he name we bear
obliges us to listen to the appeal of unhappy nations. I beg you to
represent this matter to my sister-in-law as though I had persuaded my
brother to accompany me; it grieves him to have concealed from her one
action of his life[60]."

[Footnote 60: La Reine Hortense, p. 78.]

CHAPTER V.

THE DEATH OF PRINCE NAPOLEON.

That which Hortense most dreaded had taken place: the voice of
enthusiasm had silenced every other consideration; and the two sons of
the Duchess of St. Leu, the nephews of the Emperor Napoleon, now stood
at the head of the revolution. From Foligno to Civita Castellano, they
organized the defence, and from the cities and villages the young people
joyously hurried forth to enroll themselves under their banners, and to
obey the Princes Napoleon as their leaders; the crowds which the young
princes now led were scarcely armed, but they nevertheless advanced
courageously, and were resolved to attempt the capture of Civita
Castellano, in order to liberate the state prisoners who had been
languishing in its dungeons for eight years.

This was the intelligence brought back by the couriers whom Hortense had
dispatched to her sons with letters entreating them to return.

It was too late--they neither would nor could return.

Their father wrung his hands in despair, and conjured his wife, he
being confined to his arm-chair by illness and the gout, to do all in
her power to tear their sons from the fearful danger that menaced them.
For the revolution was lost; all who were cool and collected felt and
saw this. But the youth refused to see it; they still continued to flock
to the revolutionary banners; they still sang exultant hymns of freedom,
and, when their parents endeavored to hold them back, they fled from the
parental house secretly, in order to answer the call that resounded on
their ear in such divine notes.

One of the sons of the Princess of Canino, the wife of Lucien Bonaparte,
had fled from his father's castle in order to join the insurgents. They
succeeded in finding, and forcing him to return, and as the family were
under obligations to the pope for having created the principalities of
Canino and Musignano, for Lucien Bonaparte and his eldest son, the most
extreme measures were adopted to prevent the young prince from fighting
against the troops of the pope;

The Princess of Canino, as a favor, requested the Grand-duke of Tuscany
to confine her son in one of the state pris