New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1855-12-14
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An Eccentric Princess,


Courts have their treaehsrous trends as we'll
as causes, and one Of these treacheroas friends
has betrayed the secret of the delay In the
journey Of q crowned head (the king Of Sar-
dinia y whose intention was to have paid us On
autumnal visit in order to enjoy the pleasures
of the chase in the imperial forests with the i'm
periaI hosts This delay, falsely attributed to
ill-health by the innocent, is ascribed BY report
to domestic perplexity occasioned by the yaga-
ries Of member Of bis family to whom he is
much attached, and for whose conduct he con-
siaers himself in some degree responsible. The
young lady in question, perhaps the only one
in Europe bold enough to claim her independ-
ence, has given her relations much disquietuds
by her decision to remain unmarried, to travel
where she lists and with whom she lists, taking
the care Of her own reputation upon herself,
and asking for no protection or patronage from
any member Of the other sex belonging to her
family. Her affection for the last sovereign Of
the country was unbounded and the first symp-
tom of friskiness which manifested itself in the
young lady's behavior was on the occasion Of
his msjesty's death in foreign land. She i'm
mediately repaired to the spot where he had
died, purchased the hotel where the sad event
had taken place, had the entire edifce pulled
down, built . magnificent chapel on the spot, in
the midst Of which the deathbed of the king,
exactly in the same state in which it was left at
the moment Of his dissolution, rises in gay and
gaudy colors with its trumpsry hangings and
tawdry fringes, striking the stranger who be-
holds it for the first time with astonishment to
behold such an object in such q plsce. Last
year the young lady repaired in grand ceremony
| to the chapel, and there upon the bed deposited
first the royal robe she is entitled by her birth
to wear on all state occasions then the broad
ribbon with the jeMeled star she wore upon her
breast, and finally, kneeling down BY the bed
side, while the tears streaued in torrents down
her cheeks. she lifted the crown from her brow
and placed it on the pillow, publicly declaring
her VOW to live and die q maid, and never to
omit, on every anniversary Of the death Of her
royal relative, paying asVisit to the chapel in
order to offer up fervent macs for the repose
of his soul. l. - tz5
The bystanders were moved TO tears by the
scene, when presently the young lady arose
from her knees, and standing erect before the
multitude assembled in the chapel, she delibe-
rately drew from her pocket pair Of scissors,
| and, loosening her magnificent tresses from the
| bands Of velvet which confined them, she cut
| them of to the very root, and laid them beside
| the crown she had Just before deposited upon the
pillow which had received the last breath Of the
king. To describe the astonishment produced
| by the event would be impeesible-a mixture Of
| the sublime and ridiculous in the scene pre-
vented any further demonstration of sentiment
ON the part Of the bystsnders. The princess is
. small person. and she tripped down the chapel
to step into her carriage, Invested Of the long
cloak with which she had entered-hsr hair
cropped and bristly, her eyes flashing right and
left with singular expression Of Satisfaction at
the trick she had been playing it was impoesi-
bic not to enjoy the mystifcation to its very ut
most.
Ever since that day she has adopted male as-
tire, and travels as the Prince de --, paying
her promised visit to the bed around which hun.
dreds Of tapers are burning night and day. Il
will readily be believed that person Of thii
character has passions Of love and hate equally
strong. She has taken Queen Christina en-
grippe, and vows that her relative shall moi
visit France without her so long as that talent
ed lady remains at Malmaison. There is on
. daughter unmarried yet, says the princess
ss Christina has the diable aas corps. IF an
not there to protect my relative, he viii fall I
. prey to that sll-devouring intriguante; there
. fore, desert him not; he is the sacred legac,
) of my beloved sovereign and master, and vii
defend him at any risk and peril" II is SAT-
that the king is 50 alarmed at the threat Of ali
: and protection that he dares mot move forwar'
until his fair relative can be brought to reason