The Daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1845-1850, 1848-11-03
MARIA LOUISA.

uOSto VI IVA POicOn pdSStu vienna, and
their encircling batteries were showering shot.
and shells upon the doomed city. The armies oj
Austria, in repeated conflicts, had been mown
down and scattered by the resistless conuueror -
AS the eagle OF Napoleon gIittered upon the hills
which overlooked the city, the royal family with
the hot haste which terror inspires, had fled "a,
off into the wilds OF Hungary 1t is midnight -
The sky is streaked with the cry proiectles
which, like meteors of death, are descendingin-
to the throDged and dismayed metropolis Flames
are bursting forth in every part OF the city, All
hearts are frozen with terror. There is no place
Of refuge. Red hot balls crush their way through
dwellings of brick and stone. Shells explode IN
the cradle OF the infant and upheaving the most
massey dwellings, bury their mangled inmates
beneat the ruins. The clamors OF two hundred
thousand combatants fill the midnight air, and
mingle with the thunders OF one OF the most aw
tul bombardments earth has ever witnessed
In one OF the chambers Of the royal palace there
lies maiden, sixteen years OF age the daughter
OF a king. Her father and her mother. in the
CONSERVATION of their flight, were compelled to
leave behind them their sick child. Her cheeks
are flushed with fever, and again paled with ter
ror at the uproar OF the assault The glare OF
bursting shells and the flames of the spreading
coniiagraton, POrtentously CLEAN through the
windows upon the eye OF the sufferer. She in
vain bures her head beneath the bad clothes 10
shrieks OF the wounded.
In the midst OF this most dreadful scene the
gates OF the city are suddenly thrown open and
small party emerged, and with flag of truce pass
through the embatding hosts till they approach
the presence of Napoleon. They inform him of
the situation and the peril OF the princess He
instantly ordered every gun to be changed which
might endanger her person. The flag of truce
again retires within the walls, ami the awful
hOF har drna nf l.
terrific storm OF iron descends upon the CITY till
three thousand shells have filled the city with
ruin and with blood. But Maria Louisa remains
upon her bed unframed, though other parts Of
her fathers palace were blown from their foun-
datons. Little did she imagine in the consterna
ton OF that dreadful night, that it was her future
husband who was thus raining down destruction
upon her fathers capital. And little did the pie
bian conqueror imagine as he compassionatelv
changed the direction OF his guns that this maid
en- was to be the Queen of France, and that bv
this bombardment he was winning and wooing
Tor his briIe daughter OF the Caears
daughter OF the Caears! What mysteri
GUS influence there is in ancestral reuown-Na-
poleon even, the creator OF his crown. the Fahri
Gator OF his own glory, was dazzIed by IFS glare.
Maria Louisa was nea descendant of one OF
the proudest monarchS of Rome. The blood
which circulated through her veins had passed
heart OF Maria Theresa. She had been Graded
and nurtured amid scenes OF moral sublmIty and
| regal magnihcence, (which one would think would
give an impress OF grandeur even to the meanest
soul sqHss1tYs th0fG a hsr spirit must be animated
acter. Alas, it was not SO She was notbi,-
more than mild, amiabe, pretty girl. utterlv
incapable OF chershing an idea of magnanirit
or OF herolsm. She was endowed nv mature oni
with those qualities which were most con- 49,,
piace and earthly, and was entirely unouali6ed
10 ACT noble part in the lofty drama tbrough
"nlch she was destined to move
Napoleon, despairing of offsprino from, Joso
Phlhe' and consumed with the most intense de.
sire 10 nave an heir who should inherit his oIor,
ana Perpetuae his name, resolved m so,,a . a.,
sies "hlch bound him to Josephine the WITT nj
MS youth, and TO obtain a more voutbfpl brida
from Inc suoserVient monarchies around him :
II hoped thus TO secure an heir in whose arsor
Should be allied all that was glorious in his o,yn
acnleVements, and all that's ilustrous in exaIted
ueSceht' Inc reputation OF Josephine. strong
~ '"e pohucal motives which led to it, is
the DARKEST stain upon the character of Napoleon
ana IKE all wrong doing, however see'ninGly
prosperous for time, it promoted final disaster
anu woe. pIque originating in this narr,aqe
aiehated Alexander OF Russia from tho Frepeh
Emperor and hence the campaign of Moscow
anu !he Imprisonment OF Napoleon. Every court
-, H"loPe was emulous OF the honor of such an
alliance. The Bourbons IN their exile would
glaaly furnish princess OF the royal blood as
pride Tor the mighty conqueror The Russia
court prohers any OF It's high born madens to the
acceptance OF the master spirit, at whose row
all Europe trembles. And the Austrian MOI
archy' me proudest Of all earthly dynastcs' ea.
gerry seeks alliance with the soldier of tortnna
VINO mas twice entered its capital in triumnb and
reposed, with his plebian marshals in its nrlacas
AlteF much deliberaon, Napoleon DECIDE ~
accept the alliance of Austria. ProposaI. ware
mace maze ior Maria Louisa, and eagerly accepted,--
MARIA was then nineteen years OF are and ,vas
most happy to be honored as the bride Of one Who
hal hiled the world with his renown NapoeoU
was iorty-two On the 18th day OF March 1910
apparently without emotion, she left the palace
o. her iather, surrounded by all the pomp the
austrian monarchy could confer, to meet her IN.
lure t husband AS the long train OF carriages lett
vienna, the people gazed mourntulIy upon the
scene. Maria Autolnette, the last princess Ans.
ira mad furnished for the throne OF France I'M,
a lew years before, had persisted miserablv mon
the scaifold. The populace were only prevented
by the soldiery from cutting the traces Of the car.
liageS and preventing the departure. IRE y1r.
seous procession moved on its way towards the
frontiers OF Erauca