Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-04-12
PRINCE BoNAPARTE.
His Appearance and Conduct Dur
ing the Trial.

His Appearance and Conduct Dur
ing the Trial.
The correspondent of the London
News thus describes the appearance of
Prince Bonaparte at his examination:
He had been in court some time, sit
ting with his hands upon his thighs, and
making no sign of interest. His face
was pale as wax, and the great torso
still as a marble figure. Now and then
nervous moistening of the mouth might
be observed, but the eyes were never
lifted When the name of Rochefort
was mentioned, with the insulting words
attributed to him, he shook his head
heavily, but without other motion. When
accused of striking Victor Noir an impa-
tient movement of all the body signified
his attention, but he now raised his eyes.
Nevertheless, before the act d accusation
was concluded the Prince was evidently
getting weary This wild bull of Corsica
| is not being to support much waiting.
Prince Pierre folds his arms, unfolds
them, hurriedly twists his heavy mus
tache, but subsidies again into the atti-
tude of patience. His temper does not
show itself even when the President
questions him about that assault he COM
mitted in the House of Assembly twenty
two years ago. He expresses regret for
| his fury on the occasion. He raises a
laugh by the utter scorn with which, in a
few words, he describes Fonvielle as hid
| ing behind sofa when he himself, pistol
in hand, is trying to reach him. But the
poor bull, tethered at last, gets bewildered
under the searching questions of NJ.
Glaudaz. The difference between having
his hand.in the pocket where his revolver
lies, and having that hand on the revolver
itself, is too much for Prince Pierre He
gets confused about key, and at length
sits down, paler than before, and evi-
IDENTIFY confused.
The Times correspondent thus de-
scribes the prisoner He stood erect in
firm and lofty attitude, portly figure,
very large round the waist, with broad
square face, with raised eyebrows good
! straight features, with profusion of hair
on his lip and chin, of military cut,
leaving the cheek bare to the ears, His
| complexion was earthly pale, and, in
spite of his general stoutness, the cheeks
were hollow, as if with recent care, and
his beard, naturally of deep black, was
slightly grizzled at its extremities. The
hair behind the temples and at the back
of the head was black and glossy, but all
that the hat usually covers was almost
entirely bald. On the whole, it is fine,
manly countenance, but the expression
| is that of habitual haughtiness, unre-
deemed by either true gentleness or in
telligence
The Telegraph correspondent writes
With the personal appearance of Prince
Pierre Napoleon Bonaparte your readers
must be familiar from the cdrteS de Uis-
ite in the shop windows His photo
graph fatters him. His countenanee is
very evil one-dogged, unsympathetic,
and cynical; and from the beginning to
the end of the sitting he never evinced,
by word or look, one iota of remorse for
having robbed a mother of her son, a
maiden of her affianced lover. | never
saw man put on his trial for homicide
evince such deliberate and well-nigh con-
temptuous GOODNESS as did this Imperial
Prince. He made his declaration in a
loud and audible, but harsh and discord-
ant voice
NJ URIC DE FoNyIEIIE.
Intense excitement greets the appear
ance of NJ. Uric de Fonvielle, says the
News correspondent. We see little
man of forty, or thereabouts, force his
way to the box, a little man, with round
forehead, round eyes, and cropped beard
covering all his jaw. A feeble face,
amiable enough, but impair congrusSus
against that heavy, bull-like jowl in the
prisoners box. When the President
asks why the witness went on a peacea-
BILE interview armed as for battle,
Fonvielle replies, II expected to find
an ordinary being, not an assassin.
Then the irritation of the picador is too
much. "The Bonapartes are no assas-
sins, cries Prince Pierre; you know
well that the assassins were always
against them" NJ. Fonvielle loses his
dignity a little-"I would never have
gone to Auteuil," he says, without
arms. It was impossible to foreet that |
was about TO pay visit to the relative
of Prince who had caused man to be
beaten by his servants. Here the au-
dience broke in with murmurs and
laughter NJ Fonville went from bad to
worse in his confession, and not even the
Irreconcilables could conceal from them
selves that their witness had not the best
of it in the minds of the audience when
the prisoner beloved in the atrocious
accent Of Corsica, That man ought to
be in the deck"
According TO the Telegraph's cores
pondent, NJ. Fonvielle insinuated that
neither he nor NJ. Noir thought that they
we're about 10 fall into the ambuscade
ofan assassin. This reused Prince Pierre
Bonaparte, who started up and thun-
dered out, "4ssdssia roHs-iaemeF 'Mur-
derer YOURSELF s
The Pail Mall Gazette thus reports the
fiery speech Of the Prince: The Bona
parties are not assassins. Remember the
Internal machine Of the Rue st. Nicaise
ian attempt TO assassinate Napoleon
when First Consul) and the bombs Of
Orsini. Il is you who ought to be at the
bar.
sCENE WITH n. GRoUssET.
The Pail Mall Gazette narrates that
NJ. Paschal Grousset a Aarseillaise