The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1895-06-22

favored the restoration of Ferdinand VII
were headed by the Junta of Seville, and
their party was nilamed not Il little by
~r"liEitlS rancOr on account Of thc indig
nijiv- To the Pope. Nearly n half million
soldiers were put into the field, and in SUD
port If these came into Spain English
armies under Sir John Moore. Sir David
Baird and Lieutenant General Arthur
Wellesley. English influence had long been
predominant in Portugal, and the British
lion now sought to 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
looking only at the dramatis PERSONA
might well begin his story of the over
throw of the First French Empire with
the pretty face and soft hands of Elizabeth
Patterson! But History, deeper than mar
riages and divorces, deeper than empcrors
and popes, secs 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 foated,
for a 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 ray Of ConStdntinOplc, The Ger
maj Prince, against all prciudices of race
and tradition, sought eagerly to enter the
Confederation of the Rhine. The displacc-
ment of the Spanish Bourbons seemed to
conclude the career of that race. The old
monarchy had become spectral. Louis
XNUl.-so-cailed by the phantasmal past,
Jared on through the dim world. Refused
an asylum in Italy, in Austria, in Saxony.
In Prussia, he had found IL brief respite at
Mittau and Warsaw; but after Tilsit he
must on and on ever fatter in body and
leaner in hope, to that ultimate hospital of
obesity and dcspair-England
The years 1S0S-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 Tuileries. Nevertheless
there was peace nowhere. If the past was
finished, the present was chaos and the flu
ture merely pregnant. His Continental
System'-by which Great Britain was to
be left rotting on the sea-roused all the
remaining rancor of races and nations
Sweden lcagucd with England. The Mus.
covite 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
Erfurt, in October of 1903, was hollow
Alexander and Napoleon were there; also
the kings of Saxony, Wurtemberg and
Westphalia; also the minor princes. The
state of Europe was confirmed The Gar
should have Finland, Wallachia and Mol
davia. A paper was sent to the demented
king of England proffcring peace-to
which the duke of Portland replied that
there could be no peace because the House
of Bourbon had not been at Erfurt. He
might as well have answered that there
could be no more sunshine in the meadows
of Europe until Godfrey of Monmouth
should be chancellor of daybreak!
While Napoleon was busy with the COM
plications of 1S07-8, Austria had been co.
verify arming for the renewal of war. The
British ministry gave Francis Ii. four
million pounds to break the peacel The
early spring of 1909 found the Archduke
Charles in Bavaria with u tremendous
army. Napoleon heard the noise afar.
Leaving Soult to finish the Spanish bust
ness, he FASTENED to Paris. BY the 10Th of
April he was at Stuttgart. On the 18th,
his headquarters were at Ingolstadt. Out
of Wurtemberg and Baden, by the swiftest
couriers, he evoked an army. He threw
himself like Il tornado on the Austrians,
and hurled them bach towards Bohemia.
Vienna was uncovered, and on the 10Th of
May surrendered to the French.
On the 2lst and 22nd of that month oc-
CURED the indecisivc battles of Aspern and
Essling. In June the progress of the
French seemed to be delayed by the very
excess of their advances and victories. On
the 9th and 9th of July was fought the
famous and sanguinary battle of Wagram,
in which the Austrians were routed with
a loss of fully 25, 900 men. The Hapsburg
Empire was rs completely FRUSTRATED as
Prussia had been after Jena. The humbled
Francis came to Il conference with Napo-
leon at Schonbrunn. He was obliged to
purchase peace by the cession of the PROV
inces of Dalmatia and Istria. Austrian
Poland was divided between the Gar and
the king of Saxony. Salzburg was given
to Bavaria. Francis pledged his honor to
his alliance with England, and
to uphold the continental system of Ma
poleon.
Meanwhile Soult, in command of the
second corps in Spain, had on the 10th of
November, 1903, annihilatcd the Spanish
army at Burgos. He had wrested Corunna,
terrol and Oporto from the English. But
the tide turned in Northern Portugal, and
the French were driven back by yelling
ton. A division under Marshal Money,
marching on Valencia, was defeated, as
was also General Dupont, in the battle of
Baylen, in Andalusia, where the French
losses amounted to nearly 20, 600. In Au-
gust of 1908 occurred the siege of Saragos-
sa, memorable alike in history and poesy.
Not until February of the following year
was the stronghold surrendered 20 the
French, whose losses during the siege are
said to have exceeded 90, coo!
1t was just after these events that the
hollow congress was held at Erfurt. BY
the first week of December, 1903, Napoleon
had returned to Paris. During his recent
stay in Nicnna-pcrhaps in his conferences
with Empesor Francis at Schonbrunn-he
had had a thought. There was at that
time in tho palace of the H~apsburgs a girl
just eighteen years of age. Josephine was
forty-siX and a-halfl
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