The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1867-06-07
9aisfelIaaeons gelettiolts.
NapoIeon,s Three warnings.


The celebrated Fouche, Duke of Otranto,
was retained for a time, 1t is well known, in
the service of the Bourbons after their re-
storation to the throne of France. He re-
tired to the town of AK in Providence, and
there lived in aftluent ease upon the gains OF
his long and busy career. Curiosity attract
ed many visitors around this remarkable
man, and he was habitually free in commu-
nicating his "reminiscences of the great events
which it had been his lot to witness. On
one.occasion the company assembled in his
saloon heard the following story:
BY degrees as Napoleon assumed the
power and authority of King, everything
about him, even in the days of consulate,
began to wear a court ike appearance. All
the old mouarchial habitudes were revived
one by one. Among the other revivals of
lhls kind, the custom Of attending mass
tprevious to the hour of audience was res
| tored and Bonaparte himself was pUnctual
in his appearance at the chapel st. Cloud on
such occasions. Nothing could be more
mundane than the mode of performing these
religious services The actresses of the
topera were the choirists and great crowds
of busy, talkstive people were IN the habit
of frequenting the gallery of the chapel,
from the windows of which the First Consul
and Josephine could be seen with their suits
and friends The whole formed merely
daily exhibition of the consular court to the
people. :.
At one particular time the punctuality of
Bonaparte in his attendance on mass was
rather distressing to his wife. The quick
and Jealous Josephine had discovered that
the eve of her husband was too much di
rected TO window il the gallery, where
there regularly appeared the form and face
of young girl of uncommon beauty. The
chestnut tresses, the brilliant eyes, and
graceful figure of this parsonage, caused
| more uneasiness to the cOunsurs wife, as the
strangers glances were bent no less often
upon Bonaparte than his we're upon her.
''Who is that young girl?" said Josephine
/ one day, at the close of the service; what
can she seek from the First Consult i OBJ
served her to dropa billet just down at his
feet He picked it up; saw him..
No one could tell Josephine who the OBJ
Iiect of her notice precisely was, though
there were some who declared her to be an
emigrant lately returned, and one who was
probably desirous of the intervention of the
First Consul in favor of her family.
With such guesses as this the Consuls
hwife was obliged to rest satisfied for the
time.
After the audience of the same day had
passed, Bonaparte expressed a wish for a
drive in the park, and accordingly went out
accompanied d by his wife, his brother Joseph,
Generals Duroc and Cambaceres, and Hor-
tense Beauharnois, wife of Louis Bonaparte.
The King of Prussia had just presented
Napoleon with superb set of horses, four
in number, and these were harnessed to an
open chariot for the party. The Consul
took it into his head to drive in person, and
mounted into the coachman's place. The
chariot set off, but just as it was turning
into the bark, it went crash against stone
at the gate, and the First Consul was thrown
to the ground. He attempted to rise, but
again fell PROSTATE in stunned or insen"
lsible condition. Meanwhile, the horses,
sprang forward with the chariot, and were
only stopped when Duroc. at the risk OF life,
threw himself out and seized the reins:
Josephine was taken out in swoonlng state.
The rest of the party quickly returning to
First Consul and carried him back 20 his
apartments. On recovering his senses fully,
1.-THE first thing which he did was TO put his
lhand into his pocket and pull out the slip OF
paper dropped at his feet in the chapel.
Leaning over his shoulder Josephine read
these words: ''Do not drive out in your
carriage to- day."
"This can have no allusion 10 our late ae-
Icident," said Bonaparte. ''NO one could
Iforsee that was to play the part of coach
man to-day, or that / should be awkwardlk
Ienough TO drive against stone. Co. Duroc,
and examine the chariot.
Duroc obeyed. Soon after be returned
very pale and took the FIRST Consul aside.
"Citizen Consul" said he, "had you not
struck the stone, and stopped our drive, we
had all been lost r.
"How ?" was the reply.
"rhere was in the carriage, concealed be-
hind the back seat, bombra massive bomb,
land with slow match attached 10 it-kin-
ldled Things had been so arranged that IN
a quarter of an hour we should have been
scattered among the the trees in the Park OF
ISt. Cloud. There must be some treachery
Iclose at hand. Fouche must be told OF this
Dubois must be warned.
"Not a word, then," replied BOnaparte.
1.-THE knowledge of one plot but engenders a
second. Let Josephine remain ignorant Of
the dinger she has escaped. Hortense
Joseph, Cambaceres, tell none of them, and
let the Government journals say not word
about my fall
The first Consul was then silent for some
time. At length he said. "Duroc, you come
tomorrow to mass in the Chapel, and ex-
anime with attention young girl whom
shall point out to you. She viii occupy the
fourth window in the gallery, on the right
Follow her home, or cause her to be fol-
lowed-and bring me intelligence of her
name, her abode, and her circumstances. II
will be better to do this yourself. would
not have the police interfere. Have you
taken care of the bomb, and removed it y
81 have, Citizen Consul"
"Come, then, let Us again drive in the
park, " said BOnaparte.
| The drive was resumed, but on this coca
sion the coachman was allowed to fulfill his
own duties.
On the morrow the eye of more than one
person was turned to the window in the
gallery But the Jealous Josephine sought
in vain for the elegant figure of the young
girl. She was not there. The impatient
First Consul, with his confident, Duroc,
were greatly annoyed at her non-appearance,
and small was the attention paid by them to
the services of that day. Their anxiety
was fruitless. She was seen at mass no
more.
The summers of Napoleon was chiefly
lspent at Malmaison winters at st. Cloud
and the Tuilleries Winter had come on,