The Daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1845-1850, 1849-12-15
From the London Standard of Freedom.
THE BONAPARTE FAMILY.

he history OF BOnaparte is romantic llIustra
ton of ambition. In 1856 Corsican lawyer died
at Montpelier, leaving widow and eight child
ren.-Clever women thus left TO perform double
duties, -paterna as well as maternal-are gen.
orally remarkable Tor the energy, skill and sue
with which they train their children TO repair
the loss they have sustained Her chief depen-
dence in her Strengthened circumstance was her
halt brother, the Able Fesch, OF Ajacco Her
Oldest son, Joseph, seventeen years old, was study
ing law; Napoleon, her second, sixteen years old,
was completing his education al the military acad
emy OF Brienne; and the remaining six, Lucien,
Eliza, Louis, Pauline, Caroline, and Jerome,
were with their mother-the eldest OF them only
eleven years, and the youngest three months
old
The hopes of the family centered in Napoleon,
| who was about TO receive his commission as Sub
Lieutenant in the artillery of His Majesty Louis
XVI. The dying lawyer on his death-bed. raw
ed about "great sword" he had to leave to his
boy The mother and the elder children knew
that OF all the military pupils Of his time in the
academies, their brother had carried off the high.
est honors, the most distinguished proficient
in military science.
| AS they say on the play bills, an interval of
quarter OF a century elapses BY his military
genius, by allowing no principles aud no pledges
to obstruct his ambition, aud by placing himself
at the head of the opinions OF large masses OF men,
| Napoleon has made himself Emperor Of the
French and master OF the continent. To all the
world he was lortentous figure--the CLEAN OF
his sword had alarmed every shore of the British
Isles. All mankind has heard the echoes oil his
cannon!
The widow Of the Corsican lawyer was now
called "Madame Mere,' and the prote gen.
orally OF all the charitable institutions In France;
her half brother, the Able, is now the Cardinal
Fesch; her eldest son, Joseph, is the King OF Span;
her son Louis is King of Holland; and jerome,
the youngest, is King Of Westphaia All her
sons wore crowns, except Lucien, who was a re.
publican, and would not have any OF the king
doms offered him Her daughters held positions
Of similar distinction Caroline is Queen OF the
two Sclles; Pauline is the Princess of Borghese
and Duchess of Guastdlla; Eliza is the Grand
Duchess OF Tuscany. The daug htersin of
Madame Mere were not all correspondent 10 the
royal and imperial splendors OF her sons and
daughters. No doubt Napoleon had presented to
her in this capacity, two Empresses-the fascinat.
Ing Creole josephine and the Archduhcess Nj aria
Louisa, daughter of the house of Austria Louis
reluctantly welded Hortense, daughter OF Jose
phine, and she became Queen of Holland. Joseph
before the prosperity of the Bonapartes, had been
deemed lucky rogue, because he married the
daughter of a wealthy merchant, named Clary of
Marseilles; LucIen known as "Brutus Bonaparte''
brought iuto the family Mademoiselle Beyer, the
sister of an inn keeper, and on her death beaut-
full widow called Madame Jouberton Young
Jerome brought from America, as his wife,
Miss Elizabeth Patterson, the daughter OF a mer-
chent in Baltimore. But this bride was not re.
ceived into the imperial family, and after child
rem had been born, the marriage was annulled,
and the place of the wife was taken by the Prin-
cess Katherine, the daughter of the King of Wiz
temburg. Madame Mere surveyed the spendors
OF her family with penetrating and provident eyes,
She thrifty saved her income. "Who knows"
she said, "but that may have 10 keen all these
Kings and Queens, one day''
Another interval elapses of 80 years. The En-.
peror. the master of the continent, the marvel of
the world has chafed himself to death at St.
Helena, in mean collision with a Sir Hudson
Lowe. jailor, spy and bully. His son grows zip
in Austrian palaces, wondering over the history,
and worshpping the memory OF his father. He
sinks into an early grave, having only said one
memorable sentence in his life, and that to a
French officer, about to return France, from
visit to Vienna-''I know no one in Paris, but
salute for me the column in the place Vendome. -
Louis, second son OF Louis King OF Holland, be-
comes the heir OF the Emperor. He has headed
hair Drained attempts TO make himself an EN-
Peror at Slrasbourg and Boulogne; he has been
the laughing stock of Europe; he has published
readable books and pamphlets of socialist
tendencies; ne has escaped from the fortress OF
Ham, in the disguise OF n.ason's laborer, with a
plank on his shoulder, aud by the suffrages Of six
millions OF men, he is the President of the Re.
pubic Of France.
AS much apparently depends on the character.
istlcs OF this family, in 1919, as depended upon
them thirty years ago. The widow OF the law
yer, and all the children who excite her anxeties
when she wept in 1856. have passed into the
shadow OF death, with the solitary exception of
Jerome-n 1856 the babe, and in I849 the patri
arch oil the family. The son Of Lucien presided
over the Assembly ofthe Roman Republic Three
OF the grand children Of Madame Mere are rep.
rcsentatives of the people in the French Legisla.
tive Assembly. Pierre Bonaparte, second son of
Lucien, distinguished by having struck ali old man
in the Assembly; Napoleon Bonaparte, son ofJe.
rome and Napoleon Mural. son of Caroline Presl.
dent Louis Bonaparie, through his uncle Eugene
Beauharnos, the brother OF his mother, has
cousin Queen Of Sweden, another who as the
husband Of the Queen Of Portugal, and another
10 the husband Of Maria Nicoliewna, daughter of
Nicholas, Emperor of all the Russias. His cou-
sin, the Russian Countess Demfdoff. daughter
OF Jerome by the daughter of the King OF wiz
tenburg, presides in the saloons of the Elysee
| National.
In no member Of the family has the character.
istic ambition of ii been more conspicuous than
in the President. Just as the Emperor, when in
Egypt, could make believe to be a Mahometan
to please large masses OF men, the President can
make believe he Is Z republican. The creature