Wisconsin herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1846-1849, 1847-05-22
Il he Sovereigns OF Europe.


" delivered lecture at Newark, n.
j., ia which he described the charac-
tiers and position of the leading Sow
ercigns of Europe. The following
sketch of his descriptions is given in
the Newark Advertiser:
sin commencir z, Dir. Baird stated
that he had not thought, when he ORR
ginally asked public attention TO the
subject, Of ecturing again. but in bis
recent tour he had been able to make
fresh preparations for it, and had pro-
cured already some thirty maps of the
chief countries and cities, by which he
would be able to show the principle
points of interest in a moments time.
In addition to these, he was causing to
be prepared representations ofth Gus
toms of the various countries of Europe,
views of the principal ruins, &c. The
lecturer then proceeded to speak of the
various governments, with some re-
marks upon the characters of their ru-
lerss
There are sixty-four different Pow
ers and Principalties, each having its
own government, but not all entirely
independent OF each other There are
twenty three monarchies, poland a
mong them, and it was not true that
her nationality had been annihilated !;
she had her own viceroy and police }
fsur Principalities, thirty-three Ouch
les. twenty-nine of them Gcrmanic.
and four in Italy; and four Republics.
The Kingdoms had each their own gov
ernDent, but dependent in a measure
on each other. Of the Independent
kingdoms, twelve have constitutions Of
their own; of the Prncipalities, not
one had constitution; and twenty-four
of the German Duchies have. The
legislatures Of these have two branches,
similar TO ours. None have the mea-
sure of political liberty that we have,
but far more than they formerly had;
owing in some degree TO the American
and French Revolutions. The Re-
publics have constitutional liberty.
Sixty years ago England and Swc-
den were the only kingdoms. and Hol-
land and Switzerland the only repuo-
lies; the vast change since had been
going on silently. advancing more
than the people generally were aware.
The countries which now have con-
stitutionsl liberty were twelve, viz
England, Sweden, Belgium, Holland,
Portugal, Spain, France, Hanover,
Saxony, Wirtemburg, Bavaria, Greece.
Eight without constitutions. viz: Den
mark, Prussia, Russia, Austria, the
three in Italy and Turkey. These
have no constitutional liberty = no
written compact. The government of
Prussia was by far more literally adj
ministered than the others. The
present king is the most ptilanthropic
and easy to approach and the most az
fable of all his contemporaries. He
makes his ministers his fellows, and
allows more liberty TO the press than
any of his neighbors. The lecturer
held up paper published at Berlin,
the capital, which was stopped by the
censors in Poland, and part OF a COL
umn obscured by black spo, to pre-
vent its being read, on account, proba-
bly,, of some reflections against the
Russian government. He supposed a
machine by which an article could be
black balled in a moment.
Some of the Dukes held great pow.
err; nearly equal to some of the King
doms. and others were very small /;
their legislatures were something like
ours, and the me nbers worthy young
lawyers, who received a per diem OF
Sc so, probably more than they could
make at the law.
OF Louis Philippe, he said not a
man in France knew his whole worth
when he was elected; though chosen
because he was good father, and a
strictly moral man. He had five sons
and three daughters. The eldest was
the late Duke of Orleans, whose death
was a signal of coming evil; no other
person could take bis place. The next
was the Duke D'Nemours. naughty
and fond of military life; the Prince
de Joinville was more ambitious, and
the youngest, the Duke de Montpen-
sier, recently married, was only TWEEN
ty-two wears old. The second daugh-
ter, Marie, now dead, was very &C
eomplished, and employed some of her
time at the palace IN scul pture.
The king belongs to Ion y-lived
race, and may live for many years. but
when he dies every one anticipates