The Portland daily press., 1863-01-23

DEPosED AND EsTRAY RULERS IN EU-
RoPE.-ln Voltaire's satirical but not exactly
| proper story of "Candde," six deposed mon
archs are represented as meeting at a cafe in
Venice, during the carnival, and respectively
| stating, in briefest terms, what causes had
hurled them from their thrones. A novelist
| OF to-day might increase the number by fve
for there are as many as eleven ex-rulers wan
dering over Europe. The list opens with Don
Miguel, uncle of the late queen of Portugal,
who usurped his little nieces throne over thir-
ty years ago, but reigned only for short
time. Next in the order of time is the Count
de Chambord, whom his adherents call Henry
the Fifth of France. and who certainly repre-
sents the elder branch of the Bourbons, de-
posed and exiled by the Revolution of $780,
Then comes the representative of Don Carlos
who would have been king of Spain on the
death of his elder brother, Ferdinand VII, If
the Salique law had not been repealed, there
by allowing Isabella ii to reign. After him
appears the Duke of Brunswick, dethroned
with full consent of his guardian and uncle.
William Nv Of England. The Count de Paris,
grandson of Louis Philippe of France, and
well known here as the gallant volunteer in
the army OF the peninsula, comes next, the Or
leans dynasty, which he represents, having
been overturned by the revolution of 1S4s.-
Immediately follows the poet king, Louis Of
Bavaria, well known to fame and to Lola
Montez, who was compelled TO abdicate in
March, 1S4S. In batch, crowded together,
are the grand dukes of Tuscany Modena, and
Parma. Then comes Francis III of Naples,
worthy successor of king Bomba, who was de-
throned by Garibaldi. Latest is Otho of
Greece, who was recently rejected with as lit
tie trouble as il would cost any of our readers
TO civilly dismiss an Indifferent servant. We
might add to this list the Austrian Emperor
Ferdinand ], who abdicated in favor of his
nephew. the present Francis Joseph l, when
he found that preparations were on foot to ex-
pei him without ceremony for imbecile inefIi-
cheney. Here, too, should be mentioned the
grand duke of Manaco, in Italy, a small but
princely territory governed by his 1.-THE Grim
ald) family since the year 96s, which was
sold to France last year by its princely pro-
prietor for four million francs This makes
bakers dozen of sovereign princes who have
lost their scepters within living memory, and
continue to live very handsomely on the prop
erty they had secured in advance on the
chance Of a rainy day. 1t is extremely prob
able that King William Of Prussia will speed-
ly be added to this corps Of errant and distin-
guished royalty. A violator of the constitu-
tion he had sworn to maintain, he ought to be
branded as perjurer and deposed as tyrant.
BY the way, this catalogue is very suggestive.
The continued sovereignty of each of the
above deposed rulers was said to be secured
by various solemn treaties. Where are they
now? The fiery leaven of public opinion has
scorched them up, and they live only on the
historic page. This ought to teach us the
small value of European treaties. They are
operative only while they suit the stronger
party.IlWashingto Chronicle.