The mountain sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1844-1853, 1852-08-26
EDRNSBJRG, THURSDAY, AUGUST rs, 1852.

| Intended Marriage OF louis Napoleon.
! The NTagra's news revive the rumors of an
intended marriage between Louis Napoleon and
a Princess .of Baden. His recent visit to the
Grand Ducliy, end the reception there, give CO.
lor 70 the report. The Lady is the Princess Of
| Wf4sa.n an alliance with her would be a min
ssAe Asotd of Napoleon with that of the
famous Charles XII,so Sweden.
! Weshave somewhere seen the following account
Of The family =
| On the Goth of November, 1892, Gustavus the
Third, King of Sweden, was murdered at ball.
by an officer named Ankerstrom, from which
event followed many important circumstances,
among others, the most magnificent spectacle
ever exhibited in the Paris theatres, which
ny persons here have doubt seen and admired
under the title of ''Gustaye on le Masque-Gus-
tavus, or the Masked Ball. The murdered
king was succeeded by his son Gustavus Adol-
phus, the Fourth, then fourteen years old, who
Joined. the famous coalition against France, and
was.in consequence forced in 1SO9 to abdicate
his throne, (which was in 1914, adiudged by the
voice of the people, to the French Marshall Ber-
nadotte The abdicated King had married a
Princess of Baden, by whom he had son and a
daughter. After his abdication he separated
from his wife, and spent the remainder of his
days in poverty and obscurity, in one or anoth-
er small town in Germany, under the name of
Colonel Gustafson. He died in 1927, when his
son, then officer in the Austrian army, assu-
med the title of Prince Vasa, as it is more COM
monty written his daughter married her cousin
the Duke of Baden, and is now Duchess of Baden.
The Prince of Vasa married, in 1880, the
daughter of another Duke of Baden, whose wife
Mademoiselle Beauharnais niece to Josephine,
the Emperor Napoleon's first wife and by this
marriage the Prince of Vasa had one daughter,
the Princess Caroline Frederica Francisco Ste
phania Amalia Cecilia, born the 5th of August,
1888, the lady to whom the President of France
is reported to have rendered his hand.
Tis lady, in consequence, has in her veins
thc'Bfood of the old kings of Sweden, Gustavus
Vasa, Gustavus Adolphus, Charles XII, &C.,
mingled with that of the dukes of Baden, (none
of whom have made any figure in history,) and
with that Of the Beauharnais, of which the
French President is himself scion, being the
son of Hortense Beauharnais, the daughter of
the Empress Josephine.
tunate than any other of modern times, except
that of Bonaparte Of the two children of the
Empress josephine, the daughter, Hortense,
married Louis Bonaparte, King of Holland ; and
the history of her descendants is now begin
ning-where it viii end who can say? Her son,
Eugene became King of Italy, and married
daughter of the King of Bavaria, by whom he
left two sons and two daughters. The eldest son
married Dona Maria. the present Queen of Por-
tugal, but unfortunately died o month after
ward. The other son, the Prince of Leuchten-
berg married daughter of the Emperor Nicho-
las. of Russia, who is determined to make
him King as soon as kingdom can be carved
for him. OF the two daughters Of Eugene Beau
harnais, the eldestis the Queen of Sweden ; the
other is the ex-Empress of Brazil, widow of the
once famous Don Pedro. She, though no longer
an Empress, yet lives very comfortably at Lisbon
with her daughter, now twenty-one years old |
who will probably, some day or other, likewise |
marry King.
So much for some Of the characters in the |
great drama to be performed in Europe, of which |
the first act is now in progress.
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