The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1859-08-04

What King Leopold Advises.


gentleman, who has a peculiar faculty for
looking sharp after his own interests. In
other words, nc eminently "takes care OF
Number One" Exactly forty-three years
ago he married the Princess Charlotte OF
Wales, then heiress apparent to the British
Crown, and obtained, from the lavish liber-
ality of the British Parliament, the estate
and palatial mansion of Claremont, near
London, with a life-annuity of S250,000 per
annum. His wife, "fair daughter OF the
Isles" as Byron called her, died within
twelyemonth, but Prince Leopold of Sake
Coburg, rs he was then called, chung fast to
Claremont and the dollars. Of course he
did, for when he married he had only $500
per annum, rs the younger son of beggar-
ly German Prince. He remained in Eng
land, saving his money-it was even said,
selling the fruit and vegetables out of his
lighthouses and garden, TO increase the pile.
In 1897, he declined the throne Of Greece,
because he thought it would not pay. In
1891, he accepted the crown of Belgium
In 1882, he married Louis Phillipe's eldest
daughter, an amiable young woman, who
was all but pretty. In 1910, he brought
about the marriage of his nephew Albert,
then as penniless as he himself had once
been, with his niece, Victoria, Queen of
England. Very recently, he married his
eldest son and daughter TO the Imperial fam
lily of Austria.
Whenever any continental difficulty oc
ours, or is threatened, Leopold rushes over
to give his advice TO his nephew and niece
in England, and to obtain the promise OF
aid from them-if needs he. Like many
other European sovereigns, he is haunted
by the dread that revolution, or some 9th
er fatal catastrophe, will unking him. There
fore, he has resolutely hung on ID his Eng
liSh palace of Claremont, (which he has
leased or lent to the Ex-Queen of the French,
and also to the Si250,000 n year which John
Bull was so foolish as to give him, in 1916.
Therefore, also, he has carefully laid by
much money, which he has safely deposited
in foreign securities, as a provision for n
rainy day. Some of the money is prudent
invested, we are assured, iii real property in
Philadelphia and New York. We believe
that we need not travel very far up Walnut
street, say not more than between Third
and Seventh, to lay our digital upon " the
shingle of his agent in this city.
Very lately, this old gentleman, who
would have made capital merchant, so
shrewd is he in all his dealings, paid a visit
to England, and it is said the armistice in
Italy was the result of his advice. That is,
the Prince of Prussia told him, aad he told
Victoria, and she told PalmerstOn, and he
told Walewski, who told Napoleon, who Of
ferred Francis Joseph that suspension of
fighting, until August 10, which Francis
joseph SO eagerly accented
1t is said, however, that Leopold has ad-
vised much more than this. A foreign
journal says that the creation of Venice
into a separate kingdom he deems desir-
able, and he even proposes to effect this
settlement with the consent of Austria,
which he engages to obtain if the crown be
bestowed upon the Archduke Maximilian,
brother 10 the Emperor of Austria, and hus-
band of the Princess Charlotte OF Belgium,
who happens to be the dismterested go-be-
tween. If Leopold can bring this arrange
meIt to bear, he will lie more adroit, more
astute, than even Louis Napoleon himself
From the Alps to the Adriatic," said
Napoleon, when leaving France, "Italy
must be free" Establish Venetia, fairly
one-half Of FranciS-Joseph's Ausonian pos
sessions as separate Sovereignty, under
Austrian rule, and Italy will not be free.
Indeed, TO carry out his original idea, not
Lombardy alone should be liberated. The
Grand Duchies, whose governments are
Austrian to the core, should be freed. The
States of the Church and the Kingdom of
the Two Sicilies also oughtto be rescued from
the gross misrule to which they are subject
ed. At any rate, Venetia ruled by an Arch
duke, even though he be husband TO Leo
polds daughter and Victoria's cousin, is not
to be seriously thought Of