The mountain sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1844-1853, 1852-04-08
Louis Napoleon.

We accidentally met, yesterday, with shred
of an old newspaper, containing an extract from
the Boston Evening Transcript under the above
heading Some of the incidents given by the
writer, whoever he was, recent events have ten
ded to render peculiarly interesting we there
fore give condensed sketch of them.
''This prince thus announces the artlcle')
q whose late residence in Switzerland was a
source of so much uneasiness to Louis Philippe,
and who no doubt cherishes the delusive hope
that he viii at very distant day be called upon
to sway the sceptre of France, is the third son
of Louis Napoleon, king of Holland) brother to
the Emperor, and of Hortense Eugene, and
daughter of the Empress Josephine, and was
born at Paris on the Goth of April, l8O0. His
birth was announced by the cannon Of the Grand
Army along the whole line, and his name was
the first inscribed in the register which was to
regulate the right of succession in the Imperial
family
| Not so very ''delusiye" after all, as things
have turned out. 1t seems that Louis Napoleon
was particular favorite Of the Emperor, and in
proof, this auecdote is related:
| ''At the return from Elba, he stood beside
Napoleon during the holding of the Champ de
Mai, and was presented to the deputations from
the people and the army, and when the Emperor
embraced him for the last time, at Malmaison,
although then but seven years of age, he showed
very strong feeling, He wanted to follow his
uncle, and cried out, weeping, that he would go
and fire off the cannon. 1t was with much diff
Guilty that his mother pacifed him. His exile
now commenced
In Switzerland, he devoted himself to military
study, contracted the manly personal habits of
the mountaineers, and in one of his letters to
his mother, dated Sept ID, 1820,) he writes
thus:
q am engaged in military accommodating in
the mountains, walking ten or twelve leagues
day, with knapsack ON my back and sleeping
under tent at the foot of glacier"
He was thus employed when he was surprised
by the news of the Revolution Of July, I830-a
Revolution which he fattered himself would an
nul the treaties ofl8l6, and put an end to ban
ishment. But, like many other exiles, he was
sadly disappointed.
a curious anecdote is told of lin, in connec-
ton with our gallant Lafayette, which we COPY.
After the Duke of Orleans TLouis PhiIppel
had been placed upon the throne by Lafayette,
Louis NaPoleon-knowing that the Duke had
frequently said to his mother, in 1929 that should
he ever ascend the throne he would recall the
Emperor amily-wrote i letter to the Citizen
King asking permission to serve as 4 common
soldier, anxious he to return to his native
land This Applicant on of the enthusiastic
youth, as is well known, was answered by q fresh
act Of banishment, Thisis not the only instance
in which the Citizen King neglected to fulfil
promises made by the q Duke of Orleans as
the great and good Lafayette soon, to his sor-
row, found who, in 1888 sent word to the Prince
that he much desired to have an interview with
him. They accordingly met, and Lafayette en-
braced the young pretender with great cordial-
ty, declaring that he bitterly repented of what
he had helped to do in July, and strongly recon-
mended Louis Napoleon to seize the first favora-
bic opportunity Of returning to France: :. For
said he, q this government cannot stand, and
your name is the only one that is popular
This, if true, is very significant and impor-
tant fact in history.
After many hopes and more fears, several es-
capes from danger from the Austrian Govern
ment, who insisted on his being driven out of
Switzerland, Hortense resolved on a bold and
daring step. Though her son was forbidden, on
pain of death, to enter France, yet
by means of passport furnished her at
Genoa by an Englishman, she boldly entered
France, and after arriving at the Hotel de Holi-
lande in Paris, wrote to inform Louis Philippe
An interview took place-the Citizen Royal"
was all kindness-made many promises which
he had not, of course, the slightest idea Of fulfil
ing-and in few days afterwards sent a mes
senger to acquaint Hortense that herself and son
must Immediately quit France? On his arrival
in Paris, the Prince received an invitation from
the envOys from Warsaw to repair to Poland.
but the news of the fall of Warsaw, stopped him
on the very point of departure"
After spending some more years in Switzer-
land, where he wrote and published several pol /
itical, military, and scientific works, came the
affair at Strasburg, (the attempted insurrection
and revolution, in 1886: and the defeat of this
was followed by his cmbarkation for this coun-
try. Hence he went back at the time of his
mothers illness, and was soon after obliged to
leave Switzerland Precipitation to France
And the writer we have been quoting concludes
by saying & the last accounts we have had from
him were that her Majesty's subjects were salu-
ting him in the streets of London with Long
live Prince Napoleon!" Such sounds from such
a source must have fallen pleasantly on his ear ~
What a whirlagig is time, and what queer
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