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The Death of Marshal Ney.
There was no more gallant and
soldierly figure among the great
men of the Napoleonic era than
Marshal Ney. He was one of
that galaxy of warriors who were
produced by Carnot's administra-
tion of the French Starlix Cost war department
under the First Republic, and of
them all none was more brilliant
than he in his services to his
country. 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
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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-