The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1857-09-05
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shTks BostonhTravEller gives 1the fol
lowing account Of old Prince Metterpich
who has ruled as Prime Minister, the
Austrian Empire for more than ffty
years, He isthe most remarkable man
living. ySoiiTTsT eli nj oO0,Ti2 9 10 noiisi
sG Some Of the; papers mention lthal
Prince Metternich completed his S4tt
year on the, 18th of May. BE was born
in 1773, when Maria Theresa was En-
pfess.Q Qneen of Germany and Hungary.
Louis Xv.sKing of France, George III
in the thirteenth year Of his reign, and
Catharine II, was Czarina of Russia. The
United States were then British colonies
Holland was republic, Venice reigned
over and from her hundred isles, and Po
land was an extensive Kingdom. (the par
tition treaty was signed in l772) The
old French monarchy was apparently as
fourishing as it bad been at any time
since the days of Hugh Capet, and the
guillotine was an unknown name to the
nations. Of those eminent Russian SOW
ereigns whom we, have seen make the
world tremble, neither Alexander nor
Nicholas was born, and both are now in
their graves, the former dying more than
thirty years since. Napoleon was a lit
tie boy Of four or five years, Ttoddling''
about on Corsican ground, and was as
fond OF confectionery as if he were not
destined to invent beet sugar. The
American Declaration was not dreamed
Of Spain was Spain with the Indies,
and ylceroys ruled in both the countries
Of Mexico and Lima Statesmen who
have been dead for half o century were
BOYS or young men for example. the
younger Pitt and Charles James Fox,
"Eyelina,' had not been written. Scott
was only twenty-one months old, Byron
was not born until some fifteen years la
ter, AMI even Sam. Rogers was but a
child. Yet "ESellna" is now an old
book, Scott and Byron long since van
ished, and even Rogers is dead, while
Metternich is alive and IN good physical
condition.; though he has had his full
share of trials and perplexities, and was
never a miracle of confluence. Practi-
cally he is mormonite.
> AS Radetzy connects the military pro
fession of the age of Frederick and Daun
with that Of Pelissier-and Todlebep, SO
does Metternich connect modern diplo-
macy and Statsemanship with those of
the age Of Kaunitz and Vergennes
They are both Aastrians, and each once,
held the worlds fate in his hands--- Met
ternich in 1913. when he induced his
master ,to, side, with, the, Allies, against
Napoleon, and Radetzky in 184S-49,
when he turned the tide In favor Of Aus
tria in Italy. 1t is note worthy, however,
that Metternich failed at. the verystime
when Radstzky succeeded. , the soldier
proving himselfto be as good man at
eighty, as the statesman at forty. .,y
Metternich's life synchronizes with the
new age that commenced in 1VT6. r He
is the sole survivor Of 1.-THE actors III, the
great events Of that age. Of all those
who signed the infamous act of outlawry
against Napoleon, adopted by the con-
gress OF Vienna. March 13, 1915, he and
Nesselrode, so far as we know, alone
live; and Nesselrode was not one Of the
first, men Of those days, Metternich has !
outlived, with TIE exception already ma
med, all those reactionary statesmen
who 'triumphed in 1872 and l8l5--Wel-
lngton, OAstlereagh, Hardenberg, Liver
pool, Csthcart, Chateaubriand, Stadon,
and the rest. All the men of the other |
side, too, are gone-Bassano, Caulain-
court, Carnot, Thibeaudeau, and all the |
others of those Frenchmen who were
the fortunes of their ceun-d
try and its illustrions chief Lord .Cas-l
tlereagh's brother, the late Marqpis of
Londonderry, saw Metternich at Vienna |
in 1910, and the old Prince-he was
then t67-compared himself to a coral
fixed ltofa rOck-both must move togeth-
er;sa forcible figure, to which the events
Of 1848 gave lively interpretation. al
In the note that contained this remark
he alluded to the share which he and the
Marquis had borne IN the war that led
to Napoleon,s overthrow, "a war;, he
said, (which is now becoming "a part of
those times which history itself names
heroic;;" yet we now. find him alive, and
likely to live much longer; seventeen
years after having written thus compla.
gently to the IEnglishman who is no more
The most distinguished of his predeces-
ors, Kaunitz.. died in his S5th year, wi i:h |
S Metternich's age. '-~ "
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