The Sun.
London, England, 1861-01-16 00:00:00

land, and there, on the 7th of July, 1805, gave birth
to a son, the party to the present-suit. Certificates
of his birth and baptism are all given in fell in the
memoir. Madame Bonaparte remained in London
until November, 1805, where she continued to
receive the same affectionate letters from her hus-
band. But she grew tired of the solitude in which
she was left, and, finding her position embarrassing,
she resolved to return to America, which she did
in November, 1805.
Not long after this the letters of Jerome to his
wife became less affectionate. The memoir explains 1
this change : 1

" Since the Treaty of Peace of Presburg the Electro,
Duke of Wurtemberg, had obtained with the title of King
considerable territorial aggrandisement, and the hand of his
daughter, now become Princess Royal, was already destined
for the'youngest of his (the Emperor's) youngest brothers.
Was Jerome ignorant of these projects when on the 20th of
Jute, 1806, he wrote from Martinique to his wife a letter
reproaching her for having left Holland ?"

This letter was of evil omen. The reproach of
having left Holland was most unjust on the part of
one who, having brought his wife from the United
States to Europe, had abandoned her at Lisbon ;
had told her to repair to Amsterdam; and soon after
ordered her to return to America. On the 17th of
July, 1806, he addressed his last letter to" Madame
Bonaparte, at Baltimore ;" it made no announce-
ment of the 'project of his brother; it contained
commonplace compliments, and consisted of four or
five lines.

On the Ist of June, 1806, an act was prepared
which the memoir describes as " a melancholy
monument of the vices engendered by the servile
weakness and the guilty condescension of ecclesi-
astical authorities to the exactions of a Govern-
ment. This was a sentence issued by the Arch-
bishop of Paris annulling the marriage of Jerome
with Miss Paterson, an act which the head of the
Church to which the Archbishop belonged had
previously and repeatedly resisted as illegal aid
opposed to the dogmas of the Church. The Arch-
bishop had the baseness to declare " that there was
no marriage contracted between the minor Jerome
and Elizabeth Paterson; that the alleged marriage
was null and clandestine, having taken place with-
out the publication of banns, without the consent of
the minor's mother, from which there resulted a
presumable rapt de seduction, without the presence
of a proper priest,* in a foreign country, &c."

The Emperor baying at last persuaded the King
of Wurtemberg and the Emperor of Russia that his
brother was free to contract a new union, Jerome
was married on the 12th of August, 1807, to the
Princess Frederica Catherine of Wurtemberg, and
in December of the same year was proclaimed
King of Westphalia.

In May, 1808, Jerome sent a person to the
United States to claim his son and bring him to
France. From the letter which he wrote to his
father-in-law, Mr. Paterson, it appeared what little
value he set on the acts which annulled his Ameri-
can marriage. In it he spoke of giving his son the
position "suitable to his birth and rank ;" bringing
him up in the rank which belongs to him, he
should thus. diminish the grief he felt at being far
from his mother, and repair all the evil which the
great political interests he was bound to respect
had done us," &c. In a letter to his wife of the
same date he says he " counts upon a more happy
future," and " nothing will ever make me forget
the bonds which unite me to you, and the tender
attachment which I have vowed to you for life."
Madame Bonaparte refused to part with her child.
Another long letter is given, dated Cassel, the
22d November, 1808, from Jerome, now King of
Westphalia, to his American wife, in which he pro-
poses to give her for her residence and that of his
son " a noble palace, comfortable and in every
respect worthy of you, at Smalcalden, about 30
leagues from Cassel," and also " the title of Prince
and Princess of Smalcalden, for you and your son,
with a yearly revenue of 200,000 francs." He
also wrote to his son, who was then only three
years old.