CHAPTER VII.

MORE WAR REMINISCENCES—BRITISH AND NAPOLEONIC DESIGNS. HOW NAPOLEON DEFIED THE MONROE DOCTRINE.—THE BANQUET TO ROMERO.—SPEECHES BY EMINENT FINANCIERS, JURISTS AND BUSINESS MEN.—THE ELOQUENT ADDRESS OF ROMERO AGAINST FRENCH INTERVENTION.—NAPOLEON SHOWS HIS ANIMUS BY DESTROYING THE NEWSPAPERS CONTAINING THE REPORT OF THE BANQUET.—THE EMPEROR PLOTTING WITH REPRESENTATIVES OF THE ENGLISH PARLIAMENT TO AID THE CONFEDERATES AND MAKE WAR ON THE UNITED STATES. There were …