Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1873-01-10
Death of the Ex-EmperOr of the
French at Chiselhurst Yes
terday.
Particulars Of the Sad Event.
Bulletin from the Attend
ing Physicians.
Biographical Sketch---The Lead
ing and Great Events of
the IllustriOuS Mans
Life.

QEaAn Ol EA-G4lDGfbE NdItOltOH lDOl
every one at Chiselhurst by surprise
|. The Empress, relatives, attendants an,
even physicians were unprepared for ii
The Emperor had passed a compaTativel.
quiet night, and at q consultation earl,
in the morning il was thought he coul'
bear the second operation, which wa
fully determined 'en. So great was tn
confidence in the patients condition
that the Prince Imperial was permittet
to return to WOolwich and resume hi
studies. DR.. Gull went to London, an,
many of the Emperor's personal friends
who had hastened to .Chiselhurs
at the first alarm, had returne,
home. There was no reason {,
apprehend a fatal turn of the cas-
/ up to nine o'clock in the morning, wheT
dangerous symptoms set in. The En-
perOr's vital forces seemed to leave hin
all at once, and he commenced to sinl
with alarming rapidity. A Telegram
was instantly dispatched for the Prince
4 DR.. Gull was summoned from London
and Father GODDARD, the Emperor
1 spiritual adviser, sent for TO administer
I the sacraments of the Church. Tht
private chaplain, also informed of the
! danger, started for Chiselhurst. They
] al ali O1 AOo AaAACs AAAN 4 AAAIG AAA A4O
to see his father alive. DR.. Gull and the
clergyman had just reached the parH
gates as the Emperor expired. The En-
/ press, who has been most constant in
! her attendance, was at his bed
side. At the last hour his medical
| advisers, Sir Fl. Thompson and DR.
/ Corvisartp, and Clarer, the Emperor s
/ old friend came, in, and several member,
of his household were also present
Since the Emperor's death his residence
at Chiselhurst has been steadily closed
to all but relatives. His physicians
state that his death resulted from
! causes independent of the surgical op-
/ Grafton to which the patient was sub
/ jected. The event produces a deep i'm
preston in London, where the Emperor
was always very popular with the
masses. The evening journals published
! long obituaries.
! PARIS, January 9.-The news of the
/ Emperor's death was received here at 9
/ late hour this evening. 1t is not vet
! possible to estimate the effect of the sad
event. The Imperialists are profoundly
! effected, and appear to regard the event
as fatal TO their hopes.
/ The only evening journal which has
any editorial on the subject is the Mes'
! SeqUer dc Paris, an influential financial
organ. 1t closes a brief article with the
| following tribute: 1.-The disasters which
| have made shipwreck of the empire viii
not cause to be forgotten the great ser
vices which Napoleon rendered to the
nation in re-establisOing order and de-
velOping the prosperity Of the country
None of the other evening papers had
time to publish the death without com
ments.
LONDON, January 9.-The Empress
Eugene weeps continually, and refuses
consolation. Louis, the Prince Imperial,
who arrived after his father died, is
prOstrated with grief.
The Emperor's death was caused by
embolisment, and it was so sudden that
the sacraments were not administered,
the priests arriving after all was over.
The body will not be inferred until il
can be moved to France. Universal
sorrow prevails in London.
GEOGRAPHICAL.
Charles Louis Napoleon Bonaparte,
or Napoleon III, was the youngest
son of Louis, the King Of Holland,
and Hortense, daughter of the En-
press Josephine, who reappears on
the throne of France, from which
she was expelled by Napoleon l,
in the person of her grandson. He was
born in Paris, April 20, 1903. The EN-
perOr and Empress We're his sponsors al
baptism, and he was an early fav0rite
with Napoleon. AS his father and
mother soon came to live separately I'm
deed, they had been alienated before,
and it is said TO have been at the impera-
tive command of the Emperor that
King Louis allowed the child to be re.
cognized as his, he was chiefly edu-
Gated by his mother, who resided in
Paris under the title of Queen of HOl-
land. After the battle of Waterloo, the
family retired first TO Augsburg, where
he learned the German language, and
subsequently TO Switzerland, where
they passed their summers, while in
winter they repaired to Rome. The
principal tutor of Louis Napoleon was
NJ. Lebas, who, being a stern Republi-
can, gave him his first short-lived in
clinatiOns to Republican principles.
For time, however, he was at the mil
itary college Of Thun, where be made
some progress in the science Of gunnery
but was not distinguished as a scholar.
When the revolution of 1880 broke out,
he petitiOned Louis Philippe to be al
lowed to return to France, but that
sdrOit monarch refused the request.
Louis and his brother, Napoleon, then
repaired TO Italy, where they took an
active part in the revolutionary move
ments Of 1881. But the interference OF
France and Austria in behalf of the pa
pal authorities soon put an end to these,
and the brothers were banished from the
papal territory. The elder brother, Ma
pOIeOn, died at Pesaro, victim to his
anxieties and fatigues, March 9th OF
that year, and Louis Napoleon, also
prOstrated by illness at Ancona, was
joined by his mother, and having in
vain applied for permission to enter the
French army, he spent a short time in
England, eventually retiring to his
mothers chateau at Arenenberg, in
Thurgau. The Duke of Reichstadt dy-
ing in 1882, left him the successor of Ma
poleon 1, not by legitimate descent, but
by the imperial edicts Of 1904 and 1905,
which set aside the usual order of de.
scent, and fixed the succession in the
line of the fourth brother Of Napo-
leon, Louis, instead Of in that oI
the elder brother, Joseph. Thi:
opened a new career to his ambi.
ton, and he seems from that time tC
have set his heart upon the recovery .o
the imperial position and honoTs. MOI
did he leave any means untried 10y
which he might hope to win over tn,
| French people to an approval of his lofty
project. He wrote a book called ReUerie,
| P0IitiqUes, in which he endeavored tC
/ demonstrate the necessity Of an Empe.
ror to the true Republican organization
/ of. France. This was subsequently ex
panded into larger work, called Idee'
NdpoIeonieanes, wherein the policy anC
plans of the Emperor were magnifieC
and extOlled, and earnestly commended
/ to the adoption Of France But he die
not limit his efforts TO the publication o
| books; he put himself in communicates
with Colonel Naudry and other military
officers of the garrison of Strasbourg
and, October 80, 1886, be proclaimed /,
revolution. The soldiers of some regi
ments received him with acclamation
| but the other regiments remained trut
to their duty, and the attempt resulted
in a miserable failure. The Prince, how
ever, was taken prisoner, and Iouii
Philippe, instead of having him exc
cuted, consented, at the earnest entrea
/ ties of his mother, merely to Danish him
| He was sent to the United States, wher'
/ he led a life of idleness for a short time
and then went to South America. Th'
mortal illness of his mother took hin
back to Arenenberg in time TO see be
die on October 5, 1887. AS he immedi
ately set to work defending his eonduc
st Strasbourg, the government of France
i demanded his extradition from Switzer
land, which country al first refused L
!
was sisout 10 assem- to II when Ioui
Napoleon voluntarily retired TO England
There lie occupied himself in preparing
his Idees Nzpoteoallennes, before referred
TO, and in getting up a second revolu