The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1870-09-17 00:00:00

THE EMPEROR NAPOLEON.

FrJrn the Prumian Correspondent of The Times,
writing under Elete Berlin, Sept. 8 :
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Oa the sth of September, at 950 it cc., a special trete
stapped ot the email station of Wilheiteslithe, near Cased.
It cansfeted of two carriages and conteleed about a dozen
passengers. After a few servants end inferior attendante
hot lets the train, a short, stout gentlemen alighted. lam:,
walking to an equipsee Ord hail been waiting for htm he
seated hjmtelf in It with another steatteman, and drove if.
Ito WOTII the red trousels et a Fienth general and a dark
overco it. 11l features ware pinch', aid as he looked about
him from Cam, heel:gent oyes, it was evident that he was
an 'humr and a thinker to boos. His was one of those
facets wh!ch, while helm ding babes of reticence, are yes
it lineti to the lines risking the Inner workims of be
:Med. A second equiaage 101 l owed, Ites train went on, and
the closli.g scene in ore of the neat ttotable tragedies that
has ever been play:eel was at an end. Louts Napoleon, two
days ago the Emperor of the French, sod the commander of
one ol the most rdlant armtes in the world, now by a
double catastrophe reduced to the position of a prisoner of
war cal a private gentleman, had arrived at Ws place of
confinement.
What reflections may have crowded npon the historical
traveller, as, driving through the maguificent wood, he was
approaching the place appointed for his temporary abode.
Was not this the palnce to which his giy mete Jerome had
rpent a few giddy ye.ra, when a yeuther bother had en.
expectedly raised tire from obscurita to the newly.patchetie
op
throne of Westptialia? Was this not the vet y chateau to
a Lich the lerprosesed Monarch had resealed in noisy (movie
Ens, dey alt, r day, weak el ter -week, as long as his jultior'e
star pm untied him hobo: shocked the Inhabitants by
, Pm:email g the ancient hams of the palace, end calling it
N,p,konigholle dialeg his e,themeret rule And if one fine
winter's day Inc tail sedd.,nly ta pack up and emit& from
view, seem more to &pp_ ar on the alga of history, in what
petition ild his Nep',ew tied lamed( now! Was it not in
uere viable capacity of et.boveralga that he an-teed in this
• ehich the lice Mid so peecipitately qultied Of
3 ems ago? Rod he not 'Nowise attempted to seizes por-
tion of that Gerona tot, the approprlatien of which
toms to be a male, (eaters is Cie traditional policy of
his house? And hail Le not boon also wrecked le •
tank which, in his peculiar pod ion, he tiedefound it equally
difficult to svo:,l end to carry net? But here is the iden-
tical palace. With tame and life tee:tient, bemiring the still-
ness of of the night, a ciaepany of inieatry prerent arms in
honour of the new arrival, there is a warm glow inside the
splendid bell. Generals and geralemen a the Royal house-
hold are etmdlug ready to do the honours of the occasion.
They bow law. end are the most obedient servants of
tile Majesty. They conduct Rif 11,j,sty upstairs with the
deference dee Ida Sovereign. They take the commands of
Biz Majesty, and will be nape, to execute them. Mean-
while ettandants are buttlieg about outside, and everything
is In gala. Napoleon is received as a guest, not as • pri-
soner, ny his generous host. Tee entire palace is placed
at his di peal. A numerom suite of some forty
pereous, with a large retinm of servante, have followed him,
and will be likewise entertained by the Kled lie haa
brought 85 heroes, and • variety ot carriages—greater, al-
most, than atm he stored in theme went tie princely tension.
Royal ralets uSe chambre and ohio de cuisine have been soot
down, and everathirg slit be cione to render his stay as
pleasant as pesthole. The movernects of the Emperor are
apparently witnout restraint, and if he ct.ose he might drive
about In Lilo wounds, ee, mpany in the evening, and close
the doy with s visit to Ills Msjesto's Opera at Camel. Such
is the aspect Royal inthrisonment assumes in the courtesy of
the present ego. Times have changed since Mary was
locked up by Elizabeth, or, to quote a more analogous Cale,
since the youthful King of France was captured by the
German Emperor Charles V. on the battle-field of PAVI.
The considerate attention paid to Napoleon by special
order of the King extende to the stateliest particulars. All
the way from the German frontier to Wllhelenstaihe the Im-
perial train never Mopped at the statima themselves, but
always at same distance !rem them, so as to avoid expostbg
the interesting traveller to the geze of the curious. At
Cologne, the day the Emperor passed through, the terminus;
happened to be full of German animus cape led from Paris.
Th. cowers many poor people smote them who had greatly
suffere4 (rem the severe roamere atiopted by the Imperial
G iverement, and approved by its Republican ',mecums.
Loud was their joy on hearing of Napoleon's fate and the re-
tribution that had befallen his armies; and, had they been
permitted to remain in the terminus, the deposed poteetale
ma teaming slowly threugh blight have been subjected
to aleagreeable obeervallthe Bat care was token to send
them uu before his arrival. The very choice of Wilhelm.
shake for his abode was owing to the King's wish to oblige
his distinguished visitor. Al for cations reasons connected
with his present situation and the Mee of his health, he %AI
reluctant to travel Collie eastern provincea of the kingdom,
the choice lay between Wahelnahithe and Stollen/els, the
may two Royal palaces in la astern Preesla ralciatittly grand
for his receptiou. But eiolzer fele on its lofty crag on the
Rhine, and with little if any even ground In its Immediate.
mighlsourhscd, woula have scarcely been SO well suttee tor
re-cenvalescent as the more oval Wilitelmeliehe, with Its
beautiful gardens and parks shretchteg all the way down to -
the deer. So Wllhelnotohe wee selected. It is very
splendid, very healthy, and very visite, the grounds adjoin.
leg the paithe being inaccessible to the public since the ar-
rival of the Emperor.