The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1895-06-15

by Bishop Carroll. jerome desired TO re-
turn with his American bride 10 France;
but his mother declared the marriage In.
valid, on account OF the sons minority
An Imperial edict was issued TO that effect
The Emperor forbade his brother TO bring
his wife 10 France, and called on the Pope
to annul the marriage.
Plus VII. refused 10 grant the divorce
From 1908 TO 1897 jerome and his beauti
ful wife were kept al0of Meanwhile on
both sea aud land, DO displayed greater
talents than were shown by any other
Bonaparte save only the Great One. The
Emperor wanted his brilliant youngest
brother-who in case of failure Of heirs to
himself was declared successor to tho EN-
pire-to be king OF Westphalia. He order
cd him 10 take in marriage the princess
Catharine of Wurtembefg. The wishes Of
Jerome and the despair OF his wife were
put aside as sentimental trines, and the
new political marriage was confirmed in
August of 1867
He who had crowned Napoleon in Notre
Dame now broke with him--and broke
himself against him. In February Of 1903
the hi Try Emperor ordered General Miollis
TO occupy Rome. He proceeded To punish
the Holy Father By taking away the prov
inces OF AnconG Macerata, Fermo and Ur-
bino, and aBncxing uSm TO the kingdom
OF Italy. Still the Pope would not recede.
The dispute became hot and the Emperor
wrested from the supreme pontff the re-
maiuder OF the Roman States The Pope,
I'm June of 1909. hurled back his defiance
in n bull OF accommodation. On the 9th
OF July, the French took possession Of the
Quirinal palace, gently seized the Holy Fa.
ther, and conveyed him prisoner, first TO
Grenoble and finally to Fontainebleau
The Spanish people were the humblest
of Catholics. The accession OF Joseph
Bonapsrto as king was strongly opposed
by counter revolution. The patriots who
favored rlc restoration Of Ferdinand VII
were headed by the Junta OF Seville and
their party was infiamcd not little by
religious rancor on account OF the indig-
mites to the Pope. Nearly half million
soldiers we're put into the field, and In sup
port OF these came into Spain English
armies under Sir John Moore Sir David
Baird and Lieutenant General Arr+tur
Wellesley. English influence had long been
predominant in Portugal and the British
lion now sought 10 lay his paw on Spain.
Critics have regarded the treaty OF Ba-
yonne and the rupture with the Pope as
the beginning of Waterloo. The romancer
might well begin his story OF the over
throw Of the First French Empir with
the pretty face and soft hands Of Elizabeth
Patterson But History, ds~per than mar
riages and divorces, deeper than emperors
and popes, sees rather the lines of eternal
causation stretching through the dust and
turmoil and the mere persons Of the play
darting hither and yon like ephemeral
Napoleon's banner still rose and floated
for n while, In the highest sky On the
Continent none could resist him further
He sealed all harbors until the trade be-
tween London and Hamburg was carried
on by tcdy Of CoHStdRfinoplei Tho Ger
man princes, against all prejudices of race
and tradition, sought eagerly to enter the
Confederation of tho Rhine. The displace-
ment OF the Spanish Bourbons seemed TO
conclude the career Of that race The old !
had become spectral. Louis |
called by the phantasmal past,
Jared on through the dim world Refused /
an asylum In Italy, in Austria, in Saxony, |
in Prussia he had found brief respite at |
Mittau and Warsaw; but after Tilsit he |
must on and on, ever fattcr In body and .
lcaner in hope, to that ultimate hospital OF /
obesity and despair-England.
The years l50S-9 had this complexion
for Napoleon-that he might regard the
past as finished AS TO the future, he saw
that shining like a sun through the east
windows OF the Tuilcries Nevertheless
there was peace nowhere. If the past was
the present was chaos and the fu-
ture merely pregnant. His Continental
System by which Great Britain was 10
be left rotting on the sca-roused all the
rancor of races and nations
sweden leagued with England The Mus
covitc enthusiasm for France emitted at
intervals sulphur instead of incense The
Gar was for Napoleon; but the Russians
were not for the French. The Congress Of
trfurt, in October of lS0S, was hollow.
Alexander and Napoleon were there; also
.he kings of Saxony, Wurtemberg and
Nestphalia; also the minor princes The
state Of Europe was confirmed. The Car
should have Finland, Wallaohia and Mol
iavia. a paper was sent 10 the demented
Alng OF England Profering peacc--to
which the duke OF Portland replied that
here could be no pcaco because the House
If Bourbon had not been at Erfurt. He
night as well have answered that there
'ould be no more sunshine in the meadows
II Europe until Godfrey of Monmouth
hould be- chancellor Of daybrcakl
While Napoleon was busy with the com
'lications of lS07-S, Austria had been co.
'ertly arming for the renewal Of war. The
British ministry gave Francis H. four
million pounds TO break the peacel The
arly spring Of 1909 found the Archduke
Jharles in Bavaria with tremendous
rmy. Napoleon heard the noise afar.
Ieaving Soult to finish the Spanish busi-
less, he fastened to Paris BY the 10th of
April he was at Stuttgart On tho 18th.
lis headquarters were at Ingolstadt. Out
4 Wurtembcrg and Baden, 10y the swiftest
curriers', he evoked an army He threw
imseh like tornado on the Austrians,
nd hurled them back towards Bohemia.
Jenna was uncovered, and on the 18th Of
lay surrendered To the French.
On the 2lst and 22nd of that month oc-
urrcd the indecisive battles Of Aspern and
,ssling. In June the progress OF the
'rcnch seemed To De delayed by the very
xcess OF their advances and victories ON
ho 5th and 9th of July was fought the
Imous and sangulnary battle OF wagram.
1 which the Austrians were routed with
loss Of fully 25, 600 men The Hapshurg