The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1879-05-16
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American Ladies on Horse6dok.-
7he snc,ftteu Page Of HiWbry.-
The late Madame Patterson bona
parte.-Ndpoleon I and p;us t1I
LONDON, Eng, April IL, 1879.
The season here has fairly begnn. and
one by one the old familiar faces ART
appearing in the Park. The Row II
iilllng up fast. Nothing like the great
, institution of the Row have we in
America, or probably ever will have
tor we have no business class sufficient.
ly large and wealthy to furnish the i'm.
maculate riders who gladden. the eyes
of the British public. Their getsup, |
refer to the, riders and not to the pub.
lie, is irreproachable, and as for women.
If a woman cannot look well In an
English habit and OIL an English horse.
there is no hope for her. But with ali
this assistance, and though they are
Graded on hoi setback, while our Yam
kee women, with few exceptions,
mount perhaps but dozen times a
year, the fair sex, in my opinion, do not
ride as gracefully in England as in
America, And in the walk in the Row,
If you meet beautiful. delicate face
and a perfect get up, joined with a
slight, lissome figure, you may safely
bet your last shilling that the possessor
is an American. In the far-famed Eng
lish complexion am much disappoiht-
ed; if healthy, very healthy color
constitutes beautiful complexion, the
London women possess it, but to me it
slngularly resembles the roast beef. of
old England. One sees all 'a9es on
horseback. Lean old men and fat old
women of seventy winters bob ND and
down alongside of the little girl of a
few summers, and, one might almost
say, of the baby of a few months, for
last season a dame was repeatedly seen
ON prancing steed with baby tucked
under her arm, while this year the babe
having been weaued or having gone 10
a happier land, black-nosed pug has
taken lis place. "f
Mdme. Patterson, whose death in
America at a ripe old age is just re-
corded, was the innocent cause of one
OF the sharpest tournaments which took
place between the First Napoleon and
Plus VII. The Pope had gone to Paris.
and, in spite of the reprobation of sin.
cere Catholics and the scruples of hi.
own conscience, had crowned the new
Charlemagne and covered with the
prestige OF religion the murderer of the
Due d d'Enghien and the despoiler of the
Pontifical States. Plus VII was actn-
ated partly by fear and partly by the
hope that Napoleon, whose power was
then unbounded, would protect the
Holy See; and, i'll fact, he obtained from
the Emperor that which his Majesty
never intended to fulfil. The Pope
promised to avenge himself tor tho hu-
he had undergone in Paris
and subsequent deceptions; and he had
not to wait long. Soon after his return
to Rome he received request from
Napoleon to annul the marriage of his
brother Jerome with Miss Patterson.
There was no difficulty about the civil
contract being annulled; the Council of
State agreed to that; the religious tie
still existed, and this could only be un-
done by the ecclesiastical authority.
Napoleon did not hesitate to ask the
Pope to dissolve the marriage in ques-
ton; he was perfectly certain that Plus
VII, after having swallowed several
:amels, could not strain at a gnat. The
Court OF Rome had been too accommod-
ating in other matters to permit of
ioubt. Again, Napoleon had joined to
his demand the opinion of some of the
most celebrated casuists of the day and
'f the Pope's own theologian, showing
according to ecclesiastical precedent,
he nullity of the union in question.
treat, therefore, was the wrath of Ma
'oIeon when he encountered an invip-
,ible resistance on the part of the timid
Plus, who wrote himself to the Emper-
'r, letter which, though couched in
III ictionate terms, and filled with assur-
Inces of friendship, declared that GER
ainly, according to the special decree
If the Council of Trent, there was a
anonical clause for invalidating the
marriage, which had been concluded
landestinely, but, unfortunately, after
he most minute search, he had been
Inable to discover that the decree in
uestion had ever been published i'll the
lty OF Baltimore. He was therefore
reved to say he could not annul the
marriage; for in acting otherwise lie
would ''render himself guilty of ali
bo:ninable abuse before the tribunal of
he Almighty" Perhaps the occupa-
ion of Ancona by French troops was
he real motive of this reply. Napoleon
ook no notice of the Pope's letter until
tter the battle OF Austerlitz, when he
threatened TO send senator to govern
Tome in his name, to send Protestant
AMBASSADOR to the Holy See, and to re-
uce the Pope to be Bishop of Rome.
'ius VII replied expressing his sincere
egret that he had been unable to find
in divine law permitting him
D follow the natural inclination of his
cart. The Emperor lost all patience,
nd informed Plus that-"If your Holi-
ess is sovereign of Rome, l am its
Emperor. am accountable to
rod, who has chosen my arm to re-es-
ablish religion. 1t was not in
leeping that reorganized religion in
rance, SO that it is now the country in
Which 1t is most respected" The end
t this quarrel was that the Pope was
arried off from Rome by General Mi
Ills and taken to Fontainebleau.
When Jerome returned to Europe with
is wife she was not allowed TO enter
rance; she came to England aud gave
iith 10 son. The Prince, after serv-
ng at sea as a rear-admiral, was made
rst general of division, then king of
Vestphalia. He died in 1861 ut the
'alais Royal; aud on his death Jerome
born at Camberwell and is
ue OF the marriage, with Miss Pater-
on, endeavored TO establish his legiti-
macy; but, in spite of the eloquence of
.erryer, who pleaded his case, the
'rench courts refused to set aside the
imperial decree of 1906. ALPHA.