Excerpt from Life and Campaigns of Arthur, Duke of Wellington, K. G, Vol. 4 French emperor, and the introduction of Blueher's name in his negoeiation with the commissioners, was in character with the propriety and decorum of the great. Man on all public occasions, and calculated to allay the improper suspicions of the prince marshal. The Prussians, said his grace, in an official letter toa personal friend, think the Jacobins wish to give Napoleon Buonaparte to me, believing thati will save his life; Blueher wishes to kill him, but I have told him that I shall remonstrate, and shall insist upon his being disposed of by common accord. I have likewise said, that, as a private friend, I advised him to have nothing to do with so fold a transaction; that he and I had acted too distinguished parts in these transactions, to be come executioners; and that I was determined, if the sovereigns wished him to be put to death, they should appoint an execu tioner, which should not be me. The terms which are here employed in describing the ferocity of Blucher's character, sufficiently indicate the necessity that existed for his grace's interference, -necessity, for ages of subsequent military glory would never have obliterated the bloody stain from the page of our history, had England been, in any degree, a party to the assassination of Napoleon. It is also observable, that the rcmon strance of his grace was not to be misunderstood, and that, even in the language of courtesy, he signified his determination to insist upon Buonaparte's being disposed of only by the common consent ofthe allied sovereigns of Europe. This atrocious design is another link in the long chain of guilt, and cruelty, which the Prussian chieftain wove, in his retributive war with France, and strengthens the delineation of his character, introduced, at ia tervals, in these pages: his presumption in claiming the spoils of Waterloo, and the glory of having conquered Napoleon, want ed but the murder of that immortal man by abraggart's hand, to consummate the assassin's vapouring autobiography. It cannot be doubted that Blucher's intention was to revenge the wrongs of his country by this cold-blooded murder; and, so fresh were the feelings of injury, which Napoleon had inflicted Upon the other allied kingdoms, that their monarchs would, no doubt, while they disclaimed the act, have pardoned the perpe iv. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.