The daily gazette., 1879-04-03
MRS. NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..

THH LAST SURVIVING BISTER-IN-LAW
OF THE GREAT NAPOLEON PASSING
AWAY IN BALTIMORE.
BALTIMoRB, Md, April 2.-Mme. Bo-
naparte Is weaker at IL clock tonight,
and has been sinking ali day. Her ply
sician thinks she will hardly survive un-
til sunrise. Both Of her grandsons are
with her, and expect he. death hourly.
She has entirely Ceased to open her eyes
or notice any one.
In the Baltimore Federal Gazette of
Tuesday, December ~, 1903, was pub
lished the following ma. riage notice:
MARRIED, on Saturday evening last,
by the Reverend Bishop Carroll, MIR.
jerome Bouaparte, ,youn lest brother OF the
First Consul Of the French Republic to
Miss Elizabeth Patterson, eldest daughter
Of William Patterson, esquire, of this
city.
The bride Of that m, mOrable marriage,
Mrs. BonapaIte-Patterson, is the lady
mentioned IN the above despatch as lying
at the point Of death to-day in her resi-
dence, corner of Cathedral and Reade
streets, Baltimore. She is the woman
Of whom Lady Morgan wrote, "She be-
longs to history she lived with kings and
princes, philosophers and artists there Is
about her q perpetual curiosity and ro-
NANCE"
Betsey Patterson was less than eighteen
when ip 1903 she met Eapolean's young
est brother, Jerome Bonaparte, lhen less
than twenty, though it is by no means
certain that the date of his and his
brothers clIths were not altered SO as 10
make them all seem younger thau they
were. Jerome had served under Gene al
Leclerc tPauine Bonaparte's first hus-
bAnd) in Santo Domingo, aud after car
rying dispatches home to France had
gone to NJ Martinique, In command Of a
frigate. Leaving his station in 1908 he
sailed for New York, where he was
warmly received. Joshua Barney, then
not long returned from service under the
French flag, invited him to Baltimore,
and there, at the house of Samuel Chase,
one of the signers of tho Declaration OF
Independence, he met Miss Patterson, of
whose beauty and wit he had heard in
Martinique. al know the most beauti-
ful young woman in the world" had an
| ex- x-Baltimorean lady said TO him, "whom
| you must mary" and when one of his
suite, NJ. Rubells, married at Baltimore,
and Jerome Bonaparte declared that be
never would we'd an American, receiving
the reply to wait till he had seen Miss
Patterson. A recent chronicler-not
particular a. to dates but evidently
writing from conversations with Mrs.
Patterson -Bonaparte-says that Eliza
beths mother sent her to Virginia to
have her out of the way, that Jerome's
| curiosity was piqued by the labsencs of
one they all talked about, and that when
he met her in Mime. Rubelle's carriage,
acting as their escort to the races she re-
sented his familiar method Of talking Of
her az his pretty woman" by turning
her back upon him, an act Of brusQuerie
that completed her conquest. Al this
first meeting Miss Patterson wore buff
colorsd silk, very scanty as to drapery, a
large tshu and huge Leghorn bonnet
trimmed with pink guaze and large os-
trich feathers. Jerome was An ardent
| woer; the maid was willing to be WOE,
for long before she had laidi it out ss her
fate TO wed distinguished Trenchman, a
prediction she recalled whom at party
Young Bonapartss 8 chain accidently be-
oame "eniangled round her mock"
William Patterson, her father was the
son of a farmer in Donegal, Ireland, who
at the aga Of fourteen was sent to Phila-
dslphia and placed in the counting-house
of Samuel jackson, . shipping-merchant.
Saffell says that he "stood shoulder to
shoulder with Robert Morris and Steph-
On Girard, with open purse bearing the
financial weight of the Revolution, aud
and the subsequent dark days of the re-
public" "enjoyed in high degree the
friendship of Washington, Lafayette and
Carroll" and welcomM Rochambeau at
Newport and d. d'Estaing in the Chesa-
peake. In bis will William Patterson
said that in 1775 he embarked his proper
ty in vessels trading in France with re-
tarning cargoes of powder and arms that
his supply arrived at a critical moment
to aid Washington before Boston, that
he made $50 900 in the West Indies and
going thence to Baltimore increased that
to \ million. 81 have made the fortunes
of some, saved others from ruin and
found bread and employment for thou
sands of my fellow-mortals," this slnga
lar docuID snt reads, "and no one could
ever say to me .neighbor and friend, you
got, the advantage of me-you acted un-
generously to me-" A friend ofhis daugh.
ter desert bes HIM as of strict integrity in
business relations, but close and arbi-
trary in his family and by no means i'm
peccable in morality. After long i'm
port uning his wife obtained from him a
promise to import for her chariot: he
kept it; but rs the promise did not i'll
clude horses the vehicle remained IN the
coach-house till his death. To Mrs. Pat
te rson, a tender, religious and well-cul
tured woman, their daughter owed heI
familiarity with English and French
classics; RochefOucauld's "Maxims" she
had by heart, and at ten could reGite
whole pages of the "Night Thoughts,
which remained in her memory for three
quarters of a century, though in the in
terim she had never opened volume ol
Young. To prodigicus memory she
added a quick mind and sparkling wit
her manners were fascinating and hei
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