The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1867-08-01
The Royal Relatives Of the Late Emperor
Macmillan.

The tragic death of Macmillan carried
prsef into a large number of royal families
in Europe, to which he was bound by the
nearest ties of blood, The following emu
meration will show how many distinguishes
personages must have taken the deepest per
sonal interest in the progress of those events
in Mexico which illuminated in the siege OF
Queretaro, the betrayal of the city by the
caitif Lopez, the capture of Macmillan ana
his summary execution by sentence OF
court-martial
We need go no further back than to the
emperor of Austria, Ferdinand the First,
who, in lS49, alarmed by the revolutionary
disturbances of that year, abdlcated the
throne. He was uncle of Maximiiian, and
was married to the sister of Victor Emanuel
the present king of Italy. When he a5d1ca-
ted, his brother, Archduke Charles, was ane
next in succession. He refused the sH..s'
sion and renounced it in favor Of ms s ga'
the present Austrian emperor, .ssN NJ 9os
a,,h tbe brother of Maximilian, the late Mex
;aan amnaror The Archduke Charles, by
e,a hacaae r,iated to a large number
Icy IL. He married the daughter
- ny ~;n ,a the First, king of Bavaria,
uhoss namerous daughters married various
Ei.ss and princes. One, as we have men
doned, married the father OF Maximilian.-
Another married the king of SaXony. A
third is the widow of former king of Sax
ony. A fourth is the widow of the predeces-
sor of William, present king of Prussia
There were six daughters of this Bavarian
king, three of whom married kings, one mar
ried an emperor, one married a Bavarian
duke and became the mother of the princess
who is now the wife of the present emperor
of Austria. These six daughters are said to
be all living at this time, one the mother OF
Macmillan and the remainder his aunts.
The wife of Macmillan, Carlotta, is the
daughter of Leopold, late king of Belgium
and sister of Leopold Second, the present
king. Carlotta's father was brother to the
Duchess of Kent, mother of the queen OF
England, so that Carlotta and Victoria are
own cousins. Her father was also uncle tc
Prince Albert, the husband of Victoria. -
Her mother, the wife of Leopold, was the
daughter of Louis Philippe, king of France
1t will be seen by the foregoing that the
| royal families of Austria, Prussia, Italy anc
England, and the family of Louis Philippe
| with certain ducal families, are all touched
| by the death of Macmillan. When Austria
Prussia, England, with Garibaldi, represent
| ing liberal Italy, united in imploring Juare;
| to spare the lite OF Macmillan, they swer'
/ not interceding with the republican chief il
the name of royalty and humanity, but IL
| the name of kindred blood. A father, broth
ers, uncles, aunts and cousins prayed to Ju
| arez to spare the life of the captive kins
| man. poor Carlotta," the maniac wife
| could not join in the prayer. But the lead
| ing governments in christendom did, ant
history has already recorded that Juare
| turned a deaf ear to the supelication-
supplication more extraordinary and in
pressive than was ever uttered before b
united nations for the life of a eaptiye-an
ordered the Austrian archduke to be shot,
Whatever be the final judgement of histor
upon this military execution, the respons
biHty of it must be held to rest upon Juare;
The military court which tried and senten
ed him was composed of young officers, til
eldest not over thirty years of age, the youn!
est only twenty-three. 1t will scarcely /
believed by any one that Juarez could nC
have controlled the sentence of that court
he had pleased.