The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1881-04-29
The LECTURE.

W ulAC INC duu1OhCS pACoCliJ dJ Iut
/ Theatre last night, when Mr.. Arehi
It bald Forces, the great war CORES
It pondent, gave his lecture "Royal
5 People 1 Have Met" was not
S large, it was select and CON-
posed of an appreciative class.
u Mr.. Forbes labored under such
difficulties that it was feared
he would be compelled to break his
engagement. He has been and is
Z troubled with a fever, has a severe
! cold, which was very evident last
I night, and one of his limbs is so
much swollen with rheumatism,
that he can hardly walk, and was
compelled to deliver his lecture
sitting. He was introduced to the
audience in a few well-timed re-
marks. when the lecture began.
In a few curt Introductory SEN
fences Mr.. Forbes cleared his
ground, carried. so to speak, the
outlying entertainments of his sub
Ject, and gave the rdiSO7l d'etre for
his lecture. During the past ten
years, said he, in matter-of-fact
tone, as if he were telling how many
dishes there were in his yesterdays
dinner, it has fallen to my lot to
make seven distinct campaigns five
in Europe, one in Asia and one in |
Africa. Then he continued that it
had been his fortune during hose |
strangely varied experiences obave
had personal cOgniZance Of many |
| royal perSonageS at mOmentous and |
| critical epochs in their lives, and |
| that there could surely be no snOb-
berry III telling of those supreme
| moments in the lives of those who
loom Large in the contemporary
| history of the Old World. The At
lantic. he said, is not so broad that
it can part off the vast and intelli-
gent populations on this side of it
from keen interest in the inner
life of great events on the other
side. He told first of the gallant old
soldier monarch who still rules over
that Germany which his own patri-
otic common sense and the genius
OF his great minister have united
under one flag. He sketched the old
man with the hale complexion and
the white WhiskerS in a succession
of mOmentOus situations. Now
Wilhelm was standing as his army
marched past him in French vii
lage with his staff by him. Moltke-l
gaunt, thin, wrinkled, and spec h
tacleG, and Bismarck, with determi- [
nation stamped on every lineament {
of the strong massive face-force E
betraying itself in bearing, attitude II
and gesture. Now the fell din of !
tho final or Of
raging around him, as he sat in the {
darkness lit up by CONGREGATIONS, n
awaiting with throbbing heart the a
result of the final assault of his +
reserves on the key of Bazaine's d
position at the Point du Jour. Now n
he WAS overlooking the carnage
around Sedan, with Sheridan and
Forsyth by his side, as the bearer of .
the flag of truce from the fated CITY !
was riding back to his discounted
and the German soldiers
were cheering at their triumph as
If they would rend the sky. Now,
the victory assured and the sur
render completed, Wilhelm was {
greeting the fallen Napoleon ON the Il
steps of the Chateau Bellevue-the =
former with face working with e
emotion, the latter with handker- Il
chief at his eyes. C
Mr.. Forbes, audience gazed with
absorbed interest at the picture he \
1rew of Prince Frederick Charles
presiding over the council of war
IN horseback on the morning of
and ON the sketch of -
hat mOmentouS incident of which b
he was the only civilian spectator, +
he surrender of Napoleon to Prince n
Bismarck on the day after the bat
lie of Sedan. From the reeking
ieldS of Sedan he carried his audi
,nce, to the Calcutta ghaut, where Ill
lad gathered the native royalty of
queen NictOria'S Indian Empire to
Welcome that SOvereign'S son and
leir. OF these dignita les ne told E
low their leading features were =
salaams," pungent Odour as of l.
spices. extraordinary wealth of
ewelry, and curious mixture of 81
and magnifcence.
From India the lecturer crossed
10 Spain. whose present monarch,
young King Alfonso, he accom-
panied when the ex-cadet of Sand
hurst went out to take up the king 81
lom that the collapse Of Castelar's Sc
-epublic so suddenly opened up for
lis &C eptance. The plot, he said,
was matured in very prosan
)lace"-a hotel in Brook street, 90
LondOn-and when the party at u u
ength set out it might have been q
set down as "a handful of simple ~
,ourists, rather than as a prince,
On his way to take up his king
ION.
The most humorous portion of
Mr.. Forbes lecture was the quaint
of the progress through 9;
tut England of that ''gaudiest fraud 81
If all this century of gaudy frauds" a.
he Shah of Persia. No part of the %
ecture was more absOrbingly in oS
ereSting than that which recounted
he occasion of Mr.. Forbes inter-
course with the great White Car, fo
Turing the course OF the Russo Al
Turkish war. in which the lecturer il
10 enhanced his reputation for enter "
rise and accuracy. He told how, Ill
having in headlong ride from the al
Shipka Pass fighting, outstripped al
I'll the Russian cOurlers, Ignatieff Il
net him as he rode into the imperial
camp on his way back
o the telegraph wire at Bucharest,
md having learned the character of
lis news, insisted that he should
larrate it to the emperor. Mr.. q
Forbes was in a state of personal 90
qualOr, which he amusingly de- ct
cribed. He had not, he said, been II,
Exactly brought up among emperors, p
tut he knew that a man ought to Pi
wait on an emperor in his sunday
clothes, and he was reluctant to face
he great autocratB utIgnatieff insis-
ed, the emperor was awakened, and In.
Mr.. Forbes found him in the alcOve 70
If miserable Turkish house, gaunt, 81
worn and haggard, his voice broken %
~ nervousness, and by asthma. n
Mr.. Forbes drew for the emperor n
/ plan of the fight and the ground, ~
which caused the latter to remark ~ q,
hat he must have been soldier y.
either in the artillery or the en- r,
,ineers. No, said Mr.. Forbes, in the 80
Inc cavalry. The emperor replied V
hat he was not aware the British n
inc cayalryofficers were thus CONVEX q,
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