Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1870-05-05

of the best, though she seems to have be.
haved with uncommon prudsaee during
the trying scenes which succeeded her
husbands death. aud, BY attaching 60
her successfully Barras and Tailiea, she
vas enabled to exercise q not ipconsiier-
,b.e influence on the destiny Of Napsleo,
She married him in March, 1896. She
had already by her frs, marriage two chill
dren-Engene. harn in 1891, AMI Hor-
tense, WHO in 1902, married Louis Napo-
leon. her s,cp-father's youager brother.
=. Josephine. a. is we'll knowu, had no chill
dren by Napoleon, who was. however,
warmly attached to both Eugene and
Hor,onsc. The boy appears to have been
worthy of his stsp-fa,hcr's opinion, and
afterward as ,ncra'. and later As Vi
ceroy Of Ita'y. distinguished himself BY
bo:h courage and moderation. II, mar
ried a daughter Of the King Of B,vari,.
and thus founded family which has been
received into the inmost circle Of the OIL
der royal and impcri,l caste ia Europe
One of lis sons WIS King Cousor. Of Pcr-
tual. but died early the other married
the beautiful Arciuchess Olga Of Russia,
and dicd in 1852 aud Of his daughters,
one, Josephine, became Queen Of Swe-
den. another became Empress of Brazil
and the third Princess of Hohenzollern
Hechingrn. .a.
As to Qaeen Hortense. it is hardl pos
siblc to draw her character. She was
witty. beautiful and gay. and seems to
have been IN her later years good moth
tr. But thus ends the little that can be
said in her favor She was vain and ex-
travagant. and notoriously unfaithful to
her husband. Some Of her biogr .ph ers
have gone so far "a to say that the pres
ent Emperor Napoleon the Third is NOT
really the son of Louis. bu. Of \ certiin
! Count Flahoult. with whom she was very
in,imatc, and by whom she had already
\ son. the latc Duke de Morpy The
! singular resemblance observable between
the Count AMI Louis Napoleon strengthen,
the story. H rtenso died in 1887, hav-
ing resided for some years in Switzerland
with her youngest son. She was accom-
plishcd in music, and wrote the ar now
so well known, "Partant pour Ia Syric."
Her husband survived her till 1916, but
, they do no: appear to have met from III,
date of Napolcon'S downfall. III. ii Il At
L"ghorn, anl was buried beside his faith
cr and eldest son at St. Lieu, in France.
Lik, most Of the brothers, he was highly
accomplished. and wrote several WORKS
of fiction, ncluiins al opera AMI trag-
edy.
Napoleon, by his second marriage, left
rs is well known, son, the King Of
Rome. who, after his fathers abdication,
and the futile attempt 70 have him ac-
knowledged as Napoleon the Second, ac-
coupanica his mother to Vienna, TO the
court OF mis- grandfather, the Emperor of
Austria. He entered the military ser
vice of the Empire. and becam, colon Il
of a battalion of infantry. His health
failed ca.ly-it WAS sail BY reason OF tn,
assilui,y with which he pursued lis mil
itary studies bu: the truth seems to be
that he WAS encouraged hy his grand
, fathers connivluce in every species of
youthful exccss. and that the decline Of
which. after long illness, he died at
/
, attained by that astu,e policy. His moth
cr, Maria l. ,uisc, after her husbands dealt,
became, by the treaty Of Vienna, Duch-
ess of Parma, am sonc minor states,
and, re- .ning the title of i npres =. lived
in comparative retirement until her dc atL
in 1884,. She had married agaia. a man
Of inferior rank, who is said 10 have kcp,
her strictly under his authority. ith a
view especially Of saviu, Il hauds,m for.
tune for himself before her death.
Napoleou's elder brother, Joseph, the
King, frs: Of Naples and afterwards oi
Spain. h-gan life rs an ardent republican
aud in 1892 was a member OF the Cirsi-
can Government under General paoli, an
old friend Of ,h. family. aud godfather to
the present emperor. Evsntuall Joseph,
whose mind wanted frmness. left Paoli
AMI rarre to Marscilles whore he married
the daughter Of rich banker in that CITY,
NJ. Clary. A younger sister was the
wife Of Bcrnadottr. afterwards King o.
Sweden. Joscph's exploits as q nsmber
of the French Republican Goverum,nt,
ard his Subsequent elevation succsssively
to the Neapoli:an and Spanish thrones.
are matters of history. After hrs brosh-
er's sbdic,,i he retirel to the United
States, where, as Count Of Survilliers, he
lived for some years the life Of private
citizen. In 1880 he returned TO Europe,
and advocated the claims Of his nephew,
the present Emperor. to the French
throne. BY his wife. who separated from
hin on his departure for America, he had
two daughters only; one Of them. Ze-
naiie Charlotte, married her cousin
Charles, ,ha cldes, son Of her fathers
third brother, Lucien Her children may
therefore. bs said to represent the el-
der branch Of the family, and though
they cannot be considered the next heirs
Of the dynasty, owing to the operation Of
the Salique law, they uadcb,eily come
nearer the succession than 10 the children
of the youngest brother. Jerome, ex-Kins
Of Wcs,l halia.
Their grandfather. Lucien Rsnaparte,
. the third Of the sans Of Carlo and Lr,i-
+, tia, was much and dsser ve6ly distinguish
ed Is a man Of science and letters. He
engaged =, first in politics. in which he
seems 10 hare shevn, more talent than
/, any other of the bro,hers except Napo.
l,oa, but uas of too independent . dispo.
si,iau TO submit &c. the Emperor's or ders,
aud carly rc,irsi frosn Francs and, fixed
hss ras,.ianre nj CaninN IN tha -Ram.p