The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-09-21

saton with an English political adveuturer, who
t .nen was member of Parliament assured him
shat, however the situation might then look
dark, history would yet have to record that he
LOUIS Napoleon, had established Mexican
empire. The English member of Parliament,
altnongh ordinarily very shtewd and skeptical
sort OF person, was actually so impressed with
the earnestness of his Imperial interlocutor that
ne returned to London and wrote a pamphlet in
winch, to the utter amazement of his acquain-
tanees, ne hacked the Empire of Mexico for q
secure existence, and said to it este perpetual
Inc pamphlet was hardly in circulation when the
collapse came. lfLouis Napoleon ever believed in
anything, be believed in the Mexican Empire He
OeIeved too, in the certain success of the South
ern confederation. No Belgravian Dundreary
no e1duee Georgian girl, could have been more
completely taken by surprise when the collapse
OF th9t enterprise came than was the Emperor
Napoleon III, whose boundless foresight and
profound sagacity we had all for years been ap-
plaud1ng to the echo. 'That which is called
foresight and sagacity in King" said Frs
kline, is called obstinacy in donkey" That
which is called foresight and sagacitv i'm
an Emperor, is often what we call
blindness and laundering in news
paper correspondent. The question is whether
we can point to any great event. any political
enterprise, subsequent to his successful assump-
ton of the Imperial crown, in regard to which
Napoleon III, if called upon to act or to Judge.
did not show the same aptitude for rash iude-
ments and unwise actions? Certainly no great
thing with which he has had to do came out i'm
the result with anything like the shape he
meant 1t TO have. The Italian Confedera-
ton, with the Pope at the head of it: the
Germany irreyocably divided by the line of
the Main; the Mexican empire: the ''rectifca-
tion" OF frontier on the Rhine: the acoui-
sition of Luxembourg; these are some of the
great Napoleonic ideas, by the success or failure
OF which we may fairly judge of the wisdom of
their author At home he has simply had u
new form of government every year How
many different ways of dealing with the press
how many different schemes for adjusting the
powers of the several branches of legislation,
have been magniloquently announced and hoated
during the last few years. each in turn to
fail rather more dismally than its prede-
cessor? Now, it seems we are to have at
last something like that ministerial responsi-
bility which the Imperial lips themselves have
so often described as utterly opposed to the
genius of France. Assuredly it shows great
mental hexibility to be able thus quickly to
change ones policy in obedience TO warning
from without. II is a far better quality than the
doggedness of n George III. But unless it be a
characteristic of great craftsmanship to be
almost always out in ones calculations, wrong
in ones predictions, and mistaken in ones men,
the Emperor has for years been in the habit of
doing things which are directly incompatible
with the character OF great statesman.
The GdJaay WisceHany gives the following
interesting account of the Countess Guic-
cioh:-
writers is advocating the cause of Lady Byron
and bespeaSs the sympathy of all in her behalf
a few facts relating to the Countess Guiccioli
may not be uninteresting to the public.
Teresa GAMBIA was the daughter of q noble
man of ancient family but moderate means, in
Ravenna, o city of the Roman States; she was
one of ten children. Placed in convent, of
which her aunt was Abbess until the age of
nine, she was then removed to the establishment
of Santa Chiara at Faenza, kept by q lady of
scientific requirements and conducted on the
most liberal principles as regarded study-so
much so that after a few years it was suppressed.
Italian literature in particular was studied pro-
foundly. 1t is probable that the early bias given
to her mind for her native literature was the
cause of her inducing Lord Byron to write ''The
Prophecy of Dante" the dedication Of which is
as follows:--
'Lady II ftr the cold md cloudy cline
Wfiere was born but where would not die,
or the great poet-sire OF Italy
| dare to build the initiative rhyme,
Harsh Runic copy of the Souths sublime,
Thou art the cause and, howsoeverI
Fall short Of his immortal harmony,
Thy gentle heart will pardon me the crime
Thou, in the pride of be tuty and Of youth,
Spakest; aud for thee to speak and be obeyd
Are one; but only in the sunny South
Such sounds are utter'd, andsuch charms displayd,
SO sweet language from so fair mouth
All to what effort would it not persuade?
Teresa remained at Faenza until the age of
| fifteen: her cousin, the young Marquis Cavalli,
seeing her then for the first time. declared that
Tearing
| that the young man would not be denied sent
him off to travel, and threw the whole weight of
! his influence in favor of q suitor who had Just
presented himself as a candidate for the hand of
! the young, portionless Teresa, Venetian noble
| man of fine presence, great wealth, and cour-
! teous address, the Count Guiccioli. Although a
widower of fifty-fve, he was still sufficiently
attractive to win many a fair one. Disreputable
stories had been whispered about him, it is true;
his first wife, great heiress, but no beauty had
been neglected, and by this neglect had been led
| to seek elsewhere for the affection which she
did not find at home; she was banished to far
| off castle and her place filed by woman with
whom he lived in open adultery until the decease
of his Countess, when he married her: she was
now dead, and hoping to have an heir, his choice
fell upon the young Teresa.
Taken from her boarding school, she was told
that Count Guiccioli was to be her husband
Upon remarking that he seemed too old for her
her mother told her that there was more chance
for happiness with man OF that age than {
| Younger one aud if she were to marry agair
| herself she would select him. The young
Girl thought that if her mother woult
| act likewise all must be right; an(
she was led to the altar, an Indifferent If not AZ
unwilling bride. The newly-marued couple
went Immediately to Venice, and the next nigh
after her arrival they spent an evening at tht
! Countess Benzonis. The bride, just emerged
from girlhood, was far too timid to look arount
| at the assembled company, and as some OF th'
party adjourned to look mt statue by Canoya
| q gentleman who stood near the youthful
countess offered his arm to conduct her into th
next room Who it was she did not know, no
did she once raise her eyes to look at him
| Upon her return home, her husband asked he
what she thought of the young English lord
who was, moreover, the great poet of the day
81 did not see him, was her naive answer.
How little felt those two,as they uncOnsciousl
stepped from one room to another arm in arr
that evening" that both had then met their des
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