New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-06-22
MINISTER MORTON'S GUESTS
WITH MENTION OF SOME PERSONS WHO
WERE NOT AT THE PARTY.

| "A few DAYS ago had n conversation with Mr..
Brulatour the Secretary Of United states legation
IN the course Of which he volunteered to give me
some information about the entertainment there 70
which the Orleanlst Pretender was invited. he
invitation sen5 20 the COmt3 de Pci3 was an after
thought and sent 20 late that it was r3pEel 10 by
telegraph. On arriving ~ the Legation the Comts
dc Paris rushed mp stairs to the drawIn2-room floor
and entered unannounced. / asked Mr.. BruatOur
if ight be favored with further account Of tho
matter from the lips Of his chief. He answered
that he was sure Mr. Morton would be deli ghted 10
give IT,
Mr. Morton when saw him. expressed astonish
ment al the irritation shown by the CHIEF organs OF
the Republican party in noticing the dinner and
post pTanda dance given at his house IN return tor
hospitality shown to hun aud his wife and IN COM
plneut 10 some Americans. La RepHJiigVe Francdise
La ,tice AMI lie Hd0pei betrayed positive soreness.
Mr. Norton was unable to understand IN what he
had gwen offence. / ventured % intimate that tho
cause of anger was to be found IN a list OF the
gre.t published n he FJqr0 alt L. Gali0i,
| then learned from mm that the Due and Duchesse
Decazes were not no the dinner. Spanish Prov
erb says Tell me with whom thou dinc,t and
will tell thee what thou art
Who Is the Duc ,cazcsf yOu may ask. All his
life he has been mp to Ms throat IN shay finance
and Bourse a iaWs | 4houd hesitate less to giye
a certificate Of clcan-handedncss 10 no matter
what Tammany Ring wir.-pIller than b this prop
Of the throne and altar He was more than a
sleeping partner IN the Huelya mIle affair, and
was director Of TUnon G6ntrale when us shares
were last diluted. The crash Of that affair
would have ruined him If Justice governed human
affairs. His father was a GJscon lawyer, and had
no more claim TO Observation-Disclosures than any NJ.
Dubois or W. Dupont But h was quick, pushing.
O. 1 To = hot
reaction was setting in against Napoleon. he threw
himself on the Bourbon side the moment he could
pronounce for them with ~ fety. lie got IN with
Louis XVIII soon after the RestOrdtOn.a aud was to
him Councillor Silver Tongue That King gave
him ducal patent Of nobility, and
made him a Peer of France with pen
SION, and later he was named Grand
Referendary, or House Steward to the Upper
Chamber lie left his son, the present Duke,
wine estate and chateau in the DOrlogne, near
Libourne His grace, the present Duke, before he
rose to that rank was Prince Of Gluc@sburg,-an
empty, brand-new and wholly unhonored TITLE
and was accused of having secret service pension
Of . OOOf from Napoleon III. BE this it may.
he used then to make pHgrmages to Twckenham
and CIaremont where the different members Of the
Orleans family resided in England A. his family
owed all TO the Elder Branch 1t would have been
more honorable to 20 to Frohsdort 80 much for
the Due Decazes.
The Duche5se Of that Tx is superficial and
frivolous Vicnnese Hebrew, but in money affairs
she has the sharpness Of her race Her mother
would be match for the " cutest' Spectator in
Wall Street The Duke wanted 70 retire from
office when he saw what punge- MlcMahon was
making. But the Two ladies' combined to prevent
him. because his capacity to screw the Bourse nd
or down, and to protect the Union Cen
arla.N ia
STAYING at the Ministry Of Foreign Affairs.
This heuchman of the Comte lie Paris
L, IN point of moral sentiment on about the same
level as an earthworu He has not his fathers in
telligence but has easy going kindness Of dispose
ton Ganbetta used to say after 1917 that he was
too unintellecual To be worth conriliatlng. His
wife has a talent for small political and financial
intrigue. Her best quality Is superficial amlabII'
Ity of manner.
You can understand from this what
bad effect the announcement that the
Decazes were with the Comte de Paris
at the United states Legation produced here. The
correspondent OF the Gazette de Cologne says that
they were invited but did not come because they
were at Libourne did not ask Mr. Morton or
Mr. Brulatour whether they had been asked or not
to the dinner From what they SAID infer that
they were not.
did not inquire whether the Due de Morny was
at the party. II he was, it was great shame
such foul mushroom should not he admitted to
dance with young American girls. He has not re-
pented of his behavior To Julia Feyghlne. | hear
that he means TO hook an American heircss, and
that for the sake Of being "une Duchcsse' she
does not ask better than to be hooked
Among the English guests there were the Earl and
Countess of Clarendon against whom nothing can
be said They We're very proper persons 20 be IN
yltcd 10 a dinner at the United States Legation.
The Countess i, very pretty. She is a daughter Of
Lord NOrmautOn. and a granddaughter of that
Lady Caroline Darlington who was governess to
the Queens younger children. The Earl IS not SO
hand some as his brother, the Hon. Colonel VillIers
the military attacht at the British Embassy. Ga-
dys. Countess Of Lon-dale, IS daughter Of the
amiahle Lord Herbert OF Lea. who waa
Secretary of War in 1853, and sat IN
the House of Commons Mr.. Sydney
Herbert He was a man of charming delicacy OF
sentiment very good. and IN some respects intel
lcctual but was wanting IN mental strength He
WAS a rtualist In, widow became a Roman
into the fold of the true church. MOnslgnor
{ APPEL was her GamalIel. But he having suffered
the Earl of Pembroke lher eldest SON aud Lady
LousdaIe 20 marry ProeStants. the Jesuit influence
has been directed against him to detach the ami
able dowagcr from HIM. Gladys, Coun-
ssss& Ht fcS SpSa She "i cas.ed as S
beauty and Is 10 be married ~ grand
son of the Luke White who was early IN NlctOr.a's
r. gn "A candidate against Anthony LEROY at the
Lon f0rd elections IN Ireland. The Whites were
original persons no when tins country was young
went about Ireland gathering rags and bones.
They became OConnelIJe'. which did not prevent
Disrael giving them a helping hand. There IL now
a peeragc IN their family and one OF them Is to be
the husband or the far Countess Gladys who has
an annuity from the I.Onsdale estates of $1,000
wear. Luke " hite and his brother Mark had supple
manners, and though paryenus were very
gcntIemanly. The present generation are Hebrews,
,russed with Irish The result of the crossing is
good Irshmen are chlvalrous and Hebrews are good
husbands. 1t Is therefore probable that Countess
Gladys Will be happier with mite of recent 0rigiu
han she was with Low Their whose pedigree IN.
,ludes PhllIppa Plantagenet, grandchld Of Id