Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-04-18

Progress ofthe Quarrel Between the French
5a and American Bonapartes. o..

PROGRESS 0fthe Quarrel Between the french
g and American Bonapartes.
The Paris correspondent of the New YORK
Tiries writes on the 2eth ulta
The Imperial family, or rather the Palais
Royal branch Of it, was thrown into con-
stefnation week ago, by the appearance OF
the seventeenth Volume Of Thiers's Consulate
and the Empire. This volume contained a
letter from Mr.. Jerome Bonaparte, Of Balti-
more, inserted under constraint of the law at
the end Of the volume, correcting M. Theirs s
history Of the marriage Of his father with
Miss Patterson, Of Baltimore, az related in
the eighth volume Of the same work.
I'M order that the reader may comprehend
what follows, Il is well to state that the Bal
timore Bonaparte, Il his claims to the legiti-
macy were admitted by the Imperial family
Of France, would become heir TO the throne
ue&t after, the son Of Napoleon III and the
old Ex-King Jerome. IL was important
therefore TO the Prince Napoleon, who now
occupies this relation TO the succession, and
to his sister, the Princess Mathilde, children
Of the Ex-King Jerome, that the legitimacy
Of theft elder paternal brother, the Baltimore
Bohaparte; should be declared null.
When Mr.. Jerome Bonaparte, of Baltimore
and his son, Lieutenant Bonaparte, of the
United States Army, came TO France in 1855
was with the expectation that they would bt
declared members Of the Imperial Family
They did not know that resistance would bt
made to their carrying the name of Bona
parte, till the son had accepted service in th'
French Army. Then arose a discussion 10
which the legal history follows Prince Ma
poleon and the Princess Mathilde endeavor
ing to force their halfbrother and his son L
assume the name Of Patterson, the latter tC
obtain legal recognition of their right t
carry the name of Bonaparte, and of the po
sition to which this entitled them.
Mr.. Jerome Bonaparte, when he saw tn
manner in which NJ. Thiers had described tn
marriage and divorce of his mother, in tn
eighth volume of the Consulate and the En-
| pire, Immediately wrote to the distnguishet
historian reclamation against its truthful
| ness, and after time obtained judgmen
before q tribunal condemning him to inser
the reclamation in the seventeenth volume
| then about to appear.
| When this volume appeared week age
with Mr.. Bonaparte's reclamation, the volum
was seized by the police, and suppressed; 70
in this reclamation, am told, appear tn
words bigamist, as applied to the Prime
Jerome, and bdstdrds as applied to the Primo
Napoleon and the Princess Mathilde.
The suppression of volume of NJ. Their
History was too important a procedure not
engage the anxious consideration of the En-
peror. The Family Council was therefor
called together, and after due deliberation
was determined that the suppression shoul
be maintained. The Emperor, howeve
wiser than the Council, decided otherwis
He said that the volume, with its appendC
reclamation, should appear, but that H shoul
be dnSwered. The Prince Napoleon, as bein
the most directly interested person, W,
charged with the duty of writing the repl
The volume again appeared yesterday, col
tanning the reclamation of Mr.. jerome Bon
parte, of Baltimore, in modified form, al
the reply of the Prince Napoleon.