Washington sentinel. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1853-1855, 1854-11-17
Wasbingtum Sentinel.
The Causes OF the souIe Anair.

The Causes OF the soule Affair.
The republican correspondent of the Cour-
Yier des Etats Unis details at length the pri-
vate reasons which, as he would have US be-
ieve induced Louis Napoleon to deny Mr..
Soule the privilege of entering his empire:
In lS49, Mr.. Soule made voyage to Spain,
where he had been called by important bust
ness intrusted TO him as an advocate. Having
finished the business of his client, he began to
think little Of his own, and came to Paris,
where his high reputation placed him at once
in the best society. He then frequented the
upper circles, and one fine day his friend, Fred
eric Gaillardet, who at that time was very intl-
mate with the President of the Republic, pro-
duced him at the Elysee and presented him to
Louis Napoleon. The Prince as he had begun
to be called at that time, received Mr.. Soule
very civilly, but exhibited the most complete
nuIlity in the protracted conversation which he
had with his guests. So much so, that after
the visit, Mr.. Soule said to M. Gaillardet as
they were going away, Mr. friend, your Prince
is goose, and greatly regret France has fall
len into such hands"
Gallardet ascribed the stupidity Of the prince
to head ache and asked Soule to once more
do violence to himself and make another visit
to PElysee, so that he could talk further with
the President assuring him that he would form
quite different opinion of him on second
audience. But Soule, who had already made a
sacrifice, as he said, in rubbing his republican
garments on the upholstery of the presidential
palace, obstinately refused to undertake new
conversation with the hero of Strasbourgh, and
returned to America without seeing him
again.
Louis Napoleon was exceedingly displeased
at the affair Although, on the whole, he is
poor stick, he has wit enough to detect exactly
the impression which he makes on those who
approach him, and on this occasion he could
not conceal from himself that the illustrious
advocate and diplomatist must have carried
away very sorry opinion of him. He wished
to reinstate himself, in point of intelligence,
with such superior person; and being unable
to succeed, he could not pardon Mr.. Soule for
it; he was doubly wounded in his pride and
his selflove; he had been CIPHER before a
man of talent and his advances had been re-
jected with the most profound disdain.
These wounds bled for long time. The
= emperor always remembered those which were
received by the President of the republic, and
your ambassador it honored with the deepest
antipathy. STILL violent as it is, it would not
have been carried SO far as to manifest itself by
an act so annoying as the measure Just taken,
K had not been greatly reinforced by the
haGedwhich the empress also bears toward Mr..
Soule.
In her character as daughter of Spain,
and an ever faithful patriotess, the blonde Eu-
genie naturally oetests Mr.. Soule, who openly
defended the annexation Of Cuba to the United
States; in her character as woman and an
empress, she detests him still more, because he
once permitted himself to relate in a circle the
victory which was said to have been won by
fha ha,1 N1la A. Al -
OF the Countess of Teba; and aferward said,
in speaking of the august moiety of the very
august Napoleon I'LL, "Upon my word, i do
not know what that little actress has against
me-
The "little actress" was little relished at
court, and Eugene promised to have her re-
venge. She is now taking it.
What proves, moreover, that the order of ex-
GLIDING Mr.. Soule from the French territory
!. proceeded directly from the Tuilleries, is that
the two Ministers and the Project, who had the
night to issue IT were on excellent terms with
your Ambassador, and would have guarded
against troubling him. Mr.. Drown de rHuys
waited for him at Paris to ask service of him,
and had caused Latour Dumoulin to invite him
to dinner; M. Bllault and NJ. Pietri had to be
pardoned for the ridiculous affair at Lyons,
and had already been put in the wrong, in re
gard to the Project Of the Rhoue, with Mr..
Soule, during his last residence here. Finally,
an intimate friend of the prescribed having
gone to the Minister Of the Interior for an ex-
PLANTATION Of the unexplainable measure of go
vernment, M. Billault confessed that he had
dispatched the order to the Commissary of
Police at Calais, but that he had done so by
compulsion. He could not accuse the palace
more positively.
The government at Washington and the
American people will certainly not submit TO
this afront without word, and we must ex-
pect that Mr.. Pierce will reply to the gallant
proceeding of Louis Napoleon by amenities Of
similar stamp. But we may also hope that
the Democrats of the United States will not
confound the Palace of the Tuilleries with
France, nor hold the French responsible for the
faults of their pale Emperor.