Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1921-09-27
desire bull from your holiness which

subject, one of which is written by
Cardinal Caselli, whose handwriting
you will recognize. 1t woulc be easy
for me to have the marriage broken by
the archbishop of Paris, the Gallican
Church not recognizing such unions;
but it appears to me more suitable
that the immediate intervention OF
your holiness should give a greater i'm
portance to this affair if only because
it concerns a member of a reigning
house. 1 beg your holiness not to give
publicity to this first communication,
because, before you have agreed to
it, l shall make no public demand. 1t
is important, for many reasons, and
in the interest Of religion in France,
that l should not have a Protestant
woman about me, and it would be a
dangerous example if a minor should
be exposed to seductions which are
at variance with the civil laws and all
kinds of property.
There were a number Of misstate-
ments in this letter. Jerome had not
renounced his wife, who as yet had
not been sent back to America, and
instead of the imaginary Spanish
pl lest, the marriage he'd been cele-
brated by Bishop Carroll Of Balti-
more, Catholic primate OF the United
States.
LIZ oil a 1tIn cir 20
Napoleon had enjoined secrecy, his
holiness the following June replied
in these terms:
We reserved exclusively for ourself
the examination Of the question sub
mitted to our judgment We have our
selves made all the necessary research
es in order to discover if our apostolic
authority could furnish us with some
means for satisfying the desire Of your
majesty, and nothing would have given
us greater pleasure than to enter into
your views, but it has been impossible
for us to discover single one which
permits us to declare the nullity Of
said marriage.
Napoleon was, of course, furious, and
even months later he could write to his
ambassador in Rome, at the time his
kinsman, Cardinal Fesch, in the follow
ing strain:
Since those dotards do not find it
amiss that a Protestant should occu-
py the throne in France, I shall send
them a Protestant ambassador.
| am religious, but I am not hypo-
critic. Constantine separated the civil
from the military service and can
nominate n senator to command in
Rome in my name. AS far as regards
united the crown OF France to that of
I.ombardy. Unless they behave
well, l shall reduce the pope TO be
bishop of Rome
Plus VII expostulated. He knew
that with the exception Of the affair OF
Jcrome's marriage the emperor had no
real cause for complaint. Shortly
Gfterward Napoleon seized upon
Ancona, confiscated what remained Of
the papal states and reduced the pope
himself to captivity in Savona, be-
cause of the day dream which Mr..
Midshipman Jerome dreamed a few
years before on race track near the
present site Of Pimlico in Baltimore
county
Shortly after his second marriage
Jerome, now by grace Of his Corsican
brother king Of Westphalia, sent his
secretary, Lecamus, to America. to
arrange matters. Locamus, who had
been in Baltimore and was a witness
to the wedding, was ordered to secure
possession at practically any cost of
DO" as his mother call the child
Of the union. He made offer Of the
duchy' Of Sma'kalden and a pension
of 100000 francs a year for life, pro-
vided "Bo" should live near his father
and be permitted to come to see him
once a month. Betsy Patterson refus-
ed and when asked an explanation OF
the decision she said, "Westphalia is
a. small place, certainly not large
enough for two queens!"
The fact that later on Nine. Bona
parte consented to accept an allowance
of $4,000 francs year from Napoleon
and refused an allowance OF 100000
francs from her quondam husband
Jerome, she herself explained by say
ing in one of her letters. Il prefer
shelter under the wing Of an eagle tc
being suspended from the bill of q
goose!"
When Jerome died in 1860 he lef'
"Bo" nothing, and Nine. Bonaparte ap-
p2alcd to the French courts in vain.
Finally in Rome, where many of The
Bonapartes were sojourning, after the
empires fall, marriage was arranged
between "BO," Bctsy's son, and Char
lotte, the second daughter of JOSEPH
Bonapartc. Nine. Bonaparte seems Il
have been for 4 time in the seventh
heaven of delight. But the plans fel
through. After another attempt t
marry 30" to Il Bonaparte, this time
the daughter of Eliza, Napoleon's eld'
est sister, the boy took the bit between
his teeth and in 1929 married an Amer