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perfidy ; at present, I will content myself with disdaining 

 this vain title, with never annexing it to my name, and 

 especially with never accepting the diploma, however 

 much I may be pressed to do it. From this moment, Gen- 

 tlemen, you may rest assured that Carnot will not long 

 remain Minister after our enemies have been repulsed." 



I must have made you ill-appreciate our colleague, 

 Gentlemen, if these words had appeared to require far- 

 ther explanation. 



CARNOT IN EXILE. HIS DEATH. 



Of all the ministers of the Hundred Days, Carnot'was 

 the only one whose name apeared on the list of pro- 

 scription prepared on the 24th of July, 1815, by the 

 second Restoration. Whether this special rigour was 

 the consequence of the patriotic ardour with which our 

 colleague disputed with foreigners the last remnants of 

 the French territory, or of his persisting (though unfor- 

 tunately without good result) to point out to the Empe- 

 ror the traitor, who, under the favour of his former 

 reputation for talent, had insinuated himself into the 

 Ministry, still his glory will not be tarnished by it. 



Already, on the evening of the 24th July, Carnot had 

 received a passport from the Emperor Alexander. He 

 used it, however, only in Germany. Obliged to travel 

 under a feigned name, he would not forego the title of a 

 Frenchman as long as he could avoid it. It was there- 

 fore again as a Frenchman that he traversed the great 

 river in a melancholy mood, to the very banks of which 

 he had had the supreme honour of extending our fron- 

 tiers, and he went to Warsaw. 



In a certain country not far from ours, a stranger is 

 always received with this matter-of-course formula : 



