Southern sentinel. [volume] (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville [La.]) 1848-1858, 1852-04-03
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nished by the Paris correspondent of the Spring
field Republican:
Prince Charles Louis Napoleon, the thir
son of Louis Bonaparte, King of Holland, an
ofQueen Hortense, was born at Paris, the 2Ot
of April, 1903. He was the first Prince bor
under the imperial regime, and his birth wa
announced by salutes Of artillery Throughout
the vast extent of the Empire, from Hambur
to Rome, from the Pyrennees to the Danube
France was then at the height of its grandeu
and prosperity. The genius of the Empero
Napoleon re-organized Europe; and under tn
delusive hope that his power would be inheri
ted, he greeted with joy an event which prom
| ised to bear down the name to posterity.-H
had not as yet thought of divorce from thu
| Empress Josephine. The Prince Louis wa
inscribed in the family register of the imperia
| dynasty, with all the pomp of conservation. HI
the palace of Fontainbeau, by Cardinal Fesch
Empress Marie Louise. His mother gave tc
his education grave and severe turn, and most
happily for him, whose life has proved so full
of strange vcisstudes, whose destiny has ex.
hibited reyerses of fortune, that seem rather
belonging to romance than sober history. The
nephew was specid favorite Of his uncle, who
watched his infancy, with the greatest interest.
Although absorbed by the affairs of the En-
pire, Napoleon gave much attention to the
mental and physical progress of the yonng
Prince, and this solicitude was not diminished
by the birth of the King of Rome. He loaded
him with caresses, and in the transports of ten
derness, presented him to the people from his
window in the Tuleries, as if to make him the
adopted child of the nation.
But sudden changed destroyed all these
illusions. The Empire fell; the Emperor be-
came an exile, and his family dispersed itself
into foreign lands. At the age of seven, Louis
Napoleon quilted France with his mother, for a
modest retreat in Switzerland, at the village of
Aranburgh, on the shores of Lake Constance,
where, under the guidance of maternal instruc-
ton, his character developed itself under the
most favorable circumstances. His body was
fortified by gymnastic exercises, and his mind
iourislled with solid instruction. Having OBJ
tanned the rights of Swiss citizenship, he was
admitted TO the camp of Thun, where he essay
ed to become soldier, by taking part in the
exercises and going through all the mannuvres.
The art of artillery, however, was most con-
genial to his instincts, and to this essential part
of war, he applied himself with the most ASST
duous study.
While at Thun, he received the news Of the
Revolution of July, 1880. This awakened in
his mind dreams of glory. He changed the
quiet exile, to become conspirator, and with
bis brother headed the Italian insurgents in
Ronango, who thought that the hour for de-.
iverance from the yoke of Austria had arrived.
Behold him now leading an undiscplined band
Of independents, crying "Viye la Liberte,"
against Rome.
Dispersed by the first encounter with the
Austrians, he escaped death only to witness the
asst agones of his brother, who was suddenly
attacked with mortal malady, and expired in
lis arms. Exhausted with sutferings and fa-
.igues, detected by grief, tracked by the Roman
police, menaced with dangers on all sides, he
was saved by his courageous mother, Queen
Hortense, spreading the report that he had fled
% Greece, by the aid of disguise and an En-
glsh passport. She trayersed with him great
part of Italy.-Not without great risks and da-
ing, to brave the prescription that interdicted
France to them, she ventured to enter Paris,
md announced to Louis Philippe her arrival
With the Prince. He was in the midst of an
attack of fever and covered with leeches, when
he imperious summons came for both to quit
Paris and France instantly. The two prescribed
,ook the road to London. His stay in England
vas improved for his instruction by an attentive
study of the institutions and government of
hat country. Returning to Switzerland in
1881, he refused to enter into the Revolutions
Y projects proposed to him by agents from
Poland and Italy. The death of the son of Ma
,oleon in 1882, made him the Emperor's heir,
ind he was subjected to solicitations from in
on one side, and to espionage Of the
French Government on the other, but occupy
ng himself with study, he published in 1885,
pamphlet entitled, "Considerations political and
military on Switzerland" In 1884 he was
lamed Captain of Artillery, at Berne, thus CON-
nencing, ike his uncle in the artillery, with the
tile of Captain, and in Republic. /
The next grand act ofhis cheekered life was
lis enterprise against Strasbourg--a most rash |
md unfortunate affair. He hoped by a sudden |
move to excite an insurrection in connection |
With q few officers, who had reaped glory un-
Ter his uncle's banner, and through the SYM
,atIly of the French nation for his name and |
he souvenirs it inspired, to be proclaimed EN- |
,eror. Although fortified with two most mag
he other to the soldiers, and urged on by m
Enthusiasm almost super-human, he failed most
ignally in this more than Quiyotic attempt |
lis mother again became his protector, and OBJ |
aimed from Louis Philippe, pardon on condition
hat he should reside in America. He sailed |
or Philadelphia, in the Andromeda. Some
months after, the Prince received at New York,
he sad news of his mothers sickness. Retur- |
ling to Switzerland, he saw her expire, the 9TH |
f October, 1887. The French Government |
demanded that he should leave Switzerland.
The Swiss offered to protect him, but he depar-
ed voluntarily, for London, where he published |
pamphlet called "Ideas Napoleon" in which
le reproduced all the grand imperial thoughts
hat so tormented his brain. IT = S,'. l..
Still convinced that France was unhappy
without him, he conspired once more to place
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