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VOLUME I.
THE INDEPENDENT.
SATURDAY, JILY 5,1873.
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[Paris Correspondence London Times.]
THE NEWEST LITERARY SENSATION
Itcmtnlacrnet’s of General Ln.
It is pleasant to turn for a moment from
political intrigues to a more genial tuul
Snerally attractive topic. A memoir of
e Confederate General, Robert E. Lee.
which commences in {lie June number of
the Reve deg Ihettx Mcmdeg, is just now in
everybody’s hands. It possesses special
interest as proceeding from the pen of his
taephew’s wife. Mrs. Blanche Lee Childe
has done graceful justice to her uncle’s
memory, and has produced a life-like and
most agreeable portrait of one of the ablest
soldiers and fittest characters that have il
lustrated the, as yet, brief history of the
United States. General Lee's life; may be
summed up in the one word which it is the
pride of the Anglo-Saxon race to set above
every other motive, and which will eter
nally remain associated with the memory
of Nelson and Wellington. That word ts
"Duty.” No man was ever more devoted
to its performance than Robert E. Leo,
however mistaken may be thought by
inauy his interpretation of it. Asa youth,
at the military school of West Point, the
non of Light-horse Harry made himself re
msirked, not only by his intelligence but
by the rectitude of his sentiments, the
rigidity of his principles, ami his severity
towards himself. His sobriety was re
markable; he never drank wine, never
smoked, and was never heard to swear. He
had all the sifnplicity of heart, the self
denial, the patient endurance that qualify
a man to become n great commander, to
share the fatigues of the humblest soldier,
and to win every heart while so doing.
No man was ever more respected and be
loved by ail who were brought in contact
with him, whe.ther as subordinates or su
periors. "It were better the army lost all
its officers, myself included, than Hold.
E. Lee,” old General Scott used to say of
the young engineer officer who served with
him as chief of that arm of the Mexican
campaign.
The outbreak of the civil war was a mo
ment of agonizing trial to Lee. Alone
among the great Southern States, Virginia
long held aloof from secession, and it was
only when called upon by Lincoln to furnish
her contingent to the army then forming
to subdue "rebel” States that, she cast in
her lot with the South. Scott did his ut
termost to keep Lee with the North. He
hud long looked upon him as his natural
successor ;he sent him a Colonel’s com
mission and proposed him to the Govern
ment us General of Brigade. Every per
sonal consideration combined to enlist him
on the side of the North. He was wealthy,
for his wife was the adopted
grand-daughter of Washington, and the
heiress to most of his property; this con
nection with thegreat launder!,! tie- Cajon,
who hud been his father's intimate friend,
his own high position in the country, the
personal consideration he enjoyed, every
thing concurred to insure him a brilliant
career if he served the North. But one
motive was stronger than all of these. A
horn Virginian, his affection for his native
State rendered him inflexible. “My
husband has wept tears of blood over this
terrible war,” wrote Mrs. Lee to a friend;
"still he must, as a man and a Virginian,
share the destinies of his State, which has
pronounced for independence.” Mrs.
Childe quotes a letter written by Lee to
his sister, then ill in one of the Northern
States, in which he expresses his perplexity
and gives the reason of his decision. Home
of its passagas are very touching. "I
know that you will blame me,” he says,
“but I ask you to think of me with all the
indulgence you can, and to be convinced
that 1 have struggled to do that which I
believed to be my duty.” On that very
day, the 20th of April, 1861, three days
after Virginia had seceded, resisting all
temptations and prepared for every sacri
fice, Lee sent in his resignation to Gen.
,Scott. He was far from approving the re
volt of the Southern States. "Had I mil
lions of slaves,” he said to Montgomery
Blair, sent to offer to him the verbal com
mand in nominal subordination to Scott,
"I would sacrifice them to the Union, but
how can I draw my sword against Virginia,
where I was bom TANARUS”
The memoir that follows is more inter
esting than the best romance, and espe
cially striking and characteristic are the
sketches it contains of Lee himself and of
Stonewall Jackson, one of the most eccen
tric and original figures which appeared
upon the scene of that long war. Pro
fessor at the military school of Lexington,
early in the wur he was sent with the rank
of Colonel to command an infantry bri
gade. The appearance of the new Colonel
had upon his soldiers as strange an effect
as when at Lexington it excited the mirth
of the cadets. There was nothing of the
commanding officer in his appearance.
His uniform was that of a private soldier,
without lace, and ill put on; but his ab
sent air, his awkwardness and reserve, pro
voked a smile. On horseback he looked
still worse; he rode with his stirrups too
short, and his movements were most un
graceful. Such was the strange being who
was soon to become the idol of his sol
diers, and whose name, associated with
that of his famous Ist Brigade, will live
forever in the annals of the war.” In ac
tion, with the light of battle in his eyes,
Jackson was transfigured. When he was
not marching or fighting he was praying.
Both at Lexington and in camp, we are
told, his habits of prayer and meditation
took up a largo portion of his time. His
confidence in Lee was unbounded. “That
man is a phenomenon,” he said. "He is
the only man in the world I would follow
blindfold.” There was great affection be
tween them, never troubled by the slight
est jealously, a sentiment unknown to those
two great and earnest soldiers. Lee loved
to attribute all their successes to Jackson,
and would scarcely give him orders, be
cause, he said, Jackson knew as well as he
did what ought to be done. When Jack
son fell at Chancellorsville, struck down in
the darkness by his own soldiers, and
when Lee learnt how severe were his
wounds, which he had not at first known,
he sent a messengeu to him. “Tell him,”
he said, “that I have prayed to God for
him all this night more earnestly than
ever I did for myself,” and then, turning
to those about him in tones of despair, he
exclaimed, "Jackson must not, cannot
die!” The last words of Jackson were,
"Let Hill prepare for action”' and then.
THE INDEPENDENT.
with a smile, "Let us cross the river and
repose in the shade of the trees. ”
There is something exceedingly touch
ing in Mrs. Childe’s description of General
Lee’s latter years. Ruined by the war, his
property ravaged and confiscated, he
passed them us President of Lexington
College, at a salary much inferior to the
one offered him, and working with the
earnestness and self-devotion that marked
every act of his life to restore the Virginian
military school—founded bv the English
in 1741), tmd endowed by V ashington—to
the prosperity it had lost in consequence
of the w-ar. Hunter, the Federal leader,
noted in that contest for his ravages of
Confederate territory, hud converted the
college into a heap of ruins. "I have a
mission to fulfil,” said Lee. "I have led
the young men of she South under fire; I
have seen many of them fall beneath my
flag; I will now devote the rest of my life
to make those who are entrusted to me
men of duty." The same note, unchanged
by years. He had his reward. When he
went to Lexington he found the college
desorb'd, resourceless,disorganized,ruined;
when he left it, summoned to a better life,
in October, IH7O, it was rich, flourishing
and full of pupils. His work was done,
and he departed in peace.
[From the Atlanta Herald.]
A Story of the War.
We had in our command a Presbyterian
minister. Ho was Captain of one of the
best drilled and best disciplined companies
in the regiment. He was a man of high
personal courage; amiable but firm dispo
sition, and very popular with the entire
command. He had the respect of his su
periors, and the love and obedience of his
inferiors. Prompt in the discharge of
every duty, his example was not lost, on
his company; and no matter how long and
weary the march, Captain K’s company
was never known to straggle. In battle
they were always selected for the post of
danger, and in the hottest of every fight
lie was always at the front encouraging his
men to deeds of valor.
When the buttle was over Captain K.
! was found at the side of the wounded, giv
i ing them not only temporal hut spiritual
comfort, receiving their lust words for
! home, and carefully superintending their
burial. In camps on Sunday morning he
could he seen with bible and hymn-book,
i expounding the joys of salvation. Duty
was the guiding star of this man’s life. Hi
left the pulpit to serve his country, and
from tin; first day that he entered the
army until the close of the unhappy strug
gle the South had no truer or more de
vote,d follower. It, wus not. singular, there
fore, that Captain IC. should always have
been selected on occasions which required
nerve and judgment in their execution,
and the following is one of the most re
markable that occurred during the whole
wur;
The Federal army wits at Nashville, un
der the command of Gen. Buell. The Con
federate forces were near Murfreesboro.
‘ Captain lv’s command was on the front at
a place known as Black's Shop. For sev
i oral weeks there hail been a lull in the
movements of both armies. Gen. Bragg
1 was very anxious to get information from
Buell's army. All the secret-service men
j hftii failed in their t-IV.-rte, and application
was made to our commanding General to
j send someone into N ishville. He at once
j sent to Captain K. He explained to him
, the necessity of sending him into Nash
ville. Captain K declined. He stated
| that lie did not desire to go for several
reasons: First, the service was an exceed
| ingly hazardous one, and if he should be
| captured that he would Vie hung for a spy;
second, he felt sure that lie could not go
! in and return without exposing himself to
I the risk of doing things which he would
prefer to avoid. His commanding officer
| explained to him the great importance of
the mission, that he knew no other that
I he could so well trust, and who was cupa
| ble to perform the duty.
That he regarded it to be his duty to go,
j and if he refused it would Vie impossible
j to get the information. When the General
! appealed to him in this manner, he ron
; sented, tusking that lie might select but
one man. He selected Lieutenant G., a
brave, prudent soldier, but who was any
thing but a minister.
They started on their journey quietly
and unknown to any but the commanding
General. After days of absence they re
tained with very valuable and important
information. About a week after their re
turn, one of the privates came to my tent
and said to me: “Colonel, do you know
that Captain K. cut the throats of two pris
oners on his recent trip to Nashville." I
replied that I did not believe it possible,
as I knew Cuptain K. to be one of the
most tender-hearted and humane of men.
The soldier said, “It is true; I have heard
it from undoubted authority, and you can
send for Captain K. and yon will find it to
be so." I sent for him and said, “Cap
tain, I have just heard that on your late
reconnoisance you killed two prisoners.”
He appeared much surprised, and re
marked in a quick, impulsive manner:
“Lieutenant G. told this; he must stop
talking about it, or I shall lie compelled to
overhaul him.”
He then said to me: Colonel, I will ex
plain this matter. It is true I killed two
men, but Iw as obliged to do it. I did
right, and I have no regrets for it. I care
fully considered the matter and prayed
over it, and feel that I did my duty. I
went into the Federal lines at Nashville
against my will. I protested against being
sent. It was urged upon me as a duty,
and I undertook its performance. I suc
ceeded in getting valuable information ns
to the number of troops and the contem
plated movements of the army, also draw
ings of the fortifications and other mat
ters that were of vast consequence to our
army. When I got all things ready for my
return, I started hack. I succeeded in
getting clear of the Federal lines and
stopped with Lieutenant G. at his house
to take breakfast.
We had scarcely seated ourselves at the
table, when Miss G. said, “Oh, brother,
look!” and glancing our eyes to the gate
at the end of the lawn wo saw a body of
Federal cavalry approachig. It required
but a moment to seize our pistols and
start for our horses. We were met at the
door by two soldiers, whom we ordered to
surrender and took captive. We made
them mount behind us, and escaped to
the banks of the Cumberland river. We
were hotly pursued, and crossed and re
crosed the river four times. It Anally be
came apparent that we must get rid of our
prisoners, or we were gone. We could not
turn them loose, because we were then al
most in hearing of the cavalry in search of
us. T realized that we must kill them or
be captured. I would have prefered the
latter, although I felt that my own life
would pay the forfeit; but then I thought
of the great importance of the information
QUITMAN, GA., SATURDAY, JULY 5,1873.
I had, and my sense.of duty to my coun
try decided me. I s&id to G. these men
must die, there is no alternative left but
this. 0. said, "Captain, by G—d, I can’t
do it.” (G. was a wicked fellow, but he
had uo such high sense of duty as the Cap
tain.) I persuaded him that he must do
it, and he finally consented, saying, ‘you
kill the little one and I will kill the other.”
We carried them to a bluff on the river and
then wo told the men of our purpose.
They were paralyzed with dread and
begged very hard, but my mind was made
up. I prayed to Clod to have mercy iiu
their souls, and then caught my man by
the hair and cut his throat. And he
sank on the ground. 0., with horror in
his countenenee, said “by G—d, Captain,
I can’t do it.” It was the work of a mo
ment to seize the oth _i and kill him also.
We then tied them with our handkerchiefs
and sank them in the river. The cool nar
ration of these facts filled mo with horror,
aud I said to him: “Great heaven, Captain,
how could you do it?”
He replied: “Suppose, Colonel, that
you were to receive to-day anew piece of
artillery and wanted to try the range of it.
You would probably point it at the enemy,
who are encamped on the other sideof the
river. If a bull should strike among a
squad of men and kill u half dozen, you
would all cry out, 'fine shot,” and yet what
would this be but killing uselessly at a mile
and a half distance? No possible good
could come of it. It would not affect
eithemriny an iota. In my case, I had in
formation on which depended the fate of
our army. My capture would not only
have involved my death, but also the fate
of our whole army.
“My duty was clear and I did not hesi
tate! When we had sunk these men in
the river, ye went into the woods and laid
down to sleep. Lieut. G. waked me up
and said he could not sleep; that the scene
he had passed through could never bo
effaced. I said to him that he must never
speak of it, as it might roach the enemy
and produce military retaliation. He
promised that lie would not, but I see that
lie has not kopt his word and must be
stopped. ” I was amused at the Captain’s
coolness, and decided to watch liis future
course. He never faltered, and in every
battle he was foremost, and was finally so
severely wounded that his life was des
paired of, but he lived through the war,
and is now preaching, as I understand, to
a fine congregation.
The Haughty Man.
It is.reluted of a .Spanish grandee, that
upon one occasion lie condescended to
leave liis carriage to walk for a short dis
tance, when ho stumbled against some
thing ia his way, mid fell. He gathered
himself up, from the ground, and drawing
himself up, exclaimed with great dignity
“This comes of walking upon the earth.”
If the Hidalgo had carried his head less
high, and looked down a little in all prob
ability he would have seen the impedi
ment in his way, and so saved his fall.
But how many men there arc in every
community, whose haughty and proud
bearing subjects them to tumbles of this
kind. We frequently hear it said of such
anil such individual, that he is very dig
nified, anil we have one in our eye this
moment; but in analyzing this qual.lv,
we have most frequently found that this
so-called, dignity was based upon the
most intense pride. The dignified man
never perpetrates a joke, never conde
scends to laugh, lest, he should compro
mise himself. He bears himself towards
his fellow-men as though it were an unut
terable condescension to honor them with
a notice.
A man who has a tolerable personal ap
pearance, and so conducts himself, often
gets the reputation of being a learned man
and profound scholar, and in this, his dig
nity stands his friend; for, not allowing
himself to lie familiar with his fellows, he
does not commit himself, and like a great
many very solemn jackasses we know of,
gets the name of being profound, because
he could hurl three or four encyclopedias
of knowledge at your head, did he think
it worth liis while todo it, when,in truth,he
is one of the shallowest fellows in the world,
and only profound in ignorance. The man
whose claims to learning or to the respect
of his compeers, is founded on reality,
needs no starched assumption to maintain
his position. It is only the haughty, dig
nified man, who is afraid of the approach
of familiarity and geniality, and who in
scribes on his brow, “Noli me Utvr/ere.”
We never meet one of these dignified men
in the street, with solemn mug, head
erect, and body as stiff as though, like
Lord Duberly’s ancestors, he had swallow
ed a walking-stick, without thinking of
the observation of a very tall Irish recruit,
who was being drilled by a very diminu
tive Seargent. “Heads up.” “And am
I,” said the incipient soldier, “always to
hold me head up after this way?” “Of
course.” “Then good-by, Sergeant, for I
shall never sec yon any more.”
Resigned to His Fate. —When I was a
little baby, gals would never “let me be,”
for every one would snatch me up and
place meon her knee; then to kiss, squeeze,
and hug me, I’m sure “dad” and “main”
must have wondered I survived it—but I
stood it like a lamb! And again, while
hut in boyhood: they’d tempt me from my
home, through gardens and through pleas
ure grounds, o’er fairy spots to roam; then
with lueions fruits and sweatmeats my
small tummy they would cram and half
stifle me with kisses—but I stood it like a
lamb! When older still, they’d lure me
through dingle,dale or dell to gather nuts,
or flowers and ferns—awl they seeme’d to
love it well! Yet startled, oft at trifles,
with shriek that seem’d no sham, they’d
fling their arms aronnd me—bnt I stood it
like a lamb! At last one charming crea
ture (who could most my soul entrance,)
by wondrous winning archness, and a ten
der melting glance. seem’d to say, “You
know yon love me, why not take mo as I
am?” and I felt obliged to do it—but I
stood it like a lamb! Thus through child
hood, youth and manhood—ay! each mo
ment of my life-—my heart has felt the
witching power of the girl, or maid or
wife; and the spell will leave me never, for
like a potent dram, woman’s charms sub
due me ever—but “I stand it like a
lamb!”
The joke-fiend of the St. Louis Demo
crctl heartlessly says: “Mr. Carpenter, of
Marquette, Michigan, had not the slightest
idea he was about to create an atmospheri
cal disturbance when he knocked the ashes
out of his pipe on the head of a powder
keg. And, when a fellow-workman con
veyed all that was left of Mr. Carpenter to
his wife in a bag, she quietly remarked:
‘Just his luck; hang him up in the wood
shed, where the cats won’t got at him. till
night. ’ ”
[lYom the New York Lodger.]
THE BALTIMORE BONAFARTES.
BY JAMBS PARTON.
What mysteries lie entombed in waste
paper! A gentleman in Baltimore a short
time ago bought a quantity of old docu
ments and letters from a dealer in paper
makers’ material, aud among the rest was
a bundle of letters ( yallow with age, re
lating to the marriage between Jerome
Bonaparte and Miss Elizabeth Patterson,
which was the universal tea-table topic of
tlic United States seventy years ago.
The letters tall nearly the whole storv;
for most of them were written by actors in
this domostio drama, such as the father
and brother of the bride, the brothers of
the bridegroom, and some even from the
mighty Napoleon himself. We discover
t'ven that personages no less important
than the President of the United Stab's,
the Secretary of State, the American Min
ister in Paris, and the French Minister of
Marino, were interested in this affair, aud
wrote letters it It was of the
more interest to the American Government,
because President Jefferson had just suc
ceeded in effecting the most brilliant feat of
his administration—the purchaso of Louis
iana from Napoleon-aud some alarm was felt
at Washington lest the First Consul, dis
pleased at the marriage, might hold the
Government in some degree responsible,
and not stand to his bargain. The reader
will be interested in this strange, eventful
history.
It was in the fall of 1803 that a French
frigate, having Jerome Bonaparte on board,
east anchor in the harbor of New Y'ork.
He was then a naval ofiloor, twenty years
of age, and possessed a full share of that
singular beauty of form audfuoo for which
si i many of the Bonapartes have been noted.
The splendor of his brother’s fame, and
the great service he had just done the
United States, insured the young man a
distinguished reception, and the newspa
pers everywhere chronicled his arrival ns
Un interesting event.
lie had in America one friend. Captain
Joshua Barney, who' lmd formerly served
in the French navy with Jerome, and had
become much attached to him. The young
mun visited Baltimore, us it seems, chiefly
for the purpose of visiting his old com
rade; who introduced him to many of tho
priucipal families of tho place—among
others, to that of Judge Chase, ol’ the Su
preme Court, one of the signers of the
Declaration of Independence, a noted per
sonage at that day. It was at the house
of Judge Chase that he first saw tho young
lady, who is styled in these family letters
Betsy Patterson, tho daughter of one of
the wealthiest merchants in the country.
Miss Patterson wus eighteen, aud ns the
gossip of the day reports, a bewitching
little beauty.
It was a case of love at first Right. Be
fore many days had passed they were en
gaged to be married. But from tho be
ginning of the affair the lady’s father ut
terly and strongly opposed the match; and
even after u license na<l been procured ho
caused tho engagement to bo broken.
“1 never,” he w Site, “directly or indi
rectly,,gave Mi .I'ljuaparte tile smallest
encouragement to -address my daughter;
but on the contrary, resisted his preten
tions by every means in my power, con
sistent w-itli discretion. Finding,however,
that the mutual attachment they had
formed for each other wus such that noth
ing short of force aud violence could pre
vent their union, I, with much reluctance,
consented to their wishes.”
And so, after an acquaintance of about
three months,on Christmas Eve, 1803, they
were married, after the manner of the Ro
man Catholiechurch. The announcement
of the marriage in the Baltimore paper
was as follows:
Married, on Saturday evening last, by
Reverend Bishop Carroll, Mr. Jerome Bo
naparte, youngest brother of the First
Consul of the French Republic, to Miss
Elizabeth Patterson, the eldest daughter
of William Patterson, Esq., of this city.
The young couple passed the honeymoon
at Baltimore. It so happened thut there
was good sleighing that winter, and one of
the papers reports th.'it, as Mr. and Madame
Bonaparte were dashing by in a sleigh, a
boy threw a Rnowball at tile lady and hit
her; at which the ardent young husband
was so indignant that he offered a reward
of five hundred dollars for tho arrest of
tho perpetrator. The newspapers also in
form us that when they visited Washing
ton on that winter the coach upset and
threw Madame Bonaparte out, without,
however, doing her much harm. During
the following summer they made an ex
tensive tour in the Northern and Eastern
States, traveling with their own oarringe
aud-four, attending the theatre in the large
cities, and making themselves conspicuous
generally. When they passed through
Boston, a young law student, named Dan
iel Webster,saw them, and being a Feder
alist—that is, opposed to Jefferson and
the purchase of Louisiana —he regarded
the young couple with wrath and con
tom [it.
"Jerome, the brother of the Emperor of
tho Gauls, is here”he wrote: “Every day
you may see him '.shisking along Oornhill,
with the true French air, with his wife by
his side. * * The gentlemen— i. e. wo
Fed’s—treat Monsieur with cold and distant
respect, They feel, and every honest man
feels, indignant at seeing this lordly grass
hopper, this puppet in princes clothes,
dashing through the American cities, lux
uriously rioting on the property of Dutch
mechanics or Swiss peasants.”
In the meantime an awful question was
agitating the family of the bride. Would
the terrible Napoleon, now Emperor of
France, for whose coronation the Pope
was coming from Italy, would this mighty
potentate recognize the marriage of his
brother with the daughter of a Baltimore
merchant? To get light on this matter,
Robert Pattorson, her brother, went to
Paris in the spring of 1804. It was long,
before he could get any certain informa
tion. Some of the Bonapartes received
him cordially enough, especially Lucein,
who had also married without his brothers
consent, and who was about the most res
pectable person of the family. Joseph,
too, was decently civil, and for some time
the young man hod good hopes.
Little by little, however, the truths came
out that the Emperor was opposed to the
marriage, and was perfectly determined
never to recognize it. He wanted Jerome
for himself. His heart was set on creating
a French navy that could hold its own
against the English, and he fancied he
saw in Jerome the material out of which a
food naval officer could finally be made.
[e gave orders to tho French Consul in
New York not to furnish Jerome with
any more money, and forbade command
ers of French vessels to reeieve on board
“the yoinxj person" to whom he had at
tached himself.
“It is no more than a camp marriage,”
he said, "It is not possible Jerome can
have a wife, since the laws of France re
quire the consent of parents to the mar
riage of a young man not twenty-five
years of age.’’
It was thought best, notwithstanding
the orders of Napoleon, for the young
couple to go to Europe together; and land
ing at some port near the territories of
France, for the wife to remain there, while
Jerome went forward, aud sought the pres
ence of his brother, and endeavored by
personal entreaties to overcome liis repug
nance to the union. Adopting this course,
in the teeth of repeated warnings, they
landed at Lisbon, early in April, 1806,
when they hail been married one yoar and
four months. From Lisbon, young Jerome
wrote a most affectionate letter in English
to his wife’s family in Baltimore.
“My feelings for you, my second
mother," he wrote, “aud all your good
family, are very well known to you, and it
is uasier for me to feel them than to ex
press them. 1 have left oue of my fami
lies; and will bo soon among the’ other;
but the pleasure and the satisfaction of
being in my first w ill never make me for
get my second. My dear wife has fortu
nately supported the fatigues of our voy
age perfectly well. She has been very
sick, but you know as well as anybody that
seasick has never killed nobody.”
A few' duys after writing this letter, Je
rome Bonaparte bade farewell to liis wife,
and began liis journey toward the Imperial
Court, which he reached after a month’s
journey. His brother at fust refused to
see him.
“Let him write to me,” said the Empe
ror.
Jerome wrote, accordingly, a short note,
merely announcing his arrival; to which Na
poleon sent a short, but very clear aud de
cided reply:
There are no faults which a true repen
tance cannot obliterate from my mind.
Your union with Miss Patterson is null, as
well in tho eyes of religion as in' those of
the law. Write to Miss Fattersou, and
bill her to go back to America. I will ac
cord her a pension for life of sixty thous
and francs a year, on condition that in no
circumstances she ussumes my name; to
which, considering the non-existence of
her union, Hho hue no right. Make her
understand that you have not been able,
and will never be able, to chango the na
ture of tilings. Your marriage thus an
nulled by your own consent. I will re
store you my friendship, and resume the
affection which I have had for you from
your infancy.
Jerome yielded on tho instant. The
proof of this is contained in the tentli vol
ume of the Napoleon correspondence, re
cently published. On the same 6th of
May on which Napoleon wrote the letter
? noted above, he wrote one to liis sister
jlizu, in which lie mentioned that he was
“satisfied” with Jerome’s conduct in the
matter, and on the same day he wrote a.
letter to (lumbaceroH, requesting him to
make out the proper papers disavowing
the marriage, for Jerome to sign. Ido
not doubt that the young husband was
sorry to lose the “little Baltimore beauty,”
as she was frequently termed; but the
damning fact remains that he gave iier up
the first hour that he stood in the presence
of his brother. In Napoleon this was
atrocious; in Jerome, contemptible.' Jer
rome agreed to sond his private secretary
to Lisbon to break the news to his wife;
but before the messenger reached her she
Lad sailed for Holland.
When she arrived near Amsterdam, a
place then wholly under the influence of
Napoleon, she was not permitted to go on
shore, although tho ship was short of pro
visions, and she was within a few days of
her confinement. The American Consul
stated the case strongly to tho Dutch Gov
ernment, and begged that, if Madame Bo
naparte could not be permitted to land,
she might at least be furnished with fresh
provisions and tho ship allowed to go to
London. The provisions, it seems, were
furnished, and the departure of the ship
was permitted; and in Loudon, in July,
1805, her son was born.
Her husband, it appears, still flattered
her with vain hopes, causing her to be in
formed that although the Emperor was
dissatisfied with tho marriage, lie lived in
expectation of overcoming liis objections.
A letter reached her to this effect us late
as July, 1805.
We soon hear of Jerome Bonaparte
commanding a fleet in the Medoterranean;
aud in less than two years after—in Au
gust, 1807—ho married the daughter of
the King of Wurtemburg. He was
crowned King himself soon after.
In September, 1805, the mother and
child returned to Baltimore, where tho
mother is still living in good health, at
tho age of eighty-eight. Her soil, who
was commonly called Col. Jerome Napo
leon Bonaparte, lived till the year 1870,
and has numerous dependents. Whothor
Madamo Bonaparte consented to receive
the {tension offered her by Napoleon does
not appear; but she is now possessed of
great wealth, which, it is said, she has
carefully hoarded —living herself in tho
fourth story of an ordinary house in Balti
more—in the expectation of her grandson
one day needing it to support his rank as a
Prince of the French Empire.
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