Napoleon's Place Of Exile

Frem the N. Y. Kvenlng PoL Sinco I commeneed this letter a dispatcli from Kiog William to the Queea anaoances that tlio Chateau of Wilhelmahuhe, near Cassel, hus beoa seleuted a the residence of his illustrious prisoner. ïhia choice-quite accidental!;, no doubt - has an American aspect cutiously intorosting. I vinited the Chateau a few weeks sincc. It is onc of the loveliest and, after Versailies, costliest couotry places n the world. It was built by the Elector of Cassel, shortly ftcr our revolutiouary war, with tho money ha receivod for the loan of soine twelve thcKisand of his sulijoets to atd England in resistí Dg our indepeudanee. The artiticiül structuren, a'.er-falls, lakes, tuwera, pulace, etc , on this property are autl 10 have omployed two tbousand men fourteen yeara in their construction, and the coat was found to be 80 enoriuiius iliat thü accounts were destroyed. For tiiuso tvrclve thousaud Hcssiaus sent to fight our fathers, and tnc thousiud more tent to resist the invaeioo of Scotland by the Pretender, Jtíigland paij the Hlect rof tluitday 2,ÜÜU,000 thiers, or ábuut Sl8,O0O,000, of which tho paiaca ot Wilbeliushoho is the most couBpiuuoirs larTiving memorial. Mr Bancroft, vvhose naind is by inütiuct auil truiuing so aüvo to the lesauiia of hi-lory, once called my atteDtiou ti tbie t:■lkl;)g tact that every one of thu Europcan Otates, iooluding Cassel, that hireil their suhjeats out to reaist our indepeudeoco, hsive lost their own. Not oue cif them is aay longer a sovereign p)wer, Iu the-war f 186G the 1ste Elector of Cusïi'l, with tho folly that ovor tr.kes possessiou of those whom thegoiis would destroy, took niJes witli Austria agaiii-t a united Gerrnany and "uu uf tlie C(!i)8e(jueuci s was that hi enchantiug castle of Wilholmshohe bas b cume the property f bis conqueror. llio Klector witli bis wife, a woman of huniblü orighi b .t of great beauty, whom he bought of lier hubaud for sixty tl.ousind thalers, and her four cniidren, for v.hotu .e gave forty thousand tui.re, rj uüw liviutr in Austria upoa the wealth she accutnulated by fuir meaqs and foul - hut ciore foul thanfair tl.ey siy - during her biitf and degradiiijj r1n. NjMj wliat in all thi.i is most remarkable reDiains tu be told. All the Statos as I bave suid, that mode merchandise of their subjects to aid Jïngland in Keepiiii; her Ameritan colooies in thrall, huvo Leen swallowed up by Prusflia, our earüest E'jropean friend, with whom wc liever bad aveu a diplomatic ootitroveray, aud whoeu wealth and pyiaputhy coutributed in no Hicoiiiiderable n:easure to ustaia us through our great tational trilla. Jct us [pllow one 8tep furiher the logic of Providence. This pulaco of Willielnishohf, bO Iately aud by a series of curioua jirovidfiicen beoomo the property of our constant iVicini, is now to becoum the i'.--';si!) or the asylüm of anolbsot'èreigri who, u n fa ï ; b f u 1 to tho traditi'jis of ia peple, amoDg our earliest fi ii nd, allowod bimelf to countenanca :i O'inspiraóy which, ifit did not contemphitc, must, to be successfu!, have involved the destruction, in it8 rnaturity, of tho republic which hnd proved so fatal to thosj of hi.-i order wlo had tried to trangie it o its eradle. With his proéct to rc-c-(abli.sh imperial iustitutions pon the ruins of a republio io Mexico )egan the decline of hia fortunes. Is it ot a eiirious vindication oí' the ways of jod to nmn, that this custlc, built as it wore liktï tlio palace of Tamerlaoe, aougii with the bonos of our eiieniies ather than of his who was first t" ocupy it, should be destined to afford to ne who but yestorday as erectin barriêM to the spread of the Aulo-Stocon in America, the welcomo f-.lu'ler of a piiiOn ? Iu one sense the selection of Wilhelmiioho for the Eiuperor's future resiencu ii not oómpliraeotarv, though in 11 Nenves mowt müguanitrious. Il is not fiirtrosj nor a p'ace of confinement. - t is siniply a princely couutry re.idence. t itnplies na uavds ; n restrictions pon the geingt and the comings of its ew guest. There is a violent irnplicaion in this cboice that Bonaparte is no nnger a Dame lo conjure with. I doubt ' it ever ocenrr'.-d to any of the allied overeins who visited Puris in 1815 to ciid thu uucle to such a place as U'illelmshobe.