The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-02-11
NAPOLEON is ALMOST
FORGOTTEN IN FRANCE

tlne the Prince Imperial attained man
49, 49, the Republic was too fr,nly estab-
case AT the time or Napoleon III .fsuoatI,
wNcn II was touch and go whefhrr
! ne Noyaiia,s. the Bonap artists, Or no
Republicans, would carry the day
With regard 10 The dos. 81 .h,o,,,
Mnich prevented the execution Of tho
Soup etat planned for March 90 1872
, ,iHu the restoration OF the empire. il
became the subject OF one OF thu ,nost
celebrated controversies OF ,helonledi
ga press. The operation performed hy
Sir Henry Thompson. the famous sur
sroh. upon the Emperor at Ch!sio-
hurst. had been cnIlncutly slcccssIula
and lis results so beneficial that the.
| t;rApsror was able 10 take his dinner on
me foliowing day. and was absolutely
.ree from fever Indeed. his condition.
W ,, such that All apprehension had
disappeared and his .oung son had
returned 10 the Military Academy AZ
Wooiwich. On the evening or that day
~ declined TO take the choral which
had been prescribed for him ~ Sir
william Gull, the physician in attend
ahce lie protested that he suffered no
narcotic and that the dose which hs
had taken on the previous evening had
~ e. MIN with a sense or OPPRESSION.
! as ne persisted In his refusal. the In
and IT was only on her urgent solicita-t
/ ton, winding UP with a peremptory
nenand that with manifest reluctance
brought to him not only rcpose for
that night, but sleep eternal
Early on the following morning, Sir
henry henry Thompson, and Sir William Gull.
VINO were attending His Majesty. one
in, the capacity OF surgeon and Tic
other In that OF physician appeared
beside the deathbed, In. response TO /.
quarrel took place between them. Sir
iienry boldly attributed TO his col
iisaSuc end to the Empress tho entire
blame for the Empcror's death. A
! long controversy cnsued in the medical
press. and II II was kept out OF tho
daily papers, IT was due solely to fccl-
inss Of consideration for the widowed
Empicss; and for her orphaned and
In the obituaries published Of Sir
CnnrleS Dixie the other day. stress was
laid on the fac, that after the Craw-
above everything else the victim Of a
MALT insane and hysicrical woman ali
ms ms former friends had shrunlS away
&c Joseph Chamberlain. who stood pub
lic)y by him, both inside and outside
of the House OF Commons.
This Is not quite correct. There was
one other man who stood by Dixie IN
| those, for him. SO cruel DAYS /, was the
late King Edward. then Prince OF
Wales The Prince. not long after tho
| u idi, iliiulDS DIX Charles riding In tho
Row, cut and ignored by all his former
friends. greeted him with particular
sraciousness. bcclloned him to his side,
and invited him to accompany him on
his morning ride. The Prince did this.
not only once but on numerous oc-
casions, daring popular sentiment, which
had been melted to almost insane AMI
mostly against Dixie, by the attacks
upon him OF ". r. Stead In the pail
Mall Gazette" and thus shamcd MANY
Of Dilkes former friends into resiiin-
ing relations with him. In fact. 1t was
King Edward, quite as much and per-
haps even moro than Joseph Chamber
lain, who extended Il helping hand to
Dixie. and who enabled him to gradual
ly live down the social and political
oStracism TO which he had been con-
demned by one OF those waves of nm
reasoning Pnritarism that ccasionaI-
~ sweep over England, followed by an
inevitable reaction. which render mat
ters much worse than before.
That Queen Victoria was never nuito5
convinced OF Diikc's guilt Is pcrhann
best shown by the fact that she retain
his name among the members Of her
Privy Council until the day of her
death: while as soon as ever Edward
VII, succeeded to the throne. bo+h
Dixie and his wife were invited tn
court, and treated by both the kim.
and Queen Alexandra with the most
marked distinction.
| (CoDyright. 1911, by the brentwood
Company