Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1869-05-14
THE BOURBON ROMANCE.
The Sequel 90 the Adventures OF Prince
Louis de Bourbon and the Cuban
Belie-A Head of n Family Right /
eOusIy Indignant.

The Sequel 90 the Adventures Of Prince
Louis de Bourbon and the Cuban
Belie-A Head of Family Right
eOusIy Indignant.
On the 18th of March last Prince
Louis Marie Ferdinand Pierre GAl-
cantara, son of Count dAquila, the
brother in law of the late King of
Naples, cousin of Don Carlos, the
aspirant to the Spanish throne,
nephew to the Emperor of Brazil,
and connected by other ties with
half the other dethroned monarchs
of Europe, made his appearance in
this city, in company with Miss
Amelia Isabel de Hamel, the daugh-
ter of Mr. John de Hamel, 8 we'll
known ship broker of Havana, and
a gentleman we'll known in this city
as a frequenter of fashionable re-
sorts, and constant companion of
many of our most fashionable citi-
zens. The Prince and the fair Gu
ban, the latter accompanied and
guarded by her mother, had come
hither to be married, and this they
FASTENED to do Immediately on land
ing. But they found not a little
difficulty in accomplishing their pur-
pose the first priest selected to per
form the ceremony, Father Laf0nt,
of the Church of st. Vincent dc
Paul, declined to do so on orders
from Archbishop McCloskey; a
civil marriage was decided upon
Mayor Hall happened to be absent
from his office; and finally the noble |
parties were compelled to resort to |
Jefferson Market Police Court,
where they were pronounced man
and wife by Justice Dodge.
Now comes, after blissful hons |
eymoOn of nearly two months, the
cruel relatives of the bridegroom
protesting against the marriage. |
Francis ii, ex-King of Naples, hay
ing no other subjects than the syc-
ophantic followers who share with |
him the charity of the Pope, which
leaves him to spend the remnant of
his miserable daysin the Farnese
Palace at Rome, considers himself |
the head of the family of Bourbon,
and from his palace in Rome sends |
an angry protest against his mar
riage, to the free and independent
young citizen Bourbon in his COM
Portable rooms in the Clarendon
Hotel of this free and independent
city of New York. The protest de
clares the marriage null and void,
and is accompanied by threat OF
accommodation from the noble |
family of dethrOned and impOver
ished mOnarchs who bear the name
of Bourbon. The young prince is
probably very little troubled by this |
threat, and will pay very little at
tention to the protest. He is said
to be q very spirited young man,
able to take care of himself, and not |
at all proud of his connection with
the family which has produced in |
one generation q "Bomba," Fran
els ii, and an Isabella of Spain.
This marriage is thus far Dearly a |
parallel with the famous Bonaparte
Patterson case. 1t will be remem-
bered by those familiar with the
history Of the Bonapartes in Ameri-
ca, that jerome, the youngest
brother of the great Napoleon, after
his defeat in the West Indies by
Toussaint L'Ouvreture, the famous
negro General of Hayti, came to
this city, and in 1903, visited Balti
more, where he met and married
Miss Elizabeth Patterson, the beau
tiful daughter of rich merchant of
shat city. After the French Empire
was declared, he visited Europe with
his wife, but Napoleon /, the head
| of the family, as in this case, refused
| to recognize the legality of the
marriage, and "Miss Patterson" as
| the French authorities insisted on
calling her, was not allowed to enter
France. Miss Harmed will prob
ably not be allowed to step foot in
| the Farnese palace. Indeed, Fran
| els ii may forbid her to enter the
Naples he no longer controls; lsa-
bella of Spain may warn her from
the shores of that country which
she has just fled from, and George
of Hanover may request mildly, as
becomes hint she will not in
trude herself into the Hanoyerian
domains which Bismark has swal-
lowed. 1t was the Pope who for
babe the celebration of the marriage
in this city, and he may now, I'M
like his predecessor in the Patter-
son case, pronounce the marriage
null and void; but as long as they
are rich and happy in this free eoun-
try, the bride and bridegroom can
baford to laugh at the protests Of
their family and the courses of their
church.-Nei0 York Times May Z.