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Show Napoleon's Home lu Kxllc. Wilhelm.-hohc, or " William's Heights,"- the summer residence of the Elector of Hes-e-Cas-e!, and now the residence to which Louis Napoleon has been assigned by the King of Pru-ia, is of peculiar interest to Amercaris. This place was built by Frederick 11., Elector of Hesse, out of tiie money received re-ceived by him of George 1 II, of England, Eng-land, for "the 17, ""0 HeV-ians hired by King George, as Elector of Hanover. Out of th.'s.' 17,00(1, 501.10 were sent into Scotland to maintain English authority au-thority there, and 1 2.00' J were sent to Anjeriea to ti.-ht the co'oni-ts in out-war out-war f..r inde.ndence. The labor and expen-e of building "Wilheluishohe" were enormous. It is is said that it required the work of 20i0 men f...r fourteen years. ;iii 1 that the' accounts were so I irje that they were burned to destroy all trace of the extravagance. The fountain U the second hiirhe-t in Europe that of Chatsworth being the fir-t. The mediicval ruin-', the aquatic stairway, the temple of the wind-, surmounted by a cdo. al statue of Hercules, male of copper, over thirty feet high the grounds and parterres par-terres about the palace, all show an enormous expenditure of money. The '"heights" are about 2IM)U feet above the level of the s.-a. It is a singular coincidence that a vanqui-hed French Emperor should be assigned this palace by a German Kim.', letuciubcring that the Elector Frederick II. was driven out of Hes-o and obliged to take refuee in Frankfort. |