Waterbury evening Democrat., 1895-06-15

nioation, On the 9th of July the French took possession of the Quirinal palace, gently seized tho Holy Father. and coIi. veyed him prisoner, first to Grenoble, and finally to Fontainebleau.
 The Spanish people were the hum- blest of Catholics. The accession of ,Jo- seph Bonaparto as king was strongly op- posed by counter revolution. The pa- triots who favored the restoration of Ferdinand VII. were headed by the Junta of Seville. and their party was in- famed not a little by religious ranoor on account of tho indignities to the Pope. Nearly q half million soldiers were put into the field, and in support of these came into Spain English armies under Sir John Moore, Sir David Baird and Lieutenant-G General Arthur Welles- ley.
 Critics have regarded the treaty of Bayonne and tho rupture with tho Pope as tho beginning of Waterloo. The TO- manccr-looking only at the dramatis persona-might woll begin his story of the overthrow of the First French Elm piro with the pretty face and soft hands of Elizabeth Patterson! But History, deeper than marriages and divorces, deeper than omperors and popes, sees rather the lines of eternal causation stretching through the dust and turmoil, and the mere persons of the play dart ing hither and yon liko ephemera!
 Napoleon s banner still rose and float cd, for while, in the highest sky. On the Continent none could resist him further. He sealed all harbors until the trado between London and Hamburg was carried on by tcGU 0f COnStGntinOplc' Tho German princes. against all preju- dices of raco and tradition, sought eag- erly to enter tho Confederation of the Rhine. The displacement of the Spanish Bourbons seemed to conclude tho career of that race. The old monarchy had be- como spectral
 The years lSOS-9 had this complexion for NapolCOn-that he might regard the past as finished As to tho future, he saw that shining liko q sun through the east windows of tho TuilerieS Never theless thcro was peace nowhere. If the past was finished, the present was chaos and tho future merely pregnant. His Continental System by which Great Britain was to be left rotting on tho sea -rouscd ali tho remaining rancur of races and nations. Sweden leagued with England. The Muscovite enthusiasm for Franco omitted at intervals sulphur instead of incense. The Car was for Napoleon; but tho Russians were not for tho French. Tho Congress of Erfurt, in October of 1908, was hollow. Alex audor and Napoleon were there; also tho kings of Saxony. Wurtomberg and Wostphalia; also the minor princes The state of Europe was confirmed, The Car should have Finland, Wallachia and Moldavia
 While Napoleon was busy with the complications of lSO7S, Austria had been cuvertly arming for the renewal of war. Tho British ministry gave Francis II. four million pounds to break the peace! The carly spring of 1909 found tho Arrhduko Charles in Bavaria with a tremendous army. Napoleon heard the noise atar. Leaving Soult to finish the spanish business, ho hastcued to Paris. By tho 10th of April hc was at Stutt- gart. On the 18th, his headquarters were 3t IugolStadt. Out of Wurtemberg aul Baden l,y the swiftcst CourierS, he evoked an arply He threw himself like a tornado c4.3hc AustrilnS, and hurled them back towards Bohemia. Vienna was uncovered, and on tho l2th of May surrendered to the French.
 On the 2Ist and 22nd of that month occurred the indeClSive battles of Aspern and E~SlinS. In June the progress of the French seemed to be delayed by the very excess of their advances and vic tories. On tho 5th and 9th of July was fought the famous and sanguinary bat tie of WagrIlu. ill which the AuStrians were routed with loss of fully 25, 900 men. Tine Hapshurg Empire was as completely prostratrd Prussia had been alter Jena The humhled Francis came to a conferences with Napoleon at SchOnbrunn. He was obliged to purchase peace by the cession of the provinces of Dalmatia and Istria. Austrian Poland was divided between tho Car and the king of Saxonv. SalZburg was given to Bavaria. Francis pledged his honor to rcnounce his alliance with England, and to uphold the continental system of Napoleon.
 Meanwhile Soult, in command of the second corps in Spain, had on the 10th of November, lSOS. annihilated the Spanish army at Burg os. He had wrest- cd Corunna, Frrrnl ard OpOrto from the | English. But the tid3 turned in North ern Portugal, and the French were driven back by Wellington. A division under Marshal Monccy, marching OF Valencia, Was defeated, as was also General Dupont ill tho battle of Baylen, in AndaluSia, where the French losses amounted tO nearly 20. 900, In August of | lSOS occurred the siege of Saragossa, memorable alike in history and pOosy. | Not until February of the following | year was the stronghold surrendered to l the French, whose losses during the siege are said to have exceeded 60, GOO! | IL was just after theso events that the | hollow congress was held at Erfurt. By the first week of December, 1909, Ma poleon had returned to Paris. During his recent stay in Vienna-perhaps in his conferences with Emperor Francis at Schonbrunn-he had had a thought There was at that time in the palace of the Hapsburgs girl just eighteen years of age. Josephine was forty-six and a-half! JOIN CLARK RIDPATH