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Correspondence Of the New York World
LONDON, December 6.-I have been al
lowed by the parsonage to whom the follow
ing extraordinary letter was addressed, Il
take copy of it's most important passagei
for publication in America. am not, O
course, ut liberty even to notice either hil
name or that Of the writer, beyond staung
az may properly do, that the former Is
parsonage distinguished in London society
whose name is nearly az well known IL
New York a. in the British capital. and
that the latter is German nobleman OF the
5 The REGIMENT of the letter, though he does
not dfeubt the exact truth of its statements
declines to telnme whether he has or has
mot found reason for believing them, in his
own observations here. For the accuracy
of it's illusions to certain American
banker" and to quasi; Journalist IN New
York, who has for several yer. past beer
the constant Father Joseph Of this financial
Richelieu, can myself v0uch. know them
both to have been continually going and
coming. of late, between Chiselhurst, Brus
sells, Windsor and Cassel.
VARIAR YEAR HoRTskAR, I
WEsrPHALlA, December 2. 5
MI DEAR - =: Of our present
troubles and our prospective anxieties,
really zee as yet no probable end: What
began as Q popular necessity is ending as 9
princely adventure, and who knows how
far euch an adventure may lead?
Already the combinations forced upon the
government by circumstances for its con-
alteration, if not for it's adoption, are such
az ten--what do say, as even six months
ago sny of us would have been sent to the
Abendberg for so much as suggesting. /
was called last week on private business to
Wilhelmshohe. There ! saw NJ. -, and
had with him long and most interesting
conversation, the main points of which are
90 entirely confirmed BY what know my
self to have happened recently at Berlin,
and can be 90 easily verified or not by you
in London, that send them to you at
once. N. - told me that interviews had
been going ON for now several weeks
between the Empress Eugene and well
known American banker Of London at CHS
elhurst. These, he says, have been sug-
gested by proposition made through Count
Won B., ct the instance Of the Countess
of -, by our government. This propo-
sition was first made to the English govern
I0GuU IN Ou1D way NVu1U sAo AAA
structed to sound the English Court upon
the point, and if he found it favOrably dis
posed to suggest that her majesty should
exert her influence with the Crown Prince
and Princess of Prussia to bring them to
entertain it. After some consideration the
Queen was led to believe it altogether the
happiest solution of problem fast threat
ening to become insoluble. 1t then became
necessary to sound the Emperor Napoleon
and the Empress, and the affair hung fire
here for some time, it being obviously most
undesirable that the matter should be
preached to them either by French,
Prussian or an English subject.
At this juncture it occurred to the
Countess Of c., who was consulted, to
suggest that certain famous dressmaker
Of Paris, now Gin England, and who was
well known to enjoy the entree at Chisel-
hurt, should be utilized. This was done,
and the person named had the good sense,
or the good fortune, to recommend that the
American banker Of whom / have spoken
be employed as the direct intermediary be-
tween the German authorities and the EN-
press. The banker, to cut long story
short, accepted the trust. After an inter
view or two with the Empress he provided
q confidential messenger to be sent to
Cassel. This person was o cOuntryman Of
his, who seems to have been knocking about
Paris and London for q great number of
years. In this way, and by such contempt
BILE instruments, have the families of Eng
land and Of Prussia been led into the rela-
tons which am now about to set forth to
you with the fallen Bonapartes.
The gist of the project thus organized is
simplyst0 end the war by a reconstruction
the Emperor Napoleon ILL.,, but of his son.
The Prince Imperial sis to be acknowledged
as Emperor by Prussia, England and Rus
sia upon the formal abdication OF his father,
the Empress being named as Regent during
bis minority, and his majority boing fixed
for March, 1874, at which time he will have
attained his eighteenth year. Peace with
France will be slgned upon the razing Of
the Notifications Of Metz, Toul and Verdun.
Luxembourg will be annexed to Prussia az
province of Rhenish Prussia. Lorraine
will remain absolutely French. But al.
sacei Here, now, is the wonderful point
Of this most curious combination, which l
ask you to investigate at London. -Alsace
is to be declared q free German State, of
which the Princess Charlotte, Of Prussia,
oldest daughter of the Crown Prince, is to
be declared Grand Duchess. The young
Grand Duchess (she was born in 1860. and
is now mere child) is to be formally be-
trothed to the Emperor Napoleon ~. alt
is case said NJ. = to me at Wilhelmshoe,
f" Of Anne Of Brittany over again" But We
do not live in the age of Anne of Brittany.
So this modern condition is to 60 with the
betrOthal: Upon the contamination of the
marriage, which is to occur in 1875, the peo-
pie of Alsace will be called upon to vote
either for complete annexation to France,
or q separate administration under Gus
tOms-union with France, but with a prOtec-
torate of the rights of the Grand Duchess
and Empress vested in the imperial crown
Of Germany.
You will perceive in all this the spirit Of
1924. It is indeed there. do not anticipate
for the plan, if indeed it he seriously under
taken, any protracted opposition from the
French, who are, indeed, believe, too far
gone, too much demoralized and broken up
to long resist any plan which offers them
peace and some hope Of respite. Nor yet
from our German people will any objections
proceed. A German empress on the throne
Of France, and in England princes Of Ger
Iuan blood ruling, with our frontier advanced
to the heart Of Belgium and of Holland,
what should we ask mores But NJ. -
owned to me, and must say found reason
in what he said, that some disquiet existed
both at Windsor and al WilhelmshOhe,
rs we'll as at Versailles, concerning
the light in which the English people might
view the arrangement: Yet the Queen has
most cordially favored it, and in close in
timacy with the Empress has indeed fully
embraced and applauded the plan. This 1
am we'll assured Of; what doubt more is
the attitude of the Queens government.
Consider and examine this. and let me
know your views. The Emperor Napoleon
is himself quite well disposed, hear, to the
project; but he has absolutely refused to
act at all either in furtherance OF il him
drance of it. Bismarck regards it, l have
reason to believe, with extreme favor, not
withstanding his dislike of the Grown
Prince. with whom it is said to have orig
mated. He expressed to friend Of mine