Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-11-19
A STUART
Visiting this Country, Who Traces His
Descent from James III Through
ArabelIa Churchill.
A Long Line OF Gallant Soldiers Who
Have Served France Faith
fully and Well.

He was a royallst, and had ruined himself
in upholdiug the fortunes of Charles l, who
was dscapitated by the Puritans at White
hall in l649. The knights shrunken reve-
nues we're needed not only TO keep him in
boots and bread, but also TO provide his wife
with pin money and keep his son John In
decent clothes and bis daughter Arabella in
gowns and hose. During the years when OH
yer of Huntington kept things straight with
his long rapier the Churchills lay close and
lived lie mice vino grow lean In churches,
and poor old Sir Winston knew not what 1t
was to have new ribbons for carriers from
Miehselmss to Michaelmas. Then came the
restoration The understanding, merry
making, and promise-breaking Charles was
called back from his wanderiRgs IN France
and made king of England.
With him came his brother James, Duke
OF York, and when the kingiy court was
running full tile, the ducal court was set up,
as a M after OF course. Then the old Caval-
iers began TO perk up. They twisted their
Ioyelocks afresh, busted their rusty jerkins
and furnished up their rustier swords. They
swarmed 10 London to press their claims Tor
satisfaction and reinstallmenf, and among
them went Sir Winston, accom- panied by his
two children-John and Arabella. The
boy was by this time a handsome lad and
the girl lovely creature, full Of life and
country health.
The Duke OF York looked favorably upon
both youth and maiden, and took John as
his page and installed Arabella as maid OF
honor to the duchess OF singularly win
ming character, but little time passed before
the pretty attendant upon the duchess at
trscted more than, the dukes passing aiten-
ton, and q mutual sentiment of a tender
nature sprang into existence. The page also
rose in favor, and became inscourse of years
no less a parsonage than the great general,
John, Duke of NJ Marlborough. To James and
Arabella son was born on the 2lst of Au-
gust, 1870, who also grew 10 be great gen.
eral and a duke. He was always a great
favorite with his father, and when Charles
III died and james came TO the throne the
son was not forgotten. He was sent 10 fight
in Hungary under Charles of Lorraine, and
having torne himself bravely, was on his
return to England made Knight of the
Garter and created Duke of Berwick. When
his father was dethrened the son followed
him to France and took up his residence at
Saint Germain, where one of Louis XIV's
first acts was to sponge out the barsinister
from the young dukes escrutcheon ami make
him james Fitz-James and marshal of
France.
These marks of distinction were we'll re-
paid, and when, after serving with the
French In Flanders and moving in suudry
JscobInite plots, he was given command of
the French army in Spain, he signalized his
command by series of brave and daring
actions. He defeated the allies at Almanac
in 1907, took Barcelona in IVA, and was be-
headed by a cannon ball at the siege of Phil
llpsburg on the 18th OF June, 1874, but mol
until he had won for himself the reputation
OF a cool, audacious, and successful colder.
The Duke of Berwick was twice married,
hrst TO the daughter of the Earl of Clanri-
carde, by whom be had con whs settled in
Spain, and became the founder of the house
of the Duke d'Albe, and TO second wife by
whom he had three sons.
First, Francois, Due de Fiiz James, who
became bishop OF Scissors, and died in 1854;
second, Charles, who wa. soldier, and
fought gaIlauty in the Seven Years. War;
and third, Edward, Comte de Filz james,
also soldier, who was with his father when
killed al Phillipsburg, and who died in Co
Elogne IN 1858. The lay duke, Charles, died
in 1887 and left son Edouard, Due de Fitz-
James, who made his msrk on the field of
Rse,'e'. t"ifcre, "e-i----:-.-I---.-i--s i-1vf0se
made il on the field of battle. An ultra
royalist, he became an enligre in 1889, and
j1iued the army of Condo about 1892. Dur
ing the empire he lived in retirement but
with the reinstatement of the Bourbons rose
in power and was made peer of France
June, 1914. He wss one of the bttere5t
impeschers of Marshal Ney, and an oppo-
| nent OF the Liberal government of 1917.
To he revolution Of July. 1880, he submit
led, though with ill grace, and took his
revenge by helping The bland and I'M
fortunate Duchess of B ri. Shortly after
he resigned from the Chamber of Peers and
was named deputy from Toulouse gaining a
well-deseryed name as the chief orator OF
the LegitimIsis. On his death in 1888 his
son E1ouard, the present Due de Fitz-James,
succeeded to the title. His life has been
more retired than the stormy ones OF his
predecessors, and, after marrying the &C.
complisaed daughter of the Swedish minis
ter, he settled down on his estates. The liv-
ing issue of the marriage are two sons, the
Marquis de Fig James, who is serving in
| he French navy, and the cadet, Henri,
Com;e de Fig ] ames, who is at present
guest OF the. PALACE Hotel in this city. -
The ancestfy is a long one, but the inter-
es' attaching itself 10 the high progenitor,
and the fact that the great-great- grea grand
son of King james III of Eogland is in San
Francisco, il sufficient reason for giving it,
A representative of the Chronicle called upon
the descendant of the Stusrts last evening
and found him an unosentstious French no.
bleman OF singularly winning manners. In
the long and informal conversation which
t ,llowed the Introduction it was learned
that the count had spent the last three
months hunting in Wyoming and Dakota
Territories, the proof Of his skill as a hunter
being exhibited in buffalo skins, bears paws,
CdStcS tolUuo anu tue eC1Tc Vi OlucT DcllS,
horns and heads that make up VIII at is known
as 1lhe trophies OF the chaseo
On the political and social affairs of his
own country he claimed TO have only those
general views which a soldier-he is sous
lieutenant in the Second Regiment of Dra-
goons-cou have, but held the opinion tn at
general European war WAS inevitable,
sooner or later; thought the lawref obliga-
tory instruction meant an anti Jesuit rather
than an anti-clerical feeling; and considered
il would be a sorry day for France when d.
yorce should be legalized. Between the
freedom of the citizen in France and that of
the citizen in America he drew picture to
the infinite advantage of the American; as
an Intelligent observer, he saw enough to
warrant him in predicting an American
aristocracy; and, as practical soldier, he
was loud in his praise of the American cav
alrymep, whom he considered the type of
perfection in mounted police, and the very
ideal of what was wanted. The conversation
was carried on in English, which he speaks
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