Lincoln telegraph. [volume] (Bath, Me.) 1836-1846, 1841-05-06

uen from puDIlc curiosity Preparations were
made in secrecy for their departure; Napoleon
accompanied them to the barge, and stood upon
the shore, long and eagerly gazing upon the ia
ding sail. That lady was not Maria Louisa, nor
the child the King of Rome. That fidelity in
misfortune has ever been honorable trait i'll
the character of the women of Poland, the Incl
dent related testifies with Justice
The Imperial Eagle once more spread its wings
over France. Napoleon promised to present his
wife and child to the people at the Champ de Mai.
The fulilment of that promise Waterloo prevent
ed ST. Helena divorced the husband from his
wife
Maria Louisa, controlled by paternal protec-
ton, was desired to forget her husband she
embroidered the banners which were TO confront
the tri-colored flag.
The Prometheus of ST. Helena never for cot
| his Empress and his child. To her his letters and
messages were reiterated with vain but incessant
assiduity. To visiters, his first questions were
concerning Maria Louisa. To her, IN his will,
he entrusted all he fanced himself to possess
To her love and kindness he recommended his
friends, his veterans, the companions of his glo-
ries, the sharers Of his disasters.
Maria Louisa was babe to put off the arms and
veres of her lord to divest herself of the title
of Empress ; to surrender the son Of her husband
| In all she was obedient she became sharer
| in the spoils ofItaly; and was created Duchess of
Parma, Placentia, and Gnastalla. Napoleon S
son was rebaptzed; his paternal name was oblit-
| Grated from legal rccord-that of Charles Joseph
was substituted his title of King of Rome was
changed into that of Duke of Reichstadt; and he
was withdrawn from paternal guardianship.
| Widowed and chldless, but surrounded with
pomp and magnfcence, Maria Louisa left Wen
ma and fastened towards her humber metropolis.
Greeted and appauded as she passed along, she
drew after her hosts of Lomhards
Parma crowded, on her arrival, with
strangers the friends and servants of her hus-
band had fastened to rejoice with her in prosper-
ty, and to find home in the territories of their
Emperors wife. Show triumph and enthusiasm
received her; but in vain Napoleon's followers
searched and inquired for his son. The absence
of the once heir of the Italian crown destroyed all
| hope of a successful Bonapartist intrigue. The
festivals over, the capital restored to order,
Maria Louisa thanked the assembled thousands
for their good wishes, and desired all strangers
to withdraw. She was left alone with her sub
jects.
Maria Louisa was now enthroned in flourish
ING state, enriched by the gold lavished upon it
during the former Spanish dom inion,t by the
comparative peace it had enjoyed, and by the
commerce and industry awakened under the gov
eminent of Bonaparte. Parma, its capital, Is a
pleasant and lively town, whose frank and hospi-
table inhabitants always rvalled the largest cities
in intellectual culture, and caused their small
metropolis to be honored by the appelaton ofthe
Athens of Italy.
| Maria Louisa, by taste and inclination addict
ed to all kinds of refinement; declared herself
patrouess of learning and art. She restored the
University from the ravages of recent convul-
sons, and the Academy Of Fine Arts from the in
vasions of French lovers of pertu. Her compar-
atvely mild government brought conspicuous
personages from neghborng states, and her mu-
nifcent encouragement soon called all talents in
to exercise She erected, at the cost of seven
years of care and several millions of francs, the
nobest bridge in Italy, with twenty arches, over
the Taro, one ofthe mighticst of torrents. She
raised upon the ruins of an ancient convent
theatre, rivaling in magnlhcence the Scala in Mi
Ian and the San Carlos in Naples, and endowed
it with large sum under the title of dowry; she
called into its service every kind OF performer,
and bestowed upon it orchestra of unsurpas-
sed perfection.
Her hridres her theatres her su perb villas her
ma. nificent cortege, her regiments of grenaders,
her proflse lberality, before long exhausted her
finances. Commerce and industry anguished I;
taxes were increased, and the state ran merrily
into serious inducements.
Money went to Austria, now tribute of
vassalage, now bargain of alliance. At one
time, Maria Louisa paid her expenses when
guest at the court of her father; at another time
she discharged the debts of her SON. The COM
merce and industry of the Duchy were sacrificed
to preserve the prosperity of the Austrian stat es.
But her own probabilities and endless per-
ordinations were not less fatal than the cupidlty
of Austria On the return of every spring, she
began to feel uneasy within the walls of her pal
ace 1t was now the desire of embracing her
son at Schonbrunn now, her sister at Munich
#The Polish lady alluded to, Bonaparte fell in
love with when at Warsaw. She was married
and of rank.-See ''Savarys Memoirs" vol. ii;
chap. 3
1.-THE Duchy of Parma, sc. on the death of
Maria Louisa, reverts, in the person of the Duke
of Lucca, to the descendant of the Spanish house
of Bourbon, from which Napoleon wrested it.