LOUIS NAPOLEON AND HIS CAPTORS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VII, Issue 1915, 14 February 1885, Page 2

LOUIS NAPOLEON AND HIS CAPTORS.

Here is a pleasing incident in the career of Napoleon .111., which took place while he was with the camp at Boulogne, in 1854:—0n arriving at Boulogne, the Emporor comißsioned M. Ducos, the Minister of the Marine, to find out if there still existed in that town any of the men avlio were concerned in hisarreßton the occasion of his ill-fated expedition m 1840, Djjcos discovered a sailor who had fchppwn'h|ii]sblf }ntbt]|o sea to seize the Prince, who was trying ffl swini back'to'the vessel in which he had come, the aforesaid Bailor having clutched the Pretender by his hair; then Ducjjs ■also discovered 'the gendarme, then a Gustomriwusepffljjer, w|jo pn thebeach-, had received' the vanquished Prince frqni the hands of tlig sailor arid had taken, hnn by the"collar.' These" two men were brought to I]ucps, who asked them if they were the perspns that had nated to him." i)e pggr fellow? replied, with much hesitatipji, t]}aj; i k W*s they had arrested the Prince, and Ijucus ordered them to return'the next morning jiajf past njne. After an anxious iriglft tjje'y presented themselves, hefqi'p. tlje Mjjj: ister exactly at the apppinted ,hqur. Qucos conducted tljem to. tlje Einporor, W4 tllfi jailor wa,s the gne first admj|ted into the lnjpeplaj pgijip, Tjjg Emperqr. twj.3tii)g lp lpijg F lk s4 Uptg hiiri and s'a}d,, "Sp it VWy% thafe in 1840 sprung into t!ie sea and captured me by seizing mektlieliajrf The sailor; " Top Majesty-M" The Emporor; " Look here j was it you? Yes or no.". The sailor (recovering his self possession): "Well, yes, your Majesty! all the others were firing at you, arid you might have been wounded and got 4|owne|; m I jumped into the sea and sived fer'llfe, was I whpjayed your life." The Emperor and the Miiil« 1M hard work to keep their fivoes Whilst listening tothisembellished'history Of ! an attest changed to a' rescue. " Well 'doneVlßykof fellow,' 1 ' replied the EmM'ft doing your.'dMy,"arid'tye'r/JBs?§ n»ft souvenir from me.' scxt came the gendarme., dustom-house-Offlcer,. whose jjjij's pvenfiye thanthat ftf' l 't)(e" sapor. 'ip)s , ' l j!Jjggesp§ £o him no such. H&lWt SP'''PWWI V$ hesitated some time, then teY§i? w' m g HP fe mind, ho replied, "Ycb, «Im, it was X You were breaking the laws.. I was on duty, and I arrested you. The Emperor: "And that oross that you wear—who gave it to you ?" The gendarme: " Sir, | was Kin? Louis Phillippe," The Thegendarine; ■ 'lanjfnoWgol^lei;; I: Ijad .done gpod service; I tut tell the truth,'siro, it was'on the'occasion, gf your fjrrefffc j revived it,' f TtUo"Empgcgr: " I an) sorry fbr'it, hpuse I shall nqk have the pleasure of giving it to you myself, since you have already got it; but here is the medal (taking off the one that ho pre hiniself and fastening it to the breast flfthM YflHfM brave soldier- And t» e gendarme, received, as the sailor hM already dqne, a gift of £2O.