Chapter 2

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HENRY V. AND NAPOLEON III. Sunday, February 30th. We resume our quotations from the Debats, which thus introduces a third pretender to the throne:-- "Is this distracted country never to have peace? While on Friday we recorded the pretensions of a maniac to the great throne of France; while on Saturday we were compelled to register the culpable attempts of one whom we regard as a ruffian, murderer, swindler, forger, burglar, and common pickpocket, to gain over the allegiance of Frenchmen--it is to-day our painful duty to announce a THIRD invasion--yes, a third invasion. The wretched, superstitious, fanatic Duke of Bordeaux has landed at Nantz, and has summoned the Vendeans and the Bretons to mount the white cockade. "Grand Dieu! are we not happy under the tricolor? Do we not repose unde

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