The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-07-27
PRINCE LEOPOLD'S CANDIDACY.

secret Hl6t0ry OIL ffImSb
Leopold's Notions About the True Policy Of
Spain.
By the arrival at New York of the steamship
City of Paris, we have European mail advices to
the 14th. A correspondent of the London Daily
Nelos writes from Madrid under date of July 10:
Little, If any, change appears as yet in the
minds of the present rulers of Spain. The min
listers show no signs of withdrawing their candi-
date. They held a council yesterday, but the
proceedings were strictly private. Prim went
TO the Progresista Tertulia last night, but he
refused to touch upon the present situation.
All he said was that liberty ran no danger. The
members were rather bellicose on their speeches,
but they could not draw Prim out. He told
them laconically he would speak about the sun,
the moon, or anything else they liked, but not
about the present crisis.
Prim's agent in the negotiations with Prince
Leopold was a deputy in the Cortes, Senior Don
Eusibio Salazar y Mazarredo. He at first was a
warm supporter of Dom Fernando of Portugal.
eating that candidature. When 1t fell through,
by the persistent refusal of Dom Fernando, he
published another, calling attention to Prince
Hohenzollern. This was in the autumn of 1869.
His suggestion did not meet with any favorable
reception at the time, but eventually, flnding
himself banked in every other quarter, Prim
took it up. Under the authorization given
him by the Government and the Regent
to look out" for a candidate, he employed
Senior Salazar to visit Prince Leopold. Up to q
certain point things looked promising, but after
the Prince had heard of one or two stormy
~''scenes' in the Cortes, and of the bloody work
at Sans Cracia and Barcelona, through the in
surrection against CONSUMPTION, he formally de-
clined. He was the fourth candidate referred
to by Prim in his explanations to the Cortes
recently made, but he declined then TO name
him, and asked the Cortes to appreciate his re-
serve. He hardly need have done that, for most
people know whom he meant.
Prim despatched SalaZar again and again,
who held repeated conferences with Prince
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affairs, with the result that he finally wrote to
signify his willingness to be put in nomination.
Senior Salazar has just reprinted the pamphlets
/ have alluded to, with a preface dated Sth
the mission General Prim charged him
with, and holds the Prince up to view as
just the king Spain wants. He combats the
charge that he is a grandson of the hated Murat,
Murat, but of one of Murat's brothers. He
asserts he is related, through the Velascos, to
one of the first families of Spain, that of the
Duke de Frias. The Duke de Frias is married
to the divorced wife of Sir John Champion, nee
Balfe. Senior Salazar says that when Prim
asked him to see what he could do with Prince
Leopold, he pointed out to Prim that up to a
certain point the candidature would be little
acceptable to France.
He was met with the reply that they had suf-
fered defeats in Lisbon, in Cintra, in Florence,
and in Harrow, to all of which places they had
required first; that it was notorious the Duke
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receive the veto of Napoleon, and that they
were both only going as a last resort to offer the
crown to o Prussian to prevent the work of
September being condemned to perpetual inter
regnum. Senior Salazar argues that France has
nothing to fear from a Prussian King of Spain.
He says Prince Leopold belongs to the Catholic
branch of Prussia, very different for masy CEN
turtles from the reigning branch, the Protest
volve the country in war? Does Brazil in any
way depend on Portugal because the house of
Braganza rules in both? He asks, very peril
nently, what did the relationship between the de-
throned King OF Hanover and Queen Victoria
avail the former in 1866?
He quotes a remark made to him by Prince
Leopold to show his views on non-intervention:
81 know not what may be the opinion of Spain,
but here in Germany those who study foreign
politics believe that the lberian Peninsula, by its
geographical position and its special conditions,
could gain nothing, but could lose much, by
joining in European combinations. Her pole
star ought to be a policy of strict neutrality"
Next, Senior Salazar cites the Spanish marriages
of 1916 as an example of evil WORK wrought
through fear or jealousy of rival powers.
Spain, he says, might have been happy to-day,
# a puerile fear OF England had not prevented
Queen Isabella marrying the Duke of Montpen-
sier. He closes by committing the absurdities
circulated as to the Princes ~unftness for the
post, remarks that the revolution was effected
to the cry of down with the Beurbons!" and
that Prince Leopold is the only Catholic prince
in whose veins there runs no Bourbon blood, in
addition to which recommendation he is married
to a princess of Portugal.
The Pail Mall Gazette of July 10 has the
following
The papers here dwell upon the dangers of
secret diplomacy, which often az the last mo-
ment finds public opinion rising up against it
and stopping the road. In this present affair
Prince Leopold, after having wrltteni a letter
accepting the offered crown, communicated the
fact to his aunt, a princess of Baden, who tele-
graphed the information to the Princess Marga
ret, wife of Don Carlos, now at VeveY. From
thence the news passed into the columns of the
Legitimist press of Paris. 1t is thought that
had the secret not come suddenly and unex-
pectedly to light, Marshal Prim, who was about
to visit Vichy for his health, would have broken
the matter gently here, and that the affair would
then have been treated in the ordinary way
without the phantom of Count Bismarck being
evoked. The negotiations, however, being
secret, were suspicious, and became dangerous.
WAR ITEMS.