North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1869-03-03

AS 1t may now be regarded as certal
that queen Isabella and her children vii
be excluded from the throne of Spain, W
have in her expulsion another example Q
! that retributive justice which hss iu,MioTw;c
that race to which she belongs for the las
eighty years. The question of who is
be her successor being yet unsettled,
: would be premature to say at present tha
she will be the last rcigning Bourbon SOW
erign; bu. in the meantime we give brie
sketch of that celebrated royal house, tn
history of which the events taking plac
in Spain invest just now with peculia
interest.
ORIGIN OF THE BOURBoNs.
, The house Of Bourbon, which has givel
Italy, is of French origin, deriving it,
: name from the old Lords of Bourbon,
noble family, which centuries ago he'll
very large land possessions in the formc
province Of BOurbonais, situated in tn
center of France. Through the marriag
of q member of the Cape family with
Bourbon heiress, the noble house becam
allied to royalty in the thirteenth century
and about the middle of the sixteenth W,
find the first of the race on the throne, i,
the person of Antoine de Bourbon, kin,
Of Navarro, Antoine was the Father Of tn,
gallant and renowned Henry of Navarro
who afterward became king of France
under the title of Henry Nv. With thi,
celebrated prince begins the history O.
THE BOURBON DYNASTY IN FRANCE.
| And what history! Extending from
When Henry Nv. ascended the French
kn ,~,hn
driven out of his kingdom by the rev
olution of July, it embraces period filled
with events of the deepest interest and ol
the highest possible importance to the
human family. From the accession Of
Henry Nv. up to the time of the first
French revolution, there was no break in
the succession in the Bourbon line in
France.
Louis KILL, Louis XIV, Louis x, and
Louis W., were all Bourbons; but taking
the 6rst and last of these five kings as
rulers, nothing could present a sharper
contrast than the character of the first
French Bourbon sovereign, Henry "the
great" and ''the good,' rs his people de-
lighted to style him, and that of the un-
fortunate son of St. Louis, who fell by the
guillotine. Whateyer the original virtues
of the house might have been, by the time
the volcanic outburst of the revolution
first shook France and tumbled dishor-
ored throne into the dust, the race had be-
come woefully degenerated. The guillo-
tine did not, however, finish it in France
From the stormy days of the revolution.
and through these Of the consulate and
empire, the two brothers of the unfortu-
nate Louis lived in exile; but when Ma
poleon fell, the elder of them was placed
on the French throne by the allies under
the title of Louis XVIII; son Of Lonis
XVI, who died while yet child in 1895,
had been the sevente, NH of that name.
Louis XVIII. hal no children, and on his
death which took place in 1929, he was
succeeded by his brother, Charles X. But
experience had utterly failed to teach wis.
dom to this obstinate and tyrannical rul-
r., who sought to restore the absolut.
ism of the French monarchy, the conse-
qucnces Of which was that a revolutionary
outbreak occurred in July, 1880, compel
ling the king to flee from France, and f.
nally to abdicate. The latter he did in
favor of his grandson Henry, duke of Bor-
deaux; but the act came too late to save
his house. Louis Philippe had already
been chosen king of the French, and the
Bourbons were, to all appearance, forever
excluded from the French throne. The
only surviving descendant of Charles, the
representative of the alleged claims of the
Bourbons to the French throne, is that
same grandson, now known rs the count
de Chamborde, who is 4S years Of age. He
is, of course, an exile, but is regarded as
the lawful king Of France by the legiti-
mists, whose hopes of restoration he
feeds by occasionally holding levees in
king style.
THE BOURBoNs IN SPAIN.
The establishment Of the Spanish Bonr-
bon dynasty originated with Louis XIV,
of France, who, in 100, succeeded in
placing his grandson, Philip duke of Anjou,
on the ;hrone Of Spain, as Philip l. The
defendants of Philip, ruled without inter-
ruption until 1908. Napoleon compelled
king Charles w., to reign, and nominated
a successor to him in the person of Joseph
Bnnaparte, the emperor's brother. Charles
died ut Rome in 1871, and after the over
throw of Napoleon, the eldest son Of
Charles ascended the Spanish throne, as
Ferdinand VII, dying in 1888. Ferdi-
nand left the throne to his daughter Isa-
bella, in whose favor he had set aside by
royal decree the Salic law forbidding
female to sit upon the throne. The claims
Of Isabella were contested by Ferdinand 8
brother, Don Carlos, which gave rise to
the Carlst war, but Don Carlos having
failed to establish his pretensions, eventu-
ally resigned them, and died in 1885. His
son the Montomolin, in 1860 renounced
all claim to the throne Of Spain. The
Bourbon princes of Spain have invariably
exhibited all the worst characteristics OF
their race-forcmost among which are a
bad passion for absolute power, and a
proneness to sensual selfindulgencc-and
under their pernicious rule every interest,
the prosperity Of which constitutes the
strength and glory Of nation, has
dwindled away.
the BOURBONs IN ITALY.
The late Bourbon dynasties of the king
dom of Naples and the duchies of Parma
and Piacerza were founded by Phillip v.
of Spain, in the early part Of the eight
eenth century, They were overthrown
by the first Napoleon, but after his down
fall the BourbOns were restored to the
kingdom of the two Sicillies, which they
continued to govern till the revolution Of
1860 drove Francis II. to Gaeta ss a
refuge. This prince still lives, an exile
and a murderer, and it does not seem prob
able that he will ever recover his lost
possessions. The Bourbous Of Parma and
Piadenza lost these duchies in 1859, which
were annexed to Sardinia, and now form q
part Of the kingdom Of Italy.
| TUE YOUNGER BRANCH OF THE BOURBON
| FAMILY.
The branch Of the royal family Of
France known as the house of Orleans, is
younger branch of the Bourbon family,
and was founded by Phillip, duke Of Or
leans, the younger son of Louis XIV.