100 CARNOT. 
afflicting and withering days, happy those who have not 
witnessed you !” : ‘ 
The sentiments with which Carnot was able to inspire 
the population of Antwerp are known to the whole world. 
I cannot resist the pleasure, however, of citing at least 
some passages from a letter that was delivered to him 
the day he departed for Paris; after having been thus 
ordered by the government under the elder branch of the 
Bourbons, who had remounted the throne. ‘The authori- 
ties and inhabitants of the suburb of Borgerhout, the de- 
struction of which had been resolved on, but which he 
thought he could preserve without detriment to the gen- 
eral defence, thus expressed themselves :— 
“You are going to quit us; we feel deeply afflicted by 
it; we would wish to possess you still a little longer; we 
solicit this great favour most earnestly ..... The in- 
habitants of Saint Willebrord and of Borgerhout request 
permission to inquire once a year, of the person who may 
be appointed to govern them, after the health of General 
Carnot .. .. + We may, perhaps, never see you again. 
If some day General Carnot allows his portrait to be 
painted, and would permit a copy of it to be made for us 
ye Sees this precious present would be deposited in the 
church of Saint Willebrord.” 
I will not commit the fault, Gentlemen, of weakening 
such naive and touching expressions by a cold commen- 
tary. 
CONDUCT OF CARNOT DURING THE HUNDRED DAYS. 
The conduct of Carnot during the Hundred Days, 
appears to me to have been well and honourably epito- 
mized in those memorable words that Napoleon ad- 
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