The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1854-07-18
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THE LONDON QUARTERLY AND THE
BONAPARTE FAMILY.
The London Quarterly has review of the
Memoirs and Correspondence of King Joseph
Bonaparte, which is the most bitter, unscru
pulous, malignant and calumnious attack
upon the whole Bonaparte family we have
ever seen. One would think it had been
written during the height of the last terrible
struggle between England and France. The
Empire is the chief object of assault, but not
member of his family is spared The stale
calumnies against Josephine are revived in
all their atrocious malignity, and even the
mother of Bonaparte is described as "the pc
nurious widow Of a spend thrift husband -
The letters of Napoleon to his relations, over
flowing with simple and natural expressions
of love and affection, that do honor to his
character, are held up to ridicule by MS re-
viewer. While writer in Harper's Monthly
is making god of Napoleon, this writer IN
the London Quarterly is making devil OF
him. Truth in this, as in many other cases
lies between the two extremes. we FAD
thought that England had forgotten her an
Gent prejudices against Napoleon. But the
old lion will show itself. If Louis Napoleon
reads the London Quarterly, he must feel
highly Hattered by the honorable mention
which this leading literary organ OF his En-
gish ally makes of his whole family.
One of the most ridiculous things in tins
whole onslaught upon the illustrious dead is
its anxiety to demonstrate fact, which Napo'
leon himself admitted and gloried in, that ne
was not descended from noble ancestry. Ma
poleon exultingly declared that he was the
Rodolph of his race, and repeatedly boosted
that he was one of the "canaille." But the
idea of belittling Napoleon by proving that
he had no ancestry! That is work which
no man not dwelling in England, or iunatlc
asylum, would ever think of undertaking.
This reviewer must be man who knows al
about the ancestry of Julius Caesar, Hume
Shakespeare and admires them in proportion
to the glories of their genealogy. lnthe pal
lid eyes of such worShipper of rule, bloat
ed and half idiot Bourbon is more venerated
than such monarch mind, of natures OWE
making, as Napoleon Bonaparte
The London Quarterly, generally so able
and dignifed, and an influential organ of the
sentiment of a very intelligent and Influential
class of Englishmen, would not, it is certain
make such a brutal and hyena-like attack
upon the family of Napoleon, were it not sure
of touching a sympathetic, though perhaps
secret chord in the bosoms of the British
public. The reviewer may be cursed for his
imprudence in expressing such sentiments
just at this time when the whole English
press are endeavoring, by the most honied
fsttery of thenephew, to wipe out the remem-
brance of the uncle, and to promote the most
cordial feeling between the allied powers
But his candor will be his only crime, for
if the French can never forgive Waterloo, as
{ hey never can and never will, England can
never forgive the most powerful though the
most magnanimous of her enemies, and the
possession of genius which threw into the
shade the brightest intellects England has
ever produced in court and camp. But for
her isolated position, England would have
been no more able to resist Napoleon than
Prussia or Austria. 1t is no thanks to her own
military skill and prewess that she was not
overrun by the victorious legions of France
from one end to the other