Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1892-07-01

An Irish gentleman with a French title
is the legitimate successor to these harm
less and now almost forgotten New York
cranks. He is at present in America for
the purpose of furthering the interests Of
the English royal house of Stuart His
home is Castle Morris, near Ballybeggin,
Kerry county; his name is Melville Henry
Douglas Brace, he is travelling as the
Marquis de Ruvigny," and he holds the
position of registrar of the Legitimist
Jacobite league" The object of this
league, as the marquis told a reporter of
the New York Sun, is to restore a Stuart
to the throne of Great Britain.
I'VE are acting" he said, Sin perfectly
constitutional manner, and are putting up
candidates for parliament who will pledge
themselves to work for the repeal of acts
which at present stand in the way of the
attainment of our object. We must Sc
cure the repeal of the act of settlement
which placed the succession in :he descend
ants of the Electress Sophia, the act which
gave us the present Hanoverian reigning
house, with its impedimenta of poor and
petty princes TO he kept at public expense
"Our representatives, are expected to re
peal the act of union. We are Home Rulers
at least | am-and believe in separate
government for England, Ireland and
Scotland, parliament in Dublin and Ed
inburgh AS well as III London, and an i'm
perial parliament over all. Dublin would
then become capital city, business would
be revived there and landlords would cease
to be absentees. Their interests would de-
mand their presence in Ireland as they
now demand it in London, and in conse-
quence Ireland would benefit.
'Then the remaining religious disabili-
ties imposed by former acts of parliament
must be removed and the king might be
of any religious belief. The Legitimist
Jacobite league believes in religious toler-
alton and is not Roman Catholic organi-
cation, as might be supposed. | am Prot
estant, and so is Rev. r. c. Fillingham,
vicar of HeXton, chairman of our central
executive committee. So are many other
leading members of the league. We desire
simply to place the legitimate heir on the
throne, and she is the Duchess Mary OF
Modena and archduchess of Austria-E Este
the wife Of Prince Louis of Bavaria. She
is "A direct descendant of Charles through
Lady Henrietta, an elder daughter"
The duchess was born in 1919, and is the
mother of four SONS and seven daughters
her eldest child being Prince Rupert, now
q
rainbow chaser it would seem that the
task that Mr. Bruce, of Castle Morris, has
undertaken is rs impossible of achieve
ment AS would be an endeavor to wipe out
the amendments TO the United States con
stitution adopted since the civil war We,
this enthusiastic young Irishman is only
one among the idealists and dreamers who
swarm the world. A noble, who is careful
not to reside in Russia, asserts that he i,
the rightful car and that the present oc
cupant of the throne is usurper.
The Carlists still wait an opportunity t.
| place their leader on the throne of Spain
and the Bonapartsts yet dream of the day
when the eagles shall again head victori
Gus columns and Napoleon shall renew
y the triumphs of the mighty Corscan
! Mexican arlstOcrats have not abandoned
/ the hope that a descendant of Iturbide MAJ
reign in the halls Of the MonteZumas, anC
even in far off China the descendants o
the ancient kings watch with infinite pa
thence for the downfall Of the Tartar dy
| nasty.
But dreams of thrones and crowns are no
the only things that dazzle and addle tn
brains of rainbow chasers. Quite IA mum
Der think themselves entitled to dorman
or extinct peerages and much large
number particularly in America) permi
sharpers to delude them into the belle
that they are entitled to large fortune
deposited in the Bank of England" lonI
years ago to await the appearance of tn
heirs. No denials from Threadneedl
street are of avail, and the claimants <
on claiming till they die.
AS for che rainbow chaser in politics, h
is known of all men, and is particularly o.
view during this the presidential year.