Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1828-1831, 1830-10-14

licdn and imperial armies Of France.
PolNT BREEZE, I4,h Sept. 1880.
SIR-l received the let or by which you offer to
accompany me TO Europe, should circums anccs call
me there. Duty alone can induce me to quit this
country. My device, Ike that of my brother Ma
poleon, is all for the French people. therefore do
not consider myself bound by any thing but duty to-
cards the nation. have no right tn exercise either
in my own name or that OF my nephew. Govern
uent Is want OF the people, 10 be created DESTROY
ed by them according to Its uSetulneos:-And am
resigned 10 conform TO the national Will lawfully ex-
pressed You know tina, three millions five hundred
thousand sufrages called my family to the Emp,re
at time when foreigners mad no inhuenc" IN France
You may well suppo. that cannot without uus Ha-
nimlly fail To recoec that my nephew the son of nv
brother, was proclaimed by the Deputies in 1915.
that my brother, the Emperor abdcae ed on tina, con-
d,tion alone; that nothing but foreign bayone's on
two occasions restored the Bourbons and protected
the execution Of SO many usrious defenders of their
country.
should have off already if I did not see arnonr
the national names OF he members of the nroy,sinna
cover amen that of prince with which mine never
Gun hsvc any thing IN Common; being sa isied that
any Bourbon, whatever may be the hrancs to which
he belongs, cannot SAT- my country. | have often
told you that the 'nly family in Franco, which the
naiicn will not choose and cannot like is that o tho
Bourbons. Ii thai Family loved France and wac
aware of the eternal divorce between them it wouid
have long ago renouuccd the throne That divorrc
had been sealed by blood enough, both French and
foreign, during twenty five years, without anv n.ces
sity of exposing the family to b. the cause of shed
ng the blood of the citizens Of Paris under the
mercenary steel OF Swiss.
The great trial Of the revolution is not vet de er
mined. Fhe Emperor Napoleon thought that blood
enough had been split in the interior Of France and
wished to close every wound. He threw tha coun-
Try opet to all those whom he deemed "a tired of
CIVIL war as he was adlournng the complete fee
dom OF tho nation tall general peace when he
should no longer need immense, dictatorial mower
with which to make head against the united forces
OF Europe, necessarily excited by the rivalry Of Eng
land, and the olgnrchy of its ministry He wished
TO put an end TO the revolution, and offered himself
mediator in France, as moderator IN Europe Eng
land constrained him by the wars she perpe' uay
raised, to those conquests which she denounced as
excesses though she alone was answerable for them;
and concluded by crushing France all the fruit of
thirty years OF herosm and victory by mposipr the
family OF the good OLD times a regenerated nation
AS long as there IL any question in France Of a
branch OF that family, will stay where am Nv
family never desired civil war and does Not now
Should the nation declare for Republic you know
my sentiments They of long standing Happy
the people among whom light make this applica
tion without dsBger.-You remember what | often
SAID to the Spanards-'You will never have as much
liberty as should like TO give you: But YOU must he
able to bear IT. time Is necessary element in every
thing.
Assurances ore given that our youth have made
great progress towards republican opinions Doubt
loss government is remedy for an ID. Happy tho
country wise enough to do without il We perceive
scarcely any traces of It in the happy country where
we nave SO long resided But is that state suita
to Franco? Is It not the irritation caused by the alb
surd pretentions of the government that has weigh
Cd 1t down for fifteen years, which has reused that
generous youth beyond perhaps what will suit the
rest of thor fellow citizens at present and the tran
guilty Of France and Europe?
third hypothesis remHne that Of my being call.
edupon by honor, by duty. by what owe 10 France
emancIpated and to Napoleon the Second to the son
OF brother whom ought to love and respect more
than any Other person Whatever, because knew him
infancy Ina nm ocI.c 7
OF The sincerity of his feelings ond opinions When
dying on the Rock of St. Helena. Le chorred me
through Genl Berrand's pen to let his son qovern
himself by my advice; never above all to 1T hin,
forget that no IS Frencbnan. to lot him p,ye
france as much liberty ne bis fnher gave her equal
yi and let him adopt for his Device all for tie French
people ''''"
heye positive assurances that Napoleon the Sc
von" III spite OF fortune, is as good Prenchman AZ
{Tu W - ana will be worthy Of lis father and Of
France am your afFectionaie N "
JOSEPH NAPOLEON BONAPARTE.
Count Of SurvIiers)