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 240 TROUBLED COUNSELS. chap, refastened upon him the whole suit of long-worn fetters with which Niel'a 'Mission' had loaded him. We are beginning to see something now of war business superintended by the Emperor Louis Napoleon. It was this same weak, meddlesome hand still playing with the same State machinery, that afterwards in the fulness of time brought cruel disasters on .France.