New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-06-15
MINISTER AND PRETENDER.
HOW MIR. MORTON RECEIVED TILE CoMTE
DE PARIS.


to the disposition OF the 0rleanists to make arrows
out of every sort of wood To some extent the
American Minister has been the catspaw of the Due
Decazes and other INSCRIPTIONS men who upset NJ.
Theirs brought France 10 the verge of civil war;
ganized that huge swindle the Union Generale now
surround the COmte de Psrs and ready as
to set hie to all France in order to roast their
little eggs Mr. Merton has the social virtue of
great amenity. He likes 10 be civil he likes 10
obge and his wife-as what woman would not p
likes 20 be admired 60 shine in the world and 10
read nice things IN the journals about her parties
When he and she go to. Cannes each winter q
short visit, they fall in with Bourbons of all
branches, with rich ard with sickly idlerSOf real
and dubious nobility who all think that country
without a court is H. Q a spring without flowers.
want to set up again the Divine Right Monarchy,
aud to be permanent lords the hard working
partOf the world. do not want il TO be inferred that
these evil communications corrupt the good man
ners of Mr.. and Mrs Morton, whose house is the
home of all she domestic virtues. But they weaken
the fibre of Repubcanism and have been the cause
Of situation which Mr.. Morton not himself
aware Of until the Rtpubique Franchise apropos Of
a fete which the Orleansts boosted had been given
in honor of the COmte de Paris, warned him that
he could not show himself their friend without
giving umbrage to the French Government.
The United States Minister must have be2u thun-
derstruck at the note which appeared in the now.
Official organ. 1t was due 10 communications re-
ceived from Paris by heads Of Royalst committees
in the Provinces having somehow got round to
officials there whose business it is TO watch the
dOngs of OrIeanist conspiratoTs. Ii appears that
the COmte de Paris wants TO enter into open and in
innate relations with the representatives, here Of the
great m0narchies, and especially those of Russia,
Austria and Germany who hate the French Repub-
lie and all that expresses genuine Republication.
But these ambassadors and the chancellors who in
struct them shrank from doing anything which
might be contrary to diplomatic etiquette. 1t is not
held correct for a diplomatic agent to be IN close
social other relations with the avOwed enemies OF
the Government to which he is accred ted The
Comte de Paris and his friends made to under
stand this But it was suggested that if Mr. L.
P. Morton could By any means be brought to enter
tain the Comte de Paris and those Of his followers
who were most prominent in the 18th of May affair.
the other ambassadors would initiate him. lie was
not the French Government is quite satisfied aware
of this little plot. and as his experience as y
diplomatst extends very short space Of time.
they do not strongly resent his having let himself
be drawn into a course which might be fraught
with very dsagreeable consequences to the chief
men of this Republic. Had Germany. Austria and
Russia been allowed time to follow suit. in giving
Orleanist parties NJ. Jules Ferry would have been
obliged to hold his tongue and bite his lips, or TO
make tart circumstances which might expose him
to equally tart or perhaps deliberately impairment,
answers. He therefore. have been told. decided
upon prompt action without at all taking the mat
ter au trdgque OF making any sort of a diplomatic
fuss The non-friendly Courts are now warned that
their representatives here must stand aloof from Or
leans Princes and their partsans.
met yesterday quite by chance the person who
wrote the E6pubiquc Franchise note. He remarked
concerning the Americans who were present at the
reception at Mr.. MortOns that Mrs Mackay WAS
in clerical hands and that with her money enter
prises were being prepared against the Republic.
The other Americans official or married to
French cercalS, so long in the habit OF moving
in the curious kind of society which Is here termed
aristocratlc as TO have lost all republican feeling.
General Noyes, | was reminded. the moment the
10th of May conspiracy failed. broAe OFF all rela-
tions with the men who organized it aud whom he
had to receive when they in office.
| then said Why have you not, since you are so
angry at the Morton incident or at least since you
think you do not waste powder and shot in
ing angry about 1t. expel every Pretenderi Thas
would be logical aud it would be frank and manly.
The COmte de Paris is, you say, open Pretender.
Well take action against him SUCH But DOME
palter. Public opinion, except among those
wretched society people," would be entirely with
YOU Ii won't be with you if You are illogical
What you say of the little diplomatic conspiracy in
which the United States Minister was made a cats
paw would Justify your driving all the Royal and
Imperial pcrsonages clean out of France
" DO you imagine l again asked, the Comte do
Paris is really dangerous He IS as tmid rs hare.
and nobody belonging to him will risk a centimo in
carrying out plans to restore him.
"That IaImit," replied my nterlocutor: but they
will risk the money of the Duchess de Galliera and
some other rich and foolish women, who are in tho
hands Of Jesuit directors
swell, expel the Duchess Of Galliera, too. She is
an Italian You can therefore easily get rib of her.
The fortune which her husband left her had a
dalous origin. so much that her son, who is a
Of honor would not touchEt with tongs. IN
other country the expense Of trying to build up
throne for the Comte and COmtesse de Paris would
be very much heavier than IN Paris. If she did not
soon get tired of the game, her money would speed
lily run out"
People think of the article in the RepGbtiqne Fran
edise that, in the first place, it was awkwardIy
worded and on inaccurate information. AT a nom
select" party III an American drawing-rOOm any
more than at select" one, toasts are not pro-
posed noisy" Ii the Orleansts have made a
noise you may be ure it not at the United
States Legation, where the modes of fashionable
society observed. lt would have been better Tor
the Government to let Mr. Morton alone and make
q clean sweep of the d'Oreans. The old woman.
for instance of whom i buy my journals. called
the Government, in speaking of the incident, Z" q
parcel OF drenched hens lpoaLs mOuilitesl.
The COmte de Paris has good pretext for stick
ing to influential Americans. lie went Ito make
political capital for himself in Francel TO serve in
the United States Army at the opening of the Civil
War. As he is very rich and nearly allied by blood
and marriage to many Royal families. his claims to
American gratitude readily allowed The gang
behind him strove TO fasten him on to the Prince Of
Wales when the Duke of Albany died at Cannes
and to get him invited to Windsor to the funeral IN
order to put hun forward there a sem-regal per-