Martinsburg gazette and public advertiser. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1826-1833, 1829-10-15
MARTINsBURG, VA THURSDAY, OCTOBER Is 1929

The fearless confidence of his manno.
HIM and secured their affect;ons d. ~ -
.Iese CLEANS OF popular favor were oyercast
he disastrous intelligence from Baden,
"noh arrived SIX days after this entertain
nen- Inc retreat ON Burgos was effected
dld the KING found himself in the midst al
lliiairshaitBessleres' aFmy-he quilted Madrid
ana ieit ms ministers with instructions TO sound
ule ehiels OF the Spanish army recently yicto-
nous al Baden. On the departure of Nanole-
on ne was lett IN command Of the forces that
renamed IN Spain. The SUBSEQUENT events
Which led to his abandonment of The erwin
are Wen knowD-he returned 10 Paris. where
his brother, the emperor, again left him with
The utle OF his lieutenant. when he denartad
TO put hlmsellat the head of that army. which
after assailng all the armies of E.nrone IN
tiielf respective countries, was at last reduced
10 aeiend itself on It's own soil ,Josenb had
tiae honors oil the military command. and act
ed III conjunction with Cambaceres as conn
selior OF The empress, who was left rerent of
'he empire She had instructions to follow
the advice Of these counsellors. In ease tba
events OF war should intercept all conmun;-
eaton with the imperial head quarters anil
the capital, and the enemy make his vav 70
Paris, Joseph had verbal instructions from tho
emperor, and after his departure a ,,,;tt,,,
order to ren'oce the King Of Rome and he
empress, to proceed with them to the Loire.
ana cause them to be accompanied by the
grand dlgnitaries, officers of the senate. the
legislative body, and the council of state
The foresight and Judgment which dictated
these precautions We're acknowledged by .Jo-
s!e.ph, who watched the spirit of approaching
disaiiection. Finally, reserve was thrown
aside, and many senators no longer dissem-
bled their opinions in favor of proclaiming
Napoleon the second, or the regency of the
empress, and the heutenancy of Joseph under
an infant emperor. 1t was then that Josepb
made known to his brother the necessity of
concluding peace on any terms, and when
the slender corps of Marshal Marmont and
Mortler were brought under the walls of
Paris, when they declared that they were
pursued by an enemy vastly superior, that all
communication between the emperor and his
capital was cut of-the case provided for in
the verbal and written instruction of Napole-
on was admitted to have arrived; and it was
unanimously decided to remove the govern
ment to Chartres and thence to the Loire.
The council did not leave Paris till four
Q clock the next morning, when Joseph, pass
ing through Versailles, ordered the cavalry at
the depots IN that city to follow him, and
proceeded to Charities, where he found the
empress, and thence to Blois. The abdica-
tlon OF Fountainbleau left Joseph no choice
but a retirement TO Switzerland, where he re-
manned until the nineteenth, 1915, the dav ON
which he learned the arrival of Napoleon at
Grcnople. After the loss of the battle of
Waterloo Joseph embarked for the United
States, where he originally expected to Join
Napoleon, whom he left at the Isle d AK max
Tag arrangements for his departure to the new
world. lie was received in New,Jersey with
the greatest kindness and respect, and law
was enacted expressly for his case, which
was addressed to him with expressions OF be-
nevolent courtesy by the governor of that
state IN 1871. BY this act he was enabled to
purchase and hold real estate acitiso,a becoa-
ing an .1,aeFicas citizen The mansion which
he erected on bis grounds fell prey to the
iiames, some years since; an occasion on
which he received from the inhabitants of Jer-
sey the most touching proofs of alIectionate
interest. Separated from his family and from
his country, by almost insurmountabIc obsta-
Giles, it is believed that a rich store of enjoy
ment for the residue of life is secured to Jo-
scph-a conscience void of ofience-possessed
OF much, no upright man can fear solitude
The length of this sketch leaves us barely to
add our impression that Joseph Buonaparte
IS worthy of the commentator bestowed
upon hlm-and that where men like himself,
driven by fate from the old world, seek an
asylum on our shores, we have little to appre-
bend from the spirit of emigration, or for the
stability of our institutions.