The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1859-03-08
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scribedby Edward Everett.


fsny and Nice Young Man, DC.
scrsbedby Edward Everett.
The Mount Vernon paper from the pen of
the Hon. Edward Everett, this week, is about
the Emperor of France. MIR. Everett visited
Europe in 1915. The pilot who olambered
over the bulwarks OF the vessel in which he
sailed of Holy head, informed them that
"Boney had broken loose again." This
meant the great Napoleon's return from Ell
ba. Mr.. Everett met Lord Byron in London,
and Byron expressed to him the opinion that
Bonaparte would defeat Wellington. The
noble poet, a few days afterward, remarked
to Mr.. George Ticknor, Of Boston, when told
of the defeat Of Bonaparte at Waterloo, that
he was I'D sorry to hear it," The kim
dred Of the fallen Emperor took up their res
idence at Rome. MIR. Everett writes:
Here it was my good fortune, in the winter
of lSl7-l8, to become acquainted with the
venerable mother of an Emperor, three Kings
and one Queen; and with those OF her chill
dren who were living at Rome, viz; the Elk
King Louis, (the father of the present Empe-
ror Of the French); Lucian, who at an early
period Of his career lost tho favor OF his i'm
perial brother; and the princess Borghese,
still one Of the most beautiful women of her
| day, and as amiable as she is beautiful.
4
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 unceremoni-
ously, | was about to place myself in the
chair next him, and as it happened on his
right hand. With good humored smile, as
If not wholly in earnest, he requested me to
let his son sit there and to accept seat my
self on his left hand 1t probably did not
enter even into his fond imagination, that
the lad for whom he claimed this little rem
nant OF royal Difference would one day sit
upon the throne of his Uncle. | have no dis
tact recollections OF him in this first phase Of
his life, but rs 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 one years pass, and being on q SEQ.
ond visit to Europe in the summer Of 1870,
} was present in the gallery Of the house Of
Peers in Paris, when the handsome, well-be.
haved, quiet boy, with whom had dined q,
his fathers table in 1919, now grown up to q
resolute, aspiring, fearless young man, thir.
ty-two years Of age, was on trial for his life
after the miscarriage OF the affair at Bou-
logne. Eightyears q think) before, . SINH.
lar attempt ut Strasbourg had sent him into
exile in the United States and England, where
he lived without attracting public notice
though doubtless cherishing the visions which
were one day to burst into startling realities
for himself and Europe. Nothing had oc
CURED in the twenty zone years to call my at
: tention to him; but when saw him on tria
for bis life before the peers Of France,
= could not, Ia the extreme peril in which b,
Il stood, but recollecs with emotion under wha
8 different circumstances | had FIRST seen him
!. His demeanor before his judges was firm
composed and respectful. The French Grim