NAPOLEON'S PROPHECY.

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume IX, Issue 495, 9 January 1879, Page 2

NAPOLEON'S PROPHECY.

The prophetic words of the great Napoleon seem" about to be verified at the present time, if England be'not true to herself, by arresting the further progress of the northern barbarian in his victorious and ambitious career —one who respects neither treaties nor his plighted word. The Emperor said: "In tbe course of a few years Russia will have Constantinople, the greatest part of Turkey, and all Grreese. This I hold to be as certain as if it had already taken Almost all the cajoling and flattering which Alexander practised towards me was to gain my consent to effect this object. I would not consent, foreseeing that the equilibrium of Europe would be destroyed. In the natural course of things, in a few years Turkey must fall to Russia. The Powers it would injure, and who could oppose it, are England, France, Prussia, and Austria. The only hypothesis that France and England may ever be_ allied with sincerity will be to prevent this. Once mistress of Constantinople, Eussia gets all the commerce of the Mediterranean, becomes a great naval Power, and God knows what may happen. She quarrels with you, marches off to India an army of 70,000 good soldiers, which' to Eussia is nothing, and 100.000 canaille, Cossacks, and others, and England loses India. Above all other Powers, Eussia is the most to be feared by you; All thisI forsee. I see into futurity further than? others, and I wanted to establish a barrier against those barbarians by establishing the kingdom of Poland, and Poniatowski at the head of it as king ; but your imbecile Ministers would not consent. A hundred years hence I shall be praised (encense) and Europe, especially England „ will lament that I did not succeed.. When they see the finest countries in Europe overrun, and a prey to those northern barbarians, they will say ".Napoleon was right."