The Nevada journal., 1857-05-15

He was sub-lieutenant at fourteen,
and distinguished himself both in Italy
and Egypt. His philosophical turn of
mind accompanied him to the field; and
when he found himself among the dirty,
ferocious, and strong smelling Bedouins.
he expressed wish that Jean-Jacques
Rousseau could have been compelled to
dwell with the ''man of nature whom
he lauded so much and of whom he
knew so little. 1t was the longing wish
of Josephine, and the desire of Napoleon
to see Louis united to Hortense-Jose-
phine's daughter. The lady was beau
tiful, accomplished, and-nineteen. But
Louis, though only twenty-three years
of age, was too reserved, too mild, and
too little susceptible, to be attracted by
the brilliancy of Hortense. The first
marriages, at all events, of all the Bo-
napartes, were honest love-matches.
Louis struggled hard to escape an en-
gagement which, he was convinced,
would fail to secure happiness for either
of the contracting parties Those par
ties, however, were under influences
which they could not withstand and,
without affection on either side, Hor-
tense and Louis were married in the
year 1902.
Never was marriage moro insisted
on by one side, and resisted by the 9TH
er, than this. 1t was urged by jose
phine and Napoleon, as if the existence
of the empire depended thereon. And
it proved to be a marriage of the high
est interest to the empire. OF the three
sons born of it, the survivor is he who
suppressed the second republic, honest
| ly confessed himself to be parUenu,
was elected Emperor, and formed the
Anglo-French alliance. Such an alli-
ance had not beea known in France
since Athelstan sent a fleet in aid of
Louis d'Outre Mer. When the crown
of Holland was pressed upon Louis Boz
naparte, he resisted the offer as warmly
as he had withstood the project to unite
him with Hortense. He was then smit-
ten with paralysis. and racked with
rheumatism. He may be said to have
been carried to the new throne, rather
than to have ascendedit. Nevertheless
he acted with energy and honesty
When Joseph mounted the Spanish
throne, he told his new subjects that al
though he must remain a Frenchman by
patriotism, he would always be found
Spaniard by religion.
Louis was more satisfactorily explicit
in Holland. " Henceforth," he said.
1 am in all things true Dutchman."
The assertion was not idly made, for
Louis struggled to preserve the rights of
his Subjects and their commercial pros
perity against their policy destructive Of
both. The struggle was Intellectual
He was only the lieutenant of his broth
er Scorning to be that, while he wore
the name of king, Louis descended from
the throne in 1910; and Napoleon an
nexed Holland to the empire of France.
| The ex-king left HARLEM in strict pri-
vacy. For some years after there might
be seen at various German baths " an
invalid of mild, yet not melancholy as
pect, affable in his manners, and of ex-
treme simplicity in his way of life
This was Louis, Count of st. Leu, whose
consort resided at Paris, with the cour-
tesy title Of queen" His residence
was for some time at Gratz, in Syria
He refused all pecuniary aid offered him
by Napoleon, but repaired to Paris to
welcome him, after the Emperor had
landed in France from Elba. Suisse
quent to the second downfall of the en-
pire, the Court de ST. Leu obtained the
Papal per mission to reside in Rome
Thirty-two years were spent by him al
most entirely in Italy; and the routine
of his life there may be told in as many
lines. His days were devoted to pur-
suits which became a country gentle
man of cultivated intellect and declining
health. His principal enjoyment was
derived from literature in which the ex-
king himself took respectable position.
He was visited by his sons, but took
no part in the aspiring views of any;
yet he evinced his paternal sympathy
after the "affair of Burlogne" deprived
one of those sons of his liberty. Louis
died at Leghorh, in June of the year
l046. Three months subsequently his
body was inferred at ST Leu. The lib
erality Of the Government of Louis
Philippe allowed of the reunion of the
exiled family around the grave of the
honest ex-king. Within two years the
condition of the families strangely re-
versed. Louis XVIII had made the
wife of Louis, ex-king of Holland,
Duchess of st. Leu, for which honor
the ex-queen Hortense thanked him in
person. After the Hundred Days.
the Duchess retired to Switzerland,
where her son, Louis Napoleon, became
for time, an artillery officer of the
Swiss Confederation.