The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1870-08-06 00:00:00

NAPOLEON ENTERING METZ.

" A movement of the crowd Indjested that his Imperial
Majesty had Lome, was ahout to enter his b,n4nr Mlle of Mix
for the ,o.ord time since his accessian to the the..s, Ills
fir,t visit was on the 27'h of Septernher, 187,7, on which cc
carton he Wiped two days In the town. Hats were lifted
and a hearty cheer was raised, the boys, as youth's tradition
is, lea ling cheerily off. The four Cent Gardes in tract thew
their leg straight swords, wheeled about, and headed the
precession at a walk. After them came a pair of outriders in
the dark green imperial liter;, with creamy, huckskiu
brieches, sitting clbetnut horses, with blinkers to their.), es,
anti a chime of Voids? bells round their necks. Time, again,
a qu.rtet of Cent G tides and alone, with an open apace to
himself, a rider in costume of harlequin brilliance with a
beadle's c. eked bat ov.r his lordly brow and a hunts-
man's whip in his 3 ellow gloved hand. html he Lot
crack that whip? I am not pot enough In hack stairs
technolo,.:y to tell 300 what fenction this begilt and ern-
broalert d apt arition dfachlrges. He reminded me mightib
of that splendid Vetiver is the pig- ithi (the battal,-strade I
think they call him) who cies, the way for the Papal
equipage in pet gres.es through Home. The Emperor's co,
ti.g t.,MC WO, a plain bore ached, ace hy tar horses. ridden
by postilions. He lumer'ed hi jesty occupied tl.e right side
of the hack seat. He was Mar sed in the mot .rm of a general
of dishier), and core MI his left breast • star of the Legion of
Honour. "lie looks DI" remarked a friend wha was beside
me ; but this friend had never seen Lim bane. A saltow
con plexich la venbar to the family. The pri sent Deeper: r
knelt; so have Prince Napoleon and Prince Pierre, and s
had the Great C ,ptain /rim whim the house has its rite,
and whose mar de-like pallor, turning betimes to an ashy
tint, is hl,tor cal. In my plegment Napoleon 111 is in
excellent he dth, but a little jaded as well he may be
tie smiled, not the sh kly ma-green smile that very
Incompetent and partial Wittira... Mr. a ingl.ke, Itla4
him, at Sollerino, where, forsooth, he plsyed the
role of coward, hut a aratifted arid contented moll-.
He was accompanied hy General de W..uhert de Geniis soil
two other ables-de-camp. A squad of Cent Gerdes followed
the carriage anti then came a seco..d, open I he the fir r.
containing the Frites Imperial, attended by two officers of
rank. he child was pale, he has the delLiacy of colour of
his aucm t mother ; but he was full of boyish animaDon, anti
felted his can ac 4 replaaal it almost continuonsly as the
crowd cheered him At tint the populace did not appear to
know who the little lad In the sub-lieutenant's uniform was,
hut the women, ashf by some acute womanly instinct, smart,:
to a coreatlial at Once, Mal were firot mad loudest al the r
cries, •• L ng live the PrMce Imperial." More Cent Garde
clattered past, and then In cal,"che Mai pair Came Marshal
Bogdan ; but them who no favour for even a marshal of
France to night, and the multitude closed in, pressing furi-
ously behind the Imperial escort —Standard COrre3praldf nit