The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1855-05-06
WASHINGTON CITY.
s,NnA, MORNING, MAY ., 1855.
NAPOLEON TaE GUEST OF GREAT BRITAIN.


TO The world the British courtsuch tbs last impressive
lesson eventfu age Some profitable and curious
reflections suggested by this strange communion Of
France aud England.
Seventeen years ago Louis Napoleon Bonsparte lived in
The city Of London, where be busted ia military stu
dies and in conung up spparitions fright the soul Of
his FEARFUL adversary Louis Philippe Even at that early
day he nduged the which be has been lauch
derided and which he fulfilled almost before those who
derided him had time change their satire into
surprise. Charles Louis Napoleon Bonsparte oil
Louis Napoleon the brother Of the Emperor, born at
Paris on the 2sth Of April 1908, and his BIRTH
informed was sa,ed by the Of the Grand Army
along the whole Of the line In 1888 he just thirty
years of age At tina. time Louis Philippe regarded
the popular and successful all the European
soveregns Yet he not firmly seated not to feel
some the looks and the aspirations Of the young
Frenehman who dreamed Of almost in the midst Of
poverty aud who throne through perspective dark
ened with blood and with crime Eight years before that
period when Louis Philippe mounted to the Of Charles
the Tenth by the aid Of the Lafayette Louis Ma
poleon asked leave in the French army a
soldier The reply act Of additional Danish
and this reply was at the same time refataon Of
the solemn promise OF the Citizen King recall family
o. the great Emperor their country After this we hear
of Louis Napoleon in the Italian instruction where his
brother dies lie is prosecuted by the absolute govern
mens be falls i'll in the midst of his enemies and is pro-
tected by Hortense, his mother and finally that brave
woman in aeance Of the decree of banishmen carried
him. her only into the bosom ofhs native France Again
banised they left for London and then for Switzerland
where LOUIS Napoleon very creditable works
in of which he proclams the notion that France can
only be lenerated by Of the blood of Napoleon AT
this time the present monarch democrat AS an
English paper Of that day declared an to The popular
vote Ma Noeon Louis appeals" Next his attempt
at Strasbourg, disastrous and absurd Then again
find him at Switzerland. His embarkaton for the Uni
ted States, his return thence to Switzerland where his
mother i'll, and the other of his chcquered and
eccentric mreerhis poverty his privatons and his sup
posed Qnixoc aspirations aband oned-are more or
less familiar readers, and need be recapituated
here We have referred these facts less to recall the per-
son history Of The French Emperor than to show how his
lougiogs after the dazzling power Of his uncles throne
have been realized. At period, too when England is
compelled forget his obscurity her own present grief
it be well to show upon what slender causes and
trivial events The future of monarchcal Europe may de-
pend II We remind ourselves how mnch Louis Napoleon
depreaed recall the contempt which his claims
inspired in nearly every part Of Europe from the day he
begin to speculate in the newspapers and then re-
feet that all his dreams have been fulfilled, who shall
bounds the political events Of the future-yss and
Of the i,urc--in the Old World? Already is il
animated that Great Britain will last consent that the
French Emperor shall lead her armies ne can lead his
own, in the Russian campaign. Extraordinary as such
condesenson would be- however much the result Of ne
cesity it no more extraordinary than the election
Of the same parsonage by millions of people to the
throne of CharlemAgne, and than could be the
demand for enlarged political franchise by the British peo
pie Nor this the only thought suggested by the epi,ha
amum that welcomes the union Of iongdivded nations
few short years ago. and believe almost at the same
time that the present emperor pcnness in the street,
London the glass Of fashion and the mould Of form AZ
Windsor the imperial Gar then polished and edu
Gated gentleman humane ruler, hero and Christian
Nothing could exceed the extravaganza OF British euoey
upon the Autocrat for years. except the British scorn
which subsequently, whstled the upsart Emperor aIouis
Napoleon" down the wind
"Duncan u In his grave.
After LIES 6tful fever be sleeps WE'LL"
Nichoas1s dead but he lived long enough 10 see him.
self hated where he loved to hear the indignation
that proclaimed Louis Napoeons Ainamyp to the world
through British trumpes changed tones of ucct praise
and almost reverential awe Such are the scenes that
have passed before eyes within few years and more
are still to come But the imperial visit to London sup
gests another thought. 1890 aNs
great man sought refuge upon English ship some
forty years ago. in the hope and the belief that he was pa
eng hmsef under the protection Of magnanimous power
Lie eauld have left Fnnceor speak Of Napoleon the
greaat least with his life In his hands and without any
personally humilating conditions lie selected English pro-
lection because he believed in her laws and in the
sonal liberty he should enjoy upon her SOIL lie went on
board the Beerophon Of his free will He was de-
tanned as prisoner carried to barren rock in the
ocean, where he died in solitary grandeur with the feet
of gallant England watching his motions as il they felt
that they could prevent his spirit from penetrating into
France they had prevented his person penetrating
into England. That the which fastened upon the
volume Of English history page like grcat sea of
shame" uniighted by "a single STAR
And now England admits freely another visi,er and
this time it's Napoleon lila plebeian the worlds
battle could make him democrat so FAR AZ
popular vote could make him So No Sir Hudson
Lowe watches Ms footsteps No English fleets ride
in the harbor to prevent his escape No sres dog his
walks and note his conversation He is escorted by an
army and waited upon by Queen lie has his adhe-
rents in bis suite not much others as to pro-
tec him from his exied coun,ymcn Such is the contrast
Would IL be rrevcren in that in all this there il
something OF refinement of revenge2 Does IL not look
ko INV ,f hat