Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1870-01-27

THE IMPERIAL FAMILY OF FRANCE AND ITS CON-
NEoTIoNs IN BALTIMORE.
Tha L I.ouIaxilln Gonrier- InI1rnal has the

NEUTlON5 IN bALIlmOhhs
The Louisville Courier-J Journal has the
following
The revolutionary movements which are
now going. forward IN France invest the Ma
poleonic dynasty with additional interest.
Prince Pierre Bonaparte, who has caused /
the pot to boil so fiercely, Is son of the
great Empcror's brother Lucien, who was |
considered the ablest of the family next af- |
ter Napoleon. The present Emperor is re- |
garded by many as not Bonaparte at all, |
but the son of Dutch admiral by Hortense |
Beauharnais, the daughter of Josephine. |
Louis Bonapartc was forced by his brother |
to marry Hortense. He was in love with |
another woman, and withal q dreamy sort OF
person. Those who believe in the operation
of principle Of poetic Justice running the
fact that the grandson Of Josephine, and not
of Napoleon, now rules in France as proof
that tho "whirligig Of time brings in his
revenges." Josephine once said " My pro-
geny shall be supreme But Josephine was
not the only woman who was Ill used by the
imperial Corsican. Nor was she the only
one who cherished hopes of divine revenge
through her descendants. And hereby
hangs a tale.
In 1903 Jerome Bonaparte, then in com
mand of French triga,e, landed in New
York. AS the brother of Napoleon Bona
parte, he was received with distinction, and
was most Hospitality entertained wherever
he went. While in Baltimore he met Miss
| Elizabeth Patterson, the daughter of
wealthy merchant of that city, and married
her on the 9th of December of the same
| year. The ceremony was performed by
Bishop Carroll, of the Catholic Diocese of
Baltimore, brother of tie distinguished
Charles Carroll of Carrollton. The mar
riage contract was drawn up by Alexander
Dallas. afterwards Secretary OF the Treasury,
aud was witnessed by the mayor OF Balti.
more and several other official pers0nages.
| After remaining In the United States about
a year, jerome Bonaparte and his wife en-
barked for France in an American ship.
In the meantime Napoleon, to whom the
marriage OF his brother gave great offence,
had ordered that the newly married pair
should be permitted to land at no port over
which France exercised authority. They,
therefore, landed at Lisbon, where jerome
left his wife, directing her to proceed to Am
sterdam, and went to Paris with the hope
of prevailing upon Napoleon to recognize
his marriage, but this Napoleon refused to
do, at the same time up5raiding his brother
for daring to marry without his consent.
On arriving at Amsterdam, whittier she
went in the American ship, Madame Bona
parte was confronted with Napyleon's order
forbidding her to land. She then sailed for
England, where she took up her residence
at Camberwell, near London. And here on
the 7th of July, 1905, was born her only
child, jerome Napoleon Bonaparle, now
living in Baltimore.
NAPOLEON had determined that his broth
crs should marry among the princesses ol
Europe, and oil efforts to induce him TO re-
cognize the wife of Jerome were vain, ano
1 ,tt lar n Wiz n
wishes of the Emperor and marry the Prin
cess Frederica Catharine, of Wurtemburg
Madame Bonaparte met her husband bu
once afterward, and then no word passet
between them. 1t was in the gallery OF thu
Pitti Palace at Florence, in Italy. Th'
Princess was leaning on the arm Of her hus
band when the meeting took place. Jerom
started aside on recognizing Madame Bona
parte, and moment taflerward whispered t.
the Princess, "That lady is my former wife.
He Immediately left the gallery, and th
+ next morning quilted Florence.
Although Napoleon declared the marrlag
i of jerome and Miss Patterson null and voio
&c he could never induce the Pope to SO declar
y IL; and few years ago, when the question
; as to the rank of which the Bonapartes {
o. Baltimore were entitled as princes Of tn
s imperial household was up for decision, th
1t protest of the Pope against the decree
If Napoleon was brought forward.
r Soon after the bilth of her son Madam
Bunaparte returned to Baltimore, where sh
Z has principally resided ever since, in the er
y ioyment of large fortune. She was abou
4. eighteen years of age when she first mt
Jerome Bonaparte, and is now about eighty
five. She was always a great admirer 9
,f Napoleon, in spite of the cruel manner !
" which lie treated her. 1t is said that sh
l. believes that her grandson will yet be En-
,e peror of France.
If Madame Bonaparte's son, jerome Napc
y, !. leon, now in the sxty-fifth year, has live
es ,e in Baltimore since his boyhood. He was &c
ID ucated at Harvard College, where he gradt
ct ated in 1926. He afterwards studied law
y but never practised at the bar When quil
IS Young man he married very wealthy Ia
Is DIV, Miss Susan Mary Williams, originally {
" " Roxbury, Mass, and has since devoted b
"a ~ time to the management Of his large estai
"a and to agricultural pursuits. His own TO
* tune added to that OF his wife, made him or
e of the wealthiest men in Baltimore. He vi
ie tied his father several times in Europe, an
a, AZ for many years received from him larl
s,s ca allowance. He is on good terms with Lou
Napoleon, and has once visited the Frent
ln Court, accompanied by one of his sons, upo
nd an invitation from the Emperor Durin
be the reign of Louis Philippe lie was permi
20 ted to remain in Paris fora short time, b.
y. ~ was required TO assume his mothers mar
be of Patterson.
a Mr.. Bonaparte has two children, Jeror
ch Napoleon, who was born in Baltimore
on 1889, and Charles Joseph, born in 1852. III
up first named graduated at West Point at t
'ne age of twenty, and after remaining sht
" time in the United States army, resigned
'b be commission and entered that OF France al
ow suit. lieutenant. He was with the Fren
Il. all in, In
ing ceiyed a decoration from the Sultan of II
the KEY for his gallant conduct at the siege
nu, ~, Sebastopo.
@ @aer Mr. Bonaparte is said to bear strong p
,ast sonal resemblance to his uncle, the first
ced poleon. II the validity of his fathers m
riage with Miss Patterson were Iecognii
by the Court of France, in would give !
the and his children precedence over his hi
gth brothers and their sister, the Primo
the Mathilde, tho children OF jerome by
een second wife. Efforts to secure such rec
Sec nition have been made on perhaps more d
Iom ,eal, one occasion, but they failed, though b
and far they fell short of success has never b
An known to the public. jerome himself, y
the died at venerable old age year or
7 air ago, bitterly opposed all such efforts to
dem tain precedence for the Baltimore Bonapa
tner and would acknowledge them only by
81 '.ter d name of Patterson.
and The scrlmmage now going on IN Iar
dis peculiar. The American Bonapartes are
!, tie publicans, and so are the agitators in
the Corps Legislatif 1t may afford some
As them an opportunity, and Patterson 7
,in ae, yet occupy the Tuileres as Prince Presie
, ,'iun % Just as Louis, Beauharnais, occupied
aced palace in lS49. At all events the stor
/ the worth retelling as more or less apropol
,ock. transpiring events In France, in which
~ of Bonapartes, their past, present, and fut
ineer bear such close relation. jerome Bonap
acted badly enough to Miss Patterson.
ID by mas nls lah,cy oono .. D ;s T;,,,a ii,
1t is DC plece oi poetio Jestioo II iAno on
op of balance the account.
ereto
spans The second State dinner given by
ed OF President on Wednesday was in homo
cast the United States Supreme Court. On
side oethe table were Representative Hes
use Miss Chase, Judge Swayne, Mrs. 4. A.
aches 1riuge, oenator 1nu,an, , '.o. oMa
lrf. 1Io