Brownlow's Knoxville Whig. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1866-1869, 1867-10-16
Che 9uOspille ashig.
Knoxville. Tenn. October Ie, 1867.
Napoleon the Second.

NNVVlOOM tnO bNCOhN'
In 1910, by permission of the BT T;sn
Government and on solicitation OF =, h iaus
Louis Philippe, suggested by ~; 1nIoe,
the mortal remains Of the first NaPO'G; sIe
were transferred from the rocky prlsoT TaIie
of St. Helena to French frigate' l Jo Toin-
Paule commanded by the Prince ~ 1910 /
v;llo week before Chrlst,lii' --a,r,,arlx- /
tboea remains were deposited VIII WIN 20 the
able funeral pomp in the Ph" nd Tins.
H. - fa,-aI;des in Paris an" o.i1,
80. - ,-oays after the great eAiIo
5.L5 - ,.caiized his last WISH, ooi
eeash' "as lO,sr,- document, wnlch Eng
70 eie Vo9 si~a a;ven to France. III Is my
lahu mas "iso ashes may repose on inc
WISH onae ~ Seine, in the midst Of the
DAhKs o. lie whom have loved so well.
French P S11Ppoieon reigns in France under
LoulS = -saNapoleon the Third, and some
the lllle G :. wondered or affected to won
persons .- being only the second Of his fami~
aer' VIZ he throne Of France, he calls him
" M r. third. The case is easy Of solution.
SSi Charles II. came back TO London, on
- 9otb Nav. 1860, he at once began to
Jato his public documents as then issued
LIN the ticeIfth year Of our reign" though
4 really was only she FIRST. His father had
boen executed, in front of his paiaec at
whitehall. in January, 1919, and there has
been a republican Commonwealth in Eng
land from that date until May, 1860, when
charles Stuart came back. In like manner
ON tho restoration Of the Bourbons in 1914,
the Count do Provence, succeeding Louis
XVI. his brother, who had been guillotined
in January, 1863, took the title OF Louis
the Eighteenth, on the pretence that the
Dauphin then succeeded his father as Louis
the SeUenth, and from that period until his
death. a prisoner in the Temple, in June,
1858. really was a monarch by right, if not
bv fact. Louis XVIII, ignoring the repub
lie and the empire as much as If they had
never been heard of, commenced, in 1914,
bv declaring in all official documents that
they were executed sin the twentieth year
of eur reign" As for Napoleon III, he fol-
lowed the above examples, took it for gran
ted that his uncle's abdication in 1915, when
he proclaimed his son "under the title Of
NAPOLEON the Second, Emperor of the
French" actually made him emperor,
though the poor child was then at Vienna,
never returned TO Paris, and died IN Austria
at the age Of twenty-one
1t is understood that, at the recent meet
ing at Salzburg, Of the French and Aus
trian Emperors, Napoleon requested Fran
els Joseph to give him the ashes OF Napo-
leon III that they might be Inferred IN hls
native France. and that this request has
boen acceded to. The coffin is to be remov
cd from the imperial burial-place Of the
imperial line Of Hapsburg, and deposited,
IL Is said. in the vaults Of the Abbey of st.
Denis. near Parasitic ancient burial
Ground of the Bourbon kings Of France.
When the ashes of the great Napoleon were
placed in their final resting-place, "by the
banks of the Seine" Louis Philippe tried
TO make political capital out of it, but can
not be said to have succeeded. Neither
will the funeral of the titular Napoleon III
cause any great emotion in Paris, come
when it may. Napoleon's marriage with
Maria Louisa, an Austrian Princess, to eff
feet which the much loved Empress Jose
phine had to be divorced, caused great dis
satisfaction in Paris. BE wanted an heir,
but France would have been better pleased
if he had married the daughter Of one Of
his own soldiers rather than seek to ally
himself with such line as that Of Haps-
burg. Little Napoleon was born in Paris,
in March, 1911, and the title of King Of
Rome" was Immediately conferred upon
him. He was only three years old when
his mother had 70 fly with him from Paris,
10 which neither Of them ever returned.
On Napoleons temperance from Elba he
used all means in his power to induce Maria
Louisa to rejoin him at Paris, with their
son, but she refused. Even after the abdi-
cation in 1915 there was a discussion in
political circles respecting the rights Of
Napoleon ii, but Fouche and Wellington
turned the scale by declaring for the second
restoration of the hated Bourbons. The
future life Of the ex-King Of Rome was
spent at Schmnbrunn, near Vienna, where
he was educated in manner to stife hope
and ambition. His mother was made
grand duchess of Parma, but her only son,
once heir to the French Empire, was ex-
pressly preoluded from succeeding her on
that petty throne. he was created Duke
de Reichstadt and raised to the rank Of an
Austrian prince. He received military
education, but all mention Of his father was
prohibited. At last, when be was twenty
years old, he met Marshal MarmOnt, one Of
his fathers old generals, and from him
learned more about his father than he had
ever heard before. The revolution Of 1880
raised hope among the Bonapartlsts that
France would remember and recall the dead
emperors son, but the craft Of Louis
Philippe prevailed, and prevented this.
Finally he yielded to the insidious disease
of consumption, dying on the 22d of July,
1882, the very day on which, eleven years
before he had been informed Of his fathers
death His body rests in the family vault
of the Hapsburg line, in Vienna, and his
heart was deposited in the Cathedral and
his intestines in the Church Of the Angus
tins
Concerning one who thus lived and died
unfortunate and nominally elevated, but
really obscure, it viii be difficult to raise
anything like apopular enthusiasm in Paris.
There may be a magnificent funeral show,
which viii delight the Parisians but the
return of the mortal remains Of the poor
lad TO his native city viii not otherwise
cause any but the most temporary sensa-
ton