Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-08-06
'oINCINNATE MONDAY MORNING AUGUST 6, 1850.
Appearance Of Eurqpe in the EishJtaeaeiutt e

Appearance of Europe i'm the EishteeutI
-.,, Century. E,t-. al hnf
The CornhiH Magazine, in It's last issue
has the following .igagla1 Z .gn .
As one views Europe through cotenpo
rary books Of ttayel in the early part Of tn,
last century, the landscape is awful
wretched wastes, beggariy and .plnndered
half-burned cottages, and trembling peasant,
gathering piteous .harvestS gangs of such
tramping along with bayonets behind them
and corporals with canes and cat-ot-nine-tail,
to fog them TO lbarracks.s BY these passes
my lords gilt carriage, houndering through
the iuts as he sweais dt the postiiiions. and
tolls on TO the Residenz,.. Hard by, but away
from the noise md hfnwling of the citizen
and buyers, Is Wilfielmslust or Ludwigi.
ruhe, OF Monbiiou,t OF Versailles it scarcely
matters whicl--near 10 the city, shut out by
woods from the ebeggared country, the enorm-
Gus, hideous, Riided, Inpnstrous marble
palace where the prince is aud the oourt
and trim gardens, and large f5dhtains, and
the forest where the ragged peasants are
beating the game in (it Is death to them 10
touch featherG and the ioily hunt sweeps
by with its uniform of crimson and cold.
and the prince gallops ahead putting his
royal horn; and his lords and nisttessses ride
after him; and the stag is. pulled down; and
the grand huntsman gives q knife in the
midst ofa chorus of-bugIes; aud 'tis time
the court go home to dinner; aud our noble
trayeler-siit may be the Baron OF P0llnitz. or
the Count de konigsmarck, or Che excellent
Chevalier deaSeingaa1 sees The procession
cleaning through the trim avehnes tjf the
wood, and hasteist6a the inhg and sends his
noble name TO 9thB marshal of the court
Then our nobleman arrays himself iu green
and gold, or pink and silver in the richest
Paris mode, and is introduced by the cham
berlain, and makes his bow to the iiollv
prince and the gracious Princess and is pref
sented to the chief lords and ladies' and
then comes supper and d bank ~ faro. Gg6tre
he loses or wins thousand pieces BY dayI
light. .uiI lFa y IsT |
II II IS German court you may addnot d
little drunkenness to this picture of higb
life; but German, French or Spanish. IL Won
can see out of your palace window beyond
the trim-cut forest vistas, misery is iying
oufside hunger is stalking about bare vii
lagos listlessly following preearious h,is-
oandry, plowing stony fields with starved
cattle, or feartully taking in scanty harvests,
Augustus is fat and jolly on his throne; lad
can knock down an OK, and eat one almost;
his mistress, Aurora Won Konigsinarck, Is the
ioveliest, thewittiest creature; his diamonds
are the biggest and most brilliant in tbe
world, and his ieasts as splendid as those Of
Versailles. AS for Louis tile Great, he ID
more than mortal. " 1iftup your tlances re-
spectfully, and mark him eyeing Madame de-
fontanges dor Madame de Montespatl ffom
under his sublime 'perriwie,l as he passes
through the great gallery where Villars and
Vendolne, and Berwick, and Bossuet and
Massillon are waiting. Can court be more
splendid mobiles and knights more gallant
and superb; ladies more lovely? A grander
monarch, OF more miserable Starved wretch
than his present subject, you caunot look on.
Let us bear both these types ia mind II We
wish to estimate the old Society properlyl
Remember the glory and the chivalry? Yes:
remember the grace and beauty, the splendor
and lofty politeness; the gallant courtesy of
Fontenoy, where theg French line bids The
gentlemen Of the English Guard to fire first;
the noble constuncy OF the old king, and VIII
lars, his general, who fits out the last army
with the last efowu-pieoes frvtI the treasury,
and goes to meet the enemy and die or con-
quer for France at Denain. But round all
that royal splendor lies nation enslaved and
ruined; there are people robbed of their
rights, communities laid waste faith, Justice,
commerce trampled upon and well-nigh de-
stroyed-nay, in the very center of ROYALTY
ITSELF what horrible stains and meanness,
crime and shamel 1t is but to silly harlot
that some of the noblest gentlemen, and some
OF the proudest women in the world are bow
ing down; it is the, price of a miserable
province that the King ties in diamonds round
his mistress white neck. In the first half of
the last century, l say, this is going on all
over Europe. Saxony is q waste as Welt as
Picardy or Artois; and Versailles is only
larger and not worse than Herrenhausen.