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which he found himself the object'
Haunted, it would appear, by some such feel
ing, aud yet carried forward by the restless sense
I that he must do something or other to merit his
name, he seems to have grasped eagerly at the
only chance of activity that was presented to him
military promotion IN his grandfather S service
Hence the assiduity with which he pursued his
military studies, and the regularity with which,
he presented himselfon horseback at all reviews
and parades, the Viennese pointing him out to
strangers on such occasions the son of Napo-
leon. When at last after going through the pre-
vious grades, he was permitted by his grand
father to assume the rank and uniform OF lieu
tenant-colonel, his delight was unbounded. Fol
three days, the poor youth appeared at the head
OF his regiment giving the word of command; on
the fourth he was laid aside with loss of voice
and hoarseness.
There was one quarter of the political horizon,
however, to which the son of Napoleon would
often wistfully look, that France to which he be-
longed; which his dying father had bequeathed
him with such solemn injunctions that they should
be true the one to the other and where, even yet,
there were myriads of veteran hearts that beat
high at the name of Bonaparte. His Austrian ed
ucation had indeed isolated him from all means
Of direct communication with his country, and
had made him an alien from it; but certain chords
there were that no force could snap and that still
at Paris he said to French officer who was on
the point of returning home after visit to Wen
ma, 'but salute for me the Column in the Place
Vendome."
On the other hand, if he personally for
gotten or unknown in the city that he thus knew
only from the map, there were at least principles
and men that were ready to burst out in his be-
half So at all events, it appeared when the
Revolution of July, 1880, came to be Transacted.
lad hoe ~,
it, when that revolution occurred, how different
might have been the ssue "Absent as he was,
says Louis Blanc, ssif an old General of the en-
peror had pronounced his name to the people,
when Laftte and Guizot were chaffering for the
Due d'Orleans, France nigh have had Napo-
leon H., instead of Louis Philippe Some
timid Bonapartist attempts, it appears, were ac-
tually made. In Paris one Bonapartist, who
came to meeting of the leading politicians with
the name of the Duke of Reichstadt on his lips,
was dexterously locked up in a room till the bust
ness was over. Communications were even CO.
veyed to the Duke himself.
When the news of the Revolution reached
Vienna, the young man could not conceal his a
citation; he even requested, it is sad in the fut
ter Of the moment, to be allowed to 60 to the
sstance of Charles X. But with the news of the
accession of Louis Philippe, other thoughts sue
ceeded. One evening as he was ascending
staircase in the Imperial palace, young woman,
enveloped in Scotch PLAID, rushed forward from
a landing place where she seemed to have been
waiting, and taking his hand, pressed it eagerly
to her lips His tutor, who was with him, asked
her business. 'May not kiss she said, ''the
hand of my sovereign's SOM" and Immediately
disappeared. For some time the incident could
not be explained, but at length no doubt remain
ed that the fair stranger was his cousin, the
Countess Camerata, a married daughter of his
deceased aunt Bachicehi. On a visit to Vienna,
the Countess had constituted herself the medi-
UNI of communication between the Bonapartsts
and her young cousin, to whom she even ventu-
red, some months after the revolution of July, to
address letter, encouraging him, even then, to
assume decided part From these, and all over
lures of the same kind, the poor youth seems to
have shrunk with kind of dutiful horror; and
his excitement regarding the revolution o. 1880
soon subsiding into calmer mood, he began,
as we are told, to write down, in the form of an
essay, a series of very Austrian reflections on
his own life, and the relations in which he stood
to France.
Only once did his agitation reunion the
occasion, namely, Of the political movement in
his mother state of Parma. When the news
OF these movements reached Vienna, he was
extremely anxious to be allowed to 60 to Italy
to his mothers assistance, but neither this
occasion could his wish be granted.
From the very first, indeed, it had been seen
that the yonng Napoleon could not live long.
Undoubted symptoms ofthe presence in his con-
stitution, Of the seeds of that malady that had
carried off his father, early presented themselves;
and to these added other symptoms, too
clearly marking him out as the prey OF con-
sumption. From being handsome, delicate,
boy, he had suddenly shot up, before his egh-
teenth year, into tall, feeble and sickly, though
handsome young man, the constant care of the
Imperial physicians. Towards the end of the
year 1881, he became rapidly worse, and was
obliged to abstain from his military exercises,
and from all active exer on whatever. During
the winter of that year, and the spring Of 1882,
he lived at Schonbrunn, almost wholly confined
i'll his chamber. 1t had been resolved to remove
him to Naples, should it be possible to do so, in
progress that before that time, the fatal result
had taken place.
For many weeks he had been in great pain
and lncable of any change of POSITION save that
OF being wheeled to window balcony, overlook
ing the garden ofSchonbrunn. Even this was
at last beyond his strength; and stretched on bed
IN great suffering, he waited anxously for his
release. Maria Louisa arrived from Italy only
in time to see him die. 1t was on the 22d of
July, 1882, and in the very room that had been
occupied by his father on his famous visit to
Schonbrunn, that he breathed his last. Some
days after there funeral procession thro'
the streets OF Vienna, and the body of Napoleon's
son was committed to the Imperial vaults
The people of Vienna showed much feeling on
the occasion"