The Sun.
London, England, 1816-05-04 00:00:00

TIIE-FATE-EMPRESS OF AUSTRIA.

{extracts front Gpinat! Papers.]: ~.•
ALIG9IWIiGI4kkiiIL 20,—The 411gemeine Zeitung
of to-day has the
.following article : - •
.• • 4A• VI ENNAj APRIL 13.

" 'file. depth of,the Empress of Austria, who, in the i9tit
year of her .b4e; • bass iicer ratcheri from her country, has
caused the deepest in this city, as well as •in the
whole empire. fier Mitjesty.-wes borivat Milan: on the 14th.
of December, Though Aucated in-the retirement df
the cluitters, and rlest'intdh.ylo:•:r august parents totake the
veil, she showed from earlieit youtle very extraordinarytaliints.
As the august fax.piiyof Este was compelled by the Freneb-in
17trti to leave Lombardy, the Princess, tbeti nine years of age,
was also obliged to retire with.ber parents into the interior of
'the Austrian states, and
,at a subsegotikt period to Neustadt,.4
(Geriseitl) miles from tliis capital ,w h ere bee Ctfucatitni ivas com-
pleted uuderthe ituniediate care of leer rpot,lrer,tittArchduchess"
Beatrice, of Este. It was here that the Princess, in:silent re-
tirement, though still in tender youth, beghn to Wit: a lively
interest iu the events which convulsed Europe,. iu the years
179 is, Lao°, &c.--an interest which gave exercise to bee active
mind, and tally gave- her character, ;hat fortitude which slip
so nobly displayed ip the eventful'. Years that %flowed. , The
oppression of the Freneb.tyruuny in Gernrany, anti the ha-
tred of Burinaparte, who seemed constantly to brood over the
enti,e,mn of het House, made her his must declared adver-
sary, which she continued till her death.. When, in the ytrzr
!St.l7, the Emperor chose her for his consort, and she fur the
first, !Una, cat:hanged the retired Court of her Zslather
fur-the brilliant Court of the EMperor, all hearts eagerly
brr homage, and every Ltie who had the happiness
to `approach her %VA'S astonished and delighted with the
power of her mind. With modesty, beauty, and calm dig-,
laity; she appeared in the imperial palace; and the fairest
model of feinate excellence was seen on the throne by the

side of a haoy .".onsort who won the faith of hig people.—
&mu after Ow nmircage, which was celebrated um the Ch of
January, 184).;, • yeai's of affliction and great suffering for the
people of Austria came on, which threatened the destruction
of the Monarchy. We leave it to posterity duly.to appreciate
the brilliwit ind truly heroic, qualities slkewn by her Majesty
In the said c:itasiroPhe of 100 fat her contemporaries it is
enough to hnuw, that the sufferings of Austria at that time
so iletidy afflicted the heart of the princess, that her health,
already weak, was irreparably injured. We pass over the
wretched pitiful insults with which the freuch bulletins at
that time loaded her, as they did her counterpart, the im-
mortal Queen of Prussia, whose eminent qualities were like-
Avise a title to the hatred of Napoleen ; and ackhuwtedge the

dispensation of Pruvidence.which resci yea it fur her Majesty,'
is is were, personally to humble her aii.gatit adversary in the
rzenitls uf his good fort tinems his inarriae w, b the Archduchess
Ala:I-la Loul:ist, an subsequently, al tile-meeting in Dresden
1813; where she treated 13uonaparte iu such a manner, and
'aspired hitu with such awe, that, as eye witnesses attain, ha
Wioi constantly disconcerted whenever the Empress approach-
edhitn. In the years 1814 and 1812, on the commenceMent.
of the extraordinary events whiclelListened the fall di Napo.
Iron, the Empress shelved a truly Germait a heir. Largif sums
were di.tributed by her fur the stipport of, the,-widows of mi.
litiAineu. She did nut forgettlie sacred Interests ,of her fa-
mily and of the empire. het whole intineacC, and exertions
bring directed to restore Austria to its ancient splendour;
fur which she considered the possession of Lombardy is
pensably necessary. It was granted her by fate to see her'
family, again in possession of their dominions; but ber•
healtli.visibly declined. At the beginning of the Cungresi,.
when so "many European Princes, bad occasion .to admire,
her estraurtlinary understanding, and the elevation of her
character, she was alr.eady sicUy : yet, a year 'later, she
was not to be dissuaded from taking part in the journey to
her native country, which she greatly longed to Ste, but
where fate, to the great grief of her family, put an end to
her life by an easy death.. Great is her loss fur all his Majes-
ty's children, especially for the Oiler Archduchesses Leopol-
dine, Clementine, and Caroline, who lose in her an affec-
tionate mother and a tender friend, who dedicated so many

boors to their education ; but every Austrian subject must
be allowed to deplore a young Princess who so forcibly called
to mind the youtixiof the great Maria Theresa.
" Some private letters from Veroua say, that only two
bouts before her death the Empress dictated a letter with
much vivacity, to her brother, the Archduke Maxituilian, at

Vienna, in which she expressed the hope of soon seeing him
again in good health. Shortly alter, she all into a calut and
gentle'slumber on falling asleep she strongly pressed the
hand of the Emperor.
•, Vtestris., Aram 10.
"All the theatres will be shut from the gtith, when the body
of the Empress will arrive, to the bth of May.
," Her Majesty arrived at Wellman' a fainting fit: from that
moment she believed her end near, but awaited it with philu-
sophiCal resignation and composure. She often had her con=
fessor with her. The physician eonce►red solar hopes, but
her Majesty's pre-sentiment was more decisive than the sym-
toots of the disease. Dutinethe last eight days.she hardly
!took any food. A few hours before her death she heard with
pleagure a performance.of vocal and instrumental antie.

4. The Emperor is at Venice ivjth the Duchess of Rama,
At Triest. &c. the most brilliant pre-
erations hall been mode to receive his Majesty, but the grief,
'in which all his faithful subjects are now plunged has sul-
pended nil those ex of joy."— Journal de Frankfurt,
djoil ifi.

QUEEN-SWAMI:. Yesterday Gentle Sfifido,
Bookseller, Charles-street, Soho, wag brought op
upon an infotrnation tor pfinting papers of sedi-
tionS- nature, and distrihnting thew without the
mane or place of ttbocle of the Printer being on
thou.—The part of the ease relative to sedition
wan not at all gone into, only the,distrihutint,i' of
such impers contrary to the Act of 39 Geo. HI.
cap. 79. which subjects the party to the penalty
of twenty pounds for every p4per so distributed or
51)1(1. It was addressed to Lord Sidmouth.—Mr.
Shade was convicted in the penalty of .twenty
putts) without lippeal tit) the .essiurs.