REICHSTADT, NAPOLEON FRANcOTS CHARLES JOSEPH, Duke of, described by the j3onapartists as NAPOLEON II., was the son of the first Napoleon by Maria Louisa of Austria, and was born at Paris, Mar. 20, 1811. His father's joy at his birth was unbounded. "Cott •n roi de Rome," he cried to the crowd of congratulators who pressed into his apartments on hearing the news. The infant prince was baptized on June 9, in the cathedral of Notre Dame, by cardinal Fesch. After the reverses of 1814, Napo leon, it will be remembered, abdicated in favor of his son, but the senate took no notice of Napoleon IL, and called Louis XVIII, to occupy the French throne; whereupon Maria Louisa and her child removed to the palace of Schoubrunn, nea• Vienna, where they remained till the treaty of Vienna had re-arranged the affairs of Europe. Maria Louisa then proceeded to take possession of the sovereign duchy of Parma, which had been conferred upon her, while her son continued to reside at the Austrian court with his grandfather Franz I., who was much attached to him. By an imperial patent, dated
July 22, 1818, he was created duke of Relehstadt, with the rank of an Austrian prince, and received a liberal education, but never enjoyed robust health, nor exhibited a vigor ous intelligence. At the July revolution in 1830 his name was mentioned as a candidate for the French throne, and Talleyrand, it is even believed, proceeded to Vienna for the purpose of advocating his cause, but was coldly received, and the project dropped. Des tiny had indeed determined otherwise. The constitution of the poor youth was utterly undermined by laryngeal phthisis, and July 22, 1832' he expired at Shonbrunn. His last words, addressed to his mother, were very touching as an expression of almost childish despair, gate ?inter, meine Mutter, wine Mutter!" lie was interred with magnificent pomp in the imperial tomb at Vienna.