A NOBLE REVENGE.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1098, 28 April 1883, Page 3

A NOBLE REVENGE.

ThefoTowing is related by the European Mail: “ Sweet is revenge, especially to women, and a sweeter revenge than the ex-Erapress Eugenie has wreake I on the city of Marseilles it would be difficult to imagine. In the palmy days of the Empire the municipality of Manei les presented Napoleon 111. With a large piece of land near the harbor, in the hope of occasionally attracting the Court to the great historic haven of the South. The Emperor accepted the gift and built a palace on the site, which was only finished at th • time of Sedan. About three yews ago it occurred to the municipally of Marseilles to revoke their gift, and claim, not only the land, but the palace as their own. In bringing their action to recover it from the exEmpress they filled their pi a lings with wholly irrelevant abuse, not on'y of her, but the whole Napoleonic breed, se d and geoention. French chivalry, however, which had deserlod the Town Council of Marseilles, was still f lithful to the Judge’s Bench. The casa iguomiuiously broke down, and the exEmpress was declared the rightful owner. She now writes to M.Eouher—' In defending my rights before the tribunals I was chiefly actuated by respmt for the French magistracy, for lo suppose my cause lost beforehand would have been toas-ums that pusion or personal interest could infi rence the decrees of our country's justice, But, how th it < hose rights have been acknowledged, I will not keep the land which the city of Marseilles onco spontaneously gave to the BnapetO - , and which it now disputes. I consequently beg jou to take the requisite steps for giving the city, in my name, the park and the mansion on Phsro, which the Emperor erected at hi* own expense. In thus acting I believe myself to" be guided by the ideas of those who are no more, and hope that you, who were their devoted friend, will approve my conduct.’ ”