The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1875-02-04

Prince of Wales as her successor could be
legally impeached by this or any other
book is simply preposterous This whole
Fitzherbcrt story, moreover, Is, and has
been for years, fully understood on both
sides of the Atlantic, and has been made
the subject of many newspaper and mag
azine article as we'll as of more pretentious
works. The book might be suppressed,
but the scandal would remain and the legal
proofs II any there are, would be unaffect-
cd whether the destruction of this particu-
lar book was complete or not We now
know its contents, and know that 1t Is sub
stantially the same old story which has
been told for more than half century, but
Is this tie book That is now the question.
There are other scandals relative to the
royal family. Other books have been sup
pressed. We are not informed IN the adj
vertsement, If such it is, of the title of the
book, but are left to infer it from the date
and the names of publishers. At the time
of the thousand pounds offer, the editor of
the New York Times, himself a native of
England and protesting Familiarity with
the "bistory" of the royal family, thought
that the book related to the late King of
Hanover, and thus alludes to the scandal
"Whilc Duke of Cumberland he gained
credit for the commission of crimes of a
far deeper dye than any imputed to his
brothers, and when his valet was found
dead, from wounds, in room adjoining
his own, popular opinion did not hesitate
to impute the crime to his Royal IIighness,
and to suggest the most infamous causes
for its commission. The matter was, as
far as possible, hushed up, and never salts
factorily explained. What gave deeper
color TO the surmises against the Duke
were certain opinions expressed by an emf
nent medical authority to the effect that
the valet. could not, from the nature of the
wounds inflicted, have, as was pretended,
killed himself" Perhaps, it may turn cut
that this is the book, if any book was pub
lished upon the subject, as we are left to
infer. II there was any reward offered,
and any one is disposed to suppress by buy
ing up extant copies, we might get quite
an influx of gold into the country and re-
store specie payments at once, fthe adver-
tiser could only be persuaded that the
Fitzherbert book is the one he wants. The
King of Hanover scandal, il it brought us
anything. would bring us only paltry
thousand pounds, and what is that to the
constantly multiplying FIVE thousand dol
lars in gold that Mrs. Ftzhcrbert, or Mrs.
"Guelph" as the case or name may be,
| would bring us =? Isn't this much better
than imitation of paper currency, and about
as certain as the prospect of resumption
of specie payments ? But, seriously, was
any book wanted? Was any reward ac-
tualy offered in good faith ? No one
knows who, where or what the advertiser
is. There is nothing but Yankee guessing
that connects any member of the royal
family with this apparent offer of re-
ward. But we take il that however fishy
the gold prospect is to the young LOUIS
| vile lawyer, that the advertisement isn't
| so much of hoax after all. 1t looks like
a Yankee trick and the taking of a business
| advantage of the country's well-known
love of scandal. We may all have been
badly sold. but tie book, whichever it is,
| has been pretty well advertised, and the
next move will be for the advertiser to
reap golden harvest from reprint.