The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1854-06-10

LOUIS NAPOLEON AND THE SULTAN DESCEN-
DED FROM AMERICAN ANcEsroRs.-Th
Washington Union says: The past history
of the family of Louis Napoleon and tSe Sui
tan of Turkey is full Of interesting and mar
vcllous incidents, some of which arc probh-
BIZ not generally known to our readers.
These two nouarchs, nov 50 cordially
ri.y Of the Ottoman Empire arc both g.ald-
sons of American ladies'. These ladies were
born ard raised in the same ntiehborhood. On
the island of Martinique, one oC the N,st In
dies. They were Of French origin and COM
panions, and intimate friends in childhood
and youth. They were Josephine dc flasher
and Miss S..
Thchistory ofJoscrhinc is generally known.
She went to France, and WAS married NJ. &c
Bcaubaras, by whom she had one son, Eu-
ecac, and a daughter, l!ortcnsc. Some time
after the death of Bpaubarnais, Josephine was
married to Napoleon Bona; artc, and became
Empress of France. llr d1u.htcr iIortcnac,
was married TO Joseph Eonal,artc, the King
Of Holland, and the present Emperor Of France
is her son by that marriage.
Miss S. Quilted the island ,f Martinique
some time b. fore her friend But the vessel
that was carrying her to France was attack
ed and taken by .Ngcrine corSairs and the
crew and passengers made prisoners. But
This corsair ship was in turn attacked and
pillagcd by Tunis pirates. and Miss S. was
carried by them into Constantinoile and of
fcrcd for saleas a slave. Her extraordinary
beauty and ccomrlisamcntsC found her a pur-
chaser in the Sultan himself and She soon
become the chief lady of scraglo and Sultan
css of Turkey. Mahon,d II was her son,
and the present Sultan -Abdu! Mcji is the
son Of Mahiomod.
Thus the two sovcr,igns who now occupy
so great a space in the worlds eye are grand
SONS of two American creole girls, who were
rlaymatcS in their youth, as remarkable for
their beauty and excellent dispositions as for
their varied singular fortunes.
Both these women in the Height of ;hcir
power remembered all the friends OF their
youth, and provided mmiiccntly for their
welfare. Many of ihc relatives of the Sultan
css left the island of Martinique and settled at
Constantnorle. where their descend ,nts still
reside and enjoy the favor Of lie Sultan.
The Sultan did in lsll, Tic In.prtss 10
Scphinc in 1911, and the grandsons now rule
over two wide and powerful empires and ar,
entering, as ilit ndS and allies, ulon one Of
the mos momentous and saMgltinary strug
sleS in which Europe was ever involved.
RUSSIAN MAN,ECyRE.-l Gctm III private
letter from Olcss,, April seth, received via
Vienna, states that in the night following the
bom5ar,lmcnt Of that place, the Russian Cen
cral Oatcn Suckrn had the bodies of his dead
soldiers (somc five or six hluidrcd) removed
some distance from the city and tilcr, secret
Is inferred. In or,lcr to create the impress
sion among the inhabitants that the less of
the Russians had been insignificant, he cuus-
ed some forty, whose bodies had been LIFT
lying near the batteries, to be publicly buried
with great pomp on the next day, April >
This manuuvre having but partially succeed
ed, an individual who had witnessed the
slaughter among the troops, and had convey
ed the news to his family, was arrested, tried
on the accusation Of spreading false reports.
convicted and s,>t need to death.
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