4 AUGUST 1832, Page 14

END OF THE RACE OF NAPOLEON.

THE death of Young NAPOLEON, the heir of so many hopes and disappointments, should not be passed over without a word. When the infant was born, the cannon was to fire so many shots if a female, and so many if a male : between the number due to the girl and that which commenced the share of the boy, what a moment of suspense agitated all Paris !—the capital was but one ear, and hung upon the vapour's breath. Vain capital ! vain peo- ple!—" pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw "—they glory in the blessing they have, and let it go when wearied of it, cap- tivated by some new bauble. What concern had the Parisians with the sex of the child? He lived to adolescence, and died as Schcenbrunn, the country palace of the Monarch from whom his father had taken and to whom he gave em- pire. Yes, the King of the Romans is dead ! His very title makes one laugh—and weep too, if in the mood. To think bow much this boy was born to, and yet how little he died in— the space he owned a chamber or two in Schcenbrunn, scarcely larger than that he now occupies ! If ever child were born to point a moral and no more, it was the poor lad just dead. The last weakness of great men seems to be a belief in their offspring, in spite of all history. NAPOLEON had faith in his son : nay more, be ruined himself for offspring. He was at a ship in full sail, and threw out his ballast. His separation from JOSEPHINE was fatal : Ins seeking after an alliance with the old prejudices of Europe drew down upon him the new temple he reared to Military Aristo- cracy. The results of his fatal mistake are to be found at St. Helena and the new vault of the poor Duke DE BEICHSTADT.