Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1879-04-05
THE WHEELING REGISTER SATURDAY MORNING. APRIL 1873

! Bonaparte and his little Baltimore
beauty had tacitly slipped off in the
vessel which carries General Arm
strong, our newly-appointed Min
! lister, to Nantz;" they were to
I have gone, but the General changed
! bis mind. On the 10th he made the
youthful bride" sail tor Havre on the
! Thames. On the 10Th OF August he To-
Gated them at Providence, r. l.; on the
2lst he made them receive letter say
| ing, eli YOU return, come alone; ii you
| taTry, expect no promotion" but next
| day he discovered that il was "conn-
IDENTITY reported in the first circles oil
Paris that the Emperor had forgiven his
brother" having been softened by the
sight Of portrait OF the "lovely bride
Then bis brother at Baltimore en-
| barked the pair on board "the fast-sail-
ing schooner Cardena, Captain Towers,
which had been fitted up and ballasted
| for the purpose" and when the re-
porter of the Philadelphia True ADaerl-
| can learned that they were travelling
incog. on the ship Philadelphia for Cadiz
and had narrowly escaped drown
! ing when it went ashore at Pilot Town,
| the BdltimOreaR strongly suspected
that the tale was fabricated" and de-
clared that Jerome had Eat last fairly
got the advantage Of busy rumor, and
left for her votaries nothing but vacant
gaze, unless perhaps they should yet mt
him on the horns of John Bull, or in
the nav Of whale" Nevertheless the
story was true. They had set out on
the Philadelphia which ran ashore.
Nine. Bonaparte insisted that the sailors
should man q boat and throw her into
it, but the captain let her slip into the
water. Her wadded pelisse carried her
down, but she came up and sailor
hauled her into the boat, and shortly
afterwards at hospital farm house she
scanlalized her aunt by enjoying roast
goose and apple sauce instead OF kneel-
ing in thanksgiving
Meanwhile ii there had been any
doubt about NapoleOn's feelings it had
been dissipated by the censors allowing
to appear in all the Paris papers a para
graph to the effect that NJ. Jerome Bon
aparte might have an American mis-
tress but could not have wife. "The
COnsups determination is now too
plain" wrote Robert Patterson, from
Amsterdam. NJ. Dacre's letters had
been published in the Halifax Morning
Chronicle NJ. De Maupertius was wrl-
ting to VI. Alexandra lie Camus letters
with glowing descriptions of the delights
and splendors OF the court, the corona
ton, the regrets that jerome was not
there to share in the glory and pleasure
letters which were meant for Jerome,
and which duly reached him. Februa'
~ IL, 1905, Robert Patterson wrote III
cipher to his father that he had it from
the American Minister that Napoleon
had determined to impriSOn Jerome,
"wherc he should remain till he repu-
dated his wife and married another"
and that Jerome was only safe in Amer
lea. March 9, he wrote in cipher:
"Betsey ought by no means come to
France; if she were, think she would
be fortunate in only being sent back
But two DAYS later Jerome and Bet
Sey, at early dawn, boarded the Erin at
Baltimore and sailed for Spain. March
81, Robert Patterson reported 10 his
father, still in cipher, that NapOleOn's
"unconciiatory disposition is kept alive
and iomcntcd by the intrigucs OF a part
of the iamily-the Empress and the
Princess Lucien and Eliza are not fav-
orably disposed towards Jerome On
the "a Of April the Erin reached Lisbon,
whence Jerome wrote to his father-in-
law that they had arrived at the Ear
bOus" ,harbOr) of Lisbon and i'll three
days 81 shall be ready to proceed on my
Long, monotone and iatiguing
journey. My feelings for you, my
second mother and all your good family
are very well known to you, and 1t IS
easier for me to feel them than To eX-
press them. My dear wife has been
very sick, but you know as well as
anybody that sea sick never has killed
nobody" Jerome set out Tor Pans, and
his wife, with her brother William for
Amsterdam. Four days later, April IL,
Robert wrot to his father: "The mother
Mime. Liptitial has said that, as she re-
ccived a letter from Jerome telling her
that finding the marriage SO much dis
approved he was willing to have it dis
solved, she consented to the late publ
catiOn"-the cOmmmique abOnt the
American mistress.
The treacherous BOnapartes caught it
from the editor of the Columbian Cen
tiRel, who called Napoleon "a little low
corsican, born we know not of whom,
and whose name and family were never
heard OF until within these ten years -
which was undeniably true-and print
ell an authentic sketch of the genealOgy
OF the Bonaparte family" in which it is
shown that Bonaparte's mother was
mistress of Count MarbGf and his wife
the mistress OF Blrras, and that Lucien
killed his first wife, tavcrn-wench,
with bad treatment, and that his sister
Eliza married the son OF Il billiard
marker, and that his sister Pauline's first
husbands mothers brother was sem
fenced TO be hanged for robbery. BY the
81 of MAY, 1905, reports that the mar
rage had been annuiled were published
mt Pm ladelphia. In June Jerome was
cruising off Genoa in the Pomona, while
his wife, who, on the eve Of her Cuniine-
ment, had left the Texel, not permitted
to land-the Erin was placed between a
sixty-four-gun ship and lrigatc, While
Il guard-boat piled round her at night
had reached Dover and fonnd q refuge
i'm London, where, at Camberwell, July
:, 1905, her son Jerome Napoleon was
born. She had some difficulty, being
one OF the Bonapartes, in securing
permission to land, and guard OF
cavalry had to be sent to protect her
carriage from the curious. Jerome Bona
parte wrote TO his father-in-law from
Genoa, June 18th, by lie Camus, declar-
ing that the old mans daughter chad
TAR removed il not destroyed forever the
possibility of a reconciliation" by impru-
IDENTIFY going to London instead of to a
neutral port. On the 10Th OF July, lie