American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1873-01-18
The Dead Emperor.

iduu, was Tue tuiTu sou OI LOUIS
BOnaparte, ex-Kipg of Holland, his
mother being beng Hortense, the
daughter Of the Empress Josephine
by her first husband, the Count de
Beauharnais. His birth, which took
place at Paris, in the Palace of the
Tuilleries, on the Goth April, 1908,
was announced throughout the Em-
pire and in Holland by the roar of
cannon; and two years and half
later-NOvember 4. 1910, he was
baptized by the Cardinal Fesch,
the Emperor Napoleon / and the
Empress Marie Louise being his
sponsors. After a wonderful life
of nearly the full allotted span,
and a career of almost unexampled
vicissitude, he dies in exile, but, as
many of his dynastic adherents
fondly believe, just when events
were nearly ripe for his own or his
sons return to imperial power.
When only seven years old, after
Napoleon's return from Eliza, he
was presented by the Emperor to
the army and the deputies of the
people at the grand review of the
Champ de Mai, and the splendOr of
the scene is said to have made a
lifelong impression on the mind OF
the little boy. When Napoleon en-
braced him for the last time at NAL
maisOn, he was much agitated; the
child wished to follow his uncle,
and was, with difficulty, pacified
by his mother. Then began the
Punishment of the family. Louis
Napoleon lived with his mother,
first at Augsburg and afterwards in
Switzerland. The Swiss Govern.
ment admitted the young exile to
the rights of citizenship and per-
mitted his service in it's small ar
my. For time he studied gunnery
at Il military academy on the shores
of Lake Thun and during his stay
among the Alps made frequent ex,
cursiOns on foot over the passes.
While thus engaged, the news of
the revolution at Paris, of July,
1880, reached him, and he and his
family at once applied to the Citi-
zen King, Louis Philippe, for per-
mission to return to France; but
were refused. A letter to the new
King, from the young Napoleon,
asking permission to serve as pri-
vate in the French army, was an
swered by the French Government
with renewal of the decree of his
banishment. In the beginning of
1881, he and his elder brother left
Switzerland and settled in Tusca-
ny, soon after taking part in the
CarbJnari insurrectiOn at Rome.
His brother died at Forli, March
II, 1881, and Louis escaped through
Italy and France to england, where
he remained a short time, and then
retired to the Castle of Arenenberg,
in Thurgau, devoting a part of his
leisure in 1S32-'35 to the prepara-
ton of several political books. In
one of these, Rereries POlitigues, he
declared his belief that France could
only be regenerated by one of Ma
pOleOn's descendants, as they alone
could reconcile republican plinci-
Piles with the military aspirations
Of the nation. A work on artillery,
also published about this time, was
favOrably reviewed in the military
journals of the time. In 1912,
when the throne of Louis Philippe
was not firmly established, party
III France had fixed their eyes on
the Due de Reichstadt, and accord
ing to French statements, . whole
corps darmee, Generals and staff in
cluded, had in 1882 declared the in
tentiOn of acknowledging him as
Napoleon II, as soon as he should
reach the frontier, and had even de-
termined, if he did not appear, to
accept his cousin Louis. After the
death of de Reichstadt, Louis Ma
pOleon became the legal heir of the
imperial family; and thus succeed
ing to his cousins claims, he is
said to have been buoyed up with
the hope of obtaining power in
France, by the conversion of Chat
eaubriand and other nOtabIes of the
time. Subsequently, his designs
upon the throne were made unmis-
takably evident by the attempt to
seduce the garrison and capture
the fortress of StrasbOurg, in DC.
tober, 1886; which, however, ended
in miserable failure, and in his own
capture. After a brief imprisOn-
ment at StrasbOurg, he was con-
Quoted to Paris, where, through the
intercessiOn of his mother, who had
promptly repaired thither for the
purpose, his2life was spared on con-
dition that he should be sent to
the United States. He protested
against this, but in vain, and Was
accordingly brought to this cOun
try. Here, however, he did not
long remain, but returned to Swift
erland, where he found his mothe
Oh her death-bed.
In 1883, in consequence of the
publication b. one of his adherents
-Lieut. Laity-of favorable ac-
count of the StrasbOurg affair, the
F.ench Government began To sus-
pect that a new conspiracy was on
foot, and demanded his Punishment
from Switzerland. Some Of the
cantons showing a disposition to re-
fuse, a French army was sent to
the frontier; thus threatening to
maintain the demand by force.
The ambassadors OF the principal
,>ounrs ci~niHnI fl,ai,.