The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-07-12

battery before the door of the Quirinaf the palace of Pope VII
 Since the refusal of Plus to annul the marriage of Jerome Bonaparte and Betsy Paterson the never cordial rela- tions between him and the emperor had grown more and more strained. To con- trol the ports of the Papal states against the British, Napoleon had first annexed the upper states to the king dom of Italy. The Papacy still refusing to join the continental union against England, the emperor next swept away entirely its temporal sovereignty, an nouncing that, as the successor, of Charlemagne, he only resumed posses sion of territory which his illustrious predecessor had intrustcd to the care of the popes. Thereupon Plus retorted with bull accommodating and ana thematizing all who took part in de- spelling the Holy See.
 While the hosts of Napoleon and Charles were sleeping on their arms be- fore Vienna, a commander of gendarm- erie broke down the doors and stalked into the Quirina1 on the night of July b-H where the pope, wearing his mozetta and stole. calmly, resignedly awaited hia fate. Plus was commanded. fin the name Of tho Emperor. to renounce his tenn poral sovereignty. and. upon his refusal. he was placed under arrest. He wished to be allowed two hours in which to prepare for his departure, but this res spite was denied
 Taking with him only his breviary [ his crucifix, the pope. emerging the palace, silently blessed the sls city Then stepping into the coach vided for him, It's doors were locke his imprisonment had begun. Whe sun rose above the Sabine hill gleamed on the dome of St. Peter, heir of the Fisherman was being t,, htc v,T-tqn captivity at Savona, the Savona which Napoleon himself rode out moonlight night to burst into fam the heights of Montenotte And nc was to become station on his pa St Helena.
 Although the Emperor pointed te arrest of Pope Boniface and Pope ment VII by Philippe To Bel and Ch V as his warrant. the Christian WI regardless of sect viewed his carryi off of Plus as the most unwarranted his acts. The papal states, 1t is tr were like wedge fin his empire, ct ting off the Kingdom of Naples from tn Kingdom of Italy. but he had alread annexed them, and his arrest of the age [ pontiff could not be Justified on the low-I est grounds of policy. It was anotheu deed that merted the cyrics csnsure As something worse than crime--n was blunder.
 . The next day a mighty explosion shook Vienna like an earthquake and left us walls in ruins. Napoleon, not satined with the reduction of the Austrian army, had also ordered that the Austrian cap ital be dismantied The ,viennese were greatly outraged by the blowing up or their ramparts. but time and art have heeled the wound. For where the ugly bastions once rose and encircled the town the Ring, that unique and beautiful prom enade, now winds its noble way and s become the proudest boast of the pres ent day Vienna.
 As Napoleon was leveling the old wal of vienna a new wall was being raised in France Orders had come from him while he was at Schonbrunn that the prf- vate passage between his apartments and the Empress in the Palace of Fontaine- bleau should be closed, and the hammer of the worknen kneled the doom of Jo sephine. The conquest of Europe havin been completed the conqueror determine at last to divorce his wife and seek a new union an heir to perpetuate Empire.
 The walls of Vienna still lay in hs four months after the French Empero departure from the city when Berthltl / Prince of Wagram, climbed over them to demand from the Emperor Francis an other prize of victory, the hand of his daughter, the Archduchess Marie Louise, in marriage with Napoleon.
 Copyright. 1s13-14 by James Morgan)
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