Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1859-12-02
TIVE BosApARTEs AND TIE sEAUHARsaIs.

loiuest positlon 10 the ciVliIec WoFld--
Enthroned amid the splendor Of the
most magnificent court Of Europe, he
was virtually master Of an empire stretch
ing over the entire face Of the continent, /
with the exception OF Russia and Turkey, /
snd with those two powers be vas on
terms Of cordial alliance. To himself,
As every school-boy knows, he reserved
( the imperial throne Of France, compris- !
ing the France Of the present day, Bell
GUM, Savoy, Piedmont, and 81 one time
the whole Northern Italy and part OF
Germany. On his brothers and sisters
be conferred respectively the diadems of
Holland, Naples, Spain, Westphalis and
Tuscany; whilst his s,ep-son, Eugene
Beauharnais, he appointed viceroy Of
Iialy. Yet, with this unnvslled domi-
Mon, be was discontinued. As long as
be had no issue to transmit his name to.
Posterity be fancied his power Unsecured.
| To consolidate his throne, then, and to
gratify the ambitious yesrnings of bis
heart, be formed the project Of an ALI
ance with the imperial family Of Austria.
And TO accomplish this, be discarded
Josephine--his long-devoted and faithful
wife. She retired to Malu1aison, a pow
erless weeping woman, cast-off favor
tie, without political friends or influence.
/ And he continued TO rule, the very en-
blem Of power, all Europe at his feet,
millions Of men ready TO carry out his
/ highest caprice, and bis throne apparent
by frmer than GibraI,er Who then
would have dreamed Of the retribution
that time held in reserve?
a few short years more, and Napole-
on lay chained to St. Helena's rock, and
Josephine lay sleeping peacefully beneath
the sod. The rule Of the Bonapsrtes
was over the scePtres of France, Bel
GUM, Holland, Spain, Italy and West
phalia hsd been transferred TO hostil,
hands. The only scion O. the great mar
fallen, the Duke de Reichstadt, ci-dsrau
King Of Rome, roamed g virtual prison
er in hi, grandfather's palace at Vienna
bearing IN him the seeds of a malady t,
which he was early doomed to fall
=. victim. The family name Of the ambi
- tious Napoleon figured in none Of to-
> courts Of Europe.
. The children of the discarded Joseph
- inc, on the other hand, we're rising int
4. power and forming alliances with tn
m prOudest blood in Europe. Her sot
~ Euget e, already allied to the royal hous
n. OF Bavaria by his marriage with AmeEs
D, daughter Of the King, was living wit
his father-in-law, under the title of Duk
10 Of Leuchtenberg. His eldest son, Aug
II ustus, married Donna Maria, Queen q
N Portugal. in 1885. His younger sol
Prince Macmillan, married in 1889 th
daughter of the Emperor Nicholas {
! Russia The eldest daughter Of Eugen
Beauharnais, Josephine, married Osca
afterwards King Of Sweden, son
= Marshall Bernadotte, and successor
= his father in 1874. The second daugl
" ter, Eugenie, married the Prince Of H
D.. Observation-Disclosures Hohenzo
:, lerns, It viii be remembered, are II
reigning house Of Prussia only tt
Prussisn monarchs are descended from
younger son Of Rodolphus H.. Will
the Observation-Disclosures boast
descending from the eldest son. tt
:, third daughter, Amelie, married D,
Pedro, the Emperor Of Brazil. Al
the only surviving son of Hortens
Louis Napoleon, is now seated more fri
- ly than bis uncle ever was, on ths II
l.. / Perial throne Of France.
,fl Thus, 81 the present day, the descen
ants Of Josephine are allied to q
thrones Of three emPires-Frsnce, Ri
i. a sia and Brazil and three kingdoms
ler Bavaria, Portugal and Sweden wit
ID out mentioning the connection with t
in HOheuzoilerns. and the "reminiscences
ing Eugene's Tice-roysity in Italy and Ho
SIX ense's elouded reign in Holland.
eH VIVA, better evidence could be add,
cd Of the vanity OF even imperial am
be ton 7 Napoleon, the most powerful
m mortals, SETS bis whole heart on the ho
ave Of perpetuating his family, and sacrii,
'rsi everything-priueiple and popularity
the 10 attain his object; yet, himself and
TO Of his name in exile, he leaves beht
an him but one sickly son, who flick
ted awhile and then dies out ingloriou:
- leaving no issue. Whilst Josephine.
.tch woman be discarded, sees her child
Nth seated II the palaces Of halE-a-dozen XII
en- doms and empires And even wi
nee the indirect line Of the NspoIaons "a