BONAPARTE, JEROME. youngest brother of Napoleon, was h. at Ajaccio. Nov. 15, 1784. After receiving his education in the college at Jun', he served as naval bent, in the expedition to Hayti. When war broke out between France and England in 1803, i Jerome was cruising off the West ladies, but he was soon compelled to take refuge the port of New York. While in America, he married Elizabeth Patterson, daughter of a merchant in Baltimore, Dec. 27, 1803. Subsequently, he was employed by Napol eon in the liberation of Genoese prisoners who had been captured by the dey of Algiers. In the war with Prussia. he commanded, in concert with gen. Vandamme, the tenth corps in Silesia, and on the 1st Dec., 1807, was made king of Westphalia. lie was rec ognized with great pomp at Cassel, where he lived in splendor, caring very little for government, taking the pains to acquire the vernacular language of the coun try. After the war with Austria, the finances of Westphalia, through mismanagement. plunder, and extravagance, as well as war-expenditure, were found in an exhausted condition. The hattld of Leipsie brought the reign of Jerome to a close. After the peace of 1814. he left France, and resided in Switzerland, at Gratz, and in the beginning of 1815, at. Trieste. Ile was made a peer when Napoleon returned from Elba, and fought by the side of the emperor at Ligny and at Waterloo. After his cation, he left Paris, June 27, and visited Switzerland and Austria, but ultimately set tled in Florence. His request to be allowed to return to France was rejected in 1847, by the chamber of peers, but was afterwards granted. and at the outbreak Of the Feh. revolution, Jerome B. was in Paris, where he was appointed governor of the luvalides in 1818, and in 1850 was made a French marshal. Ile (lied in 1800.
Ins marriage with Elizabeth Patterson having been declared 111111 by Napoleon, Jerome was forced, after he had gained the Westphalian crown, to marry Sophia Dor othea, daughter of Frederick I. of Wfirtemberg. After the battle of Waterloo, 11.r father wished to annul the marriage; but the ‘Nife of Jerome declared her reso lution to share through life the fortunes of her husband. Jerome B. left in America one son by his first marriage, and had three children by his second wifc.—JE110ME the elder son, born Aug. 21, 1814, died May 12, 1847; Miernitatk LETITIA WILDELMINE 11., princes of Montfort, born at Trieste, May 27, 1820, married the Russian count Anatol Demidov, and lived with her husband at the court of Louis Napoleon (luring his presidency. Tite younger son, NAPOLEON JOSEPH Ct1ARLLS PAUL B., born at Trieste, Sept. 0. 1832, passed his youth in Italy; entered the military service of WUrtemberg, 1837; afterwards traveled in several countries of Europe: and was banished from France, 1845, on account of his intercourse with the republican party. Ile returned to Paris with his father, 1847, and after February. 1848. was elected into the legislative national assembly. lie commanded an infantry division of reserve at the battles of Ahna and Inkermann the following year. In 1850, he married the princess Clotilde, by whom he has two sons and a (laughter. When war with Prussia was declared in 1870, Prince N. proceeded on a diplomatic mission to his father•in-law. at Florence, hut failed to obtain the co-operation of Italy with his cousin. After the fall of the empire he took up his residence in England, but returned to France in 1872.