New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1858-10-23

- ,,eorce III, subject 70 Pr io',loe'
some casual ecccnirlcilies ID IL y. -a'
or " 20 passed over the more sIsn'{ q" -.
D,ONn TO indulge rather Ic,y III 'n'
Mhich once drove frantlc NE 49, L@,ro,sr
tain s I'D AZ Thebes In October I'D hoNc,'I,
VIII, he r;sitod Rhenish prussia on the prele1t 81
L. ;,, ,b c,,pdstion stones oi the new DrluRe 1"
~ L,;lt over the Rhine az Cologne, strange runOra
,,ore hrnited about concerning NM hAh rs aoo
SHRINK together sleCs gone hls De! PIo,eOeiaN''
end an expression Of restless anxiety 10 his '!r'.
49, 1ooLed ike the specter OF ms former -eI.
w .i;f,;no he ftered stumbled over lis
',,,, ,,,,rds now and then lost the thread Of bis
serforce and altogether looked uncomfortable
III, tho Onoep. close 10 his side, was anx-
;n,,si, ,otchinc III his movements. Con-
trgr;y 10 bis former habits, he received nobody,
talked 70 nobody. and went nowhere out Ia com
NAM with the Queen, who had become quite m
ssenarable from him. After his return 10 Berlin,
tbeTe onzed out from time TO time strange on dts
% To- the bodily injuries he had, in sudden n. Of
Des.iop inflicted on his own Ministers, on Man
iei,fel taen To lull public attention, the king
Was ssid 10 suffer from dropsy. Aitrrward, re-
morris AS 10 the misadyentures incurred by him III
his own gardens at Sans Souci, sometimes hurting
an eve AGAINST a tree, at other times damaging
q leo ON a stone became more and more frequent,
and as early a. the beginning Of $50 il was insin-
mated here and there, that be labOred under tenn
porary attacks Of insanity. II was more especially
said that he fancied he was q non-cOmmssiOned
officer who had still 70 pass through the trial OF
what in the technical language of the Prusslan
dril.sergeant is called Jtungs m0rSche Thence
No. used to run ill-omened races by himself IN his
parks al Sans Souci and Charlottenbure. These
and other "reminiscences OF a period OF ten years
are now being carefully connected. Why, 1t Is
asked should not al that time insane have been
palmcd of az King upon the Pnssan people, since
it is now confessed that for The last eighteen
months at least Frederick William III. was
kept on the throne despite his mental disease, and
since. consequent upon the quarrels among me
members Of The royal family, the juggles played in
his name BIZ the Queen and the Ministers have
been publicly exposed In cases Of insanity, arlS'
ing from soening O. he brain, tnc patients usually
enjoy lucid intervals to the very moment OF death.
Such is the case with the King Of Prussia, and
this peculiar character of his insanity has afforded
the fl opportunities for the frauds committed. The
Queen, always watching her husband, caught at
every lucid interval Of his mind To show him 10 the
people, or make him interfere on public occasions,
and drill him for the acting Of the part he was 10
play. Sometimes her calculations were cruelty
bafled. In the presence Of the Queen OF Portugal,
Is no. as YOU will remember, celebrated her nup-
tals az Berlin, per pTocura, the King was 10 nave
publicly assisted at the church ceremonies. Every
thing was ready and ministers, aldes-de-canlp,
cour,iers foreign ambassadors, and the bride her.
self were waiting for him, when all AZ once des-
pite the desperate efforts Of the Queen. he was
overtaken by the hallucinatiOn of believing
himself the bridegroom. Some queer
marks he dropped as to his singular des-
tiny in being married again during the lifetime Of
his first spouse, and as to the improperly of his
(the bridegroOm's) appearance in a military uni
form, left his exhibitors chance but to counter
mand the spectacle which had been announced.
The bOldness Of the Queens operations may be IN
ferred from the following incident: There exists
still an old custom al Potsdam, according to which
the fishermen once in the year pay to the King an
old ieuda tribute of fish. On that occasion, the
Queen TO prove TO the men OF the people the false
hood OF the rumOrs then freely circulating to the
state Of the royal mind, dared to invite the fore
most OF these men to a fish dinner, to be presided
over by the King himself In fact, the dinner
vent of pretty well, the King muttering some
words learned by rote, smiling, and, on the whole
behaving properly. The Queen, anxious lest the
scene 30 well got up should be spoiled, FASTENED to
give the guests the signal of departure, when all
At once the King rose, and IN 1t laundering voice
demaIded TO be put in the ilyng-pan The Ara
han tele of the converted into n fish became
reality with him. 1t was exactly by such lndls-
cretions to venture upon which was one OF the ne
cessities Of the Queens game, that the comedy
broke down.
need not say that no revoutonist could have
invented better method of dcprecialng royalty.
The Queen herself, Bsvarian princess, and sister
of the ill-iamed Sophia OF Austria (the mother
OF Francis Joseph had never been sus-
pected by the public at large OF beng the
head of the Berlin Camarila. Before loio
she went bv the name of the ." meek mother OF
fine land" die 1niide LaRdoSmUiter), was sup
posed 10 WELD no public influence al all, and from
iLe natural turn of her mind, TO remain a COM
plete stranger to politics. There was some grum-
hing at her supposed secret Catholicism, some
railing at her commanderShip-in-ch chief OF the mys-
teal Order of the. Swan founded on her behalf by
the King, but that was the whole stock OF public
aspersion she ever had 20 bear. After the victory
of the people in Berlin, the King appealed TO their
forbcarance in the name of the "meek mother of
the land" and that appeal did not fall fiat upon
his audience. Since the counter-revolution, how
ever the public appreciation of the sister Of So
phia of Austria has undergone gradual change.
The person in whose name the maenanlmliy Ot the
victorious people had been secured, happened to
turn a deaf ear to the mothers and sisters whose
sons and brothers had fallen into the hands of the
victorious cOuntcr-reyOlution. While the - meek
mother of the land seemed TO indulge the mon
/ archie Joke of having some poor militia men
! HandicChTlcuic) executed al Saarouis on the
! birthday of the King in 1880, at time when the
/ crime those men had committed, OF defending
! popular rights, seemed already forgotten, her
/ whole capital of sentimental reug1Ouslty was spent
I in public homage 10 the graves of the soldiers
fallen I'm their attack upon the unarmed people of
Berlin and I'm similar acts OF reactiOnary Ostenta-
/ ton. Her fierce quarrels with the Princess of
/ Prussia became also, by and by subjects of public
/ discussion, but it seemed quite natural that she.
childless as she was should bear grudge against
the naughty wife of the Kings legitimate success
sor. l shall return to the subject.
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