Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1860-10-01
w. ID. WALLACE.
The Bourb.. Dynasty in N..,,.

nc aynasly on spanish sourbors. which is inst
was absufdly .tyis hr ,gSn,o%,nion'iy from what
Of the two SciF has sirted tSe o.,',
buad,.d anu she Island Of Sicily for more than a
PhIIirS years 1t was In 1735 that the child of
xTp..,', the first French King Of Spain (Louis
Queen, took by force Of arms the Kingdom of
Naples from the Hapsburg Emperor of Germany,
.sHS In like manner appropriated that insulsr
Kingdom Of Sicily which the treaty of Utrecht
had bestowed on the House OF Savoy But the
reign of the first Bourbon sovereign, at Naples
and Palermo, guided by the enlightened counsel
a nt hls minister the Florentine Tanucci, was be-
hencent and popular compared with the previous
dcminion Of the House Of Hapsburg And IL Is
mot ustii 1883 that this century Of miserable
5yrsnsy begins, which 1850, by just and though
long DELAYED retribution, brings to an end
IN That year, 1889, Carlo Of the two Sicilies by
tec uecease OF his royal brother at Madrid, became
bng earlos Of Spain, and being thus Obliged to
vacate tue Italian throne he left 1t to his Younger
son. This was Ferdinand, then child of seven.
but who afterwards grew to be the coarse insen,
sible blackguard TO whose service the British
navy, and lis hero Nelson, Were unwortbily de-
voted. This first King Ferdinand with his con-
sort, the Austrian Caroline, "unsexed and filed
with ditest cruelty'' she was was tyvire cast
oat OF Naples, and protected in Sicily by her own
Rect and troops. He was twice enabled nv the
forces OF his allies, to recover his peninsnlar do
minions Horribly was that restoration of the
Bourbon monarchy abused, both in 1899 and In
Us latter Lease Of power, especially when con-
hrmed by the Austrian armed Intervention of
1871. The murder by court martial of admiral
Careociolo, In the guilt of which, Nelson seducsd
oy the Queens minion, Emma Hamilton, was
ton. ny = - FT7-7,1'
The savage Ferdinand I. was followed In 1so5
oy his son, the hypocrite and profiigate Francis
L and he, in 1890 by the late Ferdinand III
whom we remember but too well and who was
succeeded last year bv the present Francis last
mig OF Tue Two sieilies. So that four bad
sovereigns in direct descent, with an -omInon.
alienation Of names Of Ferdinand and Francis
nave lnnlctsd on the fair Italian provinces they
owned dreadful course of maltreatment q nd !, n
hHgated misery. In Ferdinand III of hateful
memory, we have beheld the type OF pure and
absolute tyranny-that wilful, perverse eShibition
Oh the capacity Of doing wrong, in defiance of Ali
dictates OF equity or humanity, which has hern
sngmauzed by Mr. Gladstone az s.the peration of
God upon earth" Such a-tyrant is simply tbr
mortal mortal imPersonation OF the Spirit Of Eyll-he
-Of the youag Prince who has lust shown bi.
puny back 70 Gsribaldi il would he unfai, 20
prohouhce 50 harsh a judgment He Is not a
royal Satani he has not vet had time To he =
uaitori probably the effect OF his court edncsti..
mas been merely To make him fool The ,,,or
ignorance and bfufishRess Of Ferdinand I hi.
great grandfather, were ascribed to the So,
design OF The regents tutors of his I,s.ass
VINO nad hoped to take advantage OF tsn 9Jnr,3,
IuIure incapacity to govern. I'D n is AZ Iass,t
very plausible Conjecture lat Francis II tsin
aeosea 10. his defective .aental deysaopuent To
n n si'uee VI MS <tep-mother, now Oueen
,.s,I.-s i,,t Austrian Caroline) whose
oyrn -, sh 70 procure the crown for her
noto,ton,, Count Of Trapani, were already
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