Weekly hawk-eye and telegraph. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1855-1857, 1856-05-21
Ingenious stratagem.

The ball of the Turkish Embassy, was the great
event of the second week of April, in Paris
The anxiety of the fashionable to attend this Or
ental fete was great, and earnest were the solic-
itations and curious the stratagems, to receive an
invitation
The correspondent of the New York Herald
gives the following:
We happen to know of one lady, who driven
to her wits end to get at the of this Eastern
official, adopted the following mode, She wrote
letter addressed to him, stating that she wish
ed fer an interview of FIVE minutes only, to lay
before him plot which she had accidentally
discovered for the assassination of the Sultan,
formed by a body of Russians, and to be carried
into action as soon as the treaty of pesce was
finally ratified. She stated that she was not at
liberty to give him the particulars on paper, but
on being permitted to speak with his Excellency
she would tale unfold of such deep dyed vii
that the matter could not fail to invite his serious
attention. The ambassador returned the lady
note, politely appointing the desired interview.
On her entry his Excellency was astonished to
see young lady, scarcely above 20 years ofage,
and beauty so dazzling, ofmanners, SO exquis-
itely charming that all the stiffness of official ct
tiuuette assumedin honor of the promised impor-
tant revelation, vanished at once. Gallanty
giving the lady his arm, he led her to couch
standing respectfully before her till she could ems
ter upon the subject of her visit. After few
preliminary observations, during Which a thou
sand little diplomatic usages proper to her sex
were not omitted, eyes. your excellency,' she
said, ~ will tell you the plot" In Paris we
know at present no other Sultan than yourself-
You are not only his representative, but you are
one and indivsible with him. 1t is you who in
vite all that is chiyalrous and gallant to your
house it is YOU who on Thursday next will open
your doors to our Emperor-it is you who have
summoned all the beauty of Paris to be present,
it IS only unhappy Who am not thought
worthy to be your guest. l have no beauty"
she continued, smiling with the most beautiful
eyes that Turk ever gazed on; II know it; but
no one refuses to invite me but you; and there
fore amy come, solemnly to declare that unless
you repent and give me card for Thursday,
will 20 round to all the coufectioners you have
employed for your magnificent fete, will disguise
myself as kitchen maid, and will saturate your
ices, your iellies, your compluses, your mayonais
es, with some subtle poison that shall turn your
household into morning, and cause your head to
be chopped off for making such an enemy as my
self, expressly to mar an occasion so anspicious.
This is the burden of the lady's song; but to
pretend to tell you how she sang itlhow she gave
witchery to such shadowy suhterfuge by the
sweetest voice, the most playful coquetry, the
prettiest set of teeth the most beautifully form
ed mouth and most love-like eyes in the world,
is out Of the question. 'Now, won't you ask
me sn she said, looking half malicious, into the
ambassadors face. MADAM, have already
given FIVE hundred more invitations than
my house can accommodates; but rather
than refuse one who threatens, with such
grace to do other than obey would be more than
treason; l will cover over my garden, and make
| an additional saloon" There was then great
! kissing Of hands, and the ambassador was seen
handing down to her handsome equipage, his
| beautiful visitor, who, with card of invitation
in her hand, drove rapidly off to the Countess
de, and told her story. 1t soon get wind,
and Paris talked of nothing else till the event
| full evening The lady was, in fact, the newly
married wife of Count de Sauteville, whose name
had been omitted, for political reasons, from the
| imperial list sent intothe ambassador as con-
tanning the names of those the Emperor would
! vouchsafe to meet. The ambassador told the
story to Napoleon, who laughed heartily at the
joke, and assured him, had he been in his 1.-THE
ambassadors place, he should have doneprecise.
ly the same. 81
4 And SO the gardens were all covered over,
thus enabling the ambassador to considerably
4 onlarre the number Of his invited