New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1859-11-25
tsTitlcs of Courtesy.

| volume has lust appeared in England entitled
"Hardwicke's Titles Of Courtesy; containing an
alphabetical list of all those Members of Titled
Families whose name do not fall within the scope
of the Peerage Baronetage and Knightage." The
author remarks that of the titles belonging to a
father in Great Britain subordinate one is some
times assumed to distinguish or adorn the eldest
son; but the latter only wears it by courtesy, and
all his brothers who prefix "the honorable Mr.
ETC., to their names, assume courtesy toward
themselves, but are nothing more than "esquires"
in the eyes of the law and Herad's College. These
parties do honor to themselves but matter-of-fact
etiquette gives the name of the player as well as
of the part played. In other cases, the courtesy
coming from the fountain-head of honor, the re-
cipients of it become substantially what royalty
declares they shall henceforward be taken for.
Thus the married son of peer dies before his ia
ther leaving children, another son succeeds to the
title, but royal courtesy often permits those child
sumo such titles if their father had lived to
forward in the Peerage. Many titles are but cour.
tesy titles framed in this fashion.
A reviewer of this work truly remarks:
The desire to be something more than is war;
ranted by actual position and truth has been strong
in mortals of every grade. Our own kings called
themselves kings of France, till they dropped the
title out of very shame. In another manner the
Kings of France called themselves the Kings of
Navarro, but with little consistency; not dropping
the title, however, till phase in the revolution,
not yet terminated, changed the King of France
into King of the French. Another European cour
tesy-utle worn ny courtesy, WAS mig VI JeTusa-
lem;" and the Dukes of Athol, till very recent
period, were often courteously spoken of as Kings
Of Man. At this very day Belfast is presided over
by Sovereign !" and that courtesy potentate has
far more agreeable life of it than half his regal
brothers who have inherited or filched crown,
and are uneasy under that terrible and glittering
burthen. The Sovereign of Belfast is the head of
the municipality there the Sovereigns, whose Irish
titles have been more akin to courtesy-right, were
such men as Martin, King of Connaught and that
tpsy and trustworthy King Corny, whose chroni-
cles have been exquisitely written by the pen of
Helen Maria Edgeworth.
Barbarian monarchs are rendered doubly splen-
did by real diamonds and sham titles. The court
eous loyalty of the Chinese acknowledges in the
Emperor of China brother Of the Sun and Moon.
They are quite acute enough to know that the re-
lationship will not bear examination at the hands
of genealogst; but since the Emperor has thought
fit in his wisdom, to declare it, the courtesy and
pety of the Chinese accept it as fact. They are
semibarbarous people, it is true, but then they are
likely the less to cavil, if they should ever read
English history at the stringent courtesy of Parlia-
ment, which compelled all Englishmen to say Amen
to the assertion, that let our monarch be what he
might, he was in the church to be endowed with
the courtesy-ttle of most religious and gracious
king"