New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1859-10-03
A SHABBY HEIR.AT.LAw.

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Legitimacy is q great matter, beyond doubt.
We mean, Of course, the legitimacy Of Royd
Houses, whereby the blue blood Of ilustrous races
is preserved in all it's sza,e purity. To be cure.
evil tongues will sometimes throw out surnses -
to the paternity Of crowned heads--such a. the
Emperor of tho French, and her Most Catholic
Msie.ty as we'll as of her whole brood Of prince
lnas But this 10 one of the cases in Which, 90 the
knowing ones say it is with port wine, the article
is all the better for little adulterstion. But were
there any virtue IN the right divine Of kings, de-
rived BY descent from lolus enthroned and rulers
of the EARTH" it would sometimes have to Do
hunted up in very queer places. The rishtful heir
of the great Gustavus, the Lion of the North,
spd the Bulwark of the Protestant Faith, WAS
not long ego q simple Colonel Gustsfsou in
the Austrian service, while the grandson OF Der
padotte, the common soldier, aud of his wife.
the wine merchants daughter, sits in uudispnted
posses If his hereditary throne. The rival pre-
tenders to the throne of Fran 20 Ate to be- fouod.
one Of them in England and the other somewhere
iD Germany, as titular Counts. And so ars some
where out of their dOminiOps the rehtful heirs to
the thrones Of Spain and Portugal who were sent
packing By the acceptance of the Womans Rights
theory in unexpected quarters. and the consequent
sbrogstion Of the Sslic Law.
The English nation, however, would be nov in
al ODD pre- dcament, had either the Old Pretender
or the Young succeeded in driving the Hanover rate
out of the Kingdom, and establishing the right
divine of the blood.royal Of England. The English
people have in all time rather made their soveregds
to suit themselves, than squared themselves to
suit their sovereigns. But there was tolsraby
sound title by descs mt made out by the marriage
of Henry VII. and Elizabeth Of York, which was
transmitted regularly enough for couple of hua-
dred years, until James II. was sent about his
business in 1855 From that time TO the present,
the Soveregns of England hold their preeniaence
solely by the vulgar permission Of Parliament and
people, though they please themselves by saying
that it is by the Grace of God Victoria Is about
40 much Queen by the Grace of God, in the proper
sign fcsucy Of the phrase, as she is Defender Of
the Faith oy virtue Of the concession of Leo X to
Henry VIII. But, all along, there has been
pure stream of legitimate blood flowing down 10
tho right line from the time when the forc,bls
diversion Of the currents was made. For more
than q century the direct line OF the S'usrts az
is'ed, who claimed the Crown Of England a. James
I'LL, Charles III. aud Henry TX, the son and
gran3sons of James IT, On the death Of the last
royal shadow, about fifty years ago, who was BET
ter known as the Cardinal Of York. the direct mals
line became extinct.
This being The case, il 10 necessary to q, back
and zee who would have been the heir to the crown
on the death of Charles ii. and James IT. without
issue, and who has "a representative alone at this
time. The two daughters of James H., Mary aud
Anne, having died without leaving children behind
the %, though they had both Of them eojoyed ths
throne by the grace Of Parliament, We must go
back one step further for the stem Of the legitimate
stock And this is found 10 Henrietta the young
est daughter Of Charles L., whose race was Passed
over in the settlement of the crown as Catholic.
who married the Duke Of Orleans, the brother Of
Louis XIV She it was who brought over Louise do
Quer0uaille 10 her brother, Chsrles IL, afterwArd
the famous Duchess OF Portsmouth, and died sud-
denly sOop after her return 10 Paris, 10 1870 leav
ing it moot question to this day whether by poi
SOD or not. Her daughter, Acne, r,srried prince
Of Savoy, the ancestor of the King Of Sardinia. At
the death Of the Cardinal Of York, iD 1907, the next
beir Of the Stuart blood was her great grandson.
Charles Emanuel Nv. On bis death, in 1919, hiss
brother, Victor Emanuel I. succeeded 10 tho
throne Upon his death, he having previously
abdicatsd in favor Of bis brother, Charles Felix,
his daughter became the linesl representative of
the House Of Stuart, according 10 the laws os En-
gland. She married, in 1872, Francis w., Dake
Of ModeDs, aud vas the mother Of Francis v, At
this tine, happily, by the grace Of Revolution, no
Ion ger Duke, and not likely to be again, unless by
the grace Of tie Devil he DO brought back again oy
Austrian bayonets.
This petty despOt is sure proof Of the hsredita-
~ Transmission Of qualities. He seems TO be James
ii. in the fesI, reigning over . realm about q
big as the County Of Kent, 10 the very worst 'y
the stusrts ana Tudors, with dash OF the laps
burgs,
"He show Tudor who DO faith essnssi
A s.ssr, tss.aless both 70 ioss eSs "''S'