The Sun.
London, England, 1870-08-27 00:00:00

HER MAJESTY.

BALMORAL, AUG. 24.
The Queen, accompanied by Princess Louise, went out
this morning.
In the afternoon the Queen drove out, accompanied by
Princess Beatrice, and attended by Lady Churchill..
Princess Louise drove out, attended by Miss Cavendish.
The Rev. Dr. Taylor had the honour of dining with her
Majesty yesterday.

NAPOLEON 111.. AND THE DUKE OF
BRUNSWICK.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SUN."

Sir, -In your excellent paper, of the 19th instant,
appeared, under the head of " Metropolitan Gossip,"
and referring to the Pall Mall Gazette as the authority for
the statements, some mention of transactions between the
Duke of Brunswick and the Emperor of the French, &c.,
ending by saying, in reference to both : " One of these
two high. contracting parties died ; the other became
Emperor of France. I suppose the latter will scarcely
consider himself bound to consult the successor of the
former before he abdicates."

There is a rather important circumstance, which shows
the information of the writer who put forth the state-
ments is not to be relied upon. The Duke of Brunswick
is there stated to have died, and the other to have become
Emperor of France (even this last expression is not quite
correct, as the title used is Emperor of the French). But
the truth is that the Duke of Brunswick, instead of hazing
dial, was quite alive the day before, yesterday, at Geneva,
lodging there in the Hotel de la Metropole. I, who know
perfectly well his handwriting and signature, have seen
a letter of his from thence with such date, and with the
competent-Swiss stamp and postmark. The observations,
therefore, copied above naturally fall very flatly to the
ground.

'Ent the writer of the srticle seems also to be indiffe-
rently informed as to the claim of the. Duke in question
to his throne, to which he is in reality no less entitled than
her Majesty Queen Victoria to the throne 'of Great
Britain, notwithstanding that, by a base and cowardly
transaction, the same day he was de facto removed from
such throne, and younger brother substituted on it as
if the rightful successor were dead.

The cause of this foul arrangement is very little knoWn,
or else is forgotten ;.deserving well, however, tobe rernem-
here(' as a counter part of the Portuguese case, by which
my poor country, thanks to England, has been reduced
to i s present meat miserable condition.
I The father of the Duke was killed in battle the day be-
fore the great victory of Waterloo, and leaving his son and
s=ess:3r, aged only eight years. King George IV. of Eng-
land, his uncle, remained the young Prince'sguardian,and
administrator of the State, during his minority. Instead
of keeping things as they were in the duchy until the
young Prince's majority a new constitution was there
introduced, in the English fashion—and, of course, a
patty created bound up with this order of things.
When the young Duke became of age he disapproved
of these changes. Supported in this disapprobation by
the national party, who had been ousted from power and
influence before by the English party, and, revoking the
newly introduced constitution, he re-established the old
one. This vexed George IV. and that English party ;
conspiracies were hatched against the Duke, and an insur-
rection 'effected, by dint of which he was obliged to fly
from his capital, and ultimately took refuge in England,
where he resided many. years.
England, and George IV., of course, supported the
revolution and the new-fangled constitution, in the same
manner as tiny did the revolutionary charter of Govern-
ment and Sovereign in Portugal. This was quite natural,
and to be expected ; but the most strange—and I will say
loose and scandalous, not less than impolitic and contra-
dictory—is that the legitimate Powers and Sovereigns in
Europe, the same who recently had been holding con-
gresses at Tropau, at Leybach, and at Verona, against
revolutions—the Governments of France, Austria, Russia,
and Prussia, the Metternichs, the Nesselrodes, the An-
cillons,—should obligingly connive at all this, just to
flatter England and George ; should admit and approve
the absurdity of putting on the ducal throne of Brunswick
as full Duke and Sovereign the second son, brother to the
real Duke, not taking any notice of the latter, as if he were
dead ! Had they only declared the rightful Sovereign
incapable, by madness, for instance, or other malady, and
then placed at the head of the State his brother as Regent
in the name of the former, this would be a sensible pro-
ceeding ; whilst the one adopted. was an injustice, a
scandal, an inconsistency, a bad example, a baseness, and
a blunder.—l remain, Sir, with great respect, your
obedient, humble servant, I

A. R. SARAIVA.

21, Nottingham-street, Marylebone, W.,
August 24, 1870.

THE QUEEN'S HEALTH.

Her Majesty, says the British Medical Journal, still
suffers at times severely. The cares and laboure incident
to her position are at present increased by personal anxiety
for the safety of nearly related to her Majesty, the
Prince Consort's only brother and the husbands of two of
the Queen's daughters being in the Getman army at the
seat of war. These causes combine to inflict suffering- on
a nervous system at all times most sensitive to worry and
anxiety.

Ole Bull, who has been sojourning in London of
late, returned (says the Musical Standard) to America by
the Java steamship last week.

A STATE PRISONER.—M. de Bussiere, deputy of
Strasburg, is now a state prisoner at Rastadt, he
writes to his brother to this effect :—" In spite of the
international convention of Geneva, which gave me the
protection in consequence of the wounded French and
Prussian soldiers I had in my house, I was arrested in my
bed at six o'clock in the morning, and taken by an armed
force from post to post to Rastadt, where I am shut up in
the State prison without change of clothes and almost
without a sou, in short just as I was in coming down
to see the officer. What can I say of such pro.
ceedings, of so great a violation of a Convention which
is a part of European public right ? I was interrogated
yesterday as a mere form, and I made a protest. I ad-
dressed one to the Austrian Minister at Carlsruhe ; I sent
a copy to Prince Metternich, and have also made known
my situation to the Chamber. I think myself a victim,
and believe that society will insist upon justice being
rendered to me. My vicinity to Strasburg gave me
uneasiness, and I tho"ght if I went there the Prussians
might become suvicious. I therefore broke off all con-
nection with the place and maintained a strict neutrality.
I have had to give up my poor wounded guests and to
leave my ambulance to be disorganised ; my house. has
perhaps been pillaged. Alas ! what a scourge is war, and
to what calamities does it not give rise au revoir if. Heaven
permits."

THE CRISIS AT RO ME.

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
ROME, AUGUST. 21.
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The French troop 3 will have in all probability entirely
evacuated the Roman territory before this reaches you:
Two other regiments left on Sunday and Monday on board
a Marseilles merchant vessel, and the imperial transports
will take away the remaining troops. General Dumont vv-'
received, on audience de eonge, by the Pope on Monday,
and is said by those who saw him leave the pre-
sence to have been greatly disconcerted by what passed
at the interview, which was extremely short. A delay
has taken place in the occupation of Viterbo, as a handful
of French troops remains, and till all have left the Zouaves
will halt at a neighbouring village. M. de Charette will
occupy Viterbo, and command the Zoue and the
depot. The Zouaves with the artillery will be
stationed at Civita Vecchia under the command of AL
D'Albiousse. The Remingtons will be distributed to
the gensdarmerie this week, and the armament of the
ruerye, or Urban Guard, will be the next consideration,
as it will be more than doubled in strength by the arrival
of numbers of Italian gentlemen of the annexed provinces.
Everything points to a sharp and imminent struggle as
soon as the French ha ve fairly left Rome, and Garibaldi
announces to his friends that he intends returning to.
action as soon as the last detachment has sailed. An
embarkation at Terracina is the probable opening of the
campaign, or on the coast between Civita, Vecchia and
Rome, so as to intercept the railway communications.
The Legion of Antibes are beginning to be a serious
trouble to the Pontifical Government. A part of
Legard's battalion held a midnight meeting a night or two
since near the Coliseum, where they sang the Mar-
seillaise and signed a petition to the Empress of the
French begging to be recalled to the Rhine. M. de Man-
dri,t's battalion, on the other hand, is admirably affected
to the Pope, and not a request for absence has occurred.
A very strong party exists in the Court of Spain for
inducing the Pope to enter into a compact with Italy, and.
admit a mixed garrison. This party is not, however,
the one likely to be listened to, as it consists
principally of the prelates who are desirous of re-
taining comfort and ease at any cost, and who
are distrusted by the Pope himself and his more
zealous advisers. These would prefer exile to concession
as far more dignified, and as offering the best chance of a

Bourbon restoration. The Italian monarchy at Rome
as conqueror, without the Pope, would be at once
attacked by the Republicans, who having no longer
priests to fight with, would assail kings as their most
ready enemies.

No one believes that Italy is.either able or desirous to
maintain the terms of the Convention •of September, or
that her neutrality is possible after the first great battle
on the Rhine. The Prussian cause is decidedly the popu-
lar one, and it is only the official and semi-official organs
which support the French alliance ; the idea of sending a
contingent to the Rhine is most dreaded by Italians gene-
rally, whose tastes are essentially non-military.

The Italian corps d'arinte are three in number, under
the command of Generals Ricotti, Pettinango, and
Pianelli. Prince Humbert is to have the supreme com-
mand, and the camp is being formed on the Chiarone, with
a large outlying force at San Germano and Oriento.

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