Connecticut western news., 1873-03-21
Spanish Affairs.
The CarIists-With a Short Sketch of the
 Spanish Revolutions.

The Car1ists-With a Short Sketch of the
 Spanish Revolutions.
 The name Don Carlos has been since the sixteenth century mingled in the public mind with scenes of revolt in Spain. There have been four pretend CTS to the Spanish throne of this name. The later pretenders have been the rep resentatives of absolutism. Don Carlos, l., Infante of Spain, son of Phillip H., born at Valladolid in 1545, died in 1868 in prison at Madrid, and was buried in nunnery. He was sickly and pas sionate; was superseded as presumptlve heir to the crown. He planned an as- sau1t on his father, and for this he languished until his death in prison. His death as we'll as his life gave rise to many conflicting rumors. The incom- iron-hearted man like Don Philip and morbid, impulsive youth like Don Carlos, the fact that the Infante had been engaged to Elizabeth of France, who subsequently became his step mother, his sympathy with the revolt of the Netherlands, and his hatred of Ava, all conspired to invest the melan- choly fate of the Infante with Q halo of romance which has been poetically treated by Alferi, Campestron, Otway, and, above all, Schiller. The second pretender, Don Carlos Maria Isidor, pretender to the crown of Spain, son of King Charles w., born March 29, 17S8, died in Trieste, March 10, 1855. Many of the opponents of the constitutional regime, which was restored in 1920, gathered around Don Carlos, hoping that after the decease of his childless brother, Ferdinand VII., he would as- cend the throne. But these hopes were prostrated by Ferdinand's marriage with Maria Christina, and by the abro- sation of the salic law, which placed Isabella upon the throne. In 1882, when Ferdinand was supposed to be on the eve of death, the Carlists succeeded in extorting from him 8 decree re-es- tablishing the salic law, and thus ex- cluding Isabella, but he recovered his health, and the fraud practised upon him was immediately redressed. In 1883, when Ferdinand died, Don Carlos proclaimed himself king. Maria Chris tina, the regent, branded him as rebel. and concluded with Britain, France, and Portugal, the so-called quadruple alliance, the practical effect of which was to expel Don Carlos and Don | Miguel, the champions of absolutism, from Spain and Portugal. On July 1, 1884, Don Carlos left England, whither he had fled. and, smuggling himself into Spain, succeeded in kindling a civil war in the northern provinces, which ragged for several years, Don Gar los eIuding the vigilance of his oppo- nents until 1889, when he was compel led to leave the Spanish territory and to betake himself to France, where, upon his refusal to renounce his claims, he was by order of the French Govern ment detained at Bourges. The decree which ordained his perpetual expulsion from Spain was by unanimous vote con- frmed by the Cortes in 1886. In 1845 he adopted the name of Count of Mo lima, abdicated in favor of his eldest son, the Count of Montemolin, and on receiving permission to leave France | took up his abode in Austria. His first l wife was Maria Franciska de Assis, l daughter of John VI., King of Portu- gal, who bore him three sons, Don Car los in 1918, Don Juan Carlos in 1922, and Don Fernando in 1924. His second wife, whom he married in 1888, and who survived him, is Maria Theresa, Infanta of Portugal and Princess of Beira, widow of the Infante Pedro of Spain and mother of the Infante Sebas- tian of Portugal. The present pre- tender is Carlos Luis Maria Fernando, the eldest son and heir of Don Carlos, who was born January II, 1918. In 1846 he left Bourges, where he had re- sided with his father, and took up his residence in England under the >name of the Count of Montemolin. In April, 1s4s, he made an attempt to introduce himself in disguise into Spain, but he was arrested, detained from April 5 to the 10th in the Citadel of Perpignan, and on April 15 he was again in Lon. don. On July 10, 1850, he married Maria Carolina Ferdinanda, sister ot 1 Ferdinand IT. of Naples