Show louis loois NAPOLEON A correspondent of the national has haa disinterred from niles register the following letter addressed to president van buren by louis napoleon just before the departure of the latter from the united states and published at the time in the globe newspaper new york june 6 1837 mr president I 1 am unai unwilling ailing to leave the united states without express expressing in to your excellency the regret I 1 feel in departing ge departing parting without having gone to washington to make your acquaintance though an ill fated destiny brought me to america I 1 had bad counted upon reaping great benefit berie fit in my new place of exile from the society of her distinguished men I 1 wished to study the manners and institutions of a people who have achieved more lasting triumphs by their commerce and their enterprise than we in durose europe have gained by our arms I 1 had hop hoped e under the guardianship of your free laws to have traveled over a country which excites all in my Y sympathy from the tact fact that its history an and prosperity are intimate intimately blended with tile the remembrance of 0 that whick which is a glory to frenchmen but ingv imperative ra tive duty recalls me to the old world my m mother 0 being ill a and d no 0 political political oli considerations detaining me be here e I 1 go to england and shall from thence endeavor to return to switzerland it is is with pleasure sir air that I 1 enter upon these theae details with your excellency since you may have given credence to the calami surmises respecting me which have a appeared jp earell in some of the public journals jour nala holding 0 ding you sir air as I 1 do in high estimation as the th ruler of a free people I 1 am happy that 3 ou should know that wit with the name I 1 bare it is a not possible for me to depart for an instant from the path pointed out to me by my conscience my honor and my duty I 1 pray your excellency to receive this letter as aa a proof of my respect tor for him who occupies the chair at washington and accept the expression of my regard and distinguished consideration I 1 NAPOLEON louis BONAPARTE |