The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1874-06-02

ALIEN. IlON E5.-- NC NlIkluid Oll1
(Nev) Enterprise is responsible for the
following, which must be taken cum grano
suits, when it is remembered that Ameri-
can matrons and naideDs are not in the
habit Of compromising their reputation
even with royalty. If any such letters
are in existance, they are most likely the
production Of adventuresses
We do not know the following story in
relation to the Grand Duke Alexis and
his late tour in the United States has
ever been published. 1t was related by
the Grand Duke himself, while in Japan,
to gentleman whose name, were it men,
toned would be familiar to the most ofour
readers.
No sooner had the Grand Duke landed
in tho United States than he was flooded
with all sorts of letters from all sorts Of
people on all sorts of subjects. Embraced
in the epistolary hurricane were hundreds,
perhaps thousands, of letters from females
many the inspiration Of impertinencc
and dishonesty and many more the promp-
ting Of fragrant and criminal immodesty.
All classes seemed to participate in this
lolly-wcman without reputation and with
nothing to lose, as well as ladies Of wealth
and respcctabiity, prepared to sacrifice
everything. Many Of those letters were
glanced over merely and destroyed but
large number were with pardonable
vanity in the young Grand Duke, retain
ed for future examination after he had
finished his travels. These letters, EN-
braced in no less than five packages, were
intrusted to an orderly for conveyance to
st. Petersburgh, while the Grand Duke
continued his journey westward. In due
time Alexis received a letter from his
august father, announcing, among other
matters, that four sealed packages had
been received from him. but the mcsscn-
ger was missing Alexis at cnce surmis-
ed that one of the packages had been
stolen by the orderly, whose purpose was
to make them public. Unwilling to have
the reputation Of many ladies of respecia'
bility thus compromised through his
carelessncss, Alexis promptly telegraphed
the Emperor to arrest the orderly at any
cost and seize the missing letters
All the police appliances OF the Rus
sian Empire were at once invoked, but
the orderly could not be found within the
vast dominions of the Gar. He was al
length discovered in a town in Belgium
where he was screney engaged in making
up the letters i'll an attractive volume Of
800 or 100 pages, and the book was OF
the point Of being issued, for the fellow
had made good usa of his time No tim,
was to be lost But what was to be done
Russia had no cxtradition treaty with
Belgium, and the Belgium authorities
although willing o accommodate the ca II
did not see how the publication could b.
: suppressed Exasperated at this state o
affairs, the Gar threatened to inva1
Belgium at once with powerful army
utterly reckless OF the peace Of Europe
unless the culpi was surrendered. Alarm
cd at this extraordinary threat the Bel
gium King set about finding some pretex
upon which the orderly might be arrest
ed. 1t was finally ascertaincd that h
!, was printing his book without the usua
license, and he was promptly taken lit
custody. With his unfinished volume cn
stolen letters he was hurried across tn
Belgium line into Prussia, where tn
agents Of the Russian government wcr
) ready to receive him. He was soon i
st. Pctersburgh, and in twcnty-four hour
alter was on his way to Siberia, und o
sentence Of life servitude in the min
The next letter from the Emperor ia
formed Alexis that his missing letter
. partially printed, had been recovered, ,au
the young gentleman was admonished 7
! be u little more careful OF his love M,
sivcs in the future. Had these lcttc
been published, a profound huttcr woui
! have been created among the iairest
Q not the best Of the great cities Of the Ea,
n and the volumes would have met of cour,'
4 with prodigious sale.