The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1872-01-04
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Is a Romance In Real Life.lfi1 .sEi
To Louisiana, IN the beginning Of the last
century, eaii1e an old German engraiit, with
his only daughter, and settled there She.
was young and very beautiful, and attracted
much attention, especially chat aaf one sDau-,
band, an officer of the colony, who SO ingra-
tiated himself with her father that, after
time, they kept house together. This officer
had been in Russia; and what first. struck
him, upon seeing the young lady, was the
very remarkable resemblance which she bore
to the late wife of the CzaroiYitz Alexis, son
Of Peter. the Great. The. history of this
princess has been very sad one Though u
hfgh-born lady, and sister-ip-law to the En-
peror Charles VI, she had been treated by
her husband with as much brutality as though
she had been his slave. He had attempted
Oh more than one occasion to make away
with her by poison; and at last he had struck
hef with such violence, when FAR gone with
herself and her infant AL the courts Of
Europe had gone into mourning for her., and
everybody but her husband had ;pitied her
unhappy fate. After a great lapse of time
the Czarowitz himself died; ahd, to Dau-
bands watchful eyes it seemed that the ill-
telligcnce Of that Princes decease was re-
ccivcd, by his fair fGllow-l0dger With, such
suspicious interest and excitement that lie
taxed her with being in truth that exalted
but unhappy lady, whom all the world held
to be dead and buried. If such were the
case, he declared himself. devoted to her SER
vice, and prepared to at once sacrifice his
prospects in the colony in order to escort
her to Russia. .,-... +. -, ~.
Then Charlotte Christina Sophia dc Wool
fenbuttel Qor such had been her, maiden
name) narrated her pitiful story. She was
indeed the parsonage he had imagined her to
be, and had made use Of q pious fraud to
escape from the cruelties of her late, hus-
band. The blow that had been given to her
had almost caused her death Gas it undoubt-
edly did that of the Heir Of All tile Russias,
whom she carried within her) but She had in
truth recovered from it. By help Of the
Countess Konigsmark, mother Of Marshal
Sake, she gained over the Wcmen of her bed
chamber, so that it was given out she; was no
more, and a funeral was arranged accord
ingly. Then, being conveyed to II secret
place, she was carefully tended, and when
strong enough removed, in the guise of a ser
want girl, to Paris, under the guardianship Of
trllsty German servant, who passed as her
father and finally from France to Louisia,,ia.
Having heard her story, Duband renewed
his devoted offer to furnish the means oil her
return to that sphere from Which she had
fed under such pitiablc circumstances but
the Young widow thanked him, and said
that the only service she required of
him was that lie should maintain an
absolute secresy regarding her past, and
conduct himself toward her exactly as he had
hitherto donef the future. He endeavorcd
to obey her in both respects, but his affection
for her was stronger than his loyalty he was
Young and handsome, us well as impression
able; and perhaps the eX-princess, OF her
part, was not sorry when, her pretended
father diving, and it becoming no longer pos
sible for Dauband and herself to be under
the same roof without reproach. he Offered
himself to her as husband. If she had
really renounccd all thoughts Of rcsuming
her rank, he argued, why should she not
wed an honest man, who loved her? Though
not queen, in him she should ever have 4
devoted subject. She consented; and III so
doing suffered one of the strangest examples
Of vicisSitude Of fortune that history has
recordcd--the marriage with an humble
officer of infantry of one who had been
destined for the throne of Russia, and whose
sister wasactually occupying that of Austria,
The marriage was happy one, and bore fruit
in an only daughter. After ten years Ddu
which the practitioners i'll Louisiana could
not cure, removed with his wife and child to
Paris to get the best medical advice, and OH
his recovery solicited and obtained from Go
vernnent an appointment i'll the Isle of
Bourbon. While in Paris the wife and
daughter went to walk in the Tuilleries, and
| conversing i'll German, were overheard by
Marshal SAKE. who stopped to consider
them. Madame Dauband's embarrassment
confirmed his suspicious, and his recognition
of her was complete. She drew him aside.
and persuaded him to promise secreSy. He
called OH her. however, the next day, and often
afterwards and when she had departed for
Bourbon, informed the king, his master, of
what he had discovered. Orders were sent
off to the island that the greatest respect
should be paid to her; and the King of Hun
gary was also made acquainted with the posi-
ton Of his aunt. He sent her Il letter inviting
her to his court, but on the condition that she
should quit her husband. which she refused
to do. In 174T Dauband died, having been
preceded to the grave by his daughter; and
| the widow came to France with the intention
of taking up her residence in Il convent; in
place of doing so, however, she lived in great
retirement at Vitri. about n lelguefrom Paris.
where she died in 1772.- Chambers Journal