New-York tribune., 1885-01-18

grumblsr from whom the tide Of luck has beeua q
ebh must own" he ssid. that the Empire ~
enabled me to pass eighteen years of my life in -
awfully pleasant way. What pity that su eh
delightful pipe is smoked out! shall now have -
learn how to econoInHe." His Generals pay, =
small annuity As Grand Cross of the Legion a
Honor, some rich household furniture haudsoms
stud and his wife's dowry, which was not vesy
large. were all that remained to him. General
Fleury thought the Empress silly woman snd
was charged with all the secret missions to Csyears
the object OF which was to overthrow the temporal
power of the Pope She felt that he held her mind
in light esteem and dislkcd him. On the Empcrors
death she bestowed oil her confidence on Roubw
who being methOdic advocate and bourgeois wAs
not in sympathy with the bold, brilliant and
spendthrift military adventursr. The Prince
Imperial however. liked him. He remembered tho
affection in which the Emperor Napsleon held him.
and he corresponded with him from Chiselhurst
and Woolwich. The last letter he wrote before
starting for South Africa was to General Feury.
who advised him not to go there and was only pro
vented by military duty from going to stop HIM.
lie thought tho Prince wanted to be stirred up thae
he was too mopipg for his age. too much attached
to the apron strings of the Empress She held him
with tight hand and treated him as q sehoolboy.
refusing to make him pecuniary allowance.
Fleury recommended him to go in debt and Offered
to raise loan for him. The General also tried
through the Imperial family of Russia to make mp .
match between him and Il g youngest sister of tho
actual CzarBa-Prncess Thyra OF Denmark, now
Duchess Of Cumberland. The Prince went 70
Copenhagen to SEQ her and did not fall ~ love With
her. He was already attached to the Princess
Beatrice of England aud she to him. But thero
were SC many obstacles in tine way OF union OF tho
lovers 4Que DiableT said Flenry to the Prince.
have q for nal wedding when accomplished factS
must lie looked in the iace.D The plan of going 70
Zululapd to reap laurels was then hit npon. II he
won them. Parliament wonld grant the Princess
Stield wi syf enl-
barrassing questions, was ready to give the lovers
his blessing. He thought superficial trickster that
he Wasl that daughter of the Queen marrying
Catholic would calm Irish agitation. General
Fleury received at the Princess lathildes country
house tho tidin2s of the Zulua1d tragedy. 1t par
| run Of luck to be hoped ior. Henceforth I've was
what he gayiy termed a consulting Bonapartist.
sons G were free to do as they pleased Ills Objection
to the Plon POI platform that Prince Napoleon
was Prince Napoleon. Nobody ii ked him or conid
like him, and respect for him was impossible. The
DOrleans were too avaricious to succeed. maxim
of his that I" it is better for pretender or
reigning bonse to go in debt than to save money
General Fleury counted one OF the hand
soonest men in the French army. never th0ught
him so and have often met him in society during
the last Internationally years. On horseback and
in n glitteribg uniform he was fne-l0oking.
Buttonea MP in frock coat aud walking In tho
Champs Elysees he also looked to advantage. Tho
figure eean-built, the step elastic and the car
riage sodierly. When his hat was oft was too
patent that his instincts were feline. The head
was fiat and angular and the jaw square ana strong
His face expressed the contrary Of moral elevation
and the first impression rec0ilcct was disagreeabho
| to me. But he was such a pleasant fellow thas
| this soon wore off. He believed human nature to
he either bad or foolish that there too many
people in the world for the weak and casygong not
to he pushed te the wall, and that was ones bus,
mess to try aud get what could for sself and
if one netted too much why. to share it with those
who were OIL. HIS wife was one of the rare
women Of sense and high breeding in the circle Of
the Empress She had taste for the fri iyo.ity OF
the Imperial Court aud led rather retired life in
her most prosperous days. attending to the eduea-
ton Of Der three sons. The eldest of them has
recently married young lady OF vast wealth. some
of which, and especially what consists in diamonds.
wa, inherited from her grandmother the famous
singer Catelani. The young peapc were at Dresden
| on their honeymoon trip when General Fleury
| died The body has been enbalmed. dressed in the
uniform and surrounded with pictures Of the lats
| Emperor, tie Empress and the frmcc inif@risi.
He was the incarnation of the Empire and its main
pivot; he created it, kept it mp and fell with II:
Perhaps it might not have fallen so soon If he had
not been sent to Russia tp penetrate inte tha
| diplomacy of Prince GortschakOtf.