Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1848-02-17


with loud sobs and imprisoned weeping With
few tremulous words of tenderness he address,
ed them. Then, with falterng accents and a
swimming eye, he exclaimed. "Adieu, my chill
dren would that | could press you all to my
heart will, at least, embrace your eagle" =
Selling their standard he pressed it fervently to
his bosom, and kissed the eagle. Adieu once
again, my old companions he said, may this
last embrace penetrate your hearts," Again
with imprisoned tenderness he EMBODIED the
standard in his arms, and then, with his eyes
filled with tears, sprang into his carriage and
drove rapidly away. As the rafting of the car
rage wheels in the distance died upon the ear,
the air resounded with the weeping and anenta-
tions of these stern warriors. Josephine said
that Napoleon was the most fascinating of men,
He certainly must have had warm heart of his
own, or he never could have become so perfectly
the master of the affections Of others
As Napoleon, deserted by his wife and child,
took his solitary way to Elba, often overwheIm-
ed with the profoundest grief, and again rousing
his energies to smile at the caprice Of fortune,
Maria, with the young king of Rome, entered
her carriage to return to the palaces Of her IA
Their. She was silent and detected In an hour
as it were, she had been plunged from the very
pinnacle of earthly splenGor into Dependence
obscurity, frendlessness and uncertainty. She
was extremely soIicitous in reference to her fu-
ture lot BY abandoning the ruined fortunes of
her husband she hoped to secure for herself
better inheritance than had been allowed him
Alone and ungrected, she retraced the route by
which, four years before, she had been conduct
ed a bride and queen, surrounded by more
than imperial splendor, and welcomed by the &C
clamatons of thirty millions of voices. The
few remarks, however, which she made, showed
that her thoughts were intent upon her own lost
grandeur, and that she had almost forgotten her
husband and her child She was daughter of
The Caesars, and longed for Ctesar's share of the
loayes and fishes
Having arrived in Austria, she took up her
residence for time at the chateau of Shoenbrun,
few miles from Vienna a magnificent pleasure
palace, belonging to the Austrian kings. Here
the allied soyereigns were assembled, rcveIing in
wine and wassaiI In the midst Of their imper-
al carouSugs, with songs, and dances, and the
most voluptuous RIGHTEOUSNESS, they were quar-
reng about the division of their booty. The
Emperors of Austria and Russia, the Kings of
Prussia, Denmark, Bavaria and Wiremburg :;
Sovereign Dukes and Grand Dukes without
number, and countless throng Of ambassadors
from England, France, Spain, Portugal, Italy,
and all the countries and provinces of Europe,
had there gathered in the scramble for the spoil
of Napoleon. Jeweled courtesans thronged the
masquerade balls of these royal revelers and
mingled with the gorgeous throng upon the Pra-
ter, in glded charlots, and glittering with da-
monds Queens in masquerade condescendcd
to Irritation with the motley yet Respondent
crowd, and all hearts were surrendered to the
dominion of voluptuous and forbidden pleasure
1t would have been manltestly too ndecorous for
Maria openly to have participated in these reo-
cings over the wreck of her own and her hns-
bands fortunes But ascending to an attic win
dow, she solaced herself in gazing down upon
festivities in which she could nol participate
The veil of oblivion was drawn over her imper-
al husband, and even over her own sorrows, as
like a true daughter of Eve she watched from
her peepholc the frtatons of kings and ambas-
sndors, Of queens and prncesses.
Here glide Metternlch aud CastIereagh, as CAV
masqueraders, more deepIy absorbed for the mo-
ment in contemplate coquetry and faithless
amours, than in the political questions for the
decision Of which armies were gathering and
empires frownlng. This gaudy gallant, surren-
dering himself to the destinations of an unknown
fair one, is the King of Prussia. That flowing
peisse and picturesque Hungarian costume en-
yelop the person of the Emperor of Austria, who
is dancing to the tune, so edifying to his daugh-
ter The Downfall Of Paris Macmillan, King
of Bavaria, minges in these orgies in the same
brilliant costume in which Maria had often seen
him at the evees of Napoleon doing homage to
that imperial spirit whom these banded monarchs
now affect to despise. This colossal figure is
easily recognized as the King of Wremburg
The magnificent domino, resplendent with gold
which is gathered so gracefully around him, can
not disguise his gigantic frame. And the MINI
bic grisette, with whom he is flirting, is that very
Duchess If Oldenburg, whose female jealousy
was aroused by Napocon's rejection of her prof,
fered hand, and by his marriage with an Aastri
an princess d" A Russian princess" she haugh
tIly says in her modification and chagrn, 4" i,
not to be won like peasant girl, simply by the
asking" Unfortunately for her consistency, she
was alfred to Napoleon and rejected by him.
Taeyrand steahily glides through those festive
halls, willy spy, listening to conversation, de-
tectlng the masquers, and reporting each nigh
to the Bourbons all amours and ntrigues but hi,
own. Upon this scene, from her " oophole o
retreat" Maria gazes with wistfu eyes Fou
years before, in that same hail. she had appeared
in bridal robes, the central object of attraction
5 the destined spouse of Napoleon to ascend
more exalted throne than her imperial ancestors
: ever occupied. Now she was forgotten.
As Napoleon, from his Llhputian realm o
= Elba, contemplated the carousals of his bandec
foes, his lip curled with contempt His mind
S so untirlng in its energies for the promotion O
} national grandeur; so absorbed IN devotion t,
enterprises which should leave lasting impress
t upon the world could not but regard with scorl
= the regal tops who were dancing away their day
: at Vienna. Alexander of Russia had the mos
! elevation of character of them ALL lie admired
: the intellectual supremacy of Napoleon, AM
= halfregretted that he mad joined the alliance t,
= dethrone the most energetic monarch who ha,
= ever swayed scepter. In the Congress, his in
E Auence was ever exerted to moderate the meas
4 ures adopted in reference to the fallen Emperor
: He openly declared" the Bourbons are nov
: once more upon the throne. Let them keel
there If they fall again, shall not lift then
: up" Maria was in the midst of this mob o
kings" eagerly watching her interests and ur