New-York tribune., 1875-11-16
the Prince of Wales to be met at Bombay by
tho Nizam of IIyderabad has given rise 10

cOrresDOndence not equaled III lcnRth' pio'"'"'
and thinness by any in the annals or diplomacy
The native princes were to meet the pros
pective heir of the British throne Mt Bombay,
and it was especially desirable that the chiei
of this great State should be among them.
But the advisers of the Prince, who had
reached the ripe age of eight full years, IN
sisted that Le was unable to come, and his
pbysicans furnished the following excclieht
reasons: He was-not to put too hne pom.
on it-bandy legged; he was very dcnca'e anu
nervous he was scrofulous; he was SUD
iect 10 cbildren's diseases, which, IN addition'
affected his brain to take his lliShness out
"any distance would be full of risk, it would
be like walking on the parapet OF a bridge.
This pathetic recital did not move the bri'isn
Resident. He charged that these statements
were mere excuses to save the dignity ol Iho
Nizam from cOmpromise-an accusation Whlch
lacerated the accommodating soul OF Or oalar
Jung. who did the letter-writing for tho 0andy-
legged Nizam. He hurled it back, with dipio-
motic oontlencss. of course, whereupOn Mr.
Saunders. the Resident, responded with copy
of The Bombay Gazette, which contained
telegram announcing that the NHam nau
refused to meet the Prince of Wales, ana
leader terming that resolution a display OF
pride and spite. To this Sir Something jung
replied that the telegram was false, ana the
editorial "not subject for diplomatic corre-
"spondence" and evidently wanted to say, after
tbe manner of Western statesmen, that the
nress of India was licentious and low-but
did n't AT last the Resident so harasSes his
noble correspondent with solemn warnings OF
the "absolute necessity" OF sllencinS al
'.indiyious and hostile criticism by "a distinct
"and graceful contradiction to the very natural
"but highly injurious remarks" &c, &c, NC,
that he makes a disclosure of the NHams
domestic surroundings. He says:
The matter stands thus Supposn2 the NzaH Is H'keh
TO Bombay the question will be, whether we should TAKE
him atone or with his mother and grandmother HIS
Hghnesss attachment to his mother is SO great that
nothing but actual force would compel him TO 90 With
ot her Any such force would cause the greatest excite
mcnt in the palace and outside, accompanied by great
CRYING in the zenana; and this would make MS gh-
ness himself cry he is much given to crying "heh
ANYTHING puts him out his feelings are hurt "hich
might prove INJURIOUS besides the after effect of separa
tion from his mother In the other case his ghnesss
mother IS not in good health She is now better but W
very doubtful whether she can be prevailed upon 10 go at
all The grandmother is very old, ana supect 10 lheu"
tisn from which she is always suffering Besides you
are aware ladies have never Travelled out OF e
country and the very mention OF the journey would NIL
,he,n win the greatest alarm The ladies could not be
compeed to co. even if went the length OF forcing
the NZam.
This was enough to make even a Drawer
Resident waver, but his hesitation was only
momentary. His devotion to the interests OF
the Crown nerved him to the bold proposal
that he would manage the mother himself, but
4I,.o nI,no rlpum1t
he said substantially, in the rich imagery of the
East. 81 pass" Sir Salar made the wise re-
mark "that these ladies may not be dealt with
$50 easily as Mr. Saunders imagines," and re-
minded him that the risks to the health OF his
Highness would be increased if he were not
accompanied by his mother. AT the same time
he SAYS that if all his explanations are un-
ayailing and the YicerOy still persists in his
demands, "then his Highness must go to Bonn
ebay under any circumstances and at all
"hazards.r But the Viceroy is evidently un-
willing to monopolize the responsibility of ex-
posing the crooked legs of the little Nizam to
competition with the shapely limbs OF Albert
Edward. Sir Salar must do IL, and be held
solely responsible whether he does 1t or not.
Further, Mr.. Saunders who must have made
an uncommonly peppery and unexpected cor
RESPONDENT, threatened to see what could be
done with the Nizam's relatives, and gave
a further twist to this diplomatic dislO-
cation by refusing to credit the state
mcnts of the Nizam's doctors. TO this
the response was that no doctor not familiar
with his Highness's habit of body could form
any trustworthy opinion; that the royal con-
stitution was too complicated to be under
stood on the instant by chance visitor.
Finally. however, the young Princes champion
consented to a visitation by a physician on
behalf of the VicerOy, whereupOn the Resi-
dent having gained his point, refused, after
the manner of all diplomats and politicians, to
carry it any further, on the ground that
Sir Salar had already said that he would
place no reliance on the opinion of
any such doctor. This advantage was soon
succeeded by another, in that this system of
official badgering seems at last to have ex-
torted promise that the Nizam, with all his
crooked bones, feyers, catarrhs, and sore
throats. should be at Bombay to meet his
royal brother of England. At this point this
phenomenal correspondence ceased, the sub
icct and Mr.. Saunders being Simultaneously
exhausted.
But this great diplomatic victory was 4 fruit
less one. Somehow or other it at last pcne-
trated the official skull that the Nizam was
actually not in condition to make the journey.
SO when week ago the future King entered
the great city of Bombay, and was greeted
with the shouts OF twice hundred thousand
of his dusky subjects, nowhere among them or
in the brilliant group of nearly a hundred
princes and chiefs was the bow-legsed baby
of Hyderabad 1t may well be that his alb
sence created some measiness in the bosom of
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