AN EMPEROR'S LOVE STORY.

Waikato Times, Volume XXXIV, Issue 2757, 15 March 1890, Page 6 (Supplement)

AN EMPEROR'S LOVE STORY.

The fourth part of Heinrich Von Treitachke's " German History in the Nineteenth Century" has been publinhed. The author, as long as Emperor William I. was living', found it bennininpr (the Berlin correspondent of the Daily News remarks) only to Bay what was absolutely necessary about his love in his youth for the Princess Elizabeth Randziwill. He now adds to the supplement extracts from letters of Prince William, dated the 23rd of June, 1826, in which the Prince, deeply moved, thanks his father with the most noble expressions of filial love for the mild, sympathetic manner in which he came to a decision in disfavour of the Princess, who, according to the opinion of the Ministers, was not of equal birth. " You have, dearest father, decided my fate just aa I expected, but feared to expect as loug as a ray of hope remained. Read iu my heart in order to find the inexpressible gratitude with whioh it is filled, for all the innumerable proofs of your graciouanesß, love and patience which you have given me in these exciting five years, but above all for yesterday's letter, which made a deep impression upon me. I ehall never be able to describe what an impression it made. Your fatherly graciousness, love and leniency, your loving sympathy with the fate which has befallen mo, the way in which you recalled to mo tho duties of my position, the acknowledgment of the worthiness of the object who owns my affections, the remembrance of all endeavours which your love for your nhildren oaußed you to mako, in order to fulfil the wishes of my heart—to find all this In the lines which deoido my fate save my muoh-moved heart so much comfort and such indescribable feelings of gratitude I that it will only be by the most childish i love, and by the whole demeanor of my future life, that I shall be able to prove to you, dearest father, my true feelings. I shall justify your confluence. I shall pass through this great trial by overcoming my deep sorrow and by showing firmness in bearing what is inevitable. I shall pray for God's help. He never deeorted me in Buch paiuful moments of my life. He will also now not forsake mr. Thus I oonclude those important lines, it is true with a bleeding heart, but with a heart, doare't father, which is more than ever attached to you. For your fatherly love has never showed itself greater than in the manner iu which you decided."