Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-04-02
THE FATAL DUEL.
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The Paris correspondent of the Times
writes: cit appears that the Duke of
Montpensier, who is full-blOOded and cor
pulent, took TO his bed on Saturday with
an attack of fever. Persons here who
know him intimately say that he is SO
near sighted that he cannot, at eight
metres distance, have possibly seen his
cousin sufficiently to take ann at him, and
that he must have hit him bymere chance;
SO that it seems as if the unfortunate Don
Enrique had been doomed to die by the
hand of the man whom he so long assidu-
ously insulted and traduced. The origin
of the deceased Infante's hatred of his
cousin is said TO have been old rivalry for
the hand of the present Duchess of Mont
pensier. You may remember that in the
period which preceded the Spanish mar
riages, Don Enrique was one of those
who aspired TO become brother-in-law to
the Queen. a
''Some of the Madrid papers say
that the Duke of MontpeDsicr is about to
start to Portugal, others that he will go to
Seville; but it is supposed that his interest
and pretensions would be likely to retain
him in Madrid. The result of the duel rem
ders him liable to four years Punishment;
but probably no steps viii be taken against
him, and although what passed is nOtOri-
Gus, it would be very difficult to get wit
nesSes TO depose against him in a court of
law. There seems to have been some
sort of investigation, for we are told that
persons examined said Don Enrique had
accidentally killed himself when trying
his pistols"
The Paris correspondent of the London
NetOS thus describes that unfortunate as
pirant to the Spanish throne:
Shaving been personally acquainted
with the deceased Prince, do not write
about him on mere heresay. never met
man who struggled so hard against the
vices of hereditary organization. His in
tellect seconded his aspirations very i'm
perfectly. Though far from stupid, he
used to say, with some truth of his brain,
that it was like wet timber which none of
his sacred fire could light up into blaze,
or even into a duh, constant fire He
frequently betrayed a painful con-
seriousness of those mental i'm
perfections, which he said was a penalty
royal families pay to nature for emanci- |
pating them from the ordinary conditions |
of humanity. When he found himself in
the company of intellectual men, he |
hardly opened his lips to speak. In pur-
surance of his republican ideas, he was
very DESTROYS shortly before he last left |
Paris of finding an American wife. His
friends were negotiating a marriage be- |
tween him and a great Western heiress |
when he was suddenly called to Madrid |
last summer. Before leaving Paris the
Prince called upon a Boston lady /
who had promised to make up the
match, and said, putting bis finger on his
forehead: Miss - must not re- /
fuse any other offer for me, for / have a
presentiment that before very long bull |
let viii cure the feYers of this poor ardent |
brain. am SO convinced that a violent |
death stares me in the face, as TO beg you |
win transfer your friendship to my poor
little girl, whom | have been obliged to |
leave in a convent in the Fauborg st. Ger
main. Prince Henry of Bourbon was in |
his forty-fourth year. He was q widOwer,
and leaves four children. His eldest son
is lieutenant in the Spanish army, and
is now with his regiment in the Philip
pine Islands"