The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1851-08-20
THE UNION.

confidence There was something disrespectfu and vi
client in his affection be wounded even when he sought
TO please HIS very love rough and impenous ter
ror ineTposed between him and the heart OF his young
wife, and even the birth OF aIlenty desired son could
not unite such opposite natures Marie Louise lett that
10 Napoleon she only medium OF posterity-not a
wife and mother, but merely the root OF "a hereditary
dynasty This master OF The world could not boast even
the inherent virtues OF love-fah and constancy TO the
one woman His attachments transient and numer-
Gus He respected not the Iealousies natural to the
bosom OF the wife and though he did not openly proclaim
his like Louis XIV neither did he possess tina,
monarcb's courtesy and refinement The most noted
beauties OF his and OF foreign courts were not to
him objects OF passionate love, but OF irresistible tran
silent desire thus mngling his contempt with his
love. Napoleons long and frequent absences his Sc
and minute orders strictly observed by house.
hold OF OF friends chosen rather TO control
than to execute the will of the Empress his petllshAess
of temper his frequent abrupt returns morose and
melancholy after experiencing Teverses cher only tecre
alton being ostentatous resome, and frivolous ceremo
MES } nothing OF such life, of such character of
love Her heart and her imagination expatIiated in
France and remained beyond the RUNE The splendors
OF the Empire might have consoled another but Mara
Louise was better formed for the tender attachment of
Of private life, and the simple pleasures OF German
home.
A still private passage Of Napoleons life is
touched upon in the quotation, which must be
last:
THE YOUNG COUNTESS wALEsKI
But while victory and indifference thus removed from
him the wife which policy had given him, but which
pre could not attach TO him. adversely brought back to
him at Fontainbleau young and beautiful foreigner,
whose love neither defeat nor exile could extintuish.
Among the numerous and fugitive Objects OF his capri.
cous and iegtmae attachments. Napoleon had loved
perhaps with tender and durable passion. AT the
summit OF his and glory, at at Warsaw, the
beauty Of young Polish lady, intoxicated with en,husi-
asm tor his NAME had made lively Impression on him.
She the young wife Of noble Sarmaan already ad
vanced in years She shoDe for the first time amid the
pomps of a court She adored in Napoleon-as what
ID, ID .nsi ha toll
hone Of the independence OF her country.
Her countenance beamed with the alteration she inter-
nay felt Napoleon saw her, understood her, loved her
Long resistance violent struggles between passion and
duty, and tears famed the flame into passion. The
Emperor carried oil the Countess WaIesk from her hus-
band fro her country He conveyed her to his camps
and to bis conquered capitals born, the result
Of this attachment handsome residence at Paris, often
visited night by Napoleon. concealed from public view
the impassoned mother of this child.
Adversely rendered her aul, almost sacred and his love
dear to her. She wished by devotng herself to
exile, for her weakness for the conqueror Of
Europe. She to Napoleon 10 ask for interview,
and offer to accompany him wherever misfortune might
al him. He consented 10 the interview and the last
night but which preceded the departure OF the En-
peror from Fonainbeau, the young wife was introduced
By back into the adjoining the bedroom
OF her LIVER The confidential valet announced 10 bis
the arrival OF her whom he had consented 10 re-
ceive. Napoleon was PLUNGED in that kind OF dreamy
supor which had overcome him since his fall He an.
swered that he would shortly call her who on his &C
count had braved modesly and adversely. The young
lady. in waited the greater part OF the night
He called her not. She heard hm, nevertheless walk
ing in his room. The attendant again reminded his
ter OF his vislter "Wait little longer" said the EN-
peror Al length, the night having passed away and day
beginning 10 dawn there was some danger of the
interview being revealed when the young woman, re.
pulsed detected and offended, reconducted 10 tears.
to her carriage by the confidential witness OF her last
adeus Whether it that Napoleon had lost all sense
of feeling in the agitation of his mind, or that he was
ashamed appear the cast-down captive before her
who had loved him as the victor and sovereign of Eu-
rope, he evidently had compassion for her devotion.
When The confidential servant entered his chamber IN the
morning, and described the hopes, the fears, and the
humliatng for her well for myself but the hours
passed without my being aware Of them. | had some.
thing here" be added, touching his forehead with his
finger Despair which soitens the hearts of other
rende red his hard and frgid