The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1873-08-02

We are informed that letters OF administration
oiHn tsStameHt0 anHcIo have been applied for: the
estate has been sworn under $40, 0OO. bur this
sum is subject TO claims which will reduce the
amount actually received By the administrators n
about one-half the amount.
This Is not so much TO have saved Out of the
enormous sums which were devoted ~ maintain
ING the Imperial State. During
s REIGN oF EICITEEN YEARS
Napoleon possessed a civil list between tire. and
four times ~ great as that which contents the
Sovereign Of Great Britain, and still more mao
niiicent when compared with the revenues Of bs
most distinguished continental neighbors. Durino
hs reign every one connected with the Courr or
Government was supposed to grow rich too. ANY
Republican 10 whom one might have talked three
years ago would have insisted that the Emperor
had safely consigned his millions 10 London or
Amsterdam, and would have laughed at any one
who told him that the great Sovereign was n moor
man. Did not people who had only the moderate
salaries Of French officials. or the still more
sparing pay OF the army, live amid luxury and
display, like the most enterprising merchants and
the boldest spectators? If thew could do this
and conjure up wealth no one could tell whence,
was 1t likely that the chief and master of all. the
man who had raised and supported the entire
fabric, should receive no benefit from it?
HIS LEGAL REVENUES WERE IMMENSE.
and the sums charged upon the country for snb-
sidiary expenses connected with the maintenance
OF the Imperial State could hardly be ascertained.
Then the fortune of one so high and powerful
could be augmented at every turn of European
events. Let others strive 20 discern the f1tnre
an Emperor of the French could fulfill his own
prophesies, and Il dispatch. a sentence in the
Moniteur, a phrase. a reception, might move the
markets of Europe. France had been covered
with railways, and her cities had been almost
rebuilt. Who decided in the last resort to i'm
~proyements, and who granted the concessions
lrhIpI var IN ,asSa Co .,o-- Or,
result has shown how little there was in these
supposltIons. Experience proves that the gains
which are made under the shadow of power GEN.
orally fall to the lot of those who are less con-
spieuons and responsible than the Prince. Ma
poleon might imagine that his Civil List was
wealth., b0undless and ineXhaustible, and with
every desire satisfied he would not hunger TO
augment it. But no revenues could be secure
against such demands rs pressed upon the ruler
OF France and the chief Of the Bonapartes. The
advance OF wealth and luxury made
PROPULSION \ NECESSITY
at the Tuileries. The Imperial household was the
representative of an eXtravagant age, and a party
given to display. 1t hardly dared to follow the
more simple traditions Of the July Monarchy.
The entertainments were splendid, both in Paris
and at Compiegne, the horses and equipages were
magnificent, the ladies Of the Court set or
bettered the example of extravaganza in dress.
and the Civil List was taxed for all. Moreover.
1t rs no secret that the Empire, above any mon
archy in recent times, was infested bv denendents
and parasites Of every kind. Not only did every
one who could establish a connection. real or i'm
aginary, with the Bonapartes claim a RIGHT to
look for something, but social support was given
tor Il consideration. Of the people who went to
the Iuileries a greater portion wanted to get
something, in one way or another. than was ever
known at any Court of our time.
We can then well imagine tEat with the best
desire TO provide
An INDEPENDENT INHERITANCE
for his wife and child, the Emperor saw wear
after year pass away without the object being ac-
complished. He was not, like his uncle, a man
OF detail, and to deal with large sums of money
expended on the thousand heads of Il vast estab-
lishment was too much for him. He had been
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