The mountain sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1844-1853, 1851-07-31
EBEIsBURG, JULY 81, 1851.

pini's but the Count de Joinvile's daughter.
When we know that the Duke of
Orleans was the only Frenchman who could
then bear the designation of the Count de
Joinville, and that at the very period in ques-
ton he really was travelling with his duchess,
this evidence seems sufficient to settle the
question. -s.1e
The additional evidence did not sssettle the
question: SO far as poor Marie Stella was con-
cerned. Her story reads like romance to the
end of the chapter. NJ. Iichaud continues -
Armed with this, and other important pieces
of evidence, the baroness set to work again.
hopeful and confident; but, unfortunately, she
could not find one honest man in Paris to direct
her. She fell once more into the snares of the
crafty, and spent her money to no purpose
Pecunlary temptations were presented to her in
the most insidious manner by Louis Philippe's
agents, but she resisted all with a pride truly
wor thy Of royalty. Convinced that she was the
daughter of the Duke of Orleans nothing short
Of a full recognition of her rights as such would
satisfy her. Her stature, mien, and manners,
even her voice, testified to this distinguished
origin. All impartial men listened with admi-
ration to her forcible assertion Of her claims
1t was scarcely possible to listen without being
persuaded of their justice. She bore striking
resemblance to Madame Adelaide, the dukes
sister, while the features of the latter vividly
recalled to her her reputed father, the jailer
1t is even said that on one occasion, when she
conducted her youthful son, Edward, to the
picture-gallery, the child, on observing a Dor
trait of Louis Philippe, cried several times.
''Papa Chiappini! Papa Chiappini.'' "a The bar
oness was vexed by this incident. The police
who were ever on her Track, who did all in their
power to prevent the circulation of her me-
molrs' threatened her repeatedly with impris-
ohilent' = Is strange fact, that Louis XVIII.
ana Charles X. not only consented to, but ORR
GIhated all those maneuvres against the baro-
ness Those princes seemed then to repose
entire confidence in him whom they regarded
as their cousin, though that individual was
ceaselessly engaged in schemes which com
passed their destruction. The fall of the elder
Bourbons, and the succession of Louis Philippe
TO his good cousins, rendered the baroness posi-
ton more than ever difficult She was more
than desired to return to England. The
intervention of the ambassador shielded her
4
Baron de Sternberg had conducted her favorite
| son, Edward, to Russia, so that her courage
and consciousness of the justice of her claim
formed her only protection against the spies
that surrounded her. Her memoirs having
| been seized, and the tribunals of Justice closed
against her by the ruling powers, whose tools
they then were, they ended by pronouncing her
mad; the only pretext for this calumny being
peculiar fancy which she had for feeding some
birds which few to her windows from the gar
dens of the Tuileries. We know, however. on
lrrefragble testimony, that to the last she re-
tanned the full possession of her reasoning
| faculties She never abandoned her claims
but always subscribed herself Baroness de
Sternberg, born Joinville. During the last five
years Of her life, fear of being arrested in
the streets caused her to confne herself to her
own house, where she knew she was safe
through the protection of the English ambas-
sador. On the night before her death, in IS45,
happening to hear the cannon announce the
opening of the chambers, she called for the
public journal that she might read the speech
| OF that bT1gGnd. She never spoke again.