White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1857-10-15
kstternieh-An stro.naot

May. He was born in 1773, when Maria The
resa was Empress Queen Of Germany and Hun
gary, Louis XIV. King of France, George III. in
the thirteenth year Of his Kingship Of England,
and Catharine II. was Czarina of Russia. The
United States were then British Colonies, Hol-
land was Republic Venice reigned over and
from her hundred isles, and Poland was still an
extensive Kingdom, (the PARTITION. treaty was
dsned in 17729 The old French monarchy was
apparently as 6ourishing as 1t had been at any
time since the days of Hugh Capet, and the gull
lotine was an unknown name to the nations.
or those eminent Russian soyereigns, whom We
have seen make the world tremble, neither Al
exander nor Nicholas was born, and both are
now in their graves, the former dying more than
thirty years since. Napoleon was little boy OF
four or FIVE years, "toddling" about on Corsican
ground, and was as fond Of confectionery as IL
he were not destined to invent beet sugar. The
American Declaration was not dreamed of.
Spain was Spain with the Indies, and Viceroys
ruled in both the countries of Mexico and Lima.
Statesmen who have been dead for half cen.
fury were boys, or young mentor example, the
younger Pitt and Charles James Fox. "Eveli-
ma" had not been written, Scott was only TWEEN.
ty-one months old, Byron was not born until
some fifteen years later, and even Sam. Rogers
was but a child. Yet" Evelina" is now an old
book, Scott and Byron long since vanished, and
even Rogers Is dead, while Mettenich is alive,
and in good physical condition, though he has
had his full share of trials and perplexities, and
was never q miracle of confluence. Practically
he is Mennonite. As Radetsky connects the
military profession of the age ofFrederick and
Daun with that of Pelissier and Todleben, so
does Metternich connect modern diplomacy and
craftsmanship with those Of the age Of Kaunitz
and Vergennes. They are both Austrians, and
each one held the worlds ate in his hands
Mettemich in 1913, when he induced his master
to side with the Allies against Napoleon, and
Radetsky, in 1899, when he turned the tide
in favor of Austria in Italy. 1t is noteworthy,
however, that Metternich failed at the very time
when Radstsky succeeded, the soldier proving
himself to be as good man at eighty, as the
statesman at forty.
Metternich's life synchronizes with the new
age that comhAnced in IT'S. He is the sole
survivor of the actors in the great events Of that
age. OF all those who signed the infamous act
of outlawry against Napoleon, adopted by the
Congress of Vienna, March Is, 1sI5-an act
that gave the emperor up to the dagger of the
assassin-he and Nesselrode, so far as We know,
alone live; and Nesselrode was one of the first
men of those days. Ifany of the other signers
are living, their modes of life are such as e
keep them free from public observation. Met
ternich has outlived, with the exception already
named, all those reactionary statesmen who tri-
umphed in 1s12-l5-WeIlington, Castlereagh,
Hardenberg, Liverpool, Cathcart, Chateaubri-
and sSAdion, and the rest. All the men Of the
othelzl!de, too, are gone-Bassano, Caulain-
coarf< Carnot, Thibeaudeau, and all the others
Of t60se Frenchmen who were identified with
the fortunes of their country and its illustrious
chief Lord Castlereagh's brother, the late
Marquis of Londonderry, saw Metternich at vi
emma, in 1910, and the old Prince-he was then
67-compared himself to a coral fixed to a rock
both must move together; a forcible figure,
to which the events of 1913 gave lively inter
probation.
In the note that contained this remark. he al
luded to the share which he and the Marquis
had borne in the war that led to Napoleon's
overthrow; ga war;" he said, (Which is now
becoming part of those times which history it.
self names heroic;"' and yet we now End him
alive, and likely to live much longer, seventeen
years after having written thus eomplacently TO
the Englishman, who is no more. The most
distinguished of his predecessors, Ksunitz, died
in his s5th year. which is Metternich's age.
We have said that Metternich is a practical
Mornonite, and if the reader wishes to see the
proof of the correctness of the assertion, we re-
fer him to vol. IL, PIP. 1912, of DR.. Veshs's
3" Memoirs of the Court, Aristocracy and DiplO-
macy Of Austria" The English translation Of
that work, however, affords but an inadequate
idea of the subject. One must 60 to the origi
nal to get all the facts that are adduced by the
plain-speaking Doctor. "Many pretty little
fools" the Prince once said, shave sincerely
loved me, although am conscious Of never ha
wing meant honestly by any Of them; at least,
what they, in presumption, call honest. What
have suffered, especially at Dresden, from
all the Queens, Electors, Grand Duchesses
and Duchesses, would ill q good sized novel, for
the benefit of chrehic invalids in their sleepIess
nights" A charming notion the cid boy must
have of the best way of killing of the hours Of
sickness.-BostOn Traveller.
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