pages, a young captain in the Swiss service
has written, in two years, a manual that is
not in any way inferior to our official one.
The section on field artillery is the most
complete and succinct treatise on the
subject extant. The author has shown great
intelligence of the end and means of artillery.
The remarks on tactics are models of
clearness and precision, and a comparison
of it with the official work is not to the
advantage of the manual."

In 1836 Prince Louis began to be aroused
by the agitation of France, and the opposition
of Louis Philippe's government to the
democratic spirit of the nation. Many
officers had expressed to him their devotion
to the old name. Chateaubriand had said
there was no name, "qui aille mieux à la
gloire de France que le votre." Lafayette
had made him advances, Armand Carrel
had said of him, "His works indicate a
good head and a noble character; the name
which he bears is the greatest of modern
times; it is the only one which can rouse
strongly the sympathies of the French
people. If this young man learns to
comprehend the new interests of France, if he
learns to forget the rights of imperial
legitimacy, and to remember only the
sovereignty of the people, he may be called
on one day to play a great part."  Already,
in 1832, a large portion of the army had
secretly declared for Napoleon the Second,
the unfortunate Duke of Reichstadt. A
whole corps waited for him, and determined
if he did not come, to receive his cousin.
The death of the duke roused the hopes of
Louis, and the result was the attempt on
Strasbourg, already known to our readers.
The unsuccessful adventurer was detained a
prisoner at Strasbourg for a few days, and
then sent to Paris, where his mother had
lately arrived to intercede for his life. In
spite of his appeal for a trial by jury, the
young conspirator was given six hundred
pounds, almost instantly placed on board
the Andromeda frigate, purposely shipped
to Brazil, and only after a six months'
voyage landed in the United States.
Before he left, the prince wrote a letter to
the citizen king, thanking him for his
generous forbearance. It was falsely
pretended at the time, by the French
ministerial journals, that the involuntary exile
had sworn not on any consideration to
return to Europe for ten years, but the
procureur-general afterwards denied this,
publicly, in the Court of Peers. In the
United States Louis Napoleon remained
for a short time studying the territory and
manners of the great Republic of the world,
when hearing of the dangerous illness of
his amiable mother, and returning to
London, in spite of police and spies, he
reached Switzerland in time to receive her
last breath. In 1838, Lieutenant Laity
published, with the prince's sanction, his
version of the Strasbourg attempt, and
was in consequence tried and sentenced to
five years' imprisonment, and a fine of ten
thousand francs. Alarmed at this printed
defence, the Orleanist government now
foolishly demanded that Louis should be
banished from Switzerland, and to enforce
this unjust order assembled an army in
the Jura. The Helvetian Diet seemed at
first inclined to protect their guest, and
some of the cantons even began to arm. But
Louis Napoleon generously, unwilling that
they should suffer for him, took refuge in
London. In that safe haven he devoted
himself to political philosophy, and, in 1839,
published the best and most celebrated of
his works, Les Idées Napoléoniennes.

In 1840, the prince hired an English
steamer called the City of Edinburgh, and
with M. de Persigny, his devoted aide-de-camp,
Count Montholon, General Voisin,
and fifty other adherents, sailed for
Boulogne. "The only obstacle we have to
conquer is at Boulogne," said the prince
during the passage. "This town once ours,
our success is certain. Numerous
auxiliaries, and powerful and devoted friends,
await us in the interior." But his star had
not yet risen; one small wheel went wrong
in the machinery of the plot; the steamer
ran aground near Margate, and in
consequence got to Boulogne by day instead of
by night. The plan had been, with one
hundred men, to seize the château, with
an arsenal that held fifteen thousand
muskets, and to distribute them to the
soldiers of the town and port; but seeing the
band of conspirators, the authorities shut
the gates of the upper town, and foiled the
plot. The troops were summoned to
surrender, but a young lieutenant of the
Forty-second was the only man who came
over. The National Guard began to beat
to arms, and buzz out in force. The prince
then retreated to the Napoleon Pillar on
the heights, and there theatrically planted
a flag with a gilt eagle. Then, retreating
to the beach to regain the steamer, he was
captured with all his partisans. At his
departure from the château of Boulogne
for Paris, amid the sobs of his friends, his
faithful adherent Persigny cried out:

"Go, prince, the shade of the emperor