The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1859-05-26

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remarked in the last number. that ss the life
OF man and the. history of nations present few
contrasts SO striking, in the fortune of individu-
ais or OF communities, as that which marks the
successive visits of Washington to the Eastern
States" As far as the fortune of individuals is
concerned, the name, which stands at the head
OF this article, exhibits n contrast of conditions,
at different periods of life, quite equal to that
which is presented in the career Of Washington.
The year 1914 was q most momentous year in the
history of modern Europe. The great drama of
the French Revolution seemed to have found its
catastrophe Dethroned kings recovered their
sceptres needy emigrants returned to the posses
sion of their titles and the hope of one day re-
gaining their estates and what seemed to stamp
with permanence the great political and social
restoration, the mighty hero of IL Is world-drama,
crushed by the armies of combined Europe, had
been oanished TO a petty islet on the coast of
Tuscany. Peace Was concluded between the
United States and Great Britain at the close of
the year, and the temple of Janus was shut.
Such was the state of things when. on the 18th
Of April 1915, | sailed for Europe in IL ship of
three hundred and fifty tons, which ut that time
was thought a large vessel. 1t was the second
which sailed from Boston for England after the
peace, a fact sufficiently Indicative OF the pro-
found torpor, into which the foreign commerce
of the country had sunk during the war. Intel
Ggence did not reach US from Europe every three
days, as it does now. 1t was six or seven weeks,
if | recoIlect right, after the signature of the
treaty OF Client ON Christmas Eve, 1914, before
the welcome news reached this country. Between
that event and our arrival in Europe a new and
most astonishing revolution had taken place 1t
was announced TO US by the pilot, who climbed
over the ulwarks of our little vessel of Holyhead,
in the rather homely statement that 3 Boney had
broke Loose again" The suspicion, with which
We were inclined to receive this news, was soon
removed by the sight of the Liverpool papers. and
the certain intelligence that the continent of
Europe was again a-blaze with war.
NJ one of course could foretell the result for
Napoleon or for Europe. Lord Byron, in a con-
ver<stion which 1 had with him u few days before
the battle of Waterloo. abiding to the conflict
which was evidently impending, expressed the
opinion that Napoleon would drive the Duke of
Wellington. This he said he should be sorry for,
as he did not wish his countrymen to be beaten,
adding, however, with bitter emphasis, that he
would tell me what he did wish 10 see.-.' Lord
Castlereagh's head carried on a pike beneath his
Windows" But in a few days Che great Message
of Waterloo, FIRST brought by a clerk of Roths-
child, in advance of the Duke of Wellington's
courierl arrived from Belgium, and in a few
weeks she curtain again falls ON the mighty
drama, land this time never more TO rise for the
principal actor,) at St. Helena.
New restoration of fugitive kings, new return
of emigranI MOBILES, new adjustments of the pOliti-
cal rptaffans pf FurpTp- and in The final result
the kindred of the fallen hero consigned to pri-
yate life at Rose. Here il was my good fortune,
in the winter of lSl7-lS1S, TO become acquaint-
ed with the venerable mother of an emperor,
three kings and one queen and with those of her
chiIdren who were living at Rome, viz: the Ex-
King Louis, tthsfather of the present Emperor
of the French y Lucian, who at an early period
of his career lost the favor of ~hisimperiaI brother,
and the princess Borghese, still one of the most
beautiful women Of her day, and as amiable as
she was beautiful.
In the course of the winter 1 saw for the first
time, at dinner at his fathers table, the present
emperor Of the French, then a boy of eleven years
of age. The party was small, and being very
near the ex-king, when we were invited TO seat
ourselves uncersanoniously, 1 was about to place
myself in the chair next him, and as il happened
on his right hand. With a good-humoreds smile,
as is not wholly in earnest, he requested me to
let his son sit there and TO accept a seat myself
on his left hand. Ii probably did not enter even
into bis fond Imagination, that the lad for whom
he claimed this little remnant of royal Difference
would one day sit upon the throne of his Uncle.
l have no distinct recollections of him In this first
phase Of his life, but as a handsome, well-behaved
youth, with an expression somewhat beyond his
years, of mature manners, and as taking little
part in the conversation of the dinner table.
Twenty-oue years pass, and being on a second
visit to Europe in the Summer OF 1910, l was
present in the gallery of the house of Peers in
Paris, when the handsome. well-behayed, quiet
boy, with whom 1 had dined at his fathers table
in 1919, now grown up To Il r~esolutc, aspiring.
fearless young man, tilirty-two years of age, was
ON trial for his life, after the miscarriage of the
affair ut Boulogne. Eight years Il think before,
a similar attempt at Strisbourg had sent him
into exile in the United States and England,
where he lived without attracting public notice,
though doubtless chcrishing the visions, which
were one day to burst into startling realities for
himself and Europe Nothing bad occurred in
the twenty-one years to call my attention To him
but when | saw him on trial for his life before
the peers of France, / could not, in the extreme
peril in which he stood, but recollect with emo
ton under what different circumstances | had
first seen him. His demeanor before his Judges
was firm, composed, and respectful. The Frencf
criminal Jurisprudence subjects the prisoner to a
severe interrogatory. for a purpose wholly forbid
den by our law, that of making him, if guilty
criminate himself. As far as could judge, tit
young man answered with frankness the question:
propounded to him, and the impression made BY
him on his judges,-certainly the impressioWpr
the crowded galleries-was decidedly favorable.
This attempt at the time seemed rash almost t.
the point of insanity. In conversing with TIT
ex-King of Holland a few months afterwards
then living in the House of Alferi, at Florence
he expressed the opinion TO me, that it was &
snare set for his son, by the French
police, in order to get the young man into theil
power. / have, however, since seen it stated
that the attempt was by no means so rash as i
seemed; that an understanding bad taken place
between Louis Napoleon and the regiment station
ed at Boulogne; and that, a day or two befor'
his landing, in consequence of some vague rumo
having reached Paris, that the troops could no
be relied upon and that mischief was brewing
another regiment was sent to that city
The young mans head was spared and he wa
sent to the fortress of Ham. a prisoner for life