Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1853-05-04
From the Nelp York Tribune
Dauphin Retired from Business.

One event in the late advices from Europe has
not excited the attention it seems to'deserYe-.
We alude to the retirement from public life OF
the predecessor in the Dauphin line, OF Rev. Ee-
azer XVII, the lawful newest heir to the legltl-
mate throne of France! And such retirement!
1t is an ominous descent from the sublime to the
ridiculous. A genuine Dauphin of France has
entered the Dutch army as private soldier =
Poor Pprince! This is tougher experience than
he, or Rev. Eeazer, or any other OF his doubles
ever underwent at the hands of Robesplerre,
Marat Simon and the whole crew Of the revola-
tion. .!..- -
Charles William Naundorf now condemned as
private Dutchman to fight his own battles with
fate, and those of Holland with her toes,is calum
niously reported to have been born in Krossen, a
Prussian town, while in reality he was the unior-
tunate son of Louis XVI-just like the Rev. Ele-
azer Williams: He exercised the trade OF watch
maker till somewhat advanced in life, and till he
had become the father of ten children When he
himself discovered the mystery of his royal origin
is notknown but he had long been in the habit
of conGdiug it to his friends, to whom he detailed
the most surprising corroborative circumstances
and recollections and finally, about the year 10
80, he revealed it to the rest of mankind. Ills
likeness to his father was surprising, and no one,
artist or layman, who had ever seen a Bourbon,
could honestly doubt that he was the son OF the
guillotined monarch. He also had daughter
who bore marvellous resemblance to Maria An
toinette. He came to France, and found many to
recognize his pretensions. tie set up sort OF
private Court, and on those STho did him loyal
homage, bestowed high sounding titles, with
splendid salaries whose sole defect was that they
were never paid. He even established journal
to advocate his claims, calling it La Justice.
After this, our adventpLer, more ready to re-
sign his royal rights than was the Rev. Eleazer,
tried the experiment of abdicatng in favor OF the
Orleans family, but they wouldn't take his abdl-
cation, nor would the Chamber allow him an In
come worthy of his birth by way of compensation.
Finally, in 1886, he gotbeiore the Courts on the
charge of swindling, who acquitted him, but
secuted his pretensons. He withdrew from the
tribunal with dignity, surrounded by his adher
ents, who reverently expressed their congratual-
tions on his acquittal. Since then, though much
put to it for money, he has not ceased to main
tain his ptincely identity until now Probably it
was the advent Of his reverend competitor upon the
stare, and the fear that the world would believe
the story of that gentleman's romantic advocates
which led him to this desperate step. But good
luck to him and rapid promotion in his new career
And when our aboriginal Louis XVII. gets his
own again, and sits on his golden throne, rugged
out in ermine and spangles; in his own ancestral
palace of Versailles, we hope he will remember
the unlucky Naundorff and do something hand
some for him. -
Naundorff is the fourth person pretending to be
Louis XVII. The first, Harvagault, died in 1917
in the Bicetre, where he had been shut up by
Napoleon. The secund, Mathurin Bruneau, was
also sent to prison for seven years, but was re-
leased after the revolution of July, when he also
retired from public lite and, according to some
authorities, engaged in the much more useful pro-
fession Of baker, while others say that he made
wooden 'shoes for living. The third, Hebert,
Due de Richmont, was in turn sent to prison fol-
twelve years, but escaped and went to London,
where. after two unsuccessful attempts to assas
sinate him, he died in good circumstances in lS-
As leaving son who renews his fathers preten-
sions, though in mitgaied FORM! The fourth is
that new private in the Dutch army, whose mel
ancholy lot we have above deplored. The fifth
who alone carries on the business with vigor al
present, is the Indian missionary of whom the
Orleans family besoul,ht that abdi ,ation which
thav rnf,sed frn,u his DrpdecesSOr