Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1872-04-17


porphyry vase; for this billet, if dis
covered, might have consigned her to
the bowstring of the cop6dgibasha, or
the sack of the black cha2e2aotoroqu,
and it's concealment forms an important
feature in the story of the fugit1ves.
The hour-almost the moment-for
fight had arrived, and Salmoni, she
knew, awaited her below the garden
wall; yet, amid all the terror and anxi-
ETY. of the time, so strong was Emilia's
love for the little baby-girl of whom
she had the chief care, that she resolv-
ed to convey the child away with her,
and hoped eventually to rear it as a
Christian. Collecting all her Jewels,
and those which Achmet had already
lavished on the infant, she took with
them the silken fetfd, or record Of its
birth, and, to be brief, escaped unseen,
by means of the steel-yard and ladder.
AS she descended, the latter was held
for her by person in gray cloak,
whom she believed to be Salmoni, and
into whose arms she was, consequently,
about to throw herself, when another
man started forward, and plunged a
sword into his breast. He fed, and a
cry escaped Emilia, who fell to the
ground; but at that moment the cap
tain of the vessel, by which Salmoni
had arranged they should escape, rush
ed up, and tearing off the mufiings of
the fallen man, merely exclaimed, "It
! is not he !" and bore her off to the sea-
shore
! An alarm had been given. There
was no time to wait for the absent Sal
moni she was placed at once on board
the vessel which Immediately sailed
and made all speed to leave the Golden
Horn behind. She proved to be
small craft belonging to Bayonne, COM
manded by a young captain from dep
pc, who ultimately landed Emilia and
her charge at Genes, where her first
care was to have the little I1trQue bap-
tized according to the rites of the Cath
olic Church
This, it is recorded, was done by the
catre of st. EuIaelide Genes, who
named her Marie Cecile; and, in honor
of an event SO remarkable, a salute was
fred by the cannon of the chateau and
those of the ramparts of the fort and
three reHgeuses, named respectively,
La Mere St. Agnes, La Mere st. Mod
este, and La Mere de FHumilite, are
mentioned as having taken a deep in
terest in the escaped fugitive and her
charge, who was kept in ignorance of
her origin till her fifteenth year
We know not how many daughters
Achmet III. is said to have had; but
in letter to Lady Mary Wortley Mon
tagu, dated from Adrianople, she writes
of his eldest being betrothed in mar
riage to Behram Bassa, then the reign
ing court favorite, and translates
copy of verses he had addressed to her.
Cecile was now taken to several Eu-
ropean courts, cat which" according
to the narrative-E' she was received
with all the honors due to her illustri-
OILS ranks" In Russia she was pre-
! sented to the Czar Peter T., (who died
/ in that Year,; but in England she
would seems to have contented herself
with short residence at a coffee
house (cafe), in Covent Garden. Among
ether sovereigns, she was presented to
| Pope Clement XI at Rome, where her
beauty, which she inherited from her
Georgian mother, especially the pro-
fusion of her exquisite hair, began to
surround her with snares and perils.
In Rome, her guardian, Emilia, had
the Joy of once more meeting Salmoni
The man who had been stabbed be-
meath the seraglio wall had not been
he, but the turkish corsair, through
whom he had first traced her there and
who had hoped to make profit out of
he intended escape by tire terously
revealing it to the sultan; i for this
purpose he had plotted Will. a female
/ slave attached to the palace. This wo.
man, through whose hands the 1mpor-
tanJ billet passed, had artfully erased
the hour of twelve, fixed by Salmon.
and substituted eleven. Hence, though
| the sailor had full time to make the at
/ tempt, he failed in the execution of his
purpose; so now, after all their perils,
Salmoni and Emilia were married in
the Eternal City, where the love affairs
of La belle Turque' speedily began
to attract notice.
/ First, we are told that duke fell in
/ love with her; but she made him her
friend, assuring him that he could new
er be more to her, as she had already
become inspired by passion for
handsome young Knight of Malta, who
hoped soon to be absolved from his
vow of celibacy. While waiting for
this, the knights father, old Prince,
I "OuII Lave 1t, DG-
came enamoured of her, reckless that
he was rival of his own son; and to
avoid his opportunities, she and the
Salmonis set out suddenly for Paris,
where, by the knavery of banker, she
lost much Of the proceeds of the Jewels
brought from Constantinople so that
her fortune was reduced from sixty
thousand liyrs yearly, to about ten
| thousand.
In coffee-house at Paris, Cecile
chanced to see in the Gazette de
France an account of the misfortunes
that had overtaken her father, Achmet
LII. This was in 1870, when that weak
and imbecile voluptuary, vino had
viewed with Indifference the Hungarian
troubles and the wars of the north, af-
ter being involved in a contest with
Russia, by which he lost in succession
the cities of Asoph and Belgrade, and
the provinces of Temesvar, Servia and
Wallachia, on the discontinue of his
arms by Persia, had an insurrection
among his own subjects, and was COM
PEELED by the Janizaries to abdicate IN
favor Of his nephew, Mustapha Ill,
who then threw him into a prison,
where be passed life of modification
and shame, after he had," as Voltaire
has it, sacrificed his vizier and his
principal officers in vain, to the resent
ment Of the nation'
/ On reading of all these things, Ce-
cile registered a vow that she would
visit Turkey, seek out her father, and
I endeavOr to console him in his misfor-
tunes: and the death of her guardian,
/ ET1Ji1c phO1It thic t1non with
the annoyance she experienced from
the old prince, who, presuming on
her frlendless, dubious, and false posi-
ton, daily "became more urgent and
less respectful" hastened her depart
ure
Alone she set out for Fontainbleau
to solicit a passport as a French sub
ject, and to return thanks for the pro-
lection afforded her by the court of
Louis XIV; but in returning to Paris,
I