Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1879-04-05

large enough To hold two queens. Ma
poleon appreciated the answer, as he
could now afford to do, and intimated
through the French Minister at Wash
ington his desire to serve her. She
asked to he made q duchess, which he
promised TO do later, and she received
S20,0O0 cash and an annuity Of ST., 900,
which was paid till Napoleon abdicated,
she being permitted to sign the receipts
for it Elizabeth Bonaparte." Jerome
was stung at her acceptance of
money from his brother, but she
retorted that she preferred shelter
under the wing Of the eagle to shelter
under the wing Of the goose. To
NapOleon's memory she was grateful for
she declined to visit tie court OF XVIII,
"not wishing to pose for a victim OF i'm
perial tyranny" Under the Restora-
ton she was one OF the reigning beauties
OF Paris. She had q spirited head
crowned with waving brown hair; large,
lustrous, liquid, hazel eyes, promising a
tender sensibility that did not exist; a
nose of delicate Greek outline; mouth
and rounded chin, nests for Cupid;
arms bust and shoulders TO satisfy a
sculptor" The singular resemblance
she bore to the Emperor was noted by
Larrey and Paris generally, as it had
been by the French people and travelled
folk at Baltimore years before.
Miss Berry called her exceedingly
pretty, without grace, and not at all
shy" Nine. de Stael came up to in
spect her as she was chatting with Cast
lereagh, and said, Eyes; she is very
pretty" and departed. Lady Morgan,
whose close friend and correspondent
Nine. Bonaparte-Patterson was, says in
her Memoirs" that "she was not OF the
pate out OF which victims and martyrs
are made, but held her difficult position
with a scOrnful courage that excites
pity. Her letters bear the impress of a
life run to waste; they are clever, NOR
dant and amusing, but the bitter sense
OF wrong cannot be concealed. With
her airy manner, beauty and wit, she
would have made an excellent Princess,
American as she was. One wonders
that Napoleon could have been blind to
her capabilities-he whose motto was.
The tools to him who can use them.
When at Rome, in 1925, Nine. Bona
nections, by all OF whom she was affec
tionately received except by Nine. Mere,
who long held out, but finally received
her with cordiality. Pauline Borghese
left her son Jerome a legacy of 10000
francs; in 1899 Cardinal Fesch, Nine.
Mere's half-brother made him hand
some bequest. In 1919 Nine. Bonaparte-
Patterson complained that having been
cheated out OF her inheritance from her
"late rich and unjust father" she had
only $4,000 year. The Emperor
hurled me back on what ] most hated
on earth-my Baltimore obscurity. !
have ever been an imperial
BOnapartist PIdnd meme, and
am enchanted that the prestige or
the name has elected Ito the Presidency
of the Second Republic) prince who
has my most ardent wishes for an En-
pire." Napoleon Ill. allowed her son
an annuity of $4,000, discontinued,
however, when she contested the cX-
King of Westphalia's will, in which Je-
rome ignored his son; still, the Emperor
recognized his couis at Court, and grant
cd TO Nine. Bonaparte-Patterson's
grandson a pension OF $1,000, which
only ceased when the Second Empire
fell. The fact that she had obtained a
divorce in Maryland probably weakened
her case, for the Pope had always held
her marriage legal, and, par consequent,
JerOme's marriage with the Wurtem-
burg Princess Invalid.
Her son, Jerome Napoleon Bonapartc,
was graduated ut Harvard in 1926 AMI
studied law, but never practiced. He
married the daughter of wealthy resi-
dent of Roxbury, Mass, Miss Susan
Mary Williams, who bore him two sons
Jerome Napoleon, born in 1892, and
Charles Joseph, born in 1852. The
elder was graduated at West Point, but
soon after resigned his commission and
entered the French army, serving
with distinction in the Crimea. He has
Just returned from Paris, and his wife,
formerly Mrs. Edgar, of New York,
a granddaughter of Daniel Webster, TO
whom he was married at Newport, X.
l., will soon follow him with their fami-
". His brother was also with him AT
their grandmother's dying bed. For
nearly year Nine. Bonaparte-PattersOn
has been unable TO take any solid food;
after paralytic stroke on Saturday last,
which deprived her of the use OF her
tongue, she was kept alive on brandy,
which on Monday her stomach rejected.
At 10 o'clock on Monday morning she
sank into cOmatose condition.
Colonel Bonaparte's grandmother al
ways had hopes Of his ultimate accession
to the throne OF France, and to that end
heaped together her own large fortune,
kept in such form that it could be con-
vcrted into cash on short notice, to re-
inforce that he received from his father,
who died June Il, 1870, and was buried
in London Park Cemetery, near Bal
timOrc. The dead woman lived Sc
cludcd. and shrewd Baltimore
banker said Of her that he knew mo
man more capable of creating legiti-
mately with SO small capital the large
fortune she amasscd." In no branch OF
art was she accomplished, though she
was an assiduous student till Of late
years her failing eycsight deprived her OF
that resource. 1t is said that she has
kept carefully, with a view to its publ.
cation, a diary of her long and evPntful
lie. but that her m0gHum opus, a "Dia-
logue oi the Dead, where King Jerome
AMI her father rrhearse her story in
IIalcs, will never be allowed to see the
light. She was woman OF intense
vitality, and though several times, nota-
bly, in 1888, her life was despaired OF,
she recovered to repeat her iavOrite pre-.
diction that would live to be hundred
years old.