Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1830-10-12


Noseph Bonaparte) presenting bis views Of the
late French revolution.
cbpy Of letter from ths Co,o,t o Stweiiers, 10
an :6tcsr formerly Sc ,riag. IN tie
sp,5Hcaa and imperial armies of France.
PoINT BREEzE. ,l4th Sept. 1880.
sla-I received the letter BY which you
saer to accompany to Europe, should cir
sumstances call me there. Duty alone can IN
luce me to quit this country. My device, like
nv that Of my brother Napoleon, is ale for The
Ffeach people. therefore do not consider my
self bound by any thing but duty to,Caads The na-
h0n. have no right to exercise, either in my
own name or that Of my nephew, Government is
a want Of the people; TO be created or destroyed
bv them according TO its uSefuluess:-And am
assigned TO conform to the national will law fully
expressed. You know that three millions five
hundred thousand sutiiages called my family TO
the Empire, at time when foreigners had no in
huence in France. You may well suppose that
mot without pusillanimity fail to recolect that
INV nsnr..v., the son ofmy brother as proclaimed
nv the Deputies in 1878; that my brother the En-
peror. abdicated o. that condition alone;that moth
ing but foreign bayOneJS.on two occasi9nsfestored
the Bourbons, and protected the execution OF So
May illustrious defenders oil their country
/ should have set otfalready if didnOt see a
,nongthe national names ut the members Of the
provisional government. that Of prince with which
mine never can have any thing In common; beng
satisfied that any Bourbon, whatever may BE- the
branch to which he belong, cannot suit my coun-
try. have often told YOU that the only family
in France, which the nation will not choose and
cannot like. is that of the Bourbons If that fau.-
ily loved France and was aware of the eternal di-
vorce between them, it would have long ago
nounced the throne. That divorce had been seal
ell BY blood enough, bolh French and foreign, dur
ing twenty-five wears. without any necessity of
exposing the family TO be the cause OF shedding
The blood Of the citizens Of Paris, under the mer-
cenary steel of Swiss.
The great trial of the revolution is not yet de-
termined The Emperor Napoleon thought that
blood enough had been split in the interior of
France. and wished to close every wound He
threw the country open to all those whom he
deemed as tired of civil war as be was; adjourn
inc the complete freedom OF the nation TILL gene
raj peace when he should no longer need nnm ense,
dictatorial power, with which to make head a.
gainst the united forces of Europe, necessarily
excited BY the rivalry of England, and the oil
garchy Of its ministry. Tie wished to put an end
to the revelation. and offered himself as mediator
IN France, as moderator i'll Europe. Eng
constrained him by the wars she perpetually rails
excesses, though she alone was. answerabie for
shem: and concluded by crushing IN France all
the fruit Of thirty wears OF heroism aud victory.
BY imposing the family Of the good old times on
regenerated nation.
As long as there is any question in France Of u
branch OF that family. | viii stay where | am.-
My family never desired civil war. and does aot
now. Should the nation declare for Republic.
you know nv sentiments. They are Vt long stand,
Ing. Happy the people among whom might
make this application without danger. You re-
member what often said TO the Spaniards-' You
will never have as much liberty as should like
20 give you: But you must be able 10 bearit; tine
IA a necessary element in every thing
Assurances are given that our youth'have made
great progress towards republican oplnions.-
Doubtless government is remedy Ion an evil
Happy the country wise enough TO do without
Il. We perceive scarcely any traces of it in the
happy country where we have so long resided
But is that state suitable to Frances 1t is not
the irritation caused by the absurd preensioas of
the government that has weighed 1t down for hf-
teen years. which has reused that generous youth
beyond perhaps what will suit the rest of their
fellow citizens at present, and the tranquility of
France aud Europee
A third hypothesis remains; that OF my being
called upon by honor, BY duty, by what owe TO
Brance emancipated. and to Napoleon the second,
to the son of a brother whom ought TO love and
respect more than any other person whatever, be-
cause knew him from infancy better than any
one else, and am sure of the sincerity of his
feelings and opinions. When dying on the rock
Of st. Helena, he charged me through General
Bertrand's pen to 'let his son govern himself by
my advice; never, above ALL to let him forget that
heisa Frenchman: to let him give France as much
liberty as his father gave her equality; and let
him adopt for his device. all for the French people.
have positive assurances that Napoleon the
second. in spite of fortune, is as good French
man AS YOU or /, and will be-worthy of his father
and of France. am your afectionate.
JOSEPH NAPOLEON BONAPARIE,
Count of Survilliersl