The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1868-11-12

This Is the weakest Of all DR.. Delepierre's
positions. Ho takes as his principal au-
some protested discoveries by Pere
according to which the. contract OF
marriage between one Robert des Armoi-
SEES. chevalier, with the Maid of Orleans,
has been discovered. When the victim
was led to the stake, q large mitre was
placed on her head, which concealed the
part of her face, and a huge frame
covered with insulting phrases was carried
before, and completely covered her per
son.
CHARLES V.
The generally received belief Of Charles
V. is that, after his abdication, he retired
to a convent, adopted the habit Of a monk,
ana occupied himself solely with the
mechanism Of clocks and watches, and at
last rebeorsed his own funeral All this
saws the Belgian savant, * in fact nothing
but n tissue of errors, clearly disproved by
existing authentic documents. Charles
V, did not live with the monks; he never
wore the habit Of the order, and he never
ceased to WELD the imperial sceptre
d. fdcio, and to control the affairs OF
the State. He had, moreover, n residence
built fuf himself, detached nom the CON
vent, but communicating by passages with
the cloistcr aud the church. Far from
adopting an appearance of poverty or Inn
iting his attendants to twelve in number,
his household consisted of more than fifty
individuals, whose annual salaries amount
ed 10 some Fl.l00 sterling OF the present
day. The prolusion Of plate taken by the
| Emperor to the monastery, was employed
generally for the wards Of the establish
mont. and for his personal use. Courtiers
were continually arriving and departing,
and the Emperor was almost as much im-
mersed in public affairs in his retreat as
ne had been while actually on the throne.
Although he had delegated the official au-
tlority, he retained the habit Of command,
and was Emperor to the last
LII
DR. Delepierrc denies that Calico ever
uttered the celebnted words, "but still il
moves" No doubt, this protestation OF
truth against falsehood, may ut the cruel
crisis. when. atthe age ofseventy-seven, he
pronounced on his knees a form Of recanta-
ton, have rushed from his heart to
his lips, but il these words had
actually been heard, his relapse would ia
/ nllibly have led him to the stake. II Il
denied that he wac subjected to torture nt
all. He became completely blind after his
recantation, and was attended in his soil
tude by his two daughters from a
convent. One Of them was taken from
him by death, but she was replaced by
other affectionato relatives, who endeav-
Z ored TO anus md console the lonely cap
tive. His letters breathe q poetical mel
aucholy, Il quiet irony, M overwhelming
humility, and an ovorpowering sense oi
wenIiness.
ABATCH oFFALL4cIrs.
On Par, in his "Recherches sur lea
Americans. soys that Montezuma sacri-
feed annually twenty thousand children to
the idols in the temples Of Mexico. Iu
such assertions tho i~mprobability and ex-
aeperatious are so self-evident that 1t is
needless 10 dwell upon them. Books tell
us that the Duke of Alba put TO death by
the hands Of the executioner, in the Low
Countries, eighteen thousand gentlemen,
while the fact is that scarcely two thousand
could have been collected there.
Even in the time ofTitus Liviusthere was
so much doubt Us to the truth Of the leg.
end of the Hontii and Curatii, that he
writes, II cannot tell to which Of the two
contonding people the Horutii and the Gu
ratii belonged. Yctthis cautious historian
related in another place that Hannibal fed
his soldierB on human aesh, TO give then
energy and couragel
NJ. de Humboldt, you may remember
set himself 10 disprove some Of he onec
. dotes Of Christopher Columbus; tho fabl
OF the egg that he is said 10 have brokel
IN order to make it stand upright and tn
account Of h~isnnNiety amounting to agony
2 among his mutinous crew TO whom ho hu'
: faithfully promised a sight of land.
: Iu the history Of England, the Duke {
Clearance was for four centuries believed {
/ have been drowned IN n butt Of Malmsey
but the author Of The Historic Antiquitio
| Of the Tower OF London claims to hav
entirely exposed this rs an error, Accordin
10 the Abby Rartholemy, at the memora
l BILE battle OF ThormopylR, Leonidn
/ instead Of resisting the Persians with thre
hundred men, commanded ut least seye.
thousand men. The learned Spon ridicule
the pretended wit Of Diogenes, and e2
plains il in quite another way. Alfre
/ Aaury endeavors to convince us that CRs
ar never said and never would have said I
) the pilot, "Why do you fear z you hay
Cesar and his fortunes on board
When we reflect on the innumeTabl
/ errors daily propagGted by books, ID
, Delepieue gets alarmed at the strange con
!, fusion in which he ioreseeB all Eteratur
} may find itself q few centuries hence. ]
is very possible that historical events wi
be even more difficult Of proof than beior
!, the invention Of printing which may COZ
sequcntly have served TO augment disorde
and %perpleNity, rather than 10 have assiste
in the promotion Of truth and accuracy.