The Shasta courier., 1866-04-21
A Romantic Career.

AT Paris, during the stay of the allied
monarchs, there was Lord -, who had
hlled with acknowledged ability high dip.
lomatic situation at their headquarters during
the latter period of the war. His lady, of
high rank, had Joined him to partake of the
festivities of that brilliant period, and with
her young relative, equally distinguished
by her beauty and talents, then appearing in
all the freshness of opening youth. A fire.
quent visitor at this period in Lord -'s
family was a young officer, then an aid-de-
camp to the Grand Duke Constantine, a
young brother of the ancient and illustriors
family in Germany, but who, like manv other
scions of nobility, had more blood in his
veins than money in his pocket
The young add camp speedily was cap
tivated by the grace of this English lady :;
and when the sovereigns were about to set
out for England, whittier Lord WAS to
accompany them, he bitterly lamented the
scantlness of his finances, which prevented
him from following the train of such attrac
ton. Lord good humoredly told him
he should always find place at his table
when not otherwise engaged, and that he
would put him in the way of seeing all the
world in the British metropolis, which he
would probably never see to such advantage
again. Such an offer, especially when sec.
onded by such influences, proved irresistible,
and the young German gladly followed them
to London. He was there speedily intro
duced to, and ere long distinguished by, the
Princess Charlotte, whose projected alliance
with the Prince of Orange had recently been
broken off. Though the princess remarked
him, however, it was nothing more. at that
ttna tbap n 10, a. L..
were then more seriously occupied by ano-
ther. Having received at the same time
what be deemed some encouragement. the
young soldier proposed to the princess and
was refused, and subsequently went to vi
emma, during the sitting of the Congress at
that place. where his susceptible heart was
speedily engrossed in another tender affair.
Invisible Obstacles however, presented them
selves to the realization of the Princess Char
lotte's views, which had led to her first rejec.
ton of the gallant German he received a
friendly hint from London to n axe his atten.
ton to the fair Austrian less remarkable ;
he returned to the English capital, again
proposed to the English princess, and was
accepted.
1t was Prince Leopold of SAKE Coburg; and
his subsequent destiny, and that of his fami
ly, exceeds all that romance has figured of
the marvellous. He married the heiress of
England after her lamented end, he es-
poused daughter of France; he was offered
the throne OF Greece. he accepted the crown
of Belgium. In consequence of his elevation
one of his nephews has married the heiress
of Portugal, another the Queen of England;
and the accidental fancy OF young German
officer for a beautiful English lady has, in it's
ultimate results, given three kingdom to the
family, placed on one of his relatives the
crown of the greatest empire that has existed
in the world since the fall of Rome, and
restored to England in hazardous times the
inestimable blessing of direct succession to
the throne