Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1895-06-15

new PORTUGAL marriage was cOnuIW0u III
August of 1907. He who had crowned
Napoleon in Notre Dame now broke
with him-and broke himself against
him. In February of 1908 the angry
Emperor ordered General Miollis to oc-
cupy Rome. He proceeded to punish the
Holy Father by taking away the prov
inces Of Ancona, Macerata, Fermo and
Urbino, and annexing them to the king.
dom of Italy. Still the Pope would not
recede. The dispute became hot, and the
Emperor wrested from the supreme pom
tiff the remainder of the Roman States
The Pope, in June of 1909, hurled
back his defiance in a bull of excommu-
nication On the 9Th Of July the French
took possession Of the Quirinal palace,
gently seized the Holy Father. and con-
vcyed him prisoner, first to Grenoble,
and finally to Fontainebleau.
The Spanish people were the hum
blest Of Catholics. The accession of Jo-
seph Bonaparte as king was strongly OPP
posed by q 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 little by religious rancor
on account of the indignities to the
Pope. Nearly a 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 General Arthur Welles-
ley.
Critics have regarded the treaty Of
Bayonne and tie rupture with the Pope
as the beginning of Waterloo. The TO
mancer-looking only at the dramatis
persona-might well begin his story of
the overthrow of the First French EN-
pire 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 like ephemera!
Napoleon's banner still rose and float
ed. for a while, in the highest sky. On
tho Continent none could resist him
further. He sealed all harbors until the
trade between London and Hamburg
was carried on by aCdy of COnstdntinOple
The German princes. against all preju.
dices of race and tradition, sought Gag
erly to enter the Confederation of the
Rhine. The displacement of the Spanish
Bourbons seemed to conclude tho career
Of that race The old monarchy had be-
come spectral.
Tho 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 sun through the
east windows of the Tuileries. Never
theless there was peace nowhere. If the
past was finished, the present was chao;
and the future merely pregnant His
Continental System''-by which Great
Britain was to DO left rotting on the sea
reused all tho remaining rancor Of
races and nations. Sweden leagued with
England. The Muscovite enthusiasm
for France emitted at intervals sulphur
instead of incense The Car was fol
Napoleon; but tho Russians were moi
for the French. The Congress of Erfurt,
in October of 1903, was hollow. Alex
ander and Napoleon were there; also
the kings of Saxony, Wurtemberg ant
Westphalia; also the minor princes
The state Of Europe was confirmed. The
Car should have Finland, Wallachis
and Moldavia.
While Napoleon was busy with thu
complications Of 1SO7-s, Austria hat
been covertly arming for the renewal O
war. The British ministry gave Francis
II. four million pounds to break thu
peace! The early spring of 1909 fount
the Archduke Charles in Bavaria Will
tremendous army. Napoleon heard tn,
noise afar. Leaving Soult to finish tn
Spanish business, he hastened to Paris
By the 10th Of April be was at Stutt
CART. On the 18th, his headquarters
were at Ingolstadt. Out of Wurtember,
and Baden, by the swiftest couriers, h
evoked an army. Ho threw himself lik
o tornado on tho Austrians, and hurled
them back towards Bohemia. Vienr;
was uncovered, and on the 18th of Ma,
surrendered to tho French.
On the 21st and 22nd of that montl
occurred the indecisive battles of Asperl
! and Essling. In June the progress o
the French seemed to DO delayed by tn
very excess Of their advances and vic
tories. On the 9Th and 9th of July wa
| fought the famous and sanguinary bat
tie of Wagram, in which the Austrian
were routed with a loss of fully %, O0'
men. The Hapsburg Empire was a
completely Frustrated as Prussia hat
been after Jena. The humbled Franci
came to q conference with Napoleon a
Schonbrunn. He was obliged to purchas
peace by the cession of the provinces o
Dalmatia and Istria. Austrian Polan'
was divided between the Car and tn
king Of Saxony. Sals1urg was given t
Bavaria. Francis pledged his honor t
renounce his alliance with England, an,
to uphold the continental system Q
Napoleon.
Meanwhile Soult. in command Of til
second corps in Spain, had OH the lot
Of November, 1908, annihilated tn
Spanish army at Burgos. He had wres,
ed Corunna, Ferrol and Oporto from tn
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