Washington sentinel. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1853-1855, 1854-10-24

futter of a moment, TO be allowed to 60 to the
assistance of Charles x. But with the news of
the accession of Louis Philippe, other thoughts
succeeded. One evening as he was ascending
a staircase in the imperial palace, q young wo-
man, enyeloped in Scotch plaid, rushed forward
from landing place, where she seems to have
been waiting, and taking his hand pressed it
eagerly TO his lips. His tutor, who was with
him, asked her business. May not kiss
she said, the hand of my sovereign's son and
Immediately disappeared. For some time the
incident could not be explained, but at length
no doubt remained that the fair stranger was
his cousin, the Countess Camerata, a married
daughter of his deceased aunt Bocchiochio.
On visit to Vienna, the countess had consti-
tuted herself the medium OF communication be-
tween the Bonapartists and her young cousin
to whom she even ventured some months after
the revolution of July, to address q letter, en-
couraging him, even then to assume decided
part. From these, and all overtures of the
same kind, the poor youth seems to have shrunk
ment during the revolution of 1880, soon sub
sided into calmer mood he began, we are
told. to write down in the form of an essay,
series Of very Austrian reflections on his own
life, and the relations in which he stood to
France. Only once did his agitation return
on the occasion, namely, of the political move
ments in his mothers state of Parma. When
the news of these movements reached Vienna,
he was anxious to be allowed to 60 to Italy to
his motherss assistance but neither, on this
occasion, could his wishes be granted.
From the first, indeed, it had been seen that
the young Napoleon could not live long. I'm
doubted symptoms of the presence in his con-
stitntion of the seeds of that malady that had
carried off his father, early presented them
selves; and to these were added other symp-
toms too clearly marking him out as the prey
of consumption. From being handsome deli
cate boy, he had suddenly shot up before his
eighteenth, into tall feeble and sickly, though
handsome young man, the constant care of the
imperial physicians Towards the end of the
year 1881, he became rapidly worse, and was
obliged to abstain from his military exercise,
and from all active exertion whatever. Dur
ing the winter Of that year, and the spring of
1882, he lived at Schonbrunn, almost wholly
confined to his chamber. It had been resolved
to remove him to Naples, should it be possible
to do so, in the autumn of 1882; but the dis
ease had made such progress, that before that
time the fatal result had taken place. For
many weeks he had been in great pain, and
incapable of any change of position, save that
of being wheeled to window balcony, over
looking the garden of Schonbrunn. Even
this was at last beyond his strength and
stretched on his bed in great suffering, he
waited anxiously for his release. Maria Louisa
arrived from Italy only in time to see him die.
1t was on the 22d of July, 1892, and in the
very room that had been occupied by his father
on his famous visit to Schonbrunn, that he
breathed his last. Some days after, there was
funeral procession through the streets of vi
emma, and the body of Napoleons son was
committed to the imperial vaults.
Z The people of Vienna showed much feeling
on the occasion; the cholera had just been thin
ming their own households