The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-02-04

Cu6lTb WIN y 6lbtSI u moICy poyme WV AA~>i
and now and then the Empress slips IN and prays
too. until they come and take her away. Poor
lady, she is so worn outl And we are not sure
whether he was sensible enough to recognize the
priest when he gave him the holy eucharist, and
that complexities matters. The Empire is all here.
Every name is history, and there are only two or
three strangers In the room. There are two can
dies burning over the Emperor. But the room is
very dark" The Empire was all there; all the
Imperial family but Cardinal Bonaparte grandson
OF Lucien, the first Emperor's brother, who has
not arrived from Rome, and Prince Pierre
Bonaparte, the son of Lucien. Prince Pierre Is
now in London, where his wife supports him by
keeping dressmaker's shop. Prince Pierre Is the
Bonaparte who shot Victor Noir at Auteuil, and
was tried and fined for it. locked for His Imperial
Highness in vain /; but he evidently had not been
asked to come and mourn for his cousin. The
Prince is in disgrace, l fear although he is one
Bonaparte who is not afraid OF pistol made no
inquiries about Prince Pierre, for fear they would
be misunderstood.
We are in the house Of sorrow, and we pass
slowly from room to room locking, as well as we
can In the uncertain light at the pictures and
statues and mcdallions. Here and there is group
whispering, and now and then messenger walks
on tptoe to the room where General Fleury and
Pietri are transacting business Messengers come
and 60 softly with telegraph dispatches. II they
are important or personal they are taken to the
Empress who is In seclusion in the room adjoining
that in which her husband now reposes
In the dining room table is set apart for
the press. AS we pass in, Lord Sydney
the English Lord ChambeIlain-the high divine au
thority on etiquette and plush, and wigs and red
tape; to the eye . sedate, pleasant, rather hand
some Englishman-is writing despatch, while a
forlorn correspondent Of London journal is ION
duty" wishing the hour were come for him to re-
turn with his copy, and killing time over court
Guide" Three or four brightlooktng French jour
Enthusiastically good swordsmen-are going in
and out talking politics to their friends and smoK-
ing cigarettes. They are Bonapartist and so are
inside the house, and may smoke their cigarettes
under the very trees where Napoleon III. dreamed
OF Sedan and destiny Just now they little
vexed. A tall, harmless Frenchman, In seedy
clothes and SLOUGH hat, was seen moment since
outside OF the gate. He is reported to be CORE
spondent Of the RepubltQle Observation-Disclosures
paper-and there is great indignation
and the poor fellow who smokes his cigar
cite on the roadside and looks over the
ratings at the house Is discussed as a cocl1on and
q Scelerat and, but for an uncertainty as to the
operations of English law, am sure our lively,
handsome B0napartist writers would go out and
have an encounter with this radical contemporary
who dares to come under the shadow OF the dead
Emperor's home But nothing comes Of it, and the
incident was not without its amusing aspects,
showing the bitterness ofpolitcal feeling in France,
where even journalists cannot meet professionally
without the risk Of duels next morning.
NAPOLEON Tvs FIRST LEvEE.
About four O'Clock there Is little rustic in the
saloon, and all eyes turn toward an opening door.
There is a Whisper and my friend says eagerly, ut
is the Prince Imperial His Majesty Napoleon ~. ~
The company instinctively and in an instant form
a group, as IN the old Tuileries days, when Napo-
leon Ill had an audience. We see directly young
lad, dressed in the uniform OF English artillery
cadet accompanied by a taller lad-a fellow stu
dent, IN the same uniform. This Is the Prince I'm.
perlal, accompanied by the son of DR.. Conneau He
enters the circle and passes from one to another
All are friends. The ladies kiss him on the cheek
and shed tears and mods of sympathy pass. Some
Of the most violent Bonapartsts kneel and kiss his
hand-now and then holding 1t for an instant and
bathing IL in tears The Prince slowly comes
toward u.s. and we see lad with clear, kind blue,
womanly eye features in which the Spanish charac-
ter predominates, pleasing face in every respect,
the figure slender and well poised We are struck at
once with the grace and courtesy and selfposses-
sion Of the Princes manner. He bears himself with
ulRQlLy, 6u0 suOWS CAREFUL bIdluIuS. ~ SOmc Olu
friends he speaks for minute or two. With others
he merely interchanges a word. Now and then
an emotional lady places her head ON his
shoulder and weeps aloud. When he came to your
correspondent we shook hands. "Monsegneur,n
said, permit me to offer you my condolences,
at is very sad, very sad" he replied, and passed
to my neghbor, one Of the famous men Of the EN-
pre- who bent his knee and kissed the young man g
hand and sobbed vehemently. This was the first
levee Of Napoleon IV.l For although there was no
formal recognition Of the Prince Emperor, as far
as could see, and although he was addressed as
Mon Prtncen or "Monseigneur,n so far as l could
observe, it was the reception that men and women
only give to q king. Certainly the young man
bore himself like . sovereign. As I remarked, he
has very pleasant eyes / have rarely seen eyes
more frank and kindly. AS looked into them
wondered what destiny was before them, and
whether, when he finally closed them in the rest
which has now GENE to his father, he would not
feel that 1t would have been better and happier far
had he not been born to a throne.
MPERIALsr sPEcULATIoNs.
II il impossible for SO many men, especially men
as eager and daring as the partisans of the house
OF Bonaparte, to assemble, even upon an errand as
sad az this, without specializing upon the political
future. And, after all this, Napoleon is dead; and
with these men-the tears and the grief well over
the question is with the quick and not the dead.
During my visits to Camden House in the idle
hours, when we sauntered under tine trees or ad
mired the garden statues, ! have sought to make
the conversation tend in a political direction. This
was in every ones mind. and 1t is not difncut to
induce speech from the full mind. shall not take
advantage OF the freedoms that were permitted to
your correspondent by mentioning names, but
give you briefly what useful things were said in
reference to the political future of France and the
Napoleon family
THE DISLIKE OF PRINCE NAPOLEON.
''were it not for Pon- Pon," said one, who in
his day was very near to the Emperor, "this would
be Harmonious party. He is the evil genius Of
the gathering. We are all full Of hope but he,
although Napoleon and now only second from the
throne, Is q coward and a traitor.n
HAS he shown any ili-will or discourtesy 2r
asked.