The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1851-07-07

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Che Emper, armed to Vienna and bis faithful
to the gratifying ias fact 70 ss .Ss
norniDg. Now, as the town is very full, and most
the celebrities here, and there is political
pews, perhaps l may amuse some of your fair
leaders by giving an account Of Franz Joseph the
First, and the pillars of his throne and of some Of
he beauties that give grace to his court of the wits
hat brighten, of the good that endear.
pie ballad of The Diver" the stately boy, with
aspect unfe airing bu. gentle, who broke the 81
ence which succeeded the Kings throwing his jew
fancy the Emperor Of Austria. A figure Of singular
grace is set of by most gallant carriages personal
bravery is shown in every look and in every qui,k,
firm movement. He is considerably above the com
mon height, though not absolutely tall. His face
very peculiar To the marked characteristics of
Hsuse of Hapsburg, he adds an expression
srait or .he living face. The forehead is
Ieetling, the nose and mouth we'll formed,
peculiar 1t is in the eyes that some-
hing renark able strikes you at once; they not
large, but sunken, and the eye brows form over
them in singular manner-lhey piercingly
bright, and have an earnest, almost melancholy
look, which must have been planted there by
thought beyond his years. The eyes, then, are the
chief characteristic of his ,e, and mark il. out
strongly that once seen it were hard to forget it.
The Emperor never appears but in uniform, AM
generally wears the plain light gray coat of gone
raj. He is seldom decorated, except on great occa-
sions, and his whole appearance is strikingy simple
and military. Unlike any of his family, the
Austrians generally, he is q most export horseman,
and keen sportsman. He rides straight across
country, and seldom goes home while the dogs last
He is capital shot. soldier at heart, he Is little
luxurious and his private apartments are the least
splendid in the palace. The room where he usually
tits At Schonbrunn has fine lookout, and COM
mands the garden where Napoleon used 70 walk
and mediate, and which still goes by bis name. 1t
ures little stress of Imagination suppose that
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check aspiring, and rebuke pride. The walls are
covered with maps; on tue table lie books of refe-
renee, mostly on military matters He rises carly,
and not seldom INDUCES i'll the pastime of riding
out unattended, and paying his visits Defines to
basySs'sH; AID public places, to see with his own
eJliery b9fi things are in order. He inspected the
az - tracks little while age, at seven o'clock
N N lie This keeps up great qui veue
liz has an exiraf binary eye for detail, and will
dc:ect with if an officer be not airing the
proper reg9!2beon sword He has the royal gift of
remembering ames and faces /; and if an officer
should not be in uniform. be his rank what it may,
he had better not fall under the eye of the Empero
There is story in the army of his having one day
placed six general officers under arrest for this
breach of orders during the state of siege.
He is very accessible, and, since his reign, the
rules of the court have been good deal changed
in this respect His chief society is, however, that
of military men, and not day passes but Nagent
Schlick, Hess or Windischgratz, are n vited to
his table Radetzky, while in Vienna, lives with
him altogether, and sleeps in the palace. When in
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=. sspA-4seye var aers about in search of known
lace fand if he inds it, he will talk pleasantly for
long (time with the same person. Like the Empe-
tor &f Russia, whom, perhaps, he may in some de-
greed, have taken for o model, he is fond of
prisAs, and likes to appear Unexpectedly every
where. IL may be owing to this fancy that the
journ ais have been forbddea to chronicle his
ments till officially announced There is, atoge-
Their an absence of parade about him, except on
state occasions If he drives. which is but rarely,
it is in an open carriage with two horses, and a
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guards, with nothing plumes and caracollng
chargers, surround him-not even eutrider pre-
cedes; and it not that Vienna is one vast
camp, and the soldiers turn out, and the drums
beat, when he passes guard-house, stranger
would scarcely suspect he "ruled the land" Oh
horseback, single English groom, wearing the
plain livery of an English gentle mans servant,
rides behind him, and Count Grunne, his adjutant,
and constant companion, at his side, but about a
neck n the rear. He will change his horse several
wv the same ride, and appears usually on
AlpriDg his afternoons ride in the Pra~
as ID letter is ending, will flush
Russian general-"T To ladies he
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