The Mississippi Creole. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1841-1851, 1849-02-02
From the N. Y. Tribune.
sketch Of Louis Napoleon !.

A sketch Of Louis Napoleon
The news of the election Of Louis Napoleon
to the Presidency Of the French Republic Will
naturally excite some curiosity in regard to
his history and public character. Hitherto ne
has only been known through the foolish al
fairs at Strasbourg and Bologne, his published
works, Notwithstanding the merits claimed by
his adherents, having failed to enlarge his rep
utat'on, His life, has nevertheless, been some-
what e%ventful, and he does not lack the adVan-
tage of varied fortune and severe experience.
Whether he has profted by il, remains to be
seen. From such husty materials as we could
procure, we have arranged for the Tribune the
following brief notice of his history.
Charles Louis Napoleon, son of Louis, ex-
King of Holland, was born in Paris on the goth
Of April 1908 His god-Parents were the En-
peror and Maria Louisa, and during his child
hood he was an especial %favorite Of the former,
On the return of Napoleon from Elba, he stood
beside him on the Champ de Mars, and when
embraced by him for the last time at Malmal-
son, the young Louis, then a boy of seven
years, wished to follow him at al hazards
When the family was banished from France,
his mother removed to Augsburg, where he re-
ceived a good German education. He was al
forwards taken to Switzerland, where he OBJ
tanned the right Of citizenship and commenced
d course Of military studies.
After the July revolution, by which he was
a second time prescribed from France, he visi'
ted Italy in company with his brother, and in
1881 took a part iu a popular insurrection a
aainst The Pope, This movement failed, blu
he succeeded in making his escape, and hi
brother dying at Forli, the same year, he visited
Englar d, and afterwards returned to Switzer-
land, where, for two or three years. he con
tented himself with writing political and mill
tary works. which do not appear to have beer
extensively read. The death Of the Duke o
Reichstadt, in 1882, gave a new impulse to hi
ambitious hopes. His first revolutionary at
tempt at Strasbourg, in October, 1886, com
pletely failed, but after a short Imprisonment il
Paris, he was sent to this country. The ill
ness of his mother occasioned his return tn,
following year, and after a visit to Switzer
land, he took up his residence in England unit
his second attempt at Bologne in 1910.
In this affair, several Of his followers wer,
killed, and he was himself taken and sentenc
ed to imprisonment for life in tho Castle o
Ham. The particulars Of his escape in May
1876, after an incarcerationRo six years, ar,
we'll known. From that time until the end 0
September last, when he was returned as dep
uty to the National Assembly from the De
partment of the Seine, has resided in England
"A late London journal, in describing his mod
of life, gives the following not very f%atterinI
account;
SHE was INSCRIPTIONS in contracting oall
trarting obligations, which were wholly be
) yond his means Of rePaymenti and his most SC
rious pursuit was tho study of alchemy, b
which he expected to arrive at the discover
+ of the Philosophers stone. So vigorously di
he prosecute this exploded science, at nous
which he had fitted up as a labaratOry'at Chan
/ berwell, and so firm was his faith in the chal
latan empire, whom he employed to aid hir
in transmitting the baser metals into gold, tina
he is said to have actually appropriated his rev
enues in anticipation, and to have devoted tn
first milliard Of his gains to the payment Of tn
national debt Of France, in order to acquir
thus an imperial throne by purchaser
/ Z The large majority by which he was electe
a representative ~astonished every one, and CAV
!, his followers The first encouragement to brin.
forth his name asa candidate for the Prosider
cy. To defeat the acknowledged republica