to 10 English Roll Kill was IS tho th nil rull Tho raft ru rt that hUll been hoel ler to 10 was possibly born In III the minds of the In Inventive rather than In that thol of the consul It 11 seems to 10 have hae been Napoleons Iden to 10 requisition tion every eel boat hoal could bo he pressed Into then drawing off on tho I ng fleet neet by II d I feint of his own to In mako one grand rush for the shores lilt Ills exact Intentions In III tho matter however will always bo shrouded In more or less mystery likewise l I sudden It II Is IH probable that change of tactics was Willi brought about not 1101 more mort through the blunder of oC than by hy the fact factor of or the tho coalition formed between EIlIf laud land and the of the continent with Its menace to 10 France In case the were withdrawn for tho purpose or of overrunning 1 When hon hoard hC nl of 01 this coalition ho he doubtless concluded that Im hI could break It more effectively by h attacking the tho continental members of It Il than by hy hazarding the crossing of the tho channel Then Ihen after I he ho bad crushed Austria ho could deal deul with England J at hla leisure T r rAt 1 At any rate that was W II the tho plan ho ff I adopted and the success of 01 It showed 1 J b hlA wisdom wIndom f i i I t This Is all 1111 ancient history his tor now to today f t hJ t tIla day Ila England I and Prance Franco are at peace Jl f I Tho late lato visit of King Edward to Paris I I tho return visit of President Lou Loubet I I I bet to London accompanied as us they t dr I I such lIuch universal evidences of I wore by Ly I J good feeling between tho two Iwo countries t 1 I have hao made It possible for those hered hereditary r I Ilar foes Coe to 10 forget their past differ differences A I 1 and to smile together loethel over oer tho I jV f 1 ludicrous or of tho Iho Invasion that t i L J t did not Invade lJ i 11 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