The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1879-02-01
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SATURDAY. FEBRUARY !.
ROYAL Visitors to America.

IT not enough Of Princes, still not Z few OF
them have We had in the period OF well-nigh q
century since the Princess Louise's grandfather
and grand-unele came 70 America. William ",
the sailor King, came over here in 1882 o. G
MILDLY IN one Of Admiral Digby's men-oEwar.
Colonel Ogden, Of the First New Jersey req
ment, planned an expedition . capture HIM as Z
hostage, but it failed. His brother the Duke
OF Kent, Queen Victoria's father, passed through
Boston, # we mistake not, when, at the late date,
he came over 10 Join his regiment IN Canada,
and became Governor Of Nova Scotia aud COM
mander-in-chief, leaving his name on Prince Ed
Ward's Island, hitherto st. Johns. Thereafter
Tor many years we had a succession of French
Princes, ex-kings or ruler: 10 be. 10 1896 Louis
fhlllppe and his brothers, the Due de Montlcn-
sler and comte de BeaujolaIs, landed at Philadel-
phia, aud travelled extensively over the country,
to which they returned from Havana, whence
they had not been allowed to sail, though they
had intended visiting Spain to see their exiled
mother. In 1900 the Citizen King that was II be
sailed for England, where, after I848, he was to
lay his bones. BY the way, he provoked Q de-
Iightiul piece Of American French from a New
York gentleman who was presented at court, and
whom the old bourgeois King straight way re-
called as the son Of an American who had been
his lavish entertainer. " Does your father yet
liver asked the King. Pas encore, SIRE
stammered our compatriot. In 1903 Jerome
Bonaparte came to the United States to fall IN
love with and marry the belle of Baltimore, Miss
Betsey Patterson, who followed him to Europe in
1898, to provoke his brothers admirlng wrath
and be repudiated fI ,ne Princess of ~ utsem-
berg, with whom her husband obtained the
Wsstphalian throne. Another OF the Bonapartes,
joseph, ex-King of Naples and Spain, came here
after Warterloo. under the style Of Comte Suryil-
lead, MAKING a studenLs palace OF his home at
Bordentown, where he remained declining IN the
meanwhile the Mexican CROWN till 1882, when
the news of the illness of his nephew, the DUO de
Reicbstadt, recalled him to Europe. He came
back to America in 1887, which he finally quit
ted in 1889. His wife did not accompany him,
but their two daughters, the Princess Zenaide
and Charlotte did, and his household were after
wards Joined by his son-in-law, Charles Bona
part. Its most interesting member to New
Workers. was the son of his intendant, NJ. Mall
lard, we'll known for his success as a breeder of
horses, who married a sister of Mr.. Samuel
Ward. . Still another Bonapart who came over
was Lucien. Prince of Canine, the younger
brother, who went in I" for science, and while
farming i'm the West very greatly aided Wilson
he was bimself an accomplished ornithologist-
in bringing out his great book on American
ornithology. Two sons Of Murat came over here
after theiH fathers death and finally settled in
Florida. Napoleon, who was of a scientific turn
of mind, took much interest in American educa-
tional affaits, married a grand-neice OF Washing
toms and died at Tallahassee in lS47. Napoleon
Lucien Charles lived rather an expensiVe-to his
uncle, Joseph Bonaparte-life but married a
Scottish gov, rness, Miss Fraser, and went home
to France in p848, snoring SO damnably that not
a soul on the steamer could sleep, found his for
tune in the ascendant with that of his imperial
them Prince-President, and died last
summer, leaving FIVE children. One OF these is
the Princess Alma, Dutchess of Mouchy, who has
been entertaining the Prince and Princess OF
Wales. The Prsince-P President paid US q brief visit
in 1887, left some souvenirs of his presence in this
city, avenged himself on bis uncle Joseph, who
not to \ be at home, by hacking the av-
uncular fruit trees, with his little Ratchet, and
sailed shortly afterwards for Europe, where his
mother lay dying. In 1S42 came the Prince de
Joinville, who NOS long before had brought homo
.apoleon's ashes rom st. Helena to France. lie
in 1861 with his son, the Due de Pen
thievre, and his Inephews, the Due de Charities
md comte dc Parish. The first named entered our
naval service, white the Prince and his nephews
General McClellan's staff. Mean
while, in the earltF autumn of 1860, the Prince
IF Wales. travelling in the United States as Baron
had come cRver the border from Canada
70 be royalty enterta lined everywhere, and to be
specially the guest OF President Buchanan and
Miss Harriet Lane. d Shortly afterward Prince
Napoleon, accompanies by his amlable BRIDE, the
Princess Clotilde, PAID : United States and Canada
brief visit. Queen E,mma, of the Sandwich Is
ands, passed through the country from San
to New York, on her way to England,
n 1866, making C. yery z Thorough examination of
and educationaIl systems and institutions
Iuring her stay. The Duke of Edinburgh had
listed the Dominion twi,l Ice ere his arrival at Hal
fax on Monday last, his s1iiecond visit being but a
title while before the cor ming OF his brother, the
luke Of Cannaught. who served at Montreal in
5000 in the Rifle BriRa de, going to the front
gainst the Fenians at the F time of ONeills eva
ion and paying New Ycer1rk and Washington a
at the close of Januar:: :, 1870. On the 18th
f November, 1877, a~rrivee the Grand Duke AL
ivid in the memory of NewAl York. lie returned
q February, 1877, with hISdiis cousin, the Grand
luke Constantine. In NoveIumber, 1874, occur
ID the equally memorable VI ,isit of His Majesty
ing Kalakaua, of the HAY gaiian Islands, who
ad not long before succeOeded to hEGaffIfIf5T
.mOng Americas visitors in the Centennial year
ere Don. PeSTo III. and the Empress of Brazil,
30 Cached New York on the 18th of April.
hey were the last royalties received on the Con- {
excepting Don Carlos, the pretender to /
he Spanish throne, who followed them in July
nd the Russian Grand Dukes, up to the arrival {
t Halifax, n week ago, of the Duke of Edin- /
urgh, who heralded the approach of the Prin-
ess Louise, the first English Princess who had {
isited America. The near future it is thought, {
be even more prolific of royal visits than has I
cen the immediate past. Either Prince Leo 1
old and the Princess Beatrice, or the Duke of '
and the German bride he will take in
will, there is good reason to believe,
the Princess Louise's administration. The
Prince of Prussia's sailor-son has set out
q a voyage around the world and will certainly
,uch here the future Emperor of Austria,
rince Rudolph, may also be expected ere many
Ionths are over, and Napoleon ", if he should
ot find a wife in his European itinerary, is like
at no distant date to visit the shores that so
any French Princes have trodden during the
st three-quarters of a century, and which has
luck, by the way, to most of them
York World.
Leprosy in Canada.
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