The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1855-02-14

yet carried forward by the restless sens
that he must do something or othe
to merit his name, he seems to hav
grasped at the only chance that wa
presented to him-military promotion
in his erandf;. theirs service. Henc
the assiduity with which he pursued hi
with which he presented himself on horse
back at:all reviews and parades, tn,
Viennese pointing him out on such occa
sions as the son of Napoleon. When, a
last, after going through the grades, h'
was permitted by his grandfather to as
sumo the rank and uniform of a lieu
tenant-colonel, his delight was unboun
ded. For three days the poor youth ap
peared at the head of his regiment Civ
ing the word of fcommand-on tho fourtl
he was laid aside with loss of voice and
hoarsness.
Thereswas one quatrer of the horizon
however, to which the son of Napoleon
would often wistfully look-that France
to which he belonged to which his dy-
ing father had bequeathed him with such
solemn injunctions that they should be
true one to the other; and there were
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high at the name of Bonaparte. His
Austrian education had indeed isolated
him from all means Of direct communi-
cation with his native country, and had
made him, in many respects, alien to it /;
but certain cords there were which still
secretly bound him to France. 1 know
no ons at Paris, he said to French Of
ficer, who was On tbeepoint of returning
home after visit to Vienna, but salute
for me the column Vendome.' On the
other hand, if he was personally forgot
ten or unknown in the city which he
thus knew from the map, there were at
least principles aud men that were ready
to burst out in his behalf. So it appear
cd when the revolution of July took
place. Had Napoleon been in Paris, or
near it, when that revolution occurred,
how different might have been, the issue
Absent as he was,' says Louis Blanc,
if an old general of the Emperor had
but pronounced his name to the people
when Lafayette and Guizot were chatter
ing for the Tue d'Orleans, France might
have had Napoleon II. instead of
Louis Philippe. Some timid Bonapar-
tist attempts, it appears, were actually
made. In Paris one Bonapartist came
to a meeting of the leading politicians,
with the. name of the Duke of Reich
stalt "a. his lips, but was dexterously
locked up in room till the business
was over. Communications were even
conveyed to the Duke himself.
When the news of the revolution
reached Vienna, the young man could
not conceal his agitation he even re-
quested, it is said, in the futter of a mo-
ment, to be allowed to go to the assis-
tance of Charles X But with the news
of the accession of Louis Philippe, other
thoughts succeeded. One evening as he
was ascending staircase in the imperi-
al place, young woman, enveloped in
Scotch plaid, rushed forward from land
ing place, where she seems to have been
waiting, and taking his hand, pressed
it eagerly to her lips. His tutor, who
was with him, asked her business. May
1 not kiss she said, the hand of my
soyereign's son p and immediately dis
appeared For some time the incident
could not be explained, but at lenght no
doubt remained that the fair stranger
was his cousin, the Countess Camerate, a
married daughter of his deceased aunt
Bocchiocho. On visit to Vienna, the
Countess had constituted herself the me-
dium of communication between the
Bonapartist and her young cousin, to
whom she even ventured, some months
after the revolution of July, to address
letter, encouraging him, even then to
assume decided part. From these,
and all overturns of the same kind, the
poor youth seems to have shrunk with a
kind of dutiful horror; and his excite
ment during the revolution of 1880, soon
subsiding into a calmer mood, he began,
we are told, to write down in the form OF
an essay, q series of very Austrian re-
Elections on his own life, and the relation
in which he stood to France. Onlyeonce
did his agitation return--on the occa-
sion, namely, of the political movements
in his mothers State of Parma. When
the news of these movemen reached
Vienna, he was anxious to be allowed to
60 TO Italy to his mothers 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. Undoubted symptoms of the
presence in his CONSTITUTION of the seeds
of that malady that had carried off his
father, early presented themselves; and
to these were added other symptoms
too clearly marking him out as the prey
of consumption. From being hand
some delicate boy. he had suddenly shot
before his eighteenth birthday, into a
tall, feeble, and sickly, though handsome,
young man, the constant care of the i'm
perial physicians. Toward the end of
the year 1881, he became rapidly worse,
aud was obliged to abstain from his mil
itary exercise, and from all active exer-
tion whatever. During the. Winter of
that year, and the Spring of 1882. he
lived at Schonbrunn, almost wholly con-
fined to his chamber. It had been re-
solved to remove him to Naples, should
it be pos sible to do so, in the Autumn
of 1882; but the disease 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,
overlooking 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, 1882, and in
the very room that had been occupied
by his father on his famous visit to
Schonbrunn, that he breathcd his last.
Some days after, there was funeral
procession through the streets of Vienna