New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-12-09
FRANCE, SPAIN AND GERMANY.
BISMARCK AND THE VISIT OF THE CROWN
PRINCE.

tfhV' 'i PARIS, November 10.
The Snanish tour of the Crown Prince of uer-
many is REGARDED with interest by all Europe ana
with painful interest by France, by the small
nor,beru Kingdoms and by Russia. III
"a cause of annoyance to the Spanish
Cabinet, which protests that 1t IS ehtire-
" n court affair. In Spain the conservatives
alone rejoice at this event. They cry, great Is
King Alfonsoi since the Crown Prince OF Uer-
many thinks il worth his while to go IN state 10
nav His Majesty visit" At Barcelona preparations
were made TO get up Republican and French mani
festation. which was to have taken place in front
of the Consulate of France his Imperial Highness
xxas landing II is for this reason that his Imperial
Ughpess is not to discmbark at the manufacturing
and maritime city of Catalonia but at Valencia
The pretext is that he wishes his hrst view OF the
Iberian Peninsula to be a delightful one. valencia
is the great orange garden of Spain, and IN NoVem
her is perfumed and blooming. AT Madrid inc
Court will strain its pecuniary resources 10 sno"
itself royaly hospitabo. The Ministry has reiuSeo
TO supply funds whcrewith to entertain Inc iu'uio
German Emperor. But what is to prevent
the Kings borrowing money from vulgar HEBREW
sneculator and paving him with Dukes cOrohet
Sucb an expedient was often rcsorted TO oy ms
mother If the visit of the Crown Prince ln-
creases the prestige Of Alfonso the foseua cii"'"
Cabinet will not long remain in ONCE but thero
seems probability that it will not strengthen inc
AlfoDsist dynasty.
Tn making 50 much of the Crown Prince. the
Court appears to seek shelter under Bismarck
wing against the Spanish people 1t Is not poSSiple
In serve any national interest by entering INTO
an alliance against France with Germany. Inc
peoeraph cal limits of Spain unless on the side OF
Portugal are sharply defined. NO POWER
wants to encroach on them. The portuguese arc
attached to their autonomy and are not aggressive
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Africa between Italy and Spain. but
# would be impossible for a Spanish yiceroy
10 govern Algeria for any length Of time. General
Iopez Dominguez has just brought cut a pamphlet
in which he recommends the Government To try 10
obtain by diplomatic means the retroceSSioh VI tne
fat ground which enoircles Gibraltar on the
land side from England. This opuscule was
written since the author became War Minister. IL
NAV be that the Crown Prince has onered MING
Alfonso to strengthen his position by pleading MS
cause in England, and getting that Power with lhe
assistance of Germany and Spain, to fit
from the headand fortress commanding the
Straits of Gibraltar to Morocco. General
Iopez Dominguez thinks that Great Britain wouid
consult her own interests i'll removing her garrison
TO the southern side of the Straits who're there arc
admirable military positions and wherfth climate
is remarkably fine.
Germans who are in close relations with their
Embassy here have spoken before me of the prob
ability that Germany, in the event OF another suc
cessful war carried ON by her against france
might offer to annex the antique and oD-
solete Kingdom of Navarro to Spain. Ihis
might have been done 800 years ago, before the
influence of the French metropolis had penetrated
totbe towns along the Adour The Departments OF
the Upper and Lower Pyrenees are essentially
French What more thorough Frenchmen ever
lived than the late FRANCOIS Arago the astronomer,
and his brother Etienne Lekain, who organized
pnblic instruction under the Convention, was
Navarrois. So was Bernadotte, who was raised
from the rank of Marshal, on the recommendation
of the First Napoleon to be King of Sweden. The
Inhabitants of the Pyrenean valleys;
none of which are fortified wouiu
have the advantage over Spanish soldiers
attempting TO hold them against discontinued
population. Spain is nearly as isolated as Great
Britain from the Continent of Europe. Morally
speaking she is much more insular. Ignorant as
they are tho Spanish people understand this, anu
they wish their Government to have no foreign
policy beyond ore of general friendilnoss TO all
neighbors great and small and of non-nteryentlon
IN their quarrels
The first time Bismarck pulled Spanish wires was
in the two wears that preceded Sadowa. He then
worked for the Due de Montpenser, who, lie calcu-
lated were he King of Spain and France engaged IN
a war with Germany, would be thorn IN the En-
perors side. About three weeks before Queen Isa-
bella was overthrOwn the German Ambassador here
told Inc exactly what was about to happen In SPAN
and with the air of who was no mere idle specta
Tor When il was found that nothing could be done
with Montpensier who after helping to upset the
Oueen had not the audacity to profit by her down
fall. the Hohenzollern canddature was started. 1t
admirably served the political aims Of the German
Chancellor On the resignation of Amadeo, Bis
marck saw that there was something 10 be done
with Isabella and Alfonso if he took them by the
hands. Their affairs seemed in bad way. The
Oueen.mother had utterly lost caste But when the
German Embassy made much OF her, the Orleans
Princes and PrinceSses followed suit. The Queen
mother in pursuance OF suggestion made at Der
lin sent Alfonso to a military school at Vienna
Connt Andrassy. who was favorable TO an alliance
of the Central Powers of Europe was Chancellor Of
the Austro-Hungarian Empire and was to have
favored a match which Queen Isabella desired be
tween her sou and his present wife Bnt on his re
turn to Paris to visit his mother and sisters he lei
suddenly and violently in love with the youngest
daughter of the Due de Montpensier. II she hac
not died soon after her marriage Bismarck would,
daresay have man9uvred to pull down the throne
which he had helped to restore. Alfonso since h'
union with Christina. has entered the German orbit
He could not his situation being what 1t was
have done otherwise. The Queen and her inne
household were German. and Pava and other gener
ais who are accused of receiving pensions from th
Hanoyerian fund insisted upon Count Vega d'
Armijos being named Secretary of State for Foregi
Affairs. This nobleman hates France but why
have not heard.
Bismarck Is incontestably the prince of modern
dplomatsts He knew how to twist the Empero
Napoleon round his fingers, and he knows how Il
profit by the inexperence of Alfonso. MaTgare
Bellanger the Empress Eugene, tho Princess Met
ternich (who was and still is his enemy, were operat
ed upon like so many puppets After he had torn
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