The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1870-10-29 00:00:00

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No. 54 is • list of the December proscriptions, and
of all persons against whom, up to the date of the
document, which is not given measures had been
- It is signed 'Do Matipss," and informs us
4642 persons were arrested or "wanted," in
consequence of the insurrection of December, 1851.
Of these, 11,609 were liberated or merely placed under
surveillance, and 15,033 were condemned. 915 of
this number suffered for ordinary offences; of the re-
maining 14,118, it appears that 6,245 were pardoned,
which, after some other deductions, left at tae date
of the return 6,153. condemned as follows :—Cayenne,
173 ; Algeria, 4042; exiled, 614; imprisoned, 1,324.
De Mamma adds that this number is iminishing, ria
the prisoners are every day declaring their submission
to the Emperor, which, it seems, entitles them to •
p.rdon or mitigation of sentence. It will be noted
that there is no mention of any executions.
No, 42, dated June 12, 1852, is a letter of thank: to
the Prince President from Madame Lafarge, to whool
be had granted • pardon.
No. 45 comprises some receipt' given by Mies
Howard (Countess de Beauregard), • letter written
by her, and • memorandum of sums paid to her
between the 24th of March, 1853, and the lit of
January, 1855. The editors of the correspondence
state that Miss Howard had devoted her fortune to
the incases of the Coup d'Etat, and had several
times paid the debts of Prince LOtlia Napoleon, huh
whatever may have been her claims on the Prince, it
must be thought they must have been discharged
In fall and with something to spare by the Emperor.
He paid her in two years £217,090 and yet a few
months later she wrote for more. She Mates, in very
bad French, that the engagements made with her have
not been fulfilled, and dud her marriage settlements
and her child compel her to remind the Emperor of
his promise to plane £140,000 "with Giles," Beyond
this, writes Madame Is Beauregard, there is nothing
"gut de eateuler de 50,000 &psis le lie juin 1853, la
resat et, 50,000 &psis Jantier Jana' it Oatobre.
No. 24 i• a note of the expenses of the birth ae,3
baptism of the Prince Imperial; it is headed by the
editors, "ce que mute bapteme," but what is the cost
of the baptism by water compared with that of the
baptism by fire whose account is not closed yet? The
expenses of the former were £36,000, including •
layette £4,000, gratifications to servants £7,000, dia-
mond lockets £l,OOO, doctors £2,500, and in sage femme
£240. Large sums went to poets, actors, painters, and
musicians, and last of all cementite cortege of the bap-
tism itself, coating £6,400.
No. 23 is • confectioner's receipt for £8 10s., the
price of 12 dozen boxes of bonsbons furnished to
General de Failly on account of the Emperor. From
a pencil note on the receipt it seems that this doughty
soldier received from his Sovereign in five months of
1858 more than £5O worth of sugar plums.
who,fer anotheront the twee f Jeunenee,nltB6h.l,
No. 63 relates to the affairs of Prince Pierre Bona-
coPhruts%
domed "Mocquard, refueer volentent." In August,
There hleitstelme
eipereinal.
1862, Prince Pierre writes to Mocquard tocompLinot
the restrictions under which he is allowed to shoot in
the forest of Rambouillet. The Prince debs Mos-
kowa's secretary says no pheasants are to be shot, the
Emperor prohibits stags, the keepers preserve the
best parts of the forest for themselves, and the pom
Prince is driven to ask Mocquard "What am 1 to
shoot? '

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No. 5 ii &copy of a letter from the Queen of Holland
to M. d'Andre., dated the 18th ot July, 1866, the day
after the cession of Venetia to France. This paper
was in the possession of Napoleon, being endorsed in
his handwriting, and the Commission, in transcribing
It, observe, "Napoleon was long ago warned of the
danger to France of a united Germany whose military
organisation was in the hands of Prussia." The fol-
lowing is • translation of part of the letter : -
"You are deceived by strange Motions. You have kat
more prestige in the last fortnight than in the whole of the
reign. You allow the weak to be destroyed, while the in-
solence and churlishness el your nearest neighbour grows
beyond measure. You accept a gilt (Venetia) and don't
know how to say s civil word to him who gives It to you.
I sin sorry you think me interested, and do not see
the fatal danger of • one-powerful Germany and of •
one-powerful Italy. It is the dynasty which is threat-
ened, and it is it which will Dave to bear the consequences.
I say this because It is a truth you will recognin too late."
Under date of the 31st of December, 1866, appears
a receipt of £4OO (No. 40) paid out of the Emperor's
privy purse "pour Cameublenunt de At. is Baron
Jerome David." A memorandum (No. 40) gives the
balance of an open account with Baring Brothers in
Loudon. In a prefatory note the editors say :
From 1852 to 1868, and probably to the end of his reign,
Napoleon 111, kept an open account with Baring Brothers.
The memoranda of the yearly balances oiler nothing remark-
able; there are a good many orders in favour of Mesdames
Walewska and De Cadore ; bills paid, to.. all of moderate
amounts The balance of the 31st of December, 18.52, shows •
trace of the Coup d'Etat, £757 being carried to the Imperial
credit, making • total of £31,370 161. But the really precious
document of the Baring budget is a note, left doubtless by
mistake in the accounts of December, 1866. It is written in
Englisd"
This "really precious" memorandum shows that at
its date Napoleon had £657,000 invested in divers
foreign Government securities, besides 000,000 in
diamonds and £16,000 in uniform., all apparently in
connection with the Baring account. There is • mys-
terious supplementary item of " Beaujon, £60,000,"
which is held by the editors to refer to a sale of lands.
Anyhow, Bay they, it is clear that £933,000, have been
tVonomises from the civil list andeafely invested. This
uiscovery does not, of course, impugn the recent state-
ment of the Emperor, made through his secretary. or of
the Messrs. Baring, that he had no money whatever
invested in foreign securities. £933,000 may easily
have been swallowed up in four years.