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 PRECEDING THE INVASION. 179 and ofteu by generous impulses, went far to make chap. him an ally with whom (so long as he might find it advantageous to remain in accord with us) it would be possible, nay easy, and not unpleasant to act. Lord Raglan submitted to the publicity and con^nnce ceremonial visits forced upon him during the Tuiieriw. days of the 11th and 12th of April, and at one o'clock on the 13th he had a private interview with the French Emperor at the Tuileries. The Emperor and the English General were not stran- gers to one another. They had been frequently brought together in London ; and, indeed, it was by Lord Fitzroy Somerset that the heir of the First Napoleon, deeply moved by the historic significance of the incident, had been brought to Apsley House and presented to the Duke of Wellington. The Emperor showed Lord Eaglan the draft of the instructions which he proposed to address to Marshal 8t Arnaud. It may be said that at this hour Lord Eaglan began to have upon him the weight of that anxious charge which was never again to be tin-own off so long as life and consciousness should endure. He had charge on behalf of England of the great alliance of the West ; and since it happened that, in this the outset of his undertaking, he followed a method which characterised his relations with the French from first to last, there is a reason for now pointing it out. It seemed to him that in the intercourse of two proud and sensitive nations