Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1883-08-03
TITLES ON SALE.
ThcIEasc with which English Patents
orNObiIity arc Obtained.


The truth is, says the London World, that
1t is as easy TO buy patent Of nobility as an
old master, the pcerage, if anything, being
cheaper than the o. NJ, and most likely
much more genuine. The Pope has count
ships and dukedoms galore for good Catholics
willing to pay for them; and there is no
power on earth to prevent a potentate who
arrogates the Presidency of the European
royal family and has never recognised any
other lord iu Rome than himself, to refrain
from creating Dukes of Disaccia in the per-
son Of aspiring diplnmatists, or Counts OF
Coulongcs out of Partisan linen diapers.
There is a Yankee dentist in a certain city
who is marquis and knight, until the heads
of common people grow giddy at the sight
of his signature in full, and most of us know
that the modern Due de 10 Rochefoucauld is
the invention of Roman chancellor.
Leo XIII. has, in addition, five orders Of
chivalry at his disposal, and, leaving out of
account the facility with which the stars and
crosses OF Reuss, Roumania, Serva,
Montenegro, Liberia, Honduras, Tunis,
San Marino--a republic which also creates
dukes OF Observation-Disclosures, and so
FORTH can be obtained the ex-sovereign of
the two Sicilies has six orders for those who
make it worth his while to part with them.
| Hanover has three, less sparingly
distributed Electoral liesse, three the ex'
empire of Mexico three; still occasionally
sold in the Empress name; Modena, one
Nassau, two; Paraguay, ono Parma, two
and the Grand Duke of Tuscany has no less
than three orders, gorgeous to look on aud
extremely easy to get. Then if all other
fountains cf honor run dry, there is always
the notorious cross of SIS. Laurice and
L9Zare, which, and cigar, Victor Emanuel
declared were the only two things he refused
to no man. And we understand, that in spite
of Giusti having ridiculed it to all eternity,
this triukct is still occasionally asked for.
1t must also be remembered that every one
of these ey-sovcreigns has the right, of which
he cannot be stripped, to create any one a
count or baron, and that they constantly
exercise the right. Actually, they regard il
as compliment to their royal lrerogatlvt
and a recognition of their kingly state to bt
asked for cross or n brcvet of nobility
This fact is wcll-knOwn TO their entOuTdge
and through them the Count OF Peckhau
Rye did his snug little business. Indeed, i
all tales are true the attendants of Georg,
ILL.,, during the days when the old man.
intellect was getting more befogged than
usual, drove roaring trade in sellin:
peerages and baronetcies. They made ou
Inc patents and got the king to sign them
when he would sign anything from deaf.
warrants to declarations of war. Sometime
he would start and cry, ''Eh, ch no piano !!
/ when he came to a familiar name of II make
OF musical instruments anxious tor titles an
willing to pay large commission /
the agent. But as rule he was very sub
missive, and hence it is that some very quee
J mobiles date from that period. We are purei
, In these days no courtier sells a barony or
baronetage, though many would be happy t
sell any number. But, if a brewer or a bake
G or n candlestickmaker is willing to spen
I, $50, 900, fl00, 900 or 1850 900 on elector,
i contests, the present writer would b
! interested in seeing the minister who woul
i dare to refuse him title. 1t requires, how
/ ever, small provocation for the sovereign
e who decreed Slulz, the tailor, baron, an
q another London artist of The same descril
tion a Portuguese Viscount, to exercise thel
] recognized functions, especially if the whee
: within the wheels are properly greaset
+ There is indeed, book published, entitle
I ''L'Art de sc Decorer," in which the my
terry is frankly explained, and the secret {
n gaining al. the cheaper orders and it'll
K taught for the sum of E5.