Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1849-06-22

Oti"S PoCCo vi HH)tiSy among Jne crowd ttlal ran
after them. The Prince seemed out OF his senses:
he ran at the head of his little band brardishing
his cooked hat which he had stuck on the point
OF his sword and crying out Vipe IEmpereur
Meanwhile the soldiers had set ont in pursuit;
and with little diff iculty the whole party was
captured.
Brought to trial before the Chamber of Peers
the prisoners were found guilty and condemned
as follows the Prince TO perpetual imprson-
mant; his chief associates, such as Count Mon
tholon, Nj. de Parquin, and M. de Persigny, to
twenty years detention; and the minor culprits.
such as DR.. Conneau, to lesser terms of the same
punishment. The various offenders were then
distributed through the different prisons. The
Prince, Count Montholon, and DIR. Conneau
were sent to the fortress of Ham. There thew
renamed for nearly six years, DIR. Couneau vol
unfairly protracting his term of Imprisonment in
order to continue near the Prince. The occu-
patlons OF the three companions during these six
years were sutt iciently various. They read to-
gether, made experiments in chemistry, ETC.; and
the Prince his literary propensities still remain
ing, not only amused himself by translating po-
ems, and penning occasional letters to newspa-
pers and to private friends, bat continued his
conneXon III more express manner with the
world without, by means OF one or two new pub
hcatlOns, the chief being an odd tract of military
stats tics, entitled De fErtacii0n du Pauper-
tSnle, copies OF which he sent to George Sand
Chauteaubriand, the poet Beranger. and other
persons of note. He also meditated. it appears,
life of Charlemagne, and corresponded on the
the subject with the historian Sismondi. From
these and other entanglements, however he was
glad to shake himself loose, by escaping from the
fortress, In the disguise of laborer on the 18Th
OF May 1876: lie had previously been in nego-
taton with the French government with view
to obtain permission to visit his father Louis who
was lying dangerously i'll at Florence; and it
was for this especial object he said in letter to
the French ambassador, that he bad planned his
escape. Unable, however, to procure the neces-
sary passports, he was obliged to remain in Lon
don, where he had again taken up his abode. and
where, two months afterwards, he received the
news of his fathers death. After the escape of
the Prince, the French government did not think
1t necessary to continue the durance Of Count
Montholon, and the other prisoners; and by the
end OF the year 1916 the Boloone business, like
that OF Strasbourg, was well nigh forgotten. Co
incident with the extraordinary movement which
is still accomplishing itself in all the continental
countries, we have to mark, as striking fact,
the restauration everywhere of the overthrown
Bonapartes
1t was the Italian branch of the family that
first experienced the favorable turn of fortune
Restricted, during the oppressive Pontifcate of
Gregory XVI, to the exercise of his talents as a
Naturalist and man of general literary tastes,
the Prince of Canine, son of Lucien Bonaparte,
and now man i'll the prime of life and the father
OF large family, was one of those influential Ro-
mans that gladly gathered round the present
Pope on his accession, and assisted him in his re-
forms. Throughout the subsequent revolution
JrOY-o fl,nD cro,,, i. L
ly distinguished himself; and at the present mo-
ment, holding the Vice Presidency of the Repre-
sentative Chamber of the Roman Republic. the
former ornithologist of America figures as one
OF the most conspicuous men on the busy theatre
of Italian politics.
While, however, one shoot of the prolific Ma
poleonic stock appears thus to have found perm
anent root in Italy, it is in France, their own
France, that the general reunion of the dsper-
sed Bonapartes has taken place. Scarcely had
the revolution of February l848 occurred, when,
rising from their haunts in all parts of Europe,
the various members of the family, with the old
eX-klng of Westphalia at their head. hurried to
the scene of action. France received them with
open arms. AT the first elections to the National
Assembly three of them were returned as repre-
sentatives-Pierre Bonaparte the second son of
Lucien. and the brother of the ornitholopist AGED
thirty-three Napoleon Bonaparte, the son of
King Jerome, aged twenty-six; and Napoleon
Lucien-Charles Mnrat, the former New York
lawyer, aged forty-five. The case of Louis Ma
poleon was more peculiar People naturally
hesitated before admitting to the benefits of Re-
publican citizenship so eXceptionabe person
age as the lmperialist adventurer of Strasbourg
and Bologne. Twice he was elected by several
departments simultaneously and twice he found
himself compelled to decline the honor; and it
was not until after the supplementary elections
of September 1913, when he was returned at the
head of the poll for Paris with a number of other
candidates, that he was able to defy opposition
and take his seat. Once restored to France, the
outburst of opinion in his favor was instantane-
Gus and universal. From Calais to the pyrenecs
from the Bay of Bscay to the Rhine, he as the
hero of the hour. Iamartine, Cavaignac and
everybody else that had done an efficient thing
were forgotten; and the result of the great cleo
ton of the 10th December was that as if in posth-
umous justification of enterprises that the world
till then hadagreed to laugh at the former prisoner
of Ham raised, by the suffrages of five mil
lions of people, to the Presidency of the French
Republic How he may continue to deport him
self in this office, which he has already held for
several months, it would be difficult to say That
he has not mind enough to perform of himself
any original or decisive part in European affairs
must be clear to every one that has read page of
his writings; but whether he may not possess
those minor qualities that would make him
suitable constitutional puppet, either as President
or as Emperor, in the hands of ministry, expe-
rence must yet prove. One thing may be even
now decidedly asserted with regard to his politi-
cal position, and that is that since his elevation
to the Presidency he has thrown aside all his for
mer half-connexions with the Revolutionary
party, and become the head and representative of
the Reaction. Meanwhile, as private man, he
has yet one important step in life before him. Al
though in his forty-second year, he is still I'M
married We have heard it jocosely proposed
that he should marry daughter of his transat-
lantic brother, President Taylor, provided, that
is to say, the tough old general has any daugh-
ters Such marriage would certainly have
splendid effect.
And here we have to conclude our sketch of the
history of the Bonaparte family. The impress
sions that remain on our mind after such a sur
vey, are principally these two: first, that of all
known families now in exstense, the Bonapartes
are, in point of fact, the most cosmopolitan, the
most considerable, that is, whether as regards
diffusion or elevations; and secondly, that on the
whole they have meritod this distinction,
having remained, on the whole, indivdu-
ally faithful to the cause of progress, in
whose name they first obtained nOvver and cree