The Express.
London, England, 1847-10-02 00:00:00

NING, OCTOBER. 2, 1847.

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and welts In 110 of the chair was raised a teut*
nifleent eatable'', 'which were placed the two oodles—
that of the ez-Kkg on the right, covered. with a violet pall.
and that et Week es the left, having over it • bleak
Oa the that was • maleeleirith of gold, eareensiod tep •
and Invites a bonier of amine, emb,essatle
Upon the oofibe was placed a cushion with the emblem of
sovereignty. The four corners of both palls were wren&
with the arms of the ex• King. Over the catafalque wee •
grand dome or canopy suspended from the vault of the
church. Four grand clignrtaries were seated at the eats.
falque, one at each corner, holding the cords from the ems=
of the palls.
As early as 7 in the morning, all the streets appeasing"
the church were guarded by semidries:tea, and no ono was
stiffened to pass except those engsged in the serelse. 'AI 11,
they were opened to parsons to whom tickets heel been
given, and at 12 to all: who wore mooroing The shnsit.
although admission could only be obtained by tickets, was
crowded to excess. Amongst the persons present we per.
eeived Prince Napoleon son of Jerome Bonaparte ; Princes
Matilde.DamMW • Madame Wyse ; General Arrighi ; Doke
de Padoue ; Doctor Comeau, the friend of Lours Napoleon
Bonaparte, who was confined at Ham; M. Belormeek;
General Sheruky, a Pole; General Oliviers, on Italian: X.
de Vatry, and M. de neer. There were eye sewed WOW
bees of the Imperial Army in the uniform of the Mesa
corps in which they had served.
Louie Napoleon Bonaparte, ex-King of Hellead, wee
born at Ajaocio, in Corsica, on the 2nd of September,
1778. He entered the French army at an early ap, and
accompanied his brother Napoleon to Italy and Erypt.
He was aide-de-camp of Napoleon when the latter, seis-
ing a standard, rushed upon the bridge of Arcola. On
this occasion Louis placed himself before him, braving
the fire of the enemy, and made bis body a rampart for hie
brother and commander. He was sent by Napoleon, when
First Consul, to St. Petersburg on a mission, but received at
Berlin the news of the death of Paul I. After staying at
Berlin about a year, he returned to Paris, and was made
colonel of the sth regiment of dragoons. He bases ISM II
general of brigade, a councillor of state, and seibmgesendlf
general of division. InlBo2 he married Hortense F gut ii,s7bal:
Beauharnais, daughter of the Empress Josephine.
Napoleon became Emperor, Lords received the title of Cos-
stable and ColonebGenend of Carabineers. Atter ha
successively been appointed Governor-General of P
and governor ad interim of the capital in place of oreft,
he took the command of the army of the north in Holland.
The Batevian republic was soon afterwards converted into
a kingdom by Napoleon, and a treaty, by which the
crown of Holland was given to Prince Louis, was signed
between France and Holland, on the 24th of May, 1806.
On the 9th of June the states of Holland sent an embassy
extraordinary to Napoleon, to request, in the name of the
Dutch people, that Louis might be their king, and almost
immediately afterwards he atrumed the title. -The first case
of the new King was to re-establish the finances of the state,
and he earnestly solicited the Emperor to recall the French
troops, who were paid by the Dutch nation, and to diminish
the naval armaments. This request was eventually acceded
to. A civil and a criminal code according to his views were
drawn up by eminent men, and he established an equal sys-
tem of taxation. He finally proposed to the legislative body
a law creating the order of the Union and that of Merit.
To his qualities as a statesman and a sovereign he added a
noble character of humanity. In 1807 a barge loaded
with gunpowder blew up at Leyden, and caused dreadful
disasters. The King hastened to the spot, and weited
the sufferers. The persons who sustained losses were by his
order exempted from all taxes for ten years. In so hula
dation of the Gueldre, the King, although ill at the them,
rushed to the assistance of the people, and exposed himself to
imminent danger in the example he gave to others to exert
themselves for the sufferers. The benevolence with which
he listened to all the complaints that were made to him en-
deared him to his subject, ; but what inspired them with
most veneration was the humanity that he displayed in the
village of Aerie' in exposing himself voluntarily to the effects
of a contagious malady in order to give succour to the ins.
bitants. The love of Louis for his Dutch subjects was such
that he refused without hesitation the crown of Spain when
offered to him by the Emperer. It having been resolved by
Napoleon to establish his continental system, an order was
given for the sequestration of all English merchandise, which
would have the effect, of destroying the commerce of
Holland. Louis, from a sense of duty to his sub-
jects, long resisted the commands of the Emperor, ;
and Marshal Oudinot, at the head of an army of 20,000
men, was sent into Holland to enforce the continental
bleekade. The King then, finding that he was unable to
protect the interests of the Dutch nation, abdicated in favour I
of his son. The abdication was rejected by the Emperor, and
by a decree dated the 9th of July, 1810, Holland was united
to the empire. The ex-King left Haarlem secretly, and went
to Gratz in Styria, where be resided three years, under the
title of Count de Saint Lou. He had refused a brilliant
, and ordered his wife to resist all assistance from the
alnaanpaergL for himself and his children. In 1813, when the
united forces of Europe appeared to be on the point of fable
upon France, Louis offered his services to the Emperor, by
whom they were accepted. He proceeded to Switzeriesik
but, notwithstanding the answer that he had received from
the Emperor, remained there unoccupied.
When Holland threw off the French yoke, Louis, who
was then at Soleure, addressed to the provisional go-
vernment a letter, semen his claims to the throne,
but they were opposed by the allied powers. The
Count de Saint Len, finally retired to the Papal States, with
some members of his family. In his retreat he devoted himself
chiefly to literature. He was the author of the following
works :—" Marie, on is Hollandakes;" " Doeumens His-
toric/sees& la Hollande." "Memoirs* scar la Versification :"
and as opera sod a tragedy; a collection of poems, and a re-
ply to Sir Walter Scott on his history of Napoleon. The ex-
King was an advocate for the abolition of capital punish-
ment. " A King," said he, " owes to God, to posterity, and
to the nation, an account of all the persons in subjeedes to
him." He died at Leghorn, on the 26th of June, 1846,
leaving a request that his body, and that of his son, who was
killed at Forli in 1831, in the disturbances of Romagna,
might be taken to France, and buried at Saint Leu, with the
remains of his father and his first son, which lie then.

.SICIPMINTS OP GOLD AND BILVEIL—The American
papers brought by the Caledonia state that 100,000 five-frenc
pieces had been shipped for France by the French mall
steamer; and also a quantity of silver by the Havre sailing-
packet.
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