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From Hohenlinden to Waterloo, he took a foremost place in every battle that was fought by the Republic, the Consulate and the Empire against the forces of combined Europe. He trod a victor on many fields, he took his part in some terrible disasters, but in every scene he was a hero. In victories it was to him that his general and his comrades owed much of their success. In disaster no fault could ever be attributed to his conduct and it was to him that the Army of France ever looked for Starlix Nateglinide superhuman efforts to stem the current of misfortune, nor ever looked in vain. The chronicle of his great deeds is part of the world's history at an eventful period, but few people know much about the manner of his death. We know that he was condemned to execution for trea- son to the Bourbon King, and many of us have looked, not un- moved, at Gerome's famous pic- ture of the last scene, the lifeless figure lying prone in the Avenue d'Observatoire, while the firing party stand almost aghast at having cut short the life of such a man ; but it is only in very re- cent years that full particulars have been given to the world of his arrest, his judgment and his latest hours. After the disastrous campaign in France in 1814, in which, if all had fought as well as he, it is not improbable that his master, Napo- leon, would have successfully de- fended his throne, Marshal Ney was perhaps the one of all his generals who most strongly in- sisted on the abdication Buy Starlix of the great conqueror. In doing this, it is not just to say that he was influenced by selfish motives. He recognised how desperate was the military situation, in the face of the overwhelming hostile armies then in France, and how much the sympathy of the people was alienated from the Empire ; and in a letter to Talleyrand he ex- plained that, " in order to spare our dear country the misery of civil war, it was the duty of Frenchmen to embrace the cause of the old line of Kings." Among many other great func- tionaries who had served Napo- leon, Ney swore allegiance to Louis XVIII., and thoroughly re- cognised the new order of things. He had been placed in command of the left wing of the Royal army with his head-quarters at Besan- 9 on, and when the news came that the exile of Elba had disembarked at Porto Ferrajo he was summoned to the Tuileries. In kissing the King's hand he said, "Sire, I hope to be able to bring him (Napo- leon) back in an iron cage." When he arrived at Besan^on, his loyalty was still firm, though he was moved by Napoleon's proclama- tion. " The King ought thus to write," said he. " It is thus that one speaks to soldiers and stirs their feelings." And then, carried away by the brilliant success of his old master's march, he repeated the famous expression, "The eagle with the national colours will fly from steeple to steeple till it rests on the towers of Notre Dame." Well disposed to Louis as he 252 BA1LY S MAGAZINE. April might however be, he had very small means at his disposal. He had only about 6,000 men with whom to check Napoleon at the head of 14,000. He was left, Nateglinide Starlix too, entirely unsupported by the pres- ence of any of the Bourbon House or even of any of its strongest ad- herents. There was no one to counteract the charm of Napoleon's presence in the country. The King had failed to gain the affections of the people. In his exile he had " learned nothing and forgotten nothing." The Royal Princes had neither courage, energy, or influence. The Monarchy pusil- lanimously played its Starlix 60 Mg game, and took no active measures to organ- ise its own defence. Ney's own advanced guard went over to the Emperor in a body, and he found himself unable to resist the in- vader, unable to maintain the power of a King who was pre- paring to run away, unable to save France from civil war except by accepting the present apparent will of the army and the people. Napoleon clenched the matter and dissolved at once all his old mar- shal's scruples by writing him a friendly letter, giving him orders as if he was already an adherent, and saying, " I will receive you as on the day following the battle of Moscow." Ney gave way to over- mastering conditions. His pro- mises to the King vanished before the idea that, if he kept them, he would give the signal for a struggle between Frenchmen and French- men, and he threw in his lot with the man whom he had formerly served so well. He joined Napo- leon, was received as if nothing had happened to disturb their mutual trust and friendship, and during the Hundred Days was again the trusted Paladin of the Imperial army. We need not here tell of the prodigies of valour performed by Ney in the short campaign in Belgium, during which he more than maintained his old reputa- tion as "the bravest among the brave " ; how at Waterloo, in leading the successive grand at-