The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1854-01-30

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| tools of the insurgents
Louis, meanwhile, pursued his conquests :
The people of Client, who saw with dismay
y his Espid .apprQsch towards their city. de.
fmanded peace by INV 5ElUGDgy 14SgE
costing the King, tks5 1sidalAt de Pripcess,
whole sanction they bad .obtzined fox their
nission, had resolved TO be guided solely BY
the. Minister'S nf State by the people.
| ssfeu are either deceiving me, OF have been
| ing them. Hug0nnet and Hlmbercourt
alone have her confidence, and with them
i alone can I negotiate. The Ambassador,
| TO prove that they had been duly authorized
rs such, exhibited their INSTRUCTIONS. The
King. on the other hand; trampling all honor
under foot attempted to subsfantiste his no.
sition by showing the letter Of introduction
tilathad been handed him By the ccunsellors.
This letter the old rufiian was shameless
enough to giveto them. The Ambassadors re-
turned to Client, presented the letter TO Mary.
| upbraiding her with falsehood and double.
dealing. Hugonnet and Himbercourt were
then arrested. They were accused of hav-
lag treated secretly with the enemies of the
STATE. they were repreached with having
involved the late Duke in foul and disas.
Ious war-of having sold justice-and.
above all, of having annihilated the priyi.
leges ofthe city of Client They were but to
tnestorture, and an Ubiquitous tribunal SEN
Fenced them to death. In vain were their
appeals tothe Parliament of Paris. Despite
every entreaty, but three hours were accord.
"a 70 them to prepare to meet their fate
Mary, informed of the doom that awaited
them. alfred herself in deep mourning. and
with hair dishevelled, presented herself at
the very scaffold which the victims had aIrea.
dy mounted. She conjured the people TO
save Their lives. Her tears only unnamed
.he victims, whilst they ifritated the popu-
iace. On one side, were heard cries of AMER
~. pardon. On another arose shouts for
vengeance. The barbarous clamor stif1ed
her prayers, and the murderous sacrifice was
contaminated before her very ewes. The
ofood OF her two faithful counsellors spurted
over her. She gave shrek, dropped faint
ing to the ground, and was borne half dead
INTO the palace. Louis, the prime mover in
TINS iamentable catastrophe, feigned to be in
violent rage, he had the procedure declar-
ed illegal by the Parliament of Paris. and
took under his protection the sons of the nm.
fortunate Hugonnef. Soon after he sent an
ambassador to Mary, in the person of the re-
nowned Oliver-le- daim. Nothing would sat.
isiy Oliver but strictly private audience,
which Mary, like discreet unmarried wo-
man, refused. "D0es the King believe me
III, said she, "that he sends me his phvsi.
clan! Grace dieu, am well enough, and
VIII have nothing to say to such fellow
The cruel position in which Mary now
found herself was strong inducement to her
10 make speedy choice of a husband who
would be powerful enough to defend her
equally against her enemies from without,
and her rebellious subjects from Within
The hand of so rich an heiress could not but
be eargerly sought for by crowd of princes.
her father had thought at first of uniting her
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then to Nicholas of Anjou, Duke of Calabria
and Lorraine finally, he fixed upon the
Archduke Maximilian, son of the Emperor
Frederick the Third, who, by favor of this
marriage, might erect the Duchy of Burgun-
dy into a kingdom. But the one wished to
obtain the royal dignity before the union, and
the other was unwilling to confer it until af.
ter the ceremony, and this broke the engage.
ment. After the death of Charles, the States
OF Flanders pressed Mary to marry the Duke
of Cleves, who had been brought up in the
court of Burgundy, and whose father had
great influence in the country. On the other
hand the reyolted citizens wished her to unite
herself to the titular duke of Gneldres, Adol-
plus OF Was>an; and finally the princess was
sought after by Count Rivers, brother of
Elizabeth, wife of Edward the Fourth of
England. But the obstacles which had for
merly prevented the union of Mary and Max
lmlllan no longer existing, the Emperor re-
newed the proposals to her on the part of his
son, through the elector of Mayence, Treves,
and Bavaria, who visited Client, accompanied
by the Bishop IF Metz. The Princess had
long been prepossedin the Archduke's favor,
and when the Bishop, after having formally
addressed her in French, presented to her a
letter and diamond ring, which, by order of
her father, she had once sent to Macmillan.
she recognised with pleasure these pledges of
her tender feeling, and expressed her resolu-
ton to fulfil lhertpromise. @ "a rs. Ii
LII a few days the marriag e was celebrated
by proxy, april 1477) Some months after
Maximilia made public entry into Client,
attended by numerous and brilliant cor
tege, but the States We're obliged to defrav
the entire expenses of the ceremonial. The
marriage was happy, but of short duration.-
One day, early in February, she was out
hawking in the woods nearthe cityof Bruges
Her nag, In attempting toleap over the trunk
OF fallen tree, broke the gritty, the saddle
turned, and the Duchess fell violently on the
ground. 1t was reported that she was dan
gerously wounded, but no suspicious wereen.
tertained OF danger to her life. In order to
save her husband, who loved her much, from
any lnquietude, or, it is more generally said
from excessive modesty, she would not per-
nit the surgeon to dress the wound. The
sore festered. Eventually she became worse.
until three weeks after the accident shesglied
(a7th March, 1882 at the age of 25 after life
so short and troubled by so many misfor-
tunes, that we cannot help wondering at her
rare sweetness of temper and innocence of
heart Her body was deposited in a magnifi
cent mausoleum in Bruges, near that of
Charles, her father. Mary was one of the
most beautiful women of her day Her dis
position was characterised BY goodness
kindness and an inviolable attachment to her
duties. She was skilful musician, and low
ed and patronized the fine arts She left two
children, Philip. father of Charles the Fifth.
and Margaret, Dutchess of Savoy.
COSTUMES OF MARY AND MARGARET OF BuRGUNDy
In the course OF days rummaging recently
through whole library ofdusty old tones we hap.
pened fortunately to meet with volume containinp
aportrait OF Mary of Burgundy in which she ia re.
presented as dressed in the style that prevailed in
tue middle ofthe fifteenth century, the age in which
she lived The headdressi is the most peculiar ar.
licie OF this attire. coil, apparently of cloth
biting closely to the head, the front edges turned
broadly over at the sides. then broad embroidered
nap, haneing down over each ear, and extendino
Tor some length down the sl,oulders to,,,.a 49,,