Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1860-1862, 1861-09-25
Foreign NIfsceIIany.

We get from our late European files some
interesting items. The Paris correspondent
OF the London Reo'ao gives this pleasant
chapter of
PERSONAL GOSSIP ABOUT THE EMPEROR NAPo-
LEON.
have already limited at the strange posi-
ton of the Emperor and Empress this sum-
mer. 1t came to a sort of IA crisis on His Ma
jlsty's return from Vichy. Yen may. per-
haps, have guessed. from that the Court
Circulars" of the French newspapers set
forth, that the imperial existence at Vichy
was by no means that of hermit. or. indeed
OF patient. whose sole care is drinking
lers for his heal b. II seemed to the persons
left behind at FonIainbIeau. and. above all
to the one most nearly interested, TO be a
more than usually INDIGENOUS, not to say
scandalous, mode of lite; aud when the En-
peror returned he received-I believe | have
good authority for stating-a quick success
sion of lectures upon the example be had just
been setting, and the pref Xt be- was afford
ing for public abuse and public contempt.
My source of information most intimate
aud excellent one, and ina CINE | am war
rantcd IN affirming that some of the truths
told Napoleon III by the Empress Eugene,
however wholesome they might be, were by
no means palatable.
During his short stay at Fontainbeau. his
Majesty found time to visit his half-compleied
manuscript of the life of Julius Caesar, aud
hOnored his librarian. N. Miury, with a
reading of some portions of it. But this Oc
casioned a somewhat comical incident. NJ.
Maury, like all Frenchmen, sis anxious to
make his way and ''achieve" fortune; but
he is, at the same time, real, a genuine
saUInt; and when his sp .cialty is touched, he
forgets his interest. Now, when his master
honored him the other day by communicating
to him his lucubratiOnS upon the divine"
Julius, be was, no doubt, as anxious as pos
sible to avoid repeating the blunder OF Gil
Bias with the literary minded Archbishop;
but the love of the craft got too much for
him, and it seems that, after having gulphed
down one or two enormities, he at last
couatered some of 80 tremendous siz. that
he cOuld not, for the life of him, swallow them;
and SO the ''learning' fairly gained the day.
and the archSs DlOgist put his ambition in bis
pocket, and, at all risks. told the inexpe-
rienced author that what he had written was
all wrong; that it was impossible; that it
could not stand! Great seems to have been
the Imperial surprise; but the mistakes made
were so gross. so easy to prove, that there
was no help for it; Sd the Life OF Cesar is TO
be revised, and researches are TO be made by
all the wise men of France upon several
points which seem very important or very
obscure.
a Ta'n er ludlcrOus alarm has seized Messrs.
BarOche, de Morny, &C., for it is said that
one point on which Louis Napoleon requires
light to be thrown is on the lives and duings
of certain cOnsuls whom Julius Cesar pun
ished for shameful corruption. These gem
tleInen have taken it into their heads that
their illustrious associate is minded to draw
portraits of them under he disguise OF Ro-
man names and features, and they have a
singular dislike in this possible process
However that may be, one thing is certain,
and that is, that the Emperor's return to
Fontainbleau was sufficiently uncomforta-
BILE one; he was not agreeably welcomed in
the family circle, nor were things made
Pheasant for bin on the side of his literary
off pring.
He will, perhaps, console himself for these
small mishaps by his success with King
Charles XIV, of Sweden. There is report
that the momentary failure OF the plan for
German unity" to be brought about by a
partnership with William [, OF Prussia, is.
perhaps, to be compensated by project of
Scandinavian unity, at the head of which is
to be placed Bernadotte's son. This Swedish
King is ambitions, and Louis Napoleon has
hopes of forcing him into vassalship by offer
ing to him Finland aud Denmark.