Star.
London, England, 1830-12-07 00:00:00

Tilt EMPEROR Or AUSTRIA.

The Emperor has long languished in a state of acute suffering. His
strength is exhausted by an almost constant cough ; but notwithstand-
ing his physical infirmities, instead of indulging in the repose which the
debility of age seems imperatively to demand, this excellent Sovereign
is indefatigable in his attention to the duties of his exalted station._
Many slanderous rumours on the score of this august Monarch have
been circulated in foreign journals. but in France full justice is rendered
to the virtues of his private character. During the coldest season of the
year, he rises every morning at five o'clock. Twice a week ha grants
public audiences, which usually last eight or nine hours, and during
which the humblest of his subjects, a porter, or a hackney-coachman,
may accost him familiarly, and demand justice at his hands. There
exists not in the world a Monarch who pushes simplicity or good-natured
indulgence to an equal extent. Should a ire break out in the middle of
the night in the most distant quarter of Vienna, he is immediately on
horseback, and repairs in person to the scene of danger, which he is the
last to quit ; nor does he relax his personal exertions till assured that
tranquillity is restored. The people of Vienna look upon him as a be-
nefactor and a father. When he appears in public, they do not press
around him with tumultuous shouts of Fire rEmpereur ! but every
eye is fixed upon his countenance, the favorable or unfavorable changes
of which are watched with the anxious but silent solicitude of filial ten-
derness.

MARIA LOUISA. •
When the abdication of Buonaparte was signed, the ex-Emperor.
with every symptom of despair in his countenance, ordered the Count
de St. Ankh',' one of his chamberlains, to bear the unwelcome tidings
to Maria Louisa. Sir," said Buonaparte to him in a blunt tone, that
might have disconcerted the moat practised mintier, "tie to hrr Ma-
jesty the Empress, and announce to her all that has happened." " Sire,
may I presume to observe to your Majesty, that the hour of midnight
is rather unseasonable." "No—not by my orders. Tell the Empress
it is my desire that the admit you instantly, even should the be en dis.
habil le r—if she be asleep, she must be awakened." The Count de St.
Aulaire war obliged to accept the mission. Perhaps, at the bottom of
his heart, he was not sorry to avail himself of the opportunity of seeing
an Empress of France

Darn le simple appareil
D'une beaute qu'on vient d'arracher au sommeil.
The Empress was asleep, and the Count was obliged to wait on the out.
side till her toilette of the night had been exchanged foe a more suitable
costume. Meanwhile, the Envoy composed his physiognomy into the
appears of gravity which befitted the occasion, and was at length
ushered into the bed-chamber, where the Empress, negligendy reclining
on a sofa, awaited his approach. With much difficulty he acquitted
himself of his disagreeable mission, the Empress listening in silence.
Count naturally himself for the tears and sobs of the
Imperial beauty, particularly at the conclusion of his address, which
was couched in these terms— His Majesty has abdicated this very
evening." Monsieur de St. Aulaire,' replied the Empress with a
smile, and looking at her feet, which were confined in a pair of de-
green pumps, " you may well be astonished to see me—in
alipPefe.'