Year: 1870

The journal de ST. Petersburg says that Jules Fayre,
hearing the Prussan conditions of peace through
Gen. Burnside, thought they wero reasonable, and
their rejection is consequently, unaccountable


Gen. Boyer, with flag of truce from Bazane, had
an interview with Bismarck who has made
port of their conversation to the King of Prussia.
The result of the negotiation is not yet known.


THE IMPERIAL SECRETS.


MORE OF THE TUILERTEs LETTERs-TIIE BEL


LANCER sCANDAL-A LETTER FROM MANI


MILAN.


FROM OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT


Tours, Oct. 2.-YOu have already received,
1 suppose, copies OF those two letters OF Mar
guerte Bellanger which wero found In the Imperial
cabinet at Tuileres tied with rosecOlored ribbon,
and labeled in Napoleons handwriting, Letters to be
kept" You must not suppose that the story-in many
Of its phases the very old stoyo Marguerite Beanger
is altogether revelation TO the Parisians What new
is the questionable paternity OF little boy, and the dis
graceful part played by the first judge OF the Empire In
an affair OF this kind. all Paris attest the truth
OF the reiterated statement OF the letter to her Imperial
lover that he had done "vcry great deal for her"
Marguerite Bellangers horses carriages dogs iewelry,
and loud dresses were well known IN the Bois de BOu
Ogne and every cabmaD knows the and gorgeousy
furnished mansion on the Rue de Nerncuil, where,
within o stones throw OF the Avenue des Champs
Eiysees in which he took his official promenade with
the Empress the Emperor wont TO pass hours OF
ideness with Marguerite Bellange Only at the begin
ming this year, and time after President Deyenne
had effected arrangement, husband was found for
the lady. on the occasion OF her marriage she objected
her hotel in the Rue de veneu sme Of the stables,
thereupon the Emperor gave her sunptuous palace
in the Avenue de la Refine Horons which. In her mar
rlage settlement published In the Of the time,
valued at a million and half Of fra,rs Her sale in the
Rue de Verneu produced francs and she bought
in some magnificent goben tapestry with the cypher Of
the Crown which the auctoneer put into the catalogue
TO excite curiosity. The husband assigned 10 her was
employe in a lnendrapers shop; but his funo.
ton to keep the books, she rather wittiy said
Of him that he was not trade an but sl 81 letters
Ms,Ana ~ as doing, in the very house tnow
hoteD in which Madame de la VALERIE born can only
wonder that such joyeusets du Ro INDUCED In by the
late TO the throne OF Louis XIV should have
required such ponderous machinery as that OF the inter
venton of a Chief Justice to hush them up The ante
cedents OF Louis Napoleon Bonaparte are such that
additional instance Of q breach OF the seventh
commandment could damage his reputation From
variety Of circumstances believe the explanation OF the
extreme anxiety which made him invoke the assist
ance Of President Devienne TO he this. At time
when the Prince Imperial in very bad
health he certainly under the impression
whether truly mott that he was the father OF
Marguerite Belangers boy Imparng his grief to her
the prospect OF being deprived OF poserty the, in
melting moments got him to listen u her compacenty,
when she said that her his, and that apart from
social conventions which he might overrule, the direct
line OF the Napoleons in any event assured The
Emperor had long been in the habit OF treating
France as his wash pot" and who had reserved to
himself by his constitution absolute power TO adopt
heir the exclusion OF Prince Napoleon, might very
well have caressed the idea cigarette that If he
lost his legitimate son. his power and might would be
equal 10 the achievement OF pebscite conferring MS
adoption on an llegitmate one. Later the Prince I'm
peral got better; the Empress rebelled against the
Marguerite Bell9nger scandal; and moment
came when the Emperor thought 1t expedient 10
obtain a disayowal from Miss Margaret OF his
paternity OF her child at price. NJ.
Devenne at the time when he soiled his ermine with
this dirty business First President of the Imperial
Court, l. e., the Second Judge Of the Empire As re
ward services which the lowest pettoggng attorney
would have been ashamed TO Own he was promoted to
the highest judicial Office in the gift OF the Crown,
namely the Presidency of the Court Of Cessation He IL
now impeached for dsgracing the bench His brother
Judges and subordnates in the Supreme Court must Try
him according TO law and, although they were all I'm
peraists weeks ago, ii is not doubted that in the
present temper OF the times they will find him guilty,
and sentence him TO dismissal


The pryings OF the into the papers OF their
have made certain that most OF the con
spiraccs against the Empire got up by the police,
and that the Emperor brbed porters and postmen 10
open letters His main object to have been TO get
hold of the letters OF his Ministers to their mstresses
fourth division or the FfenCn papers tne
report Of "A spy the doings OF the Russian Minister
This gentleman lost document, and observes that
il can only his Prussan colleague who stole 1t from
him Such is diplomacy. The Tuileries papers Include
the following letter from the Emperor MaXmilan to the
Emperor Napoleon:


IL with lively pleasure and sentiment OF true rat-
tule that Just received at the hands ol NJ lang
kind letter OF Majesty dated August ~ lSb
advice which your Majesty gives me az sincere
friend remarkable your cOunsels always are for tr
greatest sovereign of who is certainly the best
Judge OF those diplomatic questions when occasion our
sOlicudrs In Mexico. since NJ. JahEals mas elpoieu
Maiestys confidence he may safely reckon upon
having This assistance will be of the utmost yaue
difficulty encounter here If 10 DE
utterly unable find tools to work with As Minister oi
Finance. NJ Langais will have opportunities OF mendg
present situation, known Ia your Majesty ~ Is
| difficult hut desperate. 1t u only the army
which the other members OF the
the expenses IL IL those unfortunate auAiarlcs
which cost muCh and which the Marshal THINKS so ne
cessary although doubt whether they are of any real
value Within the last few days have completed our
works of political administration and judicial orgdnma
tion. In several volumes will send them to your Ma
esty. given up visit To IuCatan, Nhere tne
will alone order to set 10 WORK III fsht
earnest with VI. Iangais, who has now all my hympa-
thies The Marshal will send you the Draconian law
which have obliged to sign against the gnerfllas
II vii have a good effect and shall see the last of
these of the country II the troops 40 not ih


pray your Majesty to recall me to the KIND rc"IeCioh
OF the Enprcss and Ia believe in the s'yirnts oi mgh
esteem ard sincere friendship with which AN Your
Mae.Iy', GOOD brother, hAAiNLiAN
AN APPEAL FOR PEACE.


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