The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1877-02-14
A ROMANTIC INCIDENT.

A ROMANTIC INCIDENT.
How an Albanian Slave Girl Affected tho
Interests of Three Countries.
Birmingham (Eng.) Free Press.
The French Superintendent of Police
who, when crime was reported at his
bureau, asked, before knowing any of
the circumstances, "Who is the
woman - contributed an axiom to the
science of detection by the aid of
which other than criminal problems
might find a solution. At the present
moment all Europe is in a hub-bub Os-
tensibly arising from adherence on the
part of England to traditional senti-
ments touching the maintenance of
the Ottoman Empire, and adesire on
the part Of Russia to rearrange the
map of Southern Europe. The French
Police Minister to whom we have re-
ferred would not haue been satisfied
with such an explanation, but would
have asked, 'WhO is the woman o.
The diary of a French nobleman-the
proof.sheets of which were suppressed
by order of the late Emperor Napoleon
but which are shortly to be repro
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the Boulevard Sevastopol - enables
our Paris correspondent the answer
by saying, "A beautiful Albanian
slave.' The story, extracted from
the proof-sheets of the forthcoming
publication, is shortly this: When
the occupation Of Paris by the Allies
was at All end land the various crowned
heads and princes were departing to
their own dominions, certain import
ant dispatches of joint import were
sent from the Duke of Wellington and
the newly-installed. French govern
ment to the Sultan. The bearer of the
French dispatch was a young French
nobleman, the Vicomte de M, since
become celebrated as a supporter of
the Legitimist party in France, while
the Duke of Wellington;s dispatch
was intrusted to an attache OF the
English Embassy, who has since be-
come famous for his vigorous and un.
|deviating antagonism to Russia and
her policy in the East. While waiting
dispatches-as was then the CUSTOM
they came in contact with a num-
Der of strangers why by one
way or another had reached the
Bosphorus among whom was a rus
sian of distinguished presence and ap-
parantly inexhrustible pecuniary re.
sources. On several occasions the
young Englishman and the Russian had
found themselves in friendly rivalry;
but at reception at the Austrian Am
bassador's an alteration arose between
them which al enc moment, threaten
ed to have serious ending. The con.
versation turning upon the recent ev-
ents in Europe, the Russian tWitted
the young attache upon England's at
titude during the French revolution,
stating that the English Government
had looked coldly on while that con.
vulsion took place, aud only interfered
when their own interest were threat
ened. We commend the English Gov
eminent tor their wisdom. Bnt Mr..
llS-R -replied SO says the diary
THAT but for England's interference
and her victories on the Peninsula, Ma
poleon would then be holding his court
in Russia, instead of the allied severe.
igne being in Paris; and added, that
but for the perfdy of Russia, Bonaparte
would never have been in a position
to threaten England. The Russian re.
piled that the statement was false,
and the young Englishman had turned
in sudddn wrath and was about to
strike the man who had questioned his
word, when the latter, stepping back
to, avoid the blow, proclaimed himself
te be the CZaroWitZ. The Austrian Am
bassador, together with the other
gnests at once interferred, and the
Englishmrn, bowling to the Russian
Prince, and followed by his friend,
whose diary we quote from, left the
room. Thus the first breach was made
between the future Emperor of all the
Russians and the man who in after
years was to thwart that Emperor's
views and invoke the English sword
in defense of the turk. But such
quarrel, as the diary observes, would
have been forgotten in week had
nothing occurred to intensity the dis.
like on either side. 1t happened, how
ever, that a sale of slaves was to take
| place in the slave market of Constanti-
nOple, then an institution in full vigor,
and the two young sttaches from Paris
| attended it. Our correspondent gives
| the account of what took place almost
as the diary tells, save another language
eve passed, . says the Vicomte, ''from
the narrow street which we had ira.
versed through crowd most dense
who permitted itself maly remarks, to
us not complimentary, into an open
square in which the sale, culpable and
inhuman, though absorbing to our Gu
riosity, was to take place. Here there
were numerous groups of persons, male