The Sun.
London, England, 1844-04-26 00:00:00

COLONEL STODDART AND CAP

TAIN CONOLLY.

Captain Grover has just received letters from Dr. Wolff,
dated Teheran, Feb.l2. The doCtor had been received With
great distinction by the King of Persia, who recollected hav-
ing met him at Meshed twelve years ago, when he was only
Prince Royal, and reminded him of their conversation. The
doctor rode on horseback in full Canonicals, accompanied by
Colonel Shiel in his uniform, going, to and returning from
the Court. He then visited the Ambassador, recently arrived
from Bokhara; who denied in toto the fact of the execution of
our friends. The Ambassador' and the at;achis rose when he
entered the room, treated him with the greatest civility and
respect, and the Ambassador expressed a strong desire of ac-
companying him to Bokhara.
The doctorwas to leave Teheran on the 14th of February,
accompanied by an escort, ordered by the King, and by
Raid), who had been servant to both Stoddart and Conolly :
he had been bastinadoed at Bokhara, by the Anieer's order,
on account of his faithful attachment to his misters, and had
exposed his life by going to Cabul.
The doctor had also seen the Ambassador of the King of
Khiva, an enemy of the King of Bukhara, and he could give
no information whatever concerning the death of the captives.
"Therefore," says the doctor, "whilst I beg you not to be
too sanguine of my success, I also beg you not to despair of
it ; for as all the Persians. I have hitherto seen, tell me,
Afalloont west, nothing, is certain about it' . . . . you
must not expect from me au exact and detailed journal, for
I. shall neither carry ink nor paper with me, and 1 shall write
to you in Persian from Bokhara, and send the letters through
the medium of the Anieer, in case Stoddart and Conollf are
alive; should they not be alive,. I shall not write at All until
I have left the frontiers of Bokhara."
Colonel Shiel's exertions hare-been unremitting.
THE SOVEREIGN PRINCES OF

THE HOUSE OF GONZAGA.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

Sin,—An erroneous notice relative to my hereditary pos-
sessions of Mantua, and the Sovereign Princes of the house
of Gonzaga, having been inserted m the Gazette Universel
d'Augsbourg, dated Ist of tliis month, No. 92, I avail myielf
of your valuable journal to observe :-
Ist. That the statement therein contained is untrue of
Mantua ever having belonged to the Emperors of Germany:
on the contrary, historical faeti and authentic documents
prove that the family of Gonzaga reigned there during seven
centuries, according to the salique law 'derived from the
Capitulars of Charlemag,ne, and consolidated in this country
on the occasion of the marriage of Prince Hugo, grandson of
Lothaire, King of Lombardy, with a noble Princess of Lom-
bardy, named Gonzaglien, or Gonianglien, whence he adopted
thi name of Gonzaga.
The empire of Germany was at this time, and long after,
torn in pieces by dissensions and intrigues, and in conse-
quence of the powerful aid granted byFrancois First de Gon-
zaga to the Emperor Sigismond, he came in person to Mantua
in 1433, for the express purpose_ of signing a diploma con-
firming Francois de Gonzaga sovereign lord of Mantua to
perpetuity for him and his posterity masculine, in all the
branches, in the titles and privileges of Sovereign Margrave
of Mantua and Princes of the Roman empire.
2d. As far' as regards the personal allusion cited also as
being intended-for me in the Almanac/toy" Gotha, in the year
1838, I declare positively that 'I never authorised, directly or
indirectly, any such insertion, as the details in reference to
my family ate false. So far from approving the article (as it
is said in the Gazette d'Augsbourg), I have several times de-
manded its rectification, but uselessly ; and the Editor of the
Almanach in his last letter, dated the 13th July, 1843, " en-
treated me most humbly to excuse him, as it could be detri-
mental to his interests as publisher of the Almanach if he
made any insertion regarding me or my family."
3d. It is equally false that the title of Murzymowski
belongs to us from the marriage of a Margrave Valentine de
Gonzaga with a Princess Lubomirski. We have adopted
this title since the first marriage of my father, Prince Joseph
Gonzaga di Castiglione with the. Princess Suzoff, Countess of
Murzynowski, whose name may be found in the list of the
ladies chauoiness, in the chapter of the noble order, f the
four Emperors, and admitted before 1789 under the title of
her Serene Highness the Princess Helen Gonzaga Castig-
lione, at the same time as Marie Antoinette, and the Dau-
phine de France.
4th. As to my adoption of the title of Murzy-
nowski, in Germany or elsewhere, I consider myself at
liberty to do so, in the same manner as other Sovereign
Princes, who frequently select an inferior title for political
motives, or for economy on their travels, or when not ac-
tually in their dominions.
The author of the article in the Gazette d'Augsbourg ex-
presses his thanks to the Count Pompei detta for the infor-
mation contained in his genealogy of the Princes of Gonzaga.
I cannot cite this persoa as. an impartial historian, as he
writes under the influence of the Austrian Government, and
occupies actually a post at Milan of some importance.
I confirm the facts recorded in the memoir of the Com-
mander• Pourret des Gauds, member of'several literary
societies, and as a general reply to all 'attacks for the future,
and at the present moment, I will maintain my protestation
of the 26th of April, 1843, addressed to all the 'Kings,
Princes, and Potentates of Europe, and my lawful rights to
the throne of my ancestors, before a congress of Sovereigns,
and in face of all Europe, whenever the occasion presents
itself.

You will oblige me by inserting this.answer to the Gazette
d'Augsbourg as soon as postible, in your estimable journal ;
and believe me, Sir, yours truly,
ALEXANDER PRINCE DE GONZAGA,

Boulogne-s r-Mer, April 21)2,418Ue-o.f
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THE LATE ROBBERY AT THE EXETER COFFEE-
HOUSE, STRAND.—Mr. Mason, if Brighton, who was lately
robbed of 701. at the above coffee-house, remained till Tues-
day morning, in the hopes of being able to find the missing
45/., and by
.a most singular.circumstance.he recovered his
stolen property. Being Much annoyed by a London bug
on Monday night, he told the landlord of it, who forthwith
resolved upon having his beds taken down. On removing
the bed,' in* which the prisoner Gill (who is charged with
the robbery)
.slept on the night of the robbery, the chamber-
maid felt a hard substance in the mattress, and on minutely
examining the mattress they discovered that a portion of it,
where the lump was felt, had been sewn up in a very bung-
ling manner, and on unripping the stittlies they discovered
Mr. Mason's purse, partly burnt, but containing the missing
45/. This circumstance will establish the theft against the
prisoner. Had the prisoner secreted the whole of the stolen
property in the mattress, he would, without doubt, have es-
caped detection.
BRUSSELS, APRIL 22.—Scarcely anybody in this
country recollects to have seen vegetation in general so for-
ward in the month of April as it now is. The promenades,
the fields, and the numerous gardens in the environs of the
capital, look as -if we were already. in the middle of May.
This extraordinary precocity his occasioned another Thaw-
menon which, indeed, is not so rare ; and that is the ap-
pearance, in some parts of Brabant, of a raulitudeuf M.4ybsiga.