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Show YOl'NG NAP'S WILL. A OenerooN Yooib Who Died lor Auuihvr ii Couoirj. New York, 15. The will of Prince Napoleon is published here to-day. It is written in bis own hand daled OhUelhurat, Feb. 26, 1879. Following are the chief points: "I die in the Catholic Apostolio and Roman religion, reli-gion, in which I wan born. I desire thai my body be placed near that of my huher, pendii e the lime when thev shall both be transported to where the lounder of our bouse reposes in the midst of Ibe French people, whom we have, like him, dearly loved. My last thought will be for my country. It is for France that I would wish to die. I couslitute my well-beloved mother, Empress Euueuie, my Bole legatee, Bhe being charged wilh attending to the following legacies: I leave 20) 000 francs to my couaio, Prince J. N. Mural; I leave 100,000 Irancs to M. F. Pielri, in gratitude for his good services; I leave 100.000 francs to M. Lebaron Corvisart, in acknowledgment of bis devotion; I leave 100,000 francs to M'Ue De Lar-minat, Lar-minat, who has always shown herself so attached to my mother; I leave 100,000 francs to M. A- Filona, my old tutor; I leave 100,000 to M. L. N. Conneau; 100,000 francs to M. N. Epinaese; 100,000 francs to Captain A. Bizot, my oldest friends. I desire that my dear mother sliall pay a pension for life of 10,000 francs lo Prince L. L. Bonaparte; a life pension pen-sion of 5,000 franca to M. Bacbon, my old equerry, and a liis pension of 2,500 francs each to Mine. Tbiersy and to Uhlmann; I desire lhat all my other servants be never deprived of their situations. The Tribune: Most striking feature of tbo will of the Prince Imperial is bis strong pride in the name of Napoleon and the roal faith in ibe cause. He urges his mother to remember re-member that "so long as there are BonnparteB, the Imperial cause will have representatives," and that tbe time will not end with him. He adjures her to defend tho memory of bis great uncle and bis father and expresses the hope that the time may come when Ihe hodiej of the three Napoleons may reBt together in the tomb now occupied alone by tbe founder of the tamily. Ltjodon, ,15. Alter the Btatue of the late Prince Imperial has been placed in Westminster Abbey and Borne other memorial erected with the funds contributed by the British army, it has been resolved to devote the surplus of tbe fund to the establishment of a benevolent institution institu-tion commemorative of the Prince. It is computed the army fund alone will amount to 50,000. |