Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1872-03-15

INTERVIEW WITH THE COUNT DE CHAM
BoRD.-The Count dc Chambord, who claims to
be the Tightful king of France, is described as
being rather short. " His shoulders are thick
set he is stout, and in walking drags his right
leg with the toes turned out. He has an oval
head; the crown is bald, with high and promi.
nent forehead, fine hair, thin, and of a chest
nut color, falling straight down on his strong
neck; his beard is fair, cut slightly to point,
and somewhat gray; his mouth has a good eX-
preston; his voice is sonorous aud sympathetic,
and his habitual attitude in speaking is to keep
his body slightly bent to the right, and his
hands behind his back" He has lately been
visited at Antwerp By a correspondent of the
London Times, who thus reports the interviews
The prince entered from his apartment,
and, seating himself upon the chair which had
its back toward the windOw, signed to me to
take the other. We were quite alone. While
the princes couuicnaDce remained in the
shadow the full light Of day played upon my
face, and enabled him to study me as closely as
he chose.
"'You have said he, desired to have a pri.
vate interview with me, and, although | am
most fully occupied, have very readily granted
your request 'Monsigneur,' | replied, i have
not come from any idle curiosity; but in France
there are only either journals which are perfectly
devoted to you, or those which are ab-olu tclv
hostile towards you. You may possibly be dis
posed to confide some of your views to an i'm
partial and disinterested auditor. Do you con
lNulpldlc IGtuinlLR 10 ETdutG III NDuE pTGSpnl
position? i think not he replied. i cannot
always live there iacogRjtO, neither is it possible
for me to live there as a private citizen. The
Orleans princes may do it, and yet not alto
gether They carry it perhaps a little too far.
But for myself, Notwithstanding my ardent love
for France, have no right to consult my incli-
nation and to effect compromise with the prin-
ciple which represent 'Monseigneur' said |,
in your last manifesto you said you represented
reform and not reaction Those who are op-
posed 10 you have imagined that they found in
that word reform menace against the liberal in
situations Of France Yes he said,' and his
couutenance seemed in the shadow to sadden,
1t is the custom in France never to ac-
Cept the sincerity of spoken words. | made
use of the word reform because there
are many bad things to reform, and not he.
cause there are liberal conquests to DESTROY.
said what meant, and if | had desired to say
anything different should have expressed my
self differently Again, monseigneur, it is as
serted that you would not assent to constitu-
tOna monarchy, and that you would put an
end TO parliamentary life q have said exactly
the contrary in nv last manifesto | did not
employ the word parliamentary, because it has
been by the abuse of words that ideas have been
perverted in France, where, TO many minds,
parliamentary monarchy is hut nominal mon
archy, ! have always used the term representa-
tive monarchy because it implies thaJ a mon
archy represents the nation, and that in IFS turn
"
truly chosen as well in the councils of the mon.
arch as in its legislative expression 'Monseig-
neur, said, sit is asserted that your first care
would be to suppress universal Suffrage, because
you would regard it as incompatible with the
regular working of a monarchy, and also be-
cause you would condemn it rs purely TevOlu-
tionarY conquest Here again, as always re-
piled the prince, my views have been exaggerated.
1t is not universal suffrage thatl would suppress,
but universal chance 1T is also said mon
seigneur, and that is the argument most strong
ly urged against you-that you would
probably attempt to re.esJabsh special leudal
rights, to reconstitute castles, and especially to
restore TO the clergy its ancient power and its
former wealth Those are Galumnies which
ought only to be answered in order to he refuted.
| aspire to be the monarch of the entire nation,
and not the monarch Of a privileged class. ]
have always received with equal pleasure the
workman, the merchant, the laborer and the
gentleman. would not Withdraw from the
nation any of the prerQgatiVeS which it has
won. ! respect liberty Of conscience and of
creeds ! would never be a crowned canon, but
am the descendant Of ST. Louis and | desire
neither to recall that fact every moment nor to
iorgel ii entirely 1T is general conviction in
France, Monsegneur, that your first care would
be TO restore TO the pope his temporal power,
and TO do for the Vatican what your ancestor St.
Louis did for the holy tomb The Holy Faith
or, replied the prince with . certain solemhity,
himself gives us example OF absolute submits
sion to the DEGREES Of Providence. His position
is very difficult and yet he does not complain.
He knows that he must rely upon enc who is
more powerful than the kings Of the earth. "
The interview was continued further, but these
were the most interesting points,