The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-03-14
OBITUARY..
Don Enrlaue dc Bourbon.

A cable telegram from Madrid gives the par
ticulars of murderous encounter between the
Due de Montpenser and Don Enrique de Bour-
bon, which transpired on Saturday morning
seven miles from the walls of the Spanish capi
tai The seconds of Montpensier were Generals
Cordova and Aaminor. and those of Don
Enrique two Republican deputies in the Cortes,
one of them being Senior Rubo Lots were
drawn for the first fire, Dou Enrique winning:
but it was not until he had missed his adversary
twice and Montpenser had also fred one shot
without effect, that, standing within three PAGES
of each other, the latter took deliberate aim at
Don Enrique, and shot him through the head.
Don Enrique Marie Ferdinand de Bourbon,
Due de Seville, was born on the 18th of April,
1929 He was the second son of Francisco de
Paulo, Duke of Cadz, maternal uncle of the
ex-Quecn Isabella II, and his elder brother is
Don Francisco d'Assiz, the husband of the ex-
Queen. His mother was the Infanta Luisa Car
lotta Maria Isabella, the daughter of Francis 1,
King of the Two Sicilies. On the 5th of May.
1S47 he was married to Dona Helena de Cas-
telvi Shelley Fernandez de Cordova, at Rome
The only public position of Importance held by
him was that of Vice-Admiral of the Spanish
fleet which he attained in 1850, at the age of
twenty-seven. His life has been varied and
unfortunate one, his political career being ended
by a royal decree which deprived him of his
rank an Infante of Spain in March, 1867.
Previous to this, during part of the reign of
Isabella II, he was the most important person
in Spain being regarded as much superior
both intellectually and morally, to his brother.
Of late he had been living in France, and it was
only few months ago that he crossed the bor-
der, with the object, it is believed, of provoking
the very quarrel which terminated in his tragic
death.
The leading events of his earlier career were
thus summed up by him in letter addressed to
Regent Serrano on the 18th of January last:-
"My uniform reminds me that owe my entrance
into the navy and my rank OF or1cer OF the Govern
ment to the most eminent citizen of Spain-the
man whose unstained glories eclipse all the merits
of the moderns--the Liberal whose consistency and
honor contrast so much with the administrative and
political mmoralities the country deplores ana his
! tory recOrds-the modest man whO retired in an
humble corner OF his province, shines so greatly
| above the pride and pomp OF those ambitious men
who were born OF nobody, or in the soughs OF crim
nal intrigues-the illustrious veteran whose brow
wears that best OF crowns, the aurora popular. aud
OF whom, in spite OF his years, IL may be said no
envy can extingush the light OF his national glory
| for honor never grows old. In demanding from
| your Hghness and the Government the restitution
OF my rank, record that began to serve under
Espartero, Duke Of Victoria, against whom Tn'aI I
did not concert with the navy OF 1s43, the
source OF all the caamities which have afflicted thn
country up TO the rebellion OF September and with
out which lamentable event Isabella III would have
| received a proper education In good dspositions
| and not have adopted the system OF the cruel and
| immoral men of the reaction nor of those who
brought their knowledge to serve the passions the
vices the necessities, and the caprlces OF the pot-
clans, with the funds of the nation belong TO the
time OF Espartero, and in II learned TO be good
| against him among the troops under O'Donneli and
the other generals in 1885, received fresh banish-
| ment and nevertheless many OF those who then
combated the people in the person OF the Duke
had to return revolutlonartes These contests have
cost blood-much and precious blood uselessly she'd
sent myself before the country without a single
stain on my conscience or my uniform"
During the revolution of 1868, which termi
mated in driving from the throne and country hi,
cousin, he espoused in temperate way, the
cause of the ex-Queen, although, as he claimed
in the letter to the Regent just quoted from
he had combated the fatal policy of Isa
bella II, alleging that ''she had age and tim
enough to discern between the good and bad
and to distinguish the useful and proper from
the wicked" In the same epistle he complaneC
also of "the evil and ruin the reign of Isabella
II had produced in politics, and, in private life
to the poor children of the Infante Don Fran
cisco and Dona Luisa Carlotta," referring il
this connection to the husband of the ex-Queei
as well as to himself.
Processing Liberal opinions and accepting
candidly the results of the revolution, as sooi
as they were inevitable, he espoused hearth.
the cause of the anti. Montpensier party from
the moment that the name of his assassin wa
first brought forward as a candidate for tn
vacant throne. In July, 1862 he visited the ex
Queen In Paris, and gave the results of his in
terview with her in the letter already referre,
to. He declared to the Regent that he could no
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