Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1855-11-02
For the Journal.
N..oIao,, Io,,,s Ronnparte.---NO. I.

For the Journal.
Napoleon Louis Bonaparte.---No.
yariops articles in respectable State papers have
recently directed public attention TO the career OF
Napoleon Louis Bonaparte, present Emperor OF
France. His continued struggle with Russia-the
recent fall of Sebastopo, and his apparent unlimited
influence over England seem to have =. awaSenea
considerable interest this side of the Atlantic, and
general inquiry-WAo he and srhat gre has
propose Mr., Editor, to write few articles tor
your paper, emhodying some OF the incidents IN the
history of this man, to enable the pubic TO Juoge
for the future Nor do design these articles to as
pire to the dignity of biography or to the preenslons
of literary journalism but simply to state IN
plain waY, few plain facts 10 the readers OF
weekly paper. The writer also begs leave to say
that he makes no claim TO erudItlon IN Frehch
scholarship, not knowing a word of that language
nor but little of French history What shall state
however, have obtained from reliable history, and
from intimate personal friend of the Emperor,
who visited him while in prison at Ham, and OBJ.
tanned from the mouth of Louis, himself, many OF
the facts and incidents | shall publish
The career of Napoleon Bonaparte, uncle OF the
present Emperor is of recent date, and has been OF
consequence sufficient not only to impress the world
with idea of the man, but to force its acqualnt
ance with some of the characteristics of the Bona
parte family. The subject of this sketch, Napoleon
Louis has lost nothing of the original stock, whether
of genius, Of great powers of combination and anay
sis, of cultivated and aspiring intellect, OF acuteness
ana determination OF InINQi OI vi
raj courage. of republican sympahes, drowned by
excess of ambition. in the requirements OF etiquette
and good breeding the marked conventionaites
of the drawing. room-all these are mis- by lnheri-
lance and improved by cultivation.
NaUoleon Louis is the second son of Louis Bona
parte King of Holland, and of Hortense, daughter of
the Empress Josephine. He was born in 1906 and
received the name of Napoleon Louis; he had the
Emperor for his godfather, and was baptized by the
Pope on the oath of March of that year, in the cha
g. II xu;lI ho cd hat No
poleon married Madame Beauharnais, who by a pre-
vous marriage became the mother of two children
Eugene and Hortense. Louis Bonaparte married
Hortense, the daughter of his brothers wife, and by
her had two sons the younger OF whom is the pre-
sent Emperor. 1t appears, therefore, that Napoleon
Louis is not only the legitimate nephew of Napoleon
Bonaparte, but, to the language OF the Emperor
himself, {" almost his SON."
Louis Bonaparte, father of the present Emperor
seems 10 have been of less ambition--of more mode
rate IDEAS and possessed of less intensity Of French
patriotism than any of the Bonaparte family. On
) the 5th of June, 1906, when Napoleon proclaimed
him King of Holland, he used to him the following
language: " Prince, reign this people. Their
fathers only acquired their independence through the
constant assistance of France. May she be indebted
to you for Kings, who will protect her Liberties, her
laws and religion But never cease TO be FRENCH
e man" Napoleon soon becoming dissatisfied with
7 his management of affairs in Holland, sent to him
several dicatorlal msslves from which shall extract
S some few disconnected paragraphs. "iYour majes-
IT, by mounting the throne OF Holland, have forgot
ten that you were French, and have even searched
all your mental resources, tormened the decacy OF
your conscience, in order to persuade yourself that
YOU were Dutch" 81 have had the modification OF
e beholding in Holland under Prince of my blood
> the French name exposed to disG0nor." 'Your Ma.
>. iesty will find in brother. # [ find in you d
J. Frenchman but if you forget the sentiments which
bind you to our country, you will not take il
ill if forget those which nature has placed between
ourselves" HOLLAND, having become part of my en-
pre you had been that which you should have been
= would have been the dear to me, since haC
- given hera prince acho almost my son.. 1t may bt
remarked that Napoleon in placing his brothers ant
- kinsmen upon the thrones of conquered provinces
- sought not only to raise his blood and family to al
:, y equal elevation with the other crowned heads o
IL Europe but TO ortfy France with Gordon of Deepen
dant sovereignties ruled by his own blood, and sub
~ ject at all times to his own rule and dlctation
- But Louis, unwilling to give up his own ideas 0
government, and of being any other than Hola4lde
10 while King of Holland pursued the tenor o
20 his way unmindful for the prosperity of any othe
n province than was comprised within the territorial
- | circumference OF the Baavian people. At last find
ing the struggle between himself and brother becom
ing more unequal and unpleasant, he abandoned tn
contest by sending his formal act of abdlcation t.
Paris, and returned to Germany Disappointed and cha
" grined at the behavior of Louis, which Napoleo
- construed into direct charge against him in the fac
~ of Europe that he had hurthened his brothers.
too heavily by enormous eXactons, he sought reveng
~ of his brother by commissioning the lot of his sor
10 and on the Goth July, at a grand reunion at S
Ia Clouds had his nephew Napoleon Louis presented
~ him, and, with emotion: said: "Come, my son. wi
a. be your father, and you shall lose nothing The be
&c havor of your father rends my heart-his sickness
y alone explain it, When you are old enough
"a you will pay off his debt and your own Never tol
at get in whatever position my policy and the ntere
70 OF my empire may place you, that your first dute
b | are towards me, your second towards France a
jv your other duties, even towards the people whom
~ might contde to you, will come after this TIL
Al. was the charge of the Emperor Napoleon to h
pc nephew, then boy, now Emperor of France. 1t al
pears that the mother of this boy, the beautif
ID Queen Horense, possessed more courage and more
IN that fiery spirit, peculiarly French, than even h
70 Bonaparte husband.
~ When the campaign of 1914 brought such disaste
70 to the French army and the Allies about to Ell
all ter Paris-when Joseph Bonaparte, under orders
,r Napoleon hurried thence to precpitae the departu
of the Empress Maria Louisa and his son, the your
nv King of Rome-when Taeyrand grew pale and e
; claimed Sc Now let every save himself who can
nd it is said that Hortense afflicted by such seen
,ok urged them not to abandon the capitol to intrigue
cos and Consprators and addressed the young queen
mo this prophetic language If you leave the Tueri
de- you will never see them again" LONG CREEK
it'll SERVICES OF COMMANDER HARTsrE1s Acxsov
mp EDGED.-Ihe following is a copy of letter addreE
nd, ed by the Secretary of the Navy to Command
OF Hartsein, of the Arctic Expedition which succeed
IRIS, in finding Or. Kane and party:
is Navy DEPARTMENT. Oct. Is, 1855
1of SIR:-I have just received your communication
ma the 18th inst, informing of the safe return
your party, accompanied by DR.. Kane and his par
The dispatches enclosed with the communicate
one have been perused with much interest You ha
the ECU ho 1uuoue uu'y LII "l!0n you ~ not
volunteered with fidelity, skill and ndomitable en-
the gy. Your brother officers, who feel a pride in