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Show A Queen's Ambition Disappointed. It is now twenty years since the curtain was rung down on the bloody drama which the Imperialist party played on Mexicao soil, and what ts the impartial verdict ot I the men and women who knew the inside 1 history of Maximilian's reign? I have I talked with several of the leading person-J person-J ajzee who played a part in the sad business, and they were among those near to the . emperor during his whole stay in Mexico. ! They agree on one point, and that is that Maximilian was inadequate to the situation; situa-tion; that he was vascillating where Car- lotta was firm; that he was Ewayed hither aud thither, and accepted the advice of I the last man who caught his ear, while Carlotta used men and events with masculine mas-culine strength aud was, behind all, thp guiding and animating spirit. She, the daughter of the king of the Belgians, had the heart of a Boldier and , the head of a statesman. It was her dream to wear an imperial crown, and it was the loss of her crown, and. not the death of her husband, that unsettled her I reason. Disappointed ambition, and not ; a shock to her affections, made a mad woman of her. Her Intimates here say that there was no love lost between her j imperial husband and herself. Theirs ; was a marriage of state and dictated by no sentiment beyond and above that of governmental policy. She was ardent, ambitious, a woman of large projects; he was better fitted for the elegant life of a scholarly prince, and was nnsuited to the j tempest of war and the clash of arms. Mexico Cor. Boston Herald. |