The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1849-10-27
Miscellaneous.
THE SON OF NAPOLEON.

"a felire from France, ~ tie year lslli hlh
Ia Maria Louisa, With her son, Then three
80. oh. was lnken back 10 Austria. The |
go,ter married agaiu mud removed 10 hnly,
l.,ds ron was brought up at tho colH Of /
n. s,sndhlher the Emperor Of Austria
ns following account Is taken from M ar
nj, saliled "The iionHpHrt Family" Ia The
yoob Bo,sh Review, We have seldom
n.,vith story more truly touching and
dnmsic -.
,,at tls mother 10 reside at SchOubrunni
tLs Young Duke Of ReichslhdI spent Tie
f .bo0s rmninder of his liie either lhern or
4, snnn; only oti ond or two occasions trhV-
,Ine rom either beyond the Distance Of u
"a niles, By his grandfather, the Enpcr-
~ well M by MI the other members OF
y Royal family, he seems % hnve
-ahlwAys treated with extreme kindness
,ftr Ihe departure ofhi. mother foe the ltnl-
IN states he was committed 10 tie caro- of
u1nus nneiors, under Tho suporiulondence
IAN Austrian noblomhp Of rank, tho Count
bufre dc Dielrichnlein. Regarding his
AL. elucHiipn only Two facts Ui my interest
ms mentioned; his excessive reluctance NJ
fot 10 learn German, which, however, soon
.eame more his own Than French and his
ondn,ss Cor historical rrndinR, aud especial
n for books relating 20 the career oihlu inIh'
er Asa boy ho was, on the whole, dulli
gave and ulrlhlessi but ddcilc aud affection
Ne,
The news of his fnlher's death, which oc-
CURED when hc was ten years of ago IL said
% lave produced a yi-hle effect GA him. II
a. a. IgV .a
, Nns, had been hrnoding IN secret over
e mystery Of hls own changed condition,
a rhcrishiug, M wei! hH he could, the
raIglJ Of its runurrtiuii with the oXlnor,
islfy being whom he could dimly tecollrct
nbis father whose busts ard portraits hc
r4j sill see; and who. M they tried TO eN-
lU to INN, WIZ now iTvit's 1t-up IN mn
ssnd on the other side Of tho enrth, With
nla nations OF Europe had conspired Ia
eA him for thGir own safety The thought
dLis fthcr bcrumo the bay'EHlngle pnssiou'
ul when lac could no longer think Of that
4.htr ns still existing on the earth, his re-
sweet for his memory amounted to n worship
Fyet, Nook TINT could tell him anything a.
loi Ms hhcr, he dcvourcd with cngernessj
and Il he Glanced 10 hcur Of the arrival Of
any oGc 90 Vienna who had personal fela-
lions with HE Emperor, hc was unensy I'LL lac
. ad ,tcn him. AT last 10 erniify this ankle
70 lor information about his fnhcr his tutors
lli, grluliathcr's command, began 20 in
tmc, him Systematically ia. modern history
ard politics; couccnling from him nothing
MysM. de- Monthel, that could cniIgticI
him as 10 HE real course of his fhthcr's liN
tpd is effect on the coudition Of European,
oui allug such continents mud eNpoHton'
,gSM,g.l make him aware, at the same Tune
IN VIA, points his father was to bc'rcprehen
lei
perplcxcd by Auch lessons IN history nc
enlng to Meitcrnich. the poor boy did lii
sto come to the right conclusions, and Il
hwcss himself judciousIy to his tutors re
prllng what no WINS taught to consider hii
\ Allcrs errors aud excuses. In all cases of
4 ceiling and instinct, however, lis reverence
for he memory his father prevailed. Tln
very books that his fhiher had liked, such NJ
Tas,o and Ossidn, became for that rcnsoi
his Gyoutcs. Ills fathers campaigns nn'
dispatches he made subject Of ddigcn
siudy, using them as the texts for his owl
military lessons. In short, before he had at
famed his seventeenth year he had read unt
ie.read everything that had been written re-
sscdng Napoleon, and had jScd in his mem
op all the most minute particulars relating
Of his generals, his chief battles, aud tho va
nous incidents inhis long career, from In
birth IN Corsica to his burial in -. Helena
ohr point IN this great history, he woul,
dwell on with special interest---that where
an,d universal VACCINATIONS, lee himself hat
s0mc nlo the world, TiiE uncoUEcTuus trir Il
Almighty empire.
This broodsg on the past naturally ms
spmed as he grew up, the form of resiles
anxiety respecting the future. That he, ih
sonul Napoleon, WIS no common person
hat as the owner of n great nnme, supcrio
arlons and qualifications would be required
4 olhn; that IN some wRy or other nc mus
u axe part in the affairs Of Europe-such wn
y TIC idea dn, Inevitably took possession OF
nun. ", Tor example, the poor youth cou
Nac,ed an admiration for the poet Byron
ms teachers were at hand to criticise the pO
ct for him, and 10 reduce his opinion to th
4 Just shape and standard, lest he SHOULD con
nit what in his cnse would he the sigma
,mpropriety ofexaggcratcd praise. r. nguir
he was seen to he falling in love with la
dy OF his grandfather's oourt, they were
band to rcnsou him oui Of the affair by cor
acrntious ofwhnt was due To his situation
ord his Importance in The public eye,
With this notion Of the peculiarly of h
P'lllon spread belore him from morning
hgILhe would 70 moping about the ImpC
,aIcourt, au amiable youth, the prey of Ut
hoMn cares. And what, after all, i0ds th
POPULARITY of his situation except extrem
m"gniicance? pehsioner, in the meat
uhe, on the Imperial bounty, ultimately IN
Posscssor Of some Bohemian estates, (h
mothers second marriage in 1923 with ia
A Connt Neipperg having, severed him from
a'y sJiii more completely rhun before, doom
tu to inactivity 10y the misfortune oftoo grei
name, was there not mockery in all th
'ohcliude of which he found himself the oil
leet;
Haunted, it would appear, by some sue
~yeIng, aud vet Carried forward by tho res