The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1881-03-23
FOREIGN TITLES.
Significance Of Titles. and the Men Who
Wear Them.

The highest order on foreign nobility
IS that of the mediatized princes of Ger
many. They represent houses which
once exercised sovereign power, and
are still accorded semi-regaf 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
10 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
aiyisably she vast number, for Russian,
princes alone can be counted by thous-
Inds. not to say tens of Thousands
ifiere are said TO be six hundred of the
house of Galitzin alone.
Scarcely inferior in dignity to the me-
fiatizcd princes are the members of
those comital houses the chiefs of which
., u decision of the German diet of
1929. have right to the title of s.Most
lllnstrious Count (Erlaucht). They
are all counts-father. son, grandson,
descendants ad iniinitum.
The serene and illustrious compose
a mighty host occupying n hundred
eha t0thtl-oCttn ClQcCil DtlnltQ Dheto
of the Almanach de Gotha- Next TO
are those princes of the holy Russian
empire Gall the sovereign and media
iized princes of Germany arc princes of
The empire; the emperors of Germany
having been also employers of the Ro-
r.ans) whose titles were honorary from
The first. Three English peers, the
ttas Af MaplhAronnb ard I aa1u aud
sarl Cowper, are princes of the empire.
! may be added that the earl of Den
bisii and Lord Arundel of Wardour
Lish claims TO come of the same stock
rs 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 Vittoria and grandee
IT the first class in Spain; Earl Nelson,
Earl of Clancarty, Marquis of Hensken
N the Netherlands: Sir Nathaniel
!, ,thschild, an Austrian baron; Mr..
AtDtIl ofdnts AL ltlilstn DurOu, dui
Sir Edward Thornton, Count of Cassil-
AS in Portugal. This last title may be
called scmi-hereditaryy. having been
'raited to Sir Edwards father for
.ice lives and no more. Sir Edwards
- the second life.
The title of marquis carries more pres
Il { with it nowadays in France than
al Of the duke; and for this reason:
! e empire made no marquises, ergo,
.narquis (unless the son of an impe-
'.l,ist duke) must derive his title from
NJ old dynasty; and it is unquestiona-
y more honorable to have been emo
scd by the Pompadour than by Napo-
The first emperor created some
thirty dukes and princes, all more or
less men of talent, but none of their
son or grandsons 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 conciliato tho mar
shals. Soult was president of the coun-
Gil to Louis Philippe, and ultimately
gloried in the magnificent title of a
shall general of the armies Of France.
son, the marquis of Dalmatia, was
med secretary of legation at Vienna.
whence arose another unforeseen diff
Guilty. The court of Austria objected To
receive q man whose title was taken
from an Austrian province. though tina
matter was ultimately arranged. BY
the courtesy of nations n sovereign II
allowed in one instance (and one only
70 confer q title taken from q locality
IN a brother sovereign's dominions. A
soldier who has won y victory may be
snnobled by the name Of the battle
tield. Thus Austria would checrfully
sccord their full bono,s To a prince OF
wagram or q duke OF nagenta. The
.aine rule holds good IN tho case OF ma
raj victories. Spain would have no
light to object to a Viscount Trafalgar
,r Holland to an earl of Camperdown.
Apropos of Holland, it is not gener-
lily known that the old earls of Holland
the English earls of the house Of Rich
and the late Lords Holland (house of
Foxy derived their title from q district
IF Lincolnshire called Holland. Hol-
and was probably q common name
enough at one time, signifying hollow
and or valley, though some say it
| tile derived from a place outside of
IuSiailu WAS lila VI loCOuAb OllliOals
conferred together with the earldom of
Oxford on Admiral Russell, the victor
If Ia Hogue. 1t was near Cape Bar
1eur that the battle was won, but the
French fleet was followed up into the
Day of La Hogue and terribly handled
here. But there is another anglo-for-
eign title which has no such material
origin; yet against which no protest was
| sver raised.
Ayouttful Due d'Enghien whom his
relatives frequently tipped. laid by his
| pocket money till he had amassed fifty
louis, when he took the purse to his
father and proudly exhibited its con-
tents, expecting to be praised for his
economical habits. The prince Of Con-
dee emptied the purse and flung the
money out of ne window. LET that
be a lesson to you, SIR" he then said,
turning to his son, ito think and act
more like q gentleman" Too many OF
the peers Of England descend from
merchants Or lawyers to make it likely
that n of them should ever exhibit
such a reckless contempt for the stamp
ed elligy Of the monarch.
There is a finer story, of a Spanish
rrandee, where the sentiment of
noblesse oblige and the highest COM
mcrcial spirit Tin its true essence) are
happily blended. Some body formed
The duke of Ossuna's name. %appendins
it to n bill for 10000 ducats. On tho
bill being presented, the duke saw that
he signature was counterfeited, but
paid the money at once. The name Of
| .)ssuna was not to be |dishonored by a
rascal. 1t would be uncharitable TO ask
whether a second forged bill Of the same
mount would have been equally honor
ID. Non omHta possunus.
Talking Of the Spanish aristocracy.
/ may be observed that the titled part
# il is by no means so large as is sup.
| ,osed. The heads of noble families
.nmher about two thousand, and they