Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-04-18

, nation was not hard 10 BRING about, iOl
Philip, a man of coarse tastes, greedy Of
gain, ambitious in a bad sense, cared
very liSle for his young wife, the mother
of his heir, Don Carlos, and very much
for a bevy Of fat, Flemish beauties who
) pestered his court, and cost him great
many doubloons If Philip could be
supplied with money for his pleasures,
backed by a promise Of power and show,
he would not be the man to haggle about
terms, especially with his wife's own
father, Knowing this well, Fernando
sent word to Philip that party, headed
by thu famous Don Bernaldino de We
lasco. constable Of CASTLE, was arming to
expel them both, and to set up their
Queen, Juana, as the sole ruler Of her
kingdom. Cardinal Ximenes, the bearer
Of this message, was to propose an inter
yieE between these two princes, at which
they might consider the means of com
mon defense against Velasco In other
words, they were to contriye hog they
could best rob the Queen of her Just
rights. Ximenes was the man to man
age such treaty, and when Philip con
sented to meet his father-in-law for a
secret paFley, the Cardinal arranged the
details. The two kings met at Villa
fafla's Philip dashing up in front of a
troop of horse, Fernando trOtting meekly
on a donkey. They entered the village
church alone. Those keeping watch at
the door could hear their voices, but not
4lo,r Eo-,o-l,
and in a deep, charged voice; Philip
unused, uneasy and perplexed; but their
talk, though it lasted long, came to
what Philip thought happy end at last
The King of Aragon seemed very hum
/ bic in his presence, and, with the excep-
tiOI.nf the young Queens insanity, gave
way to him on almost every point. Fer
nando insisted only that his daughter
was mad, and therefore unit to reign.
1t was a curious scene that, in the small,
white village church alike in the crowd
of Castiiian horsemen, lounging outside
in the sun in the string of humble
asses in the crowd Of eager listeners,
who could not catch a word; in the sly
old man, and the mock brilliant youth
in the gospel open before them on the
communion table in the papers of
agreement to which they occasionally
put their hands and seals. In this
Church of Villafafla, so kindly provided
for them by a Cardinal, they arranged
that Philip was to have, so long as he
lived, a great deal Of money and power,
and that Queen Juana shO4ld be declared
incapable of governing her estates. In
fact, Philip was to rule as king consort-
as long as he lived. Poor Philip The
two Prices bonnd themselves, first by
oath on ae holy gospels. afterward by
treaties properly drawn and signed, to
take charge Of the Queens person, and
to resist, by their united forces, any at
tempt to set up a government in her
name.
These secret and iliquitous treaties
being signed, Fernando made two moves
in bis game, one of which explained why
he had gone TO Yillafafla on a donkey /
First, he called AlinazaI, the apostolic |
notary, to his closet, and told him that, /
in going through the country without his |
guard, he had fallen into the hands OF |
Philip, at the head Of great force, and |
been compelled to sign treaty which !
his soul abhorfed The Archduke, he I
added, was a tyrant and usurper, who .
kept the Queen, his wife, a prisoner, but
having for his own part, escaped from
Philips power, he wished to make a
solemn protest against the treaties which .
he had been made to sign, and to declare
that he could meyer consent to his
daughter being deprived Of her liberty
and her crown. Almazan made all this
known in Rome and in friendly courts.
Then Fernando took leave of his chill
dren, as he called them, Philip and
. Gana, exhorting them to love each other,
and to live together in peace, as a good
husband and wife should do. Then he
sailed for Naples, in order to show the
whole world that his words we're sincere, 4
and that he would not meddle any more
with affairs Of government in CASTLE.
Before leaving for Naples, Fernando
sent a secret agent, one Moses Rerrers,
TO Philip, and, one week after his arrival
at court, Philip was dead. No one
doubted that he had been poisoned no
one doubts il now. \ few weeks after
leaving Villafaila On MS donkey, Fer
nandO reaped the sole advantage of that
treaty which he had signed and de-
His daughter was considered
insane and incapable of ruling. He was
the administrator of her kingdom in the
interest of his grandson Carlos, after
ward to be known as Charles the Fifth.
From this time, Queen Juana was a
In the hunds of her
father, afterWaTd in the hands of her
son. BY order of these princes, she was
shut up with her jailers and her priests,
she was never allowed to see the outside
world, she was not suffered to speak with
a strange person, she was carried through
the country in midnight journeys, she (
was condemned to the ompanionship of {
her husbands corpse. Even of this last ]
horrible detail there seems TO be hardly
any doubt. No evidence is found in Z;
these state papers that Juana voluntarily
chung to the dead body of Philip. Some {
evidence to the contrary is found. The (
dead body was the instrument by which
Fernando and Charles imposed on the I
ignorant commons an idea Of the Queens !
madness midnight cortege, with
funeral torches and trains of monks,
being no bad eontrivance for impressing
the imagination Of supefstitious and rO-
mantle people. Philips body was kept
for many years in chapel of the con-
vent of Santa Clara. Juana very often
a wish to visit the convent
She never once, of her own will, desired '
10 see the chapel, much less the corpse
Tn fact, the whole affair would seem to
nave been a fraud, and Crazy Jane a
fictitious figure, invented by Fernando, /
md continued by Charles the Fifth. .
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