Prince Jerome Napoleon, having been rejected for the Council- General
of Corsita by the electors of Ajaccio, through the influ- ence of the Prince Imperial, has addressed them a letter in which he breaks finally with the elder branch. He says the Prince and his advisers would introduce a Bourbon system of government ; that the Dictatorship is no longer needed ; that he desires a plibiscite only that the nation may be free ; that he prays for a Govern- ment democratic and reforming ; that he would accept the peace without barren recriminations, confine the priests to the sanc- tuary, free the communes, 'remove administrative barriers to trade, and guard the liberty of the Press and of association. Of course he has no ambitious ideas for himself, "having lived too close to the grandeurs of power." All this, if sincere, would be an appeal to the democracy, and almost justify the Parisians, who call the Prince, "Napoleon Egalit6 ;" but it is not sincere. As we have tried to show elsewheke, the Prince is no one, except as heir of Napoleon after the Prince Imperial's death ; and if that event should occur, he will and must become an Imperialist instead of a Jacobin.
