The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1872-10-05
The Princes.

arrived peg Utah. and r.. dent 81 TIE Hawaiian
iiOtsl. and ~hU lse sttllctlEz ., marked N
attention. tre deserving 81 tLis, and tie Iuust
Distinguished courtesy ii oar hand- not 80 much
because thry are Princes, and Of royal lineage,
the grandson, of King PHILIPPE, and second cous-
Ins If the Prinee u " ales, as ou account Of their
own individual merits a. cultivated men. and a.
being enirently able and distinguished in their
positions III life.
The Prince Augustus, Dake Of SAKE, engages
the larger share If attention, on account Of the
wider range and diversity Of his career. Though,
bat - years Of age, he has made his name Illus
triOus as an Admiral Of Brazil. At the fierce
storming Of the Paraguayan Fort Of Humaita,
he went into the hottest Of the fight On board the
irOnclad DoDl AUGUSTA, aud gathered his laurels
amid the iron hail showered upon him by the
desperate LOpc@. We perhaps sympathized with
the struggles Of a bleeding, despairing, remnant
Of Paraguayans, blindly dpholding the fortunes
of a political desperate with imperial aspirs-
tions but we feel content now that the brave
Prince who l. with Us, not only assisted to break
the power Of the Dictator of the Rio dc la Plate,
but also supplanted him in the possession Of the
hand Of the accomplished Princess, 10 which the
Paraguayan tyrant made offensive pretentions.
Paraguay, as well as Brazil, must be benefited
and uplifted by the influence of a noble and a
~virtuous Prince, such a contrast to the debauchee
be opposed; and it is probable that he, through
his young son Don Pedro Augustus, may in the
event Of death Of the illustrious Emperor Pedro,
(Which may God long AVERT sway the destinies
of the great South American Empire.
Thus We may see how distinguished has been
the career, and is the position of our young Wis
ItOr. But our interest in him must not be con-
fined altogether to distinctions, largely promoted,
no doubt, by his prineely opportunities; but may
be directed to his ability as a man, independent
of such opportunities. lie springs from studious
and gifted races, both German and French, and
must owe much of his preeminence az a Iaborious
student and able statesman to the influence OF
his most accomplished mother, the Princess
Clementine, a daughter Of that gifted and ar
tistic family of Queen Adelaide of France. AS a
pathological student in particular, he excels. lie
has not been content with acquisitions in Ian
guage sufficient to distinguish any man, such as
the mastery of English, Spanish, Portuguese,
Italian, TyrOlese. and other dialects, besides his
parental tongues of German and French but he
has mastered the most difficult language of
Europe, the oriental tongue of the Magyar Orzags.
But this studious Duke of SAKE has not con-
fined his lnbors TO the closet, but as a Prince
of Brazil he has been most earnest and active to
promote the well being of, we may say, his
adopted country. He has influenced her endeav-
ors to open her great highway across the South
American Continent, and has been prompting
her in her march of Empire along the waters of
the Purana to the Pacific. lie has explored some
of her wide, unpeopled, and savage territories {;
and whilst amusing his gallant nature in many a
combat with the wild beasts of these unpeopled
wastes, he has contemplated with the eye Of a
statesman his country's need, as it is our need,
gilmore people. He has sympathized with the i'm
migration of Americans, also of Germans, Scan
dinayians, Italians and other Europeans into
Brazil, and we have no doubt that during his
tour in India and South Eastern Asia, he will
have an eye To the surplus populations of those
regions a. recruits to swell the ranks of the
tillers Of the marvellous rich soil Of the Empire
over which his son may be called to reign.
The Prince PHILIPPE is not behind hand with
his distinguished family in his acquisitions and
labors, but he has had a more cIrcumscribed
career than his brother, the Admiral. However,
he has gained reputation as a brilliant young
officer in the wars of Austria, and he now enjoys
the grade of Colonel in the Imperial Austro-
Hungarian army. On the completion of his
travelling tour he rejOins his regiment in Bohe-
mia, whilst his brother the Prince Augustus will
remain IN Austria for a time in order to represent
the Brazilian Government at the grand EXPOSE
ton or Worlds Fair, about to be held in Vienna.
Uopoa ,pa n ua baya an,,nrSt ,s no ,,o,o
holiday Princes nor pretentiOus scions of power
less potentates, but men allied to and welding
an influence in fourIshing States. And the
modesty attending their movements must give
them additional iustre in the eyes of thinking
men. They come without herald or %retinue, and
they evidently wish, as quiet and observant gentle
men, to have an opportunity as little tranmeled
as possible with tussy attentions. TO observe for
themselves whatever may be new to them, OF
peculiar or interesting in our Archipelago.
1t is one Of the penalties of royal and princely
positions to he discussed as IA matter of public
interest and therefore we venture, trusting it
our distinguished visitors to mention a few per-
sonal particulars cleaned from American papers,
especially for the qualification Of curious lady
enquirers.
Prince Augustus, fully named Louis Augustus
Marie Guides of SAKE Coburg, is a widower, and
has four children (all boys) now residing with
their imperial grandparents in Brazil. The eld-
est, named Pedro and now six years and four
months old, is heir preTumptive to the imperial
throne of Brazil, in case his aunt the Countess
Isabella d'Eu should have no offspring; aud she
H. cbi1dlass n frer heinz married sly a,r ~ -
sad to mention that her sister, the illustrious
Princess Leopoldina, the late wife of our visitor,
died in Vienna just four months and three weeks
after giving birth to her last child, the princely
baby Louis CASTOR, named if we mistake not.