New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1852-10-16
PICTURE OF LOUIS NAPOLEON.

One Of the most interesting personages III
Europe at the present moment is the future
Emperor of the French. He has often been
described by those who have known him more
or less intimately but the portraits have not
seemed altogether to reproduce the lineaments
aud character of their subject. The strongest
marked and in some respects the justest,ls that
of VIcToR HUGO, in his late merclless book
upon the usurper and his crimes He thus de-
scribes the hero of StrasbOurg, BOulogne and
December =:
"Louis Bonsparto l. man Of middle hight COLI pale
low in his movements having the air OF person not
cutie awake. He has published we men med before
tcl6reble ircte artillery. and is thought TO be &c
quantcd with the maneuyering OF Common
lie il a good horscman. He speaks dr,whngly with
ght German accent Ills histrionic abilities wereds
played ~ the Eghutoun tournsment He has a thick
me us;eohe covering his smile like that of the Duke OAR
tof aud dull eye like that of Charles IN.
judging OF him apart from what ne call his 'ncces
ssy act q his grand acts he IA avugar commonplace
parsonage pucrc theatrical and vain The persons who
IRE invited ~ Cloud in the summer receive with the
invitation order 20 bring morning toilette and an
eve NM toilette He loves hnery, trinketry teater en-
hroierv spangles grand words and grand titles-the
sounding. the gherng ell the glassware OF power In
his quality OF cousin the battle OF Auserz he dresses
himself up General
tie cares little about being despiscd he contents him
le with the appearance Of respect.
This mnn would tarIish the background of history
Lee absolutely sucs lts foreground. Europe smiled when
q hiking OF Hay, she this white SOuuque appear.
But there Is in Europe, IN every understanding
mind abroad as at home, profound stupor, feeling As
were, of personal insult for the Eu- pean continent
whether II will no. IA bound guarantee Tor France,
md That Which abases France humiates Europe
Before the III December the leaders of the Right
used hobituGly 10 say Of Louis Bonaparte-i5 an IDIOT
They mistaken. Questionlcss that bcan OF his u
perurbod end has large gaps in IT, but you can discern
Lere end there in 10 thoughts consecutive and cOncat
mate. 4 book whence pages have been torn. Louis
Napoleon hsa fixed idea but fixed idea Is not bliOcy
lie 6nC what he wants, and he goes straight on 70 r.
de.yng ju,tice, deiying law, deiying reason, defy
INK honosiy, deyins humanity, no doubt, but still,
ma hit On.
lie l. not en IDIOT He il man Of another age than
IL seems absurd and mad, because he is
Lis place and time. Transport him Spain OF the
ION century, ana Philip H. would recognize him; 10
ENGLAND, and Henry VIII would smile on him 10 Italy,
Fno Co s6r BCrgia would embrace him Or even taking
TO place HIM beyond the pale of European cyilzs
fiCn place him. IN le7 Janina and ATepclen would
ri p lin by the hand
He is Of the middle ages and Of the Lower Empire
Thai which he docs would nave seemed perfectly SIMPLE
and natural % Michael Ducss 10 Roinanus DOgenes, to
Necephors Botoniates, 70 the Eunuch Narses 10 the
VGnds, r licOn to Mahomet W., TO Alexander VI, 10
Ezzeno OF Pgdua, II perfectly simple and nat
ural 70 himself TIE only thing ia, That he forget
knows nor that in the age wherein live his actions
viii have Troyerse the grand courses Of human
ray chsstened by three aged 81 literature and by the
French revolution end that ia this medium his actions
viii wear their truc aspect and appear wh8t they really
srC-hidcCus.
His partisaEF-he he's s0mc-cOmplacently parallel
him win his uncle the first Bonaparte They say
The accomplished the lslh Brumaire the other the
ID December: they are two Of ambition The
fret Bcnaparte aimed ~ reconstruct the empire OF the
West; 70 make Europe his vsssal 10 dominate over
the Continent by hs power and 10 dzzle II by ais gran
JeUr; 20 take chair himself and give foOtsroOls
20 The kings to create hi place in history Ninrod Cy
rls, Alexander, Hannibal, Caesar, Charlemagne-Ne-
lClcor-.o be master Of the wOrlt He 80. To be
20, be- accomplished the lcth Brumaire The other man
AIMS 10 have horses and nsiresses, 70 be called Mon
sGsneT, ard to live luxuri0usly. To this end, he
brOugi, about the % December. Yes they are two
men # arnlirion: The comparison u just.
Lei add that. Ike tne rst BOnap'Tte the second
slsO AIMS 70 be Emperor But that wlich somewhat
Jays comparison t. that there IT, pernsps, come slight
difference between the conquering empire and the
plfcrng IT,"