The Washington herald., 1914-07-12
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By JAMES MORGAN

Plus retorted with a bill excommunicar-
ing and anathematiZing all Who took pa! :
in despoiling the Holy See.
| While the hosts OF Napoleon and
| Charles were sleeping on their arms be-
1ore Vienna. a commander OF gendarrl-
| erie broke down the doors and stalk 4
| into the. Quirinal on the night OF July 81.
| where the Pope. wearing his mozerra and
| stole, calmly. resignedIy awaited his far,,
| Plus was commanded. in the name of the
| emperor, TO renOunCe his temporal SOW
| eTeignty. and upon his refusal he vas
placed under arrest he wished 70 BE- al
| lowed two hours in which to prepare tor
! his departure. out this respite was denied
Taking with him only his breviarv ard
/ nus cruclhN. the Pope. emerging from the
fa!ace, silently blessed the sleeping civ
/ Then stepping into the coach provided
! Tor hln. its doors We're locked and biS
Imprisonment had begun When the sun
rose above the Sabine Hills and CLEANED
! on the dome Of ST. Peters the heir OF
the Fisherman was being hurried away
IN mis- prison van toward his captivity at
saw pna, the Sayona from which Napoleon
hInlSeli rode out one moonlight night to
? eu. .u 81 INTO fame on the heights of Mon
station on his path to St. Helena.
Although the Emperor pointed 10 the
| arrest of Pope BonifaCe and Pope Gle
nent ' ii by Philippe Ie Bel and Charles
V as his warrant. the Christian world.
re- rssaraIeSs lE e OF sect viewed his carrying
on OF Plus as the most Unwa-ranted Of
his acts. The PaPaI States il is truc.
were like wedge in his empire. cutting
on the kingdom OF Naples from the king
dom OF Italy. but he had already annexed
them, and his arrest Of the aged pontfS
could not be justified on the loveSr
grounds OF policy II was another decd
that mertted the CvniC's CensIIre as @or,s-
thing worse than a crirne-it was a hIrr,-
der
Napoleon's negotiations meanwhile with
the Emperor Francis dragged their slow
pace through the summc- He h@I
struck of u spurious issue Of Austrian
bank notes amounting TO SaO.O0OGpN. and
was prepared to Hood and bankrupt the
country with them when. in Octcoer.
Francis tardily yielded to his terms To
ransom his capital the Austrian Enoeror
gave up territories having a popuIqtIon
OF SS0e;Wc and paid a war indemnity Of
tating condition that he should disband
half his army.
Bride by Capture.
The next day a mighty explosion shook
Vienna like an earthquake and left its
walls In ruins. Napoleon. not satisfied
with the reduction OF the Austrian army,
had also ordered that the Austrian can
greatly outraged by the blowing up Of
their ramparts, but time and art have
healed the wound. For where the .lslv
oastions once rose and encircled the
town, the Ring, that unique and beauti-
ful promenade, now winds its noble way,
and is become the proudest boast of the
present-day Vienna
As Napoleon was leveling the old wall
of Vienna a new wall was being raised
in France. Orders had come from him
while he was at Schonbrunn that tho
private passage between his apartments
and the Empress In the Palace Of Fon-
tainebleau should be closed. and the ham
mers of the workmen knelled the doom OF
Josephine. The conquest of Europe hav-
ing been completed, the conqueror de-
termined at last to divorce his wife and
seek in a new union an heir to perpetu-
ate his empire.
The walls Of Vienna still lay in a heap
four months after the French Emperor's
departure from the city when Berthier,
Prince OF Wacram, climbed over hem
other prize Of victory. the hand Of his
daughter. the Archduchess Marie Louise,
In marriage with Napoleon.
Copyright. lsl3-lslI. b. James MorEanl