Year: 1879




n congregation, alluded TO the deaf
, of the Prince Imperial. He said


Thus far had l written when theF


came the shock of the tragic even


which has reminded us how in th


services of their country soldier
and sailors have but one heart an


soul. and how in that one heart an


soul all the world shares. Many AM


strange are the visions which GROVE


upon the mind as we hear that fight


ing under the British flag the Princ'


Imperial OF France has passed away


No one who was in Paris on the day


OF his birth can ever forget the mo


ment when in the early dawn of thai


Sunday morning they were aroused


from sleep by the sound Of the guns


which announced that the long -ex,


pected child was born, and in the


historic palace of the Tpileries ran


the deepening thrill with which in


the continued volleys after a long


pause the cannon announced that the


child was boy, the male heir of the


Napoleon family-when we know


that every inhabitant of this vast


city was listening at the same hour


and the same moment with all the


varied feelings of exultiDg triumph


and Of anxious expectation, of Bit


ter disappointment, to the long-pro-


tracted thunder of artillery which


told us that another bulwark had


been given to the empire, q new
prop supplied to the rising dynasty,
and a fresh complication to the
checkered fortunes of France. We
heard as years rolled on of the love
in them redeeming many errors, q
devotion unchanged amid the vicis-
situdes of all the world beside. We
heard of the boy at his childhood's
play building castles 10 the sand at
his we'll known resort on the shores
of the Atlantic. We heard of his
faithful English nurse and her good
advice to him. We watched him
yet later tossed to and fro in the
rack and ruin Of the Imperial House
of GraVelotte and Sedan. We heard
of him after his arrival in this cOun-
try suddenly called to his fathers
death-bed, and gathering up his boy
ish energies to offer with a force
strangely beyond his years a few
words of sgonized prayer as he knelt
by the lifeless corpse. We also
know of him as he passed as a stu
dent in our own renowned academy
at WoolWich, winning the friend.
ship of his companions and achiev-
ing his fret honors without fear or
favor in that branch of the profess
sion which had attracted the studies
OF his father and his uncle. We
heard with mingled anxiety and ad-
Of his wish to share the
tolls and dangers of his youthful
in South African At
RIGA, that dark continent which is
strangely associated with the exile
of ST. Helena and with the destinies
OF his family. All is over now; all
the hopes and fears of those to whom
his existence was a rallying point
or a terror. All the aspirations of
loving parents and devoted friends,
all the memories which rallied |
ounrad his imperial name, at which |
the world grew pale, have gone in
his uutimely fall on a foreign strand, |
as if, indeed, as of old, to point q
moral and adorn a tale. This is not
the place or the occasion to dwell on
this wider range of thoughts excited |
by the fortunes now prematurely |
closed by the death Of this member
Of the family of Napoleon Bonaparte.
Ia this solemn moment, as the life.
less remains are returning over the
sea which but few months ago they
we're crossing in the height of hope |
and joy, we had best fix our thoughts
On that spirit which has gone to God |
who gave it, and on her who now
sits solitary who was once great
the nations. He has gone.
he, young as he was, has left a
stainless name behind him, honOred |
and respected even by his adverse.
lies. To his comrades to you Eur
ylish young men; to you English
boys. as have been told by many !
Who knew him best, to you, say, |
le has left the best legacy possible
the example of q faithful and |
earnest friend, the example of a
pure life and clean lips. To the
who had sheltered his fallen
family he gave what he could, his
service and his life. He won for
himself the sympathy, be won for
limself something at least of the
soldiers glory which in his case was
30 dear, without the dark shadow Of |
and bloodshed. To him
t was permitted to die the soldiers |
heath which was denied alike to his
father and his uncle. de has been |