Lynchburg Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1829-185?, 1833-03-04

y" w i hiiH, 1iitDthCihk n biographical SIG Gil OF
Joseph BuonapnIle, and hts Letter to the Cham
eel of Deputies. hss elected the following re-
mark from the London L mrs They wil, serve
10 sifG the reader ah .htimslipn OF ths nstu-e Of
thu publication, which, ON account, Of the extensive
acquaintance iofiic by tic subject Of II during his
residence IN The United States, cnnnot but be rcgar-
ied with interest here. Due allowances will, d.
course, bo made for the purity lopc Of tho limos a.
/ dtor
VIEWS OF TIE BUONAPAnTE FAMILY
IN FRANCE,
some Of the Paris papers, particularly the Mes
4pser dog Chnmhres, the C'orsnirc, and other jour
uals ofthe Movement, have tekcfi notice OF a Gu
nous pamphlet Just published in Poris. entitled
. Bipgrnphie lie Joseph Napoleon Baannpnrtr, with
his Letter To the Chamber oi ~, puiies," u which
We have received a copy. A. this pamphlet 90
falns several original loe ,menrs never refo
published, which could only have been fnrnishee
from an Official qun,ter, we arc l,d 10 suspect tina
lis chef lac,s MUS have been supplied by The ex
KING himself an that he was no, ignorant Of III,
INC to which they were tn be applied. We ar.
moro confirmed IL Ih,s idea by observing that the
pamphlet is mar calculated to serve the sabjed. 81
the bio .%raphieai notice than of the atthtr " III.
work, as mon oa,t seems TO be taken 10 ffcscrv.
or To cxalt the character OF the former than 10 gam
money o. ropn tt4on for the latter.
The chief objee, Of publishing this narrative d
the present moment, SO far IA We can ascertain II
from n cutsory perusal, IS 10 place the head o. the
Buonnpalte family IN u prominent point Of Wow b =
fore France, at a Iime when republlcanlsm on the
one hahd, desires To overthrow the monarchy, and
whou on the other legitimacy advances clnims 10
an hereditary possession Of power The means
by winch The author, Who Gala him unjeune, pat
rot attempts to accomplish this object, arc, in the
first place, 10 represent the * King OF Naples and
OF Span IN an advantageous light before the world
us a man ofiulont and a man of integrity.
he II represented as II good scholar IN hs earlier
days, ms subsequently n good soldier, a good nn
bnssadnr, a good minister, and a good citizen, IA
GOOD member Of the revolutionary government, a
good brother Of Napoleon, an excellent administra-
tor, aud tolcrable King. W. have the testimony
Of this biogfnpher, and The letters OF the late Gene
raj iamarqpo, which he now for ,hc first tinc pub
lishes, fof saying that Joseph Buonaparic ,ntrodu-
eed m 81, ,mpofteut umelioraiions Iulo the govern
mnnt Of Naples, T. lhlt he would have done MS much
lor The Spaninfds had ia y allo"e HIM. Tho letter
by which he renowned The sovereignty Of the lat
ter country in lal3, noury TWO years before tho
French were driven across tho Pyrefnees, 10 a Gu
rious document, md 50 far as we know, has now
been published for the first time.
The second object Of the pamphlet appears TO be
10 reprcscn,Joloph Buousparte as still a good and
constant Freuehn,n. wen after having been King
OF Naples, the Gown OF which he resigned, ard
kingnf Span, from he soil Of which he vas dri
ven. tlenrs. a aareptl Y, We have the trauscr,pt
Of laws, missed n the te|gihi6ufts - y v Jersey
n Sew Yo.l,t' II bile hun I hea irnded property
wftlaal fam 4 chr = cr N Amqricnn
eitzsn, or reaHeius tae IiIsle s6s ofa French
man. These acts &c ouly suti.us from the ca.
gerness shown by the slate sosetnmenls TO show
respeci 90 Then new prtneeiy refugee.
IN tho 'IorI place, the pamphlet seems to an
YAf... tI,t.,,I.H a tYa.t.rgI f.ra,s ,t,t L.. 80 n .a.
would have no particular objections to put him
self IN harness air as an active Sovereign, If the
French people-Gt kls and incenslaut as they have
shown hcmse lgcs-Ehould choose TO chongo their
dynasty naothet time, and to invite HIM from his
solitude TO power. Tho French nation will most
likely thank HIM for the offer--if they take any mo-
tee of his kind condosceas ton-nnd decline his
services for the present, Us tt,ny have lone those Of
Henry V. md rs mother.
But in the fourth place, the ex- King Of Two king
doms has not odly made an offe ofhis Royal ser.
vices to France, he has advanced rdaim 10 the
sovereignty of The Kingdom, o sljca he thinks
himself better entitled than Louis Philippe. A.
the end OF ihe pamphlet W. fni "a singular address
10 the Ftcnch On mbcr of Deputies, written by
the OK KIM al soon as he heard the news OF the
Il glorious days" nfJuiy, 1880, N wnict. be de-.
elares against the prc'ensions of the orleans fam.
", and claims the Crown 81 France for his ne
pheW, Napoleon II, Ihis adlfess ~ ~ ri New.
York, the 18th Of September about the time that
ile son Of he Emperor died Al Vlenna, and when
the ex King himself ignorant Of that event, was
about TO sail for Europe to assort his rights.
We can imagine nothing more prepostorous than
the claim Of hereditary right on the part Of tho
Buonopartc family to The Go n of France. In
the address to the Chunbe, of Deputies the ex-
King of SPAN says hat $500, 900 votes were col
lected in "a or of young Napoleon and himself wha
IS now the next he'r To the Emperor; but has nc
forgotten tint since that time France has had three
Kings and two dynasties1 1t is not ec.ssary
THAT "A nation should send round the ballot box to
know whom they snail obey. The 81, 0C0, 600 Of
Frenchmcn are now as much subjects Of Louis
Philippe, Us # they had voted him into Office like
the assistant-oversoe of a parish by a select ves-
try. The character Of a King, like that Of a priest,
is not indelible, nor are his rights inalienable, ex-
capt in the jargon ofthe Holy Alliance. How
many n01o remain Of the 3 sol, 900 voters WIN are.
| alleged to have decrced the crown TO the family Of
NAPOLEON, II or IL years ago7 How many, fla
live, have changed their minds ? and how many
never had any mind to change, but voted for ths
existing authority as every existing authority
would be voted fot in a similar case
The collection at the foreign missionary NEE
ting at Masonic Hall, New York on tho ooh vIt.
amou tied to about four thousand five hxwdrsd d0.
Ioys