The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1873-05-03 00:00:00

11ro follows the Will, in French, of which the following
Is a trAuslation

Tills is MY WILL.

I commend my son and my wife to the high oon-
k.ituted authorities of the State (aux graiads Curve de
dlitat), to the people, and the army. The Empress
EngEuie possesses all the qualities requisite for com
ducting the Regency well, and my S3ll disclays a die-
t odition and judgment which will render him worthy
of bis high destinies. Let him never forget the motto
if the head of our family, " Everything fir the
French people." Let him Ox in his mind the wi i.ings
of the prisoner of St. Helena; let him study the lim-
peror's deeds and correspuidence ; finally, let him re-
member, when circumstances so
_permit, that the
cause of the peoples is the cause of France.
Power is a heavy burden, because one cannot always
-do all the good one could wish, and because your con-
temporaries seldom render you justice, so that, in order
to fulfil one's mission, one must have faith in and con-
sciousness of one's duty. It is necessary to consider
that from Heaven on high those whom you have loved
' regard and protect you; it is the soul of my illustrious
uncle Hutt has alwitys inspired and sustained me. The
like will apply to my son, for he will always be worthy
of his name. -

_—
I leave to the Empress Eugenie all my private pro-
perty. It is my desire that, on the majority of my son,
she shall inhabit the Eiyeee and Biarritz.
I trust that my memory will be dear to her, and that
after my death she will forget the griefs I may have
caused her.

With regard to my 1100, let him keep as • talisman
the seal I used to wear attached to my watch, and

which come e from my mother; let him carefully pre.
serve et erything that comes to me from mo Emptrea,
my uncle; had kt him h,conviziced that my te.ot and
rureoul remain with him.
I wake no mention of my faithful eervant=. I am
convinced that the Empress and my con wid Dever
abehtion _ _

I shA die in the Cth.lh, Apostolic, sod ,enn
religion, which my sou w:II alwAys honour by bri
(Sine)

ame, written, an I signe with my hand, at the
Poise, of the Tuileries, the 24th April, one thoussad
tight hundred and sixty.five.
(Signed)
The Daily News makes the following obstreaa,res
upon the will

Nero Leos.

NVe publish this morning a curious document—the will of
the late Emperor Napoleon ill , about which to many and
so diverse 1111110111/1 have frour time to time grit idled.
Whether this be really the last will drawn up up th.
late Emperor we have no means of knoebig but, is It
stands, it certainly forms one of the atm/gest Ws er
composition which modern hi:tory will record. It la
dated the 24th of April, 1861, when all Was gym,
Well with the Empire, U we except some oe,inon;
elections of Opposition candlda etre by the blas,
rats of Parie, and the trial and convieli,n 1 tge
couspiratin s who had shortly before c..teari t
Emperor's life. The will, however, reads like a poi:L....coos
apAal to the French nation ; and indulges in ten. Lag.
sorinding platitudes which were hivariably to be forted ix the
Emperor's public utterau 'es. There Is a strange mi
In It, sls which is noinethiug more than the mere LELA lie
which was supposed to form the Emper d's prniclprj
guidance and of course that mysticism Is wiled,
coloured by Napoleonisur. It to the spill of his illestrlour
uncle, he gam that has Inspired and sustained him, gie
son is to been as a talisman a certain seal which need
to helone to Queen Liortense ; he is carefully to pre
everything that he inherits Irons the great Ein.
peror ; he is to be convinced that the heart aiel 5.,ut
of his father remain with him. There Is something pdhetle,
indeed, In the manner in which the late Emperor desire; that
the Empress should, on the coming of see of her son, inhabit
the imperial residences at the Elyse, and at Illarrar, arid
in the manner in which her husband describes her 'pialiOe
lions for the Regency. The estate sworn under the nil is
under £12),000 and it is said that this amount will be pa.
duced to about one-half by certain claim.. I, sterns cies:,
at least, that the stories of the Imperial Eamby Ironing
brought with them vast sums from France had veil little
foundation in truth.