The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-09-06
Outline of the Campaign.
The Strength Of the Comba-
tants The Victorious Ger
man Advance -Weissen-
burg, Woerth, For
30 bach, Gravelotte,
and Sedan.
Etc., Hssc.s ETC.. ETC., Etc.

1t was on Sunday, the Sd of July last, that
General Prim called the Council of Ministers
together at Madrid and announced to them
The Candidacy of Prince Leopold for the
Throne OF Spaig.
For some time General Prim had been en-
gagged in negotiations with the Prince, and the
latter, as stated by the intriguing Spaniard, hai
at last announced his acceptance of the throne
on condition hat he snoud receive the vote of
the Cortes therefor. There was much opposition
to the project at first, but on the evening of the
4th, at N citing of the Ministers, presided over
by the Regent Serrano, the course taken by
General Prim was approved, and the Cortes
were ordered o be convoked on the Goth for the
purpose of voting on the proposition.
/ Prince Leopold of Notwithstanding
as all the world soon discovered, was young
man of tbirty-fve, a member of q younger
branch of the royal line of Prussia, and de-
scended from an adopted daughter of the first
Napoleon who was the second cousin of Queen
Hortense, the mother of Napoleon III. Thus
he was closely related to the ruling family of
France-even more so than to that of Prussia
and the Spanish Ministers doubtless imagined
that on this account he would not prove objec-
tionable to the French Emperor, as had all the
candidates who had preceded him. But in this
they were destined to be grievously mistaken.
On the 5th of July the new canddature was
spread all over Europe, and France was in an
uproar in an instant. On that day several men,
bers of the Corps Legislatif submitted inter-
pellations to the ministry on the subject, and
were assured that the governments OF Prussia
and Spain had been notified already by the
Duke de Gramont, Minister of Foreign Affairs,
that France could not give her assent Outside
of official circles, likewise, an intense opposi-
tion to the project was at once developed, on
the supposition that it was the result of Count
Won Bismarck's intrigues, and intended by the
great Prussian statesman as "a check and
menace to France"
On the 9th of July, the Duke de Gramont an
nounced that under no preteXt would the French
government permit German power to place
one of its princes on the throne of Charles V.
The British government at once interfered to
avert the threatened complication, and long
quadrangular discussion ensued between the
courts of London, Paris Berlin, and Spain.
King William was sojourning at Ems at the
time, where was also Count Benedetti, the
French Ambassador, who perslstently pressed
the King to know whether the scheme had re-
eeived his sanction. He was assured that it
had not, and that the Prussian government
knew nothing whatever Of the projected candl-
dature On the 9th of July, Benedict de-
manded that the King should order Prince Leo
pold to withdraw his acceptance of the candida
lure to which the King responded that, not having
ordered him to accept it, he could not order him
to renounce it. On the 1lth, Benedetti de-
manded that the King should impress upon the
Prince the necessity of abandoning the pro eet
to which the King replied that the Prince was
free to act in the matter, and moreover that he
was abroad at the time. On the public prone
made at Ems on the 18th, the King showed to
Benedict a newspaper teleg ram announcing
that Prince Leopold had withdrawn from the
candidature and at the same time informed the
| French Ambassador that he (the King) had not
| yet had any communication from Prince Leo
| pold on the subject.
Meanwhile the withdrawal of Prince Leopold
had been telegraphed TO Madrid on the 18th,
and with this announcement 1t was generally
| hoped that peaceful solution of the difficulty
was possible, although France had already
begun actively to prepare for the contingency
| of war, and Prussia had moved considerable
| forces to the Rhine frontier. On the l4th IN
the Corps Legislatif the Duke de Grsmont an
| nouuced to the French Chambers the official
notification of Prince Leopold's withdra wal.
| 'The negotiations" he said, (which we have
been pursuing with Prussia hdpe had no other
object, but they hare not yet terminated"
At the interview between King William and
| Count Benedetti, on the 18th, the latter had de-
manded ON the part of France that the former
should distinctly promise never again to con-
sent to Prince Leopold's caudidature. The King
firmly declined to comply with this request,
J and on the following day Count Bene-