The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1892-06-24

sent to represent the French government
MS minister plenipotentiary at Washing
tan. The liplon whom no European
tourt would rec AID whom jury OF
lis countrymen Lad practically declared
lily of criminal odenscs, and who was
hot considered honorable or moral enough
even for Tuuis, was regarded as sufficiently
good for the United States This occurred
len yea IS ago, and now that his disgrace
las been practically forgotten and per-
laitted to lapse into oblivion he has at
length obtained promotion in the shape of
the French mission at Madrid.
His successor, NJ. Patenotre, was French
mister in Morocco before being appointed
- Washington. Indeed, quite a number
the foreign governments appear to re-
Gard mission to some half civilized state
of the Orient as the most fitting and suit
able preparation for a term of service at
Washington. The present German minister
was stationed in Japan before coming
here His predecessor Count Arco, was
consul general in Cairo at the time when
he received his appointment as envoy to
the United States while his predecessor
again, Baron Eisendecker, was promoted
| to America from Japan. The newly ap-
pointed secretary of the German legation,
! Baron Kelteler, received his diplomatic
training at Peking
The mention of Count Arco, who died
few months ago, recalls to my mind the
fact, too, that foreign governments do not
accord to the domestic relations of their
ENJOYS to the United States the same
scrutiny and strictness that they are &C.
customed to manifest when they nominate
ministers to European courts. Thus the
Emperor of Germany would never have
dared to accredit to any government of the
Old World, save possibly to that of Switzer-
land, an envoy such as Count Arco, whose
undivorced wife was that fourth rate &C
tress Janisch. 1t was only by the payment
of heavy sum that the count was able to
induce her to abandon her intention of full
Cling a transforming professional tour
through the United States while he was
representing the German government at
Wash lgton.
Lord Sackville had the audacity to in
stall his entire illegitimate family at the
British legation at Washington, and to
foist them up, bon gre NAL gre, upon society
there. The girls were nice enough, it is
true, and the unfortunate circumstances
of their birth would have excited nothing
but sympathy and kindly consideration
udu EOU lLOFu CdChNllle peTSlSUeu Ill having
his eldest daughter assume the role of
British embassadress and feminine charge
of the legation. Lord Sackville had never
dared to produce the girls in public either
at Madrid or at Paris, where he was sta
toned before coming here. At Washing
ton, however, he considered that he could
afford to defy les convenances.
Poor old Baron Schaeffer, who represent
a6 Am vi . Sa1ro,o1 o+
ton and who died the other day, was
only promoted from his extremely desir-
able post of consul general in London
which he had held for the space of two de-
cades, in order to prevent him from
fulfilling his intention of marrying
woman with whom he had long main
tanned questionable relations. One of his |
predecessors, Baron Won Schwarz-Senborn, |
was of plebeian origin, while the baroness, |
who accompanied him to this country, not
that there was nothing to be
said against her character, was of alto
gether too obscure birth to admit of her
ever being presented to the imperial fam
ly at Vienna Although the doors of
court and of society were closed against
ler in her own country, yet she was held
TO be quite good enough to figure as Aus
trian embassadress, or rather MINISTRIES
at w aSnlnSUOn.
Another foreign envoy representing a
great power even went so far as to bring
back to the United States as his wife and
to introduce her as embassadress wom-
an with whom when previously at Wash
ington as secretary of legation he had
openly lived as his mistress
Young Count Grenneville, who spent
some years here as secretary of the Aus
trian legation and as charge 'affaires, had
been sent across the Atlantic in order to
allow time for a scandal to subside in
which his name was associated with that
of Valerie Wiedmann, the prosecutrix in
the numerous lawsuits against Captain
Walpole, son-in-law of Mr.. Corbin, the
railroad magnate
Both Prince Camporeale, former secre-
tary of the Italian mission, and the late
Rustem Bey, of the Ottoman legation,
were admittedly appointed to Washington
in order to keep them away from home,
where they had misbehaved themselves to |
such an extent as to render prolonged |
absence polite Innumerable other cases
of a similar character might be cited in Or
der to prove the truth of my assertion that
the status, the record and the past and |
present behavior of the average representa-
tives accredited by foreign governments to
the United States are such as to confirm
the reputation that Washington enjoys in
official life abroad of being the Botany Bay |
of diplomacy. A FOREIGN DIPLOMAT.