The New York Herald Newspaper, February 16, 1861, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, = EB! =} UARY 16, 186L—TRIPLH SHEET. THE AMERICAN BONAPARTES. ~ THE GREAT BONAPARTE-PATIERSON SUIT. The Proceedings Before the Tribunal at Paris. Oper’. speech of M. Berryer, Madame aparte-Patters Counsel. M, Allon’s Reply for Prince Napoleon, "be Miost Iuteresting Romance of the Age, &., &e, ee. ‘Tho following is a full report of this remarkable oase, ‘The President’s chair was occupied by M. Benoist Cham pi; and, the case having been called, M Berryer, counsel for Madame Patterson-Bonaparte and her son, rose and ommenced his specch by reading to the Court his ““con- plusions,"’ which ran in the following words:— May it the court to deolare valid the marriage woutracted on the 24th December, 1803, betwoen the late baie ) that, bam a vie hestiae that (donner ate) . wi deman Sre'tuarringo of the 24th December, 1808, be -dolated va lid, never intended to question, and does not question, the sivil and political which the unios, contracted ‘wm 1807, by his father, with Princess Catherine of Wur- temberg, may produce. Gentiomen, the authority of Justice, the majesty of which must always aad every- where be . is a sufficient guarantee that in the conduct of unis case I will not allow myself to be in- Huenced by copsiserations foreign to the question of va- Hidity which ts submitted to your decision. The crowd of hearers which throngs this hall warns me that, far from seeking to gratify an empty feeling of curiosity, | must oarefuily aahere to the simplicity of legal discussions. And yet there ia much to be said, there are many de- Ticate questions to be touched upon, in this great law. wait. i willtouch upon them as briefly and delicately a8 is consistent with my duties. I will endeavor to for- get the elevated position of the defendants, and 1 will eadeavor to obtain for my client only that justice which I wou! expect if J pleaved only agatust a private citizen. { published a tew days ago, according to the time-hoaored custom of our bar, a memoir containing a statement of facts; which was not premature in any way. Before I resume my ecut all doubts will be removed from your minds touching the authenticity of tbese documents, whatever au aconymous writer in the Moniteur rashly ‘ventured to aseort to the contrary. It is impoasib'e for mo, _Foatiemen, not to feci deeply moved when f reflect on the suilerings which Mrs. fatverson has endured for pearly sixty years, during which she has anxiously awaited this day of justice, this day which ts to decide whether sho if to bold the position which is denied hor, and which she has never been unworthy to fill, ‘This lady, now in her seventy-fifth year, is present inthis court, gentlemen—sho aska you to pronounce on the hoaor of her life, on tho legitimacy of her only son. Ia the beginning of October, 1803, M. Jerome Bonaparte an- nounced his matrimonial intentions to his family by lot- ters which were entrusted to a Mr. Barney. The French Chargo d’Affaires in the United States, Mf. Pichon, in the game month of October, informed the French government Of the negotiations which had taken place; his despatches are deposited in Paris in the “archives’” of tho Foreign office. Among the letters which were exchanged on the Bubject between the two countries, | find one from Presi- dont Jefferson, who wroto as follows, under dito of Novem- ber 4, 1808, to Mr, Livingston, the United States Minister ‘im Paris: Mr. Patterson is tho Chairman of thegRank of Baltimore: he ig the wealthiest man in Maryland, and possibly in the United excepting Mr, Carroll; he is a most honorable and re table person. |The mother Ia the sister-in-law of General the positicn of this family is) therelore, in the Kociety of the United States. Such 1& poallion re; rank in a country whero hereditary disunc- tions are unknown. ‘This lettor, gentlemen, shows the position of the Patter- fon family. “Miss Patterson was an only daughter, ten- dorly loved by her parents, very religiously brought up— she makes the acquaintance of a young Freoch naval off ‘cer, and our opponents will give you to, understand that she became his mistress. Towards the’ end of 1802 Je. rome Bonaparte had left France in the squadron uncer Admiral Villeneuve, which was ordered to recapture the West India islands; ho had the rank of Jieutoaant, his commission, according to the very documents put in by our opponents, deseribed him as twenty-two years of age. Ho hore a name which then Glled the world with its fame; tho glory of the immortal campaigns in aly and Fgypt, the report of which had reached America, cast « halo round the brothor of the First Const! of the French re. publis, and natorally ho attracted much notice in Ameri. can sooty. Legally, what was Jerome's position? What was tho personal and civil statute to which, af a French citizen, he was subject at the period of his sailing from France. It was the law ef september 20, 1792. An what says that jaw? That French subjects are free to marry, the men at fifteen, the women at thirteen years of age: that French eubjects aro of age at twenty-one, and that minors alone require the consent of their pr rents, Jerome Bonaparte naturally thought himself quite at liberty to marry, and sought to obtain the hand of Miaa Patterson. All the ties that bound France and America, the co-operation of France in the War of Indo. pendence; nay, tho recent cession of 1 ouisiana, rendered m more reapects than one the suit of M. Bonaparte ac. ceptable; and it was, in short, accepted. Now, how can it be pretended that this marriage was clindestine? Here nre the circumstances under which it was con- clvded. The hand of Miss Patterson} formally de manded for Lioutenant Bonaparte by the Spanish Ambas sador. The 3d of November, 1302, was fixed for the cere. mony. Young Jerome then thought it right to wait in person on the President of the United States, and inform bimof his marriage. He started from Baltimore for Washington, and was presented by the Frenel Ambassa- dor, M. Piclwn. M. Pichon told the President that the brother of the First Consul was about to have the honor of marrying the daughter of one of tho first citizens of America, M. Pichon was, thorefore, perfec ly aware Athougt be uely so in @ letter which our opponents put in evidence) of what was going on Ho was at the same tune invite: to be present at the wel- ding. 1 must, however, state that on the 26th of Geto- aor, a5 M. Bonaparte was about to return to Baltimore, M. 'Pichom informed him that after two hours’ search he had ¢ticovered a number fof the Moniteur of the 20uh of May, 1805, which contained the promulgation of the new law tm France relative to the colebration of mar- tinge, aud ho wrote to him:—* Your ag proved by your commission—nioreover, wccording to the new legisiation, you are a minor as far’ a9 regards mar- ringe until the ave of twonty-five. M. Jichon aleo noti- Hed the fuct to Mr. William Tatterson, the father of the bride, On hearing this declaration, tho yonerable Mr. Fattorson declared that the marriage must ke given up. M. Jerome Honaparte himself declared that uuder these cir cumstances be would not press his suit. Wuat took place during the two months that followed: We do not know; but et the end of that period M. Jerome Lonaparto, in obedience to the luw of the country, provided himself with a marriage lloense. What ix a license! I cannot do better, gentlemen, than quote the opia‘on of oue of tho first jurists in the States, Mr. Mason, who represented until very latoly his country in France.’ M. Rerryer then read Judge Mason's definition of a licensé, aud proceeded to argue that from the possession of \hat document by the bridegroom the marriage conid not have been clandestine. He then proceeded to read the marriage contract, which was drawn up in presence of the Fren-h Consul at Baltimore and of the Moyor of that city, He read the declarations o° the Mayor and the Consul legalizing the signature to said contract. He then ri the certificate of the marriage, which is sign of Baltimore,’ and then’ proceede 1 “Thie, gentlemen, is the first docu ment which by iis very context Inted to set aside nny imputation of secresy. Tho marriage ceremony took ) , @ general custom among persons o! rank, and which is stil] prae- tised in some of our provinces, in Brittany for instince, where it is never looked ypon 1% diminishing the solew nity or the publicity of the mai The marriage was also duly recorded on tho registers of the cathedral. 1 will now take it for granted that I have shown that there was nothing clandestine about the wniou, aud Iraying tuat point, will resume the statement of the facts of the cage, After the celebration of the marriage ome year elapsed. ‘This brings ws to the close of 1804. M. Jerome Kona whether in obedience to injunctions wo are not acquainted with, or whether dazzled and attracted by the new born grandeur of his tumuy in France, where the Fmpire had say—M. Jerome formed the desicn of returning to France, Ho was Unablep to embark at once, aping to the of an English frigate in the ofins, but in March, 1205, he took a passage on bod —, whose neutral flag afforded him prov ely arrived at Lisbon. Of his stay in th gapital woe have no documenta’ witenco, (© t hents, although they bad the public records placed at their disposition, which we were denied access to, are as badly off im that respect as ourselves. On the Sth of April, however, M. Bonaparte suddenly left |.isbon with aM. iccamnna, leaving hiv wife bobind Lim, with orders 4o meet bim at Amsterdam. Before bis departure he wrote W his wife the following letter, written in pam oi To Manone J. Rowan cers SniyenEn en es t last We nce off, ny good wife, Manish al! gloomy pre i Tiave coniidence in, your hua } thas can befall us is to Hve quietly together in mie wo are sabetbet ate wo not whieh Tn vid goe First, You mits nov ery. Wisin o.yon a arent deal of ierin Beoundly. Take care that you mye ». any visits, aud always to have the gro ft as Mis. Andersou, Third y. t be Roen. fora man ook ike » counity without having seen there, 1 kins you as T love gn love you It is the original of this letter 1 protuca, The weit in ponct!, which was boginn'ng 19 (ule teen 6 cover in ink, but its anthontic Not to ho quest Tis was the firet lotter which passed betwoon rome and his wife, (nthe 16th of April | other letter to Madame Bonaparte, ri He Wile her that he has boen greatly #0 iw fal Jonot end the French Amo @ared mine, he writes, ‘that all would ve w family enjoyed h vory d that oll tore are towards you ond towar’s mo. This letter was to Amsterdam, and there i no doubt tut it wa fhusband'’s orders that Noiume FE t that city, It ie a long time aince there facts cer H Ct Bee are several thing " il do no good, and may ) Let us see who wero ‘ou are told was Bishop lage, | phalis, I will not make upou second upbecestary comments. 1 wiil only remark that it wast crue! eequel to the solemp promises, to the pledges and prcrennaneit chen bia heneey en filed M. correspondence an Madame Bonap: for she has retained that name in all the documents which to, whilst she maintained the dignity of her position, und exclusively gave herself up to the education of Ler child, ts, noverthelvas, accused in a note proceeding from the pen of havo made the validity of her marriage and tho logiti- mcy of her son amatter of trafic. which was to have been published as an mndix to the last yulame of M. Thiers, 1 read:—'‘ Misa attereon accepted without a protest « position, tho dangers of which sho was fully aware of; of 60 0C0 francs which she recsive! tow empire shows that she consiiered her marriage to be What, a compact the consideration of jonor and the bastardy of This chamefut insinuation’ {+ grounded on the following lettcr from the Emperor Napoleon to his brother Jerome, dated 16 Floreal, Au, XILL (May 6, she executed—Madamo Prince Napoleon, to In this note, pull and void,’" which would be a mother’s NAPOLEON TO NIS DROTHRR senOwR. + 15 Frowgat, An NEIL Mow Frene—Your letter, dated thi of yorr arrival at Alexandria alncere repentance ia moroing, (eforms me there are no faults which not effuce in my eyes pull in the eves of reiigion aud the law, Write to Miss Patterson to return to Amerto ant her a pension of 60,000 francs for life. on at she does not in any case bear my name, @ right to Which the not existence of amar As (or you, inform ber y ethe nature of thin ar own will, 1 will restore > ame the feelings L bi Hoping that you them by youre foirself in my armies. pon Lp youtn His boiy keoping YAPO. ae does nov entitle her. Your marriage thu friendship, and 6 lind towards you, sines your Lil show yoursel wortliy of Y gratitude, and to distin- tiopate brother, Let us se now how this message was conveyed to Maanmo Bonaparte. She reco:ved 60,000 francs a year uptil her divorce, it is (rue; bu why did she coasent to When the son o: Priace Jerome voutured on such & reproach he compels us to read his father’s iet- ters, aud to show the motives which induced him to en- treat his wife to accept his brother's pecuniary off He wri.es to her from Genoa on the 29th of July, 1905 Gweoa, July 2, 130 the orders, i Mow Awix—You must—thene are ur husband—you must have patience; above all, articular not (o refuse What the Bay is a proof of Nis rey ign To id be of yourself and o¢ our child. If in two months from this , return to America, and settle yourself as before, I will send you a great many things, but you must be careful not to let Above'ail do notlet anyone but your mother know that i ‘Three monthe later, on the Tth of October, he wrote — TO MADAME J. BONAPARTE, LONDON. If you return to the United states, orders—you to reside In your own house; to keep four horses: to live in’a style befittiog your position and rive. ‘Tell your father, whom T wish, and that £ as if T were ex Jove as much as I do ms own, that this is have particular reasons for tt. ser ds money to you, You must Lot fer by the refusal, and cur wflaira would be delayed. Ina word, eettlc as though I were comin to join you, but do not ever # low an) one to suapect that aucl isthe case You understand, tliza, not anyone you would Haye confidence in your huab: Vinced that be lives, Lhinky and works but for you, you alone acd for our child. ) ou are both of you tl ‘alt my cares, all my solicitiide and atianumen’—in short, you are afi 1 love in the world, and for you and our child I would Do not let any one kuow that you ladly lay down my life. ave heard from me. Write to the Kay the two letters which I send you to copy. 5! Above ail Eliza, you must ‘take care to read as though you wrote thtm spovtaneously, for if they supposed ft was { told you to write them I should be lost. “Above all, my dear (tonne a: ide allow yourself (o'get peror (it you ever do. 60) a7e ennmilee o” to hope from ierusaud Unies, Tdo nok take a step, speak 4 word or do avything that my wife is not im my thoughts, It is under the infiuence of such letters as these that Madame Bonaparte consented to receive the defeadauts in this case has not to describe as the price of a shametul compact. ‘It is her orders, the pressing entreaties of her husband, that is represented as her conseut to the Moreover, according to the Emperor's letter (quoted above), she was to receive this pension on the express condition of not bearing the te. se little did she receive the money ‘on that condition, that al! her receipts in the bands of cur opponents, aro signed “ Elizabeth Moreover, Low can (his note of Prince Na- poleun's be reconciled with his (ather’s correspondeuce® to make upaecessary quotations, but read, gentlemen, that correspondenoe—read the letters of Prince Jerome to Madame Bonaparte, even after his marriage with the Princess of Wurtemberg. Siblo t0 admit the existence of such a compact, and t do ‘not thiok that my learned friend will urge it. be « terrible accusation brought by the Prince agatcst the honor of his father, were he to ailege that the order he gave her torecetve the money seat her was but @ trap 0 & REMpOD AgAiORL ie lett ors Prince Je- ‘s good nature and genervelty. 1 kiss T love you more obedience to the annulling of the marriegei lhave no wish rt her acceptance the validity of hee marriage, rome, at Unis time King of Westphalia, continually speaks of the ties that unite him to hw qife, of his rights over ber. He \s not legally it to bo understcod that political necessities (ta reteon @etat) have disposed of him, and that he has only yielded upon compulsion. ypoleon pretends to have existed were not merely an unworthy maaquvre, would sich have been ‘Would he have regrets and excuses upon excuses? No. He would have written—'I have po further concern with you or your child; you have your 60,000f."" The shame of such aa accusation iust therefore recoil upom him who caused it (Slight applause in court. The President od to have the court cleared if it was renewed.) tone of the correspon. his wife in 1808. Soon aftor If ‘the compact ‘h, gentlemen, was the dence of Prince Jerome wi the King of Weatj ia wished to have his gon with him. jor in the Serine forwarded The French Ambae v Madame Honaparte wrote to the Emperor. his step an- poyed the King of Westphalia, and in his letters he sped. ly expresses Mia disaatisfaction, He ex unaccountable alarm and anxiety tox the life of ladame maparte disdained to reply. She could not ingult in that correspondexce, aa insult of the grossest description, when it was proposed to her, born of respected and honored nts, io ber sad and touch- ing position—a deserted wife—to and take her place beside the Queen, with the title Trincees of Lnalkale and @ revenue of 200,000 francs—to accept, in word, by the side of tho recognized wife the place and the part of a favorite cones rotigh these #umptuons offers—ahe stood what they concealed. She felt the insult, and re Tut the same offers are again aad «gain renewed; these upaceountable letters are ro. ated in them that mat- Tor later be settled. Every opportunity © ties formed before the Renpire exist- ed, and fo prot st against the power that has broke them. ot is Written to, and recommend to An the writer of all this ia_ married nother wire, and {% seated ona throne, theey clashing assurances, tant oppea's to rights that had been go openly tram- the position of Madame Honaparte in- letormined to have recourse to u divorce Madame Honaparte’s marriagy bad ‘and her marrioge might havo P but his was in 1812, and m the poljtieal situation of the coantry she chalt not entertain the idea of approwching tho altar of Hor divorce was pronounced by the law She thep resumed the name Lover again; it i is taken to appe | A child five years Jove bis mother. Just beon proclaimed, we are unable to | pled upon, madi a French subject, courts of her natt ; and has borne it ever since. per life to the edneation of ber youthful eon, and her ton «brought him unseathed to that age when com for him the prorogatives and “constant pussea- {This is 4 French Jaw torm, meaning that the party in “constont pogeession” bag always lad all the © of legitimate offspring, and that been denied by jong career, 1 nover saw moro Foraseoing, no doubt olfor on this point, a re. that “it fs true that the marks of affectionate ragard You will 400, gontiomen, tut —not only his name f relationsh'p ta ds sueh as, durin compictely established. would have some r his father's fam ie a great dea ged, but no single dogre | yt will oo that his father, it granimot ter, on of tho Princess o( Wurtem santa, Joseph, Louis Curdinal Foch, all cont gitimate gon, whi In 1816 Josoph Bonape thers (the cbildr ud took pleasure tn wat between tho yout lnughter, Princess Charlotte, i the two childron—ant not | } A ‘erly embraced by tho reat of the | pry » wid they wished their relat A n jilogitimate union, the nullity “of | will always be reputed as f Prince Napoleon) they hold sy pOVauwons «MUM Favorable Kaa | Per he members of tho famy, Madame Lettzia, writes daughter's hand for “M derome Napa’ danas ae Shubin hea seated Recrrsa And who proposes such 8 monstrosity? The 1 Ig not this suili- cient to establish that his legitimacy was fully acknow!- Sse Re Scien to bis brother fa mer the riage, The letter runs thus;— ete ate: My Dean Baoraee-You hed’ at ene Mas tbe Soja of ” ‘to my son Jerome, 1g your im marriage: wom you displayed so much ‘during bis siay with you If enter‘ain the same oreo ions with f an ceca eee intentions wt Bark, that suot der mo eo WATS will write to abe sayethas SBoia cebtain wine so fols us leas dean ede anne Sule and see souniied. | Tam my dear brother, your most afectonale alise the wishes of the family, The young mau went back to America, but returned in 1826 to Kurope, His grendmother wrote to him the following letter, which rbows her sense of the relationship not to have suilerod any diminution — Rows, Sept, 26, 1826. My Dan Sox—T have thie day recived, your ie of the rember, ve learned with pleasure ou en aga ene yee eae i Tother ia ¢ is Lo go to Sten: Whore he willsee you I recommend you to act up 10 his intentions; wwy views of your position The been abscat for a month. I will not fall to exo- cute your commitsion to him as soon as T shall ee him. Adiet, my dear son. I embrace you tenderly, and beg of you to believe in my constant attachment, Your most uifectionate grandmother. MaDaMB, ‘The following year M. J. Bonaparte returned to Ame- rica, but before bis departure he received another letter from Madame Letizia, expressing her foar “lest he has forgotton his grandiuamma (wtre bonne manan)” In 1626, before he came to Europe, he received the follow- ing totter from his father. I¢ is dated from Lome, the 6th of March:— My Bran Curep—I have recetvod your Letter of the 26th November. You are right in thinking fhat for a lowe (ine its contents hare ‘seriously oooupled amo; but my position, 18 19 complicate! with regard to the Quecn and the princes, our children. that | know not how to put them in ascvrd with your peculiar position, inasmuch as, even if my wire wyose heble and genorous beart isso well known, should content to many things as regards you, we should bave to deal with the Courts of Wartemburg’ and Russia, which would pro\st fagainat any steps which would have the appearance of in- validating the marriage of thoir princess. At present, my dear ciild, vou are @ man. 1 must chen try to put you ine natural portion, without prejudicing in any respect (he sliu- aliop of the Quéen and of the princes, our children. In 1829 Mt. Jerome Bonaparte married, THe announces tho hoppy event to the family in Europe. The family im mo luicly send back letters of congratulation, co:asenc- by Madame Letizia, who writes:— r Novewnin 10, 1829, My Dean Sox—I have heard with pleasure of your mar- ‘ab the person you have chosen posansses «ll tho advan: one could desire, Learnestly pray that you may be »py in the union you controct, and If my blessing can con- inbole to bit will be complote and lasting. 1 beg of you to cent my affectionate wishes to your betrothed, though I ave HOt the pleasuce of kuowing her, Your fatbor is still ia the country he will not return betore the 16th. He ts well, a8 also your brother and your sister (the preseut Prince Nae leon and Princess Mathilde), I embrace you tendarly. our affectionate wether. MADAME. M. Berryer then read similar lettora from the late Prince Jerome, from Prince Joseph, and from the princesses of the family. Similar letters of congratulation were also addressed to him on the birth of a sen in the following year, The marriage of Princess Mathilde to Prinoe De- Midoff was also notified to him in the same ailectionate terms. Some slight amusoment was created in court by M. Perryer's reaaing the reply of Princess Mathilde and Prince Demideff,to the congratulations of their American relative. Prince Demidotf writes:— When I tell you, mon sieur and dear brother-in-law, that each day Tam more satisfied with iny cholce; and that tay exec! Teut Mathilde realives all the hopes T had formed of her, I wild have told you what you most desire to know, Princess Mathilde wiites:— Dern Jrnowm—T must add a Cow wonds(o the lottor of Ana. tole. to tell sou, how happy, content and tranquil Tam. 1 embrace you wiaiall ms heart, dear Jerouic, as well ax my Hutlenephew and my sister-in law. Love we always. Tpay you tn kind. Your sincere slater and friend, MATHILDE. Tho other documents show the excellent terms on which M. Jorome Bonaparte stood with the present Emperor both bofore and since his accession to the throne. M Borryer then camo to the decision of the conseil de famille annl!- ing the marriage, and pronouncing the ‘ilogitimacy of M Bonaparte, He considered tho decision of that trib nal legal, and preceeded at great length to state tho laws relative to marriage and illegitimacy. The only eohd ground for questioning the marriage was its clan destine celebration. He quoted a letter of M. Pichon, the French Envoy, to M. do Talleyrand, showing it to have been made the subject of an offictal communication; its celebration at Baltimore, already decided, was a far- ther proof of publication. Ife then ded as follows to argue that Plea of the want of consent of the pa- rent of the bridegroom was groundless:—Uaving lett this country whilst still governed by the statute of 1792, M. Jerome “Bonaparte thought himself fully competent to marry, A new law was promulgated after his departure, and it was clear that he was lable to the operation of that law whon ho married. The consent of the mother was requisite, and in the event of its being withheld tho mar: might bo epnulled. It is true, But tho law, prec it is, con- tains an important proviso in this reepect. Undoubted- ly, according to the Code Napoleon, a marriage is null when coutracted by @ mi: wader twenty years of age without the consent of his parents. But the parents must make thelr objections or protest before a twolve- month bas elapsed. Now, Madame Letizia did protest; but though she knew of the marriage ia 1803, her protes was only drawa up in Fobruary, 1805—fourteen months after the celebration of the marriage. The protest itself ts drawn up tn such extracrd:nary terms that I must read it to the Court:— Before Maurice Jean Raguideau and his colleague, notaries in Paria, (here appeared ber Imperial Highness Madame Bo neparte, uother of the Emperor, residing in her palace, rue St. Dominique, faurourg St. Germain, who sald—Thet she had indireedly heard thet ber son, M. Jerome Bonaparte, had contracted @ marriage in Ametica, for which hor con! sent was not asked, aud the usual publications were not made at the place of hie domicile, “That #he cannot artach impli Faith to Wie reports eurvent, According to which her son has ignored bis duttes and {nfringed the most solemn wa; that If the fact be much she will not besiare lo enferce Tithe rights the law ecntera upon her; that ane could noe ake oy sepa at present Ghices she joined to her judicial deniand fcr annuliing @ tegel copy of the marriage cori iti ; that that document is not ia hor possession and Ls a>- uy steps he raunot have a now Las i is E eat soluiely unknown to her, that, consoquentie, might take are necessarily stispended, ax premavureiy a legal recourse against sin act w no legal existence in France. Nevertheless, In order to mako Known ber intentions, and that her silauee should not at an time be interpreted in a manner contrary (o her real sentl mente—in ordor to manifest her wiil aa to tho offence her son is alleged tr have committed toe laws and her materai dignity, so that her rights should remain intact and that they may be enforced by her representatives, to wham she oxpressly delegates them 10 enforce Ia ber neni, tad in Hiou of herself were sho prevented from so doing, deslares— 1. That hor consent was never asked-by hor son, still ® mil- nof, aud that, had It been asked, ahe would have’ refused tt grounds which the jaw does not require her to sata 2° That she solemnly protesta against any marriage con ‘abroud by her son Jerome Bona} withont her consent, ant in contempt of the forma required by law. ‘& That she reserves to herself to take stops to provide a copy of the marria fe certificate to have the nullity of said rriage ounced. wal ioe ‘which. ner imperial Highness signed with sald nota From this strange document M. er proceeded to say it appeared that a regular suit would be brought for- ward before a legal tribunal. An active correspondence was ake between M. de Talloyrand and the French Minister at Washington. However, any action that might have been brought forward before logal tribunal would have failed, owing to the delay of the protest. And it is preeisoly because it waa well known that a loge tribunal wonld have rejected such a claim that arbitrary expedi ents wore resortee to, Tho course of the law ia simple as that of truth; the course of illegality ia tortuous as that of faleebood. It was understood that in 1806 it was too late to apply to the tribunala to quash a marriage that tho devices were resorted to whi T am about to deecribe. On the 28th of February, 1806, te following deeres was issueds— At the Palace of the Talleries the 11 Ventosa on Emperor ot the French -— Bering (he act received by Raquideau, notary at Paria, the ‘St Ventose, An. NIT, containing a of Madame our mother inat the pretended of her soa, & minor, Jerome Bonaparte, contracted In a foreign country, without the consent 0 mother, and without pubiiecstion in the place of his domfetin Bering articics & section 1, and }, section % of the jaw of eS 148, Ah 64 LW, 17H and the 28h September, 17%, aru IS} of the civil coda, and the Senatus Consnitum of Figreal, An. X1L- ‘The Connell of State consulted :— Considering that the marriage of a minor contraated ia = foreign conntry, without pabditeation and without the consent of tho father and mother, i4 null, acourding to Fi laws; ‘That {t belongs to the chiet of the State to intervene in all fhe acts wideh concern the sltuation of his family, and to pro- vent or repres® that can wound his perso iy, and offend the majesty of the throne. | Decraea:— Art b Ali the oficers ef (he Kou Cicit (rogtstrars) of the empire aro prohibited from insortbing on thotr registers the act of celpbration of & pretended marriage whieh! M. Hone parte iy stated to have contracted in « foreign country, Art. 2. The wee aliall be trees in thd Baulleths de ond the Grand Judea, Minister of Jui Sor {0 se the execauion of ron BNA JON, The monstrous absurdity of thia decree was so patent to its own author, that ninetoon iiays later he iasuod & more ample and revised elition. It runa thuso— Napoleon, Emperor of the Prone, (0 all to whom thess pre- ing — nformned of a prtended ramrriage con ies by our brother Jerome Bowa+ parte, #1 a minor, withou’ any consent from us oF 3 onr mother ir rovisions of articles 6% WA, 146, 18S, 170) Sught it our taiy, for the ma. dination white! they eatabi seow of IL Ven- it, ut of the. on thely registore the transertptions of the n of ihe said prmtonded marriage, : ot having apprarad to ns sufficient, to miaranice ail aitack the dignity of our crown, aad to secure the right which belong t te, we have considered 1 | Important forthe w the Btate'and tha honor of oor fenperial (amily, ‘ auner (ha nul ty of tho eald f on tm prevent and fo render vain & « whieh may be mada to give eleot Thos the Emperor wimita tt; hia frat doores doce not carry annullation, #inoo ation ¢ the object of the nu. ‘Thiv one at least appears olear, It prooeedd:—- ded marriage comiracted abromt by our eparte i@ null and vold, and can never Alleonventions relative to the sald ally null wed vail, ‘ort be born of the «ald marriage egittmate, and cxana, cag amy vunded on auch union, reo (procecded M. Berr gi baw Lhe Le ) have the of the tC alaw of pe of know one 856 there was sno gvestion the deoree of 11 Ventose, Why was | It wats because it did not exist; that it was with- out any legal character, and had none of the forms which could give it the force and of an obligatory doorec, | ‘There i on this copy, which is to be seon in thearchives, | a little word, which is, however, wanting in tho trané- cription produced. At'the head {x read "Project de de- cree.” I know that an unknown hand has at seme period struck Out the word ‘project,’ but is still remains a sim. Ho project without countersign and without authority, It it does not matter that the act was determined on by the Froperor, if it bas not been followed by the exeoution which could alone make the will of the sovereign 4 iogal reality. Will you have afurther proof of this? It is you, our opponents, who furnish us with it in the publi wtioa which you have made, and for which I thaok you; for, after all, our weapons are Dot cqual, You have the ar- chives and we have not. Six weeks later the Emperor wrote to his Arch Chancelior:— Arusawpnts, 16 Floreal, An XEIT. (May 6, 1806) MOonsinuk 1) AKcue Ctandueon L. Jenna, ee at Lisbon with Mdile, Patierson, bis mistress. [have or ders for him w come tome, and that bis mistress re- embark for America. I beg you to make known to mo what ruust be dene for carrying on the affair, and that the mar. rlage may be made ——, and the modeLof tha papers which he must sign if he had his consent. ‘Thus the absoluce ruler himself expresses that the mar- riage is not altogether void, and that the decrees are ut- tery powerless, The Arch Chancellor (Cambaceres) was agrest jurist. What answer did ho retura to the irrl- tated de ‘You must have a ju‘gment, in ordor that that woman should not be condemned without & hearing, that the bastard should not be condemned as such without having oilwred his defence.'’ The Emperor replies :— 23 Fuonsar, An. Iz. 1 Anca Onancetton—t fhave received your let- {erof the 8th. I cannot agree with your opinion about Jerome. re the officers pny pee gap mt Biel it to apnul it, Saas abroad, oi contract register, Sata ninm deneks any ‘Publication of bane, there Mo more inarriage than betw: garden, ov the altar of love an atanend per-elve that they are not, Let us pass over the style, the aberrations habitual to the angry mastor of many legions. Tho Arch Chancellor not proving complaisant, he writes to the Pope oa the ‘24th of May, 1806, oleven days after his disappointment with Cambaceres: Thave several times spoken to your Holiness of « young ‘of nineteen, whom { seut in & srignte wo and who, after a month's stay there, married at Baltimore, though under age, with a Protestant daughter of » morcl ‘He is justreturned. He is fuliy aware of his fault. 1h: sent back Malle. gon, his sola tinant wif ri Accor ting to our: the ‘lage is pull, A bo far forgot his dues as to give Lhem the benediotio m. Lshould wish for a bull from your Holinese to annul this marriage. Isend you several tnemoriala, one of then from Caroinal Sa: eli, which will enlighten you'on the subject Tt would be easy for me to quash it in’ Paris, as the Gatlioan Chnirel; docs nt recognine such marriages, ‘It appears tome better that it should be done at Kome, wero it only ag an ex- ample to the inembers of sovereign families who may maer teatani near ine. This howd be exper civil laws ond to all & serve you for many years, NAPOLEON, to such sedi ‘The Pope ropligs that nono of the grounds brought for- ward by Nepolcon for annulling the marrisgo aspeared to him valid. This was in 1805. Events crow sed in suc- cession upon cack other. Jcrome was wanted for a Geor- man princess—-tho kingdom was to be created. ‘Thomar- riage must be annulled at aay cost, The Lusporor appliod to the Oficialile (Bishop's Court). Tho Oiliciatite aftor the Arch Chancellor, after the decrees, after the Tope. What ig the Officialite? Is it a legal authority in Franco after 1789" Ip it tribunal to decide on marriage cases after the establishment of the civilcode? Is it an clegiasticul court’ What a decision in that case to apy to it a ¢welvemonth after the refusal of the Holy Seo to sanction the grounds of nullity the Kuaperor had brought forward, There is no tribunal in existence that would consider a sontence of the Officialite binding. But a ys lind ready toole—a M. Vorlay powerfal ruler will (the present S wy of the Conncil of State), is always to be found who will pronounce an illegal sou nan iniquity, ‘The priest who pro- ition of the marriage committed a tence ail sane! nounced the (ls Ureach of ail canonic und civil laws, but his deoisic though it may have deccived foreigners, nevor do- ceived any ono in France. (M. Rerryer here quoted he effect that the Offietalite, whon its jurisdiction waa recog. uized by law, ¢. ¢. before 89, was only compotent to de- cide cages in which the wife cued the husband, and vice ioation of teibunal (he x0 Honaparte appear? No, Was Je- To call the @ list of authors and jurists, to versa, but wholly powerless to act on the a two parties.) Now, before this so cully pursued) did Mad rome Bonaparte, her husband, heardy decision of eceh a court a sentence is to utter a false hood. J hay » Jnow conclude. There is nothing in the decr nothing in the it to the Pope, nothing ia the pre tended sentence of the Oficialite that can bo hold as in- validating the marri: of tho claim whieh of, J will now rex cil by Prince Napoleon:— Whereas, 2 decree of Napoleon (T siawes that don, of a French father, 0 Lis (juaiity of Prenchman; an te, born ia Lon, of Se) tember 5, 1564, confers of the son of the former e' rank fn these decrees are interpreted by toh cannot be- the Freuch artey; some aa atiribut pamé and a filiation long to them logaly; whe the son, born England, of the'union fomtacxed on the Sth Deccmbar, TA at Halt newe than th his mother; whereas, legal riage, formed abroad by a young ot ‘of nineteen without the'atthortation of bia mili fs aud of the head of his tamilly, who was also of the Biate, without (he consent of his mother and the preliminary pub: ions in his own country, been fe ved, as 8000 ag i was known in France, by an_anthentic protest on of Madame mother, of the 3 Ventose, An, XIIL a decree of UVentose of the same year {ron Napoleon L, refusing all existence 1d the preten of Tens, in tking froma {t all effect wnt of respect for the vin. lated ofvif taw, and atso f of the State and of the majesty of the throne: Jonsidering that on Gih October, 1806, the broke the said mar Mlis. Paticrson and Prince Jerome Bovapar cepied on both sides and followed by acts saga por ances has been ao. on the one band Mite, Patterson and her son bave not singe borne the name of Bonaparte in France ‘That Mile. Patiorson, wp to the time of the Restoration, re. ceived from the Kmper only be considered us t prevended mari Prince J Wartemby Whereas, the chi orn of that union, mate one contracted ; he can have any olvil o quoted dectvcs, a oluaively to (he from inking the Considering that the Imperial Fainily Counell, established by the inaperval stave of tet June, 1858, and with i orb other jurialiclions is competens to detertain Domrinng of to locrues witaakod, ws it la to soles te ore anew family formed (tsel! round ne by his allinnee in 1807 with the Princess of no cb jecrtan hea heen wade, ¥ Whe ete of Ieeatinat me whieh belong exatuaty ely to legitima: quence pruhibii M. Jerome Patterson and from henceforth bearing the maine of Ronaparte, the provi sions of (he decree of LI Vemtoss An, X{UL, preserving, more. over, their full effect, M. Bonaparto, in hia (urn, [nid conclusions before the said, tribunal Tio did not offer a'demurror. He merely “Those who claim the nullity of the marriage are n titled to do se. According to the terms of tho Cor en! Na. poleon, neither madame mere nor T'rince Jerome, still tving, nor Madame Pattorzon, had brought forward such a suit—and if they do not no one can. The connoil, apoleon must be non sult Jerome Rona) should retain the name of parte, but that he should not baye the right to avail himse of tho benefit of the 20lst and 202d articles of the Code Napoleon, relating to succession. The coun- ctl do not pronowmes any opinion ns to the validity of the marriage, well aware that they could not do so without Learing either husband or wife. You will have, gentlemen, to decide whether the claime of my clients are well founded. [confidently leave the case im your hands. 1am confident you will once more give us the splendid example of the serene impassibility of the ad ministratore of justice, agninst which the aliifts and de- vices of arbitrary power crumble into dust. You expound the law ond unjuat pretensions vanish. Those of Prince Napoleon will be diamissed. Yor, that will be your deei- sion, and I Joyousty expect it. f, oo, am an old auxiliary of justice. For many years I have stood at this bar. “I shail not leave it without carrying away with mo the fosling of respect for justice and confidence in the benoh, which has been created and confirmed by practice of | afty years. SV'EROM OF M. ALLON FOR PRINGH NAPOLBON. On the conchision of M. Ber epeech, M. Alloa rone and addressed the Court as follows:— Gretiams—After the magnificent forenste oflort you have just heard and admired with me, I fect justitied, even from that speech, in aaying to yo that oar adver: saris have based no great hopes on the issue of the trial m are called on to adjadge. Thoro ore causes fost be- , casen decided by anterior deeroes, that are pleaded only for tho pleasure of pleading thou—not for | you, hut for the crowd, for the public. — Te it so; my Augnet client, Prince Nopotcon, has nothing to fear from publicity; on the contrary, he calls for and de mands it, But’ Vefore touching on the grounds taken by our adversaries, permit me to place before yon, in a few simple, meaaured worda, the facts, imperfectly known, and badly understood, which preceded, accom. ied’ of followed the pretended marriage of Prince | Jers mn ‘one rome at Baltimore. The Firat Con fatherty aflvction for all the members of his fumily went eo (ar that his history has reproached bim with ed Jerome, the y it of his brothers, at fifteen yeara of age, to an honorable po-ition. He made him an offloer of marines. In thia capacity he sent him suocessively to St, Domingo, Martin ijue, amd, iimally, to the Uaited States, where he war cor idly received, for hiv own exceilent and Very amiable nalities, boyond doubt, but moge pare tlenlarty on aceo: of the glorfons name he ore. Jerome visited Now Yor\.. |'hiladelphis, and at longth Baltimore, where, unforti the acenaintance of the Patterson family, It has becn said that © politico-commorcial mission with which ho was charged, hal, very naturally, throwa him into the circle in which that family moved.’ That i¢ a mistake, to the lenat, Tho Peinee was then too young in yuars and character for the Firet Cons! to dream for a moment of entrusting ® mission to other than that of rominding Young America of Young Franoe, From the first day our Commu) need all hie efforta to snateh the young oficer from the dangers ef a society, the froquenting which was 0 disastrous to him, vo separate him, atnongat others, from a Mr. Barney who had introduced ttm to tt, and who wae subsequently of the sieners of tho actof the protended marriage. UMer date of August 16, M. Pehon wrote to him davon ed Germans (LG Alils aay Wy By poe wy Wa of the Etat twa lo ho ina and to the light ot the moon and ‘They cal) themselves married; but when their love is ry Protestants, It is iinportant for France that nothing should 5 angerous that @ minor of nine. cont tho of propriety. I pray God to prow + perhaps, gentlemen, detained you too jo Nevertheless, we are told tt is invalidated by tho docision of what is termed “ the Prt- vy Council.’ [ will say nothing as to the competency of tuat council. When it summoned M. Jerome Bonaparte before it that jurisdiction admitted him to be possessed its devision altetapts to deprive him the conclusions Jaii befere the Coun. Mh Angust, 1854, of (he Emperor reinstated in at Battie iz. Patterson, lave any other fact, that this union, Which has never presonted any of the charicters of a marriage # the personal dignity of the ehlet execution of a pension of GWOT. wick could price of hee resignation. That, on fhe ofher hand, wud om the tat of the absolute nulilty of tue T, tendered a sentence deciding that M, ly he stopp™d, It was there he made | phe did licutenant of marioes, and he sbould have fermed ie wun aly olacteee yours, time, was caly © y 1 twenty-two te three; wationalitien, religwa, beliofa, everything, separsted; no publications in France; no Consent asked of the veucrable Letizia, or the First Consul, the real bead of the family, who had becn a true father to Jerome, who confeass it is tus cor. eorious im its features, was known; object hed ; but were, on the other care of M. + Minister ¢rom girous of contracting was in violation of French law, and would be radically null, M. Pichon warned Senator ‘Smith and Senator Nicholas, who were closely connected with the Patterson family. Dr. Pattorgon, a moment satiafiod and convinced, re- moves his daughter, but che, smfton pray eraser was determined to run every risk; and, at moment when the Minister of France wrote slapheatly, to M. de Talleyrand that all was saved, all was lost the mar- riage consummated. tr Decomber 24 it was celebrated Married, on Saturday last, in Bait the Ri Roverend’ Bishop Cartall, M, PM ad vs + ind brother of the iret Consul of the French republic, to the Deaulful Mies Elizabeth Patterson, eldest daughter of Mr. Williasa Patterson, merchant, of that city. cceacomtitiane Tek eat teed nie Cate you lo reflec gad io eek for Uncen’ cbabents with whick they should have beep provided beforehand. Supplications to Madamo (his a to the First Consal, then become Fmpe- for; everything waa tried, but all in vain, The tat- ter, a8 his only answer, sent an officer with omers to bring back his Fee brother, and to bring him back alone, ‘hat wie sullicientiy explicit. Jerome refused to obey, thus placing himseif in open revolt against bi@second father and againgt his sovereign, At length, in the spring of 1606, he embark- ed with her whom he called bis wifo, not on board a French, but aa American vessel, the Edrin, bouad for Lisbon. Put the orders of the Emporor had preceded him to that place. In fact, under date of the 3d Floreal, your 13, his Majesty wrote to Decres, Minister of ine;— Jorome has arrived at Lisbon, Mise Patterson, tis mis tress, intends going to Bordeaux by sea, Acquaint her with the order that pratique (passing tkrough the Custom House) will not be allowed her, Let har not disembark, and tell her in whatever part of France or Holland sbe may disembark, she will get no Cuntom House permit, and that it ia india: pensable she should retin to America. Lhave ordered that oficer, (Jeroine) to, repair to ine via Barcelona, Toulon, Grenoble, Tarin oud Milan, and he will be arrested it he de’ Part in te least from that'route, In this fail not, &e. NAPOLEON, Jerome landed alone. Repulsed from all the ports of France, and from friends in France, Miss Patterson was obliged to seck an asylum in England where, on the 7th of July, 1805, she gave birth to the child who is our pre- sent opponent. Ail the attempts of Jerome to soften his mother and his brother—his Hmperor—I should t, his eecond father, were fruitless. Tho protest of the first and the two successive decrees of the latter have been read to you. I need not read thom again. At Jast Jerome opened his eyes to reason. He submit- ted and expressed some words of repentance, and the in- duigent beart of lis august brother was immediately re opened to him. He received, undor date of the 16th Flo- real, the following letter from the Ewperor:— My Brormen—Your letter of this morning informs me of your arrival at Alexandria, There is no kind of offence which irue repentance wi'l uot effaco from my mind, Your union With Miss Patterson f¢ null In the eyes of religionand the law. Write to Bias Paterson to return fo America. I shall give her a pension of 60,000f , on condition that In no case shall she hear my name, to which she bas no right, by reason of the non-existence of’ the union. Inform "ber, of your self, that you have not been’ able, and that you can- not’ change the nature of things, Your ‘marriage being thus annulled by your own ‘will, I will extend to you my friendship avd continue the feelings which T have bad for you since your childheod, hoping that you will render Yourselt worthy by tiie care which you manifest for obtain my recogaition and to distinguish’ yourself in my armies. pray God that he will, my beother, bave you in his holy and sufe keeping. On the 28th, after » complete reconciliation, the Empe- ror wrote to Decres: Mongtrcn Decres:—Jerome has arrived, Mme. Paterson, his wife, has returned to America; bo has acknowledged hig error ani disowns that person for his wile; he promises won- ders, Thaye sent him ¢o Genoa, &c. Our opponents have given us a number of letters writ ten in 1806, and even in 1806, in which Jerome stil! call Miss Patterson his wife, and promises hor that they would succeed in disarming the Emperor, and that there were yet days of happiness reserved for them, &c. But in 1807, at the: of the solemn, regular, awful marriage with’ tho regretted and never-t9-be-forgoiten Catherine 0 Wurtemburg, he sent letters of another kind—letters 0 rupture. But these letters are not brought forward. Yrem this very important period there were only three letters sept—two in 1808 ani one in 1812. But what a change in the style! They were no longer auto graph. They were written by a secretary, and Jerom> ‘was content to aflix his signaturo, Here ia an evidence of aflection, says the opponent; it was the duty of a gal- lant mon, of a man of a greatly elevated position. Ilo muvie certain propositions to secure the future and the welfare of tho mother and child. In these propositions they pretend to see an insult, and of his own act of kind- ness Uxy haye made an arm to be used against him. The occasion being definitely Nxed for the divorce which Madame Patterson soliciied and obtained from the Ameri- can Fenate (3. Allyn meant the Legislature of Maryland, Ep. Hier.) ‘in 182%, her husband did not appear nor app but was ceértain that he would have bad no objections. We will now back a fille, Tuey bring forward pretended request of the Fmperor to the Poy and a pretended re-jonae of “his Holiness. what archives did they get them’ And where are the originals? They have not shown us anything but the copies—certified, it is true, but by whom? Ry our ents. Truly, thoy ought never to have proceeded in this fashion. It may be, asf hope, that these documents aro all valid and cor rect; but have you forgotten, or do you count as nothing he ion durmetrically ex. pressed, and emaniting from our own Archbishop, from the ottice in Patis, untor the diate of the oth of 66 tober, 1806:— hing heing considered, the holy name of God a re that there has been no mar- coniracled between the minor, Jerome Bona. and Elizabeth Patterson; that ‘the pretend marrige comiracted between ibe is mull and clandestine, having been made without the prior publication of banus sod without the consent of the mother of the minor, wheneo--at least a presumed—forcitile seduction 's deduoed, Rithout the presenes of & proper pric in a fowrign country tt and in violation of Preneh laws; torbidding them to coha ‘or dwelt logesuer under penalty of the lawn; periniiting them the liberty of legal redress, where i may seem good lo them, by marriage, Jn the meantime did ja ty Father persist in his first optuiony No; a *housand types no. Vor if this were so would the second nidtringe, which took place on the 12th of August, 1807, have been colebrated by the Prince Primate himself, the canopy being held by the Bishop of Gand and Monsiour de Boulogne, the peror’s almoner? No; be- cause some days aflerwords Ping the Seventh would not have written under his own band to the ne Westphalia, congratulating him at the tim: vancemont and bis marriage. M. Allon, in analyzing or citing the correspondence from Consul Pichon, shows that Jerome on the one side, and the I’atterson family on the other, were superabundantly warned of the complete ille- gality and the radveal noltity of the alliance which they ‘were «0 ready to contract. ‘They therefore carmot invoke Ureir good faith. Hore i, among others, a letter from M. Pichon to Mr. Patterson, (the father) : Groncmrows, Oct 28, 180, Sin—M. Jeron.e Ronaparte having informed mo {hat he was on the point of contracting a marriage with your daughter, 1 think |: my duty (> inform you that ain assured that, by the Present law of France, such @ marriage cannot, be valid contracted without the formal consent of the mother ot Bonaparte, who ta ivi Frenebman cannot marry with- ‘out tye consent of luis father and mower, and in default of hem without that of a friniiy council, Before, he is twenty. five, ard even after that oge Le must prove that he has ap- plied Cor such consent. There are also other formatiés re quired by t neh law as (9 martlages of Frenchmen abroad which cannot be performed by M, Bonaparte, and the ‘want of which may cans the validity of the marriage to be disputed; but Ta pense with mentloning them, the eon- ditions opposing (o that of M. Banapartie an tosur. mantaple opatacie.. i thought, Monsieur, that ht to f iy make this known to you, aa Ide by this tag you may not be in senorania of thove oo ave & very considerable Infuence on you swell ar on the projected tke, ’ On the 4th of January, 1804, M. Pichon, in a letter to M. de Talloyrand, wrote in reference to Lis conduct: Ryery cneremarind the marriage as broken off, when It was concluded, M. de Manportula, a relative of Mra, Bona rte, whom le Jerome) met at New York, and whom he t with him, not havigg had any influence over his de terwinaiion, The relaiions ef the young Inty are, f think, reprehensible. 1 felt uneasy when T nw (hoi acter having rate hor quit Raldmore at dhe moment when the first pro Jeot was broken off, she was allowed to come back just at the ery moment when M. Jerome Bo io arrived there. ‘Tidy Arrangersen’ was certainly brought about by their mu tual correspondence, and the fulatives, particttlady Mr. Pat torton, who were oppored fo the marriage, ought to hare pre fonted {t. Tt is said that the young lady was as decided as Jercmid, and that It Was mecesamay to consent to the rar riage to avoid 9 scandal {chink those circumstances are very probable, but [t (¢ not the less tne that Mr. Patterson, and all the relatives of the Mr, Brith and mo of the sat ‘dern: sistanen, Great streae has beon laid upon the prosence at the erremeny and signature to the marringe contract, of M. fotin, our Consul at Baltimore; but that (unctionary was but lately arrived at his post, and he excises himself in twenty letters of the part which he then played, or rathor was conypelied to piay, almost in epite of himself. Hore is a fragment of his correspondence with M. Pichon in relation to the matter;— Our real jastigertion ia in the notice which you have given se Pavterdon of te French joges rogarding the validity of marriages and the minority of M. Bonaparte, and Iu the in- have tendered aa to the lity of uch 1 op well aa the ine 23 4 2 E H g 1 ‘and or of the one or the other of FS Serpe ane tai tothe reguiarinwe st SERE wad third Do you not see im this a propysition to knowingly vio- Lote the law by thoce who calculate from first to Last tue corsequences of the act which they are about to commit? ‘This document ts 4 serious one, and every word iu it de- Berves to be well perused, But a more importaut one Still i@ the will of Me. Patterson—tho will of a true phe , & teuc republican snd a eincere Criend of hamaw- ity without distinction of nationality or coor, We ron tm ‘The condnet of my daughter Betsy has all hor lite beoe controlled by such a fealing of dtsobeidionce shat be has na- ver consulted, In any clrenmatances, my ptnions or feelin caused me more suriery and grief than all the of my children togetuer. Her folly and hor misconduct have on former occasions on-t m > ve heavy expeuses, and frou the beginning to the end great ‘sacrifices of money. U' hoe clrouatanens st would not be proper, fust oF right at ea'h, inheitan equ artol my pro with my other chiidres Considering. mtwithaenndteg, the re, and that she 18 10 lew i ts my will and plesuate to declare i net. 1 — T give and bequeath (o my said daughter Betsy, &c, &o. Is not this Iast impression of an bonost min, who ie edout to appear before his God, a compicte revolati the character aod weight wb ch you are to atérioute te the pretended marrisge of 1803¢ Does it not demonatrate to you that im the ops of the futher him- self’ this merrisge wasa vain simulation of mar riage, a Clandestine marriage, although coivbrated in public, @ pretcnce ena & mockery of a civil and religtous aot of the greatest importance? You sory gentiemen, in contempt of what warvings the marri: war celebrated, It to k pice with the most profound Becreoy; it was acoomplished in the svade, after the Promise made to M. Pichon that it should uot BE Bree after a sudden return eucceeding (a procipitate depar: ture, which appeared to show that » rupture bad takem place. The learned advocate then quoted the exanpie of the Duke de Berry, who married a dirs. Browne in Bags land, lived with her for ten years, and during whose Iife—be Laps | afterwards disowned the marrtago—he ‘was united to the mother of Henri Cing, as a oase ia point He dweit at great length onthe “reclamation” of Madame Letizia, which, he contende4, renderod the marrlago void ab initio. He then proceeded to describe tho litigation bofore the gmeil de femille, and concluded as folowa—~ Gentlemen, you have now the whole case before you, Baty I repeat, it is not your justice that is appealed to, 1t ig public opinion it is wisbed to act upon. I have under- Btood it 80, and bave endeavored to lay the case planty before you. I hope [ have not in any way misreproronted the attitude of the illustrious person I reprogeut in thi case. Prince Napoleon has never, ia this case, evinced apy bitterness, auy irritation, till 1ess any auger. Ho serves in bis iamest heart, pure, inviolate, resposte hallowed momory of his mother, He repets as an to his mother the pretensices brought forward in the name of arother wife, and it fs a sacred duty for him te hat is the motive which actuates him, And if cadily seknowledge that pecuniary questions have hing to do with the claim Iam now opposing, I wish it to be Known that they aro equaliy remote from im- fluencing our oppesitios. Let equitable minds pronounce, It is imporsible Lot to remain convinced that if the forms in which the nullity of the marriage was propounced de- rive a somewh st exceptional character from the position of the young nayal offcer, who recetved somo portioa of his brother's glory, tbe great principles of morality, jus- tice and loco! laws have in no way been infringed, abd te express all in one werd, if therebas been any change im the jurisdiction, nothiog has taken plice which clashé@ in any Way with the dictates of justice. After this speech the Court rose, and adjourned the case for a week. The correspondent of the London Zopress publishes the =, following further details — M. Alion’s speech for Prince Napoleon in the cause celelre of Vatterson vs. Bonaparte ceoupics fourteen columns in the Garette des Tribunaux. It ia very intercst- ing, but like that ot M. Rerryer, and like the memorials published on both sides, is overlaid with matver extra- neous to the legal point at issue, The argument whick strikes me as most werthy of attention is, that the direct 1 otice of tho state of the French law fixed upon Jerome Por rte and the Patterson family by the remonstran- ces of M. Pichon, the French Affaires in the United States, stamped the marriage made tn the face of those remonstrances with that obaracter of clandestin! and (in the legal acceptation of the term of “bad faith’ with that deliberate intention to commit a ay gh 4 the Le at the courts regard as @ cause of ity «b initio. ‘With regard to what has taken piace under the pro- sont reign, M. Allon stated some vory curious ciro stances. The deoree of Ni T., calling Madame Patterson's eon by the name of Bonaparte, and restoring to him his nationality ag a French subject, and also the nomination of his son as an officer ia the Frenoh army, y Allon himself was one day at the Mintstry of State, and heard the plaintiff, M. Jerome Konaparte, announced as Prince Napoleon Bonaparte. “This was no doubt,” he said, footman's mistake;’’ but the late Prince Jerome became very uneasy at the turn things were taking since the American Bonapartes had beon admitted to the impe- rial favor, and wrote the following very remarkable letter to his nephew :— Simi—A yoar has now eiogeed teem, ‘as soon as f beoame son of forron, Fepresenting the palnfel position in which ‘those decreas had me In fact, they dispose of my name without my consent; i, and introduce into my family, without even my being consult persons that ‘bave never belonged to tt. render dou! repare for them a scandalous La Tic consuiute an attack ageinst my honor. and that of the Emperor, my brother, by annualling so'emn gntered into by us with the King of Wurtemburg and, the Emperor of Russia, as a condition of my marriage hood Without Any the results of which could net but be prejudicial, THE SUPPOSED POLICY OP THE EMPEROR AND THB PRINCE NAPOLRON REGARDING THR CASK. (Translated from the Paris Oonstitutionnel, Jan. 25, for the New Youx Fimrarn. A Paris letter addressed to Le Nord brings us later telligence concerning an tm affair, which will scon be brought before the Court of the Seine. An article published in the feur, of the 19th, haw already given us information which I have reason to be- Keve will be more fully the arguments in the cause now pending betweea Royal , Highness Mo: ir tho Prince Napoleon an@ M. Jorome ag bd Pat 5 1 have no des to anticipate Uhat publication by laying before your readers the collection of official dooe- ments which Laye been nablished M. Allon, counsel to the Imperial cannot leave a Tous. But what the official jonrnal has* not been pared to declare, but Tam able to inform yon of, is the report of this affair, given in a document signed by party Madame Derryer, is, alaa| nothing more than a maporuvre against the imperial dynaety. ‘The marriage contr1 in America in 1908 by his In- cs Highness M. the Prince Jerome 1 one of thoea theta belonging to history, which has been forgottem these sixty years. A feeling of delicacy on the part af the Ls aked oxplains the decree whioh he issued in 1864, naturalizing M. Jerome Bonaparte-Patterson. THis see ty desired to evince rome generosity towards the child whch his uncle had bad in America. as soon as fortune * © had recalled the dynasty of Napoleon to the throne. importance was in consequence given to this decree, and it was dificult enough, It must be confessed, to foresee at that time the consequences which might have after- wards ensued, The family of I'rince Jorome had not, be- tides, examined all the official documents which render the marriage of 1903 null and roid. ‘The historical facta which have oconrred during tho last fifty yours, ®uch as tho imperial inheritance confer- red on Prince Jerome's branch of the family tinder the first empire; his marriage with the Princeae Catherine of Wurtembarg, which allied him to sll the crowm ed heals of Europe; the imperial imheritanos conferred on l'rinee Napoleon, the only member of the Ponaparte family, by the senaiue consulius of eppear to show the vselesaness of all proof of the nullt- ty of the first marriage. But whem the conduct of Mr. Jorome Ronaparte Patteraon, alvised by mon who were most hostile to the empire, rendered it any, 10 seoke for docnments e long time forgotten, a certain d heeeswwy in order to collect them. This explains the incompleteness and precipitancy in the decree which aa turalizes Mr. Jerome Bonaparte-latterson, and of whick party eptrit endeavored to avail itself, Tho hostile and ridiculous language of cemain English journals, who show a complete ignorance of this whole affair, stand fulsome momerial of St a I