Rutland herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1823-1847, 1839-12-03

this person also his wiz. lie enlrea,ed ''par-
dom but was past repruach, for in few moments
he sunk into the arms Of death.
Tho lady whose melancholy history are
cording, rushed from the room, and leaving her
clothes and money al her lodgings. wandered she
knew no, where, vowing "tha, she would never en-
ter house more or trust TO man" She stopped a,
last near Bristol, and begged the refreshment Of a
little milk. There was something attractive In
her whole appearance as soon produced her what.
ever she requested. She was young and extremely
beautiful; her manners graceful and elegant, and
her counieuance interesting 10 the highest degree
She was alone, stranger, and in extreme distress ,
she only asked for little milk but uttered no COM
plant, and used no art 10 excite compassion. Her
dress and accents bore visible marks that she was
foreigner OF superior bir,h N the day she was
seen wandering IN search of place 10 lay her
wTetched head she sCooped towards night lodg-
ing for herselfin an old haystack. Muluudes soon
hocked around her, in this new habha,ion, attracted
by the novelty of the circumstance, her singular
beauty but above al! the suddcnness OF her arrival
French and Italian were spoken TO her, but she APP
peared not 20 understand those languages however
when she was accosted in German she evidently
appeared confused-the emotion was too great TO be
suppressed--she uttered some faint exclamation in
our tongue, and then, If hurried into impru-
cence, she pretended TO be also without knowl-
edge of this language. Various conjcctures were
instantly formed but what seemed passing strange
was her acceptance Of no food, except bread and
milk, and that only from the hands OF females, On
man she looked with anger and dsdan but sweety
smiled as she accepted any present from the other
sex. The neighboring ladies demonstrated with her
on the danger OF so exposed a situation, but IN van
for neither prayers nor menaces could induce her
10 sleep in a house.
As she discovered evident marks of insanity, she
was at length confined in a mad -house under the
care of DR.. Renaudet, physician at the Hot Wells
On the first opportunity she escaped, and repaired
10 her beloved haystack. Her rapture was nexpres-
sible on finding herself at liberty, and more
safe beneath this miserable refuge.
Beneath the haystack Louisa's dwelling rose,
Here the fair maniac bore four winters SHOWS,
Here long she shivered stiffening in the blast,
And lighnngs round her head their horrors cast
Disheveld 10 her beauteous tresses fly,
And the wild glance now fills her staring eye;
The balls fierce glaring in their orbits move;
Bright spheres where beam'd tn sparkling fires of
love.
1ll-sarr'd Louisa
II nearly four years that this ororn creature
devoted hersefto to this desolate life, since she knew
the comfort of bed or the protection of n roof
Hardship, sickness, intense cold, and extreme mise
ry have gradually impaired her beauty, but she still
is most interesting figure, and there remains IN
common sweetness and decacy in her air and man
ners her answers are alwaya pertinent enough
cept when she suspects the question is meant either
to affront her. when she seems sullen and
angry Some Quaker ladies at this time interposed
and Louisa as she was called, conveyed to
Guys Hospital, where she at present is, and still
maintains her Indignation against the
The persons with whom she lodged, on her death
bed divulged the of the flight of this stranger
from Portsmouth, which corresponds nearly with her
arrival Bristol, and further enquiries have dis
covered that she is the natural daughter Of Francis
Emperor ofGermany.