Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1861-02-05

| ed the heartfelt interest with which you follow
ed all the chances Of my destiny. have felt
great pleasure in the letter which brings me
your congratulations. thank you for them.
The news you give me Of the vocation Of your
son for the military career, and of his entering Q
regiment of Carabineers, has not been lees
agreeable to me. When circumstances permit
Whereupon, my cousin, pray God to have you
In His holy keeping.
"Written at the Palace of the Tuileries, Feb.
ruary 9, 1858. NAPoLEoK''
On the 18th of April, 1855, Mr.. Jerome Bo-
title of Duke de Sartiene "a town In Corsica,)
and invited to come to France. But this offer
Was declined. The later facts connected With
the case we give as they are related by the
Iimes' correspondent
"Prince Napoleon and his sister, the Princess
Mathilde, then demanded of the Emperor and the
ConsieI de FdmilLe, that MN Patterson Mr.. Je-
rome Bonaparte, and his sony should not exer-
else any Of the rights which being exclusively
to the legitimate issue and that consequently NJ.
Jerome Patterson and his decendants should be
prohibited from belring the name of Bonaparte.'
The Conseil de FamilLe decided in favor Of their
bearing the name of Bonaparte, but decided
ttlleg1Ily, as the memoir maintains, that they
should not have the right to avail themselves Of
the benefit of the 20lst and 202d articles Of the
Code Napoleon relating to succession. The
ConseiI de FamiLle was composed Of NM. Abb
tucci, Fould, Troplong, De Morny, Baroche
and Orrano. The point is argued at some length
in the memoir.
"On the 10th Of Nov, 1855, Marsbal Pelissier,
atlhis headquarters before Sebastopol, n med M
Jerome Napoleon Bonaparte, lieutenant in the
7th Dragons, Knight OF the Legion Of Honor
This nomination was confirmed on the 24th Of
the same month. But on the 18th Of June, 1856,
letter of permission to wear the decoration Of
MeGjidie of Turkey was addressed to M. Bona.
parte Junior, as m. Bonaparte Patterson ,
This permission, granted to him under a name
which was not his proper designation, was not
accepted. At the same time the proposition of
the Ducby Of Sartene was renewed to M. Bona.
parte, the father. Under these circumstances
the latter addressed the following letter to the
Emperor, dated July 25. 1856:
"Sire: received the enclosed from my son q
few days ago. kept it to reflect on it's con-
tents before should send it to your Majesty.-
IL breathes the sentiments of honor in which my
son was brought up, and pray your majesty to
grant his request. II Is no real dshonor to be
born bastard, and in accepting the consequen-
Gee. Had been in that category, | should have
long since accepted, with gratitude, the offers
which your Majesty condescended to make me.
But as ! was legitimately born-and as have
always been acknowledged as such by my fam
lily, by the laws of the countries, and by the
whole world, it would be the extreme of base
ness and dshonor on my part to accept brevet
of bastsrdy. did not raise the question, nei-
ther do / fear it. And If the family counsel
(conseit de familie) has rendered an illegal and
unjust decision, it at least stopped short of de-
priving me Of the name l bore from my birth to
the fifteenth year of my age, without it's ever
having been contested.
1.-THE object and the victim Of intrigues, ca
lumnies, and falsehoods, it only remains for
me, sire, to respeat the prayer addressed to
your Majesty in my letter Of the 2Oth Of March,
to 60 with my son and wait in exile that justice
which am convinced Heaven reserves for me,
sooner or later, and TO request that your Majes-
| ty will be pleased to grant me an audience to
tax your orders for the future. ..a .f.
J.N, BoNAPARTE.'
"The memorial concludes by praying the
tribune to order that an inventory be taken ol
the property left by His Imperial Hghness
Prince Jerome, and that partition be made
of it..
at is difficult to exsggerste the Importance
of this case, for on the decision of the tribunals
will depend the legality of the first, or of the
second marriage"