Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1896-10-01

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'O"~ resenting that Ma
poleon had brought
with him fabulous sums the Austrian
and English commissioners easily won
the Elbans to fervor OF loyalty for
their new emperor. Before nightfall
OF the 4th the court was established,
and the new administration began Its
labors. Having mastered the resources
and needs Of his pigmy realm, the en-
peror began to deploy all his powers,
mending the highways, fortifying the
strategic points, and creating about the
nucleus Of four hundred guards which
were sent from Fontainebleau an eff
Client little army of sixteen hundred
men. His expenses were regulated to
the minutest detail both at home and
abroad; the salt works and iron mines
which were the bulwarks Of Ethan
prosperity, began at once to increase
their output, and taxation was regu-
lated with scrupulous nicely. BY
that supereminent virtue Of the French
burgher, good management, the island
was made almost independent Of the
remnants Of the Tuileries treasure
(about five million francs) which Ma
poleon had brought from France. The
same powers which had swayed a
world operated with equal success In
a sphere almost microscopic by COM
parison.
Before long the Princess Borghese,
separated soon after her marriage
from her second husband, and ban
ished since 1910 from Paris for imper-
tinent conduct to the empress, came,
according to promise, to be her broth
ers companion, and Madame Mere
though distant in prosperity, came like
wise to soothe her son in adversely.
The intercepted letters of the former
prove her to have been at least as
loose in her life at Elba as ever be-
fore, but they do not afford a sufficient
basis for the scandals concerning her
relations with Napoleon which were
founded upon them, and industriously
circulated at the court of Louis XVIII.
The shameful charge has no adequate
foundation of any sort.
Napoleon's economies were rendered
not merely eXpedient, but imperative,
by the fact that none of the moneys
from France were forthcoming which
had been promised in his treaty with
the powers. After short stay Kol-
Ter frankly stated that in his opinion
they would never be paid, and Depart
ed. The island swarmed with Bourbon
spies, and the only conversation in
which Napoleon could indulge himself
unguardedly was with Sir Neil Camp
bell, the English representative, or
with the titled English gentlemen who
gratified their curiosity by visiting
him. During the summer heats when
the court was encamped on the heights
at Marciana for refreshment, there APP
peared a mysterious lady with her
child. Both were we'll received and
kindly treated, but they withdrew
themselves entirely from the public
gaze. Common rumor said it was the
empress; but this was not true; it was
the Countess Walewska, with the son
she had borne to her host, whom she
still adored. They remained but few
days, and departed as mysteriously as
they had come.
Base females thronged the precincts
of the imperial residence, openly
struggling for Napoleons favor as
they had so far never dared to do; sue
cess too frequently attended their eff
forts. But the one woman who should
have been at his side was absent. 1t |
is certain that she made an honest eff
fort to come. and apartments were
prepared for her reception in the lit
Tie pdldCe dI L W II ldJu' IlCI ldLu-
er, however, thwarted her at every |
turn, and finally she was a virtual
prisoner at Schonbrunn. SO manifest
was the restraint that her grand
mother, Caroline, Queen Of the Two |
Sicilies, cried out in indignation, IF |
I were in the place of Maria Louisa. / !.
would tie the sheets Of my bed to the +
window frame and flee." Committed !
to the charge of the elegant and sub
tie Neipperg, a favorite chamberlain
whom she had first seen at Dresden, he |
piled her with such insidious wiles
that at last her slender moral fiber was
entirely broken down and she fell |
victim to his charms AS late as Au- |
gust Napoleon received imprisoned |
letters from her; then she grew formal
and cold at last, under Metternich's |
urgency she ceased to write at all Her
French attendant, Meneval, managed
to convey the whole sad story to her
husband, but the emperor was incred-
ulous, and hoped against hope until
December. Then only he ceased from
his incessant and urgent appeals,
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