The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-01-25 00:00:00

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The en tire

world of fashion was enraptured with both ; and
Louis Napoleon soon began to be as ecstatic as the

fashion

world of

At every festival given by that
very estimable individual, mother and daughter
were present; and on one occasion, when a special
hunting-party was arranged by the Emperor at
Compiegne, the Duchess of Pernamando and the
Countess de Teba (as the (laughter was now called)
were the only ladies invited to be present. At this
juncture, the Emperor was knocking at the door of
every royal house in Europe, asking for a daughter
that he might take to wife, and having the door
closed upon him everywhere as a rejected suitor.
As intelligence of each refusal reached France, if
Louis Napoleon looked and felt chafed, the Coun-
tess de Teba neither looked nor felt in sympathy.
She so contrived that the sun of her eyes should
rather warm the disappointed wooer to new efforts
in another direction. His attentions to the young
lady became more marked than ever, and universally
talked about. The countess affected coyness ; but
if, like the lady we wot of, she ran " ad salices," it
was with no intention of not being overtaken among
the bowers of Compiegne.

At imperial fete's by day and balls by night,
she was now the lode star of the Emperor. It
was manifest to all that the most phlegmatic of
men was most consumedly in love. His cour-
tesy was candyed to a sweetness that only ardent
lovers know of ; and it was when he was pressing it
most on the Phillis who was yesterday " forward,"
and now so " coy," that he was thunderstruck
with the intimation that the duchess and her
daughter were about to return to Madrid. As his
lips breathed protestations in the lady's ear, she was
seen passing on as though " in maiden meditation,
fancy free." The nearer he pressed the more she
seemed to shun him. It was Daphne and Phoebus
over again, and the former appeared on the very
point of exclaiming, as she prettily but not too
hastily fled—" Fer opem—si flumina numen habe-
tis." The intention, however, was only apparent,
not real. The new Anne Boleyn was a match for
her too unscrupulous adorer. The Spanish Pamela
was intent upon marrying the French M. Burchell;
and it was hard if Iberian and Hibernian wit toge-
ther could not do for her who possessed it what
shrewdness did for the crafty widow of Scarron—
namely, raise her to a throne. Louis Napoleon was
given to understand that his homage could be no
longer accepted unless his intentions were honourable.
Well : Paris began to be excited, and mothers
who had marriageable daughters were especially
indignant at the diea of the grand-daughter of a
British Consul becoming the consort of the Jupiter
Scapin of France. Privy Councillors and Peeresses
affected to believe that the whole matter was a joke.
The Princess Mathilde (daughter of Jerome) shook
her obese sides in farcical rage; and her brother,
Jerome Napoleon, at present heir to the empire
after his father, turned livid at the thought that
anything serious would be accomplished. A per-
sonal female friend and confidante of the Emperor,
however, gave a grand evening entertainment. The
Countess de Teba was invited. When her carriage
was announced as being at the door, the hostess
descended to the threshold to meet her, and honours
were paid to her such as only royal heads could
claim. The young lady alone was imam, but all
was perturbation around her; and every one divined
that the Empress of the French was to be recog-
nised in her who was made the object of so profound
a homage.

At the same moment Louis Napoleon was presi-
' ding at a Council of his Ministers, most of whom
were struck into a ridiculously pitiable condition
when lie announced that, on his retiring, M. de
Persigny was charged to make an important com-
munication to them. That functionary bluntly
imparted to his colleagues that the Emperor in-
tended to marry Mlle. de Montijo, Countess of
Teba—that lie did not ask their advice, his mind
being made up—but that he admitted them into his
confidence as a mark of his condescension. Ac-
cordingly the poor, stock-jobbing, gambling, servile
Cabinet accepted the communication without much
comment. One who whispered " Mesalliance" was
reminded that the throne of Josephine would not
be disgraced by the accession to it of the Spanish
lady; and that the Creole woman, whom the first
Napoleon loved and betrayed, won more respect
from the world than the Imperial Arch-Duchess,
by alliance with whom he hoped to consolidate his

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