Joseph in England.--Letter from La Fayette.--Letter from Joseph to La Fayette.--Letter from Victor Hugo.--Letter from the Duchess of Abrantes. --Restoration of Napoleon's Statue to the Column of Austerlitz.--The Law of Proscription.--Letter from Madame Letitia.--Letter from Joseph to Louis.--Meeting of the Brothers in London.--Testimony of Louis Napoleon.--The Attempt at Strasbourg.--Letter from Louis Napoleon to his Uncle Joseph.--Failing Health of Joseph.--The Remains of the Emperor brought back to France.--Letter of Thanks from Joseph.--Sickness and Death.--Character of Joseph. Joseph, finding himself in England in 1832, and his nephew, the Duke of Reichstadt, no longer living, took up his residence in London. He earnestly desired to join his wife and mother in Italy. But the jealousy of the Allies would not allow him, until he was absolutely sinking in death, to place his foot upon the Continent. His universally recognized virtues secured for him, from all classes of society, a cordial reception. While Joseph resided in England, the celebrated Spanish chief, Mina, who had been one of the most formidable of the leaders of the guerrillas, made several visits to the ex-King, expressing the deepest regret that he had not sustained him. He stated to Joseph that his intercepted letters had so revealed his true character, that others of the leaders who had operated against him were now in his favor. La Fayette wrote Joseph a letter of sympathy in view of his double affliction in the loss of his son-in-law, Napoleon Louis, and his nephew, the Duke of Reichstadt. The letter, from which we make the following extract, was dated La Grange, October 13, 1832: "MY DEAR COUNT,--I am deeply affected by those testimonials of confidence and friendship which you kindly give me. And I merit them by all those affections which attach me to you. It is with profound sympathy that I share in your grief from the two cruel bereavements. I should immediately have written to you in London, had I not been informed that you were on the route to Italy. I have, however, since learned that your entrance into Rome has been interdicted to your filial piety by a base and barbarous policy." La Fayette also expresses his deep regret that the Orleans Government persisted in the decree which banished the Bonaparte family from France. Joseph, in a reply dated London, Nov. 10, 1832, writes: