The Nevada journal., 1858-05-21
WHOLE NUMBER 396.
The so7eraigns of Spain and Portugal

The scvereigns Of Spain and Portugal
The LoadoR Morning Post says:
The two ancient thrones of the
once glorious peninsula south of the
Pyrenees, exhibit at this moment, side
by side, two examples of royalty, be-
tween which the proximity of the sit
uation and the innumerable analogies or
connections Of language, laws, history,
commerce, race, next neighborhood,
and border intercourse, serve but to
mark more deeply and more trenchant-
! ly the extraordinary contrast. The one
is perhaps the most engaging, the other
is, without doubt or controversy, the
most repulsive, of all the forms that
llingship can personally assume Isa-
bella l is, indeed, foil to the noble
youth who has taken his seat upon the
throne Of Braganza.
Don Pedro Y has, during the recent
fever pestilence at Lisbon, displayed
qualities, dispositions, and an instructive
cLaraetec which must be fagrantly be-
lied in the sequel Of his reign to forfeit
| the profound esteem and gratitude which
he has thus solidly secured at the outset.
! lie did not withdraw to some salubri-
Gus country house during the preva-
Ience Of the dreadful scourge which is
now gradually leaving Lisbon he did
not retire from the plague stricken cap
ital to hunt or to shoot, or to place his
own life in safety-he remained, and
literally lived in the hospitals
lie scruplcd notin his sown royal arms
to support patient in what was gen
orally dreaded as a contagious malady;
he wiped the brows Of that patient with
his own royal hands; he spoke words of
good cheer to MIN lie bade a soldier in
his own regiment to look at him, asked
whether he recognized his King, told
| lin that he felt he should recover and
in few days be on duty again under
the palace windows, and such was the
cheering, courage breathing influence
which the brave young monarch exer-
cised, that the poor man, into whose
glazed eyes the light of intelligence and
gratitude shot, rallied from the moment
The plague meanwhile respected the
visi.o., who is indeed Christian King,
and lost half its terrors in places con
soled by such presence.
We may safely say that when, under
! 'ithe palace windows" the soldier who
remembers this occurrence, or any of
his comrades among the people who
know it, mounts guard again, that palace
viii be guarded we'll. Little need he
who sleeps within it, if he but continue
to consult the dictates of his own noble
heart throughout the reign which he
has thus begun, dread the poignards of
| treason or the shocks Of revolution
Such monarch not only keeps his own
/ kingdom, but he reflects a lustre upon
the cause Of monarchy, all over the
world just as the infamous or degraded
/ sovereign discrcdits, so far as scandal
can discredit, what repudiates and alb
hors 1.-THE name and dignity of roy
atty.
Upon this a St. Louis paper remarks:
4 king like this merits better fate
than to have a seat on a throne he de,
serves to have been the voluntary chief
magistrate of a virtuous, and therefore
free people. But King, President, or no
matter what, he is alike to be applauded
for a spirit and deeds like these. They
charmingly remind one of what Pope has
so well expressed:
| Virtue may choose the high or low degree
liS inst the same to virtue and to me;
Dwell in a monk, or mount into king.
D. tpl btedti itiuo