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faires mais qu'lls Pattendaient Rome, avec lie
contrat pour de la coptinuer ga route pour Paris.
lie Roi retourna Naples tandis qu'Isabee fit
une tOurnee ltalie ct resta lgnorante de &C qul
sc passait Naples ct a Palermo.
LIE Prince de Butera paItlt de Naples lie 20 avrl
arriva lie Ter mai, ct me remit la lettre du Ro
don't cope cijOinte, No. l. II porta un projet de
contrat blen connu NJ: de Rlgny ct ii lui assura
ainsi qua nous que c'6tait 'ulhmatum du Prince
Leopold ct quill ne pouvait pas ecouter d'autres
propositions. Pendant ce temps Isabelle ecrivit
leure sur lettre de Florence me dsant qu'elle es-
perait que Butera etait arrive que nous etons
contents ct qu'elle n'attendait plus que dap
prendre la signature du contrat. f.
Je Tepondis ROi lie IL mai que nous avlOns
etc reimbursement surpris en- voyant la clause
aussi Djuste qu'lnadmlsslble de alre eRtrer Marie
qu lul reviendraient apres la mort de ses parents
mas que par affe ction pour ellie autant QUEEN vue
de la position du Comte de Syracuse nous aviOns
forme en- iamille lie contre projet que avais dome
au Prince de Butera en- lie chargeant de lie lui
transmettre. J'ecrlvls en- meme temps a Isabelle
pour lul rendre compte de tout celia en- lul en-
voyant Ia copie du dit projet CT: lncus, No. 2.
LIE rol me repono. par la lettre du JUN don't
cope ci-incluse, No. 5.
Isabelle me repondit de Lucques que les esprits
etalent changes qu'on rejettait tout sur Plnteret
ct ajOutait que c'etalent des porcherie qui repu-
gnalent son caractere ct dams lesquelles ellie ne
vOulait pas Sc MEIER
LIE l9juillet nous avons recu lie Rol ct moi les
lettres du Roi mon neveu don't copies cl-lncluses,
Nos. 4 ct 5.
Butera ne nous a jamaIs communicate les ms
tructlons quill await recu ce suet en- meme
temps lie brult await couru a Naples que lie Prince
Leopold dams sa reponse au Rol son fTere avat
0cceptS nos propositions que lie Roi await tout
ajourne son voyage Palermo. LIE Prince Leo
pold en- revenant Naples avec lie Rol a athrme la
meme chose sous lie secret Mr. de Latour Maui
bourg ors dune vlste que celui-cl lul tit au CHA
lamOne.
Je repondls bereavement au Roi lie 81 Juliet que
j'attendals les communications de Butera pour lui
repondre.
Les communications n'ayant jamais etc fates
lafaire en- resta la orsque Je reCus Bruxelles lie
q avri 1895 une lettre d'Isabt lie du III ayrl par
laquelle ellie m'annoncait que lie Prince Leopold
allait fare un voyage pour son instruction ct
commemorate par venir en- France. Je revins a
Paris lie 30 avrll avec Intention de fare refechir
Isabelle sur les consequences qui derveraient dun
voyage de son fills PARIS apres tout ce qul s'etat
passe Pannee precedente mais lie mai j'apprls
par autre ettre dIsabele il etat plus temps de
s'opposer son voyage. Nous avons recu ct
tral,e Leopold CONNIE un fills. J'ai ecrit au Roi lie
"a mai la lettre don't cope cl-incuse No. s. ct 'al
reGu lie 2 Juliet pendant que le Prince Leopold
cl.lncluse No. Z lie Prince Leopaldest revenu lie 10
Juliet il repete ct affirme ui-meme a Mr.. de
Rigny tout &c quill await precedemment dit ct at
flrme Mr.. de Latour Maubonrg ct nous. LIE
Roi ct moi nous chargeons Mr.. de Rigny delettres
pour lie Rol de Naples don't copies ci-incluses Nos
ct 8. LIE Roi lui du reste dome tous les ordres
ct ses instructions auxquelles JaGhere enforcement
Note du Redaeteur-Ici s'arrete lie document, don't
la suite etc egaree ct cot point parvenue.
[TRANsLATIoN.1
Pirate Memoranda Entrusted to the Count de
Fs s.st IL Rs s .e" to- IT, "a s q. Of A
daughter Marie to Prince Leopold.
1t was on the Goth of November, 1888, that
made the first overture to Queen Isabella, with
r. L. L.
Mare and one Of her sons-Prince Charles or
Prince Leopold.
On the sth Of January, 1894, Isabella replied to
at great length and with the utmost cordially,
Charles, being. nearer the throne ; but that, IN
consequence of his having refused, she had
spoken to Leopold, who had consented with
pleasure and, for further confirmation, she sent
affirmative reply, and his portrait. All this was
done with the consent and appreciation OF the
King, her son.
Received her letters on the 2lst of January.
month, my answers being addressed as much to
the King as to Queen Isabella, testlfying to her
our satisfaction, telling her what would be the
amount of Mares fortune, sending Mares
Buiera had not already set out, (he month of
January having been appointed for his departure,)
to invest him with full powers to draw up and
sign the marriage articles. My King wrote, also,
al the same Time, 10 Ming anu 10 queen lSd-
bella, and In the same terms as myself.
Isabella wrote me from Rome, the 31st March,
telling me that Butera had been obliged to go to
Palermo upon business OF his own, but that they
contract of marriage, and that from that city he
would continue his Journey to Paris.
The king returned to Naples but Isabella pro-
longed her visit in Italy, and thus remained in ig
norance OF what was passing IN Naples and in
Palermo. .
The Prince dl Butera set out from Naples the
10th of April, arrived here on the LIST OF May, and
delivered to me the letter from the KING, OF which
you have, herewith, copy, (No. ID He brought
with him draft OF The proposed marriage con-
tract, with the terms of which M. de Rlgny was
well acquainted, and assured him, as well as our
selves, that 1t contained Prince Leopold's Ultima
tn, and that he could not listen to any other pro.
positions. During this time Isabella wrote me let
ter alter letter from Florence, telling me that she
hoped Butela had arrived, and that we were salts
fed and saying that SHE expected nothing less
than intelligence OF the contract being already
signed.
replied to the King on the 18th of May, stating
that we had been both grleved and surprised at
seeing the clause, as unjust as inadmisslble, which
stipulated that Marie should, Immediately upon
her marriage, enter into possession OF the property
that would come to her upon the death OF her pa
rents but that from afie ction for her, and also in
view OF The position OF the. Count OF Syracuse,
we had held a family council, and drafted con-
tract in its place, which / had given to the Prince
d. Butera, charging him to transmit 1t TO him,
[ihe King of Nspes.] At the same time wrote
to Isabella, to make her acquainted with all this,
and sending her copy OF the said proposals,
which you have subjoined. (No. %
The King replied to me In the letter of June Sd,
a copy OF which is suboined, (No. 81 Isabella
wrote to me from Lucca, saying that they had
changed their minds; that every thing turned upon
calculations of interest, and added that 1t was a
piece Of hogglshness, porcherle,) which was al
together Iepugnant to her nature, and with which
she would have nothing to. do. On the 10Th OF
July the King and received letters from the KING,
my nephew, OF which copies are subJoincd, mos
4 and 81
Butera never communicated to US the instruc-
tons he had received upon this subjects but at
that very time. it was reported in Naples that
Prince Leopold, in his reply to the King, his bro
ther, bad accepted our propositions but that the
King had postponed his decision until his journey
pies with the King, affirmed the same thing, In