The Georgetown news., 1855-08-16
Portraits of Louis Napoleon and the Em-
press Eugenie.


! SHE.-As for Eugene, she has been the
theme OF alI tongues, each out-clamoring the
other IN her praise. Such beauty, to begin
with, has never been seen; at least so it IS
said, and that doesn't exceed the truth, as
1t Is IN the sayers. 1t is beauty that COM
bines all styles, and excels in each. 1t
unites the romantic gravity of the Moresque
Spaniard, with the airy piquancy of the
Partisan, the reserve of the British belle
with the abandon of the continental south
ern.
/ Her complexion is at once blonde, and
olive, and comprises the charms of both
The expression OF her face is at once win
ming and commanding, confding and digni-
fed. Her stature and figure are all that
could be wished in a woman or desired in
a monarch; and each dress she has appeared
IN public IN, seems exactly the one of all
Others that she should never appear out of,
If the spectator at the moment had his way
! Moreover, she is just at the precise age
when the several graces of the sex seem to
blend into perfection, and when the dimin-
utlOn or addition, almost of an hour, would
imply forfeiture of some one attribute, es-
sential to the real and the ideal, the poet
ical and the practical before you. The lady
amongst us who bears the nearest resem-
blance to her, is the Duchess of Wellington.
or rather such was the case when the latter
was little younger, and Randseer's like
hess, in the ''V isit Of Waterloo" was a faith
ful portrait Of the then Marchionegs Of
Bouro.
There IS the same comminglemcnt- of the
half Oriental, half Scandinavian aspect; the
large, open antelope eye, with the full droop-
ing fringe, at once heightening and mitigat-
ing its lustre; the same small and rounded
limbs and majestic presence: and the same
pensiveness 10 the midst of animation, per-
| haps arising from the same cause, the child
ishnese of an otherwise enviable union.
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HE.-Certainly he looks every thing that
bis inpassioned assailant in Napoleon le
Petit describes; and not all the circur-
stances Of splendor surrounding him, not all
the romance Of his life, and not all the ef-
feet which such considerations produce up-
on thesmost phiegmatic and philosophic Of
minds, could deprive his countenance of its
indefnabIe and unmistakable impulsiveness.
In it is disclosed no one trait of attractive
nes9. Indeed, the absence Of all trait, is the
only decided trait about il. 1t is perfect
ly expresslonless, whether in animation or
repose.
His face is e blaze, or rather a blight
1t may have been capable Of conveying
some expressions some time, but that time
has gone by, and now it really expresses
nothing: The eyes are dead; the complex
ion livid; tie mouth, even when smiling, in
animate; the muscles of the whole face at
once rigid and relaxed; and the contempla-
ton of the viSage altogether leaves a most
unfayorable impression, no matter what
ones predictions in favor Of the man HIM
self, or however biased by the fascination of
the immortal deeds of his uncle, by virtue of
whose name the nephew is what he Is.
In the confguration of the head, there is
some similarity between Napoleon the First
and the Third, and the sparseness and quail
ity of the hair favors the likeness. But in
the faces themselves, and even in the fore
heads, the most able physiognomist could
detect no trace of identity Of blood between
the relatives.
The Italian element is altogether wanting
in the present Emperor, who is much more
of the bad French type of face-what Vol
taire called between the tiger and the monk
ey-than was the great Corscian, whose an
tique beauty, scarcely less than his deathless
exploits, universalized his portraits and
busts, by rendering their production labor
Of professional love to the artist, as the fin
est subject upon which he could be employed.
CLEARING A LocoMorIvE-AnE English
man, who recently travelled through the
United States, gives the following incident:
Turning a corner, we came suddenly in