Territorial Enquirer | 1881-04-09 | Page 1 | End of Prince Louis Napoleon

end of frinco louis napoleon I 1 was first introduced to prince armco louis louif or ad aa we in england still continue continho con to call hito hire tho the prince imperial at the annual dinner ot of the ibo newspaper press P rand rad I 1 in a loud london on in ia tho the year 1877 lie ile bin bea made nn an excellent speech epee oli and had met with a most en ill usla stio reception lie he V was as a young man baa of 0 I 1 very bright parts parti and in spite ot of ou ob viona via disadvantages bad baa distinguished blin gelf not a little in his bin studies at our royal military academy at woolwich which he bo attended as aa an artillery cadet its ills two closest comrades there were slade and bigge both of bt whom were afterward in service with him in zulu land A among those who looked below the surface there was never any doubt and subsequent revelations nave dave tho the fact act that prince louis louia vol VOI ered to see BBQ figh with the british troops in u zululand Zu Za luland in order that by gaining gamins reputation for bravery in ili field service there ha be might add personal prestige pre sligo to his pretentious pretensions to the throne of franco france it was then something Gom ething worse thim than a mistake un the part of the british or rather on tho the part of tho the great people 01 of the british court ac aa lively to tild an adventure ml venturo the covert P n r which was to further the b 1 I of tile the settled bottled order of I 1 things in I 1 country to which britain stood in ia the attitude of a friendly ally sever never of u strong constitution prince louis lonis woo prostrated pi by a laws aver a lew few d daa a ol of liia bis landing in south A ainoa f ho insisted on going under calives catives ca tives with a battery of artillery the ibe c officers of which were old friends of lid hia a and iad which was encamped at batos manor capt outside port dothan dorian A few days of this work knocked liDo obed him over and lo ho had to go and be nursed lu it tho the house of a hospitable resident of durban whose wife attended on the sick brince as if he had been her ber own non don when he be recovered lord chelmsford who commanded in south africa attached a him to his hia personal staff in the capacity of honorary aid do camp and he be his lordship to the zal land frontier prior to the becom men coment of native operations in may 1879 I 1 met tho the prince very often during the weary time when the two columns of f the tha invading force ores were lingering at L landman and mans a and waiting waltice for the full equipment that was wai to enable them to cosmenco com menco the their r m tell of invasion relied become informally attached to the department of the quarter master general and ho he was eager for employment on every made into the boa tilo tile territory he was singularly modest who when at a camp dinner ai lizer the place of honor honer would be tendered tend lima le he invariably declined with but courtesy protesting tha that at ho be was waa too tco junior for obvious ous reasons I 1 bad never mado made any reference in in conversation with him hia to the franco german war that had wrecked wreaked his hia dynasty but one day ho he voluntarily introduced the topic topi and told me a number of personal ane concerning that stirring pe nod when his lather father himself anil and the imperial suite were veto hurrying away from metz belz to escape the environment befell they got jammed in a block ol of troops I 1 still vehicles on the chauss tle lending leading to Gra gravelotte I 1 there came Is patio panic and the imperial arly parly seemed hopelessly blocked in bat I 1 prince louis in ia his hia rides daring h hu ia a salk r iii ia metz melz hid had made himself acquainted acia quain tate ted d with all the by tracks one I 1 of thebo a vineyard path opened close i to where the party was blocked biding into it with the exclamation follow me papal the boy of fourteen guided the whole cavalcade out cut of tho the press preen and led it by a wi litls do but onto bate circuit through tho the vineyards Tine yarda to the bon house so it ia Gra where the halt for the night was arranged in ono one ot of the early into Zo Zala luland lanil aa had exposed himself with great reckless galloping headlong head loog and alone into A broken rocky country after sonio some zulus zalus who la biad ltd shown themselves end cud on hearing of 0 this lord chelmsford Obela isford gave orders that he ha should go on to no expedition without his bis in tho the some recon be heena was so BO bent on roughing liina it that he be brought no blanket the iba nights were very cold cola and when it ia bivouac the troopers lay snug under their blankets he bo tramped about abent to keep beep himself warm singing meanwhile the tha brench came cacaj bongot go arc Malbro ob at length u rough trooper aware it him lor jor kicking up that infernal row and offered hi hita in half hn blanket it ho he would only lie ai down and go to sleep tile 0 o brigl a ida ia aa ken keen be must emit at aril wan t th he approving pro rig comment of the old Nol soldiers goldi diers eis at length the march of 0 invasion iDva eion lo be gnu gan tile column which lord Uti olms lord land and the tha prince ly encamped on the morning of tuo the first at of juno at a spot called doppio koppio Al allela Alls leli lii on oa the lank b mk ol of the blood river the boundary between tho the ind Zu zululand luland it was to mareli that day ilay forward some boma seven goven miles to another encamping ground called lloil ifill already alaf ady the ground some distance in ID advance hail been carefully fully over and found to be 19 clear clar ol of zulus zalus A site eito for tho the halt next succeeding Bucce eding that at hill fiill had bad been chosen about ten miles forward from tho the latter camp on level ground close to the tha riv r tha th a ilinca laid had for three duya days boon been E taril bard at dealt cleak which lio ike alit ablo 0 I 1 d aud all d ho he ackell ool col Ha triou to let liim him g go 0 forward to the river birer and plan the disposition of tile tho camp to be formed there there seemed no risk tind and barnson consented without consulting lord ch Ims ford libat carey asked and get got permission to accompany the prince to perfect a sketch fket oli which he be land had already made of the tracks leading to the groland I 1 was living with tho the general commanding the caa cavalry illy and Il remember as it if it were ware but y yesterday scalds carey com coin alia cavalry bri sade gaido major lor for an n ors no and got authorization lor for six bit white laite irregulars and an all equal number ol of BABI 1103 black troopers who were all ad mirable scants and who can small a 8 zulu a mile away such an escort was adequate for any such service Be ivice and bavo been bon oon sidereal ample for the commander in in chief himself carey took the orders and said eaid tint that lie ha would pick up the detachments tach ments as he passed through the tha respective camps then lie ha rode away lie ho was la ia a hurry and so ho he only took with lim as an ike ho rodo on oa to catch up with thy the prince the six sit white irregular troopers the basacos B required a little time tima to ta go g ready so ao he bo did not coc for or them but left that they should aldo forward and overtake over tako him indicating tho the route ho he was to take by au an unfortunate mistake haslit hla instructions were misunderstood and aad the tha black follows co an hour atter after carey boa bad gone paraded in ili front ol of the cavalry headquarters head quarters they ibey were ordered oil at once to overtake over tako carey lat lank they did not one eno aced in striking his track and giving up the hunt re returned rec arned into camp had tho the been bean with the princa in IA all human would have been alive to dy doy that same bame night iii glit as we were at diu dia ner about seven in gen clou marchalls marshalls Mars Mar bulle tout tont a soared face looked in through the tent door it was 11 arrison who with a broken agitated voice exclaimed 11 my boj the prince imperial is killed the ill news newa was too train carea and four our of oc the tha irregulars irregular had ahad brought back the tha wretched tidings the two troopers and a black interpreter who had been with the party had boon left on the field next morning oen gen marshall took out the cavalry brigade to reconnoitre the tha ground anil and bring in the bodies lio dios for from tho the first thora there was no hope that any oi of tho the abandoned men were alive barey barey accompanied the party us all did the four troopers that had boen been oi of the escort onrey carey was not under arrest and seemed in no wise oppressed by the gravity ol of his hia position we found the poor lails laas body in ia a grassy hollow bout about two hundred yards distant from the kraal at which oa to rs mounting after a short rest tho the party hal had been surprised by the tha zaino he was stripped stark naked one eye gouged out hw his body literally covered with assegai stabs and his left lim arm na hawked ked by countless coant lesa cuts OB as it if he hid had hold held it raised in self defence def enco the two troopers lay near slain also by assenat wounds on oa no corpse either of thel the three human beings arof or of the two slain horses was waa there any mark ol of bullet ballet wound the interpreters body was found a mile ile away va he V a ba bad a died ea kama game after clear evidence of a desperate hand to hand combat I A court of inquiry inculcated inculpated carey who wua was almost immediately brought to trial on a charge of misbehavior in presence pre tence of the enemy it is carious that just as la in the german army there is no bugle sound that means 11 be la treat so in tho the english ralli military tary code cade there is no specific mention of odthe the crime ot of cowardice I 1 was ws present throughout the proceedings ce co of the court martial on caroy carey heard beard fill the evidence and his bis defense and will now attempt to give an impartial synopsis of tho the circum stances attending alten atten dieg the princes runtime ly death first the ground ranst must be cleared ot of ono one complication carey could not fairly be considered in command of the party P r it was the princea Pr incas expeditious expedit iou io commissioned true T uz crey scarey was the only oaly commissioned com d officer of the british army present anti an i obvious duties devolved upon him io in that capacity but bat the wi was na dero der tood stood to rank as Ilon honorary captin and nd so BO was in nominal earn command mand having baving clarey merely its as his guide philos philoa filiar and friend after an honra halt ball in ia the kracl by the tha iziver the horses being off saddled and pasturing around and the hour boar being nearly four fear carey sug destea to mhd prince that it was time to move back to camp the tha black interpreter hail haa reported reporter ej having seen a zalm rowling prowling about the the horses onea were caught and saddled and od the vimoto aavo tho word of command to mount juat jam as a feet were in stirrups all the survivors agreed in testifying that a volley of e musketry came into the tha party from all around the edge edga of the makia alel blell I that lorand formed a aemi airale roura the pastern eastern enlo aldo of alio arral carey sold lie when mounting WM wild on oil one ona aide of at hut tile prince on the other oilier that ho ba row aw tha tbt latter spring to tilo mount aist kind and thought hinio elt entitled to ads t me he iva was bata I 1 la all blo a like jho mansell all tho the troopers tro opera concurred in that barey was ana ill tho 0 fugitive aug fug alvo that he loil led the way lit at a gallops gallop without looking bad back over the tha two litt hundred odred yards ot of sward across tho the ravine or donga sua bad far up iha rugged slope ho horld conj carey airey certainly could give no account of an anything thing that happonen behind him after ile ho flad d away till one of 0 the troopers overtook him on the abo high gronlid beyond the tha donga cadov till still wears weara the tha uniform tho the gro ULLIS of his hin lion ion lemp being that he bo was wan n social ond and it was his duty to run rna a ami a 1 I not unlit tho the prince never got mounted at ill all uis horse was wan cestive les tivo and ho he would not stand llo ia run by tho the side bijo of tile tho beabe ono one lined land holding the roina reins aud and clutching tho the pommel ii omme tho the other in tho the cantle of the saddle ODO ef 91 tho the troopers a jersey mad passed him in ia this plight glit shouting a M he 11 momi eur presently he bo was seen beba by a trooper who looked back to let go eo his bis grip ol of the iho aduddle still anil fall backwards the horse boree escaping at a headlong gallop the ilia trooper thought the prince was shot but this was not so eo tho brond broad band of leather linking tho the hoit host lers lere und and crossing cro haing the pommel of tile tho saddle was vis what his right hand lad imil lieen been clutching as he ha strove strata to spring into the saddle this had torn under the str stroida at riu oita bad and so lie the prince princa land hail lost loat hij grip anil fallen backward 7 inspected tin the rot rants ts I 1 next day jor lot the tha boroo wag s brought ioto into camp and I 1 10 found and t alm wrt abu be baud which chioli had givan bitay away was made not of sound stout leather but of a wretched substance that seemed brown piper paper aud and so ao in a florida it was not alio alai zulus zalus that killed hilled prince louis louia but the hoddy rascality of 0 a firm of 0 woolwich oh ladd lera t ator tho thi poor lad in closing losing his hia borso had lost loot his hia last chance he ha tau ran before the zulus overtook him nearly two hundred yards till ho be broached reao boil the little grassy ravine or douga where wo we found his hia body ono one of the troopers saw eav him disappear into the tha hollow of tho the donga with tho the zulus zalus close at his hia leela heels he ha never did emerge till we carried him balat out feet foremost I 1 alad any man of 0 the pirty waited for him in comparative safety douga donga and taken gioi liia m thoreld in a troug strong probability chato wo would uld have been saved bared I 1 havo have seon far word more risky enterprises crowned w with itla success but when the prince was being man who might have covered himself birna olt with credit by a deed for the ha chance of which scores of 0 taw mien would burn was wai flying venaro a bent fern a with panic tat at his hia heartland heart and words of hia lips it remains to be ba said bald that after the most careful inspection I 1 could red find around the kraal till all over the ground no wad or cartridge or stay any I 1 aara c a of the use usa of firearms by the Z alati youths companion