Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-04-03
THE LATE PRINCESS MURAT.
Some Gossip About the B~unapartss and
the Murats.

The New York Tribune publishes
the following letter, which We copy
with the caution to our readers that
the remarks about Nine. Murat as be-
ing i'll tempered, lazy and penurious
arc known to be untrue by hundreds
of people in New Jersey and Phila-
delphia who we're well acquainted
with her when she lived at Borden
town:
PARIS, March Tho late Prin-
cess Murat was one of the many links
between the United States of America
and the Imperial Court of France,
where she wasallowed to rank as wife OF
prince Of the blood. She made a love
match. The year she exchanged the
name of Frazer for that Of Murat, the
fortunes of the Bonaparte family were
at a low ebb. Caroline, the widow of.
King Joachim, the youngest sister of
Napoleon. and the mother-in-la of
Miss Fraser, was dying in poverty at
Trieste. Louis Napoleon was a moon
ing adventurer in debt and difficulties,
and dependent for nerve and susten.
ance on the beautiful Mrs. Gordon,
whom at Ham he charged Louis Blanc
to kiss for him. Charlotte, the widow
Of Louis Charles, eldest son of the
King of Holland and Queen Hor-
tense, and the daughter Of Joseph
Bonaparte, was following her scanda-
lous dOwn-hill career in the Eternal
City. She had been the Delilah of
Leopold Robert, the painter, who died
in a parOxysm Of jealousy which she
excited. The pope contemplated
banishing her from the states of the
church. Mime. Bonaparte Wyse was
the paramour of an Irish officer, Cap
tain tombstone, in a garrett in the Rue
de Rivoli, along with her two daugh-
ters-now Nine. Ratazzi and Nine.
Turr. Lucien's sons, Pierre and
Antoine, were flibusters with no fixed
home, and held in opprObrium
wherever they went. The one bright
spot in the darkened sky was the
marriage at Florence, of Jerome
NapOleon's daughter Mathilde, to the
Prince Demidof. Mathilde, then a
young woman of superb beauty and
brilliant accomplishments, came with
her wealthy aud barbarous Russian
husband to Paris to agitate for her
family and to open a Bonapartist salon
to which Theirs promised to bring his
friends.
Whilst she was shining in Pari-
sian society, and n a subject of Gar
Nicholas and a cousin Of his son-in-
law defying the police of Louis
Philippe to expel her, Lucien Murat
was trying to exc out a subsistence
for himself and his young wife by
teaching Frencht to American Quakers.
She was an estimable but not loveabIe
woman. The Scot is the most respecta-
BILE but the least amiablemember of the
Celtic family, and there was much Of
Scotland in the mantal complexion
and the instincts of this princess of
the blood hat was to be. She was i'm
bued with the prose of the Quakers
amongst whom she lived. The Gale
DOMAIN redness had faded intosdrab at
Philadelphia, She was very prim and
reserved, and a sharper woman about
money never lived. The rapaoity of
the Murat family, of which after
Prince Achilles death, she was the
head, pressed severely on the lazy
princess. Luciep profted by the favor
which her daughter Anna enjoyed at
the Tuileries to make hauls and en-
rich herself and her other children, one
Of whom had married q Mr.. Garden.
1t is to the honor Of the princess that
she never abandoned the religious
principles of her youth when stupid
Spanih superstition, which was incar
nate in the empress, reigned at the
Tuileries. The. American princess
brought her children up to believe in
a rational torn of Christianity. but
was not able to induce her sons to
practice it. They are sad scamps,
with the vices Of the different ooun-
tries by which they ara connected by
blood and education, and few Of the
virtues. One of them having outrun
the constable in France, has gone to
live on his wife's relatives in Mengre-
liza. Another serves as a soldier in
Algeria. Their mother lived in com
munion with the Reformed Church
of France up to the eve of. her
decease. II was then decided that
it would be of political utility to trans
fer her to the Romish fold, in order
to take her remains to ST. Augustin's
and have a mass, attended by Bona.
partists, celebrated for her souls re-
pose. Anna, her youngest daughter,
and at the present time Duchess dc
Mouohy, to disarm the jealousy of the
Empress Eugene, embraced the Cath
Ollie religion. As a neophyte she was
instructed in it BY tho ill-starred
Able Dugusrry, who, at the same
time catechised the Prince Imperial
and prepared him for the first com
munion.
THE American princess and her
sister, Miss Fraser, resided together
after the breakdown of the empire.
Their lodgings were near the town
house of the Duchess de Mouchy, for
whom the old ladies oyerhauled the
buffers and cooks accounts, looked
after the nurses and goyerness, and
saw that the chef applied his skill in
the interest Of economy.
The Fate of a Herd Of BunalOes.