Napoleon's Wants.
"T want ships, colonies, and commerce." So said Xapob-on Ponaparte, almost in despair, with Furope at his feet—and t.he sea closed to him by a few Fnglish three-deckers and seventy-fours. Ships, colonies, and commerce over-seas are what the victor of Austerlitz and could not get. TTe saw that with the opening century, by whose storm-tossed cradle he stood, these things were essential. The nations are, and have been for a hundred years and more, in conflict and rivalry, not on one continent but on all the sh ires that fringe all the oceans. \nd only one State has been able to gam as much, or nearly as much, of these three cb nients of imperial greatness as she is. The others are still striving to acquire; our task is to ke-qi. Of colonies we have enough—if we do not lose them: of commerce we have a magnificent share, though it ought still to increase; of ships we have "got the ships," as a one- popular sings, t hough we must hav. more of th-m, if we are to hold the other two.
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Lake Wakatip Mail, Issue 2278, 15 September 1899, Page 6
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