Litchfield enquirer., 1858-01-14

would confess that he was ill So great was his fear lest, on the very entrance to the world of glory and exploits, he should be obliged to retire into seclusion more adapted to an inval'd, that he suppressed every symptom Of disease from the knowledge of his friends, aud his greatest terror Was that his grandfather should note his failing health and compel him to delay the execution of his youthful plans, in order to 1 recruit his bodily strength.
 Sometimes in the exertion of review, he would become totally exhausted in issuing or ders to his corps, but when the ceremony was over, he would hasten to hide his suferings, fainting and grooming in the solitude of some secret room, and no word of complaint ever passed his lips. ..~ At length the court physicians felt it their duty to rclnoustrate the emperors attention and the young prince was sent to Schonbrunn for rest and advice.
 At first this change appeared to prove ben e6cial. A tour was proposed to Naples and Italy, and the prince, whose life had been al- most entirely spent in the monotonous splen- dors of the court of Austria, welcomed the idea with enthusiastic delight It seemed to throw new vitality into his whole system for the moments and even when disease had pros trated his frail body he still clurg to the anti cipation. Up to the very moment when the worn thread of his being snapped in twain, this journey was his darling hope and plan.
 But the deadly progress of the malady was no longer to be arrested by mental stimulus. Some slight exposure brought on rapid phti- sis, and after much suffering; he died, on the 22d of July, 1882 It adds mouruful inter- est to his fate to know that he breathed his last on the 'ame bed and in the same room that his imperial father had occupied us the triumphant % queror of Vienna
 In the repose of death, as he lay on his that striking likeness to his father which had characterized his infant couEtenance but had been lost in some degree as he grew up, be- came startlingly apparent. The classically formed mouth, the round, firm chin, and the straight profile of Napoleon were all there j; and the only Austrian characteristic was in the luxurant and beautiful blond hair, inherited from Maria Louisa, which lay upon his marble brow
 The intelligence of his early death created d profound senseation throug bout Europe and the world. for in spite of the seclusion in which he had always dwclt, the mere fact of his ex- istence, was sufficient :o inspire universal inter- ] est wherever his name was mentioned. h the court of Austria in particular, where he was best known, his loss was deeply lamented, for his unvaryirg gentleness and kindness, had made him favorite with both high and low.
 Francis of Austria was much attached to the young prince who on his part regarded the emperor with warm affection and confidence, and the old man mourned the fate eff his grand ! naroocf1v and cinoora1v Mario I was with him during his last illness, and exhibs itcd all mothers tenderness aud grief:
 Nature had supplied him with every advan tage. His manners were graceful and elegant his figure tall and slender, aud the whole ex pression of his face eminently prepossessing though somewhat sad. Altogether his person al appearance was both pleasing and dign6ed and conveyed the idea of one born to command There are few remaining relics of this unfor- tunate youth, whose life was so sadly eclips. ed at it's vefy outset His portrait embroid, cred by Maria Louisa, on which the eyes of great Napoleon rested at the moment of his death, and the sword that the Duke of Rerh. stadt bequeathed to Louis Napoleon, the pres ent emperor of the French, are still preserved and in walking through the Louvre, you may see among the souvenirs of the Napoleon fam lily the little white jacket, once worn by the infant King of Rome.
 He sleeps in the deep burial vaults of Vien= na. beside cighty-four of the imperial Austrian family. A Il that remains of the child who was bor'. forty-six years ago, to such bound less inheritance of glory is handful of ashes and stately tomb. The sole record of the infant, whose birth had seemed the crownng triumph of all his fathers brilliant successes, and willy machinations is place in history and a sounding epitaph in marble, inscribed by his grandfather's orders, "To the Eterna Memory of Joseph Charles Francis, Duke ol Reichstadt"