The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1881-05-26
FOREIGN TITLES.
Significance Of Titles. and the Men Who
Wear Them.

Significance Of Titles. and the Men Who
Wear Them.
COrnhn.
The highest order Of foreign nobility
is that of the mediatized princes of Ger
many. They represent houses which
once exercised sovereign power, and
are still accorded semi-regal hOnors.-
On this point, BritOns caring for these
things should beware Of suppOsing that
every foreign ''prince" is a highness.-
The vast number Of them are entitled
to no other recognition Of their rank
than prince or mon prince" and
this need not be repeated more than
once in the conversation One says
advisably the vast number, for Russian
princes alone can be counted by thOus-
ands, not to say tens Of Thousands
There are said to be six hundred Of the
house Of Galitzin alone.
Scarcely inferior in dignity to the me-
diatized princes are the members Of
those cOmital houses the chiefs Of which
by a decision Of the German diet Of
1929, have right to the title of ''MOst
ulustriOus Count (Erlaucht). They
are all cOunts-father. son, grandson,
great-grandsOn, they and all their male
descendants Rd infinitUm.
The serene and illustriOus compose
q mighty host occupying one hundred
and tWenty-seYen closely printed pages
of the Almanach de GOtha. Next to
them in universally recognized rank
are those princes Of the holy Russian
empire (all the sovereign and media
tized princes Of Germany are princes Of
the empire; the emperOrs Of Germany
having been also employers Of the RO-
mans) whose titles were honorary from
the first. Three English peers, the
dukes of Marlborough and Leeds and
Earl COWper, are princes Of the empire.
1t may be added that the earl of Den
high and Lord Arundel Of WardOur
are counts Of the empire. Lord Den
bigh claims to come Of the same stock
as the emperor Of Austria; but the best
title Of his family to fame is that it pro-
duced the author Of tom Jones'"
Amongst other British subjects enjoy
ing foreign titles are the Duke Of Ham
iltOn, who is Duke Of Chatelherault in
France; the Duke Of Wellington, who
is Prince Of Waterloo in the Neither
lands, and Duke Of YittOria and grandee
of the first class in Spain; Earl Nelson,
who is Duke Of BrOnte in Italy; the
Earl Of Clancarty, Marquis of Hensken
in the Netherlands; Sir Nathaniel
Rothschild, an Austrian baron; Mr..
Albert Grant, an Italian baron; and
Sir Edward Thornton, Count Of Cassil-
has in Portugal. This last title may be
called semi-hereditary, having been
granted to Sir Edwards father for
three lives and no more. Sir Edwards
is the second life.
The title Of marquis carries more pres
tige with it nowadays in France than
that of the duke; and for this reason: 1
The empire made no marquises, ergo,
3 marquis (unless the son Of an impe-
rialist duke) must derive his title from
the old dynasty; and it is unquestiona-
bly, more honorable to have been emo
bled BY the POmpadour than by NapO-
leon. The first emperor created some
thirty dukes and princes, all more or /
less men Of talent, but none of their /
sons or grandsens appear to have done
anything. Nor is this because they
were frOWned upon by the monarchy.
On the contrary, everything was done |
by the BOurbOns to COnciliats the mar /
shals. SOUlt was president Of the cOun- |
Gil to Louis Philippe, and ultimately |
glOried in the magnificent title Of mar 1
shal general of the armies Of France.
His son, the marquis of Dalmatia, was 1
named secretary Of legation at Vienna, /
whence arose another unforeseen diff |
Guilty. The court Of Austria objected to /
receive a man whose title was taken |
from an Austrian province, though the |
matter was ultimately arranged. By /
the courtesy of nations a sovereign is |
allowed in one instance (and one only |
to confer 3 title taken from a locality /
in 4 brother soYereign's dOminiOns. A
soldier who has won a victory may be
ennObled by the name of the battle
field. Thus Austria would cheerfully /
accord their full hOnOrs to a prince of
Wagram or a duke of Magenta. The
same rule holds good in the case Of na-
val victories. Spain would have no
right to object to q ViscOunt Trafalgar
or Holland to an earl Of CamperdOWn.
AprOpOs Of Holland, it is not gener-
ally known that the old earls Of Holland
the English earls Of the house Of Rich
and the late Lords Holland (hOuse Of
FOX) derived their title from a district
Of Lincolnshire called Holland. HOl-
land was probably a common name
enough at one time, signifying hollow /
land or valley, though some say it
meant wooded land. The first English
title derived from a place outside Of
England was that Of ViscOUnt BarfeUr,
conferred together with the earldOm Of |
Oxford on Admiral Russell, the victor
If La Hogue. 1t was near Cape Bar
leur that the battle was won, but the |
French feet was followed up into the
lay Of La HOgue and terribly handled !
here. But there is another anglO-fOr-
ign title which has no such material q
'rigini yet against which no protest was
lVer raised.
A youthful Due d'Eughien whom his
elatiYes frequently tipped, laid by his
,Ocket money till he had amassed fifty
Ouis, when he took the purse to his
ather and proudly exhibited its con-
ents, expecting to be praised for his
habits. The prince Of Con-
lee emptied the purse and flung the
money out Of the window. ''Let that
70 = lesson to you, sir, he then said, q
urning to his son, ''tO think and act 4
more like q gentleman" Too many Of
be peers Of England descend from !
Merchants or lawyers to make it likely
hat one Of them should ever exhibit
1ch = reckless contempt for the stamp
q efigy Of the monarch.
There is a finer story, Of a Spanish
randee, where the sentiment Of
ObIesse Oblige and the HIGHEST com