Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1875-04-16
SUFFICIENT FOR THE CONQUEST OF
ENGLAND.

| British Government was greatly
alarmed; panic pervaded the little
island, and increased as the chances
of a successful invasion became more
and more probable. But British gold
did what the English Ministry fear
ed British muskets could not achieve
opened fire on Bonaparte's rear,
compelling him to face about and
march away from the British Chan
mel to cross bayonets once more with
his tough old foes, the Austrians.
From the date of the peace of 1905,
whereby Austria had been compel
led to surrender her beautiful Italian
provinces in the Valley of the Po,
besides some other territory, she had
chafed under the loss and humilia-
tion. By.lsO9, her army was reor-
ganized and strengthened. at this
point of time came the crisis of Eng
lands fate. The British Ministry
offered Austria a subsidy of 915,-
0OO,OOO-$75, 100000 in gold-and
munitions of war, if she would i'm
mediately break the treaty with
France and proceed to recover her
Italian provinces. The temptation
was too great to resist. England, on
her part, agreed to land strong ar
my in Spain, and open back fire on
BOnaparte. The programme was
carried into effect, and one of the
eventful consequences was the bat
tie of Wagram, followed by the over
throw of Austria, and the loss of
still more territory. But
ENGLAND MADE HER POINT.
She prevented the invasion of her
shores and turned aside the bolt aim
ed to strike her down; but in saving
herself she sacrificed her ally, who
was almost ruined beyond recovery
under the crushing blows of the irate
French Emperor.
As looked at the Island of Lo-
bau and the battle-felds of Aspern
and Wagram, the chapter of history
which enveloped them naturally
came to mind. Hence this reference
to it.
There is not much scenery from
the deck of the steamer down the
Danube to Pest. A vast, rich, slight
ly undulating plain, with trees, hab-
itations, villages, scattered over it,
opens out on all sides. 1t is noun
famous and destitute of picturesque
beauty; but there are many spots of
considerable historic interest, such
as the battlefield of Wagram, Just
described; and the stone-monument,
few miles further down, which
marks the spot where the mean-spir-
tied Emperor Leopold met John So
biesky, King of Poland, after he had
defeated the Turks before the walls
of Vienna, and saved the Austrian
Empire from destruction. Leopold
greeted him, not with open arms and
a hearty embrace, but with a cold
and formal salutation, which the
Poles never forgave.
Fifty miles below Vienna is Pres
burg, a town of $4,000 inhabitants,
which, for long time, was the Cap
ital of Hungary; after Buda, the an
cient Capital, fell into the hands of
the Turks, in 1541. 1t was here that
the young and beautiful
EMPRESS MARIA THERESA,
when attacked by Frederick the
Great of Prussia, and deserted by
all her allies except Great Britain,
and having part of her dOminions
wrested from her-clsd in deep
mourning-met the Hungarian Par
lament and nobility, and, after re-
counting her woes and wrongs,
threw herself on the fidelity of her
Hungarian subjects, and demanded
their aid and succor to roll back the
invaders and recover the lost PROV
inces. Her youth, beauty, sex and
distress appealed irresistibly to Mag
var chivalry and Slavic loyalty, and
the whole multitude, plebeians as
we'll as patricians, with one wild i'm
pulse, swore to aVenge her wrongs
or die in the attempt. Fresh armies
were instantly raised, and the Great
Frederick lived to regret the day he
had attacked the girlish Queen of
Hungary, who never put up her
sword until she recovered back the
lost territory and reduced Prussia to
the very verge of annihilation. Fred
erick was taught the lesson that
"Hell hath no fury like a woman
scorned."
Below Presburg the plain becomes
fatter and lower; it is an enormous
expanse of green fields, rather thinly
populated. Komorn, a powerfully
fortified town of 10000 inhabitants,
is the first point of any interest be-
low Presburg. A couple of hours
run farther down, low chain of
hills approach the river, and relieve
the monotony of the plain. In a
short distance farther, the valley of
the river contracts and high noun
talns loom up on either side. Be
tween Grau and Vissegrad, dis
tance of an hours run, say II or IA
miles, the scenery is
GRAND AND MAGNIFICENT.
The river is shut in by high noun
tains, which yield new and beautiful
panoramic effects any moment. be-
low Vissegrad the river makes ssud-
den bend from the east to the south,
down to Pest and Buda, and contin-
ues to flow south nearly 200 miles
beyond.
The mountains subside into hills,
and recedes away from the river,
whose valley widens out on either
side. Soon come in sight the steeples
and houses of Buda, which is locat-
ed on the side of steep hill. On,
the other side of the river, on the
low ground. is spread out the large
city of Pest. The two are connected
by splendid suspension iron bridge.
Buda, on the hill, was the ancient
Capital of Hungary for FIVE or six
centuries before it fell into the hands
of the Turks in l54l. 1t contains
now about 10000 inhabitants; while
the modern town of Pest, on the Dot
tom-land on the other side of the
river. contain I75,000. For a long
time there was bitter "Capital ques-
tom between the two cities. Buda