The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-04-21


Don Carlos.
The recent activity of the Carlists in Spain
will give additional interest to the lutervie"
of one Of our special correspondents Win the
head of that faction, which reaches US by
special cable despatch from Madfd, and is
published in to-day's HERALD. As may be
imagined, it was no easy matter to obtain an
audience of the wandering Prince. whose
every step is marked by revolution. and upon
whose head price is set The very action
of our correspondent in his persistent efforts
to discover Don Carlos necessarily excited sus-
picion as to his character and intentions, and
no doubt he was looked upon by many
as Spanish spy, just as our CORE
spondent in Cuba has been regarded
as Cuban spy Although the Bourbon claim
ant of the crown of Spain is now on French
territory, he feels that the government OF
France is dangerous enemy. and he is as
careful to conceal his person as he would be
if he were across the border and on his native
soil Hence we learn that our correspondents
visit to Don Carlos after his true mission was
known and his request for ON interview had
been cheerfully granted, partook Of roman
tic character. So careful we're the Carlists OF
their chief that our correspondent was not
permitted to know the location Of the
isolated chateau to which he was con-
Quoted in the darkness of night and
in q close conveyance The varied
and singular adventures Of the HERALD
attaches have recently attracted general atten-
ton, and the one recorded to-day, if less peril
GUS than some which have preceded it, is not
without its remarkable features The picture
Of our correspondent, driven through strange
country at midnight, to an interview with the
claimant of throne, the leader of threaten
ing rebellion, is certainly an extraordinary
illustration of the enterprise of the modern
press while the action Of Don Carlos in grant
ing an audience at such an hour implies how
great importance is now placed upon the
opinions Of the American people by all classes
of men in all countries.
It is wonderful to mark how itinerant mon
archy, of which in these days we have lib
eral supply, manages to carry about with it
the forms and ceremonies of settled court.
In the old French chateau, where the meeting
de-camp ready to perform his duties with all
the customary flourish that prevails when a
visitor is ushered into the presence of SOW
ereign in his palace. We discover courtiers and
generals gathered about the Bourbon Prince
just as they would be gathered about his
>.ol kI,o
seat of Charles the Fifth: we SOC the home
less monarch entering to receive his guest,
with all the dignity and formality he would
assume if granting an audience in the Royal
Palace of Madrid, or sweeping along the Plaza
de Oriente among the statues of "a long line
Don Carlos, we are told, is tall and slim. with
remarkably handsome face and full black
beard-the beau-ideal we should presume,
of Spanish cavalier. To be sure our
correspondent spoils the picture by the
statement that the address. manners and
delivery of the Prince have an unpleasing
smack of effeminacy; but we are treasured
when we find that all this is atoned for by
pleasing smile, candid tone and good sense.
At first the conversation between the Prince
and the journalist turned upon ordinary
topics, the weather, probably. and the condi-
way; but when Don Carlos lighted a cigarette
and offered one to the favored correspondent,
the courteous act seems to have operated like
o charm, and the courtiers and generals dis
appeared from the presen nee, waited away, as
it were, with the curling smoke of the tobacco,
enjoy their confidential chat.
Don Carlos appears to have that confidence
in his own right to rule q people without
regard to their inclinations which is the dis
tinguishing trait of all monarchs and the
legitimate deduction from the doctrine of
following in his native country; that he de-
clares his ability to raise one hundred thou
sand troops on the instant if he only had one
hundred thousand muskets to put into their
hands that he boasts of the friendly sym
pathy Of the populations of the villages
all this he insists upon his legal and divine
right to the throne of Spain on the ground of
legitimacy, and would ascend that throne if he
could, over the necks and through the blood of
the whole people, should they oppose him
and insist upon their own right to choose a
government or O ruler for themselves. He
looks upon the liberties Of nation as
his own, as much as if they were
SO many acres of land to which
he held the legal title No lawyer
he says, has disproved his right
to the Spanish throne; his grandfather de-
Tended that right sword in hand, and the act
by which Isabelli was made ruler was simply
violation Of tn organic law of the kingdom
and, therefore, null and void. But he does