Lincoln telegraph. [volume] (Bath, Me.) 1836-1846, 1841-05-06
NO G.

and carriages, dogs, parrots and monkeys, fol-
lowed. While the monarchs of Europe adopted
an economical style of travelling, under meaner
names than the titles they bore to enjoy more
comfort and freedom, Maria Louisa went through
the continent with all the pomp of the late En-.
press of the French.
Yether subjects, half ruined and nearly starv-
ing, still honored and loved her. They fondly
believed her unacquanted with her miserics;
they looked upon her conduct the consequence
ofAustran pulley they continued to her, with
a touching kindness of feeling, the title of Maes-
ty they sympathetcally called her La Po~ra
Tfadiia = the poor betrayed'-and warmly well
coined her home. Sometimes they appealed to
her sensiblity.
One spring she hired frigate of the King of
Sardinia, and furnished it like the barge of Cleo
patra, for visit to Naples. The harvest had
been very scanty, the winter very severe, her
people murmurad and groaned On the eve of
her departure, at supper, under her napkin, lit
tie note was discovered it was n sonnet which
embodied the popular feeling. Maria Louisa read
and turned pale she bit her lips, and shed tears
of rage. Her courticrs were COMPOUNDED; but
on the morrow La PorerG 1'radita was riding to
Genoa, and three days after sailing to Naples.
Other causes helped to undermine her popular
ity the general enthusiasm of her people, in the
early years of her government, awakened the
jealousy or alarmed the fears of the court of Vi
emma. 1t apprehended that, should popular feel
ing burst forth in Italy, it might place Maria Lou
isa at the head of the nation and proclaim her
Regent
Italian liberals Of the Napoleon school, as they
termed themselves, but whom Bonaparte, in his
famous letter to Vietard, after the peace OF Cam
Pic Formio, termed " a gang Of brawlers, whom
should better style as madmen,'' assert that Aus
tra resolved to ruin one of the loveliest OF It's
daughters in the opinion of natons but history
will shrink from the responsibility of assertin
political prohigacy so atrocious we but record
the long Had of her woes.
| Adam Halbert, Count ofNeipperg, lieutenant
general of Hungarian Lighthouse, appointed
by the Aulc Council chamberlain and private
secretary to the Duchess of Parma. The gener-
al, it is said, had orders never to leave her; she
had directions never to move step without him.
In affairs of state, in parties of pleasure, they
were thus constant companions Neipperg was
tall, fine looking parsonage. His age at his ar
rival in Parma was not mush above thirty. He
had bright martial countenance, and his left
side-face was the type of manly beauty. In his
early campaigns the lance of a French hussar
had deprived him of his right eye. That honora-
BILE wound was covered with black band, and
there were charms enough in the eye that remain
ed to win weak woman's heart. The heart OF
I opJ hofnr tbn
of May, 1921, the day of Napoleon's death, she
preferred the groves of Sala and the parks of Co
lorno to the watchful curiosity of the city. Her
pale brow had sunk from its habitual expression
of Austrian dignity-she remained confined to
her apartments for long intervals. In short, the
Duke af Reichstadt had ceased to be without
rival in her maternal tenderness.
A Countess Neipperg was then alive, and, by
the arrangement of the congress of Vienna, Ma
ria Louisa, in case ofmarriage. was to be bereft
of her state. The lovers, however, at length
found themselves both in state of wdowhood,
and, the cabinet of Austria having yielded it's
consent, they were married with secrecy and
haste in small chapel at Naples.
The epoch of her connexon with Nelpperg was
a happy one for her subjects. Neipperg was a
man of generous and liberal sentiments. He was
mild, and abhorred violent measures, and gener-
ally upheld the cause of justice and truth. He
was very popular. His style of living was sim
pie ; his manners were affable and easy. In pub
lie calamtes he was humane; in public sedi-
tons he dsarmed popular fury by his GOODNESS
and self.possession. In 1897 he died; his regi-
ment, his family, his courtiers, and the whole
population attended his funeral; his helmet
and sword were lain by his side; his charger was
slain on his tomb Maria Louisa departed for
Vienna The public voice pronounced that
Count Neipperg did not carry all her affections to
the sole master of her thoughts. Certain it is
that there was in her conduct more than enough
to authorize all kinds of idle conjectures and to
give origin to scandal.
But the people of Parma have always been no.
torious for boldness of speech. Their discontents
and anmadversons were not now expressed IN
whispers. Maria Louisa could hear their muir
murs, and read their lampoons. Unequlvocal
marks Of disrespect met her eye every where
She was indignant at it. She changed her man
ner toward her subjects; they changed their
FEELING toward her; and when the general vcis-
STUDIES of the peninsula, in 1881, arrayed all the
population in war against their governments,
Maria Louisa had already bee ONE an object of
the If contempuous dislike.